Shadowing Practice: Lucy Cooke on: Bats - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I've got the bat.
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The bat has a bad rap.
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Why are people still down on bats?
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The thing about bats is that they're, because they are a little bit human-like in form,
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they've got forward-facing eyes and faces that, I mean, you wouldn't want to look like a bat, but they're not a million miles from a human face,
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and the way that the body is structured, And of course they've got these extraordinarily oversized hands that are webbed and that's actually their wings are.
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They actually swim through the air using these giant webbed hands.
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It's an amazing thing.
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But I think the thing is because they look a little bit like us
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and also unlike us all at the same time, it creeps us out.
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And I think there's a sort of creepiness to that, you know.
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So with bats they get an extraordinary bad rap people think that they carry disease,
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actually only 0.05% of bats carry rabies, you know it's a tiny amount, you're more likely to get bitten by a raccoon than get rabies quite frankly.
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People think they're going to fly in their hair.
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I mean bats echolocation system is incredibly effective.
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They're not gonna go anywhere near your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They're not interested.
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So they're not gonna bite you, they're not gonna bother you.
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They are in fact doing an incredible job for us because bats eat insects.
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So they eat mosquitoes, what's not to love about that?
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And then the other thing is that they are key pollinators.
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A lot of people don't know, a lot of the fruit-back species are pollinators.
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And the one plant, so some of these, you know, plants are very pollinator-specific, and so they can only be pollinated by one creature.
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So now the agave plant can only be pollinated by that.
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Now, do you know what's made out of agave?
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I believe it is a drink that many people enjoy.
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Yes, exactly.
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Without bats there'd be no tequila.
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Because the agave plant wouldn't be able to fertilise.
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So, you know, whether or not that's a good thing for humanity is up for debate.
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Well, next time you have a margarita toast to bats.
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Yeah, that's a great idea.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 34 sentences and 393 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:17. The speaker talks at a natural 172 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
bite verb/baɪt/To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
bother verb/ˈbɑðɚ/To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
incredibly adverb/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
extraordinary adjective/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/Out of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
humanity noun/hjuˈmænɪti/Humankind; human beings as a group.
swim verb/swɪm/To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
frankly adverb/fɹæŋkli/In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt.
toast noun/toʊst/Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
creep verb/kɹiːp/To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
insect noun/ˈɪn.sɛkt/An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
mosquito noun/məsˈki.toʊ/A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes…
agave noun/əˈɡɑː.vi/Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave of succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles, flowering at maturity after several years, and…
pollinator noun/ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/the agent that pollinates a plant; often an insect
pollinate verb/ˈpɒlɪneɪt/To apply pollen to (a stigma).
rabies noun/ˈɹeɪ.biːz/An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
make out of verbTo construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, pollinator /ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/, echolocation /ˌɛkoʊloʊˈkeɪʃən/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bite, bother, incredibly.

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