Shadowing Practice: The Deadliest Thing in Your Kitchen - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Something in your kitchen killed you.
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Sugar seems innocent at first, but it can be lethal.
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Around 500 teaspoons will turn you blue as it starves your blood of oxygen, sends your body into violent seizures, and stops you from breathing.
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But could anyone really consume that much sugar?
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It could be cinnamon, which contains coumarin.
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The liver can turn this substance into a toxic compound that damages liver cells.
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But this happens only in very few select victims.
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What about saffron?
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The world's most expensive spice also contains saffronol, which acts on your brain like a sedative.
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A low dose will calm you, but high doses can be fatal.
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Salt would be a lot cheaper.
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The salt in a single soy sauce bottle could be enough to pull water out of your brain cells, shrinking your brain and leading to severe bleeding.
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But the deadliest killer in your kitchen is bananas, literally.
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They emit antimatter, and you only need around 3 nanograms,
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or 437 trillion bananas emitting antimatter for one year to make a tiny banana grenade.
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When the antimatter annihilates with the same amount of matter, it releases enough energy to rip a hole in your chest.
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Case closed.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “The Deadliest Thing in Your Kitchen”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: antimatter, banana, brain. This video has 17 sentences and 198 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:06. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 72% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| antimatter noun | /ˈæn.tiˌmæt.ɚ/ | Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. |
| banana noun | /bəˈnænə/ | An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. |
| emit verb | /iˈmɪt/ | To send out or give off. |
| annihilate verb | /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/ | To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate. |
| coumarin noun | /ˈkuːməɹɪn/ | The bicyclic aromatic compound 1,2-benzopyrone or any of its derivatives. |
| deadliest adjective | Causing the greatest number of deaths | |
| nanogram noun | An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁹ grams. Symbol: ng | |
| saffron noun | /ˈsæfɹən/ | A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus. |
| sedative noun | /ˈsɛdətɪv/ | An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep. |
| teaspoon noun | /ˈtiˌspun/ | A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass. |
| starve verb | /stɑɹv/ | To die because of lack of food or of not eating. |
| grenade noun | /ɡɹəˈneɪd/ | A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket. |
| cinnamon noun | /ˈsɪnəmən/ | A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae. |
| bleed verb | /ˈbliːd/ | To shed blood through an injured blood vessel. |
| seizure noun | /ˈsi.ʒɚ/ | The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law. |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: antimatter /ˈæn.tiˌmæt.ɚ/, annihilate /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/
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 antimatter, banana, emit.
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