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What if there was a way to transform your city from this to this, replacing concrete with flowers and drains with rain gardens?
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What if we can make our towns resilient against floods, heatwaves and droughts, whilst boosting biodiversity and mental health?
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Right now, all around the world, people are finding incredible ways to bring nature back into our cities.
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And we're here in Bristol to do exactly that.
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We're literally kind of surfing on a wetland right now, and I never thought I would say that sentence.
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Pockets of lush green wetlands have been popping up all over the city.
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Now there's a plan to create a green corridor along the river's embankment.
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And we're going to help make this dream a reality.
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Together with our friend
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Sam Bentley, we'll explore just how easily we can upgrade our cities
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and what that means for the future of urban environments all over the world.
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In this video, we're going to be checking out loads of genius innovations
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that are bringing nature back to the city piece by piece.
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We're Planet Wild.
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Welcome to Mission 43.
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More than half of the global population live in cities, and many of these places have one thing in common.
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They were built on water.
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Basically, where you see a city, there used to be a swamp or a wetland.
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Then we built huge drainage networks to remove the water and paved over the land so we could live there, sometimes even burying entire rivers underground,
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like the Bievre in Paris, the Fleet in London, or the Frome here in Bristol.
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And predictably, removing all this water has led to some massive problems.
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Flash flooding.
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Flash flooding.
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Flash flooding in parts of London.
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Urban heat island effect.
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Dangerous conditions to be outdoors.
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Turns out, wetlands aren't just incredibly important for wildlife, but they also keep temperature and water levels stable.
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You know, the kind of thing we humans really need to survive.
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And this is why all over the world, people are bringing wetlands back into our cities.
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When you start to install wetlands across the city, whether that's a small rain garden,
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a drain pipe wetland, right the way to a lake in your local park,
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it's really sort of magical and everyone in the city benefits from wetlands.
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This is Julia from WWT, the wetland charity.
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They're kicking off a huge effort to turn Bristol into the UK's first wetland city.
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By replacing old drainage systems with lush rain gardens, installing micro wetlands in backyards and anchoring huge wetlands on the river,
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they're creating little pockets of biodiversity everywhere.
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In fact, over the next few years, there'll be 200 new projects here in Bristol to bring nature back.
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Just imagine the impact that this would have it would completely transform public space across the city, creating habitat, absorbing floodwaters, filtering toxic runoff,
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and cooling the city down.
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And the transformation has already begun.
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WWT and their partners are creating a wildlife corridor through the city center.
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And this is the next piece of the puzzle.
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We are currently building and planting a futuristic structure called a floating wetland.
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We've got one platform which is 100 square meters
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and another smaller 16 square meter platform specifically designed with these miniature staircases to save baby seagulls
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that are getting stuck in a corner of the harbor.
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But we are not doing this alone.
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Hey Cam.
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Alright Sam.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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This is Sam Bentley, founder and host of one of our favorite YouTube channels.
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If you've never heard of him, he reports good news stories from around the world and is also making a video about the transformation of Bristol.
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So we asked him if he could help us with our new floating wetlands.
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This is that and then this becomes there and… Huh?
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Okay, okay.
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This is how it works.
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Step one is putting all the pieces together and locking them in place.
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It's a completely modular structure that can be built to any size, and every element is recycled, recyclable or biodegradable.
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The frame and floats are old drinking water pipes that are wrapped in coconut husk.
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And instead of soil or mud that would just drift away, we're using buoyant clay pellets as the plant bed.
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Step two is planting it with more than 20 species of native wetland plants.
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What have you got?
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Ah, nice.
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Glorious.
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So above water, we have this layered planting system that creates snow wastes for pollinators and a safe haven for nesting birds.
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But the real magic happens underneath.
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As these plants grow, their roots go super deep into the water, creating a refuge for marine life, cleaning the water, taking all those pollutants out,
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and also regulating water temperature too.
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There's potential to install up to 5 ,000 square metres of these floating wetlands here in Bristol,
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transforming the concrete embankment into a thriving nature corridor.
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So the Planet Wild community is completely funding the construction and installation of these two modules,
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as well as even more platforms in the future to make this dream a reality.
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You know, with Planet Wild, we do projects all over the world, bringing nature back in different remote, far -flung places.
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But it's just amazing to see that it can come back in the middle of our cities.
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So in addition to the floating wetlands,
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we're also helping WWT to develop a miniature wetland in a box that can be attached to any ordinary drain pipe.
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To show you how it works, we're gonna take a break from the harbor and visit a small garden nearby to build a prototype.
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We should probably get on with it though.
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Yeah.
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So this is a very ordinary drain pipe coming from the roof and so when it rains,
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the water goes from the gutter all the way down here straight into the drain.
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But we are gonna catch this water and use it to create a wetland in a box.
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Well, it's actually two boxes.
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The top box acts as a pond where aquatic plants can thrive as it fills up with rainwater.
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This eventually overflows into the bottom box, a miniature bog that insects and amphibians can call home.
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So to make it yourself, you just need to follow these steps.
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First thing we need to do is make a hole in the bottom.
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This hole should be covered with a filter.
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And we use this permeable plant pot.
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Then add a layer of gravel, a fabric membrane, and a layer of soil.
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The membrane is there to stop the soil running down the drain.
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Step 2.
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Drill a hole into the side of the top box, allowing the water to flow into the bottom box.
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Step 3.
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Take a deep breath and cut the drain pipe so
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that the entire structure will be in the perfect position to catch the water.
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Step 4.
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Fill everything with native wetland plants and add a wall of loose bricks.
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And that's it, we're done.
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And within hours you'll start to get insects like dragonflies and damselflies coming back here.
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Spiders can make their homes in here, frogs and newts can come and live in here.
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And it's just incredible the amount of biodiversity that can come back just with this.
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The UK actually has 4 ,000 square kilometers of garden space just like this.
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And now we can actually start to use some of that and give it back to nature.
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We have to interrupt this
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Planet Wild video to bring you some breaking good news from cities around the world.
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First up, we're heading to Seoul, South Korea.
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For decades the Jongjuchon stream was completely buried underneath a massive elevated highway.
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But in the early 2000s, the city actually tore that highway down and restored the natural river.
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Since then, biodiversity has exploded by over 600 % and the corridor is now home to hundreds of species of fish, birds and insects.
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Now we're heading over to the Netherlands where one company has found a way to turn lifeless concrete buildings into green space.
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Respire uses a moisture retaining concrete layer to grow moss directly onto walls.
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Within 12 weeks it forms a green surface that survives on rainwater alone, filtering air pollution while naturally cooling the building.
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Next up we're looking to China where they're creating huge sponge cities.
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Instead of using great infrastructure like concrete pipes to drain stormwater,
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they're building sprawling urban wetland parks and permeable pavements that naturally soak up extreme floods like a giant sponge.
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But the ultimate nature city has to be Singapore.
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By making greenery a core part of their urban design, they've turned a dense metropolis into a city in nature
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and their waterways are now so healthy
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that families of wild otters are happily swimming right through the middle of the central business district.
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You can see from these projects there's not just one solution.
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In a city you have to find little pockets
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and corners to bring nature back around human infrastructure and that's exactly what we're doing in Bristol.
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We're literally kind of surfing on a wetland right now and I never thought I would say that sentence.
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This will be the permanent home of our new wetland.
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For centuries it's been a grey wall but thanks to the Planet Wild community it will soon look like this.
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This piece was installed just two years ago and you can see the difference it's just like full of life.
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There's families of birds in there, it's full of insects, I've seen loads of fish swimming underneath.
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Just incredible what can happen in such a short space of time.
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And of course this is just the beginning.
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These plants will start to establish, they'll start to grow and it really will start attracting nature in.
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We haven't even finished installing the wetland yet and there's this family of swans rocking up and checking it out.
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It can potentially be their new home, like that is just so perfect, so beautiful.
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Finally we installed the second platform and again the effect was instant.
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So we literally just installed the floating wetland
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and we've seen a baby seagull who is stuck in the water use the ramp
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and climb up onto the platform and that's just saved its life it's just unbelievable to witness.
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And that is the beauty of this project nature is just waiting beneath the concrete
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and the asphalt once you give it a chance it's immediately making our cities more biodiverse safer
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and simply nicer places to live.
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And because it's such a simple solution, it can easily be copied around the world.
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So our funding here is not only transforming Bristol, but it's also creating a blueprint for future wetland cities everywhere.
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Thank you so much for making it all the way to the end of the video.
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I hope you can tell that we put a lot of hard work into the missions and the mission videos,
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but we really couldn't do any of it without our community.
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Right now, we're more than 27 ,000 members.
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We're actually growing really quickly which is so exciting.
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Every single month we go on a mission to bring back endangered species, to clean up our oceans and to restore entire landscapes.
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So if that sounds good to you, you can join
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Planet Wild as a backer by following the QR code here or the link in the description.
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Thanks so much for watching and catch you next time.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה B2 מבוסס על הסרטון “We Built a Wildlife Corridor Through a City”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: wetland, nature, cities, Bristol, drain. בסרטון הזה יש 152 משפטים ו-1914 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 11:27. הדובר מדבר בקצב טבעי של כ-167 מילים בדקה, קרוב לשיחה יומיומית. רק 80% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| drain שם עצם | /dɹiːn/ | נִקּוּז, אגן נקוז |
| float פועל | /fləʊt/ | צָף |
| insect שם עצם | /ˈɪn.sɛkt/ | חֶרֶק |
| corridor שם עצם | /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ | מִסְדְּרוֹן, פְּרוֹזְדוֹר |
| transform פועל | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | לשנות |
| install פועל | /ɪnˈstɔl/ | התקין |
| sponge שם עצם | /spʌnd͡ʒ/ | סְפוֹג |
| thrive פועל | /θɹajv/ | שִֹגְשֵֹג |
| metre שם עצם | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | מֶטֶר |
| drainage שם עצם | /ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/ | נִקּוּז |
| membrane שם עצם | /ˈmɛm.bɹeɪn/ | קרום |
| surf פועל | /sɝf/ | גלש |
| bury פועל | /ˈbɛɹi/ | קָבַר |
| harbor שם עצם | /ˈhɑːbə/ | נָמֵל |
| restore פועל | /ɹɪˈstoɹ/ | הֶחְזִיר |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| come back פועל | שָׁב |
| check out פועל | בדק |
| run down פועל | דרס |
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 | has led · has already begun · you've never heard |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | were built · can be built · are wrapped |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-34 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו we're, they're, gonna. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “th”: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thrive /θɹajv/
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: asphalt /ˈæʃfɑlt/, installation /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, miniature /ˈmɪn.(i)ə.tʃəɹ/, biodegradable /(ˌ)baɪoʊdəˈɡɹeɪdəbl̩/, futuristic /ˌfjut͡ʃəˈɹɪstɪk/, pollinator /ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: heatwave /ˈhitˌweɪv/, waterway /ˈwɔːtəweɪ/, aquatic /əˈkwɑ.tɪk/, microwave /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/, swan /swɑn/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/, embankment /ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/, amphibian /æmˈfɪbɪən/, damselfly /ˈdæmzəlflaɪ/, dragonfly /ˈdɹæɡənˌflaɪ/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: drain /dɹiːn/, corridor /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/, miniature /ˈmɪn.(i)ə.tʃəɹ/, thrive /θɹajv/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו drain, float, insect.
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