Shadowing Practice: Chatterbox #202 - Christmas traditions - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, everybody.
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My name is Andrew. And I'm Suzanne.
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And you're listening to Q-Lips.
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Hey Suzanne.
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Hey Andrew, how are you?
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I'm doing very well.
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How about yourself?
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Whoa, I'm pretty good.
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But it's so busy these days, right?
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Gearing up for the holiday season?
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Yeah, it's a busy time of the year.
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And so I know you and I were both teachers, instructors, and this is a busy time for us as well.
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Yeah.
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You know, the courses that we teach are kind of winding down and it just adds to the craziness, right?
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Yeah.
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It's like everyone and everything has a deadline and the deadline is at the same time.
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So it's pretty busy.
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I'm happy that this year, Christmas and New Year's Day, both fall on a Monday.
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Why is that?
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So there's two long weekends for me.
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah, because I don't get any holiday vacation time.
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Oh, no, that's true.
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Because both of these days fall on a Monday means I get two long weekends.
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So this is great.
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That's great.
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I really relate.
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I'm self-employed, so I don't really get an actual holiday either.
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Just the days that are the holiday.
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Right, right.
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Just the actual holiday days, not totally weeks off.
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This is one of the disadvantages of being self-employed is that there's no real holidays, right?
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You're always working.
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That's true.
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And because of that, you kind of have to get creative with your holiday season and spend your time wisely.
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And sometimes that causes you to create your own alternative holiday traditions, right?
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Actually, Suzanne, that is the topic of today's Chatterbox episode.
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We are going to talk about how we spend the holidays and what our Christmas and holiday traditions are.
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If you don't know, Chatterbox is the series where we have a natural conversation and we let you listen in.
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We create an immersive environment for you to practice your English listening in.
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And yeah, today our topic is Christmas and holiday traditions.
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We have a study guide for this episode on our website, QLips.com.
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That includes the transcript, some detailed vocabulary definitions and explanations, real world examples, and also a quiz.
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Andrew, I had a question for you.
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Yeah, go for it.
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What were some of your family or holiday traditions back when you were younger with your family?
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You know, it's interesting.
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This week I had a snack and it made me think about Christmas because my snack was a tangerine and peanuts.
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And I was laughing at myself about how different my thinking is now compared to when I was younger.
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Because now when I eat peanuts and tangerines, I love it.
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I think, wow, this is a kid every Christmas Eve I would go to church with my parents, my family.
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There was a Christmas Eve candlelight service at the church that I went to when I was younger.
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Nice.
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And at the end of the service all of the children would receive a goodie bag.
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Nice.
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It was a paper bag filled with candy.
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Wow.
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Which was great.
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I always looked forward to receiving this goodie bag on Christmas Eve
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and so I would eat the candy first loved it loved the candy
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and then at the bottom of the candy bag would be some loose peanuts shelled peanuts
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and a tangerine and
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when I was a kid on Christmas Eve I always didn't like this part I liked eating the candy
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and then when it came to the peanuts
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and tangerine I turned my nose up
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and was like ah mom dad you have this I don't want it of Of course.
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Yeah, that's the boring part.
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That was the boring part.
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But this week when I had my snack of peanuts and a tangerine,
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it made me think of that goodie bag that I used to receive on Christmas Eve.
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And you realized, wow, I've grown up.
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I like tangerines and peanuts.
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Yeah, now I think it's the best.
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You can't get any better than that.
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well speaking of peanuts i think watching snoopy and charlie brown christmas oh yeah
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on specials on tv was one of my favorite traditions as a kid
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and the music i really loved the theme of the charlie
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brown christmas special um i think it was written by a composer
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and is kind of included in many Christmas carol CDs or compilations.
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It's a famous song.
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I can't sing it for you right now because it's an instrumental and it kind of slips my mind,
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but I think that's one of my favorite songs and one of my favorite traditions to watch Snoopy and Woodstock.
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It's
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a really beautiful song, actually, the Charlie Brown Christmas theme.
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Yes.
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That was always part of my Christmas tradition, too.
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You know, on the days leading up to Christmas, usually the 21st, 22nd, 23rd these days,
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there are a lot of Christmas specials on TV.
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So Christmas themed TV shows, Christmas themed movies.
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And every year I would watch a Charlie Brown Christmas.
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And that theme song from that episode is really beautiful.
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Yeah, it's true.
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I think as I grew older, I really appreciated it for a very good composition and a really beautiful song.
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I think when I was younger, I pretty much liked those cheesy songs like Jingle Bells
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and all of those kinds of stupid-ish Christmas carols like Frosty the Snowman, you know.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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These songs were more my childhood loves now I appreciate the more handcrafted, stand the test of time kind of songs.
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And yes, always watching that special and being in like the foot pajamas.
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Do you know what foot pajamas are?
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Foot pajamas.
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So it's like a onesie, right?
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Right.
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It's like socks that are attached to your pajamas kind of.
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It's like a big onesie for a kid or an adult.
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Right.
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So it's pajamas, a pair of pajamas.
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Actually, it's not a pair.
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It's a one piece piece of clothing that you get into
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and it has the socks attached to the leg of the pants.
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So it's really comfortable and cozy for the wintertime.
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Right.
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And then you sit there with a hot chocolate, maybe with some marshmallows.
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and watch Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
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There you go.
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One of my family traditions is that, well, we don't do this anymore, but when I was younger,
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we always opened one Christmas present on Christmas Eve.
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Nice.
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Did you do this as well growing up?
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Yeah, we did do that as kids.
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Yes, because we couldn't wait.
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We really wanted to get right in there and open up gifts.
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So, yes, my parents would allow us to open one gift.
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But since we got older and we stopped believing in Santa Claus, we started opening up gifts,
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I would say, almost all of our gifts at night on Christmas Eve.
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And then just go to sleep and sleep in.
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I like it.
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I like it.
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Yeah.
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Well, my hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, has a fairly large population of European immigrants.
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Oh, nice.
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Especially people from Northern Europe.
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So the Nordic countries, Germany, Poland, these places.
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And now I'm not exactly sure if everybody from these countries does this and listeners out there from northern Europe,
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please send me an email and correct me if I'm wrong.
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But I believe that it's a tradition to open all your presents on Christmas Eve in these countries.
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A lot of my friends opened all of their presents on Christmas Eve growing up.
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So my family didn't do this.
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We waited until Christmas morning.
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And I remember being really jealous of my friends that got to open their presents, all of their presents on Christmas Eve.
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You know, they would open their presents and then call me on the phone.
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Be like, Andrew, I just got the new Super Nintendo game I wanted.
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And I was like, ah, I'm so jealous.
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And then did you get your Nintendo the next day?
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Oh, probably, probably.
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I was always spoiled.
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You couldn't wait that one night.
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Yeah.
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You know, when you're nine or 10 years old, 12 hours is a lifetime.
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I know.
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You can't sleep.
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I always had trouble sleeping Christmas Eve.
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Yeah.
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Well, something funny that my dad would do, and it became a tradition in our house,
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was he would eat the cookies and the milk or coffee that we left for Santa,
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and he would make crumbs all over the table and near the plate and on the chair.
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And then he would take the red felt from the stockings that we hung up and the white felt as well.
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And he would put them around the chair like little tufts of felt and fuzz.
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And then he would take his boots
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and he would scuff the wall around like the chimney
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or around the chair to make it look like Santa was there for real.
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Whoa.
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And he even took my dog whose name was Pee Wee, which is a funny name.
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Yeah.
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And he would put her feet in like,
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I don't know, mud or maybe ink and make footprints around the house.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So you thought it was a reindeer?
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Really?
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A reindeer?
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Yeah.
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Like there was a reindeer and Santa actually came.
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So I really believed it.
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I mean, he made it sound and seem like Santa really was there.
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But lo and behold, it wasn't true.
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Wow.
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Your dad went to a lot of work to make it look like Santa actually visited your house.
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I know.
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It was a grand lie.
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Suzanne, you used a really interesting word a couple sentences ago, and I think maybe it would be a new word for many of our listeners.
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That word was scuff.
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You said your father scuffed the wall.
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What does this mean, scuff?
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With his boots.
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So he would rub the boot on the floor or the wall and create a mark.
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so when you rub your shoe or a rubber sole on a wall
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or on a floor that's a hard floor maybe hard wood it will leave a mark
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and that you would call a scuff yeah a mark
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that you leave behind or a sort of abrasion like a rough spot
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that you leave behind with your with your shoe totally
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and i think this is why sometimes
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when you go to a gym to exercise or a gymnasium to play a sport like badminton or basketball,
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you'll see a sign that says no outside shoes.
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Why the sign is there is they don't want you to scuff the floor.
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They don't want you to leave a mark on the gymnasium floor with your dirty shoes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So this is a good word to know.
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Scuff.
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Suzanne, we will leave it at that for today.
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Thanks for sharing some of your Christmas traditions with us.
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Sure, thank you.
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Yeah, and everyone, once again, please visit our website, QLips.com.
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That is the place where you can download the study guide.
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if you're just dying to hear more of us in between our releases
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and if you have any questions
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or comments for us our email address is contact c-o-n-t-a-c-t at qlips.com shoot us an email
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and let us know how you are spending the holiday season.
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We love hearing from you.
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So send us a message.
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Your feedback is priceless.
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Suzanne, I think this will be our last episode of the year.
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So I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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We'll talk to you in 2018.
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Oh my gosh.
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You too, Andrew.
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Thank you.
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And Happy New Year to everybody.
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Happy holidays.
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Bye, guys.
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Happy holidays.
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Bye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Chatterbox - Christmas traditions”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: christmas, holiday, Eve, tradition, peanuts. Deze video bevat 235 zinnen en 2098 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 16:35. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 126 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
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
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| peanut zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpiˌnʌt/ | aardnoot, pinda |
| pajamas zelfstandig naamwoord | /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/ | pyjama |
| tangerine zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/ | mandarijn |
| candy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæn.di/ | snoepje |
| reindeer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹeɪndɪɹ/ | rendier |
| shoe zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈʃu/ | schoen |
| listener zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | luisteraar, toehoorder |
| snack zelfstandig naamwoord | /snæk/ | tussendoortje |
| boot zelfstandig naamwoord | /but/ | laars, bot |
| gymnasium zelfstandig naamwoord | /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/ | turnzaal, gymnastiekzaal |
| onesie zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwʌn.zi/ | romper, rompertje |
| sock zelfstandig naamwoord | /sɑk/ | sok, kous |
| attach werkwoord | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | vastmaken |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| quiz zelfstandig naamwoord | /kwɪz/ | kwis, quiz |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien |
| leave behind werkwoord | achterlaten |
| look forward to werkwoord | uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You can't get any better than that.
- Do you know what foot pajamas are?
- Did you do this as well growing up?
- Yes, because we couldn't wait.
- You couldn't wait that one night.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is now compared · was written · are attached |
| Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd | stopped believing · love hearing |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | You're listening · I'm doing · You're always working |
| Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspelling | will leave · you'll see · will be |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 33 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shoe /ˈʃu/, abrasion /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/, marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, compilation /ˌkɑm.pɪˈleɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: gymnasium /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, compilation /ˌkɑm.pɪˈleɪ.ʃən/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, quiz /kwɪz/, immersive /ɪˈmɜːɹ.sɪv/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, behold /bɪˈhəʊld/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: tangerine /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/, candy /ˈkæn.di/, snack /snæk/, transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: goody /ˈɡʊdi/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, immigrant /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
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 peanut, pajamas, tangerine.
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.