Shadowing Practice: READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 7A THE TRUTH ABOUT DINOSAURS - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 7.
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Are the truth about dinosaurs?
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Dinosaurs are fascinating, but half-truths and myths about them are common.
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For years, scientists thought dinosaurs were just giant reptiles.
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Some dinosaurs were huge.
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But many were about the size of modern-day birds or dogs.
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Were dinosaurs warm or cold-blooded?
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Paleontologists are still not sure.
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But they now believe a few dinosaurs were intelligent.
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Some smaller ones, like the 2-metre Truadon, had fairly large brains.
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A paleontologist is a scientist who studies plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
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Was T-Rex a powerful predator?
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B. While some scientists think Tyrannosaurus rex was a powerful predator, others think the opposite is true.
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For example, in the movies, T-Rex is often a fast-moving giant.
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In reality, though, this dinosaur could not run fast.
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It was too large to move very quickly, so it probably moved about as fast as an elephant.
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T-Rex also had very small arms and probably wasn't a powerful hunter.
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It may have been a scavenger instead eating dead animals.
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Could dinosaurs fly?
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See, some reptiles known as pterosaurs were able to fly, but even though they looked like them, these were not dinosaurs.
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Pterosaurs such as Tupukswara could probably fly up to 16,000 kilometres non-stop.
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Scientists believed pterosaurs were actually very heavy, so they probably could not take off from the ground like birds.
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Instead, they first had to drop or throw themselves from trees in order to fly, much like bats.
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Are all dinosaurs extinct?
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D-dinosaurs completely disappeared about 66 million years ago.
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Scientists think they died out because of a global climate change.
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The Earth's temperature became too cold for them to survive.
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Now you can only see dinosaurs in museums.
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However, scientists believe that modern-day birds are, in fact, dinosaurs' descendants.
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If this is true, then dinosaurs' relatives are still walking and flying among us.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 7A THE TRUTH ABOUT DINOSAURS”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: dinosaur, scientist, rex, fly, pterosaurs. Deze video bevat 30 zinnen en 316 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:17. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 139 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 80% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig. 5 van de 30 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
dinosaur zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/dinosaurus
scientist zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsaɪəntəst/wetenschapper, wetenschapster
paleontologist zelfstandig naamwoordpaleontoloog, paleontologe
reptile zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹɛp.taɪl/reptiel
predator zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/roofdier n roofvis, predator
descendant zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈsɛndənt/afstammeling, nakomeling
fascinate werkwoord/ˈfæsɪneɪt/fascineren
kilometre zelfstandig naamwoord/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/kilometer
scavenger zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/jutter
extinct bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/uit, uitgedoofd
metre zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmiːtəɹ/meter
myth zelfstandig naamwoord/mɪθ/mythe
elephant zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛlɪfənt/olifant, elpendier
disappear werkwoord/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/verdwijnen, verzwinden
intelligent bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/intelligent

Uitspraak om op te letten

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, scavenger /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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 dinosaur, scientist, paleontologist.

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.

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