Shadowing Practice: The Root Problem | Peep and the Big Wide World - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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The Root Problem It was a perfect morning.
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Just right for- AAAAAH!
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Quack, quack!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ohhhh!
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Ohhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Oh no!
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Ahhhh!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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AAAHH!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ohhhhh!
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Ohhhhh!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ohhhhhhh!
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Quack!
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Quack!
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Quack!
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What?
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What is it?
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Are you okay?
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There!
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Over there!
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A snake!
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Uh...quack?
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I don't mind sharing my pond with fish, but a snake is just too...
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Black!
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What?
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That's not a snake.
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It's a stick.
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Of course it's a stick.
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Pretending to be a snake.
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I didn't know you were scared of snakes, Quack.
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Me?
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I am not afraid of snakes.
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It's just, you know how snakes are.
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They sneak up on you and tickle your feet.
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I'm pretty sure snakes don't do that.
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You clearly don't know snakes.
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Anyway, we have to get rid of it.
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I'll just pull you out of the ground so you can't...
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...uh, scare ducks.
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Whoa!
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Okay...
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I'll dig you out.
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Peep, lend me a foot, please.
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This is a really big stick.
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Are you sure you want to dig it up?
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Of course I'm sure.
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It was bothering me, wasn't it?
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Ah!
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This must be the biggest stick in the world.
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You could be right.
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Which makes this an amazing discovery.
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And me, an amazing discoverer.
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I'll be famous.
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You think so?
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Definitely.
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Everybody loves big stick stories.
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And so, using a digging stick, little bird toes, and big duck feet, the three friends dug and dug and dug.
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And dug and dug and dug and dug and dug.
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Hey!
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Be careful with those feet!
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That's not a snake, is it?
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I don't think so.
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Sorry, but we're digging up the world's biggest stick.
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Sounds exciting, but I feel I speak for all earthworms when I say, please dig carefully.
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We live here.
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You live in dirt?
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Why? Because we eat dirt.
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And then we like to move it around.
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So it's just very convenient.
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Bye!
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So once again, the three friends dug and dug and dug and dug...
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Until...
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Look!
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A tunnel!
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Hello down there!
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Hello up there!
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The power of duck feet!
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The power of mole feet!
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Howdy!
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Moe's my name, and digging tunnels is my game!
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Hi, I'm Peep, and this is Chirp and Quack.
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Aren't you the ones digging up the world's biggest stick?
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Yes, that's right.
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How did you know?
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I can't see very well, but I have great hearing.
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And one of you is very loud.
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I am not loud.
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I'm exuberant.
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Well, anywho, all play and no hole makes for one homeless mole.
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Ciao.
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Once more, the three friends, dog and dog.
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Hey, I found a berry.
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Let me take a look.
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Hmm, round, check, small, check.
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Yep, that's a berry, all right.
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Who wants to play berry?
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Me.
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Me, not me.
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Hmm?
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A talking berry?
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Could this be, dare I say it, Another amazing discovery?
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I'm not a talking berry.
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I'm a pill bug.
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Why were you rolled up like that? For protection.
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See my shell?
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It's hard as a rock.
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Keeps me safe.
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Well, sorry to disturb you, but we're digging up this stick because Quack is afraid of snakes.
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I am not.
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Why not?
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Well, anyway, we have to dig it up.
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Good luck!
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By now, Peep, Quack, and Chirp were hot and tired.
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So they were very happy when the stick led them into the shade of Newton's tree.
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Hmm.
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I think our stick is stuck to Newton's tree.
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Really?
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Well, we'll have to dig up the tree then.
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Hmm.
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We're going to need a couple more ducks for that.
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Quack, we can't dig up Newton's tree.
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Well, I can't live with a snake.
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I mean, I could.
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But I don't want to.
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It's not a snake.
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It's a stick.
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It's not a stick or a snake.
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It's a root.
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It brings water to my tree.
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But I thought roots were under the ground.
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We kind of made a mess, didn't we?
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Don't blame me.
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Blame that snake!
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And so it turned out to be a perfect afternoon.
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Just right for covering a root with dirt.
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Come on, Quack.
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We have to undig all our digging.
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When we get to your pond, we can bury the snake, a stick, a root, under a rock or something.
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Is a duck's work never done? the duck asked.
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Capri and Hazel and I are digging holes.
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I found a worm right there. Where?
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Right there.
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Pick it up.
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They actually do help you.
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They make the soil nice and clean again.
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Hello, Dippies.
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I found a rock.
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This rock has some yellow in it.
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Maybe the leaves that fall on the ground, when they get crumbled, they go into the ground
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and they make dirt and they might have gave the dirt a little color to give the rock a little color.
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Ooh, what the heck is this?
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It's reddish-orange-ish and it's squished in the back.
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I think it's a tail of a different room.
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We are finding living things and things that are not living.
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It's green!
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Is it a marble?
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It probably is a marble or a little ball.
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I found a rock.
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It's a big one too.
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I know.
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It looks like a bunch of rocks glued together.
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It looks like it could be a chunk of sidewalk or something.
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I have a baby worm in my hand.
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And it's a little green worm.
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So maybe it's a tree worm that blends into the trees and stuff.
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See what you can find when you dig some holes.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 173 zinnen en 923 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 10:15. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 90 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 72% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

  • snake /sneɪk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — slang, serpent. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
  • dig /dɪɡ/ (werkwoord) — graven, delven. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More…
  • dirt /dɝt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — aarde. Soil or earth.
  • duck /dʌk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — eend. Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and…
  • berry /ˈbɛɹi/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bes. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • worm /wɝm/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — worm, pier. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
  • discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — ontdekking, vinding. Something discovered.
  • tunnel /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — tunnel. An underground or underwater passage.
  • scare /skɛɚ/ (werkwoord) — bang maken, beangstigen. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
  • pond /pɑnd/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vijver. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  • marble /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — marmer. A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
  • carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (bijwoord) — voorzichtig. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
  • soil /sɔɪl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — grond, aarde. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • bother /ˈbɑðɚ/ (werkwoord) — storen. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
  • shell /ʃɛl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schelp. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

  • come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — kom op, kom aan. Come along with me; join me in going.
  • roll up (werkwoord) — oprollen. To dominate by accumulating; to become dominant by accumulating.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 27 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, earthworm /ˈɜː(ɹ)θˌwɜː(ɹ)m/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shell /ʃɛl/, shade /ʃeɪd/, reddish /ˈɹɛdɪʃ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: discoverer /dɪˈskʌvəɹəɹ/, exuberant /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/

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 snake, dig, dirt.

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurtwe're digging · are digging · are finding
Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspellingI'll just pull · I'll dig · I'll be
Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig ishave to get · have to dig · have to undig

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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