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

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Track 24.
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Reading 12b.
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Dark Descent.
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It's August 2004.
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Caver Sergio Garcia Dils de la Vega kisses his girlfriend goodbye at the entrance of Krubera Cave.
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Krubera, in the western Caucasus Mountains, is the deepest known cave in the world.
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It will be weeks before he sees her again.
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A member of an international team of 56 cavers from seven countries, Garcia Dilsa's mission was to explore Krubera.
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The team also hoped to be the first to reach a depth of 2,000 meters, a feat compared to conquering the North and South Poles.
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One team member even described descending into Krubera as like climbing an inverted mountain,
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Like climbers making their way up that famous peak, the cavers descended slowly.
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They climbed down ropes through huge tunnels and crawled through tight passages known as squeezes.
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Bringing over five tons of equipment and other necessities with them, they established underground camps along the route.
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At each camp they stopped to rest, eat, sleep, and plan the next part of the journey.
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Some days they worked for up to 20 hours at a time,
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and each day they left miles of rope behind them to ease their return ascent
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and phone lines to communicate with people above.
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In the third week they reached 1,775 meters, the deepest point achieved by cavers so far.
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Here, progress was blocked by a sump, a passage filled with water.
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The cavers had only a few options.
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They could empty out all the water, dive through, or go around it.
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Jannati Samokin dove to the bottom but was disappointed.
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No chance to get through, he said.
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Searching for a way around the sump, Garcia Dills risked entering a cascade of near-freezing water.
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The water was so cold, I lost the feeling in my fingers, he said.
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He, too, was unsuccessful.
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Finally, the team found a way around the sump through a tight passage they called the way to the dream.
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At first, they were thrilled.
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However, it soon led to yet another sump at 1,840 meters.
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After a short test dive, Samokin emerged smiling.
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There was a promising passage, he reported.
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Sadly, it would have to wait.
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After nearly four weeks underground, with supplies running low, the team was out of time.
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They would have to return to the surface.
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Four weeks later, following the path opened by Garcia Dils' team,
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a team of Ukrainian cavers reached the sump at 1,840 meters relatively quickly.
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After much searching, they discovered a pit, an area of a cave that falls straight down, named Millennium Pit.
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It allowed them to pass the 2,000 meter depth pits
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and passages led them to 2080 meters a spot they named game over
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but the caving game is never over in 2009 jenady samokin
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returned to krubera this time he reached a depth of 2191 meters then In 2012,
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he broke his own record, diving to a point 6 meters deeper at a total depth of 2,197 meters.
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And so, the game goes on, with deeper and deeper caves calling out to be explored.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 43 sentences and 496 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:19. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 74% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

  • meter /ˈmitəɹ/ (noun) — A device that measures things.
  • passage /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ (noun) — A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
  • cave /keɪv/ (noun) — A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
  • dive /daɪv/ (verb) — To swim under water.
  • underground /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ (adjective) — Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
  • explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/ (verb) — To examine or investigate something systematically.
  • climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (verb) — To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
  • rope /ɹoʊp/ (noun) — Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  • descend /dəˈsɛnd/ (verb) — To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
  • finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ (noun) — A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…
  • establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ (verb) — To make stable or firm; to confirm.
  • compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (verb) — To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
  • disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ (adjective) — Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
  • discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (verb) — To find or learn something for the first time.
  • entrance /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ (noun) — The action of entering, or going in.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

  • bring over (verb) — To cause to change allegiance or point of view.
  • get through /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ (verb) — To overcome; to endure.
  • go around (verb) — To move or spread from person to person.
  • search for (verb) — Synonym of look for.

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, necessity /nɪˈsɛsəti/

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 meter, passage, cave.

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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