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Hello?
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Hi, my name is Seth McElroy, and I'm calling from Pest Control.
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Is James going?
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Yeah, speaking.
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Hey, James, how are you today?
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Not bad.
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What can I do for you?
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Well, I wanted to call you because of a situation that we're dealing with here.
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As you know, we were at your house about two weeks ago dealing with a rat issue.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We got rid of him real well.
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Were you happy with your service?
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Yeah, no complaints.
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I liked it.
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Thank you.
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No problem.
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We are having an issue here, though, the rat that we caught from your place?
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Right.
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He's very sad.
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What do you mean?
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Well, we've had him here in the office ever since we took him from your place, and every day he's in his cage, he's kind of just moping around.
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I know it's probably hard to hear.
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I don't understand.
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You kept the rat?
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Yeah, we did.
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We named him Scraps.
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And all of us here really want the best for him.
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And we think that actually the problem is he misses your home.
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Okay, wait a minute.
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You're telling me the rat you caught is sad and you want to bring him back to my house?
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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
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One of my guys, Harold, is his name.
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He's going to come and bring scraps back to you.
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No, no, no. You can't do that.
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That's why I paid you to get rid of him.
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I can't have a rat in my house.
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I know, but did you hear what I said?
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He's really sad.
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I don't care what he is.
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I don't want the rat back in my house.
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That's the whole point of me having you come up to the house is
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that I pay you and you take care I don't have to give, you're supposed to keep the rack.
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Listen, if you refuse to take Scraps back, I'll just drive him over to your house myself and let him loose in your backyard.
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At least that'll make him happy.
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If I see anybody in my backyard, I swear I will go to that office
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and smack this shit out of you if you bring this rat back to my house.
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We'll gladly refund your money if we can just bring Scraps back to your house.
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Scraps is just homesick.
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Well, it's not his house, it's my house, and I don't want him in it.
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You know, it was both of your, you're kind of like roommates.
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really no no no no no no I paid a mortgage
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this right doesn't do a thing you keep the track well
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look at it from scraps perspective okay he was all happy living in your house eating off of the food
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that you had left over and things like that
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and now he's in a cage in a pest control office
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that's not fun what is wrong with you anyway I pay you to do a job to kill this rat
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and then you take the rat home
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and now you want to bring the rat back here
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that makes no sense what's wrong with you I think it makes perfect sense
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if you're an animal lover and have any kind of heart at all.
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You sound just callous.
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Okay, number one, rats are not animals.
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I have a dog.
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The dog's an animal.
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A rat is a rat.
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I am sorry, sir.
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A rat is an animal just like everybody else.
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No, no, no, no. It's a rat.
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They spread disease and filth.
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The Black Plague was rats, and you want to bring them back to my house?
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Kill it.
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Oh, you're going to hold that against scraps?
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Okay, that's ancient history.
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Nobody's died from the Black Plague in at least 10 years.
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It's not even supposed to be in anybody's house It's not a pet, it's not a gerbil, it's not a hamster, it's a rat It has feelings It's an animal and it has feelings

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video β€œYour rat is sad”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: rat, scraps, animal, sad. Deze video bevat 75 zinnen en 672 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:58. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 227 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 12 van de 75 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
scrap zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈskɹæp/restje
pest zelfstandig naamwoord/pΙ›st/pest, plaag
backyard zelfstandig naamwoord/bΓ¦kˈjɑːd/achtertuin
cage zelfstandig naamwoord/keΙͺdΝ‘Κ’/kooi, kouw
rat zelfstandig naamwoord/ΙΉΓ¦t/rat, bruine rat
callous bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈkΓ¦lΙ™s/ongevoelig, hard
gerbil zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͑ʒɝblΜ©/gerbil, springmuis f renmuis
hamster zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/hamster
homesick bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈhoʊ̯m.sΙͺk/heemziek, heimwee
gladly bijwoord/ˈɑlædli/gaarne, graag
roommate zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeΙͺt/kamergenoot, huisgenoot
rack zelfstandig naamwoord/ΙΉΓ¦k/rek, schap
refund zelfstandig naamwoord/ΙΉΙͺˈfʌnd/teruggave
lover zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlʌvɚ/minnaar, minnares
complaint zelfstandig naamwoord/kΙ™mˈpleΙͺnt/klacht, beklag

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • What can I do for you?
  • Were you happy with your service?
  • What do you mean?
  • I know it's probably hard to hear.
  • I know, but did you hear what I said?

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 β€” iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurtI'm calling Β· we're dealing Β· are having
Toekomst met β€œwill” will + werkwoord β€” een besluit, belofte of voorspellingI'll just drive Β· that'll make Β· will go
Toekomst met β€œgoing to” be going to + werkwoord β€” een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomenHe's going to come Β· you're going to hold

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 20 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker β€” /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: backyard /bΓ¦kˈjɑːd/, cage /keΙͺdΝ‘Κ’/, refund /ΙΉΙͺˈfʌnd/
  • /Γ¦/ β€” opener dan de Nederlandse β€œe”: scrap /ˈskΙΉΓ¦p/, backyard /bΓ¦kˈjɑːd/, rat /ΙΉΓ¦t/, callous /ˈkΓ¦lΙ™s/, hamster /ˈhΓ¦m(p)stɚ/

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 0,75Γ— 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 scrap, pest, backyard.

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 β€” 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 β€” waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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