Shadowing Practice: RE2 Unit 10B - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 20.
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Reading 10b.
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Life on the Edge.
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The old ways have little appeal for Malik Lovstrom.
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A slim 24 -year -old, Lovstrom has lived his whole life in Eumenach.
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The people in this small town on Greenland's west coast survive mainly on seal hunting and fishing.
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But Lovstrom's interests lie elsewhere, in rock music and horror movies.
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He taught himself English by listening to music, and now dreams of working as a tour guide on Greenland's cruise ships.
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He knows he should move to a larger town, as many of his friends have done.
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But doing so would leave no one to care for his 80 -year -old grandmother.
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So he remains in Umanach.
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Small towns all over Greenland are losing population.
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Nyoranet, a settlement near Umanac, is now home to just 50 people.
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The instability of towns like these has worsened as a result of climate change.
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Ice loss has shortened the hunting season.
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And as a result, traditional hunting and fishing can no longer pay for access to modern amenities.
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Long before the sea ice disappears, economic and social pressures may force people to leave these settlements.
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The question of what to do about this problem is a common topic of debate at gatherings known as Café Mique.
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At one community gathering, Jean -Michel Huckton, a French anthropologist, gets into a lively discussion with a man who has moved to Nook,
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Greenland's largest town.
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The subject is the future of places like Nyarinet and whether they even have one.
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If we don't move out of isolation, we will always be conservative.
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The man from Nook tells Huckton, I don't want to live in a museum.
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I don't want to live in the old way.
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My son, my daughter should be part of the world.
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The traditional lifestyles survive only because of government subsidies, he argues.
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This approach forces young people into a life of hunting and fishing, rather than encouraging them to look beyond tradition.
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But job opportunities in Greenland are few, Huckedon counters.
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Anyway, what would happen to the older hunters?
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Should they give up their independence, their boats and dog sleds, and live in a city apartment building?
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The loss of settlements would be a loss for all, he says.
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Such places preserve Inuit hunting culture.
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But Huckton is hopeful.
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I think these small, remote communities can invent a sustainable future for themselves, he says.
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The people have gone from hunting to Facebook in less than a century.
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I'm sure they will succeed in the future.
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Fewer people are choosing to stay, however.
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Even fewer arrive from outside.
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An exception is Alanguj Egadei, who moved to Nyarnet to be with his girlfriend.
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His first job was cleaning the town's toilets, but now he manages the town's power plant.
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I like it here a lot, he says.
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I have a home and a nice salary.
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You can feel the freshness here.
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And it's open, he says.
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I don't want to move anyplace else.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “RE2 Unit 10B”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hunting, town, Huckton, fishing, settlement. This video has 45 sentences and 493 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:38. The speaker talks at a steady 136 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
fewer/ˈfjuː.ɚ/Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
topic noun/ˈtɑpɪk/A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
argue verb/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
elsewhere adverb/ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
encourage verb/ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
horror noun/ˈhɒɹ.ə/An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
remote adjective/ɹəˈməʊt̞/At a distance; disconnected.
arrive verb/əˈɹaɪv/To reach; to get to a certain place.
hunter noun/ˈhʌntɚ/One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
salary noun/ˈsæləɹi/A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or…
exception noun/əkˈsɛpʃən/The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
toilet verb/ˈtɔɪ.lət/To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
seal noun/siːl/A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
lifestyle noun/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.
succeed verb/səkˈsiːd/To follow something in sequence or time.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
give up verbTo surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • I don't want to live in the old way.
  • I'm sure they will succeed in the future.
  • I don't want to move anyplace else.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: gathering /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, freshness /ˈfɹɛʃnəs/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/
  • Long words — get the stress right: sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, instability /ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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 fewer, topic, argue.

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