Shadowing Practice: Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Lyrics) - Learn English Speaking with Video

בחר מצב תרגול

כל מצב פותח חדר תרגול במסך מלא.

29 משפטים
אם המשפטים קצרים או ארוכים מדי, לחץ על ערוך כדי להתאים אותם.
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Once I was seven years old,
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my mama told me go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely.
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Once I was seven years old.
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It was a big, big world, but we thought we were bigger.
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Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker.
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By eleven, smoking herb and drinking burning liquor.
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Never rich, so we were out to make that steady bigger.
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Once I was eleven years old, my daddy told me, go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely.
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Once I was eleven years old.
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I always had that dream like my daddy before me So I started writing songs, I started writing stories Something about
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that glory just always seemed to bore me Cause only those
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I really love will never really know me Once I was twenty years old,
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my story got told Before the morning sun when life was lonely Once I was twenty years old
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Let's put it on!
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Soon we'll be thirty years old, our songs have been sold, we've travelled around the world and we're still roaming,
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soon we'll be thirty years old.
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Most of my boys are with me, some are still out seeking glory, and some I had to leave behind my brother.
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I'm still savvy.
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Soon I'll be 60 years old.
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My daddy got 61.
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Remember life and then your life becomes a better one.
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I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once.
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I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month.
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I'll have a line of children who can warn me Soon
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I'll be sixty years old Soon I'll be sixty years old Will I think the world is cold
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or will I have a line of children who can warn me Soon I'll be sixty years old
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Hold me, go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely.
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Once I was seven years old.
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Once I was seven years old.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Lukas Graham - 7 Years”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lonely, seven, sixty, eleven, daddy. This video has 29 sentences and 325 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:34. The speaker talks slowly, about 91 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
lonely adjective/ˈloʊnli/Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
daddy noun/ˈdædi/Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.
eleven noun/əˈlɛv.ən/A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
sixty noun/ˈsɪksti/A commercial lasting 60 seconds.
thirty noun/ˈθɝti/A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
glory noun/ˈɡlɔːɹi/Great beauty and splendor.
warn verb/woɹn/To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
steady adjective/ˈstɪdi/Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
mama noun/ˈmɑmə/Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
liquor noun/ˈlɪk.ɚ/A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
herb noun/hɜːb/A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
litter noun/ˈlɪt.ɚ/Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
savvy adjective/ˈsæv.i/Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
roam verb/ɹoʊm/To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
leave behind verbTo abandon.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

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

מבנהבסרטון
משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דברchildren who can
עתיד עם “will” will + verb — החלטה, הבטחה או ניבוי לגבי העתידyou'll be · will never really know · we'll be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'll, you'll, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 lonely, daddy, eleven.

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?

שאדואינג היא טכניקת למידת שפה מבוססת מדע שפותחה במקור להכשרת מתורגמנים מקצועיים ופופולרית על ידי הפוליגלוט ד"ר אלכסנדר ארגואלס. השיטה פשוטה אך עוצמתית: אתה מקשיב לאודיו באנגלית ילידית וחוזר עליו בקול רם מיד — כמו צל העוקב אחרי הדובר עם עיכוב של 1–2 שניות בלבד. בניגוד להאזנה פסיבית או תרגילי דקדוק, שאדואינג מכריח את המוח והשרירים בפה לעבד ולשחזר דפוסי דיבור אמיתיים בו זמנית. מחקרים מראים שזה משפר משמעותית את דיוק ההגייה, האינטונציה, הקצב, הדיבור המחובר, הבנת השמיעה ושטף הדיבור — מה שהופך אותו לאחת השיטות היעילות ביותר להכנה לIELTS Speaking ולתקשורת באנגלית בעולם האמיתי.

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