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Welcome to Storyline Online brought to you by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
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I'm Olivia Munn, and today I'm going to read “The Most Magnificent Thing,” written and illustrated by Ashley Spires.
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For all the little perfectionists of the world.
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This is a regular girl and her best friend in the whole wide world.
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They do all kinds of things together.
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They race. They eat.
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They explore.
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They relax.
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She makes things.
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He unmakes things.
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One day the girl has a wonderful idea.
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She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing!
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She knows just how it will look.
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She knows just how it will work.
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All she has to do is make it.
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And she makes things all the time.
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Easy peasy!
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First, she hires an assistant.
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Next they gather their supplies.
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They set up somewhere out of the way and get to work.
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The girl tinkers and hammers and measures...
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...while her assistant pounces and growls and chews.
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When she is finished, she steps back to admire her work.
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She walks around one side.
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Her assistant examines the other side.
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It doesn't look right.
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Her assistant picks it up and gives it a shake.
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It doesn't feel right either.
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They are shocked to discover that the thing isn't magnificent.
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Or good. It isn't even kind of sort of okay.
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It is all WRONG.
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The girl tosses it aside and gives it another go.
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She smooths and wrenches and fiddles.
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Her assistant circles and tugs and wags.
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When she is finished, she stands up and takes a long look at it.
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Her assistant gives it a nudge with his paw.
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The thing is still wrong.
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She decides to try again.
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The girls saws and glues and adjusts.
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She stands and examines and stares.
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She twists and tweaks and fastens.
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She fixes and straightens and studies.
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She tries all different ways to make it better.
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She makes it square.
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She makes it round.
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She gives it legs. She adds antenna.
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She makes it fuzzy.
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She makes it long, short, rough, smooth, big, small — one even smells of stinky cheese!
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But none of them are MAGNIFICENT.
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Her hard work attracts a few admirers, but they don't understand.
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They can't see the MAGNIFICENT thing that she has in her mind.
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She gets MAD.
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The angrier she gets, the faster she works.
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She SMASHES pieces into shapes.
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She JAMS parts together.
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She PUMMELS the little bits in.
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Her hands feel too big to work, and her brain is too full of all the not right things.
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If only the thing...
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WOULD... JUST...
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WORK!!! The PAIN starts in her finger.
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It rushes up to her BRAIN...
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...and she EXPLODES!
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It is not her finest moment.
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I'm no good at this.
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I QUIT. Her assistant suggests a walk.
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It's not much help at first, But before long, she starts to feel different.
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Bit by bit, the mad gets pushed out of her head.
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As they stroll along, she comes across the first wrong thing she made.
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The bad feelings are about to start all over again.
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Then she notices something surprising.
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There are some parts of the WRONG things that are really quite RIGHT.
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The bolts on one, the shape of another, the wheel-to-seat ratio of the next.
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There are all sorts of parts that she likes!
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By the time she reaches the end of the trail, she finally knows how to make the thing MAGNIFICENT.
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She gets to work.
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She works carefully and slowly, tinkering, hammering, twisting, fiddling, gluing, painting.
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Her assistant makes sure there are no distractions.
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This is the perfect thing to ward off bears!
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This will stop that leak.
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This one's all wet.
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The afternoon fades into evening.
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Finally, she finishes.
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She alerts her assistant.
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The pair take a good long look.
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It leans a little to the left.
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and it's a bit heavier than expected.
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The color could use a bit of work, too.
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But it's just what she wanted!
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They climb aboard and take it for a spin.
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They are not disappointed.
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It really is THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING.
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You know, I like it when she says she's going to quit.
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As a kid, I think I always wanted to be able to scream, like, “I quit!” My mom, I have a I have a tiger mom, Asian mom, who will not let me quit anything.
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I wanted to quit piano.
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I couldn't quit piano.
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I wanted to quit, Taekwondo, I couldn't quit.
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I want to quit swimming.
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I wanted to quit everything.
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And she never let me quit.
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And so, the thing that I love about this little girl saying she quits is that for me I know if I was allowed to quit at any point, then I would really have regretted it as an adult.
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And I'm so happy that my mother made me keep going and keep pushing through all the tough feelings and the hard feelings and the tired feelings so that I could stick with it.
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And I love that in this book because she says I quit.
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But we know there's so much more to the book.
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You know, there's still so many more pages left.
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So we know that she, she's not going to quit.
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She's not going to let herself down.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau A1 is gebaseerd op de video “'The Most Magnificent Thing' read by Olivia Munn”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: quit, assistant, magnificent, feelings, gives. Deze video bevat 109 zinnen en 902 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:06. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 127 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% 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:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| magnificent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ | prachtig |
| smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /smuːð/ | vlot |
| piano zelfstandig naamwoord | /piˈænɪː/ | piano |
| examine werkwoord | /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/ | onderzoeken |
| hammer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæmɚ/ | hamer |
| glue zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡlu/ | lijm |
| finger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | vinger |
| rush werkwoord | /ɹʌʃ/ | afraffelen |
| carefully bijwoord | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | voorzichtig |
| shock zelfstandig naamwoord | /ʃɔk/ | schok, shock |
| trail zelfstandig naamwoord | /tɹeɪl/ | spoor |
| disappointed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ | teleurgesteld |
| hire werkwoord | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | huren |
| discover werkwoord | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | ontdekken |
| spin werkwoord | /spɪn/ | draaien |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| come across werkwoord | overkomen | |
| set up werkwoord | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | bereiden, voorbereiden |
| stand up werkwoord | opstaan |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groep | The Most Magnificent · her best · her finest |
| Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd | keep going · Keep watching |
| Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomen | I'm going to read · is going to make · she's going to quit |
| Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspelling | will look · will work · will stop |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 12 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, couldn't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: smooth /smuːð/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, perfectionist /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, ward /wɔɹd/, aboard /əˈbɔɹd/, fade /feɪd/, nudge /nʌd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, piano /piˈænɪː/, examine /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/, hammer /ˈhæmɚ/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, examine /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/, glue /ɡlu/, finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
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 magnificent, smooth, piano.
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.