Shadowing Practice: What is Archeology? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Archaeology is the study of people in the past and the items that they left behind.
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People left a variety of things.
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So think about all the things you use on a day -to -day basis
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and think about someone finding those hundreds of years later and what they would learn about you as a person.
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And we can use those tools as archaeologists, those breadcrumbs, that evidence and the trash basically, to learn more about the people that use them.
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Archaeology is actually a sub -discipline of anthropology, and anthropology is the study of people.
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And so there's various ways that anthropologists study people.
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There's linguistics, which studies language.
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There's cultural, which studies, you know, modern people.
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And there's biological, which you can think of as studying the human body and the history of the human body.
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And then there's archaeology, and archaeology basically studies past peoples,
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and they study past peoples by looking at the things that people leave behind in various places where they've lived, worked, and played.
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So archaeology is the study of past cultures by looking at the stuff that they left behind.
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that can include bones but it usually doesn't it's usually what we call artifacts
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which are just things that were modified by people
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so i always call an artifact uh like the stuff
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that people left behind in the past
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so you think about you use a certain utensil
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and then you end up throwing it away well we could find
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that hundreds of years later
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and learn oh they use this type of utensil for cooking for eating things like
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that so it's basically evidence of the lives
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that people lived in the past there were people here they were living here they were loving
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and growing families and experiencing hardships and joys just like we do now
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and this is an opportunity to kind of touch their lives in a way
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and bring them into the present and help tell their story
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “What is Archeology?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: archaeology, study, studies, learn. This video has 26 sentences and 332 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:12. The speaker talks at a natural 151 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| archaeology noun | /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains. |
| anthropology noun | /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/ | The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a… |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| biological adjective | /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/ | Of or relating to biology. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| modify verb | /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/ | To change part of. |
| hardship noun | /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ | Difficulty or trouble; hard times. |
| artifact noun | /ˈɑɹtɪfækt/ | An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. |
| utensil noun | /juˈtɛn.səl/ | An instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen. |
| anthropologist noun | /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | An expert in anthropology. |
| archaeologist noun | /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/ | Someone who studies or practises archaeology. |
| breadcrumb noun | /ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/ | A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread. |
| linguistics noun | /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ | The systematic and scholarly study of language. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| leave behind verb | To abandon. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: anthropology /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
- Long words — get the stress right: archaeology /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, anthropology /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, archaeologist /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/
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 archaeology, anthropology, bone.
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