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Oxford Read and Discover Level 3 Your 5 Senses by Robert Quinn
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Read by Walter Lewis Published and Copyright Oxford University Press 2010 Introduction
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You have five different senses.
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They give you lots of information about the world around you.
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Sight.
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You see things with your eyes.
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Hearing.
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You hear things with your ears.
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Smell.
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You smell things with your nose.
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Taste.
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You taste things with your tongue.
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Touch.
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You touch and feel things with your skin.
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What are these people doing?
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Which senses are they using?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about your five senses.
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Chapter 1.
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Your Sense of Sight Your sense of sight lets you see people and objects around you.
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It also lets you read books, look at photos, and watch television.
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Your sense of sight helps to keep you safe, too.
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When you cross the street, you can watch for traffic.
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You can see when the traffic lights are green, yellow, or red.
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You can see because your eyes detect light.
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Light can come from the sun or from a lamp.
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It can also reflect off things around you.
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You can't see anything when it's very dark because there's no light.
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Discover White light contains all the colors of the rainbow.
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You can see this with a prism.
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It breaks white light into separate colors.
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Chapter 2 A Closer Look Look at one of your eyes in a mirror.
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The white part is the sclera, and the colored part is the iris.
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The small black spot in the center is the pupil.
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The pupil is a hole that lets light into the eye.
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When it's dark, your pupils open to let more light in.
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Your eyelids and eyelashes protect your eyes from dust and dirt.
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Your eyelids also keep light out.
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Light reflects off an object.
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The light then enters the eye and goes through a lens.
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This lens focuses the light on the retina at the back of the eye.
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It makes a picture of the object on the retina.
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The retina has millions of optic cells.
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They detect light and colors.
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The optic nerve collects the information and takes it to the brain.
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Discover!
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Cameras have lenses too what other things have lenses
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chapter 3 your sense of hearing your sense of hearing helps you in many ways
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you can hear the telephone when it rings and listen to people
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when they talk to you you can listen to your favorite
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music too your ears also help you to locate sounds you can hear
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when sounds come from the right or the left then you can follow the sound by turning your head
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You can hear lots of different sounds.
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Some things make loud sounds, like a motorcycle or a jet plane.
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Other things make soft sounds, like a clock ticking or wind chimes blowing in the wind.
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Some things make high sounds, like a whistle or a flute.
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Other things make very low sounds, like a tuba or a big bass drum.
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Chapter 4 Inside Your Ear Sounds are vibrations in the air that your ears can detect.
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First, the vibrations go into your ear canal.
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Then, your eardrum vibrates.
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Behind your eardrum, there are three small bones called ossicles.
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They also vibrate.
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Next to the ossicles, there's a spiral tube called the cochlea.
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It detects vibrations from the ossicles.
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Then the auditory nerve collects the information and takes it to your brain.
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This is how you hear.
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The ossicles are the smallest bones in your body.
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This is how small they are.
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Some people don't hear well.
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Sometimes they wear a hearing aid to make sounds louder.
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Other people have a cochlear implant.
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The implant detects sounds with a microphone.
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Then it sends electrical signals to the cochlea inside the ear.
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Chapter 5.
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Your sense of smell.
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Your nose lets you smell things.
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Some things smell good, like pizza or fresh cookies.
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The yummy smells tell you they are probably good to eat.
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Flowers and perfume often smell good, too.
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What other things smell good to you? Can you eat them?
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Yes.
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Some things smell bad, like food waste or bad eggs.
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Yuck!
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Your nose tells you they aren't good to eat.
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They can make you very sick your nose tells you about other dangers too
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when there's a fire you can smell the smoke
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and call for help poisonous chemicals often smell bad your nose This tells you they are dangerous.
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Discover!
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Skunks can spray a liquid that smells terrible.
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They use it for protection.
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Chapter 6 How Your Nose Works Particles are clouds of tiny particles in the air,
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like smoke or perfume.
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When you breathe, these particles go into your nose through your nostrils.
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Then they go up into your nasal passages.
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When something smells good, you open your nostrils wider.
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When something smells bad, you wrinkle your nose.
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This closes your nostrils so the bad smell can't get in.
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You have about five million olfactory cells in your nasal passages.
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These cells can detect thousands of different smells.
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Your olfactory nerve collects all the information and then takes it to your brain.
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Your brain recognizes familiar smells and remembers new smells for the future.
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Discover!
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Bears have very sensitive noses.
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Their sense of smell is about 2,000 times better than ours.
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They use their sense of smell to find food.
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Chapter 7.
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Your Sense of Taste Your sense of taste is very important.
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It lets you enjoy the different tastes of your food.
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Your tongue can detect sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter tastes.
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Ice cream tastes sweet because we make it with lots of sugar.
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Some foods, like honey, are naturally sweet.
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Lemon juice and natural yogurt taste sour.
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We can add sugar or honey to make them taste sweeter.
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Food tastes salty when it has lots of salt.
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Many people add salt to foods like popcorn or french fries.
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Foods like meat and cheese have a savory taste called umami.
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This is a Japanese word.
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Coffee tastes bitter, so many people add sugar to make it sweet.
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Orange peel is also bitter, but we can make it into sweet marmalade.
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Chapter 8 On Your Tongue Do you know how your sense of taste works?
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Look at your tongue.
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Can you see lots of little pink bumps?
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Those bumps are your taste buds.
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When you touch food with your tongue, your taste buds detect all the tastes.
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Then your gustatory nerves take the information to your brain.
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Your tongue has about 10,000 taste buds.
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Most of them are at the front, back, and sides of your tongue.
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Your taste buds get old quickly, so your tongue needs to grow new ones.
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It only takes two weeks to replace all your taste buds.
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Discover!
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Your senses of taste and smell work together.
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That's why you can't taste your food very well when you have a cold.
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Chapter 9.
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Your Sense of Touch Your skin gives you information about the things that you touch.
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You can feel temperature, so you know when things are hot or cold.
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This helps to keep you safe.
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You don't want to burn yourself.
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You can also feel the temperature of the air around you, so you know when to put on warm or cool clothes.
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You can feel different textures.
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Some things feel hard, like rocks.
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Other things feel soft, like feathers.
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Some things feel rough, like sandpaper.
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Other things feel smooth, like the surface of glass.
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Discover!
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Some people can't see well, but they can read Braille books.
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Braille is a code of bumps that you feel with your fingers.
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Chapter 10 Under Your Skin There are millions of nerve endings under your skin.
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They detect temperature and textures.
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Then they send the information to your brain.
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Your face, neck, hands, and feet are very sensitive.
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They have more nerve endings than other parts of your body.
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Discover!
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Your nerve endings don't work very well when they are cold.
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That's why your nose feels numb on cold winter days.
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Your nerve endings also protect you when you hurt yourself.
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They send pain signals to your brain.
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The pain doesn't feel good, but it tells your brain that you are in danger.
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Your senses give you information about the world around you.
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They also help to keep you safe.
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which senses are the most important to you and why
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Who Is This Video For?
This video is perfect for beginner to intermediate English learners aiming to boost their reading, vocabulary, and listening skills while exploring a fun, relatable topic: the five senses. Whether you’re practicing shadow speak (repeating after the speaker) or just want to learn English with videos that mix education and engagement, this content fits. It’s ideal for those who want to build confidence in understanding clear, conversational English—great for daily life or exam prep!
Words & Idioms Worth Stealing
Here are key terms to add to your toolkit:
- Detect (to notice or find something): "Your eyes detect light." Use it to talk about senses or problem-solving!
- Reflect (to bounce off): "Light reflects off objects." Perfect for science or describing light.
- Focus (to make clear): "The lens focuses light." Works for eyes, cameras, or even studying!
- Optic nerve (the nerve that sends visual info to the brain): A must-know for biology talk.
How to Get the Accent Right
The speaker uses clear, slow pronunciation—ideal for shadow speech practice. Focus on:
- Stress in multi-syllable words: "Retina" (REH-ti-nuh) and "pupil" (PYOO-puhl) – stress the first syllable.
- Linking sounds: "light and colors" becomes "lightncolors" – connect the "t" and "n" smoothly.
- Intonation in questions: "What other things have lenses?" rises at the end. Mimic this to sound natural.
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.