Shadowing Practice: Learn English | Reading for Vocabulary | Level A | Lesson 08 | Brian Stuart (미국교과서) (영어 강의) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello everyone!
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How are you today?
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Welcome back to Reading for Vocabulary.
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We're on lesson 8.
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In lesson 8, what are we going to talk about?
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Well, we're going to focus on two things.
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One, we're going to think about how we can use trees.
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How do we use trees, right?
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How do we use the wood in the trees?
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That's the first thing.
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And the second thing is how we can save the forest.
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Can we do both?
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Yes, we can.
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That's what we'll find out in this lesson.
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So, how can we use trees and how can we save the forest?
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Come with me.
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Let's take a look.
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Okay, first of all, we see this here, many living things live in the forest.
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So if we talk about a forest, we know that many living things are in the forest.
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What things live in the forest?
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Let's see.
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Here we have a picture here.
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Of course, we can see many very, very big trees, right?
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This is a forest with huge trees.
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Trees live in the forest and some trees are really, really big, aren't they?
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Of course, you see a person here.
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They're very small.
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See how small that person is?
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The person doesn't live in the forest.
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They're just hiking through, right?
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But the trees live in the forest.
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Big trees, small trees, all different kinds of trees live in the forest.
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What else lives in the forest?
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We can see, look at this little cute guy right here.
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It's like a little cute squirrel, right?
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A squirrel lives in the forest.
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They live in the trees and on the trees.
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What else?
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We can see birds.
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In this case, it's a bald eagle.
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Birds make their nests in the trees.
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So birds make their nests in the trees.
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Birds live in the forest.
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What else?
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We have, of course, trees give fruit, right?
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We have some bananas.
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Are you hungry?
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These bananas are ready to eat, the green ones not ready, right?
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But a lot of different types of fruits grow in the forest and live in the forest.
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They're part of the trees, really.
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What else?
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We have a very beautiful insect.
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Do you know this insect's name?
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That's right, it's a ladybug, a ladybug.
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So this insect is a ladybug, right?
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Very beautiful insect.
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Many insects live in the forest.
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And what else lives in the forest?
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A lot of other types of animals.
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So we have squirrels.
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In some forests there are monkeys, especially in warmer forests down south, right, where it's very warm,
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there are many monkeys that live in the trees.
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There's a lot of different types of animals that live in forests, many different types of animals.
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Let's take a look closely at our word list for this unit.
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What kind of vocabulary will we learn?
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First of all, we have here a picture, a place with trees and animals.
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A place with trees and animals.
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I was just talking about this place.
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Do you remember what the name of this place is?
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It starts with an F.
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Of course, it is a forest.
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When you say forest, remember with the F, fuh.
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Your teeth are on your bottom lip.
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Fuh.
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Forest.
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So this is a forest.
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A place with trees and animals.
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What's next?
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Next we have a safe place to be.
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Remember this cute guy right here?
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He's looking out from his home.
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Well, he of course lives in the forest, or she, we're not sure.
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But they live in the forest, this type of animal, of animal and many types of animals will make what inside a tree, right?
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They will make a shelter.
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Shelter.
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And shelter is the same word or it's the same meaning really for many animals.
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It's their home, isn't it?
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So this animal will find shelter in a tree, they'll make it their home.
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So shelter is like a home for many types of animals in the forest.
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Okay, what else?
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We have, what's this boy doing?
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He's holding onto a tree and he's going up into the tree.
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Here it says to go up like a monkey.
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So if you think about monkeys, we saw the picture before of the monkey, what do monkeys do really well?
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They can go up in the tree very quickly quickly what is the verb
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that we use to describe this action what is this boy
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doing he is climbing of course climb is just the root
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form climb to climb he is climbing the tree whoops he is climbing the tree the boy is climbing the tree
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Can you climb a tree?
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But be careful, right?
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Make sure your mother or your father is watching you when you climb the tree.
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It can be dangerous, so be careful.
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But he is climbing the tree.
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Okay.
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The next, we saw this picture before, right?
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Here is a bird, now a home built by a bird.
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Before we talked about shelter, right?
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And we saw the squirrel, the cute animal, looking out from the shelter.
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This is a type of shelter, but it's a special word for birds.
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Only birds make this, right?
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What do we use for this word?
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We call it a nest.
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When we talk about a nest, you should think, ah, it's a bird.
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A bird makes a nest.
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A nest is the home for the bird.
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It's their shelter.
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It's also their home.
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For birds, we say it is a nest.
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Okay?
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Interesting.
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Now we have another type of home.
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We've talked about shelter.
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We've talked about nest.
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Now this is another type of home, and this is an interesting looking animal here, right?
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It kind of looks like a dog, but it's not really a dog.
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It's a different type of animal.
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And this animal will live in a home in the ground.
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So many animals will dig in the ground, and they will make their shelter or their home.
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There's a special word for this.
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What is it?
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We say it's a cave, okay?
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Now, sometimes animals will make a small cave, or maybe there's a big cave that they don't make, but they will live in there.
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What lives in caves?
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Well, wild dogs, perhaps hyenas.
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A hyena is a type of dog.
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A hyena is a type of wild dog in Africa.
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This looks like a hyena.
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But also big animals, like bears.
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Be careful if you're in the woods and you see a bear.
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Bears are very big animals and they also live in caves.
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So a cave is another type of shelter.
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These are all shelters.
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A nest is a shelter and a cave is a shelter.
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Another word that we have here is the plant part.
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So it's a part of a plant.
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The part of a plant that holds the seeds.
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So the seeds of course are what the plant makes
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and the seeds will go into the ground and make a new plant, right?
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Seeds are how plants make more plants.
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What do we call the part of the plant that holds the seeds?
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For many plants it's called the fruit, right?
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So bananas are a type of fruit.
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Apples are a type of fruit.
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Watermelon, subak, right?
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That's a type of fruit.
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And if you look at each of these fruits, they all have seeds in them.
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And if you take those seeds and you put them in the ground, a new plant will grow.
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So we call that fruit.
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Not all plants, but many plants have fruits, and that's how they distribute their seeds.
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Insect.
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We have an insect here, and of course another word for insect is bug.
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You may know this word from the movies.
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In English, of course, there's a lot of words that have two words that mean the same thing.
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Insect is more formal.
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It's a little bit more of a difficult word, isn't it?
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It's much easier to say bug.
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And that's what insects are.
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Insects are bugs and this is an example of a bug.
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So you can say bug or you can say insect.
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Same thing.
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What is this?
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We talked about this before.
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Do you remember what I said at the beginning of this lecture?
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This is an animal with long arms, right?
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He has long arms, right?
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And a long tail.
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So a long tail.
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Not just long arms, but also a long tail tail.
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And what type of animal is this?
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Do you remember what I said at the beginning of this lecture?
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We said monkey.
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So say it with me.
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Monkey.
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Monkey.
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Okay?
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So this isn't a monkey and we learned about the monkey.
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We also, when we looked at the picture with climb, the boy is going up the tree like a monkey.
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Monkeys Monkeys are very good at climbing, aren't they?
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You find monkeys in forests, but not cold forests, not up in Korea, well maybe up in Korea, and in Japan you find monkeys,
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but also more commonly in the south where the forests are warmer.
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There's many monkeys that live in the forests in the warmer forests in the south.
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The next one.
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place where people live.
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We talked about this already in terms of animals, right?
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We've talked about shelter, we've talked about nests for birds, we talked about caves for wild dogs or bears.
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But people, where do people live?
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Of course, we live in a house, right?
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People build a house, right?
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You could also say home, but home and house is where somebody House, though, is, house means the building.
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Home is like a place that you're emotionally connected to.
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This is my home.
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This is where I live.
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People can live in an apartment.
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They can live in a tent.
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They can live in a cave.
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Those are all homes, right?
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But a house is something that's built like this, right?
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It has doors.
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It might have a chimney.
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It has walls that were built by people.
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So we've seen a lot of different types of shelters because this is also a shelter.
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So we've seen nest, cave, house.
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These are all shelters.
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Okay.
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Next, we have something used to travel on water.
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Can you walk on water?
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No. You'll sink, right?
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Be careful, right?
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You jump in the water, you will sink.
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But if you want to travel over water, on top of the water, so you don't sink, what do you travel in?
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What is this?
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This, of course, is called a boat.
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And some boats are very small, like this.
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Some boats are very big.
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They're like hotels, and they go across the water.
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So something used to travel on water is a boat.
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Okay, this young girl is doing something very good, right?
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She's helping her mom out.
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She is getting rid of some dirty stuff on the ground.
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So if you say something is not dirty, if it's not dirty, the opposite of dirty, what do we say?
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It is clean.
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So clean can be an adjective, right?
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We can use it as an adjective.
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It is clean.
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We can use it as an adjective.
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The floor is clean.
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We can also use it as a verb.
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Please clean the floor.
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So we can use it in two ways, okay?
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As an adjective, it is clean, the floor is clean, or if mom sees some dirt on the floor,
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she will say to her daughter, please clean the floor.
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And that's a verb.
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Please clean up your room, right?
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Please clean up your desk, for example.
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Okay, so we can use it as an adjective or as a verb very commonly.
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Okay, the next one, an animal with feathers and wings.
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We already talked about this type of animal, right?
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This type of animal, what type of shelter does it make in the trees?
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It makes a nest.
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What is it?
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Of course, we know it's a bird.
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And there are many different kinds of birds, right?
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Many different shapes, different sizes, different colors.
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But if they have feathers and wings, we say it is a bird.
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Okay, so we see a bird here.
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Okay, so that wraps it up for our vocabulary.
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Now let's use that vocabulary we just learned and put them next to their definitions.
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What do they mean?
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How good is your memory?
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Let's test it.
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So in this exercise, we have definitions here.
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We have the first three here.
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These are the definitions, and these are the words we need to put in the blanks next to the definition.
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What are the words?
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Let's review very quickly.
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First, we have forest.
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Forest.
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Okay.
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Next one, nest.
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Nest.
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Next one, climb.
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climb.
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The next one here, shelter.
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This one here, cave.
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And this one here, fruit.
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Fruit.
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That's a little difficult, isn't it?
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Because we have the F and the R.
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Fruit.
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Okay, so let's take a look at these words and match them with their definitions.
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Number one, a place with trees and animals.
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So remember what we talked about at the beginning of this lesson, a place where there are many animals and there's lots of trees.
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Many things live in this place.
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Which one fits?
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Of course we're looking at this one over here, forest.
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It is a forest.
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Number two, a safe place to be.
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A safe place to be, remember, there are many types of safe places to be.
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Different animals and people have, call them different things, but they're all, we can all say it's all one thing too.
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Which one of these will work, right?
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We could say a cave is a safe place to be, sure.
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We could say a nest is a safe place to be, but these are both types of shelter, aren't they?
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So when we say a safe place to be, and we mean all types of safe places to be, that is shelter.
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Because a cave is a type of shelter.
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A nest is a type of shelter.
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A house is a type of shelter.
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These are all types of shelter.
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And shelter very basically just means a safe place to be.
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If you're safe there, it is a shelter.
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Okay, number three.
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Now it's more specific, right?
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Now we're looking at a more specific type of shelter, a bird's home, right?
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Not a wild dog's home, not a person's shelter, right? but a bird's home.
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Which word is associated with bird?
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Which word is a bird's shelter?
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It is, of course, nest.
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So a bird's home is a nest.
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Okay, good.
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Let's move on to the next three.
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Number four, a home in the ground.
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We're talking about in the ground.
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Now some animals will dig it or sometimes it's just there.
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It's been there for a long time and an animal will move in there and it's usually underground or in the ground.
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What type of shelter is it?
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We call it a cave.
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A cave is a home in the ground.
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Bears and wild dogs and other large animals will live in a cave.
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A long, long time ago, human beings lived in caves.
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Okay, number five.
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To grow up like a monkey, to go up, no, I'm sorry, not to grow up, to go up like a monkey.
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So if you're looking at a tree and you want to go up the tree like a monkey, what are you doing?
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Of course, we're looking for a verb, and the verb here, of course, is climb.
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To climb like a monkey.
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Monkeys climb trees very well.
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Maybe you climb trees very well, but again, be careful.
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Be careful if you climb something.
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Be careful you don't fall off.
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So be very careful.
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Number six, the plant part.
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So it's the part of a plant that holds the seeds.
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So it's the part of the plant that holds the seeds inside.
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And usually they're good to eat, right?
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Like a banana, an apple, or watermelon.
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Usually this part part is very good to eat.
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It holds the seeds.
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What is it?
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Of course we're looking at fruit here.
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So, fruit is the part of the plant that holds the seeds.
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Okay, good.
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Now let's take a short break, and we're going to take a look at the reading passage next.
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So, don't go away.
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See you soon.
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Hey kids, welcome back.
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Are you ready to use those words we just learned?
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Let's use those words in the reading passage.
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You ready?
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Let's go!
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Okay, here we have a forest has many trees.
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So a forest has many trees.
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Of course, there are a lot of trees in the forest, right?
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Here's a tree, there's a tree, there's a tree, there's many namus, right?
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There's many trees in the forest.
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Namu is tree, right?
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So you have 많이, 많이, 나무 많아요, right?
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Many, many trees are in the forest.
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Okay.
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They all grow close together.
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Of course, if you have one tree, 저기, and another tree, way over there, right?
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That's not a forest, right?
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You have to have many trees close together.
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So 같이 있어요, right?
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They're all very close together.
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Okay.
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So you have many trees that are close together.
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Many things.
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Many things live in a forest.
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Of course, things mean animals and plants together.
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There are many different things that live in a forest.
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There's one of our words there, a forest.
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It is a good place, a forest.
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When we say it, we're talking about a forest.
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So, it, a forest, is a good place for animals.
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Sure it's a good place.
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There's lots of food.
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Animals eat plants, right?
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Animals can also find what?
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Shelter in a forest.
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So, it's a good place for animals.
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There is plenty.
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Like I said, there is plenty.
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Plenty is mana, right?
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A lot of things.
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Many things, plenty.
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There is plenty for them to eat.
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Animals will eat the leaves, they'll eat the fruit.
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Some animals will even eat the wood in the trees, right?
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So there is a lot of food for animals to eat in the forest.
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Bugs, remember bugs?
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Another word for bug is insect, right?
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Insects or bugs eat the plants.
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So they will eat the plants.
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They eat the leaves.
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Some of them eat the wood of the trees.
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Monkeys, right?
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Here we have another type of animal.
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What do monkeys eat?
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Monkeys will eat the fruit from the trees.
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We all know monkeys love bananas, right?
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Bananas no muchuayo for a monkey, right?
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So monkeys will eat many different kinds of fruit that grow in the forest.
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Animals can find shelter.
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This is very important.
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Forests and trees give shelter to animals.
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Animals will find shelter in the trees.
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They will make a little shelter inside the tree.
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They'll make nests on top of the tree.
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Of course, a cave can be anywhere, but sometimes there are caves in the forest.
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Animals can find shelter in the forest too.
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Birds like I said, birds build nests.
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They build nests on the top of the tree, right?
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Very high up in the tree so other animals can't get to the birds.
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So birds will build nests in the trees.
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Bears, right?
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We talked about bears before.
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Bears are big and scary animals, right?
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Birds sleep inside the caves.
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So if there's a cave in the forest, maybe there's a bear in there.
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Be careful about going into caves without an adult.
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Be careful about that.
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But bears sleep inside the caves.
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Okay, what's next?
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This is a problem, but.
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But tells us, uh-oh, something's wrong.
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We heard many good things about the forest, but then we see but.
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But, uh-oh, there's a problem.
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But the forests are disappearing.
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That's a little bit of a difficult word.
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Disappearing means going away.
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Look at this picture here.
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This is just ground, dirt.
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There aren't any trees in the front of this picture.
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All those trees have been cut down.
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They're gone.
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So these trees are disappearing.
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The forests are disappearing.
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They are going away.
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This is a problem.
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People cut down trees every day.
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Every day there are people cutting down trees and taking trees away from the forest.
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Is this a good thing?
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Well, of course, we need trees, but it could be a bad thing.
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We have to be careful about how many trees we cut down, right?
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We use the trees.
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We means people, right?
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People, us.
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People use the trees to make things.
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We make many different things using the wood in the trees.
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What do we make?
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Well, we make houses.
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Houses are made out of trees.
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If we want to build a house for our shelter, our home, then we need to use trees.
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We need to use the wood in the trees.
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We need to use the wood from the trees.
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What else?
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We use trees to make boats too.
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So many boats are made from wood.
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Actually, a lot of things are made from wood.
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We make houses, we make boats, we make furniture like 책상, 위차, a chair.
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Lots of furniture is made from wood also.
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Paper, we make paper from wood.
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We use trees in a lot of different ways.
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So we need trees, but we have to be careful to make sure not all the forests will disappear.
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So cutting down trees is a problem.
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Yes, it is a problem.
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We have to be careful that not all the forests go away.
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When we cut all the trees in an area like this, where do the animals go?
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Their home is gone.
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They have nowhere to find food, nowhere to find shelter.
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So the animals have no place to live.
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They need the forest.
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They, the animals, right?
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The animals, they need the forest.
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They need the forest, right?
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It's their home.
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It, the forest, is their home.
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It is, it is their home.
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So when the forest is disappearing, the animals don't have a home, they don't have food.
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Where can they go?
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It's a problem to cut down the trees.
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Okay, trees help us in many ways.
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There are many ways that trees help us.
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They keep our air clean, right?
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So did you know that trees will take in air and they will give off clean air, right?
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Trees keep our air clean.
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If you go into the forest and you smell the air, it's very fresh.
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It's very clean, right?
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So trees clean the air.
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Trees are fun to climb too.
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Of course we can climb, maybe not this tree, but smaller trees with branches, we can climb up the trees.
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It's fun and it's interesting.
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Lots of kids like to climb up trees.
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So what would we do without trees?
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That's the important question.
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If there were no trees, what would we do?
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We would have a hard time to build houses, a hard time to build boats, a hard time to build furniture.
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Animals wouldn't have a home.
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The animals would disappear too.
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We couldn't see the animals.
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So we need to be careful about how we use trees and forests.
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Maybe we shouldn't cut all of them down.
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Maybe we should just cut one here, one there, and leave many other trees standing.
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So we have to be careful about how many trees we cut down.
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Okay, let's talk about this story.
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Now we're going to go over some reading comprehension questions, and we're going to see how well you understood the story.
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The first question, this story is about, what was that story about?
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We have four choices, A, B, C and D.
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A is this story is about climbing trees or this story is about forests.
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C, this story is about building houses.
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D, this story is about eating fruit.
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Usually when you see this sentence, this story is about, we're looking for a general answer.
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What is the most general answer?
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Climbing trees, that's more, I'm sorry, specific.
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It's more of a specific, narrow answer.
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Forests, that's wide, isn't it?
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It's more of a general answer.
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Building houses, that's a specific thing.
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Specific, S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C.
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That's a specific thing.
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That's a narrow, focused thing.
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Eating fruit is also specific.
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Our most general answer is forests here.
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Is it right this story is about forests?
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Yeah, we were talking about forests.
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We were talking about forests disappear.
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We cut down the trees in the forest, right, so that we can use them.
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But forests are good for many things.
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Animals live there.
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They find homes.
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They find food.
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So we talked about the good things about forests.
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We also talked about a problem with forests, that people cut down too many trees so the forests are disappearing.
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So the answer is of course B, forests.
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These other answers A, C and D, they're too specific.
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Yeah, we talked a little bit about climbing trees, a little bit about building houses, a little bit about eating fruit,
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but that wasn't the whole story.
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The whole story was about forests.
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So usually you're looking for the more general answer in this type of question.
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Okay, number two.
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People cut down.
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What do people cut down every day?
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We talked about this, right?
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Do people cut down caves?
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That's crazy.
544
You can't cut down a cave, right?
545
A cave is a hole in the ground.
546
So it can't be A, right?
547
That's silly.
548
B, do you cut down a nest?
549
Do you go up in the tree and cut down a nest?
550
We don't cut down nests, we don't cut down birds homes, that would be strange.
551
Do we cut down houses every day?
552
You don't cut down a house, you can destroy a house, but we don't cut down a house, that's really strange.
553
What about a tree?
554
Yes, when people go into the forest and they cut down a tree, that's what they're doing, they're cutting it and it falls down.
555
They cut down a tree.
556
So people cut down trees every day and that's what we talked about in the story.
557
That's the problem.
558
Too many trees are cut down, the forests disappear.
559
Okay, let's take a look at number three.
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In a forest trees...
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Beep!
562
Okay, so we're looking for a part of a sentence that talks about trees.
563
A. In a forest trees are not important.
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Trees aren't important in the forest?
565
That doesn't sound right.
566
If there were no trees, there would be no forest.
567
So of course trees are very important to a forest, right?
568
So that's not correct.
569
B. Trees all grow close together.
570
In a forest, trees grow close together.
571
We talked about that, right?
572
If there's a tree over here and another tree over there, that's not a forest.
573
Many trees are together.
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They're kachi.
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Many trees are close together.
576
That's what we are looking for.
577
So B is the right answer.
578
In a forest, trees all grow close together.
579
That's what a forest is.
580
Let's look at C and D for practice.
581
C In a forest, trees can build nests.
582
Can trees move?
583
Can trees make things?
584
No, trees don't think, they can't make things.
585
So that's kind of silly, isn't it?
586
D. Trees are better than caves.
587
Well, that's opinion.
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Some people might think trees are better than caves, but other people might think caves are better than trees.
589
So that's not a very good answer.
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The best answer, of course, in a forest, trees all grow close together.
591
That's what makes a forest.
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Okay, so we've come to the end.
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Save the forests.
594
Okay, so how can we save the forests?
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Of course, one idea, of course, is don't cut down all the trees.
596
Just cut maybe this tree and that tree
597
and leave many other trees standing so new trees can grow where the other trees are cut down.
598
But don't get rid of all the trees.
599
And that's, many companies are doing that now,
600
And that's the best way that we can still use the trees to build houses and boats and furniture,
601
but we also leave enough trees so animals have food and homes and we can enjoy the trees on the weekends.
602
We can still go into the forests.
603
Okay, well that about wraps it up for today.
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I hope you've learned a lot and I had fun meeting you guys and teaching you guys about forests.
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We'll see you next time.
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Take care.

What You'll Learn

This video helps you build two key skills: describing forest ecosystems with specific vocabulary (like "squirrel," "nests," and "fruit") and explaining how humans interact with nature (e.g., using trees while saving forests). You’ll also practice asking and answering simple questions about the topic, which is great for IELTS speaking practice or everyday conversations.

Listen For These Sounds

Notice how the speaker links words smoothly. For example, "How do we use" becomes "Howdowe use" with soft linking between "do" and "we." You’ll also hear reductions like "aren’t they" pronounced as "aren’t they" (with a relaxed "t" sound) and "it's like a" as "it's lika" (linking "like" and "a"). These small sounds make your speech sound more natural—perfect for improving English pronunciation.

Say It Like a Native

To mirror the speaker’s rhythm, stress key words like "huge," "cute," and "ready" to emphasize important details. Try shadow speak (repeating the speaker’s words immediately after) to copy their pace—slow down for descriptions ("many living things live in the forest") and speed up slightly for questions ("Are you hungry?"). Pay attention to rising intonation in questions like "right?" to sound conversational. Practice this shadow speech daily, and you’ll start to feel the flow of native-like English. What other details can you notice about the speaker’s tone? Keep exploring!

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its resultIf there were no trees, what would we · If there were no trees, there would be
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer trueused to travel
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itwere built · is called · is associated
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowWe've talked · we've seen · have been cut

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →