Shadowing Practice: Reading Unit 10B - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 20.
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reading 10b Life on the Edge.
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The old ways have little appeal for Malik Lovestrom.
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A slim 24 -year -old, Lovestrom has lived his whole life in Eumenach.
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The people in this small town on Greenland's west coast survive mainly on seal hunting and fishing.
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But Lovestrom's interests lie elsewhere: in rock music and horror movies, He taught himself English by listening to music.
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and now dreams of working as a tour guide on Greenland's cruise ships.
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He knows he should move to a larger town, as many of his friends have done.
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But doing so would leave no one to care for his 80 -year -old grandmother.
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So he remains in Umanach.
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Small towns all over Greenland are losing population.
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Neuronet, a settlement near Umanac, is now home to just 50 people.
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The instability of towns like these has worsened as a result of climate change.
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Ice loss has shortened the hunting season.
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and as a result, traditional hunting and fishing can no longer pay for access to modern amenities.
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Long before the sea ice disappears, economic and social pressures may force people to leave these settlements.
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The question of what to do about this problem is a common topic of debate at gatherings known as Café Mique.
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At one community gathering, Jean -Michel Huckton, a French anthropologist, gets into a lively discussion with a man who is moved to Nook.
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Greenland's largest town.
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The subject is the future of places like Njaranet and whether they even have one.
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Thank you.
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If we don't move out of isolation, we will always be conservative, The man from Nook tells Huckton, I don't want to live in a museum.
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I don't want to live in the old way.
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My son, my daughter should be part of the world.
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The traditional lifestyles survive only because of government subsidies, he argues.
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This approach forces young people into a life of hunting and fishing, rather than encouraging them to look beyond tradition.
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But job opportunities in Greenland are few, Hucked Encounters.
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Anyway, what would happen to the older hunters?
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Should they give up their independence, their boats and dog sleds, and live in a city apartment building?
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"The loss of settlements would be a loss for all," he says.
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Such places preserve Inuit hunting culture.
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But Huckton is hopeful.
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"I think these small, remote communities can invent a sustainable future for themselves," he says.
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The people have gone from hunting to Facebook in less than a century.
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I'm sure they will succeed in the future.
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Fewer people are choosing to stay, however.
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Even fewer arrive from outside.
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An exception is Ilanguj Egedei, who moved to Nyarnet to be with his girlfriend.
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His first job was cleaning the town's toilets.
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But now he manages the town's power plant.
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"I like it here a lot," he says.
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I have a home and a nice salary.
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"You can feel the freshness here, and it's open," he says.
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"I don't want to move anyplace else."

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