Shadowing Practice: Single Stories 59 | Sledding | Little Fox Level 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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Sledding.
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Snow, snow, snow everywhere.
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Put on a coat.
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Put on a scarf.
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Put on mittens.
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Put on boots.
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Go out.
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Pull the sled up, up, up.
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Down, down, down we go.
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Whee!

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 10 sentences and 33 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:40.

Key vocabulary in this video

10 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
coat noun/ˈkoʊ̯t/An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
boot noun/but/A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
scarf noun/skɑːf/A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
mitten noun/ˈmɪtən/A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or…
sled noun/ˈslɛd/A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
sledding noun/ˈslɛdɪŋ/The act of sliding downhill, or transporting something, on a sled.
whee/wiː/An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
snow noun/snoʊ̯/The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation…
everywhere adverb/ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ/In or to all locations under discussion.
pull verb/pʊl/To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
go out verbTo leave, especially a building.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like coat, boot, scarf.

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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