Shadowing Practice: Story Structure: Advice - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Thank you.
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Best advice I have in regards to structuring your story is work backwards.
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know where you want it to end.
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work backwards and then you'll know how you need to set it up.
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It's very important to expose yourself to as many ideas as possible.
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Books can be a treasure trove for great stories.
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Reading is the foundation for storytelling.
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It's always a great idea to pick up a book and Find a new story.
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It's good to study structure, it's good to watch a wide variety of films, so that you have some foundation and some understanding of how this would typically go.
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but then it's up to you to invent the new way.
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Some of the greatest filmmakers of all time, you know, I think about Stanley Kubrick, for example, his movies are very tightly ideologically structured,
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but they're not
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some of them are anti -narrative sometimes or they're non -narrative or they're
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that he applies narrative judiciously
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and he uses narrative as a tool to get you from point A to point B
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but narrative isn't his focus it's these larger ideological feelings that he has.
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You just have to think about Watt is very, very important to me.
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and I'll give a very brief personal story.
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I became a father late in life.
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I have two young daughters.
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And so I realized that I have to be a good dad kind of in a hurry.
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I don't have a lot of time.
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So that's on my mind a lot.
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So at home I'm working on a story that Well, hopefully it's funny, it's a little science fiction -y,
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but I'm working on a story about parents who try to raise their kids really well in a hurry.
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And in my life, the things that I've done that have worked out
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the best are the things that I've cared the most about.
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And I'm willing to invest the most in and the things that don't feel like work Um,
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and the things that allowed me to grow because I pushed myself further in their pursuit.
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Just jump in.
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Do the best you can commit, put something out, finish something, and then just do it again.
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It is really hard to admit that it didn't work, but you have to be willing to come in with a wrecking ball and raise it to the ground and rebuild it.
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And you learned along the way, so it will get better each time you're willing to do that.
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But you have to be willing to tear it down and try again.
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You have to fail and get up again.
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In development, we always draw the emotional arc on the wall.
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We actually have these painted walls that make them whiteboards and you can just sit in your chair, roll up to the wall, and draw a big arc,
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and then delineate different points on the arc of what's happening for your character emotionally.
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that gives it a lot of shape.
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It's so important to live in the world, live life.
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Discover things, try things, meet new people, try whatever you want.
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The world is wide open and that is where our stories come from.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Story Structure: Advice”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: narrative, willing, arc, wall. This video has 42 sentences and 536 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:08. The speaker talks at a natural 171 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| backward adjective | /ˈbækwɚd/ | Situated toward or at the rear of something. |
| hurry verb | /ˈhʌ.ɹi/ | To do things quickly. |
| delineate verb | /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/ | To sketch out, draw or trace an outline. |
| ideologically adverb | In an ideological manner; with respect to ideology. | |
| judiciously adverb | In a judicious manner. | |
| whiteboard noun | /ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/ | A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean. |
| invent verb | /ɪnˈvɛnt/ | To design a new process or mechanism. |
| filmmaker noun | A producer or director of films/movies. | |
| storytelling noun | The act and skills of presenting stories and tales. | |
| tightly adverb | /ˈtaɪtli/ | In a tight manner. |
| ideological adjective | /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/ | Of or pertaining to one or more ideologies. |
| rebuild verb | /ɹiːˈbɪld/ | To build again or anew. |
| wreck noun | /ˈɹɛk/ | Something or someone that has been ruined. |
| expose verb | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. |
| emotionally adverb | /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ | In an emotional manner; displaying emotion. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, they're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
- Long words — get the stress right: delineate /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/, ideological /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like backward, hurry, delineate.
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