Shadowing Practice: 2-4000-3-U5 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 5.
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Word List Acquaint To acquaint is to get to know something or someone.
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Nancy acquainted herself with a new computer.
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Cemetery A cemetery is a place where people are buried when they die.
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Some people are scared of cemeteries.
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Creature A creature is an animal or person.
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Those creatures live in Africa.
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Curse To curse someone is to hope that bad things happen to that person.
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The witch cursed the village.
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Disguise A disguise is something you wear so people cannot tell who you are.
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Everyone knew that it was Dad in the Santa disguise.
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Fancy A fancy thing is nicer or more detailed than normal.
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Their table was all set for a fancy dinner.
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Flashlight A flashlight is a small electric light that people carry in their hands.
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We took a flashlight when we went camping.
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Hood A hood is part of a coat that goes over a person's head.
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She put on her hood to keep her head warm.
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Inhabitant.
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An inhabitant is a person who lives in a certain place.
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The number of inhabitants in the countryside is increasing.
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Nourish To nourish is to give someone or something the food needed to live.
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A good mother will nourish her baby every day.
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Pirate A pirate is a sailor who steals things from other boats.
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Pirates are very scary characters.
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Publication A publication is something printed, like a newspaper or book.
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She's been a subscriber to that publication for over 10 years.
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Riddle A riddle is a question that is difficult to answer, but meant to be funny.
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I could not answer Wendy's riddle, but it made me laugh.
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Rot To rot is to slowly get softer and become destroyed.
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Shortly An action that happens shortly happens very soon.
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My workday will end shortly.
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Skeleton A skeleton is all the bones of a body.
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There is a skeleton in the science classroom.
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Spoil To spoil is to rot or to make bad.
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We left the fruit out too long and it spoiled.
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Starve To starve is to not get enough food for a long period of time.
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During the war, many people starved.
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Thrill A thrill is an exciting feeling.
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The surfer enjoys the thrill of surfing a big wave.
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Wicked A wicked person is very bad or evil.
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My boss is a very wicked man.
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Trick or Treat Many different cultures have had traditions about the dead.
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People in places like Ireland, China, Egypt, and Mexico believed that souls needed food.
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They thought the food nourished them on their journey from cemeteries to heaven.
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People had to put out good things for souls to eat.
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However, if the food rotted or spoiled, the soul got mad.
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The wicked soul might curse the family and make them starve during the winter.
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In other places, people begged for food on a holiday that remembers the souls of dead saints.
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People wore disguises with hoods that covered their faces.
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If they did not get food, they played a trick on the home's owner.
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For this reason, the activity is known as Trick-or-Treating Shortly after people first began trick-or-treating,
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parents started sending their children to beg on that day.
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Housewives gave the children food if they performed a song or a dance.
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When people moved to America from all over the world, they brought this tradition with them.
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Inhabitants of villages started trick-or-treating in the early 1900s.
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In 1939, a children's publication acquainted the whole country with the tradition.
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It became very popular.
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Today, trick-or-treaters do not beg for food and they are not scared of souls.
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They just enjoy the thrill of dressing up like creatures and getting candy.
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Ghosts and skeletons are favorite costumes.
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But some children wear fancy disguises like pirate costumes.
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They carry flashlights instead of fires.
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In some places, children still perform songs or riddles to get candy.
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But most of the time, they just say, Trick or treat!

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 64 zinnen en 660 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:53. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 112 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 74% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

  • disguise /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ (werkwoord) — vermommen, zich vermommen. To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
  • publication /ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — publicatie. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
  • curse /kɝs/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vloek, verwensing. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
  • pirate /ˈpaɪɹət/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — piraat, zeerover. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
  • spoil /spɔɪl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — buit. Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • skeleton /ˈskɛlətən/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — skelet, geraamte. The system that provides support to an organism, where in vertebrates it is internal and consists of bones and cartilage, and external in some other animals.
  • thrill /θɹɪl/ (werkwoord) — opwinden. To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  • starve /stɑɹv/ (werkwoord) — verhongeren, sterven van de honger. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  • candy /ˈkæn.di/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — snoepje. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
  • costume /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — kostuum, klederdracht. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
  • scare /skɛɚ/ (werkwoord) — bang maken, beangstigen. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
  • bone /boʊn/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — been. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  • ghost /ɡoʊst/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — geest, spook. A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
  • steal /stiːl/ (werkwoord) — stelen, ontvreemden. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
  • scary /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — eng. Causing fear or anxiety

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

  • dress up (werkwoord) — verkleden. To put on special or fancy clothes.
  • put on /ˌpʊt ˈɒn/ (werkwoord) — aantrekken, opzetten (headgear). To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
  • put out (werkwoord) — buitenzetten, uitwerpen. To blind (eyes).

Uitspraak om op te letten

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, publication /ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, nourish /ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: publication /ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/, cemetery /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/, inhabitant /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als disguise, publication, curse.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetare buried · is known
Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspellingwill nourish · will end
Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig isneeded to live · had to put

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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