Shadowing Practice: Cambridge 8 - Test 2 - Section 3 - Honey Bees in Australia - Learn English Speaking with Video
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section three you will hear part of a seminar in which a researcher called grant freeman discusses his work on australian
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honeybees with a group of students first you have some time to look at questions 21-24
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now listen carefully and answer questions 21-24
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good morning everyone uh in today's seminar grant freeman a biologist who specializes in identifying insects and who works for the australian quarantine
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service has come to talk to us about his current research work right well uh over to you grant good morning everyone i'm sure that you know that the
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quarantine service regulates all food brought into australia well obviously they want to protect australia from diseases that might come
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in with imported goods but they also want to prevent insect pests from being introduced into the country and that's where i have a part to play
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anyway my current research involves trying to find a particular type of bee the asian honey bee and finding out
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whether there are any of them around in various states of australia we discovered a few of them in queensland once and eradicated them
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now we're pretty keen to make sure that there aren't any more getting in particularly to new south wales and other states what's wrong with asian honey bees are
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they so different from australian bees well in fact they look almost the same but they are infested with mites
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microscopic creatures which live on them and which can seriously damage our own home-grown bees or could even wipe them
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out well what would happen if australian bees died out well the honey from australian bees is of excellent quality much better than
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the stuff the asian bees produce in fact australia exports native queen bees to a large number of countries because of this
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when the european honey bee was first discovered out in the bush we found they made really unpleasant honey and they were also too big to pollinate many of
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our native flowers here in australia that must have had a devastating effect on the natural flora did you lose any species
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no we managed to get them under control before that happened but if asian bees got in there could be other consequences
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we could lose a lot of money because you might not be aware but it's estimated that native bees pollination of flower
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and vegetable crops is worth 1.2 billion dollars a year so in a way they're the farmer's friend
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oh and another thing is if you're stung by an asian honey bee it can produce an allergic reaction in some people so they're much more dangerous than native
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bees
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before you hear the rest of the seminar you have some time to look at questions 25 to 30.
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now listen and answer questions twenty five to thirty
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how will you know if asian bees have entered australia we're looking at the diet of the bird called the rainbow bee eater
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the bee eater doesn't care what it eats as long as they're insects but the interesting thing about this bird is that we are able to analyze
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exactly what it eats and that's really helpful if we're looking for introduced insects how come because insects have their skeletons
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outside their bodies so the bee eaters digest the meat from the inside then they bring up all the indigestible
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bits of skeleton and of course the wings in a pellet a small ball of waste material which they cough up that sounds
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a bit unpleasant so how do you go about it in the field we track down the beaters and find their favorite feeding spots you know the places where the birds
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usually feed it's here that we can find the pellets we collect them up and take them back to the laboratory to examine the contents
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how do you do that the pellets are really hard especially if they've been out in the sun for a few days so first of all we treat them by
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adding water to moisten them and make them softer then we pull them apart under the microscope everything's all scrunched up but we're
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looking for wings so we just pull them all out and straighten them then we identify them to see if we can find any asian bee wings and how many have you
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found so far our research shows that asian bees have not entered australia in any number it's a good result and much
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more reliable than trying to find live ones as evidence of introduced insects well that's fascinating thank you grant for those insights i hope that you might
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inspire some of our students here to conduct some similar experiments
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that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Cambridge 8 - Test 2 - Section 3 - Honey Bees in Australia”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: bee, asian, australia, insect, honey. Deze video bevat 37 zinnen en 800 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:13. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 129 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| insect zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪn.sɛkt/ | insect, kerfdier |
| eater zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈiː.tɚ/ | eter |
| pellet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɛl.ɪt/ | balletje, propje |
| quarantine zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/ | quarantaine, afzondering |
| skeleton zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskɛlətən/ | skelet, geraamte |
| beater zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbitɚ/ | klopper |
| biologist zelfstandig naamwoord | /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/ | bioloog, biologe |
| eradicate werkwoord | /əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/ | met wortel en al uitroeien |
| fascinate werkwoord | /ˈfæsɪneɪt/ | fascineren |
| indigestible bijvoeglijk naamwoord | onverteerbaar | |
| microscopic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌmaɪ.kɹəˈskɑ.pɪk/ | microscopisch |
| pollination zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/ | bestuiving |
| straighten werkwoord | /ˈstɹeɪtn̩/ | zich rechten, recht worden |
| microscope zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/ | microscoop |
| pest zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɛst/ | pest, plaag |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| bring up werkwoord | opvoeden |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
| track down werkwoord | opsporen |
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 have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has come · have entered · they've been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being introduced · are infested |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 12 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, they're, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: pollination /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, eradicate /əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/, microscopic /ˌmaɪ.kɹəˈskɑ.pɪk/, pollination /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: eradicate /əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: quarantine /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/, wipe /waɪp/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/
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 insect, eater, pellet.
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.