Shadowing Practice: 12 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 Young Animals by Rachel Bladen Read by Claire Willey Introduction
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Young animals grow up from babies into adults.
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Some young animals grow up very fast.
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Some young animals grow up slowly.
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What are these young animals?
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What young animals do you like?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about young animals.
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Chapter 1.
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Babies Some babies hatch from an egg.
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A mother duck makes a nest by the water.
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She lays her eggs in the nest.
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She sits on the eggs so they stay warm.
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Then the ducklings hatch.
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Some babies don't hatch from an egg.
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They are born from their mother.
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A baby zebra is born from its mother.
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The mother cleans the baby, and then it can stand up and walk.
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It can run when it's one hour old.
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Discover!
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A baby zebra has brown and white stripes.
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Chapter 2.
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Parents.
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Many young animals look the same as their parents.
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Look at these baby seahorses and their parent.
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Some young animals look very different from their parents.
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A caterpillar is a butterfly's baby.
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Some young animals live with their parents for weeks.
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Some young animals live with their parents for years.
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Parents feed and protect their babies.
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Some young animals don't meet their parents.
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A mother sea turtle lays her eggs in the sand.
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Then she goes into the ocean.
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Baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs.
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They don't meet their mother.
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Chapter 3 Help Many adult animals help young animals.
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A young elephant lives with its mother and other elephants.
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The mother feeds the young elephant.
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She cleans it and she gives it water.
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Adult elephants protect the young elephant.
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They help it to walk too.
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A mother chimpanzee carries her babies everywhere.
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A young ostrich lives with its mother and father.
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They help it to feed.
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They also protect it from the rain and the hot sun with their wings.
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Chapter 4 Danger There's danger for young animals.
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Other animals want to eat them.
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How do young animals stay safe?
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Young kangaroos live in their mother's pouch.
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It's safe there.
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Discover!
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Baby kangaroos are very little.
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You can put a baby kangaroo on a spoon.
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This young shark has spots.
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Other animals can't see the shark on the ocean floor.
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This caterpillar has poison in its body.
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Other animals touch the caterpillar and poison goes into them.
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Chapter 5 Food Some young animals drink milk from their mother.
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The milk is good and it helps them to grow.
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A young seal drinks its mother's milk.
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Discover!
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A young seal can grow from 10 kilograms to 30 kilograms in three weeks.
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A young owl doesn't drink milk.
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Its parents feed it frogs, fish, and other little animals.
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A toad eats insects and other little animals.
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A baby toad is very different.
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A baby toad is called a tadpole, and it eats plants.
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Chapter 6 Homes Young bears are born when the weather is very cold.
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The mother makes a home called a den.
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She puts branches and grass in an old tree or under a rock.
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The young bears are warm in the den, and they're safe from other animals.
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Beavers make a home called a lodge.
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They cut down trees and branches, and they make a dam in a river.
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The beavers make a lodge in the water, with branches and mud.
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A young beaver is safe in the lodge.
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Chapter 7 How Animals Learn Young animals learn many things.
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A young eagle learns to fly when it's about ten weeks old.
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The parents help the young eagle to fly.
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Young cheetahs watch their mother hunt.
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This helps them to learn to hunt.
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The mother cheetah gives little animals to her young cheetahs too.
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The young cheetahs learn how to hunt and eat the little animals.
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Discover!
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A cheetah can run more than a hundred kilometers per hour.
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That's very, very fast.
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Chapter 8 How Animals Grow Up A young lion lives with its mother and other lions in a pride.
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When it's about two years old, a young male lion moves to a different pride.
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A young beetle is called a larva.
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The larva looks very different from its parents.
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It grows a pupa.
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When it comes out of the pupa, it's an adult.
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Then it looks the same as its parents.
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Young animals grow up into adults and have babies.
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Their babies have babies too.
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Every day, young animals are born.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 95 zinnen en 732 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:00. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 81 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 79% 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
discover werkwoord/dɪˈskʌvə/ontdekken
elephant zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛlɪfənt/olifant, elpendier
egg zelfstandig naamwoord/ɛɡ/ei
hatch werkwoord/hæt͡ʃ/uit het ei komen
lion zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlaɪən/leeuw
beaver zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbivɚ/bever
kangaroo zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/kangoeroe
seal zelfstandig naamwoord/siːl/zegel
eagle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈiːɡəl/arend, adelaar
poison zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɔɪ.zən/gif, vergif
nest zelfstandig naamwoord/nɛst/nest
turtle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɝtl̩/schildpad
sand zelfstandig naamwoord/sænd/zand, zavel
grass zelfstandig naamwoord/ɡɹɑːs/gras
duck zelfstandig naamwoord/dʌk/eend

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
grow up werkwoordopgroeien
cut down werkwoordvellen
stand up werkwoordopstaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 6 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, can't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

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 discover, elephant, egg.

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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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