シャドーイング練習: If you can understand this FAST English, your English is ADVANCED (C1-C2 Listening Test) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hello, lovely students, and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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Would you survive in Great Britain when it comes to listening in English?
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How advanced are your English listening skills?
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Let's test them today.
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I have collected 15 examples of very advanced English overheard here in Great Britain.
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We have four categories.
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in the neighbourhood, on public transport,
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in the office, and my personal favourite, embarrassing faux pas.
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Now, a faux pas is an embarrassing mistake made in public.
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If you can understand just 50 % of these incredibly advanced snippets or small parts of a conversation,
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your english listening skills are advanced they are superb and
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because this is such an important lesson i've created a detailed pdf
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that includes all the key vocabulary highlighted in the lesson plus loads of extras to download
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that just click the link in the description box
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or scan the qr code on screen
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and i'll send it straight to your inbox i'll also add you to the waiting list for my most advanced course ever,
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the beautiful British English C2 programme.
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It launches on the 19th of January, 2026.
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If you're ready to move past advanced into a level where English feels flexible,
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expressive and fully yours, you're going to want to be on the waiting list.
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You'll get access to the incredible launch discount
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and you'll be one of the very first to experience this
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program make sure you click the link in the description box
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or scan the qr code to get your pdf
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and join the c2 program waiting list okay let's get started
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with our first category in the neighborhood i will ask the question
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and then play each audio twice i'll give you some time to think
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and then i will explain the answers and highlight any other interesting bits.
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Are you ready for number one?
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What's the speaker's attitude towards Cara's reaction?
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A. They think it's justified.
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B. They think it's exaggerated. Or C.
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They think it's admirable.
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Do you hear about Cara at number 22 kicking up a tremendous fuss about Jim painting his garage door canary yellow?
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Honestly, it's turned into a right palaver.
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Do you hear about Kara at number 22 kicking up a tremendous fuss about Jim painting his garage door canary yellow.
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Honestly, it's turned into a right palaver.
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The correct answer is B.
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The speaker thinks Kara's reaction is exaggerated.
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How do we know?
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Well, there are two interesting pieces of vocabulary here.
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First, we have kicking up a fuss.
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Now this informal idiom means to complain loudly about something, but we often use it when we think the complaint isn't necessary.
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You can also say kick up a stink or row as in argument.
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Then we also have the very informal British English word palaver.
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Now, a palaver is a great deal of unnecessary excitement or trouble.
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Again, especially about something that is not important.
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So, from these two phrases, we can infer that the speaker thinks Kara's reaction is exaggerated.
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Okay, number two.
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Listen to the audio and complete this sentence with two words.
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The neighbors to clean up the dirty alley.
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The alley running down the back of the houses was chock -a -block with rubbish
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but loads of people in the neighborhood met last week and mucked in to clean it up.
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Aisha even managed to find some local artists to paint a mural and brighten the space up a bit.
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The alley running down the back of the houses was chock -a -block with rubbish, but loads of people in the neighbourhood met last week and mucked in to clean it up.
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Aisha even managed to find some local artists to paint a mural and brighten the space up a bit.
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Did you catch the two words?
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The answer is mucked in, muck tin.
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Now, notice the catenation or consonant to vowel linking there.
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Muck tin, muck tin.
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I'm joining them together to make my speech more efficient.
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Now what does it mean?
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Did you figure it out from the context?
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This phrasal verb means to come together with others and share work in order to complete a task.
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There's some more challenging vocabulary in this snippet, like alley, chock -a -block, and mural.
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Make sure you download the PDF for a more in -depth analysis of each audio.
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QR code there, link down there.
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Let's do question number three.
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What are the last two words you hear to complete this phrase?
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And what does it mean?
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I'm going to have courgettes coming out of...
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You're right, Rach.
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Your veggie patch seems to be coming on a treat.
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Cheers, yeah.
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Well, with all this rain and sun we've been having, I'm going to have courgettes coming out of my ears in the next few weeks.
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You're right, Rach.
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Your veggie patch seems to be coming on a treat.
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Cheers, yeah.
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Well, with all this rain and sun we've been having, I'm going to have courgettes coming out of my ears in the next few weeks.
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So, you actually heard me is, me is.
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In many British accents and some other accents, the possessive adjective my is pronounced with a shorter i sound, me.
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There's also a soft y sound that links the two vowel sounds.
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The speaker isn't saying years, although it does sound like it
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so the last phrase in full is i'm going to have
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courgettes coming out of my ears me ears any idea what
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that phrase in bold means well
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if you have something coming out of your ears you have far more of it than you want
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or need such a great expression okay time for our final conversation snippet overheard in the neighbourhood.
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Listen and tell me what change the speaker is describing.
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It used to be that on a Saturday morning they are hummed with friendly chatter and customers haggling over prices.
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Now there's only a handful of stalls left.
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It's such a shame that shopping's been reduced to an act of clicking, not mingling.
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It used to be that on a Saturday morning, the air hummed with friendly chatter and customers haggling over prices.
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Now there's only a handful of stalls left.
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It's such a shame that shopping's been reduced to an act of clicking, not mingling.
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So if you answered the decline of local markets, the shift towards online shopping, or something similar to that, you are right.
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Let's take a closer look.
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The biggest clues here are probably the phrases customers haggling over prices and only a handful of stalls left.
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If you haggle over or haggle about something, you argue to try to get the best price for something.
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A handful is a small number of something.
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In this case, stalls.
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We don't need to pronounce the d in the middle there.
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Handful.
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A stall is a table or a small shop that people sell from at a market.
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Now, did you know enough of that advanced vocabulary to get the answer?
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Make sure you keep track of your score out of four so far.
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I will ask you to share it at the end.
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Okay, let's move on to a new category.
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Things you might overhear when out and about on public transport.
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Here's something I heard a little while back.
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Listen and tell me what item the speaker is talking about.
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It was making such a racket, so I yanked up the handle to carry it for a bit, just to give myself and everyone else some respite, but it snapped clean off,
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which then sent the whole thing crashing to the floor and jammed the wheel.
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Absolute nightmare.
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It was making such a racket, so I yanked up the handle to carry it for a bit, just to give myself and everyone else some respite, but it snapped clean off,
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which then sent the whole thing crashing to the floor and jammed the wheel.
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Absolute nightmare.
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Did you get it?
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Here's the full bit of text if you need a bit of help.
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The speaker's talking about a suitcase, a wheeled or wheelie suitcase, to be precise.
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How did you figure it out if the speaker just says it all the time?
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Well, we have the context.
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We know this was overheard on public transport.
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A lot of people carry cases when travelling.
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Then we had the phrase, making such a racket.
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A racket is a loud, unpleasant noise.
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Now I don't know about you, but my wheelie suitcase sometimes makes horrible noises.
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Then we have the word, handle.
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This is the top part of the case you can use to carry it.
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And then, jammed the wheel.
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If a wheel jams, it stops moving.
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Imagine the wheel getting all covered in jam.
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Horrific nightmare fuel let's move on to number six listen to this snippet
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which adjective do you hear
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and what does it mean is it a weary b wary
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or c wiry have a listen i'm just a little bit
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wary of putting my bag there technically you're not supposed to
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leave belongings unattended are you i'm just a little bit wary of putting my bag there.
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Technically, you're not supposed to leave belongings unattended, are you?
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The answer is B, wary.
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I'm just a little bit wary of putting my bag there.
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If you are wary of doing something, you're very careful or cautious about it because you think there might be a problem or some kind of danger.
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Weary means to be tired of and wiry is thin and bendy, like a wire.
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Okay, time for number seven.
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Listen to this announcement over the loudspeaker.
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There are six pieces of information, all numbers that could be relevant and important for you.
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How many of them can you catch?
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Final call for passengers on flight BA -793 to Copernhagen boarding
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for rows 13 to 70 is now taking place at gate c18 please be advised
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that checked baggage exceeding 15 kilos will incur an additional fee
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of 65 euros at the desk okay these announcements are notoriously difficult to hear even for native speakers
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so here's a bit of a clue before you listen again
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but feel free to look away
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if you want more of a challenge final call for passengers on flight BA 793 to Copenhagen.
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Boarding for rows 13 to 70 is now taking place at gate C18.
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Please be advised that checked baggage exceeding 15 kilos will incur an additional fee of 65 euros at the desk.
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Okay so the speaker said flight BA 793 to Copenhagen rows 13 to 70
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gate c18 baggage exceeding 15 kilos and an additional fee of 65 euros
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if you got more than half of those right give yourself
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a point now for our final snippet in this category i'd like you to try
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and finish the passage with a word or a short phrase that makes logical sense I thought I'd be fine, but the minute we left the harbour,
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the swell really hit me.
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I tried to read for a bit.
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Bad idea.
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Couldn't focus, and every lurch of the boat made me feel worse.
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I had to sit perfectly still, staring at the horizon, just trying not to...
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I thought I'd be fine, but the minute we left the harbour, the swell really hit me.
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I tried to read for a bit.
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Bad idea.
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Couldn't focus
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and every lurch of the boat made me feel worse i
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had to sit perfectly still staring at the horizon just trying not to okay
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if you said something along the lines of vomit be sick
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or throw up
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and give yourself a point now did you manage to figure
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out what was going on there's quite a lot of boat
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related vocabulary here the harbour swell lurch of the boat
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and horizon and then clues that point to seasickness like i thought i'd be fine
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but and made me feel worse check out the pdf for a more in -depth analysis
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if you found that one tricky okay what's your score out of eight
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so far are you ready for the next category we're heading into the office now for number nine listen
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and complete this sentence with five words the speaker is worried
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that they've what well judging by the stony silence in
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that meeting i think i may have trodden on a few toes all i said was
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that we should invite contributions from the whole team
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but the reaction was if i'd questioned the whole project i clearly struck a raw nerve.
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Well, judging by the stony silence in that meeting, I think I may have trodden on a few toes.
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All I said was that we should invite contributions from the whole team, but the reaction was as if I'd questioned the whole project.
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I clearly struck a raw nerve.
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This missing phrase is trodden on a few toes.
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Trodden on a few toes.
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Have you ever heard this expression before?
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Here's the full transcript.
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Which definition fits best?
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Does to tread on someone's toes mean a to inadvertently upset someone by interfering in their responsibilities or area of control
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or b to avoid getting involved in something as it might cause conflict?
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the answer is a we can also say step on someone's
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toes now did you catch the other juicy c2 language in
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that clip i've highlighted it in the pdf download that
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so you don't miss out on phrases like struck a raw
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nerve oh that's a beautiful phrase to strike a raw nerve okay this next one is a real challenge.
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You're going to hear a snippet with four abbreviations, or to be more precise, initialisms.
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FAQ, for example, is an initialism.
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The letters stand for frequently asked questions.
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Now, can you catch the office initialisms and come up with their full form?
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Can you send me the draft of the KPIs ASAP?
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I need to get it to the CEO by EOD.
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Can you Can you send me the draft of the KPIs, ASAP?
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I need to get it to the CEO by EOD." Okay, so we had KPIs, Key Performance Indicators,
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ASAP, sometimes pronounced as ASAP, meaning as soon as possible,
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CEO, Chief Executive Officer, and EOD.
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End of day.
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Now, if you caught more than two of those, you deserve a point.
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Oh, and an important pronunciation point.
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Did you notice how I stressed the last letter in these initialisms?
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K -P -I's, A -S -A -P, C -E -O, E -O -D.
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Try to do the same when you pronounce them.
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You'll sound nice and natural.
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Okay, for number 11, I'm going to show you the text
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and I want you to choose the word or phrase you hear.
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Now don't worry if you can't see the screen, I will give you the options once you've listened twice.
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Okay, so we have some very similar sounding expressions here.
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This quarter's exceeded expectations, so we'll be sure to order it before the report goes out.
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We'll wrap things up there, benefits all clear for you.
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This quarter's exceeded expectations, so we'll be sure to order it before the report goes out.
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We'll wrap things up there,
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benefits all clear for you did you hear one quota or quarter two audit or order it three benefits
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or ben if it's replay the audio one more time
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if you need to the answers are quarter order it
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and ben if it's really tricky isn't it well done
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if you got all of those okay it's time for our final audio from the office listen to it
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and complete the passage with a word
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or short phrase ready the much hyped redesign promised to break down barriers
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and spark collaboration yet within weeks everyone was retreating behind noise cancelling headphones scrambling for secluded corners
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and voicing frustration at the incessant buzz of distracting chatter.
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What had been touted as an innovative step forward soon revealed itself to be.
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The much -hyped redesign promised to break down barriers and spark collaboration,
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yet within weeks everyone was retreating behind noise -canceling headphones, scrambling for secluded corners
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and voicing frustration at the incessant buzz of distracting chatter what
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had been touted as an innovative step forward soon revealed itself to be
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if you said something along the lines of counterproductive a failure or ineffective
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you get a point in the pdf i will delve deeper
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into the tricky vocab highlighted here okay we're on to our final category
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and our last three questions these snippets are a little bit embarrassing.
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Listen to this and tell me what the mix -up was.
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I'd only been living in Manchester for a few weeks when a colleague invited me round for tea at five.
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I was thrilled at the thought of experiencing this quintessential British tradition, so I rocked up with a jar of strawberry jam and a pot of clotted cream.
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So you can imagine how bewildered I was when I arrived to find the table fully laid, not for a pot of Earl Grey and scones,
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but for a full -blown evening meal.
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I'd only been living in Manchester for a few weeks when a colleague invited me round for tea at 5.
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I was thrilled at the thought of experiencing this quintessential British tradition, so I rocked up with a jar of strawberry jam and a pot of clotted cream.
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So you can imagine how bewildered I was when I arrived to find the table fully laid, not for a pot of Earl Grey and scones,
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but for a full -blown evening meal.
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Okay, this one confuses so many students.
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Dinner is the word that's usually taught to describe an evening meal.
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But in many places around the UK, dinner is replaced by tea.
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And the fact that many people have their evening meal as early as five o 'clock just adds to the confusion.
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So if in doubt, make sure you check.
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Do you mean tea as in dinner or tea as in tea and cake?
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Okay, for number 14, see if you can finish this audio with a suitable word or phrase.
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Ready?
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I spoke to a fellow gym goer about an odious man who was offering unsolicited advice to all and sundry.
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Tried to dissuade him from going anywhere near.
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I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up when he turned around and said.
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I spoke to a fellow gym goer about an odious man who was offering unsolicited advice to all and sundry.
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Tried to dissuade him from going anywhere near.
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I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up when he turned around and said.
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So if you said something like, he's my friend, husband, hubby, basically any relationship, that's another point for you.
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Well done.
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There's a great idiom here that means to be so embarrassed, you wish you could disappear.
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Did you catch it at the end there?
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I wanted the ground to swallow me up.
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I love this.
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It's so descriptive.
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I wonder if you've ever felt that way.
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I'm sure you have on multiple occasions.
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Please feel free to share any anecdotes.
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I love laughing along with you.
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Okay, our final question for today's lesson.
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What social faux pas did the speaker make?
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I'd gone to a friend of a friend's for dinner.
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The host served a divine goat's cheese onion tart as part of the spread.
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As the music, wine and conversation flowed, I polished off the lot, took a sharp elbow to the ribs for me to realise what had happened.
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Oh, needless to say, I was mortified.
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I'd gone to a friend of a friend's for dinner.
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The host served a divine goat's cheese onion tart as part of the spread.
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As the music, wine and conversation flowed, I polished off the lot.
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Took a sharp elbow to the ribs for me to realise what had happened.
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Oh, needless to say, I was mortified.
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If you polish something off, you finish all of it.
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Would that be considered a social faux pas in your country or culture?
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Let me know.
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The speaker was left mortified.
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Now, this C2 word means to feel ashamed or humiliated.
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So, my lovely students, that brings us to the end of today's video lesson.
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I would love to know, what was your score out of 15?
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Please let me know in the comments.
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If this lesson stretched your listening skills, imagine what you'll achieve at C2.
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My brand new beautiful British English C2 programme launches on the 19th of January 2026.
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Get ready to unlock English at its absolute highest level.
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To join the waiting list, make sure you download today's PDF.
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It's packed with all the key vocabulary and extra tips from this lesson.
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Scan the QR code or click the link below to join the waiting list.
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See you soon.
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We'll see you next time.
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「If you can understand this FAST English, your English is ADVANCED (C1-C2 Listening Test)」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。