Shadowing Practice: Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What happens when you take magic mushrooms?
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As soon as you swallow them, your stomach acid and an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase transforms the psilocybin in the mushroom into psilocin.
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After it slips into your bloodstream and reaches your brain, psilocin binds to and activates your serotonin receptors.
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Regions that normally keep to themselves start talking to each other
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and your brain's usual filter on what reaches your awareness gets much looser.
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The result is different every time, and effects can vary.
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Typically, patterns crawl across the walls, time stretches, unrelated thoughts snap together, and everything suddenly means something.
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That's psilocin scrambling the brain networks that construct your familiar reality, including your sense of self.
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But rewiring your reality for even a few hours can be dangerous.
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It can lead to fatal accidents, and for already vulnerable individuals, high doses can trigger prolonged psychosis.
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In medical settings with controlled doses, psilocybin is being trialed to help those suffering from depression or PTSD.
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But outside of these conditions, mushrooms are not without risks, and not every trip is magical.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms”. This video has 12 sentences and 178 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:10. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 72% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| mushroom noun | /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/ | Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). |
| dose noun | /ˈdəʊ̯s/ | A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time. |
| loose adjective | /lus/ | Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. |
| acid noun | /ˈæsɪd/ | A sour substance. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| awareness noun | /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ | The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. |
| stomach noun | /ˈstʌmək/ | An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. |
| stretch verb | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | To lengthen by pulling. |
| filter noun | /ˈfɪltɚ/ | A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from… |
| slip verb | /ˈslɪp/ | To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction. |
| trigger noun | /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/ | A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. |
| vary verb | /ˈvɛəɹi/ | To change with time or a similar parameter. |
| magical adjective | /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/ | Of, relating to, or by means of magic. |
| snap verb | /snæp/ | To fracture or break apart suddenly. |
| vulnerable adjective | /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/ | More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | being trialed |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: psilocybin /ˌsɪ.ləˈsaɪ.bɪn/, serotonin /ˌsɛɹəˈtoʊnɪn/
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 mushroom, dose, loose.
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