Shadowing Practice: Philomena Cunk being Philomena Cunk - Learn English Speaking with Video
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planet Earth.
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It's a planet I'm literally on right now and unless you're watching this on a long haul flight or while falling off a building, chances are you are too.
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To find out more about philosophy, I've got an expert here with me.
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Or have I?
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Or am I here?
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Maybe I'm imagining them or they're imagining me.
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Or am I?
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Galileo Galilei?
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Yes.
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That's like me being called Philomena Philomene.
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Do you Do you just learn the famous bits, like to be or not to be?
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Or do you learn all the bits in between as well?
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I have to learn all the bits in between.
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Are you fucking joking?
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How many three wise men were there?
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Who knows?
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Oh.
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The Egyptians believed the most significant thing you could do in your life was die.
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Ow, shit!
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No, no, I saw a thing on YouTube.
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After 700, numbers repeat.
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They just give them different names, so you think they're still going up.
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Do you want me to send it to you?
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He's twice as big as the others, so it looks like he's enjoying an intimate dinner with some schoolboys.
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Not a good look.
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Looking at the pyramids today, it's impossible not to be struck by the thought that they're basically big triangles with a sort of square arse.
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There's probably a word for that shape, but literally no-one knows what it might be.
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It's one of the many timeless mysteries of the pyramids.
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If I think, therefore, I am, what about other people?
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Do they think, therefore, they am?
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How can I tell if they're thinking, therefore, they am?
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Or am I just thinking, they think, therefore, they am, but actually they're not real and I'm only thinking they am?
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Are you thinking, therefore, you am right now?
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So it was much, much bigger than rap metal then?
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Yes, much bigger.
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What about acid jazz?
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her neck's very long was she part giraffe or could he just not do necks?
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No. But it also preserved glimpses of how sophisticated Roman life was, with creature comforts like indoor plumbing and conilingus.
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It would be hard to come up with a brand name for human flesh, wouldn't it?
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In his later years, Beethoven was profoundly dead.
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It's quite moving and human, because we've all worried we might die in a car park if we, like, lose the ticket and can't get the barrier up and just die in there.
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Shakespeare makes you think about those things, and that's hard.
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Having a sandwich, that's an idea.
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Painting your bicycle blue, that's an idea.
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Going...
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Pompeii was so advanced it had its own volcano, which is Latin for angry hill.
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So from one moment to another,
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physical systems in or everywhere in the universe changes its state and that change takes place in what
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we call time and that's the only what was the winter solstice it's the winter
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solstice so stas this so stas this so all so this you got it yeah bleaching the asshole someone starts loading pigs into a catapult.
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A space invader floats across the room, shitting a harpsichord made of glass horses onto the floor.
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Yeah.
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My hair looks fucking shit.
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Obviously, he went deaf when he died, but was he deaf when he was still alive?
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Yes, he was, profoundly.
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Yeah, he was prally.
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But not dead?
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He wasn't dead?
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He wasn't dead.
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When he was alive?
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No, no. Men in vans still whistle at women in the street.
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Though thanks to feminism, the man in the van might be a woman.
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And the woman they're whistling at might be a prime minister it's for william the son of john shakespeare this is a bit like who do you think you
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are isn't it it is in a way yeah these you know if you're tracing your family history these are the records that will give
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you the information you need but he'd sort of call it who doth though thinkest though art they were called things like runib rusperka rusperba and nusper cooker yet despite all this attention to detail.
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A quick inspection of his back half reveals he doesn't have an anus.
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It's a baffling omission.
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Galileo's full name was Galileo Figaro Magnifico, wasn't it?
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The government's advice was getting more confusing by the day, which was clever in itself because confused people tend to stand still going instead of moving around spreading germs.
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And if they cough, their hands are already over their mouths.
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What's that thing on the wall?
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It looks like a big stain.
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Looks like damp.
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My mate Paul wrote a story about a man who got a new potato stuck up himself following an ill-advised sex game and he wrote that in the form of a limerick.
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I'm entering a cave, not by mistake or because I'm a wolf.
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Rene sauce.
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Was that a sort of 16th Right now, a coronavirus vaccine is on trial, but we'll have to wait to discover if it's guilty or not.
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Why do Christians call that special book the Bibble?
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The Bible.
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Is that how it's pronounced?
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I've literally never heard anyone say it before.
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Always does with a red nose.
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And he put it sort of on his...
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..intimate skin.
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And it sort of tore it and it went septic.
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Actually, I think that...
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What makes you think the moon isn't real, The moon isn't real though, Philomena.
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It isn't.
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I don't know if you've done your own research, but my mate Paul sent me a video that exposes the whole thing.
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Can you prove the moon exists?
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You can't, can you?
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That's why this is the only place in the world where I can be in the past and the future, with the present running right up through my middle bits.
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That must be terrible.
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Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?
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Yeah.
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Hello, science man, who are you?
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Why do they say it's a mystery how the pyramids were built when it's obviously just big bricks in a triangle?
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To discover whether the true meaning of Christmas has any meaning today, or whether that meaning snapped off somewhere along the way, leaving it meaningless, whatever that means.
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Cook it in milk to make a really good sauce.
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It just looks like sort of...
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Cheers.
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You know when you read a word in a book and you sort of hear that word in your head, how do they get the sounds into the ink to make it play in your head?
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And an iconic scene in which Macbeth is startled at dinner by the unexpected appearance of Banquo's ghost, played here for some reason by the letter H.
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Which of you have done this?
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Oh, my good Lord.
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I'll probe Shakespeare's life, study his complete works, and speak...
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People were prudish back then, weren't they?
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If they saw his penis, they'd probably have a stroke, wouldn't they?
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Probably.
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I don't think that would have made it onto the meat.
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Oh, God.
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That's not a joke.
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Here in this garden in Kent, Darwin saw an apple fall from a tree and wondered if there was a monkey up there.
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On news stories, there's a blown-up picture.
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Someone would pay a fortune for, like, John Bishop's kidneys.
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When you think about it, thinking about thinking is the hardest sort of thinking there is, which makes you think.
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A whole galaxy's going to hit us.
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Yeah.
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I'm about to say...
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Next time on Moments of Wonder, I'll be asking, if air is really there, how come we can't grab it?
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Philomena Cunk being Philomena Cunk”. Deze video bevat 120 zinnen en 1278 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:01. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 37 van de 120 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| pyramid zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɪɹ.ə.mɪd/ | piramide |
| solstice zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɑl.stɪs/ | zonnewende, zonnestilstand |
| profoundly bijwoord | /pɹəˈfaʊndli/ | grondig |
| whistle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɪs(ə)l/ | fluitje |
| triangle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/ | driehoek |
| deaf bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /diːf/ | doof, dove |
| intimate bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/ | innig |
| baffle werkwoord | /ˈbæf(ə)l/ | verbluffen |
| catapult zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/ | katapult |
| coronavirus zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈɹoʊnəˌvaɪɹəs/ | coronavirus |
| giraffe zelfstandig naamwoord | /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/ | giraf |
| harpsichord zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɑɹp.sɪˌkɔɹd/ | klavecimbel |
| invader zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/ | indringer, indringster |
| limerick zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪm(ə)ɹɪk/ | limerick |
| schoolboy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/ | leerling |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come up with werkwoord | bedenken, verzinnen |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
| stuck up bijvoeglijk naamwoord | hooghartig, zelfingenomen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Do you want me to send it to you?
- How can I tell if they're thinking, therefore, they am?
- Are you thinking, therefore, you am right now?
- Can you prove the moon exists?
- You can't, can you?
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 | being called · be struck · were called |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | volcano, which is · day, which was · man who got |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've done · have done |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 39 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, they're, isn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: coronavirus /kəˈɹoʊnəˌvaɪɹəs/, omission /ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ.ən/, feminism /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pyramid /ˈpɪɹ.ə.mɪd/, harpsichord /ˈhɑɹp.sɪˌkɔɹd/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, probe /pɹoʊb/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: triangle /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/, baffle /ˈbæf(ə)l/, catapult /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/, giraffe /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/, damp /ˈdæmp/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: triangle /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/, glimpse /ˈɡlɪm(p)s/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als pyramid, solstice, profoundly.
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