Shadowing Practice: CAE TEST6 PART3 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Part 3.
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You'll hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone.
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For questions 15 to 20, choose the answer A, B, C or D, which fits best according to what you hear.
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You now have one minute to look at Part 3.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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1990s which brought them fame and high living.
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Then they lost it all and some years later bought a derelict house
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which they renovated and now together they've created a garden.
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They join me in the studio today.
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You do seem to do most things in partnership like the jewellery business but using Jed's name.
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Why is that?
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Helena?
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Well this is a bit of a bone of contention actually.
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We have a friend in PR who said you have a great name Jed Stone.
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People would pay a fortune for such a good name
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but sadly at the time it never crossed my mind
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that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do and
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that does get to me sometimes
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but there again I'm very bad at putting myself forward people see Jed as a figurehead
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which is fine actually because I don't enjoy being recognized
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or get any thrill out of that whereas Jed loves it is
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that right Jed obviously I'd love to say no I don't
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but but yeah I do even as a child I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street
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and have people know who you were.
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Ironically, that's the worst of it now.
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It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something, but I suppose I do like being a public figure.
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It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.
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It doesn't stop me doing anything, but it does modify how I do it.
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But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on The Travel Show.
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That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.
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Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.
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I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.
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It was ironic really because Jed adores travelling whilst I hate it.
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The timing was critical though.
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I mean, we were living in this derelict house.
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We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows
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and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to be there when it was done.
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So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering
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but I felt I had no choice because apart from anything else it would provide us with a reasonable income.
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So what about this jewel garden?
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Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?
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Not at all.
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In fact, we were provoked into action.
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I was giving a lecture on gardening
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and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants looked like
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but these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.
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So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.
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It came straight out of my imagination.
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It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.
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Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up, saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.
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And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.
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Don't come now.
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To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.
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And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.
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That was our incentive.
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And why did you call it a jewel garden?
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Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.
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Well, I like to work on projects.
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And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.
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And design is all about reduction.
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Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?
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Yeah, but for me, it was also partly a metaphor.
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It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.
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We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.
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There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.
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um seem to waste not to take that bit of our lives
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and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture to take the bad experience
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and use it in a creative way jed and helena thank you for telling us about it today
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now you'll hear the recording again Jed Stone's best known now for his talents as a garden designer,
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but he and his wife Helena ran a highly successful jewelry business in the 1990s, which brought them fame and high living.
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Then they lost it all, and some years later bought a derelict house, which they renovated, and now together they've created a garden.
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They join me in the studio today.
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You do seem to do most things in partnership, like the jewelry business, but using Jed's name.
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Why is that?
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Helena?
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Well, this is a bit of a bone of contention, actually.
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We have a friend in PR who said, you have a great name, Jed Stone.
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People would pay a fortune for such a good name.
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But sadly, at the time, it never crossed my mind that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do.
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And that does get to me sometimes.
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But there again, I'm very bad at putting myself forward.
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People see Jed as a figurehead, which is fine, actually, because I don't enjoy being recognised or get any thrill out of that.
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Whereas Jed loves it.
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Is that right, Jed?
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Obviously, I'd love to say no, I don't.
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But yeah, I do.
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Even as a child, I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street and have people know who you were.
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Ironically, that's the worst of it now.
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It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something.
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But I suppose I do like being a public figure.
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It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.
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It doesn't stop me doing anything, But it does modify how I do it.
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But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on the travel show.
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That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.
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Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.
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I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.
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It was ironic, really, because Jed adores travelling, whilst I hate it.
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The timing was critical, though.
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I mean, we were living in this derelict house.
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We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows, and we could hardly afford to get the job finished.
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And I wanted to be there when it was done.
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So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it would provide us with a reasonable income.
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So what about this jewel garden?
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Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?
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Not at all.
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In fact, we were provoked into action.
108
I was giving a lecture on gardening, and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants look like.
109
But these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.
110
So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.
111
It came straight out of my imagination.
112
It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.
113
Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.
114
And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.
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Don't come now.
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To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.
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And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.
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That was our incentive.
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And why did you call it a jewel garden?
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Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.
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Well, I like to work on projects.
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And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.
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And design is all about reduction.
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Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?
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Yeah, but for me it was also partly a metaphor.
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It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.
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We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.
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There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.
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It seemed to waste not to take that bit of our lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture, to take the bad experience and use it in a creative way.
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Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today.
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That's the end of Part 3.
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Now turn to Part 4.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “CAE TEST6 PART3”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: jed, garden, jewel, helena, colours. Deze video bevat 132 zinnen en 1576 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:40. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 163 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 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 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
jewel zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒuːəl/juweel
jewellery zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/sieraad
partnership zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/maatschap, partnerschap
rush werkwoord/ɹʌʃ/afraffelen
bone zelfstandig naamwoord/boʊn/been
whereas/(h)wɛɹˈæz/hoewel, terwijl
disaster zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ramp, onheil
journalist zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/dagboekschrijver
knock werkwoord/nɑk/kloppen, aankloppen
fame zelfstandig naamwoord/feɪm/bekendheid, roem
fortune zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɔːtjuːn/lot, noodlot
partly bijwoord/ˈpɑɹtli/deels, gedeeltelijk
venture werkwoord/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/avonturieren
laptop zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlæp.tɑp/laptop, notebook
briefly bijwoord/ˈbɹiːfli/kortweg

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
go down werkwoordafdalen

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltthey've created · I've done · have gone
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetbeing recognized · was done · were provoked

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 42 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'd, hadn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, thrill /θɹɪl/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, figurehead /ˈfɪɡjəɹˌhɛd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/, snap /snæp/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, whilst /waɪlst/, wilderness /ˈwɪldɚnəs/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/

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. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als jewel, jewellery, partnership.

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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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