Shadowing Practice: (Oxford RnD - Level 1) Eyes - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1.
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Eyes.
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By Rob Sved.
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Read by Christopher Ragland.
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Published and copyrighted, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Introduction People and animals see with their eyes.
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You have two eyes.
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Some animals have many eyes.
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Eyes can be little or big, and they can be many colors.
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What animals have these eyes?
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What color are your eyes?
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Discover!
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Now, read and discover more about eyes.
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Chapter 1 Animal Eyes What do animals do with their eyes?
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They look for food.
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The duck looks for food in water.
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The gecko has big eyes.
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It can see well at night.
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It looks for insects to eat.
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Eyes help to protect animals from other animals.
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The crab has two eyes on top of its body.
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It can see big animals and then it can run away.
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Chapter 2 Parts of an Eye Let's look at an eye.
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It has many parts.
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This is an elephant's eye.
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The eyelid and the eyelashes protect the eyeball.
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There are tears in the eye, too.
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The eyelid opens and closes, and the tears clean the eye.
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The pupil lets light into the eye.
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This helps people and animals to see.
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When there's lots of light, the pupil is little.
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When there's no light, the pupil is big.
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Discover!
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People have tears to clean their eyes.
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People cry tears when they are sad, too.
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Chapter 3 Eyes at the Front People and many animals have two eyes at the front of their head.
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This helps them to see things far away.
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The hawk can fly fast, and it can see very well, too.
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This helps it to hunt little animals to eat.
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The monkey has eyes at the front of its head.
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It can jump from tree to tree, and it doesn't fall.
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Discover!
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Owls have eyes at the front of their head.
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Some owls can move their head around and see behind.
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Chapter 4.
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Eyes at the Sides Many animals have eyes at the sides of their head.
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They can see in front and behind.
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The frog has eyes at the sides of its head.
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It can look for insects to eat.
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The hammerhead shark has a long, flat head.
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It has eyes at the sides of its head.
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When it swims, it can see all around.
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The stalk-eyed fly can see all around, too.
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It has eyes on two long stalks.
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Discover!
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The chameleon sees all around very well.
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One eye moves up and the other eye moves down.
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Chapter 5.
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In Water The seal lives on land and in water.
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It has big, round eyes.
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It can see very well in water.
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It hunts fish to eat.
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The flatfish has two eyes on one side of its body.
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It can lie at the bottom of the ocean and look up.
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Discover!
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Fish live in water, and they don't have eyelids.
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They don't close their eyes.
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Chapter 6 in the dark.
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At night, some animals sleep.
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Many other animals look for food.
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The lemur looks for fruit and little animals to eat.
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It has big eyes with big pupils.
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It can see very well in the dark.
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It's very dark at the bottom of the ocean.
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The flashlight fish has lights under its eyes.
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This helps it to look for little fish to eat.
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In the dark, cats and dogs have bright eyes.
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They can see very well.
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Look at this cat.
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What color are its eyes?
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Chapter 7.
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Many Eyes Some animals have many eyes.
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Many spiders have six or eight eyes.
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The scallop can have more than fifty little eyes.
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How many of the eyes can you see here?
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Some insects have very many eyes.
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Look at this dragonfly.
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Each eye is thousands of little eyes together.
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Chapter 8.
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Protect Your Eyes It's important for animals to protect their eyes.
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In the desert, there's a lot of sand.
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The camel has long eyelashes, so the sand doesn't go in its eyes.
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The meerkat lives in the desert, too.
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It's sunny and windy there.
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Its eyelids clean the sand from its eyes.
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The meerkat has black fur around its eyes.
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This protects its eyes when it's sunny.
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People wear sunglasses when it's very sunny.
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This protects their eyes.
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Eyes are important.
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Remember to protect them.
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you Thank
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you.
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Thank you.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau A1 is gebaseerd op de video “(Oxford RnD - Level 1) Eyes”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: eye, Animal, chapter, discover, protect. Deze video bevat 104 zinnen en 709 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:53. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 72 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 89% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
discover werkwoord/dɪˈskʌvə/ontdekken
tear werkwoord/tɛɹ/scheuren
pupil zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpjuːpəl/leerling
sand zelfstandig naamwoord/sænd/zand, zavel
sunny bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsʌni/zonnig
insect zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɪn.sɛkt/insect, kerfdier
desert zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɛz.ɚt/woestijn, woestenij
owl zelfstandig naamwoord/aʊ(ə)l/uil
seal zelfstandig naamwoord/siːl/zegel
spider zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/spin, kobbe
copyright zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/auteursrecht, copyright
duck zelfstandig naamwoord/dʌk/eend
swim werkwoord/swɪm/zwemmen
monkey zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmʌŋki/aap, apin
hawk zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɔːk/havik

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
look up werkwoord/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/opkijken
run away werkwoordvluchten, weglopen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 4 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals doesn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: eyelash /ˈaɪlæʃ/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, flatfish /ˈflætfɪʃ/

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 discover, tear, pupil.

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