Shadowing Practice: Bolivia's Death Road | Top Gear | BBC - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Hang on, before you go.
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What?
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I genuinely don't like heights.
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It's my biggest failing, among many, I accept.
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You know that you drive into the back of my car and it's a very funny joke?
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You don't want it to happen to you.
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You want me to drive into it?
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No. I'll cut your head off.
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You will need a beep there, BBC Two.
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Yeah.
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I can understand.
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Seriously.
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Let's see.
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My car is perfect in every way, apart from it not starting.
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So could you, if you wouldn't mind, push me a little bit?
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So you want me to push your car with my car now on this road here?
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Yes, there's no alternative.
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OK, well, here I come.
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Careful, careful, careful.
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Oh, it wasn't as careful as it could have been.
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Sorry.
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Pretty soon, we saw why the road had earned its name.
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God almighty, that is high.
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That is a massive, massive drop.
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The dust didn't help either.
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This is insane.
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Whoa.
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Look at the grasses stick up, and you don't necessarily see what a long way down it is, and then you get one of those little gaps, and then you just see down, and it is a long way.
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There's one there.
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The dust didn't help either.
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Oh, gee.
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Mm, look at that.
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That's narrowed.
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I just don't know what I'm doing.
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I don't understand the rules on this road.
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You seem to drive one minute on the left, one minute on the right.
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Sometimes the lorries stop going the other way to let you go through.
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Sometimes they don't.
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Some lorries pull over, others come barrelling up behind you doing three
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and a half times the speed of sound and it's completely baffling.
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Thank you.
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Well, I'm coming up against the truck.
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I've got to go past him, and that means going on that side.
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Looking straight ahead.
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Breathe.
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Please.
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Moments later, James slowed down to let a mad local get past.
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Does that mean there's one of those maniacal taxis right now?
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And I didn't.
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Oh, God.
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Sorry, I was...
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I was watching the taxi...
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You're now going to get macheted to death.
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I was watching the taxi.
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I don't care.
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I did warn you.
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Did I or did I not warn you?
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James is killing Jeremy.
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Things are going well.
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I was watching the taxi.
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You weren't.
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I was watching the taxi.
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Did your co -presenter on your television programme just attack you with a machete?
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Yes, you did.
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He came to the window.
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It was quite gross cos I ran into him.
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That doesn't happen on, like, clothes programmes or gardening shows.
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As we climbed higher, life in the already battered Toyota became truly terrifying.
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That's my steering.
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I'm inches from death.
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There.
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The steering wheel doesn't do anything.
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My brakes stick on when I'm going uphill and cause the clutch to slip.
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I can't breathe because the dust gets in.
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Oh, God!
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That's real fear now.
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When I'm going downhill, the same brakes that stick on going uphill don't stop me.
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The Suzuki II was showing the strain.
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What is the matter?
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It's got dirt in the fuel system from the river.
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So it's broken?
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It's not broken.
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Occasionally, a bit of it goes through.
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Your simple, cheap car is broken.
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Sticking to the code of the Top Gear Brotherhood, I left James and Richard behind.
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This goes to show they're badly made, these Japanese cars.
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They're badly made.
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James and I decided to stick together.
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He's never going to go round us.
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My God, he is.
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That's insane.
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Right.
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I'm in a ditch.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Didn't see this.
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Whoa -ho!
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What a thing to miss.
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Right.
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No biggie, though, because my colleague would winch me out in a jiffy.
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Hold on.
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What?
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The winch isn't working.
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I'm now all on my own on Death Road.
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I have no idea where Ray Mears and Ted Nugent are.
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They've just disappeared.
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We have no phones, they're not on the radio.
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Up there could be dead.
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We would, in fact, be dead quite soon, judging by the mood of the angry stuck locals.
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Good luck.
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Thank you.
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Handbrake off, et cetera.
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Ditch is going to level out, so it'll be fine.
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There you go.
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What a nice man.
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Soon, though, I wished I'd stayed in the ditch because the Toyota had developed yet another fault.
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Something's broken on that back corner.
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This is pretty close to undriveable now.
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Right!
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Meanwhile, very far ahead...
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I'm now at 5 ,500 feet above sea level and still climbing.
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Oh, God, crosses.
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There's a lot of crosses there.
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And then, underneath a waterfall, I learned why there were so many crosses up here.
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Oh, my God.
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No. Oh, my...
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Stop there!
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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That is going.
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That is going.
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Bloody hell.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 135 zinnen en 812 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:23. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 110 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 81% 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:
- taxi /ˈtæksi/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — taxi. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.
- dust /dʌst/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — stof. Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, fiber…
- ditch /dɪt͡ʃ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — sloot, greppel. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- badly /ˈbæd.li/ (bijwoord) — slecht. In a bad manner.
- insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — gestoord, waanzinnig. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
- breathe /bɹiːð/ (werkwoord) — ademen, ademhalen. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (werkwoord) — klimmen. To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
- warn /woɹn/ (werkwoord) — waarschuwen, verwittigen. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
- brake /bɹeɪk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — rem, remmen. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or…
- steer /stɪɹ/ (werkwoord) — besturen. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- earn /ɝn/ (werkwoord) — verdienen. To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
- meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ (bijwoord) — intussen, ondertussen. During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.
- necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (bijwoord) — nodig, noodzakelijk. Inevitably; of necessity.
- gap /ɡæp/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — reet, spleet. An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
- gross /ɡɹoʊs/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — bruto. remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- get in (werkwoord) — binnenraken. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (werkwoord) — verder gaan. To continue in extent.
- hold on (werkwoord) — vasthouden. To grasp or grip firmly.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 36 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, machete /məˈʃɛ.ti/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als taxi, dust, ditch.
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.