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In 1932, the Australian army went to war.
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But the enemy wasn't another country.
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It was an army of birds. Emus!
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And, as you might have guessed, the birds won.
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After the First World War,
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many former soldiers were given land in Western Australia.
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They were encouraged to grow wheat,
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but then the Great Depression hit and prices crashed.
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Life was already hard. Then the emus arrived.
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Every year, emus travel inland after their breeding season.
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That year, around twenty thousand of them headed for the farms!
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They ate the wheat, trampled the crops,
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and smashed holes in the fences,
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which let rabbits in as well.
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The farmers, many of them ex-soldiers, knew exactly what they wanted.
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They asked the government for machine guns.
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Surprisingly, the Minister of Defence said yes!
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Major Meredith was sent with two soldiers and ten thousand bullets.
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In November, the operation finally began.
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But the emus didn't behave like an army at all.
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As soon as the shooting started, they scattered in all directions.
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One day, about a thousand birds came close,
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but then the gun jammed!
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Next, they tried mounting a gun on a truck.
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But emus can run at fifty kilometres an hour,
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and the ground was so bumpy that nobody could aim.
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Each group even seemed to have its own lookout!
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After less than a week, the army pulled out.
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The soldiers did return later, at the farmers' request.
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By December, Meredith reported almost a thousand birds killed.
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But that had taken nearly ten thousand bullets!
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That's about ten bullets for every single emu.
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Meredith later said that with soldiers as tough as these birds,
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he could face any army in the world.
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In the end, fences and rewards paid to farmers worked much better.
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And the emus? They're still doing just fine.
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So if anyone asks who won the Great Emu War,
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now you know the answer!

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “SE-Ed: The Great Emu War”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: emu, birds, thousand, soldiers, army. Deze video bevat 38 zinnen en 316 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:11. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 145 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
emu zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈim(j)u/emoe
farmer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/boer, boerin
wheat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwiːt/tarwe
kilometre zelfstandig naamwoord/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/kilometer
scatter werkwoord/ˈskætɚ/uiteenspatten, uiteengaan
behave werkwoord/bɪˈheɪv/zich gedragen
rabbit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹæbɪt/konijn
breed werkwoord/ˈbɹiːd/zich voortplanten
surprisingly bijwoord/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/verrassend
smash werkwoord/smæʃ/verpletteren, kapotslaan
crop zelfstandig naamwoord/kɹɑp/gewas, voedselgewas
jam zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒæm/confituur, jam

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 3 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, they're, wasn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: inland /ˈɪnlənd/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, breed /ˈbɹiːd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: scatter /ˈskætɚ/, trample /ˈtɹæmpəl/, rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/, smash /smæʃ/, jam /ˈd͡ʒæm/

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 emu, farmer, wheat.

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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