Shadowing Practice: TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Reviewer Gopjei Reviewer All right,
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so let's take four subjects that obviously go together.
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Big data, tattoos, immortality, and the Greeks.
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Right?
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And the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do shout.
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So you don't have to say a lot.
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And tattoos tell you a lot of stories.
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If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos?
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A few, but not most.
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What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell phones, GPS,
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Foursquare, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos?
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And what if they provide as much information about who and what you are as any tattoo ever would?
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What's ended up happening over the past few decades is the kind of coverage
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that you had as a head of state or as a great celebrity, is now being applied to you every day by all these people who are tweeting,
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blogging, following you, watching your credit scores, and what you do to yourself.
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And electronic tattoos also shout.
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And as you're thinking of the consequences of that, it's getting really hard to hide from this stuff, among other things, because it's not just the electronic tattoos,
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it's facial recognition that's getting really good.
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So you can take a picture with an iPhone and get all the names, although again, sometimes it does make mistakes.
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But that means you can take a typical bar scene like this, take a picture, say, of this guy right here,
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get the name, and download all the records before you utter a word or speak to somebody,
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because everybody turns out to be absolutely plastered by electronic tattoos.
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And so there's companies like Face.com that now have about 18 billion faces online.
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Here's what happened to this company.
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There are other companies that will place a camera like this.
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This has nothing to do with Facebook.
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They take your picture, they tie it to the social media, they figure out you really like to wear black dresses.
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So maybe the person in the store comes up and says, hey, we've got five black dresses that would just look great on you.
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So what if Andy was wrong?
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Here's Andy's theory.
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What if we flip this?
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What if you're only going to be anonymous for 15 minutes?
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Well, then, because of electronic tattoos, maybe all of you and all of us are very close to immortality,
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because these tattoos will live far longer than our bodies will. And
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if that's true, then what we want to do is we want to go through four lessons from the Greeks
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and one lesson from Latin America.
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Why the Greeks?
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Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.
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So lesson number one, Sisyphus.
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Remember, did a horrible thing, condemned for all time to roll this rock up, it would roll back down, roll back up, roll back down.
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It's a little like your reputation.
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Once you get that electronic tattoo, you're going to be rolling up and down for a long time, so as you go through this stuff, just be careful what you post.
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Myth number two, Orpheus, wonderful guy, charming to be around, great partier, great singer, loses his beloved,
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charms his way into the underworld, only person to charm his way into the underworld, charms the gods of the underworld,
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they release his beauty on the condition he They never look at her until they're out.
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So he's walking out and walking out and walking out, and he just can't resist.
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He looks at her and loses her forever.
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With all this data out here, it might be a good idea not to look too far into the past of those you love.
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Lesson number three, Atalanta.
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Greatest runner, she would challenge anybody.
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If you won, she would marry you.
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If you lost, you died.
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How did Hypomenize beat her?
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Well, he had all these wonderful little golden apples, and she'd run ahead and he'd roll a little golden apple.
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She'd run ahead, he'd roll a little golden apple, she kept getting distracted.
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He eventually won the race.
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Just remember the purpose as all these little golden apples come
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and reach you and you want to post about them or tweet about them or send a late-light message.
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And then, of course, there's Narcissus.
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Nobody here would ever be accused or be familiar with Narcissus.
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But as you're thinking about Narcissus, just don't fall in love with your own reflection.
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Last lesson from a Latin American.
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This is the great poet Jorge Luis Borges.
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When he was threatened by the thugs of the Argentine military junta, he came back and said, oh, come on, how else can you threaten other than with death?
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The interesting thing, the original thing, would be to threaten somebody with immortality.
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And that, of course, is what we are all now threatened with today because of electronic tattoos.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: tattoo, electronic, roll, lesson, immortality. Deze video bevat 67 zinnen en 838 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:45. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 146 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 85% 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 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| tattoo zelfstandig naamwoord | /tæˈtuː/ | tatoeage |
| immortality zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/ | onsterfelijkheid |
| threaten werkwoord | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | bedreigen, dreigen |
| charm zelfstandig naamwoord | /t͡ʃɑɹm/ | betovering, bezwering |
| underworld zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/ | onderwereld, schimmenrijk |
| shout werkwoord | /ʃaʊt/ | schreeuwen |
| tweet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtwiːt/ | twiet |
| foursquare bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɔːskwɛː/ | vierkant |
| indiscreet bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪndɪsˈkɹiːt/ | indiscreet |
| distract werkwoord | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | afleiden |
| accuse werkwoord | /əˈkjuz/ | beschuldigen, aanklagen |
| condemn werkwoord | /kənˈdɛm/ | veroordelen |
| utter werkwoord | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | produceren, uitbrengen |
| consequence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | gevolg, consequentie |
| myth zelfstandig naamwoord | /mɪθ/ | mythe |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| roll up werkwoord | oprollen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being applied · be accused · was threatened |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | is now being · you're thinking |
| Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomen | you're only going to be · you're going to be |
| Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspelling | will place · will live |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 13 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, he'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, myth /mɪθ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shout /ʃaʊt/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: underworld /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/, accuse /əˈkjuz/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: tattoo /tæˈtuː/, immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, plaster /ˈplæstɚ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: underworld /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/, tweet /ˈtwiːt/, foursquare /ˈfɔːskwɛː/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als tattoo, immortality, threaten.
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