Shadowing Practice: I'm So Clumsy! | Advanced English Listening Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everybody, this is Elliot from ETJ English.
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How are you all doing today?
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So I thought today maybe we'd do a bit of a listening practice, okay?
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So we're just going to listen to me talk a little bit.
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Feel free to just kind of sit back, relax, listen to my voice and analyse the way I speak and also enjoy the story.
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But first of all, I want to talk about something called clumsiness
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or to be clumsy because this is really related to the story I'm going to tell you.
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So first of all, I am a very, very, very, very, very clumsy person.
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I'm extremely clumsy, okay?
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To be clumsy essentially is to be the sort of person who has a lot of accidents.
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Let's say you're, let me give you another true story.
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Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
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As always in the restaurant, I've got lovely glass of wine next to me.
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Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
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Maybe it's just, you know, just here on the table.
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I'm talking and bang!
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In the middle of conversation, the red wine is all over the white tablecloth.
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Everything is red now and I have ruined my date, let's say, or my whatever it is that I'm doing,
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my meal, and probably have to pay some kind of fine to the restaurant for for destroying their tablecloth
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and this is what clumsiness is essentially in its purest form clumsiness is
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when we always have accidents things always go wrong maybe we're
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not very good with our hands they always end up knocking
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things over to knock something over is to make something fall
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we might smash things imagine a glass drop it on the
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floor smashed um also we i'm not very good with my legs
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so i might fall over quite a lot hit my knee on a door
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or or walk into the bed or hit my head on something okay
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so this is what clumsiness is
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and this is me i want to tell you a little story about
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when i was uh about 14 i was in year eight in school
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and it was a very hot summer day okay very hot summer day
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and it was lunchtime break time some people call it where we have time out from lessons
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and we relax there's a place where all of my friends where we used to sit
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and chill out relax talk catch up with each other in a field
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and there was lots of trees in this field
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and me being the person i was
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when i was a teenager all i wanted to do was
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kind of impress the impress the girls make them think i'm i'm really cool
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which I'm not and I decided to climb a tree
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so I climbed to the top of this tree took me a while
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and when I got to the top of this tree I you know shouted I wanted everyone to see
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that I was at the top of this tree
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so I shouted I was right at the top of this tree look at me
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and um I fell so straight away I just went and
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that that was that my my wrists hit the ground one wrist went like
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that one wrist went like that
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and they were completely out of shape not the way they should be quite obviously they were broken
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because I'd fallen quite a high distance not only that
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but I also landed flat on my nose and it was broken and there was blood everywhere.
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I was knocked out, okay?
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To be knocked out means to be unconscious.
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So yes, I hit my head, my face so hard that I was knocked out.
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And the next thing I knew, I was woken up in hospital with two broken wrists and a flat nose.
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And that's probably why my nose is such a funny shape now.
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And this really did affect me it changed my my year i guess i had six months off school
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because i could do nothing with my arms i couldn't write
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i was stuck like a robot for a long time
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and um my mum had to wash me in the bath
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because i i couldn't i couldn't have a bath on my
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own my mum had to wash me even worse my my
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parents had to use the toilet paper on my bottom yes
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that's right my parents had to wipe my ass for me i never thought i would tell anyone this
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and now i'm telling 20 000 people
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that my parents have had to wipe my bottom
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when i was a teenager which is really embarrassing
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but this is what happened one thing i'd also like to
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tell you i want to teach you a bit of vocabulary in this
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comesy -ness runs in my family it runs in the family now
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if something runs in the family what that means is
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that it's something
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that kind of maybe happens to my dad he's always knocking
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glasses over at the table he's always smashing plates by accident dropping things so same as me
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It also happens to my sister.
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It also happened to my granddad before he passed away.
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So it's something that runs in the family.
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A lot of people in my family, it happens to them also.
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They also have this clumsy gene every day.
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It's an everyday problem.
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It's like a disease.
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And I actually think it's quite an endearing thing.
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Endearing.
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It's something that's quite interesting about a person.
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It's something different.
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It's unique and I embrace it.
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Now I laugh about any incidents that happened to me.
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But the reason I'm kind of telling this listening practice is because I actually want you to tell me, are you a clumsy person?
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Does this happen to you?
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Do you have any really interesting stories that you want to tell me about your clumsy experiences?
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Or are you a perfect person who never makes mistakes?
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Because I know there are some of you out there who are just very lucky and not clumsy at all.
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Now thank you very much for watching.
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If you would like to book a Skype lesson with me, learn real British English, pronunciation, connected speech, expressions, everything and become one of my friends as well as a student of mine,
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feel free to go down below in the description box and book a Skype lesson with me.
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The first lesson is just two pounds.
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It's been a pleasure telling you this story.
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Please do tell me if you enjoy these listening practices and I will do more along with the lessons also.
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But yes, thank you very much for watching guys.
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You're all great.
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There's 20 ,000 of you now.
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I could not be happier.
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Let's make it 100 ,000.
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Come on, let's do it.
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Tell all your friends about ETJ English.
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Help them become a fluent British English speaker.
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Cheers guys and I'll see you all in the next lesson.
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Stay clumsy.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “I'm So Clumsy!”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: clumsy, lesson, tree. Deze video bevat 108 zinnen en 1182 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:55. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 171 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% 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 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| clumsy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈklʌmzi/ | onhandig, stuntelig |
| wrist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪst/ | pols |
| smash werkwoord | /smæʃ/ | verpletteren, kapotslaan |
| relax werkwoord | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | losmaken |
| endearing bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/ | vertederend |
| tablecloth zelfstandig naamwoord | tafelkleed, tafelzeil | |
| impress werkwoord | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | imponeren, indruk maken |
| wipe werkwoord | /waɪp/ | vegen, smeren |
| shout werkwoord | /ʃaʊt/ | schreeuwen |
| teenager zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | tiener, adolescent |
| climb werkwoord | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | klimmen |
| embarrass werkwoord | /ɪmˈbæɹəs/ | verlegen maken, in verlegenheid brengen |
| pronunciation zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | uitspraak |
| fluent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfluənt/ | vloeiend |
| beverage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | drankje, drank |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
| fall over werkwoord | omvallen |
| go down werkwoord | afdalen |
| pass away werkwoord | overlijden, ontslapen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How are you all doing today?
- Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
- Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
- It's unique and I embrace it.
- Does this happen to you?
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 | were broken · was broken · was knocked |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have ruined · have had · It's been |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | person who has · teenager which is · person who never |
| Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zeker | might smash · might fall |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 23 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, couldn't, I'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: smash /smæʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/, pound /ˈpaʊ̯nd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: smash /smæʃ/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als clumsy, wrist, smash.
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.