Shadowing Practice: Book Week - BTN Episode 24, 2026 - Behind the News - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, I'm Amelia Moseley and you're watching BTN.
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Thanks for joining us again.
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Now, today you can see I'm somewhere a little bit different, and that's because we're bringing you a very special episode for Book Week.
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We'll be chatting to some authors authors, learning how to read Braille, and meeting the students who have been helping to choose this year's best kids books.
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We'll also hear from some famous authors and familiar faces who will be sharing their favourite kids books.
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Can't wait for all that soon, but first to libraries.
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Public libraries like this are a great place to come and read and learn, but as a kid you might also have access to a library at your school.
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Jack found out why those are actually really important.
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Someone once said, having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.
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Do you agree with that?
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Yeah, I feel like that's true.
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I definitely agree, yeah.
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It is fun, like fun to be in a library.
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I agree with that statement because there are so many books you can read.
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Do you know who said that?
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Uh, I've got no idea.
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No?
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It was Arthur.
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the aardvark.
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I love that libraries are dynamic places where students can connect with each other and connect with fabulous literature.
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This is Hanolka Malloy.
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She's a teacher librarian, so she knows a thing or two about aardvarks.
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Oh, sorry, libraries.
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In a school library, we have books and games and maker spaces
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and digital resources to help students become passionate readers and become information detectives.
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The idea of having a dedicated space to store information for people to read, study and borrow has been around for thousands of years.
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Just like Aardvarks...
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I think.
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And seeing as schools are dedicated places to learn, it made sense to put libraries in them.
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Do you know how many books are in this library?
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So, this campus of Concordia College has 15,000 libraries.
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Sorry.
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Thanks.
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15,000 libraries?
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We have three libraries.
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During this time, you were playing.
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I like the diversity of all the books and how there's, like, not just fiction books, and there's, like, non-fiction and,
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like, autobiographies and graphic novels.
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While this library might be well-stocked, not every school library in Australia is the same, and some schools don't even have a library, which is something that some people would like to change.
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Thank you.
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These days, school libraries aren't just about written pages neatly bound in some sort of cover.
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No, they also give students access to a whole heap of things.
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A real.
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Supporting students to use a range of print and digital tools to find good information, teaching them how to use AI well and ethically.
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And what about the image?
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Image fake?
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A real.
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A real.
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And teaching them how to determine what is trustworthy,
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what isn't trustworthy, what has bias and what has a range of different points of views.
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Over the years, school libraries have also become spaces that embrace new technology and other non-book-related things.
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I mean, this library has a dragon.
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A bearded dragon.
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But does it have an aardvark?
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Pog is a library pet over at the senior campus.
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Sometimes people will, like, hold her while they're doing their work.
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Dragon or no dragon, big or small, libraries are still an awesome place to learn
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and hang out with a good book and maybe even get inspiration for book week.
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I'm Arthur.
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The Aardvark?
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A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K.
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I'm going to dress up as Harry Potter from Harry Potter.
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I'm going as a crayon from The Day the Crayons Quit.
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I'm going to dress up as Lynn, and she's, like, this girl who's got water powers and she can control water.
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I'm going as Nobara Kugasaki from Jujutsu Kaisen.
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I'm going as Dustin Henderson from Stranger Things, which is a TV show, but I do have the series as books.
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Hi everyone, it's Costa here, and my favourite book growing up was Dr Seuss, Oh The Places You'll Go.
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G'day BTN, it's Nate Byrne from ABC News Breakfast.
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When I was little, I used to read a lot.
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One of the favourites that sticks out for me though is With My Knife.
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It's by Australian author Andrew Lansdowne.
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It's about a boy named Colin, who's an Aussie, and he gets gifted a magical knife for his birthday
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that lets him open doors to another world that's full of dragons.
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Oh, it was all of the fantasy and adventure I could have wanted.
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And if you can find a copy, I recommend reading it.
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The books we read when we're little can have a big impact on us.
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And you're about to meet someone who writes kids' books for a living, including this one.
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Her name is Deborah Frankel and Michelle found out why she loves reading and writing.
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Well hi there, my name is Deborah Frankel, you can call me Deb, and I write picture books which means I write the words for picture books
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and then I work with a whole bunch of amazing different illustrators who work on the pictures.
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What are some of the books that you've written?
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Well probably the best known is this one
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which is called The Truck Cat which is about a little cat called Tinker and his friendship with his human, Yaku.
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And they travel on a truck all around Australia and a few things go wrong, but then something really goes right at the end.
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And then most recently, I have another book out, which is also a collaboration with Danny Snell, who illustrated the truck hat.
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This one's called The Everywhere Train.
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And this is a story about a little kid called Scout and her pop, and what happens when the pop has to move into aged care.
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And their tradition of riding on the trains weekly has to change into something new.
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And how do you go about writing a story?
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Yeah, that's a really good question.
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I mean, the truck cat, for example, the idea came to me when a strange cat turned up at my house.
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It's a bit of a long story, but that cat, we ended up adopting him.
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His name is Tonka, and he inspired the cat in the story called Tinker.
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So that was just a random thing that happened in my life where I kind of noticed the strangeness of it.
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What makes a good story?
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I do like high stakes, which is when basically there's a lot riding on whatever the main characters do.
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I always kind of think, well, what's the worst thing that could happen to these characters that I've got here?
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I think that makes a good story.
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What are some of your most popular or your favourite books that you have read that our audience might be familiar with?
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I don't want to play favourites, so I'm going to go way back to when I was a kid.
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There still is an amazing author-illustrator called Jeannie Baker, who when I was in primary school used to make these amazing kind of collage-based picture books
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that she actually kind of made the images out of found objects and paper and then took a photograph of them.
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So she had one book called Millicent, which is about a lady and her relationship with the birds in Hyde Park in Sydney.
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And I remember that one so profoundly.
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That made a really big impact on me.
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Why is storytelling important?
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Oh, I think storytelling is really basic to just being human.
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And I think regardless of the form it takes, whether it's books or whether it's, you know, whether it's performance, whether it's even something like music,
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even something like video games, there's stories running through so many of the things that we love to do.
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And what do you think reading and writing offers young people that maybe they can't get from other forms of media?
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This is a really weird analogy, but hear me out.
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So I was thinking about self-assembled furniture, like you go to Ikea or somewhere and you have to put together the bookshelf yourself.
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You end up actually appreciating the item of furniture more when you put part of it together yourself, because you can sit back and you can go, I kind of made that bookshelf.
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And I think that there's something similar happens with books, maybe.
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So we're kind of really participating in the whole process of making the story as we're reading it.
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What would you say to young people who maybe find it hard to get into a book and read consistently?
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I always think it's best to go to the library, talk to your local librarian, tell them what you're interested in.
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Talk about the things that really light you up.
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Because I think when you find the right book that aligns with your interests, then ding, all the light bulbs go on.
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I think that's the kind of magic moment.
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So definitely persist with finding the right book.
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Just because you don't like the book that's in front of you doesn't make you don't like books generally.
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Hi, BTN.
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I'm R.A.
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Spratt.
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When I was a kid, my favourite book was Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein.
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Hey, BTN.
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It's Adam Goodes here.
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Very proud Adjumatna Narunga man.
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My favourite book as a kid growing up was The Rainbow Serpent, which is celebrating over 50 years of that book being published
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and what I loved about reading is seeing stories not only about me and the culture I come from,
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but the beautiful illustrations that really go with the words in those stories.
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Now let's meet some young authors who have written their very own kids' book.
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It's part of a program designed to give First Nations kids access to more books about their home and culture.
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Check it out.
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These students have a big task ahead of them.
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We are creating a book.
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And they have just one week to get it all done.
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Lots of, like, writing, having to come up with the details very quickly.
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It's gonna, like, feel very weird.
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Like, it's, like, we're gonna literally have a book, like, we wrote about, like, illustrated.
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They are all from the Torres Strait Islands, which is a group of more than 200 islands located between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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And they've been flown to Sydney as part of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation's CREATE program.
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You see, a lot of kids in remote communities don't have access to a whole lot of books,
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especially books that are relevant to their experience in culture or in their language,
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And that's something the Foundation wants to change by giving young people a chance to write their own book.
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Together we decided that the book is going to be about Harold the Pelican
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because we also thought about the animals and wildlife in the Torres Strait and we didn't want to make any ordinary book.
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We want to make something unique, so why not a pelican?
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The book is about a pelican, how he got a net caught on his wing and his little friends there helping him out, getting the net off him.
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I've always liked the idea of animals talking.
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And there are plenty of talking animals.
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Manny the mullet, Crystal the crayfish, Timmy the turtle, we have Sally the seagull, Daisy the droogal, Krusty crab.
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Krusty crab is, well, not pretty, it's not original, let's just say that.
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But some of the other names you just rhymed it to make it sound catchy, especially for the little kids who would be reading this.
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And they also use illustrations to bring the story to life.
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I do, like, the backgrounds and stuff, sunsets and seascapes, like, watercolour paints,
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and just blending them together.
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For this group of young writers and illustrators, it was important that this book, which they've titled Harold Needs a Hand,
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includes a message about how pollution is impacting the environment.
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Pollution has a very big thing in this book.
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It created a lot of problems for us in the Torres Strait.
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We just thought of the wildlife, and these are commonly known cases too.
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Like, all of us have our experience with animals in these scenarios.
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Keeping the ocean, like, safe and, like, the environment clean and, like, don't let them, like, watch out for animals if you're going, like, hunting, diving or fishing.
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Because rubbish is killing the sea life.
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Most importantly, these students wanted to create something that celebrates and showcases Torres Strait Islander culture and language.
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So this story includes some words in Torres Strait Creole, which is also called yumflatok, meaning aotok, and is a mix of English,
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traditional indigenous languages and Pacific Pidgin.
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We have a grocery of those little Creole words we have, of ours, yeah, so, to make it interesting.
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It's important because some of us, English is our, um...
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English is second or third languages.
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And they want to give young Torres Strait Islander kids a story that reflects them.
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I'm hoping they'd feel, like, interested in the book, and like actually want to read it and like get invested in the story and yeah.
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To show the next generation our culture, to keep like the fire burning.
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Yeah especially for you know the younger generation they might you know grow up in the city
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or don't know where their heritage is from and these type of books
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if we continue to make them they they can really put an impact in our culture
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so that our history can always remain there.
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Makes me feel happy and proud you know being a part of it.
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So how did this all turn out?
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Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered how and where our books were made.
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I would just like to say an extremely special thank you
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to Penguin Random House for allowing us this opportunity to create a book about our island,
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culture and all the animals that belong to each diverse island in the Torres Strait.
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Hi BTN, I'm Tristan Banks.
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I am the author of Two Wolves and the new book Raised by Wolves.
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And my favourite books when I was a kid were Roald Dahl's The BFG, Paul Jennings' Unreal, and a survival novel called My Side of the Mountain.
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Hi BTNs, Graham Bass here.
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You know, when I was young, I was a really slow reader.
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Actually, I'm still a really slow reader.
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But I remember when I was about 11, the teacher gave me a copy of The Lord of the Rings.
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This is years before the films came out.
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And it was the paperback of all three books in one.
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It was 1,000 pages long, more.
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And I remember thinking, I'm never going to be able to read this.
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And yet when I finished, I only had one complaint.
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It wasn't long enough.
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Now to a different sort of reading, using something called braille.
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Hamza and Amaya are going to tell you all about it.
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Hello, BTN.
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I'm Amaya.
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And I'm Hamza and we're gonna tell you about Braille.
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Braille is a system of dots and each dot represents a different letter or number or word.
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It was made for blind and vision impaired people.
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Braille works by showing any amount of those six dots on paper after someone writes it or prints it out
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and you feel the dots and read it to form words or numbers.
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I started learning braille in reception, so I guess six years ago.
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Ezra was taking his time.
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I think learning braille was easy for me because I was vision impaired from birth, so I didn't know how to handwrite.
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It was the only system I knew.
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I started learning braille at the end of 2023, so three years ago when I lost my vision.
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Learning Braille was hard because I already knew print and I had to learn an entirely different system.
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Before I started learning Braille, I was doing fine motor stuff.
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So I would do puzzles that were tactile and you had to feel them.
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And then I just started doing first the letters of my name, then I started doing the alphabet.
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And now I'm doing contractions, which is two or more letters in one symbol, basically.
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I use Braille pretty much every day.
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Like, for instance, today, I was using Braille for literacy block, doing literacy about persuasives.
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I use Braille when I read books.
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The book's name is Spirit of the Crocodile.
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It's a Book Week book.
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I'll just use my fingers and I can feel the dots And I can tell what words they are.
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The final bell had just rung.
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Ezra was packing his school bag, cheerful because it was Friday, and also a bit sad.
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A few weeks...
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Mr Robertson, his year six teacher,
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had already started putting up Christmas decorations.
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I have a braille device and it's called a Brailliant.
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It plugs into my laptop.
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I can use braille input which basically means I can type braille but it will show up on my laptop.
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And I can also read from the laptop on the device in braille.
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It's very hard to find books in braille
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because we're lucky here we have a library full of braille
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but I'm pretty sure there's like no other library where you can buy braille books in Adelaide.
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All of our books get sent out to blind and low vision children all around South Australia.
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My favourite books would probably be the Harry Potter books.
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I can just imagine the characters and it's like an adventure in a book.
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I recently listened to the entire Percy Jackson series and that's pretty much all I listened to.
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Books are important because they build your imagination and also your language.
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Ezra wasn't sure who yelled it out.
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I'd say that once you start reading, it's just so much fun and you just learn to enjoy books.
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And you might think it's boring now, but if you find the right type of book, it's fun.
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Hello, VTN.
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I'm Gem from Good Games Spawn Squad, and my favourite book growing up is actually still one of my favourite ones right now, and it's a series called Dear Dumb Diary.
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Hi, VTN.
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It's Matt from Play School here.
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Happy Book Week!
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Now, my favourite books to read when I was a child was anything with dinosaurs in them.
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I loved dinosaurs when I was a little kid.
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And I also loved reading The Adventures of Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keane.
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Hi, I'm Rov McManus, and my favourite book growing up was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
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I think it's a wonderful tale of imagination, fantasy and creativity.
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How much do I love it?
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I even bought the toys.
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Finally today, let's find out more about about the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards.
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They're a big deal for authors and also for readers.
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And did you know there's actually a whole awards category judged by kids?
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Michelle can tell you more.
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Introducing the Book Week Shadow Judges.
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Well, some of them, at least.
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Well, shadow judging is how the Children's Book Council of Australia decide through students what the winning books for different categories are.
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Kids can get the turn to judge and put their opinions on a book.
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Adults think different things, but children think, oh, I like this funny book, and then the adults are like, no, but this one has very good details.
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For the past term, these guys have been reading a whole lot of books, but not just any books.
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They've been poring over the shortlist for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
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The Book of the Year Awards have been around for a long time.
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They were created to celebrate Australian kids' authors and to encourage kids to read more Australian stories.
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And over the years, they've recognised books that are still loved by kids today.
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And this year is their 80th birthday.
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It's a very long time, but I think they didn't have shadow judging at the start, so it's good that people can do shadow judging because the kids are reading the books.
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While the main awards are chosen by a panel of adults, the Shadow Judges Book of the Year Awards go to books voted on by kids around Australia,
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including these guys at our Tornish Primary School in Adelaide.
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In their classes and individually, these students signed up to judge everything from the young readers category to early childhood books to picture books.
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Some favourites were Dear Broccoli, which had a lot of humour to it, where this kid was...
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..really didn't like broccoli, so he was sending letters to his broccoli, who was somehow sending them back and telling him how good broccoli was.
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Did that get your vote?
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No, it didn't.
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I ended up voting for Dawn for the picture books.
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You could feel the emotion and the time spent into that picture, and it would, like, just cast out in front of you, into your mind, and you would feel that.
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In my opinion, I'm looking for heartfelt books.
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For early childhood, I did My Nunul Loves.
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I really like the relationship between, like, the girl and her nunul.
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Just like the main awards, there are rules for judging.
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One of them's about, like, the writing.
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One of them's about the illustrations and how they connect to the book.
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The third one's about how they connect to each other and if they help each other.
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And the last one's about, like, Australian identity and if it's a new idea.
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It really gets you thinking about the books in a deeper level, maybe some way that you weren't originally thinking about them.
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But each class can only vote for one book.
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It was a heated debate.
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Everyone was putting up their hands, putting down their hands, saying, no, no, no, not that book, not this book.
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It just meant that everyone was different and their theories were all different on what makes a good book.
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I think the books that I chose are perfect.
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So, let's check out the winners.
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Yes!
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OK.
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I could have probably guessed it.
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What are your thoughts about the winners?
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I actually found that the winner for younger readers wasn't actually that surprising.
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It was actually a very good story that I reckon judges would like.
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Yeah, The Emperor's Egg, I was actually surprised by that.
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Um, cos the other books actually had great illustrations and they all tied together.
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I was actually surprised.
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I was really happy that Once I was a Giant One cos I really liked that book.
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Do you think kids had different opinions to adults?
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Yes.
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But no matter who the winners were, these guys say you can't lose with a book.
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Well, there's so many different types of books in the world.
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There's gotta be one for everybody.
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Well, that's it for this BTN Book Week special.
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Thanks so much to SA Library for having us and thanks to all of you for watching.
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Now, if you want to vote on your favourite book, make sure you take part in ABC Radio National's 100 Best Australian Books of All Time, including kids' books.
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We'll be back next week with a regular episode of BTN, but until then, enjoy all the Book Week fun.
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See ya!
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Thank you.
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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Book Week - BTN Episode 24, 2026 - Behind the News”. Deze video bevat 318 zinnen en 3948 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 24:29. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 161 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| braille zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹeɪ̯l/ | braille |
| aardvark zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑɹd.vɑɹk/ | aardvarken |
| broccoli zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/ | broccoli |
| illustrator zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/ | illustrator |
| pelican zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/ | pelikaan |
| literacy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/ | alfabetisering, alfabetisme |
| laptop zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | laptop, notebook |
| bookshelf zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/ | boekenkast |
| impair werkwoord | /ɪmˈpɛɹ/ | beschadigen, verzwakken |
| trustworthy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/ | betrouwbaar |
| dedicate werkwoord | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | inwijden, wijden |
| librarian zelfstandig naamwoord | /laɪˈbɹɛə̯ɹi.ən/ | bibliothecaris, bibliothecaresse |
| illustrate werkwoord | /ˈɪl.əˌstɹeɪt/ | illustreren |
| crab zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɹæb/ | krab |
| dinosaur zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | dinosaurus |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien | |
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken | |
| dress up werkwoord | verkleden | |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| come up with werkwoord | bedenken, verzinnen | |
| turn out werkwoord | uitvallen, resulteren |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Do you agree with that?
- Do you know who said that?
- What are some of the books that you've written?
- How much do I love it?
- Did that get your vote?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | have been helping · have been reading · They've been poring |
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to read · used to make |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has been · have also become · you've written |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | are dedicated · is called · being published |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 77 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/, ethically /ˈɛθɪkəli/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, bookshelf /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, collage /kəˈlɑʒ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, illustrator /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/, literacy /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/, librarian /laɪˈbɹɛə̯ɹi.ən/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: crab /kɹæb/, collage /kəˈlɑʒ/, persuasive /pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/, bulb /ˈbʌlb/, bind /ˈbaɪ̯nd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, crab /kɹæb/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, catchy /ˈkæt͡ʃi/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: seagull /ˈsiː.ɡʌl/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, grocery /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/, plug /plʌɡ/, photograph /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als braille, aardvark, broccoli.
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.