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Today we are going to be showing you some very interesting places in the UK
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and teaching you some English at the same time.
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This weekend we are in Canock and Litchfield.
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You might not have heard of these places but they're less than an hour away from Birmingham.
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They're very central in the country.
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Today we are in the beautiful Canock Chase which is an area of natural beauty.
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So if you're in Birmingham and you want to get out in nature come to Canock Chase.
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During this video if we say some words
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that I think might be new to you they will appear on the screen with the definitions.
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Okay action verbs time.
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Show me skipping.
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Show me marching.
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Show me stomping.
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Show me leaping.
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Show me strutting. Is that quite good?
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Yeah.
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That sounds quite good.
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Show me tiptoeing.
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Okay, plan for this weekend.
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I'm excited for this weekend.
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It's going to be really nice.
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Me too.
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Me too.
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So we're starting in Canuck, Canuck Chase specifically.
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We're having a lovely walk.
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We're getting out into nature.
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I think the UK is brilliant for that.
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If you love a walk, if you love nature, if you love being in the fresh air, try to get to some area of natural beauty.
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And we will visit London on this channel, but we want to show you some other places as well, you know, some places that might be a bit quieter, you know, because London's very busy, it's very expensive.
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Yeah, a bit of a hidden gem.
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I do think that somewhere like Cannock Chase is just one of those places where if you came here, you'd feel like you were in...
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Wuthering Heights.
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Yeah, Wuthering Heights.
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I feel like Cathy, you could be Heathcliff.
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Cheers.
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And I need a big skirt.
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Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, you come home now.
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So cold, cold, I'm here, you're in the home.
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What is that song?
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It's Ruthering Heights by Kate Walsh.
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So today we're here in Cannock Chase first.
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Then I fancy just having a little bit of a go at the driving range, golf.
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So we're going to go to the driving range.
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Go to the driving range.
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Then we're going to go to Lichfield, have some food, have some dinner.
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I fancy some Thai food.
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And then tomorrow morning, we're going to go to one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the country.
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And it's outside of London.
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I know everyone thinks of St Paul's Cathedral, which is beautiful, but we have a lot of amazing cathedrals.
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So we want to show you Lichfield Cathedral because it's beautiful.
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It's getting a little bit steep here, isn't it, Laura?
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It is a bit steep, but I go to the gym, I exercise my legs, I can handle a steep hill.
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Oh, my bell!
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Did you see that?
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Yeah.
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That's funny.
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Imagine if I just...
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So we are currently walking on a path.
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A path.
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And there is a nice idiom where we say, don't stray from the path.
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To stray means to go off somewhere else, to not stay on the path.
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So don't stray from the path.
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I saw a sign just here.
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I don't know what bird it was.
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But it did say to not let your dog stray from the path, Laura.
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Because they said that not all birds nest in the trees.
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Some of the birds nest on the ground between the months of like April and June.
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Something like that.
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The trees right now look quite bare because it's only the beginning of March.
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So the trees are still quite bare.
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The leaves have fallen, but very soon it's going to start being spring.
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We're going to get the blossom and the leaves are going to come back.
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I'm very excited for that.
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I do associate Canic Chase with more of those kind of autumnal colours though.
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Yes.
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Coming?
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I've got my best white trainers on.
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These are your best?
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Yeah.
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Oh, you should have come better prepared, Laura.
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I did.
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You are ill prepared.
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I know I'm ill prepared, but I didn't think we'd be in a bog.
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I thought we were having a lovely, a lovely...
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Well, it's been raining, isn't it?
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Typical British weather.
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How are we supposed to get over this?
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I'm going to stand on this.
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There's no way.
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Yeah, Laura.
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Okay.
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And now I'm going to stand there.
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Do we have to come back this way?
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No, no, no, no, no. This is...
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No, it's looping around.
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Okay.
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So stand there, hang on.
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Then there.
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So you know what to do.
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Go there. And then here.
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Good thing I've got long legs, innit?
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There's actually a lot of deer that live in Canik Chase.
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Notice how I said deer and not deers because the plural of deer is deer.
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So there are a lot of deer and we've seen a lot of them
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and they're beautiful and sometimes if you go to the right places
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and if you're very quiet you can see them we actually um i always feel
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that being amongst the trees is really good for perspective um
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and kind of uh perspective on life and things and things like
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that i think there's some kind of research into that of like, when you're in trees in particular, because the trees are so tall and big,
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it kind of makes you realise that the problems you have are quite small in comparison.
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Okay, back in the car.
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Now we are going to a driving range.
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Woohoo!
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So Perwin can practice his swing and I can watch.
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You can have a go.
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I'll have a go.
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I'm not...I tried before.
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Horrific.
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So let's see if I'm any better now.
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Let's go!
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Woohoo!
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I'm just a spectator today.
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I'm just enjoying the fact that it's not raining.
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You can have a go.
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Huh?
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Can have a go.
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I will have a go at the very end.
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Well, don't expect anything good.
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Because it's not gonna be...
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I think I've hit two golf balls in my life.
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Yeah, you've got to have a lot of control.
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Oh, I just missed that one.
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Try again.
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This is probably my favourite design of buildings in the UK, this kind of Tudor, black and white
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style it's very classic in this country you get some areas where you see buildings like this everywhere
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but obviously when you go to places like London you don't see as much
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because everything was burnt down in the fire of London
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so you don't really see a lot of that but in places like Litchfield, York, places like that you see a lot of this and I just think it's stunning.
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So it's actually a Sunday today so most shops are closed I think
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so we'll have a proper look at the shops tomorrow
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because we're going to come back right now we just need to find somewhere to eat
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so this is a very interesting place um as english learners
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i'm sure you'll be interested in this this is where dr
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samuel johnson was born he wrote the dictionary i don't know if it was the first dictionary.
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I don't think it was the very first, but it was definitely the most popular and universally used one.
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So we have just checked in to our hotel for the night and surprisingly they gave us a complimentary upgrade.
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Yeah, very surprising.
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That's never happened to me before.
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Never.
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But loving it.
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Have a look at this.
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Ooh.
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Ooh.
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Lovely.
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We can sit here and have some chats.
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And then there's the lovely bed here.
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Oh, it's lovely.
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I haven't looked at the bathroom.
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Yeah, the bathroom.
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Let's have a look.
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What have we got?
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Ooh.
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This is nice. Is there a bath?
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There's a bath!
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Oh!
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Bathrobes!
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Ooh!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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I'm definitely putting that on.
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And these biscuits.
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These biscuits in a hotel room just hit the spot.
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What's the pink thing?
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That's hot chocolate.
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I think, yeah.
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So we can have a cup of hot chocolate.
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I'm gonna have a hot chocolate tonight.
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And these biscuits.
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Oh my gosh!
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How exciting!
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That's perfect!
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I told you I would wear this bathrobe.
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Let's learn some useful hotel English.
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So one thing I really want to look at is the room service menu.
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I don't often get room service because I think it's a little bit overpriced.
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But this doesn't look too dear though.
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It looks okay.
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You can get a margarita pizza?
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Is there a mini bar?
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I don't know.
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I haven't seen one.
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It doesn't look like there's a mini bar.
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There's a safe.
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Every hotel needs a good safe.
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If anything it's probably a good thing there's no mini bar
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because then we won't accidentally drink a 10 pound bottle of water or something.
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But there is free toiletries!
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Yeah!
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I love little free toiletries from a hotel.
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Good night everybody.
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Oh that's so soft actually, that's really nice
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Good morning, how did you sleep?
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Like a log though, like a log It was a very comfortable bed actually I've slept about eight hours
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and we've got a lovely view out of the window, which is great.
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Again, it's looking very Wuthering Heights.
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It is.
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It's very misty.
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It's lovely.
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We're going to go down for breakfast now.
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I've heard the breakfast is really good, so I'm really excited.
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It's one of your favourite meals of the day, is breakfast.
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I love breakfast.
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I love fruits and pastries, and I like a continental breakfast.
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I've just come to explore the outside of this hotel, and it's beautiful.
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It feels like...
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Yeah, I love misty mornings.
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I love misty mornings.
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I think they feel so atmospheric and so haunting, but in a really beautiful way.
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Oh, look at this.
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I bet getting married here is so nice.
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I bet you feel like a gothic princess.
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This morning is actually quite exciting because Bez is being interviewed on the radio.
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So I've left him in the hotel room because,
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yes, he's being interviewed on the Welsh BBC radio station about the videos he makes.
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Because he's made a channel similar to this one about learning Welsh.
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And they want to interview him about it.
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So he's doing that.
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We are back in Litchfield today, going to the cathedral which was built.
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Well, this building was completed in 1340.
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Wow, wow, wow.
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That's so old.
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That is really old.
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Do you know what I find very strange?
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Me?
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Yes, of course.
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And this fact.
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Oh yeah.
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Well, not this fact.
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It's very normal for us to see these things every day that are so old.
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but to people like from America or something.
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Yeah.
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For them, they would consider something in like the 1800s really old.
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And this is like 700 years old basically.
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That's ridiculous.
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It's mental.
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Look at that!
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So this is the only medieval cathedral in the UK with three spires.
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Spires.
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And they call them the Ladies of the Vale, which is quite nice.
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There are around 113 statues on the facade.
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Most of the original ones were destroyed, so most of these were recreated in the Victorian era.
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It's amazing that every corner you go into there's like these incredible marble statues or these intricate designs in the stone.
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Like every single corner there's something amazing.
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like the time and attention to detail that goes into building some place like this.
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I just don't think we do it anymore.
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Like, we don't make buildings like this.
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It's just amazing to walk around.
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The craftsmanship in every corner of this building blows my mind.
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I think a place like this is a lesson for lots of people, well, people all over the world,
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that there are things on your doorstep that other people would appreciate and love.
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Like a place like this is such an amazing building and tourists would come here.
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But then, I'm not saying it's not appreciated by British people, of course not, but it's interesting how much people can normalise what's on their doorstep
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and it's interesting that people always want to go abroad.
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I'm sounding like my dad now.
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My dad always used to say when I was a kid that we don't need to go abroad.
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There's lots in the UK to see.
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And it is true.
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The UK is amazing.
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There's lots of things to see in the UK.
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So this is the chapter house and it's estimated to have been built around 1249,
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which is insane to be inside a room that was built in 1249.
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You just can't get your head around it.
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Like, look at this.
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Someone painted this and did this with their hand and now I'm looking at it with my fancy technology and my camera.
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Crazy.
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So this is where the cathedral's clergy met daily to discuss business.
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I'm sure there was a lot of business to discuss.
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Okay, so this is the Litchfield Angel, and it was discovered in 2003 under the floor during an excavation,
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and it dates to around 800 AD.
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So apparently it originally formed part of a stone shrine to St Chad.
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You can still see traces of red paint which suggests that medieval sculptures used to be very brightly coloured.
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Okay, useful English words we can learn in this cathedral.
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So, hallowed, sacred, holy.
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They're very common words to describe a cathedral.
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This hallowed place, this sacred place, this holy place.
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In terms of the actual architecture, majestic, magnificent, and grand.
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We use those not necessarily to talk about the religious side of it, but just what it looks like.
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Majestic, magnificent, grand.
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A lot of cathedrals can be quite echoey.
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So you say something and you hear, hello, hello, hello, hello, very echoey.
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And a really nice one, which I think applies to this place.
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Awe-inspiring.
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Awe-inspiring.
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It makes you feel awe.
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And right opposite this amazing cathedral is Erasmus Darwin's house, who is Charles Darwin's grandad.
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I don't know why I love British history.
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I just love it.
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So behind me, Bez is dressing up.
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There are two different types of dress up.
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You can dress up to be really formal.
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You can dress up in a nice dress or a suit, or you can dress up to look like someone else.
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Like at Halloween, you dress up as a skeleton.
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You dress up as whatever this is.
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I do find it interesting that there's so many figures in British history that the average Brit wouldn't know about.
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Like the woman in the reception on the way in, she said that at one point he was the most famous man in Britain, which is mad.
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And we didn't know about him.
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Until today.
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I think I can pull this off.
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I think weirdly I'm pulling this off.
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Do you think I pull this off?
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I think I need to take this off.
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Try your hand at Georgian Skittles.
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If you try your hand at something it's just like you're just gonna try it.
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You're gonna attempt this thing.
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You're gonna try your hand at something.
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So I am gonna try my hand at some Georgian Skittles.
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That's, yeah, I feel very educated that, to be honest.
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Turns out he invented loads of things.
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He was part of the Lunar Society, with like Benjamin Franklin and people like that,
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and they kind of invented so many things that were mind-blowing at the time.
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They kind of discovered that the Earth was older than 4,000 years old.
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It's like he was part of this kind of society of just rearing intelligence.
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Carbonated water.
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I think there's a lot of places in the UK, there are lots of like little museums.
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So there'll be like a house where someone used to live and they've turned it into a museum.
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So you can find loads of places like that.
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If you're anywhere in the UK, just look up museums and there will be some really interesting places you can have a look around.
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And I would just say like ask questions, go in there.
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The people are happy to talk to you and to educate you.
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I'm exceedingly happy because I got a coffee with pistachio syrup in it.
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And if you know me, there are two flavours in this world I love more than any other.
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And it's pistachio and matcha.
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Oh my goodness, this is really good.
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I could have about seven of them.
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So, yes, we're going to the theatre after this.
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I love going to the theatre.
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Okay, it's time to head on into the Litchfield Garrick Theatre.
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We're gonna go see this children's show.
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And then see our friend.
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And then see our friend.
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For a coffee.
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I feel like I've had so much coffee today, I'm gonna be bouncing off the walls, Laura.
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I know.
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I have decaf coffee, so I'm safe.
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I know, I'm feeling a bit...
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You might be stuck to the ceiling in the theatre.
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I'm feeling a bit woozy, to be honest.
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Right, wish us luck.
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Bye.
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What a lovely weekend we've had.
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It's been so nice, very relaxed.
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I feel like I've, I feel like a new man.
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Look at that.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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If you enjoyed this, please subscribe and give it a like.
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And don't forget that members get a PDF for every video, which will have all the vocabulary you've learned in this video, along with some quizzes and questions.
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So click join to become a member.
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Head to smashingenglish.com to see our amazing courses.
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Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.
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Ta-ta!
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Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Learn English Vlog - A Beautiful British Weekend in Historical City 🇬🇧”. Deze video bevat 359 zinnen en 2960 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 21:00. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 141 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cathedral zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | kathedraal |
| stray werkwoord | /stɹeɪ/ | dwalen |
| biscuit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɪs.kɪt/ | biscuit, koekje |
| misty bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmɪsti/ | mistig |
| steep bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /stiːp/ | steil |
| bathrobe zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/ | badjas, badmantel |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| hallow werkwoord | /ˈhæloʊ/ | heiligen |
| pistachio zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/ | pistache |
| majestic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /məˈd͡ʒɛstɪk/ | majestueus, majesteitisch |
| invent werkwoord | /ɪnˈvɛnt/ | uitvinden, uitdenken |
| educate werkwoord | /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/ | opleiden, onderwijzen |
| inspire werkwoord | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | inspireren |
| dictionary zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | woordenboek |
| magnificent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ | prachtig |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| dress up werkwoord | verkleden | |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen | |
| go off werkwoord | afgaan | |
| look up werkwoord | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | opkijken |
| turn out werkwoord | uitvallen, resulteren |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How are we supposed to get over this?
- Do we have to come back this way?
- Good thing I've got long legs, innit?
- You can get a margarita pizza?
- Good morning, how did you sleep?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to say · used to be · used to live |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have fallen · we've seen · I've hit |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was burnt · are closed · was born |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | Chase which is · Cathedral, which is · window, which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 105 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, bathrobe /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: pistachio /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, craftsmanship /ˈkɹæfts.mən.ʃɪp/, excavation /ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃn/, shrine /ʃɹaɪ̯n/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, carbonated /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/, complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, exceedingly /ɪkˈsidɪŋli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: bathrobe /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/, carbonated /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/, facade /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/, normalize /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/, verb /vɝb/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: bathrobe /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/, hallow /ˈhæloʊ/, pistachio /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, margarita /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
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 cathedral, stray, biscuit.
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.