Shadowing Practice: RE2 Unit 5B - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 10.

Reading 5b.

The Stories in the Rocks.

When he was just six years old, Jorn Hurum turned his bedroom into a small museum.

His shelves became filled with a growing collection of fossils.

For Hurum, these fossils were not just rocks, but things that could tell the history of life on this planet planet.

He imagined them saying, I am not a rock, I am a fossil, I have a story to tell.

Huram earned a PhD in paleontology in his native Norway.

Since then, he has been on expeditions seeking fossils all over the world.

Much of his work has been carried out in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands north of the Arctic Circle.

In the hills of this cold and remote region, Hurum and his team have found the fossils of many sea creatures.

It might seem surprising to find the remains of such animals at the tops of hills,

but in prehistoric times, these areas were actually seabeds about 100 meters deep.

Hurum has returned to Svalbard many times.

The dig season in the region is very short, from July to August.

During that time, the temperature is just about warm enough to soften the frozen ground, allowing easier access to the fossils.

There is also less wind, and the midnight sun makes it easy for the scientists to have long, productive days.

Even a dream job has its challenges, however.

Sometimes we find explodaceros, he says.

The team may find many broken bone pieces spread across a hillside.

Then it becomes impossible to recreate the entire animal.

We have to identify the entire animal from individual pieces.

Each of Huram's expeditions also requires a lot of preparation.

We have between 15 and 20 people, tons of equipment, food, jackhammers, water, he explains.

There's a lot of work before you start the cool thing.

For Huram, the cool thing is the act of discovery.

In 2006, his team made its greatest discovery so far.

After removing about 60 tons of rock by hand, Huram and his team eventually dug out an enormous fossil.

We knew immediately this was something special, says Huram.

The large pieces of bone told us that this was big.

It was a plesiosaur, a prehistoric sea monster with teeth the size of cucumbers.

The fossil was not complete, but it included a front flipper, a shoulder, and pieces of skull and neck.

For Hurum, the discovery of this 15-meter-long creature, nicknamed Predator X, was an amazing moment.

It's like one of those scratch-off lottery tickets every time you dig, he explains.

Sometimes you start digging and you might just find part of a skull or other bone.

Sometimes you find the skull and the vertebra.

Then you know it's a jackpot.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 37 sentences and 457 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:41. The speaker talks at a steady 124 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:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
fossil noun	/ˈfɑsl̩/	The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
bone noun	/boʊn/	A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
discovery noun	/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/	Something discovered.
ton noun	/tʌn/	The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
expedition noun	/ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/	A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
earn verb	/ɝn/	To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
bedroom noun	/ˈbɛdˌɹum/	A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
remote adjective	/ɹəˈməʊt̞/	At a distance; disconnected.
preparation noun	/ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/	The act of preparing or getting ready.
midnight noun	/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/	The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
enormous adjective	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
dig verb	/dɪɡ/	To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More…
productive adjective	/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/	Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
scientist noun	/ˈsaɪəntəst/	One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
scratch verb	/skɹæt͡ʃ/	To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

Pronunciation to watch

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
Long words — get the stress right: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/, paleontology /ˌpeɪli.ənˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

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 fossil, bone, discovery.

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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