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Cancer, heart disease, allergic reactions,  drowning in molasses, getting your head bitten off by a grizzly bear – there are LOTS  of things out there that can kill you.
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But when it comes to the inner  workings of the human body, it turns out that everybody  actually dies from the same thing.
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Hi, I’m Kate and this is MinuteEarth.
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We often use specific biological hallmarks, like a person’s heartbeat or brain  activity, to divide life from death.
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But there’s something much more fundamental  that drives these processes, and all the other life-sustaining processes  constantly going on in your body: ATP, our body’s energy source.
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Every single cause of death out there  actually kills us by interfering with our ability to produce ATP, powering down  the very processes that keep us alive.
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OK, every cause of death except  something like a nuclear explosion, which obliterates the need for  these processes in the first place.
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But for the vast majority of  us, death is a dearth of ATP.
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It takes two ingredients to make ATP: fuel and oxygen… without enough of either one, your cells can’t produce  enough ATP to keep you alive.
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Starvation, for instance, is a matter of  not having enough fuel to convert into ATP.
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But cells are really good at scavenging  our bodies’ stores of fat, protein, and carbs, so in most causes of death,  fuel isn’t the limiting factor… oxygen is.
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Normally, our respiratory system  grabs oxygen from the air, then our circulatory system shuttles it to various  organs, where cells use it to make ATP.
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Most causes of death interrupt  this journey in some way.
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Some mess with the initial oxygen-acquiring  part; like, pneumonia fills the lungs with fluid, preventing oxygen from making it into  the bloodstream in the first place.
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Other respiratory problems, like lung  cancer, anaphylaxis, and drowning, also prevent the respiratory system from  effectively grabbing oxygen from the air.
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Most causes of death, though, interfere  with the second part of the oxygen pathway.
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Like heart disease, the most common cause  of death worldwide, narrows the arteries, restricting the flow of blood  throughout the rest of the body.
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Electrocution messes with the electrical  signals that regulate the pumping of the various chambers of the heart, leaving  them unable to effectively pump blood.
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Strokes – another major cause of death –  happen when blood can’t reach the brain.
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And sudden trauma can cause so much  blood loss that the pressure in the circulatory system drops, leaving it  unable to move blood through the body.
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In each of these cases, even though  enough oxygen has made it into the body, that oxygen isn’t getting carried to  cells, where it’s needed to produce ATP.
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And in a few especially-weird causes  of death, plenty of oxygen is making it into the body AND getting where it  needs to go, but cells can’t use it.
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Cyanide, for instance, messes with  the cellular machinery that makes ATP, leaving it unable to use oxygen  to complete the reaction.
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There are a ton of ways to interfere with the ATP production pathway – that’s why there  are so many so-called “causes of death”.
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But no matter where – or how – the pathway  fails, the ultimate result is the same: your body can’t produce enough energy to carry out  the processes needed to actually maintain life.
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In the end, a lack of ATP is the ultimate  cause of every single case of RIP.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “There’s Really Only One Way To Die”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Atp, oxygen, processes, cells, blood. Deze video bevat 26 zinnen en 569 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:22. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 169 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 80% 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
drown werkwoord/dɹaʊn/verdrinken, verzuipen
anaphylaxis zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌænəfɪˈlæksɪs/anafylaxie
bloodstream zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈblʌd.stɹɪim/bloedbaan
cyanide zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsaɪənaɪd/cyanide
electrocution zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃən/elektrocutie
hallmark zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɔlmɑɹk/kenmerk, kenteken
molasses zelfstandig naamwoord/məˈlæsɪz/melasse
obliterate werkwoord/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/ecraseren, (archaic)uitwissen
scavenge werkwoord/ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/vuil ophalen
starvation zelfstandig naamwoord/stɑɹˈveɪʃən/uithongering
interrupt werkwoord/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/afbreken, onderbreken
artery zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɑɹ.təɹ.i/slagader, arterie
heartbeat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɑɹtˌbit/hartslag
pneumonia zelfstandig naamwoord/njuˈməʊniə/longontsteking, pneumonie
ingredient zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ingrediënt

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
carry out werkwoord/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/uitvoeren
turn out werkwoorduitvallen, resulteren

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, isn't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, dearth /dɝθ/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: electrocution /ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃən/, starvation /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/, shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/, machinery /məˈʃiːnəɹi/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: respiratory /ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/, circulatory /ˈsɝkjələˌtɔɹi/, anaphylaxis /ˌænəfɪˈlæksɪs/, electrocution /ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃən/, obliterate /əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: cyanide /ˈsaɪənaɪd/, molasses /məˈlæsɪz/, scavenge /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, anaphylaxis /ˌænəfɪˈlæksɪs/, molasses /məˈlæsɪz/, scavenge /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grizzly /ˈɡɹɪzli/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, regulate /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/

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. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als drown, anaphylaxis, bloodstream.

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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