Shadowing Practice: Melanie Martinez - EVIL (Visualizer) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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31 משפטים
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1
You called the other day I stayed awake I left your shit already
2
Four times today
3
And it felt like bliss Used to miss your kiss Now
4
I'm half skip Jumping over narcissists Throwing all your stuff into the abyss Now they're always reversed
5
and told you I'm a switch How you like my spit, that's for all the piss That you left me in, see the horns on my head They're from goddesses,
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goddesses Oh, God I never knew what it meant,
7
what it meant to be content with you Everything I expressed,
8
I protested Never quite made it through Said it's on my head, on my head Whenever I spoke my truth,
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no I won't take that with all my friends This time I refuse If you bite my hand again,
10
I will never feed you You can call me evil,
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take it to the grave If you wanna play pretend, I won't be mistreated Please call me conceited,
12
it took me way too long to put this to bed Loving you was lethal,
13
guess that makes me evil Remember
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when you smiled right to my face As all my little tears of oxalate They made a shape,
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revealed a snake Now I'm stopped, jacking over all your jokes Every time you tell a lie I'm praying
16
that you choke Try to listen to the signs and the horoscope Hope you never cope, hope you slip on soap Crack your head like an egg, wanna see the yolk?
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You were such a hoax I never knew what it meant
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What it meant to be content with you Everything I expressed I professed
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and never quite made it through Said it's all in my head All in my head Whenever I spoke my truth No,
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I won't defend you to all my friends This time I refuse If you bite my hand again,
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I will never bleed you You can't call me evil,
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take it to the grave If you wanna play pretend, I won't be mistreated Please call me conceited,
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took me way too long to put this to bed Love you is lethal,
24
guess that makes me evil Who was me?
25
If you bite my hand again I will never feed you
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You can call me evil Take it to the grave If you wanna play pretend
27
I won't be mistreated Please call me conceited Took me way too long Time on this demand
28
Love and you lose weight Guess that makes me evil,
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evil Evil, evil, evil, evil,
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evil Evil, evil, evil, evil Love that you was lethal,
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this day makes me evil

הורד אפליקציה

כל מה שאתה צריך כדי לדבר בשטף

הגיית AIציון לכל משפט
תרגול IPAשלוט בכל צליל
אוצר מיליםבנה את מאגר המילים שלך
משחק אוצר מיליםלמד תוך כדי משחק

אותו ערוץ

FOR YOU

המלץ על סרטון

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Melanie Martinez - EVIL”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: evil, meant, conceited, mistreated, lethal. This video has 31 sentences and 437 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:58. The speaker talks at a steady 110 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
conceited adjective/kənˈsiː.tɪd/Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
mistreat verb/mɪsˈtɹiːt/To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
lethal adjective/ˈliː.θəl/Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
grave noun/ɡɹeɪv/An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
bite verb/baɪt/To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
pretend verb/pɹəˈtɛnd/To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
goddess noun/ˈɡɑdəs/A female deity.
horoscope noun/ˈhɔ.ɹəˌskoʊp/The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
narcissist nounOne who shows extreme love and admiration for themself.
oxalate noun/ˈɒksəleɪt/Any salt or ester of oxalic acid.
profess verb/pɹəˈfɛs/To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
hoax noun/hoʊks/Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
choke verb/t͡ʃoʊk/To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air…
bleed verb/ˈbliːd/To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
bliss noun/blɪs/Perfect happiness.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

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

מבנהבסרטון
משפטי תנאי (Conditional sentences) if + clause, will/would + verb — תנאי ותוצאה שלוIf you wanna play pretend, I won't be
סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולהwon't be mistreated
עתיד עם “will” will + verb — החלטה, הבטחה או ניבוי לגבי העתידwon't take · will never feed · won't be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as won't, I'm, wanna. 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 conceited, mistreat, lethal.

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?

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