Shadowing Practice: RE2 Unit 12A - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 23.

Reading 12a.

The Dream of Flight.

For thousands of years, humans have dreamed of taking to the skies.

The ancient Greeks told the legend of Icarus, a boy who flies so high that the sun melts his man-made wings and he crashes down to earth.

Across history, many more people have died after jumping from a tower or cliff with wings that didn't quite work.

Flying, for humans, seemed an impossibility.

Yet many continue to dream of flying.

One such dreamer was the great 15th century artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.

He studied the flight of birds and even designed his own flying machines, but they, and he, never left the ground.

Five hundred years later, standing on a windy hill in North Carolina, in the United States, I was about to make the dream come true.

Unlike Leonardo, I had the help of a hang glider, a light, modern machine that makes flying simple and safe enough even for tourist entertainment.

I held on to the hang glider as tightly as I could.

Terrified, I ran down the hill, and suddenly, I was running in the air.

I was flying.

What a thrill!

Now, I wanted more.

A friend in my hang gliding class suggested I next try a tandem flight, flying in a hang glider made for two people.

A small airplane carries you up 600 meters and then lets you go.

I decided to try it with my instructor, John Thompson.

Up into the air we went.

When the airplane released us, it felt like falling from a building, head first.

You can fly now, my instructor said.

After a few moments, I found the courage to turn the glider a little to the left, and then a little to the right.

I was more like a pigeon than an eagle, but I was flying.

Of course, hang gliding is not the only way mankind has learned to enjoy the freedom of flight.

Today, many people skydive, while base jumpers, those who jump off buildings, cliffs, and bridges, often get their thrills illegally.

For a few exciting moments, they experience free-falling.

falling downwards with nothing to slow them, before they open a parachute.

It's as close as human beings can get to flying like a bird, says base jumper J.T.

Holmes.

Switzerland's Yves Rossi might disagree.

The wings he has invented for personal flight have four small engines.

He steers them just by moving his shoulders.

For ten minutes at a time, Rossi seems to fly as free as a bird, having both power and control.

One of his longest flights was across the water from France to England.

It's awesome.

It's great.

It's fantastic, says Rossi.

Since then, he has continued to improve his wing design

and hopes he can motivate the next generation of thinkers to do something different, even if it seems impossible.

Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “RE2 Unit 12A”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: flying, flight, hang, glider, wing. This video has 42 sentences and 485 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:36. The speaker talks at a steady 135 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 78% 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
glider noun	/ˈɡlaɪdɚ/	One who glides.
glide verb	/ˈɡlaɪd/	To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
jumper noun	/ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/	A woollen sweater or pullover.
thrill verb	/θɹɪl/	To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
airplane noun	/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/	A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
instructor noun	/ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/	One who instructs; a teacher.
cliff noun	/klɪf/	A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
downwards adverb	/ˈdaʊnwɚdz/	Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
dreamer noun	/ˈdɹimɚ/	One who dreams.
excite verb	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
impossibility noun	/ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/	Something that is impossible.
skydive noun	/ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/	An instance of skydiving.
terrify verb	/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/	To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
thinker noun	/ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/	One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
parachute noun	/ˈpæɹəʃut/	A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
jump off verb	To move from an elevated place by one jump.
run down verb	To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.

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 dreamed · has learned · has invented
עבר ממושך (Past continuous) was/were + -ing — פעולה שהייתה בתהליך בזמן מסוים בעבר	was running · was flying

Pronunciation to watch

The “th” sounds: thrill /θɹɪl/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
Long words — get the stress right: impossibility /ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/, illegally /ɪˈliːɡəli/

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 glider, glide, jumper.

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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