Shadowing Practice: The piano man Chapter 2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Chapter 2 The Man With No Name Where am I?
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All these lights.
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So many people.
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White coats.
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Talking.
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Talking.
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I don't want to hear them.
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I don't understand their words.
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I must find Lida.
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I must help her.
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How can I find her?
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I cannot live without her.
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My Lida, my songbird.
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The hospital day starts very early.
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At seven o'clock, the nurses took the man downstairs for his scan.
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By nine o'clock, he was back in bed on the ward, and a different doctor came to see him.
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Well, good news, young man, the doctor said.
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Your head injury is not very bad.
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You're going to be fine.
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How are you feeling now?
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The man did not answer.
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He sat up in bed and looked at the doctor and then at the nurse.
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Then he turned his face away and stared out of the window.
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Hmm, said the doctor.
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He took out a pen and slowly moved it from side to side in front of the man's face.
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The man's eyes did not move.
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Shock, said the doctor.
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Shock can do this to the brain sometimes, and then it can forget how to speak.
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He turned to the nurse.
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Is he saying anything to you?
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No, not a word, the nurse said.
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Is he eating and drinking all right?
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Yes, no problems there, said the nurse.
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Well, call me when the police arrive.
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Somebody's coming at midday to ask questions.
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Why? said the nurse.
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The poor man is ill.
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He's a man with no name, no papers, nothing.
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Where did he come from?
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The police want to know.
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When the policeman arrived, the nurse took him to her patient.
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Please be gentle, she said.
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He has a head injury, and we think he's still in shock after his accident.
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Good afternoon, sir, the policeman said to the man in the bed.
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I need to ask you some questions, please.
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What's your name and where are you from?
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The policeman held his pen, ready to write down the answers.
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But there were no answers.
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He tried again.
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Why were you on the beach yesterday?
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Why were your clothes wet?
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Did you fall off a boat?
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No answer.
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The man closed his eyes and turned his face to the wall.
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How did you hurt your head?
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Did somebody hit you?
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No answer.
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The policeman spoke more loudly.
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Come on now, what's your name?
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The nurse and the doctor then arrived.
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What are you doing? said the nurse.
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There's no need to shout.
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He can hear very well.
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But he's not answering my questions, the policeman said.
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Who he is?
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Where does he come from?
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We don't know, said the doctor.
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Can't the questions wait for a day or two?
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Let him rest now.
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They moved away from the patient's bed.
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I need a name, the policeman said.
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I can put a name through the police computer.
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Where does he come from?
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Is he an illegal immigrant?
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he fall off a boat full of illegal immigrants?
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We need to know these things.
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Without a name, I can't do anything.
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Is he even English?
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Was there nothing in the pockets of his clothes?
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Where are his clothes? said the doctor.
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I can find them, I think, the nurse said.
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She went away and came back a few minutes later with the man's clothes.
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They were white with salt from the seawater.
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There was nothing in the pockets, no papers, nothing with a name on.
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What about the labels in the clothes?
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The policeman said.
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They can sometimes tell you something.
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The nurse found a label in the back of the shirt.
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Look, she said.
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That's not English, the doctor said.
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Can you read it, nurse?
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No, the nurse said.
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It looks like some Eastern European language.
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Russian, perhaps?
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Maybe, the policeman said.
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So perhaps your patient isn't English.
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He can't answer the questions because he doesn't understand them.
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Hmm, said the doctor.
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I think he's not answering because he can't speak, in any language.
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Something happened to him.
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We don't know what, but it was bad.
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I can bring a police interpreter tomorrow, said the policeman.
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He can try a few languages on him.
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And now I must go and ask a lot of questions about boats and ships near here yesterday.
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Perhaps he fell off a boat and somebody is looking for him.
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The policeman left, but there was no rest yet for the man from the sea.
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It was a busy hospital, with accidents coming in all the time.
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We can't keep him in this ward tonight, the doctor said.
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We need the bed.
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Take him over to the psychiatric unit.
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They can give him a bed for a few nights.
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Perhaps they can help him with speaking.
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Ask for nurse Avril O'Brien.
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She's very good with patients like these.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 117 zinnen en 815 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:53. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 103 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- nurse /nɝs/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — verpleegkundige. Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
- cloth /klɒθ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — doek, kleed. A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes…
- shock /ʃɔk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schok, shock. A sudden, heavy impact.
- arrive /əˈɹaɪv/ (werkwoord) — aankomen, arriveren. To reach; to get to a certain place.
- pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — zak. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- label /ˈleɪ.bəl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — etiket, label. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- ward /wɔɹd/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bewaking. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- immigrant /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — inwijkeling, ingewekene. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
- coat /ˈkoʊ̯t/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — mantel, jas. An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
- gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — lieflijk. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
- scan /skæn/ (werkwoord) — afspeuren. To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- shout /ʃaʊt/ (werkwoord) — schreeuwen. To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
- stare /stɛɚ/ (werkwoord) — staren. To look fixedly (at something).
- psychiatric /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — psychiatrisch. Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
- downstairs /daʊnˈstɛɹz/ (bijwoord) — beneden. Down the stairs.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- come back (werkwoord) — terugkomen. To return to a place.
- come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — kom op, kom aan. Come along with me; join me in going.
- go away (werkwoord) — weggaan. To depart or leave a place.
- look for (werkwoord) — zoeken. To seek.
- write down (werkwoord) — opschrijven, neerschrijven. To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 12 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, don't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: psychiatric /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/, interpreter /ɪnˈtɝ.pɹɪ.tɚ/
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 nurse, cloth, shock.
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.