Shadowing Practice: Listening 3. Part 2: Street Play Scheme. - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Part 2
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You will hear a woman called Alice Riches talking on the radio about a scheme
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which involves closing streets to traffic to allow children to play.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 16.
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My guest on the show today is Alice Riches, who started the Street Play Scheme where she lives in Beachwood Road.
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For those of you that don't already know, Street Play involves local residents closing off their street for a few hours
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so that children have a chance to play in the streets safely.
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She started it in her own street, Beachwood Road, and the idea caught on and there are now street play schemes all over the city.
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So when did you actually start the scheme, Alice?
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Well, I first had the idea when my oldest child was still a toddler.
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So that's about six years ago now, but it took at least two years of campaigning before we were actually able to make it happen.
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So the scheme's been up and running for three years now.
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We'd love to be able to close our road for longer, for the whole weekend from Saturday morning until Sunday evening, for example.
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At the moment it's just once a week, but when we started it was only once a month, but we're working on it.
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So what actually happens when Beechwood Road is closed?
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We have volunteer wardens, mostly parents but some elderly residents too, who block off our road at either end.
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The council have provided special signs, but there's always a volunteer there to explain what's happening to any motorists.
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Generally, they're fine about it.
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We've only had to get the police involved once or twice.
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Now, I should explain that the road isn't completely closed to cars, but only residents' cars are allowed.
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If people really need to get in or out of Beechwood Road,
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it's not a problem as long as they drive at under 20 kilometres per hour.
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But most people just decide not to use their cars during this time, or they park in another street.
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The wardens are only there to stop through traffic.
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So can anyone apply to get involved in street play?
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Absolutely.
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We want to include all kids in the city, especially those who live on busy roads.
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It's here that demand is greatest.
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Obviously, there isn't such demand in wealthier areas where the children have access to parks
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or large gardens or in the suburbs where there are usually more places for children to play outside.
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I'd recommend that anyone listening who likes the idea should just give it a go.
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We've been surprised by the positive reaction of residents all over the city and that's not just parents.
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There are always a few who complain but they're a tiny minority.
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On the whole, everyone is very supportive and say they're very happy to see children out on the street, even if it does get quite noisy.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 17 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 17 to 20.
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There have been so many benefits of street play for the kids.
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Parents really like the fact that the kids are getting fresh air instead of sitting staring at a computer screen,
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even if they're not doing anything particularly energetic.
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And of course, it's great that kids can play with their friends outside without being supervised by their parents.
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But for me, the biggest advantage is that kids develop confidence in themselves to be outside without their parents.
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The other really fantastic thing is that children get to know the adults in the street.
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It's like having a big extended family.
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It certainly does have a lot of benefits.
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I want to move on now and ask you about a related project in King Street.
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Right.
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Well, this was an experiment I was involved in, where local residents decided to try and reduce the traffic along
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King Street, which is the busiest main road in our area, by persuading people not to use their cars for one day.
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We thought about making people pay more for parking, but we decided that would be really unpopular.
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So instead, we just stopped people from parking on King Street but left the other car parks open.
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It was surprising how much of a difference all this made.
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As we'd predicted, air quality was significantly better, but what I hadn't expected was how much quieter it would be,
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even with the buses still running.
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Of course, everyone said they felt safer, but we were actually amazed that sales in the shops went up considerably that day.
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We thought there'd be fewer people out shopping, not more.
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That's really interesting.
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So the fact that the street was...
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That is the end of part two.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Listening 3. Part 2: Street Play Scheme”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: road, residents, parents, scheme, questions. This video has 60 sentences and 814 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:54. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
resident noun/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
involve verb/ɪnˈvɑlv/To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
volunteer noun/ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
warden noun/ˈwɔɹdən/A chief administrative officer of a prison.
carefully adverb/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/With care; attentively, circumspectly.
minority noun/maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
experiment noun/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
extend verb/ɛkˈstɛnd/To increase in extent.
fewer/ˈfjuː.ɚ/Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
complain verb/kəmˈpleɪn/To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
safely adverb/ˈseɪfli/In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.
wealthy adjective/ˈwɛl.θi/Possessing financial wealth; rich.
elderly adjective/ˈɛldɚli/old; having lived for relatively many years.
predict verb/pɹɪˈdɪkt/To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of…
supportive adjective/səˈpɔɹtɪv/Providing support.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
close off verbTo seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
go up verbTo move upwards.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנהבסרטון
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיוscheme's been · have provided · We've only had
סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולהis closed · are allowed · being supervised
משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דברthose who live · Street, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, isn't, we'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: minority /maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, considerably /kənˈsɪdəɹəbli/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like resident, involve, volunteer.

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