Shadowing Practice: Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 – At the Beach - Read along with highlighted text - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1
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At the Beach by Rachel Bladen Read by Christopher Ragland Published and copyright Oxford University Press 2012
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Introduction At the beach, the ocean meets the land.
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Many amazing plants and animals live there.
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What can you see at the beach?
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What animals live there?
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Discover!
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Now, read and discover more about the beach.
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Chapter 1 The Beach Every day the ocean goes up the beach at high tide,
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and it goes down the beach at low tide.
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The ocean moves with the wind, too.
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The wind makes waves.
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The ocean is salt water.
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It's big and strong.
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The ocean can break rocks and shells into pieces.
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The pieces of rock and shell hit the water and other rocks.
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Then they get very little.
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This is how the ocean makes rocks and shells into sand.
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Chapter 2 Sand and Rocks What can you see in the sand and on the rocks at the beach?
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At low tide, the telon shell hides under the sand.
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It hides there because other animals like to eat it.
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It gets food and water with one of its siphons.
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The green flat periwinkle hides in green seaweed.
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Can you see it here?
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The barnacle lives on rocks.
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Its shell grows onto the rocks, so it doesn't move when there are waves.
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Discover!
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Some barnacles grow on whales.
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Chapter 3 In Rock Pools At low tide,
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the ocean moves down the beach.
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Then you can find rock pools.
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Let's look in a rock pool.
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Here's a crab.
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It gets food with its big, strong claws.
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It eats barnacles, starfish, and other little animals.
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It eats plants, too.
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Discover!
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The starfish can put its stomach out of its mouth.
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Then it can eat this big clam.
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Crabs eat starfish and starfish eat clams.
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This is called a food chain.
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Chapter 4 Near the beach Many fish and other little animals live in the water near the beach.
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There's lots of food for them there.
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The prawn eats seaweed and little animals.
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Discover!
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The prawn has 20 legs.
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It walks with ten legs, and it swims with ten legs.
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The seahorse eats very little fish.
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It eats very, very little animals and plants called plankton, too.
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See how this seahorse hides in the seaweed.
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In this green seaweed, the seahorse is green, but in yellow seaweed, it's yellow.
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Chapter 5 In the Ocean You can see some amazing animals in the ocean.
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Here's a seal.
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The seal lives in the ocean and on land.
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When it swims in the ocean, it puts its head out of the water to get air.
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The dolphin jumps out of the water, and little fish are scared.
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They swim away, and then the dolphin can catch them.
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The dolphin gets air with a blowhole on its head.
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On sunny days, the basking shark swims at the top of the ocean.
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It can eat lots of plankton there.
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Plankton is its favorite food.
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Chapter 6 In the Air Many birds live near the beach.
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There's lots of food for them there.
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The puffin lives on cliffs.
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When it's hungry, it flies down and swims under the ocean.
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Then it catches its favorite fish.
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The pelican can catch lots of fish in its big bill.
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It opens its bill and the water goes out.
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Then it can eat the fish.
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Discover!
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A pelican can get 11 litres of water in its bill.
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Oyster catchers don't eat oysters.
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They eat mussels.
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They open the shells with their bill.
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Chapter 7.
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At the Coast At the coast near the beach, there are cliffs.
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Some waves hit hills on the coast and pieces of land break into the ocean.
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This makes cliffs.
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Sometimes there are holes in the cliffs.
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The ocean hits the holes and makes caves.
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The ocean can make arches and stacks, too.
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At the coast, the sand moves in the wind.
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Then, the sand makes hills called sand dunes.
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Discover!
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Sand dunes can move 100 meters in a year.
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Chapter 8 Fun at the Beach You can do many things at the beach.
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You can kite surf and the wind moves you on the ocean.
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You can snorkel, too.
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Then you can see amazing fish in the water.
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The ocean is big and strong.
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Don't go away from the people you know.
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Look for flags.
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They tell you where and when you can swim.
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Have fun at the beach, but remember the ocean plants and animals.
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Keep the beach clean for plants, animals, and other people.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 – At the Beach - Read along with highlighted text”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: ocean, beach, eat, rock, animals. Deze video bevat 95 zinnen en 744 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:34. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 78 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 81% 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
sand zelfstandig naamwoord/sænd/zand, zavel
discover werkwoord/dɪˈskʌvə/ontdekken
shell zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃɛl/schelp
swim werkwoord/swɪm/zwemmen
cliff zelfstandig naamwoord/klɪf/klip, klif
dolphin zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɑlf.ɪn/dolfijn
seal zelfstandig naamwoord/siːl/zegel
crab zelfstandig naamwoord/kɹæb/krab
oyster zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɔɪ.stɚ/oester
hungry bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/hongerig, honger hebben
stomach zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈstʌmək/maag
copyright zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/auteursrecht, copyright
cave zelfstandig naamwoord/keɪv/hol, grot
meter zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmitəɹ/meter, teller
scare werkwoord/skɛɚ/bang maken, beangstigen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
go down werkwoordafdalen
go out werkwoordnaar buiten gaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • What can you see at the beach?
  • Can you see it here?
  • Let's look in a rock pool.
  • Don't go away from the people you know.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 3 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shell /ʃɛl/, starfish /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sand /sænd/, tide /taɪd/, crab /kɹæb/, cave /keɪv/, seaweed /ˈsiwid/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: sand /sænd/, crab /kɹæb/, stack /stæk/, catcher /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/, plankton /ˈplæŋ(k).tən/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: swim /swɪm/, whale /ˈweɪl/, seaweed /ˈsiwid/, periwinkle /ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/

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 sand, discover, shell.

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