Shadowing Practice: Storyfun5 - unit 7 - Harry's diary - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome to CAMFUN Courses, Cambridge English for young learners.
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Today was not a brilliant day, but it wasn't bad.
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I got up late because I forgot to turn on my phone.
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It always wakes me up at 7.23.
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If I don't get up then, Sarah, my older sister, gets to the bathroom before I do.
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She always gets up at 7.25.
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And she takes 17 minutes to wash her face, clean her teeth and comb her hair.
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Oh, sisters!
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So, today I didn't wash before I got dressed.
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Oh, never mind.
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I hope no one sees.
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Dad was coughing a lot when I ran downstairs.
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He put salt, not sugar, in his coffee because he was listening to the news on the radio
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and reading his newspaper at the same time and not looking at his spoon.
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I had a bowl full to the top of my favourite cereal.
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Oh, and our fat cat, Sausage, ate a spider.
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Holly, my little sister, said.
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Sausage might run faster.
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Now she's got a spider inside her.
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My school shirt is pink i've only got one at the moment
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mum washed it with my red football socks oh i couldn't believe it but pink is such a lovely
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colour Harry, she said.
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I don't think my mum understands, boys.
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There was a new driver on the school bus.
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When he opened his mouth to ask me for my ticket, I saw that he had three gold teeth.
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I like making Holly frightened, so I tell her scary story sometimes.
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I may tell her that the driver locks his gold teeth in a secret box with a special silver key,
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and a really long snake sleeps around the box with the key in its mouth each night.
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I love my little sister, but she's difficult to live with sometimes.
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She broke our old computer.
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She put a biscuit in the hole where the CDs went.
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I had to hurry to get to school, but I got there at 8.38.
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William and Emma, my best friends, were already in the playground.
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When I was chatting to them about a program I'm using to make a puzzle app, I put my rucksack down next to theirs.
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Emma's rucksack and mine look the same and yes,
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of course, I picked up hers when I ran into class No English dictionary,
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so I had to borrow one No lesson timetable No homework file No phone No geography book But a dinosaur project?
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some glue, a pair of scissors, some science homework, a picture of an octopus,
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and some expensive chocolate, gold paper.
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I ate the chocolate before I gave Emma's rucksack back to her.
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I shouldn't do things like that, but it tasted delicious.
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It rained a little at morning break, but I didn't mind.
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We were playing volleyball, so I took my sweater off, which was hiding my pink shirt.
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I wanted the rain to change its colour back to white again, but it didn't.
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It's still pink.
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In our next lesson, history,
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a boy called Michael made a noise that sounded like a mouse and whispered to Katie,
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who called out, A mouse!
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A mouse!
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Our teacher, two of the girls, and my friend Richard, jumped on their chairs.
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I tried not to laugh, but it was really funny.
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Mr Brush, our school cleaner, came to find it.
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But he couldn't, of course.
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When we were playing football in the afternoon break, I kicked the ball so high it went up onto the roof.
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I climbed up to get it and found three more footballs up there.
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So we've got four footballs now.
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Excellent!
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I was lucky no one saw me on the roof.
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That's not part of our playground, boys.
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Mr Rocket, our gym teacher says.
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The school bus left before I got to the bus stop because William and I were talking about inventions.
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We want to invent a shampoo that tastes like bananas and socks that always smell like flowers.
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So I had to walk home today.
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I didn't mind, but my head and shoulders,
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shirt, trousers and shoes got really wet because it started to rain again.
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When my sister Sarah saw me, she said, Well, you needed a wash.
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I went upstairs to dry my hair and put my jeans and black t-shirt on.
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My school shirt is still pink.
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Oh, well, never mind.
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I'm beginning to like the colour, actually.
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But I hope Mum washes it for me this evening.
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then it may not be so pink tomorrow.
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We had chips for dinner tonight.
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Mum only lets us have them once a week.
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I had fifty-two.
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I counted each one, then Holly gave me five of hers.
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So I had fifty-seven.
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Excellent!
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Hmm, what else?
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Oh, Sausage came into the house with some plastic false teeth in her mouth.
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I told Holly that they were great grandmas and that she lost them last weekend when she fell asleep in the garden.
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Actually, they were some old toy ones that William gave to me.
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Sausage looks so funny.
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We couldn't stop laughing.
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I did my information technology homework tonight.
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Well, most of it.
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The Wi-Fi stopped working and I needed to find something online.
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I might try to finish it tomorrow morning.
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I practiced on my drums too, so poor mum got a headache again.
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Okay, my teeth are clean.
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None of my teeth are plastic.
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I've got my favourite old pyjamas on.
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They've got spaceships on them, so they look a bit young.
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But it doesn't matter.
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I still like them.
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What's the time?
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Ooh, 9.45, and my phone is on, so it knows I must wake up at 7.23.
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Good night, world.
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Good night, me.
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Huh?
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Oh no!
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There's a biscuit in my bed!

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “Storyfun5 - unit 7 - Harry's diary”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: pink, teeth, mum, shirt, sister. Deze video bevat 102 zinnen en 963 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:35. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 100 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
mouse zelfstandig naamwoord/maʊs/muis
homework zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/huiswerk, huistaak
lesson zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlɛs.ən/les
wash werkwoord/wɑʃ/wassen, spoelen
spider zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/spin, kobbe
playground zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/speelplein, speelterrein
sock zelfstandig naamwoord/sɑk/sok, kous
flower zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfloʊɚ/bloem
scary bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈskɛə.ɹi/eng
asleep bijvoeglijk naamwoord/əˈsliːp/slapend
delicious bijvoeglijk naamwoord/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/heerlijk, lekker
chip zelfstandig naamwoord/t͡ʃɪp/fiche
shoe zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʃu/schoen
snake zelfstandig naamwoord/sneɪk/slang, serpent
climb werkwoord/ˈklaɪ̯m/klimmen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
get up werkwoordopstaan
pick up werkwoordoppakken, optillen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • I don't think my mum understands, boys.
  • That's not part of our playground, boys.
  • I'm beginning to like the colour, actually.
  • I've got my favourite old pyjamas on.
  • There's a biscuit in my bed!

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig waswas coughing · was listening · was chatting
Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zekermight run · may tell · may not be
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgdstop laughing · stopped working
Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig ishad to hurry · had to borrow · had to walk

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 18 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, couldn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: wash /wɑʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shoe /ˈʃu/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: playground /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/, jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, upstairs /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/, downstairs /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/, banana /bəˈnænə/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, rucksack /ˈɹʌkˌsæk/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: playground /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/, grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/, glue /ɡlu/

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 mouse, homework, lesson.

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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