Shadowing Practice: Reading Explorer Foundation, Unit-10 Tornado Terror - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Sometimes called twisters, tornadoes are clouds of fast spinning wind that can destroy homes and lives.
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Here are some facts about tornadoes you might not know.
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Tornadoes can travel at speeds of over 170 kilometers per hour.
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They can also be very wide.
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The widest tornado ever recorded near El Reno in Oklahoma was 2.6 miles wide.
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That's wider than Manhattan, New York.
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Scientists have learned a lot about how tornadoes in the US usually form.
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Warm, wet air from the sea, cool air from the north,
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and dry air from the mountains meet to create the perfect conditions for a tornado.
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Nearly three-quarters of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.
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Most of these occur between May and June in a place called Tornado Alley.
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But tornadoes have been recorded all over the US, and on every continent except Antarctica.
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Tornadoes are very dangerous, and they can form very quickly.
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The average time between a tornado warning and a strike is usually 13 minutes or less,
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people have little time to find a safe place.
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In the US, tornadoes kill 60 people every year.
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But the deadliest tornado in history occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1989.
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It killed around 1,300 people.
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Scientists measure the damage a tornado causes using the EF scale.
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It ranks tornadoes on six different levels, from zero, a heavy wind, to level five, enough wind to pick up a house.
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In order to save lives, we need to understand tornadoes better.
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So, many scientists continue to study them, sometimes risking their own lives to do so.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Reading Explorer Foundation, Unit-10 Tornado Terror”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: tornadoes, tornado, scientists, wind, lives. This video has 22 sentences and 257 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:36. The speaker talks slowly, about 99 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| tornado noun | /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/ | A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground. |
| occur verb | /əˈkɜː/ | To happen or take place. |
| 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… |
| cloud noun | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
| rank noun | /ˈɹæŋk/ | A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. |
| spin verb | /spɪn/ | To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. |
| continent noun | /ˈkɑntɪnənt/ | One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and… |
| deadliest adjective | Causing the greatest number of deaths | |
| twister noun | /ˈtwɪstəɹ/ | One who twists. |
| strike verb | /stɹaɪk/ | To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. |
| measure noun | /ˈmeɪ.ʒɚ/ | A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) |
| zero noun | /ˈzɪɹoʊ/ | The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero. |
| warning noun | /ˈwoɹnɪŋ/ | An instance of warning someone. |
| destroy verb | /dɪˈstɹɔɪ/ | To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 learned · have been recorded |
| שם תואר מובהק (Superlatives) the -est / the most … — לציין את הגבוה או הנמוך ביותר בקבוצה | The widest · the deadliest |
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 tornado, occur, scientist.
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.