Shadowing Practice: National Geographic Reading Explorer 1 Unit 9 Snake Catchers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Skip Snow and Mike Rochford are snake catchers.
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They work in Florida, in the Everglades National Park.
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They're looking for Burmese pythons.
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Burmese pythons are not a native species here.
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But over the past decade,
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these snakes have grown in numbers in the Everglades and are now eating too many of the native birds,
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small mammals, and even large reptiles.
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Because the pythons are harming the local wildlife,
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Skip and Mike's team are doing their best to catch and remove this invasive species.
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They are also studying how the pythons live and move around the swamps.
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The team puts tiny, harmless tracking devices into several pythons.
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Then they release the snakes back into the wild, far away from where they were caught.
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Burmese pythons can grow up to They are 7 meters long and weigh up to 90 kilograms.
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And they are very good swimmers.
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Minutes after the pythons are released, the team looks for them.
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The team uses an antenna to search for signals from the tracking devices.
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But they can't locate the snakes, so the team uses a plane to help them in their search.
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The Everglades National Park covers an area of 1.5 million acres.
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The team's plane has a more powerful antenna, and Mike is hoping it will pick up signals from the snakes.
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After much searching, a signal appears.
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The tracking devices show that the snakes have traveled over 56 kilometers back to the place where they were first caught.
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This tells the team that it will not be easy to get rid of the pythons.
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These creatures have made the Everglades their home.
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But Skip and Mike are not giving up.
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They will continue to catch and remove the pythons.
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It is important they do this, so that they can protect the many other animals that live in the Florida Everglades.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “National Geographic Reading Explorer 1 Unit 9 Snake Catchers”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pythons, snake, Everglades, Burmese, Skip. This video has 26 sentences and 303 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:54. The speaker talks slowly, about 104 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| snake noun | /sneɪk/ | Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues. |
| antenna noun | /ænˈtɛn.ə/ | An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal. |
| kilogram noun | /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/ | In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical… |
| mammal noun | /ˈmæməl/ | A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young. |
| reptile noun | /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/ | A (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake… |
| swimmers noun | A swimsuit. | |
| catcher noun | /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/ | Someone or something that catches. |
| invasive adjective | /ɪnˈveɪsɪv/ | Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive. |
| harmless adjective | /ˈhɑɹmləs/ | Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe. |
| swamp noun | /ˈswɑmp/ | An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many… |
| acre noun | /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ | An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86… |
| locate verb | /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/ | To place; to set in a particular spot or position. |
| weigh verb | /weɪ/ | To determine the weight of an object. |
| meter noun | /ˈmitəɹ/ | A device that measures things. |
| wildlife noun | /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/ | undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| move around verb | To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | have grown · have traveled · have made |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | were caught · are released |
| הווה ממושך (Present continuous) am/is/are + -ing — משהו שמתרחש כרגע או בסביבה הקרובה לזמן הזה | They're looking · are now eating · are harming |
| עתיד עם “will” will + verb — החלטה, הבטחה או ניבוי לגבי העתיד | will pick · will not be · will continue |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like snake, antenna, kilogram.
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.