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On the morning of the thirtieth of June, 1908,
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a blinding fireball streaked across the sky over Siberia.
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Moments later, it exploded with a force that's hard to imagine.
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Eighty million trees were flattened in an instant!
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And yet, when scientists finally reached the site, there was no crater.
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So what on earth happened?
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The area around the Tunguska River was, and still is, remarkably remote,
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and the nearest witnesses were at a trading post sixty kilometres away.
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One man, who was sitting on the porch, was hurled off his chair,
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and he later recalled feeling as if his shirt had caught fire.
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The shock wave was picked up by instruments as far away as Britain!
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Stranger still, for several nights afterwards, the skies over Europe glowed,
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and Londoners could reportedly read a newspaper outdoors at midnight!
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Nobody at the time had any idea what had caused it,
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and with war and revolution sweeping through Russia,
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it would be almost two decades before anyone investigated.
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When the scientist Leonid Kulik finally arrived in 1927,
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he was convinced he'd find a giant meteorite in a crater,
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but what he found instead was even more puzzling.
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The fallen trees all pointed away from a single central point,
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yet at the very centre, trees were still standing upright!
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They'd simply been stripped of their branches, like telegraph poles.
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It's now widely accepted that the object never actually hit the ground.
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Instead, it's thought to have exploded several kilometres up,
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and only its blast reached the forest below.
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Trees farther out were knocked flat by the blast,
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whereas those directly beneath were hit from above and stayed standing.
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It may have been a thousand times stronger than Hiroshima,
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but whether it was an asteroid or a comet is still debated.
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Over the years, the mystery has fuelled some wilder theories,
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from a tiny black hole to an alien spaceship,
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but none of them stands up to scrutiny.
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Had it arrived just a few hours later,
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it could have exploded over a major city.
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That isn't just a hypothetical.
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In 2013, when a much smaller rock exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia,
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around fifteen hundred people were injured, mostly by flying glass.
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What Tunguska showed is that the sky isn't as empty as it looks.
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Today, telescopes scan the sky for objects heading our way,
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and in 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid
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to see whether it could change its path.
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It worked so well that the asteroid's orbit got thirty-two minutes shorter!
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The more closely we watch the sky, the safer we're likely to be.
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Perhaps we owe that forest a quiet thank you.
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After all, it took the hit for us.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “SE-Ed: What Exploded Over Siberia in 1908?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: exploded, trees, sky. Deze video bevat 45 zinnen en 448 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:18. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 136 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 77% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
explode werkwoord/ɪkˈsploʊd/exploderen, ontploffen
kilometre zelfstandig naamwoord/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/kilometer
crater zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ/krater
asteroid zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/planetoïde, asteroïde
fireball zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/vuurbal, vuurbol
flatten werkwoord/ˈflæ.tən/pletten
injure werkwoord/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/kwetsen, blesseren
meteorite zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/meteoriet
spaceship zelfstandig naamwoordruimteschip, ruimtetuig
thirtieth bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈθɝti.əθ/dertigste
comet zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɒmɪt/komeet, staartster
upright bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈʌpɹaɪt/oprecht
scrutiny zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈskɹuː.tɪ.ni/nauwkeurig onderzoek, kritisch onderzoek
telescope zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/telescoop, kijker
remarkably bijwoord/ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/opmerkelijk

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
pick up werkwoordoppakken, optillen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals isn't, he'd, they'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: thirtieth /ˈθɝti.əθ/, hypothetical /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, meteorite /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/, hypothetical /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: explode /ɪkˈsploʊd/, asteroid /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: asteroid /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/, flatten /ˈflæ.tən/, spacecraft /ˈspeɪsˌkɹæft/, scan /skæn/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: glow /ɡloʊ/, telegraph /ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf/

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 explode, kilometre, crater.

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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