쉐도잉 연습: (Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

레슨 만드는 중...
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Let's read.
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All around the world, people like to read books, newspapers, magazines, and comic books.
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In Japan, reading manga is a really popular free-time activity.
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Manga is a type of comic book.
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In manga, there are words and pictures to tell a story or give information.
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There are lots of different types of manga, for example, adventure, mystery, science fiction, and comedy.
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There is manga for all ages.
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You can find manga on the Internet, too.
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There are also manga computer games and manga cartoons on television.
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There are even manga cafes where you can look at manga on the Internet or read manga books and magazines.
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Manga started in Japan, but it's now popular in many countries.
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Some libraries in the USA have manga reading groups.
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The Great Wall of China About 2,400 years ago,
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there were many small countries in China.
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There were often wars.
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People didn't want enemies in their country, so they built big walls to keep them out.
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For more than 2,000 years, people built walls, destroyed walls, and built new walls.
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The Great Wall of China is really many walls.
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Together, they are about 7,000 kilometers long.
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The walls are about 7 meters high.
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There are also many taller towers.
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Prisoners, soldiers, and other people built the wall.
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They transported the stones and bricks by hand.
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This work was hard and dangerous.
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About three million people died building the wall.
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Later, more than one million soldiers guarded the wall.
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But it was hard to stop the enemies.
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People also used the wall as a road.
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Today, tourists like to walk along the wall.
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For many years, people thought that you could see the Great Wall of China from the moon.
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But this is not true.
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Skyscrapers When there isn't much ground,
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we can build tall buildings.
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Very tall buildings are called skyscrapers.
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The first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building.
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It was built in Chicago, in the USA, in 1885.
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It was 42 meters tall.
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The tallest skyscrapers are now much taller than this.
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The Patronus Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia are the tallest twin buildings.
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There is a bridge between the two towers called a Sky Bridge.
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One of the tallest skyscrapers is the Burj Dubai.
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It's in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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It's 818 meters tall.
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That's nearly a kilometer.
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It's made of a special, strong concrete called reinforced concrete.
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The Burj Dubai has apartments, shops, swimming pools, hotels, restaurants, and a library.
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It's like a very tall town.
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Petra About 2,000 years ago,
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people in the Middle East bought and sold cloth
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and spices in many countries they often traveled across land in
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large groups called caravans they used camels to transport people and things one of the places where the caravan stopped was petra
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Petra is a fantastic city in the desert in Jordan.
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People built the city in the pink cliffs.
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The caravans stopped in Petra because it had water and places to sleep, and it was safe from enemies.
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Some of the caravans were seven kilometers long, and they had 2,500 camels.
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At different times, people from different places lived in Petra.
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They made wonderful temples, a theater, a palace, and tombs in the pink cliffs.
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Later, earthquakes destroyed a lot of Petra.
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Today, many tourists visit this amazing place.
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People also make movies here, for example, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
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The Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal is in India.
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It looks like a palace, but it's a tomb.
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It's one of the most beautiful tombs in the world.
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There are gardens and fountains around the building.
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The tomb is made of 28 types of stone and jewel from all over India and other countries.
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Most of the tomb is made of a beautiful white stone called marble.
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About 20,000 people built the Taj Mahal, and it took 22 years.
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More than a thousand elephants helped to move the stones for the building.
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The Taj Mahal was built about 400 years ago.
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The Emperor Shah Jahan built it for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
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She died when she had her 14th baby.
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Shah Jahan was very sad, so he built the Taj Mahal to remember his wife.
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Later, Shah Jahan's son wanted to be the emperor, so he put his father into prison.
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When Shah Jahan died, people put his body in the Taj Mahal, so that he was with his wife forever.
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The Colosseum Where did ancient Romans go for fun?
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They went to the Colosseum in Rome.
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They watched fights in this big and beautiful stadium.
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The fights were with gladiators and wild animals, like lions, crocodiles, rhinos, and even elephants.
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The Colosseum wasn't fun for everyone.
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About 500,000 people and one million wild animals died there.
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About 2,000 years ago, Rome was a very important city.
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The Colosseum was the most fantastic building in the city.
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It was big enough for more than 50,000 people.
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The Colosseum had many arches.
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There were about eighty big arches to let people in and out.
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There was also a cloth roof to protect people from sun and rain.
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Later, two earthquakes destroyed some of the Colosseum.
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Then people took stones from the Colosseum to build many other buildings in Rome.
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So the building that we can see today gives only an idea of how beautiful it was in the past.
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Thousands of tourists visit the Colosseum every year.
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Free time is very important.
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It's good for you to do something different after school or work.
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It's also fun.
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Many of our favorite free time activities are popular all around the world.
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Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and it's a big part of life in Brazil.
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People here love to watch and play soccer in their free time.
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In Brazil, you don't need a pitch or expensive boots to play soccer.
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People play soccer in the street and on the beach.
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Children often play with no boots.
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Some people think that Brazilians are good at soccer because they learn a special way to play when they are children.
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They learn to play a type of soccer called futsal.
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There are five players in each team.
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The ball is small, but it's full of sand, so it's very heavy.
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Futsal started in South America, but now it's popular in many other countries.
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One evening at a restaurant, a man and woman were shocked by a child's behavior.
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The little boy was out of control, running around while his parents didn't have a clue that he was causing trouble.
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They were just enjoying their dinner.
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The other couple was upset because they had gone through the trouble of getting a babysitter for their own kids.
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They just wanted an evening out so they could relax and have dinner in peace.
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They were also upset because the restaurant was noisy and it was taking forever to get their food.
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They told the waitress that the bottom line was
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that parents had to keep their kids under control and teach them how to behave in public.
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I think I'm really in hot water with my teacher.
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She wrote a note on my paper that she wants to see me in her office tomorrow.
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I think I know why.
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I worked really hard on my last paper, but right before I had to hand it in, I got busy, and I copied something from the internet.
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Just a small thing, maybe a few paragraphs.
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I didn't think she'd know.
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I can't believe it.
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I'm so scared.
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What will she do to me?
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I hope I don't get an F.
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What if she tells my parents?
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I'll be in really hot water with them, too.
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I promise to never copy again.
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I hope they'll believe me.
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It's a big problem, and we need to solve it.
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But don't worry, we're working on it.
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Too many people are living on the streets.
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We're trying to help them.
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We're finding them places to live and helping them get jobs.
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And, of course, we have people helping them with their drug and alcohol problems.
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Please know that we're doing all we can.
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We're working on this day and night.
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It's true that I didn't work very hard, and that's why my grades were so bad.
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But I've changed.
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Right now, I'm working on two papers, and I know I'm doing a good job.
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And I had a big test last week, and do you know how long I studied?
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Six hours a day for three days.
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Really?
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Believe me, this time I'm going to get all A's.
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Don't worry.
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Hi, I'm Alice.
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I'm doing some internet research on wedding customs in four different countries.
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I already found out a lot about customs in India, but I need to find out more about customs in Ethiopia, Japan, and Peru.
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Hi, remember me?
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I'm Alice.
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I just wanted to let you know that I found a great website with information about wedding customs in Japan.
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If you want me to email you the address, just let me know.
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Hi, I'm Mark.
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I'm in Alice's class, and I have the same assignment.
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At first, I didn't know what topic to do research on, but I found Alice in the library and talked to her.
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She gave me some good ideas to think about.
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I'll let you know tomorrow what I decide to do research on.
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Hi there.
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I finally made my decision.
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Sorry you had to wait, but I wanted to be sure I picked the right research topic.
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As you know, yesterday I talked to Alice about a few possible topics.
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And then I got online and looked at a few websites.
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First, I found out what I don't want to do research on, and that's classical music, because I already know a lot about that.
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Well, after looking at a lot of websites, I decided to do research on the history of jazz because I don't know anything about that.

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외워두면 좋은 유용한 표현 모음

  • free-time activity: 여가 활동. "In Japan, reading manga is a really popular free-time activity."처럼 사용합니다.
  • keep them out: 외부로부터 막다. "People built big walls to keep them out."에서 적을 막는 의미로 쓰였습니다.
  • reinforced concrete: 철근 콘크리트. 고층 건물을 지을 때 사용되는 재료로, "It's made of reinforced concrete."처럼 표현합니다.
  • travel across land: 육로를 여행하다. "They often traveled across land in..."에서 사용되었습니다.

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과거진행 was/were + -ing — 과거의 어느 시점에 진행 중이던 동작was causing · were just enjoying · was taking
현재진행 am/is/are + -ing — 지금 또는 요즘 일어나고 있는 일we're working · are living · We're trying

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