Shadowing Practice: Danger! Falling Objects: Crash Course Kids #32.1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I don't care who you are, if you live anywhere near this planet, then you're no stranger to gravity -- the force that affects every object on Earth and beyond.
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Because of gravity, whether you're an astronaut on the International Space Station or an ordinary, clumsy, earthbound human who happens to drop her books a lot, all things caught in our planet's gravity will, in some way, have the potential to fall to Earth.
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But objects fall differently, right?
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Like when I knock a piece of paper off my desk, it takes a lot longer to fall to the ground than if I knock a book of my desk.
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So what's up with that?
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Why do things seem to fall at different speeds on Earth?
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Well, we already know that all objects have mass.
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They have a certain amount of matter in them and when gravity pulls on an object, it gives the object weight.
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Now a long time ago, people used to think that heavier things fell faster than lighter things because that's what our senses told us.
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Now, it certainly looks like the book falls faster than the piece of paper.
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And why would we expect anything else?
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That would be like dropping a hammer and a feather and expecting them to hit the ground at the same time.
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Except, the thing I just said about the hammer and the feather?
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Someone did actually try that and they did both hit the ground at the same time.
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It just didn't happen on Earth.
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True story: when astronaut Dave Scott was on the moon in 1971, he did an experiment where he dropped a falcon feather and a hammer from the same height and they hit the ground at the same time.
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Now, how can that be?
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If you drop a hammer and a feather on Earth, the feather would take a lot longer to reach the ground.
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So, what does the Earth have that the Moon doesn't?
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For one thing, an atmosphere.
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The gases that make up Earth's atmosphere push against objects as they fall and the push of the air against a falling object causes friction.
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We call that friction "air resistance." So on Earth, the feather's flat, fluffy shape makes it run into more air resistance than the hammer does.
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This makes it fall more slowly than the hammer, but since the Moon has almost no atmosphere, there is almost no air resistance, so the two objects fell at the same rate.
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So it seems to me it's the resistance of air pushing against objects that really affects how fast objects fall.
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And that means it's experiment time.
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But you don't have to go to the Moon to do this, so don't pack your bags or anything.
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All you need are two pieces of paper that are the same size.
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Crumple one of the pieces into a tight ball and leave the other one smooth and flat.
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Now, drop each piece of paper from the same height, let's say a meter, and then write down in a table how long it takes each piece to reach the ground.
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We'll see it takes the flat paper longer than the crumpled paper to hit the floor.
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This is evidence that an object's shape affects how fast it seems to fall to Earth because the two pieces of paper are exactly the same.
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They have the same mass.
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But air resistance makes the flat paper seem to fall more slowly than the crumpled paper.
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So, based on the result of our experiment, we can say, at least here on Earth, objects appear to fall at different rates, not because they have different masses or weights but because of air resistance: the force that the Earth's atmosphere has on objects as they fall.
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And, hey, if you don't believe me, tell you what.
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Next time you go to the Moon, take a feather and a hammer with you and try it for yourself.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “Danger! Falling Objects: Crash Course Kids .1”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: object, fall, Earth, paper, hammer. Deze video bevat 36 zinnen en 661 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:21. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 197 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 7 van de 36 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
hammer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæmɚ/hamer
feather zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɛðə/veer, veder
atmosphere zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/atmosfeer, dampkring
experiment zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/experiment, proef
desk zelfstandig naamwoord/dɛsk/bureau, schrijftafel
knock werkwoord/nɑk/kloppen, aankloppen
friction zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɹɪkʃən/wrijving
astronaut zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/ruimtevaarder, astronaut
ordinary bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/gewoon, alledaags
smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord/smuːð/vlot
differently bijwoord/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/verschillend, anders
metre zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmiːtəɹ/meter
falcon zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfælkən/valk
clumsy bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈklʌmzi/onhandig, stuntelig
earthbound bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɝθbaʊnd/aardgebonden

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 9 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: feather /ˈfɛðə/, smooth /smuːð/, earthbound /ˈɝθbaʊnd/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: hammer /ˈhæmɚ/, atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/, gravity /ˈɡɹævɪti/, astronaut /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/, falcon /ˈfælkən/

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 hammer, feather, atmosphere.

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