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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2 Your Body by Louise Spilsbury Read by Christopher Ragland Published and copyright Oxford University Press 2012
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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2 Your Body by Louise Spilsbury Read by Christopher Ragland Published and copyright Oxford University Press 2012
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Introduction Your body is amazing!
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It helps you to walk, work, and play.
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It helps you to eat, read, listen, and learn.
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It's important to protect your body.
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How does your body help you?
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How do you protect your body?
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Discover Now read and discover more about your body.
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Chapter 1 Your Skin and Hair You have skin everywhere on your body.
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Your skin helps you to touch things.
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It helps you to know when things are hot or cold.
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Skin stops dirt getting into your body.
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It stops water getting into your body when it's rainy and when you swim.
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Hair grows out of your skin.
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Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're cold.
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This stops your body getting too cold.
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Your skin makes sweat when you're hot.
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This stops your body getting too hot.
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Protect your body.
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Wash every day so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair.
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Chapter 2 Your Bones There are bones under your skin.
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These bones make your skeleton.
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Your skeleton helps you to stand up.
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There are joints in your skeleton, too.
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Bones meet at joints.
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Elbows and knees are joints.
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Joints help you to move.
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Knee joints help you to jump and kick.
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A baby has small bones.
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Bones grow and they make you big and tall.
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Discover Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old.
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Then there are 206 bones in your body.
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Protect your bones When you ride a skateboard,
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wear pads to protect your bones and joints.
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Wear a helmet to protect your head, too.
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Chapter 3 Your Muscles What helps your bones and joints to walk,
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run, dance, and jump?
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Muscles Muscles pull your bones to move your body.
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Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle.
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Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat.
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Discover There are more than 600 muscles in your body.
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Running, swimming, dancing, and riding a bicycle are types of exercise.
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Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and joints strong.
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Your heart is a type of muscle.
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Exercise makes your heart strong, too.
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Protect your body. Do exercise every day.
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What is your favorite type of exercise?
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Chapter 4 Your Eyes and Ears Your eyes help you to see the world around you.
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They open and close many times every day.
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This is called blinking.
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When your eyes blink, they wash dirt out of your eyes.
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At night, your eyes close so you can sleep.
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Discover!
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Eyes blink about 15 times every minute.
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Your ears help you to listen to music.
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They help you to listen for cars in the street.
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Your ears can hear things when you sleep, too.
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Protect your eyes and ears.
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On sunny days, wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.
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Don't listen to very loud music.
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It's bad for your ears.
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Chapter 5 Your nose and mouth.
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You breathe through your nose and mouth.
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Your nose and mouth take air into your body.
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You breathe about 15 times every minute.
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Discover!
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After exercise, people breathe fast.
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They can breathe 40 times every minute.
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Your nose helps you to smell things.
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Your mouth helps you to talk and eat.
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Your teeth bite food so you can eat it.
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Your body uses food to live and grow.
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Protect your teeth Brush your teeth after breakfast and after dinner,
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and don't eat lots of candy.
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Chapter 6.
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Your Brain.
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Do you know how you read these words?
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Your brain tells you what your eyes see.
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Your brain tells you what you see, hear, and touch.
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It tells your muscles when to move.
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It helps you to write,
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speak, draw, and do puzzles.
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Your brain is amazing.
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Your brain works all day and at night when you sleep.
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At night, it makes you breathe and it makes your heart work.
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At night, your brain helps you to remember things that you learn in the day.
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Protect your brain.
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Wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle.
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Chapter 7 Getting Sick Do you get sick?
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Germs are things that can make you sick.
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Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat.
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Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too.
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Some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin.
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Wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers.
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Wash your hands when it's time to eat,
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after you go to the toilet,
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after you touch animals, and after you play outside.
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Stop germs.
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There are germs in a sneeze.
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Catch sneezes in a tissue.
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Then throw the tissue in a wastebasket.
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Chapter 8.
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Protect Your Body Eat food that's good for you.
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Good food helps your bones to grow.
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It makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick.
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There's lots of water in your body.
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You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat.
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Drink water every day to protect your body.
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Go to the doctor when you get sick and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day.
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It's good to do exercise and it makes you happy.
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It's good to sleep when you are tired too.
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It's important to protect your body.

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About This Lesson

This lesson revolves around the amazing abilities of your body and emphasizes the importance of protecting it. You will explore fascinating aspects like skin, bones, muscles, and sensory organs such as eyes and ears. Engaging with the transcript of the video will help you enhance your vocabulary while developing your ability to communicate about health and body functions in English. This is an excellent opportunity to practice the shadowing technique, allowing you to improve your pronunciation and fluency by mimicking the speaker as closely as possible.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

  • Skin - The outer layer of your body that helps you sense temperature and protects you from dirt.
  • Bones - The hard structures that make up your skeleton and support your body.
  • Muscles - Tissues that allow your body to move by pulling on bones.
  • Joints - Flexible connections between bones that enable movement.
  • Exercise - Physical activity that strengthens your muscles and keeps your heart healthy.
  • Protect - To keep something safe from harm, especially referring to your body in this context.
  • Healthy - A state of physical well-being that comes from proper care of your body.
  • Blinking - The rapid closing and opening of the eyes to keep them moist and clear.

Practice Tips

To get the most out of your learning experience, consider using a shadowing app or shadowing site where you can play the transcript at your own pace. Start by listening to small sections of the video, perhaps just a sentence or two at a time. This approach will help you focus on the nuances of the speaker's tone and pacing.

As you listen, pause the video and repeat the sentences aloud, applying the shadow speak technique. Pay particular attention to how the speaker emphasizes certain words related to the body. This will not only help you with pronunciation but will also improve your overall speaking confidence.

Your goal is to mimic the rhythm and intonation of the speaker, asking yourself how each segment relates to the topic of bodily functions. Frequent practice with this shadowing technique will enhance your retention of the vocabulary and deepen your understanding of the material discussed.

To further your practice, engage in discussions about your daily exercises and how you protect your body while using the vocabulary you learn. This active use of language will reinforce what you have studied and make the learning experience more enjoyable and effective.

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.

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