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Hello, let's bake a cake today.
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In today's video I am going to bake a birthday cake and you are going to learn English by listening and watching.
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This is called Comprehensible Input and it's the best way to learn a language.
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It is the natural way to learn a language.
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It is how you learned your mother tongue as a child.
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This weekend is a big weekend in my family.
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It is my husband, my husband's birthday and it's my mom's birthday.
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So they share a birthday, the 7th of April.
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They have the same birthday so I am going to make a birthday cake for both of them.
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It is also Easter weekend,
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Easter Sunday, so it is going to be an Easter birthday cake.
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So I'm going to make something like this,
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a chocolate log Easter cake with eggs,
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chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies and chocolate on top.
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First I will show you the ingredients that I'm using
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and then I'll show you the items or the things that I'm using.
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So in this log, chocolate log cake,
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first of all, self-raising flour is very important.
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Then we have castor sugar, castor sugar for sweetness.
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Now, because it is a chocolate cake,
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cocoa powder and also melt a bit of chocolate.
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So dark chocolate and cocoa powder.
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I also am using vanilla extract,
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a bit of sunflower oil and butter and then of course eggs,
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four eggs and I'm using the egg whites and the yolks in the middle.
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So that is all of the ingredients.
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Now I'm going to show you the what's the word the equipment
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so this is my baking corner my baking corner
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so here we have a mixer that's my stand mixer then
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here we have the bowls bowls mixing bowls here is the
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whisk the whisk whisk it all together here i have my measuring scales my measuring scales
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and then also baking tin baking tin
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and the parchment baking parchment let's get started the eggs have been cracked and separated
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so i separated the eggs the egg whites yolks i need 50 50 grams of sugar the eggs
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and sugar have been whisked together i'm going to pour two tablespoon a little bit of the sunflower oil in
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and a small dash of vanilla extract 50 grams of flour
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50 grams of flour poured in 15 grams of cocoa powder has been put in
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and now we whisk it all together i have whisked the egg whites
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and the sugar together and the chocolate mix
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and i'm going to fold fold this in here the cake
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is in the oven it is baking i mixed everything together
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and now i need to wait 15 minutes
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and now i need to make the icing we have icing sugar butter butter
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and the chocolate so i'm melting the chocolate in the oven
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and then i'll melt the butter with the icing sugar and mix it together
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Now I'm just going to wait and I will show you the cake
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when it is finished and Bobby are you excited for cake?
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Bobby is excited for cake.
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This is my Easter log cake.
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I put chocolate icing, mini eggs and then chocolate to look like the log.
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I rolled the cake and it's like an Easter egg cake
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and then I'm making another one number two to put here is going to be one big log
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so more icing and there's my
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finished product what do you think thank you
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so much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it i hope you learned some english words
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and also maybe how to make an easter chocolate log birthday kick lots of describing words there
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and i hope you have a lovely easter happy easter from here and i'll see you later bye
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you
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Improve English Naturally while baking”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: chocolate, cake, egg, easter, birthday. Deze video bevat 58 zinnen en 635 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:10. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 123 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 75% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| bake werkwoord | /beɪk/ | bakken |
| whisk zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɪsk/ | garde, klopper |
| gram zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɹæm/ | gram |
| cocoa zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ | cacao |
| melt werkwoord | /mɛlt/ | smelten, laten smelten |
| flour zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | meel, bloem |
| powder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ | poeder |
| mixer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/ | mengar |
| parchment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpʰɑɹt͡ʃmənt/ | perkament |
| sunflower zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.əɹ/ | zonnebloem |
| yolk zelfstandig naamwoord | /joʊk/ | dooier, eidooier |
| ingredient zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | ingrediënt |
| extract zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛkstɹækt/ | fragment |
| oven zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | oven |
| fold werkwoord | /ˈfəʊld/ | vouwen |
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 | is called · have been cracked · have been whisked |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have been cracked · have been whisked · has been put |
| Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomen | am going to bake · am going to make · is going to be |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | I'm using · am using · is baking |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 13 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: gram /ˈɡɹæm/, castor /ˈkæs.tɚ/, extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, dash /ˈdæʃ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gram /ˈɡɹæm/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: whisk /ˈwɪsk/, sweetness /ˈswitnəs/
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 bake, whisk, gram.
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.