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He was telling me that he nearly died.
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I was sitting on the sofa talking to my mate's dad.
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It's always a little bit strange talking to your childhood friend's parents
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when you're older because on the one hand it's nice to see them and their world with older and wiser eyes.
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It's nice to see them as people.
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But on the other hand, childhood is not an easy thing to shake off.
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Hi Johnny, come on in, he said.
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Hi Mr Hammond, thanks for having me stay.
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Hey, can Alex come and play please?
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I reply suddenly in a squeaky prepubescent voice wearing shorts and carrying my primary school bag.
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But as I sat there in the nostalgic liminal space between adulthood and childhood, Mr Hammond told me about how he had nearly died.
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It wasn't one of those I got a diagnosis and then I pulled through kinds of stories.
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This was a hit by lightning, hungry shark attack, act of God kind of thing.
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one minute he was fine
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and the next he was in the back of an ambulance
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careening down the road to the hospital without oversharing another person's story i would just say
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that it involved a lot of blood hours on an operating table
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and a few weeks in the ward do you know what johnny he said to me all of
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that you need to make the most of it stuff is all just abstract
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and remote until it happens of course you think it
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and you say it but until something like this happens you don't feel it
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I told Mr Hammond to write down his story for me, especially his post-encounter philosophies, but until that time you have me.
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And so this week we're going to look at life-changing moments along with Anton Chekhov.
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In Chekhov's play The Seagull, we are asked to imagine a seagull flying over a lake.
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The gull is swooping and diving, fishing and cawing.
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It's entirely consumed by the busyness of being a seagull.
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And then, in the squeeze of a trigger, it's gone.
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A man on the shore holding a rifle is bored, and with no game and no fun to be had, he decides to pull up his gun and shoot the bird for no other reason than idleness.
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Of course, as with any great literature, the metaphors are wrapped in allegories.
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In the play, we meet a cast of characters who are obsessed with their own plans.
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They have these unfulfilled longings.
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They want fame, they want riches, they want love, they want pure art.
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Like a seagull flapping back to land, they have their eyes only for the shore, and so blinkered and distracted,
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they are vulnerable to the misfortune of life's mercurial rifle.
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So much of our lives is spent planning and preparing for things, and yet often the most significant moments come out of the blue.
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These are what the psychiatrist Carl Jaspers called boundary situations.
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A boundary situation is a rupture.
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It's a transformative experience that we cannot initiate, plan or even avoid.
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We can only encounter it.
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The mundane, every part of our life, putting on socks, ordering a pizza, planning a holiday, that kind of thing, are what Jaspers calls a situation being.
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But a boundary situation is one that thunders down to shake the foundations of your very existence.
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It changes who you are and it happens
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when you wake up in a hospital bed having only just beaten the reaper's odds.
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Although these boundary situations change a bit in Jasper's works, he broadly sorted them into four categories.
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First, you have death.
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We fear our loved ones dying and we fear the very fact of our own death.
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When you know grief, when you reflect on mortality, you often find some kind of revelation.
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As my friend's dad told me, we always know about death, but when it's a boundary situation.
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It comes crashing into our lives like some grim and unforeseen curtain call.
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Second, suffering.
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As the Buddha pointed out long before Jaspers, it is impossible to entirely avoid suffering.
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Our paths will hit old age, sickness and a great deal of pain.
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Some of this we can see coming, a tooth filling, a long run, a 14-hour flight to Australia.
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But the rest comes along unexpectedly.
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It hits us with such a shocking intensity that we're almost glad that we didn't see it coming.
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We come home from the hospital with a new life to live.
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Then there is guilt.
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There will come a time in life, often in adulthood, when we feel responsible for things.
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And this is a sudden awareness that our actions will impact those around us.
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That we are the reason for those tears, that laughter, that pain, that joy.
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The profound pull of the heart changes how we live and it often comes on unexpectedly.
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Finally you have chance.
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No matter how ordered we might want our lives to be, there will always be an unpredictable exception.
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We can hope for the best and make all of the plans
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that we want but we will never fully control all of the facts that affect our existence.
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We want order, we want regularity but we get the capricious throws of chance.
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What Chekhov's Seagull, Jaspers and Mr Hammond all get right is
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that we are each more vulnerable than we might want to allow.
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A wedding, three years and the fortune in the planning is ruined by a single stomach bug.
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An hour-long journey home for Christmas winds up getting you stuck in the traffic of a freak snowstorm.
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A lifetime achievement is overshadowed by a national disaster.
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A long and gentle retirement is blown off course by a near-death detour to the operating table.
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Our lives are defined by the unforeseen and unplannable.
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We have our dreams and hopes and we are flying to some distant horizon, yet life doesn't care.
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Around every corner, at every flap of our wings,
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everything can change and that's all the more reason to enjoy the view from where we are as long as it lasts.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “The 4 moments that will change your life”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: situation, seagull, boundary, Jaspers, Hammond. Deze video bevat 76 zinnen en 1029 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:39. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 182 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 81% 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:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| boundary zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | grens |
| unforeseen bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/ | onvoorzien |
| adulthood zelfstandig naamwoord | volwassenheid | |
| unexpectedly bijwoord | /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/ | onverwachts |
| rifle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹaɪfəl/ | geweer |
| blinker zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈblɪŋkəɹ/ | oogklep |
| capricious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/ | grillig, wispelturig |
| detour zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdi.toɹ/ | omleiding, omweg |
| idleness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈaɪdəlnəs/ | ledigheid |
| liminal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈlɪmən(ə)l/ | overgangs- |
| misfortune zelfstandig naamwoord | /mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/ | tegenslag |
| obsess werkwoord | /əbˈsɛs/ | obsederen |
| overshadow werkwoord | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/ | overschaduwen |
| regularity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/ | regelmaat, regelmatigheid |
| snowstorm zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsnəʊstɔːm/ | sneeuwstorm |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| point out werkwoord | aanwijzen, aanduiden |
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, didn't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: tooth /tuθ/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: capricious /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, mercurial /mɝˈkjʊ.ɹi.əl/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: transformative /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/, riches /ɹɪt͡ʃɪz/, squeeze /skwiːz/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/, dive /daɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: flap /flæp/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/, transformative /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: seagull /ˈsiː.ɡʌl/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/, grim /ɡɹɪm/, grief /ɡɹiːf/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als boundary, unforeseen, adulthood.
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.