쉐도잉 연습: English in a Minute: Bag of Tricks - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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Magicians perform tricks, but what can you do with a whole bag of them?
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I have a date tonight.
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Wow, what are you going to do?
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I thought we'd start at a karaoke club and then go bowling.
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And if it's still going well, ice skating.
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Wow, Dan.
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Should you be using up your whole bag of tricks on date number one?
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Well, I'm saving axe throwing for date number two.
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Oh.
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A bag of tricks is a set of plans for getting something done or reaching a goal.
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For Dan, his bag of tricks is meant to impress his date.
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Make sure you let her win at bowling, Dan.
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And that's English in a Minute.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 14 sentences and 122 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:53. The speaker talks at a steady 139 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing.

Key vocabulary in this video

9 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
trick noun/ˈtɹɪk/Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
impress verb/ɪmˈpɹɛs/To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
skate noun/skeɪt/A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
karaoke noun/ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of…
bowl noun/boʊl/As much as is held by a bowl.
perform verb/pəˈfɔːm/To do (something); to execute.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.
reach verb/ɹiːt͡ʃ/To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
throw verb/θɹoʊ/To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
use up verbTo consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like trick, impress, skate.

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점is meant
“should” 조언 should + 동사 — 하는 것이 좋은 일을 말할 때Should you be
현재진행 am/is/are + -ing — 지금 또는 요즘 일어나고 있는 일I'm saving

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쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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