Shadowing Practice: Everything You Didn't Know About Ocean Animals - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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This is a scallop.
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Scallops are blind shellfish animals that...
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Wait a sec.
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That's not right.
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Scallops aren't blind.
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They have eyes.
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Take a look at the front edge of this scallop.
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Underwater.
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Do you see those blue circles?
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Those are eyes.
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Scallops can have up to 200 eyes that cover their outer edge.
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They use those eyes while they sit motionless on the ocean floor.
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What?
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Did you see that?
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The scallop moved.
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I always forget that.
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Scallops can swim.
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But how?
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Ah, it all works like this.
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When a scallop opens its shell, it sucks water into its body.
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Then it can shoot that water back out.
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like a little jet.
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Whichever way the scallop shoots the water will push it in the opposite direction.
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And that's how scallops move around.
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But what's going on here?
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Why do these shells look so odd?
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This isn't a scallop.
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It's a muscle with a bunch of holes in it.
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I found this while exploring the Geyer Collections and Research Center in Cincinnati.
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There are tons of them.
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What were they used for?
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Interesting.
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The answer is in this drawer.
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Hmm, the tray has a bunch of mussels with holes in them like the other.
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But what's over here?
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A small box of tiny buttons.
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These buttons are shiny, just like the mussels.
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In the 1900s, people would harvest mussels from rivers.
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tiny holes in them and use the punched out pieces to make shiny buttons.
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It would be hard to make a button out of a sea urchin.
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I always wondered how do sea urchins move?
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Because you might not expect it, but they move around a lot.
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Just look here.
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They're zooming around the sand.
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But how do they move?
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Ah, okay.
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Take a look at this sea urchin without its spines.
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This is a sea urchin's shell.
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Let's look at it up close.
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See those big bumps on the sea urchin's surface?
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The urchin's spines attach at these bumps.
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But there are other markings here too.
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Huh, they're small dots that are actually tiny holes.
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These holes form lines down the side of the sea urchin.
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Well, what are these for?
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Take a look at this sea urchin underwater.
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Notice anything strange?
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A bunch of small tubes.
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They're wiggling around like crazy.
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What was I wondering again?
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Oh yeah, what are these wiggly tubes on a sea urchin?
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Well, those tubes are attached to the sea urchin at those tiny holes.
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Sea urchins use those tubes to scoot themselves across the sea floor, just like starfish.
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Sea urchins can move.
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They have little tube feet, and on their underside, they even have mouths with teeth that they use to eat.
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What types of things do they eat?
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with strange teeth like this?
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If you have an idea, let me know in the comments.
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But this made me wonder, do sand dollars eat?
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Are they even animals?
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What is a sand dollar?
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Hmm, take a look at the surface of a sand dollar.
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Up close, when it's alive, it seems to be covered in a bunch of tiny spines that are moving around.
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Now take a look at this time-lapse of sand dollars underwater.
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They're moving around so sand dollars aren't rocks they're animals which makes me wonder how do they eat?
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Okay, I got it.
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To find our answer let's flip this sand dollar over.
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Do you see those grooves on the sand dollar's underside, these grooves are lined with more tiny tubes.
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As the sand dollar moves across the ocean floor, these groove tubes snatch food particles like plankton or algae, and pass them down the grooves towards this hole.
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This tiny hole is the sand dollar's mouth.
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Wait a second.
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It looks like there's something in there.
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Let's try and get it out.
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Here's a sand dollar that's cracked down the middle.
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Let's see if we can pull out whatever's inside.
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Whoa!
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What is this?
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It's kind of triangular shaped and if you look real close, it has a sharp tip.
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This is a tooth.
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Each sand dollar has five giant teeth that it uses to eat.
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Which makes me wonder, do starfish have teeth?
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 103 zinnen en 820 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:28. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 87 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 78% 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
sand zelfstandig naamwoord/sænd/zand, zavel
tube zelfstandig naamwoord/tuːb/tube
meal zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmiːl/maaltijd
groove zelfstandig naamwoord/ɡɹuv/inkerving
shell zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃɛl/schelp
spine zelfstandig naamwoord/spaɪn/ruggengraat
underwater bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/onderwater, onderwater-
bump zelfstandig naamwoord/bʌmp/botsing
attach werkwoord/əˈtæt͡ʃ/vastmaken
sharp bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ʃɑɹp/scherp, puntig
hungry bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/hongerig, honger hebben
muscle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmʌs.əl/spier
suck werkwoord/sʌk/zuigen
crack zelfstandig naamwoord/kɹæk/barst, breuk
delicious bijvoeglijk naamwoord/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/heerlijk, lekker

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
back out werkwoordzich terugtrekken
come together werkwoord/ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/bijeenkomen, samenkomen
find out werkwoordontdekken, onderzoeken
get off werkwoordvan ... afgaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, aren't, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shell /ʃɛl/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, starfish /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/, dietitian /daɪəˈtɪʃən/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, triangular /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/

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. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als sand, tube, meal.

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.

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