Shadowing Practice: Essential Phrasal Verbs for Accountants - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In today's class, I'll be teaching you the essential phrasal verbs every accountant needs to know.
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So if you're looking to sound more natural and speak more efficiently, make sure you watch this class right until the end.
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So our first one is zero out.
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So if you zero out something, it means you make the general ledger balance zero.
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Okay, so let's imagine you have a clearing account
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and this clearing account needs to be zero at the end of the month.
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You could say at the end of the month, we are going to zero out the clearing account.
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Or if you had a WIP account, okay, you could say last month I zeroed out all the WIP accounts.
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In both cases, I made the balance zero.
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Then we have roll forward.
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So let's imagine you have a tax calculation from last year
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and your boss wants you to replicate
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that calculation for this year's numbers he may say to you
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can you roll forward the tax calculation from last year to
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this year what he's saying is can you update the previous periods figures with the current periods figures?
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So when you roll forward something,
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you're asking someone or you're telling someone that you're going to replace the previous figures with the current figures.
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And you can use that for files, reports, or calculations.
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Our next one is drill down.
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So if you wanted to look at a general ledger account in detail
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or you wanted to investigate a variance this would be the phrasal verb to use so
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if your payroll expense was over budget by ten thousand dollars
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you could say to someone i need to drill down into
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the payroll expense account to understand why we're over budget then we have top up
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so we're talking about provisions accruals prepayments and we want to increase the balance from one number
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to a higher number we're going to use top up okay
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so i could say we need to top up the provision from 100 000 to 120 000
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or can we top up the prepayments account from a hundred dollars to 110
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and our fifth phrasal verb is be made up of okay it is a synonym of the word consist of
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or comprised of we're talking about the components of something okay
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so let's imagine you're trying to describe the components of your costs of goods sold you could say,
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cost of goods sold is made up of raw material, labor, and machine costs.
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Or you might say, our team is made up of five people.
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And our last phrasal verb, and probably the most popular, is break down.
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So when we break down something we mean we want to separate things into smaller components
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so we can analyze them okay
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so you could ask someone can you break down the payroll costs into departments
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or could you break down the revenue by customer
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and that's our class on the essential phrasal verbs every accountant needs to know
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if you'd like the video please hit the like and subscribe button
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if you want to try
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and use one of the phrasal verbs from today you can write it in the comment section below
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and i will correct it for you
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Essential Phrasal Verbs for Accountants”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: account, phrasal, verb, zero, calculation. Deze video bevat 43 zinnen en 542 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:01. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 135 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 87% 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 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| verb zelfstandig naamwoord | /vɝb/ | werkwoord |
| calculation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | berekening |
| payroll zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/ | loonlijst |
| accountant zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈkaʊn.tənt/ | boekhouder, accountant |
| drill zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɹɪl/ | boor, boormachine |
| synonym zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/ | synoniem, evenwoord |
| variance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvæɹ.i.əns/ | afwijkend |
| comprise werkwoord | /kəmˈpɹaɪz/ | bevatten, omvatten |
| efficiently bijwoord | op een efficiënte manier | |
| analyze werkwoord | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analyseren |
| consist zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈsɪst/ | samenstelling |
| subscribe werkwoord | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abonneren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| break down werkwoord | stukgaan, kapot gaan |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, we're, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: verb /vɝb/, comprise /kəmˈpɹaɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, variance /ˈvæɹ.i.əns/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
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 verb, calculation, payroll.
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.