Shadowing Practice: (Oxford RnD - Level 2) Your Body - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2 Your Body by Louise Spilsbury Read by Christopher Ragland Published and copyright Oxford University Press 2012
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Introduction Your body is amazing!
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It helps you to walk, work, and play.
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It helps you to eat, read, listen, and learn.
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It's important to protect your body.
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How does your body help you?
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How do you protect your body?
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Discover Now read and discover more about your body.
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Chapter 1 Your Skin and Hair You have skin everywhere on your body.
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Your skin helps you to touch things.
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It helps you to know when things are hot or cold.
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Skin stops dirt getting into your body.
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It stops water getting into your body when it's rainy and when you swim.
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Hair grows out of your skin.
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Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're cold.
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This stops your body getting too cold.
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Your skin makes sweat when you're hot.
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This stops your body getting too hot.
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Protect your body.
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Wash every day so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair.
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Chapter 2 Your Bones There are bones under your skin.
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These bones make your skeleton.
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Your skeleton helps you to stand up.
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There are joints in your skeleton, too.
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Bones meet at joints.
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Elbows and knees are joints.
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Joints help you to move.
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Knee joints help you to jump and kick.
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A baby has small bones.
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Bones grow and they make you big and tall.
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Discover Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old.
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Then there are 206 bones in your body.
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Protect your bones When you ride a skateboard,
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wear pads to protect your bones and joints.
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Wear a helmet to protect your head, too.
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Chapter 3 Your Muscles What helps your bones and joints to walk,
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run, dance, and jump?
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Muscles Muscles pull your bones to move your body.
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Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle.
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Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat.
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Discover There are more than 600 muscles in your body.
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Running, swimming, dancing, and riding a bicycle are types of exercise.
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Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and joints strong.
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Your heart is a type of muscle.
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Exercise makes your heart strong, too.
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Protect your body. Do exercise every day.
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What is your favorite type of exercise?
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Chapter 4 Your Eyes and Ears Your eyes help you to see the world around you.
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They open and close many times every day.
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This is called blinking.
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When your eyes blink, they wash dirt out of your eyes.
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At night, your eyes close so you can sleep.
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Discover!
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Eyes blink about 15 times every minute.
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Your ears help you to listen to music.
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They help you to listen for cars in the street.
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Your ears can hear things when you sleep, too.
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Protect your eyes and ears.
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On sunny days, wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.
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Don't listen to very loud music.
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It's bad for your ears.
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Chapter 5 Your nose and mouth.
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You breathe through your nose and mouth.
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Your nose and mouth take air into your body.
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You breathe about 15 times every minute.
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Discover!
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After exercise, people breathe fast.
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They can breathe 40 times every minute.
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Your nose helps you to smell things.
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Your mouth helps you to talk and eat.
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Your teeth bite food so you can eat it.
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Your body uses food to live and grow.
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Protect your teeth Brush your teeth after breakfast and after dinner,
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and don't eat lots of candy.
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Chapter 6.
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Your Brain.
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Do you know how you read these words?
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Your brain tells you what your eyes see.
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Your brain tells you what you see, hear, and touch.
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It tells your muscles when to move.
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It helps you to write,
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speak, draw, and do puzzles.
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Your brain is amazing.
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Your brain works all day and at night when you sleep.
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At night, it makes you breathe and it makes your heart work.
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At night, your brain helps you to remember things that you learn in the day.
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Protect your brain.
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Wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle.
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Chapter 7 Getting Sick Do you get sick?
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Germs are things that can make you sick.
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Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat.
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Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too.
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Some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin.
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Wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers.
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Wash your hands when it's time to eat,
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after you go to the toilet,
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after you touch animals, and after you play outside.
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Stop germs.
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There are germs in a sneeze.
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Catch sneezes in a tissue.
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Then throw the tissue in a wastebasket.
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Chapter 8.
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Protect Your Body Eat food that's good for you.
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Good food helps your bones to grow.
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It makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick.
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There's lots of water in your body.
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You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat.
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Drink water every day to protect your body.
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Go to the doctor when you get sick and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day.
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It's good to do exercise and it makes you happy.
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It's good to sleep when you are tired too.
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It's important to protect your body.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “(Oxford RnD - Level 2) Your Body”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: bones, protect, muscle, skin, eyes. Deze video bevat 112 zinnen en 883 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:12. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 72 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 86% 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
bone zelfstandig naamwoord/boʊn/been
muscle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmʌs.əl/spier
discover werkwoord/dɪˈskʌvə/ontdekken
breathe werkwoord/bɹiːð/ademen, ademhalen
ear zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɪə̯/oor
dirt zelfstandig naamwoord/dɝt/aarde
sweat werkwoord/swɛt/zweten, transpireren
bicycle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbaɪsɪk(ə)l/fiets, rijwiel
skeleton zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈskɛlətən/skelet, geraamte
blink werkwoord/ˈblɪŋk/knipperen
finger zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/vinger
knee zelfstandig naamwoord/ni/knie
tissue zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/weefsel
swim werkwoord/swɪm/zwemmen
helmet zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɛlmɪt/helm

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
stand up werkwoordopstaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • It's important to protect your body.
  • How does your body help you?
  • How do you protect your body?
  • What is your favorite type of exercise?
  • Do you know how you read these words?

Uitspraak om op te letten

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

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pad /pæd/, sneeze /sniːz/, skateboard /ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: candy /ˈkæn.di/, pad /pæd/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: sweat /swɛt/, swim /swɪm/

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 bone, muscle, discover.

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