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Story 11 When an Apple Falls Imagine yourself under the cool shade of an apple tree.
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Your mind and body relax as you sit quietly, thinking.
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Suddenly, a ripe apple falls from the tree, narrowly missing your head.
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Most of us would be thankful that the apple did not hit us.
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and that would be the end of it.
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But sometimes an ordinary happening can lead to extraordinary results.
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Such was the case in the 17th century.
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Isaac Newton spent his life working out many of the laws of physics.
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He wanted to figure out how things worked.
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For him, the world was his laboratory in those early days of science.
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For a long time he had been working on the laws of motion.
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One lucky day, as he was sitting in his study at his mother's country home,
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he looked out over the yard.
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The apple trees were filled with ripe red apples.
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As he sat there thinking,
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he noticed an apple falling from the tree.
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Apples fall from trees all the time.
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They even fall and hit people on the head.
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But Isaac Newton's falling apple was no ordinary apple,
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and Newton was no ordinary man.
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He saw more than an apple falling from a tree.
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As he watched the apple hit the ground,
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he asked himself some simple questions.
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Why did that apple fall straight down?
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Why did it not fall sideways?
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Why did it not fall up towards the sky instead of down towards the center of the Earth?
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With these simple questions, Newton discovered gravity.
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More correctly, he discovered how gravity works.
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Scientists could now understand why the moon was held in orbit around the Earth.
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Gravity explained why people did not fall off the face of the Earth.
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Imagine if Newton had watched that apple falling and thought nothing more than,
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Oh yes, just another apple falling from a tree.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Level 3 Book 1 B11 When an Apple Falls”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: apple, fall, tree, falling, Newton. Deze video bevat 32 zinnen en 315 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:30. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 126 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 90% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 10 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
ripe bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɹaɪp/rijp
sideways bijwoord/ˈsaɪdweɪz/zijwaarts
narrowly bijwoord/ˈnæɹoʊli/nipt
thankful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈθæŋkfəl/dankbaar
orbit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/baan
shade zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃeɪd/schaduw
scientist zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsaɪəntəst/wetenschapper, wetenschapster
correctly bijwoord/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/correct, juist
relax werkwoord/ɹɪˈlæks/losmaken
laboratory zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/laboratorium, lab

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
figure out werkwoorduitvogelen, er achter komen
work out werkwoord/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/uitrekenen

Uitspraak om op te letten

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sideways /ˈsaɪdweɪz/, shade /ʃeɪd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: gravity /ˈɡɹævɪti/, narrowly /ˈnæɹoʊli/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, laboratory /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: sideways /ˈsaɪdweɪz/, quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/

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 ripe, sideways, narrowly.

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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