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Gary the Dreamer by Gary Soto Illustrated by Elizabeth Gomez I was born in April,
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a month when it rains and rains.
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Maybe this is why when I was three years old, I liked to open my mouth and taste rain.
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Also, April is when flowers bloom, bees arrive out of nowhere.
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I lived in a small white house.
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My dog's name was Blackie.
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My cat's name was Boots.
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I had a canary just bigger than a big person's thumb.
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But my bird flew away when the little door of its cage was left open.
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So sorry, little canary, but I think it was me who left it open.
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I remember my high chair.
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I remember watching my parents and older brother at the dinner table.
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When I got a little bigger, I got to sit with them.
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Most mornings I ate oatmeal sprinkled with brown sugar.
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The sugar was like rocket energy.
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I blasted out of the house, ready to play.
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I played tag with the neighbor kids.
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I played hide-and-seek.
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I played catch with oranges.
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In our backyard we had an orange tree.
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We also had plum, lemon, and apple trees.
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Lucky me!
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Anytime I was hungry for a snack, I just went outside and picked a fruit.
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I didn't have many toys.
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My army men were pinto beans and pebbles.
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I played with them in the dirt.
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I got dirty from playing hard.
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It seemed like a giant pepper shaker had sprinkled me with dust.
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My favorite fruit was watermelon.
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After I ate a slice of watermelon, I ended up with seeds in my mouth.
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These seeds were my ammo to spit at my older brother.
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He would spit some back at me.
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It was sort of like a fun war.
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The seeds flew all over the place.
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In kindergarten, I learned my colors.
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I learned to tie my shoes and to be nice.
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I liked to sing, too.
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My brother said he could hear me from the next classroom.
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I made my first friend, Daryl.
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I made another friend, Jose.
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At recess, we went on the slide.
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It was like a big shiny spoon and slippery.
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Then we went on the swings.
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It was scary but fun going high and jumping out.
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Then we went on the monkey bars.
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If I fell, I never got hurt.
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In first grade, I practiced writing the alphabet.
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The letters were big and blocky.
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I wrote my name, G-A-R-Y.
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Some days my nice teacher would have to tell me, Gary, sit still.
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I wiggled a lot in my chair.
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I dreamed a lot.
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I was busy looking at the floor or my hands or out the window.
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Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
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I couldn't pronounce some words.
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I couldn't say sandwich.
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I would say Sammy.
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I knew that 2 plus 2 was 4.
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But what was 5 plus 7?
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I counted out my answer on my fingers, sticky from the peanut butter and jam, inside my Sammy.
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In second grade, we collected money to help children in Africa.
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They didn't have anything to eat.
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I collected pennies, lots of pennies.
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I noticed that the pennies were the same as me.
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You see, I was naturally brown, and even browner from running in the sun.
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I felt like I was giving poor Africa a piece of me.
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My classmates got taller, but I seemed to stay the same size.
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I still liked playing at recess.
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I liked dodgeball, kickball, and foursquare.
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I would tumble when I played soccer.
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I was quick.
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I admire people who are quick and who play fair.
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By third grade, I was a good reader.
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I loved picture books.
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The pages were bright and colorful as toucans, those tropical birds with long beaks.
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Every week I went to the public library.
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I checked out mountains of books.
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I was still a dreamer.
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Sometimes I watched ants going in and out of their holes, or I would watch water racing in the curb.
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The river of water carried matchsticks, leaves, gum wrappers, and those poor little ants.
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I rescued some of those ants.
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I put them carefully on my finger and set them on the cement curb.
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They lay for a while like weak little shadows.
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Then they woke up and staggered away.
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It was fun in third grade.
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I still stayed small, like those ants, I guess.
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I was scared of math, poor me.
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But reading was what I really liked.
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I read on the couch, I read in bed with carrot sticks, like pencils in my hands.
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I liked to read in my favorite tree.
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Once when Boots came by, I tossed a piece of bark at him.
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He looked around and meowed.
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I giggled.
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I tossed another piece of bark at him.
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This time Boots saw me and climbed up the tree.
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We sat on a fat limb, the two of us.
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I read him a story about a bird.
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He licked his paws.
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The engine inside him began to purr.
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I guess Boots liked reading too.
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On weekends, my family went to Chinatown.
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We bought groceries there at the Mexican store.
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I remember mariachis roving the street.
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Their sombreros were huge.
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You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.
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Their trumpets blared, the guitars strummed, their violins seemed to weep.
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The guitarrant thumped deeply.
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One time, I saw a dog dance to the mariachi music.
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The dog went back and forth, back and forth, like he was doing the cha-cha.
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Every night I took a bubble bath in our deep tub.
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The water roared from the faucet as I climbed in.
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The bubbles rose like mountains.
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No, like really pretty clouds.
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I scooped up the bubbles and patted them onto my face.
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I pretended that I had a beard.
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I placed some of the bubbles on my head.
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Oh, a sombrero.
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I was a dreamer.
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I was sometimes in another world.
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In bed, I covered myself with two blankets.
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I thought about the day before I fell asleep, so tired.
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My legs kicked.
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As I dreamed I was running for a touchdown, and the whole school was watching me.
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Gary Soto grew up to be an author.
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He dreamed up ideas for more than 40 books for children and grown-ups.
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He shares his Mexican-American culture through his poems and stories.
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Thank you.
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Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “McGraw Hill.Wonders 3.Gary The Dreamer”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: liked, tree, played, ants, bubble. Deze video bevat 127 zinnen en 1065 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:08. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 131 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 71% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| bubble zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbʌbəl/ | bel |
| ant zelfstandig naamwoord | /ænt/ | mier |
| seed zelfstandig naamwoord | /siːd/ | zaad |
| penny zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɛni/ | penny |
| finger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | vinger |
| collect werkwoord | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | verzamelen, opstapelen |
| climb werkwoord | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | klimmen |
| toss werkwoord | /tɔs/ | opgooien, opwerpen |
| bark zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɑɹk/ | schors, bast |
| spit werkwoord | /spɪt/ | spuwen, spugen |
| curb zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɝb/ | stoeprand, borduur |
| guitar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/ | gitaar |
| naturally bijwoord | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | natuurlijk |
| rescue werkwoord | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | bevrijden, redden |
| soccer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | voetbal |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I didn't have many toys.
- Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
- I couldn't pronounce some words.
- You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.
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 | was born · was left |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig was | was giving · was doing · was running |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals couldn't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: bath /bɑːθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, thump /θʌmp/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shaker /ˈʃeɪkɚ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/, mariachi /ˌmɑɹ.iˈɑ.t͡ʃi/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: seed /siːd/, curb /kɝb/, cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: ant /ænt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, blast /blæst/, pat /pæt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, guitar /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/, groceries /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
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 bubble, ant, seed.
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.