Shadowing Practice: This is Bath, England | Slow British English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, my name is Evie and this is a video in slow English to help you practice your listening comprehension.
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What is this?
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A big curve.
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Today we are in Bath
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which in my opinion is probably the most beautiful city here in the UK or well at least in England.
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We're currently standing in this really small park but I thought
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that we could just check out some of the most important places here in the city.
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So Bath is a really famous city for its architecture.
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It has some buildings from the Roman era and also some buildings from the Georgian period.
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So that's like the 18th century, the 1700s.
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Right now we are on our way to the Royal Crescent which is one of the most iconic sections of this city.
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You will see when we get there why this area is so iconic,
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why it's so special.
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So let's go for a walk in the sunshine.
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we're gonna head this way through the park
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and yeah I will show you a little bit of the city
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and we will just explore a little bit of Bath today
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We're now walking into one of the parks which is on the way to where?
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The Royal Crescent.
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You can see here above the park entrance these lions.
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You can see the flowers on the tree.
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We call that blossom.
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So here's the sign for the royal crescent.
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A crescent is like the shape that these buildings are in,
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like a big curve.
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And these are residential houses.
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So people do live here.
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Very rich people live here.
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Obviously all of the city is not quite as as grand as this,
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as kind of fancy as this,
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as we would say posh.
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So posh is a word actually that only exists in English.
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Posh is basically like upper class,
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kind of rich, fancy And these buildings here are definitely posh Honestly,
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you can tell by the cars There are a lot of Range Rovers Which is a posh,
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a posh car
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People will often use the way that you pronounce the word bath To tell if you are posh or not So,
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the kind of important letter here is the A.
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If you are posh, you will pronounce this city as Bath, Bath, like this.
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And if you are from the countryside in this area,
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if you are from the countryside,
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you will say Bath, like this,
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bath if you're wondering which one I say
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when I speak on these videos I tend to use an accent
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that is more modern RP so a little bit more posh
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so in most of these videos you will hear me saying bath
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but if I have a glass of wine if I'm with friends
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if I'm speaking with my family I'm much more likely to
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say bath where I'm from in Cornwall that's more our accent
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so we say bath we say grass but
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if you were posh you would say bath and grass grass or grass bath or bath it's also really sunny today
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nice like blue sky
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so all of the doors in the royal crescent are
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white you can see all of the doors are white except for this one at number 22
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so apparently in the 1970s the lady at this house
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number 22 she painted her door yellow and it upset this city
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so much that she went to court
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so she had to go to court to basically argue that she was allowed to paint her own front door
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yellow people were worried that it was kind of breaking tradition so
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breaking that it was breaking the tradition of the kind of classic white door
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that the rest of the buildings have obviously she did win the trial so
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there is only one house here now number 22
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which has a yellow front door kind of interesting no
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so it's still very early well
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it's not it's not very early what time is it like 4 p.m
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it's like 4 p.m so we have a few hours until the sun sets
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so the royal crescent is behind me now
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and we are going to head into the main city i will try and film but i'm shy okay i'm shy
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so for now let's head back into the city let's go back into bath
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or bath we are walking back into the city
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but i'm going to teach you a word that you will never ever use in english
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okay do you see this this thing here made of stone is an obelisk it's an obelisk
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because honestly i don't even know why but that like stone pillar is an obelisk you will probably never use that
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The pub is called The Raven,
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which is a type of bird,
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like a black bird, like a crow.
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There's a gin bar.
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How funny.
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It's closed.
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No gin.
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No gin today.
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It's so peaceful.
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A cafe, cookies.
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Open, coffee and cookies.
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And then the bridge.
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we are now walking towards the abbey the abbey is basically just like a big church here in bath
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it is quite an impressive building so i will try try
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and grab some clips for you
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but it has these amazing walls made of bath stone
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which is that light beige stone and it's right next to the old Roman baths it's literally right next door
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It's a cafe.
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Where is it?
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They were fully booked.
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So behind me are the Roman baths,
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which are why this city is called Bath.
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Here in Bath there are hot springs.
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So water is coming up from the centre of the earth to the surface the surface
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and the water is warm okay it's hot they're natural hot springs the Roman baths
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that are here are original from like 70 AD really old really impressive and they're right behind me
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so we are now at the baths that this city is named after so let's let's go in
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We are here at the hot springs.
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this temple we are sitting in right now is Roman so it's from about 70 AD do you remember the exact day?
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73 so the temple we are sitting in right now is from 73 79 AD
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these hot springs are baths okay so these are Roman baths people used to swim
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or bathe in the water
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and it was a really important part of Roman culture it was an important part of Roman social culture.
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So this is a way that you would make friends or kind of spend time with other people.
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There was also a religious element to these hot springs.
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So something interesting that we learned is that people used to use this hot spring to curse other people.
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So they would write in metal the names of people that they wanted the goddess of this hot spring,
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the goddess of this hot spring to curse.
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And people have found them thousands and thousands of years later, these curses.
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so for example people are cursing somebody who stole their cloak
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or they're cursing somebody who i don't know all sorts of people nowadays you cannot swim in the water
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because this is a museum but there are other spas in the city
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that you can use to go swimming we actually walked past
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a hot spring that you can swim in earlier on today
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but what an impressive building and so cool
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that you can sit here so close to the water it's amazing and you can see all of the
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like what are those with the flames what are those called
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torches they have torches burning all around the outside of the spring
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and statues are watching from over the top of the balcony it's incredibly cool it's really really amazing to to be here
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Honestly, we are in here with the ruins of the old Roman temple.
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It kind of like stinks.
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Like it kind of smells bad in here.
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I think it's probably the hot springs I have no idea
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so we are now leaving we are now leaving the baths but yeah super gorgeous
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but it's time it's time to go okay
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so behind me is the bath and well the bath house
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and I think honestly it's time to get a drink and get some dinner as well we
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and now we are going to grab something to eat I think it's time to have dinner
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so that is basically the plan now I just wanted to say thank you
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so much for watching and I will see you in the next one oh and film there that's super cute too
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What was that accent?
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What was what?
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That accent.
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I just really thought that the...
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Oh, no it is the other way.
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No. No. It is this one.
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It is this one.
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It is this one.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “This is Bath, England”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: bath, spring, hot, posh, Roman. Deze video bevat 159 zinnen en 1496 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 16:16. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 92 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| crescent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɹɛs.ənt/ | maansikkel, wassenaar |
| curse zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɝs/ | vloek, verwensing |
| accent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accent, klemtoon |
| swim werkwoord | /swɪm/ | zwemmen |
| obelisk zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑbəlɪsk/ | obelisk |
| café zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | café, koffiehuis |
| pronounce werkwoord | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | uitspreken, verklaren |
| torch zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɔːtʃ/ | toorts, fakkel |
| abbey zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæbi/ | abdij |
| countryside zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/ | platteland, buitengebied |
| goddess zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɑdəs/ | godin |
| cookie zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʊki/ | koekje |
| iconic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /aɪˈkɑnɪk/ | voorbeeldig, kenmerkend |
| curve zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɚv/ | curve, kromming |
| comprehension zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ | begrip, verstandigheid |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | If you are posh, you will pronounce · if you were posh you would say |
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to swim · used to use |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | Crescent which is · parks which is · Rovers Which is |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was allowed · is called · is named |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 17 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, they're, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: countryside /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/, curve /kɚv/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, abbey /ˈæbi/, balcony /ˈbælkəni/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
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 crescent, curse, accent.
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