์‰๋„์ž‰ ์—ฐ์Šต: How An Alter Ego Helps You Focus ๐Ÿค” - ์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ธฐ

๋ ˆ์Šจ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ค‘...
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If you have a boring assignment to finish, but you really want to play video games, instead of using willpower, just pretend that you're Batman.
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Then ask yourself, what would Batman do right now?
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And suddenly, the assignment feels less like a personal struggle and more like a mission.
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That small mental shift can help you zoom out, ignore distractions, and do the thing you were avoiding.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 4 sentences and 67 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:26.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
assignment noun/ษ™หˆsaษชn.mษ™nt/The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
ignore verb/ษชษกหˆnษ”ห/To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
pretend verb/pษนษ™หˆtษ›nd/To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
bore verb/boษน/To inspire boredom in somebody.
zoom verb/zuหm/To move fast with a humming noise.
distraction noun/dษชsหˆtษนรฆk.สƒษ™n/Something that distracts.
willpower noun/หˆwษชlหŒpaสŠษš/The unwavering strength of will to carry out one's wishes.
suddenly adverb/หˆsสŒd.ษ™n.li/Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
struggle noun/หˆstษนสŒษกษ™l/A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
shift noun/หˆสƒษชft/A movement to do something, a beginning.
finish verb/หˆfษชnษชสƒ/To complete (something).
avoid verb/ษ™หˆvษ”ษชd/To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
mission noun/หˆmษชสƒ.ษ™n/A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
zoom out verb/หŒzuหm หˆaสŠt/To decrease the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a reduced magnification of the image, or a wider-angle view.

Pronunciation to watch

  • The โ€œshโ€ and โ€œzhโ€ sounds: distraction /dษชsหˆtษนรฆk.สƒษ™n/, shift /หˆสƒษชft/, finish /หˆfษชnษชสƒ/, mission /หˆmษชสƒ.ษ™n/

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 assignment, ignore, pretend.

์ด ์˜์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•

ํ™”์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ˜•์„ ์˜์ƒ ์† ์‹ค์ œ ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌธํ˜•์˜์ƒ ์† ํ‘œํ˜„
๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ง„ํ–‰ was/were + -ing โ€” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์–ด๋А ์‹œ์ ์— ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋˜ ๋™์ž‘were avoiding

์‰๋„์ž‰์ด๋ž€? ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

์‰๋„์ž‰(Shadowing)์€ ์›๋ž˜ ์ „๋ฌธ ํ†ต์—ญ์‚ฌ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋œ ์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์Šต ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹ค์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์ž์ธ Dr. Alexander Arguelles์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์›๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์›์–ด๋ฏผ์˜ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด์„œ 1~2์ดˆ์˜ ์งง์€ ์ง€์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”โ€”๋งˆ์น˜ '๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž(shadow)'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™”์ž๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• ๊ณต๋ถ€๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๋™์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ทจ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์‰๋„์ž‰์€ ๋‡Œ์™€ ์ž… ๊ทผ์œก์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ›ˆ๋ จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฐœ์Œ ์ •ํ™•๋„, ์–ต์–‘, ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ, ์—ฐ์Œ, ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ ฅ, ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ ์ฐฝ์„ฑ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IELTS ์Šคํ”ผํ‚น ์ค€๋น„์™€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์˜์–ด ์†Œํ†ต์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠนํžˆ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„€๋„์ž‰ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•: ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„ ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ์ฝ๊ธฐ โ†’