Shadowing Practice: Hecklers Beware | Jimmy Carr - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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What is the worst gift you've ever got?
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Birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Valentine's, what is the worst piece of shit you ever got?
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Tickets to this show.
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We've had a heckle.
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What was that, sir?
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A little bit louder?
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Tickets to this show.
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No, that's fine.
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What's your name?
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What, sorry?
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Toby.
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Toby, do you mind me sharing with the group?
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Thank you very much indeed Toby that makes it much easier because there's a heck of quite good heckle quite funny heckle,
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but we have to do a heckle put down now God I Would love if I could just let it go,
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but I can't There are rules But you don't mind me sharing with the group so it makes it much easier.
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We can go old school What sorry
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Stop stalling Don't panic sir I've got this I'll have to put you on asshole waiting LAUGHTER
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Toby's mum...
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..is so fat.
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She's a fucking disgrace, Toby.
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Your mum is such a chunky monkey wobble slob.
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Fatty boom batty blubbernaught.
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She's so fucking fat, when she fell down the stairs,
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I thought EastEnders had finished.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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True story.
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Ahem.
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You, sir.
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What did you say?
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What was it?
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Stop stalling?
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What's your name?
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Gary.
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Are you trying to say Gary?
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Watch me.
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Gary.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The fuck is that?
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Well, Gary, if you want my comeback,
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you'll have to scrape it off your mum's teeth.
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Any other heckles?
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Come on!
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What, sorry?
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Peter K was sold out,
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so you had to come here.
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Oh, oh, oh!
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I'm lucky.
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I bet he wouldn't have called you a cunt.
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Unfortunately, I'm not Peter Cain.
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Cunt.
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Why do I laugh like a sexual predator?
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I like the way that a sexual predator sounds better in your accent than any other.
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A sexual predator.
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I don't know why I laugh like that.
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It's one of life's mysteries,
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in the same way as why you dressed as a gay lumberjack.
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We may never know.
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I like big, thick logs, hmm.
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Any other heckles?
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Peter!
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What, sorry?
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Posh prick.
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Posh prick seems a bit harsh.
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What's your name, sir?
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Miles.
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Miles.
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You think I might be a bit posh?
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All right, Miles, what's your favourite colour?
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Blue.
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Seems like the fairest way to deal with this.
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Do you hear something?
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B-L-U-E.
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Number between one and eight, Miles.
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Four.
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Four.
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All right.
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Ooh.
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It says, if you've come as a cunt, you've won.
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Bit of good news.
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Just notice, does that...
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Can you all just keep a little bit quiet for a second?
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I've just noticed there's a man over there that pit in a blue jumper.
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I think he might be asleep.
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If you could just keep quiet around him, just shush, shush.
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Oh, fuck, he's woken.
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Fuck.
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Hello?
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You're having a fucking weird dream, aren't you?
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I wouldn't fall asleep again.
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Something very bad will happen.
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I was going to teabag him.
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Shit.
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It's annoying, isn't it?
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Sounds like it would have been a very popular choice.
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What's your name?
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Steven.
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Steven.
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You had to have a little thing, though, didn't you?
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All right, and what do you do, Stephen?
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I'm a footballer.
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You're a footballer.
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Who do you play for?
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Stran Ra.
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Stran Ra?
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He's a footballer.
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He plays for Stran Ra.
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OK, I'm fucking shit at football as well, mate.
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Don't worry about it.
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That's fine.
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Don't worry about that.
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Don't feel bad.
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Who's the most famous person I've ever met?
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Well, I once met her...
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It's quite an impressive one.
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I don't want to show off, but...
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You know how villages have got idiots, yeah?
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I met the idiot for the whole of Glasgow.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE One of the biggest cunts in the world, yeah.
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I married him.
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And you married him.
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Guys, again, that will only happen in Glasgow.
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You call someone a cunt and their wife goes, yeah.
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Or don't I know?
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Fucking hell.
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Yeah, I'll record it in Glasgow, it'll be fine.
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Really?
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Uh-huh.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Hecklers Beware”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: boom, heckle, cunt, Toby, Gary. Deze video bevat 128 zinnen en 681 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:23. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 107 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 75% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig. 35 van de 128 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
heckle werkwoord/ˈhɛkəl/hekelen
footballer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfʊtbɔːlə/voetballer, voetbalster
predator zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/roofdier n roofvis, predator
lumberjack zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/houthakker
scrape werkwoord/skɹeɪp/schrapen
wobble werkwoord/ˈwɑbl̩/wiebelen, wankelen
paddy zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpædi/rijstveld
disgrace zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/schande
cheer werkwoord/t͡ʃɪɹ/opvrolijken, opbeuren
monkey zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmʌŋki/aap, apin
stairs zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈstɛɹz/trap
harsh bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈhɑɹʃ/ruw, grof
accent zelfstandig naamwoord/ækˈsɛnt/accent, klemtoon

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
fall down werkwoord/fɔl ˈdaʊn/neervallen
show off werkwoordzich aanstellen, pronken met
sold out bijvoeglijk naamwoorduitverkocht

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • What is the worst gift you've ever got?
  • Toby, do you mind me sharing with the group?
  • What's your name, sir?
  • You think I might be a bit posh?
  • Who's the most famous person I've ever met?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 31 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shush /ʃʊʃ/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: lumberjack /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/, paddy /ˈpædi/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/

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 heckle, footballer, predator.

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