Shadowing Practice: READING EXPLORER FOUNDATIONS UNIT 5 5A THE DISEASE DETECTIVE - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Five are the disease detective.
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Six children were in the hospital.
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They were C very sick, but the doctors didn't know what to do.
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They called Dr Richard Besser, an expert on strange illnesses.
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Finding a cause B first, Dr Besser needed to find the cause of the D illness.
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He looked for germs in the children's bodies.
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In every child, Dr Besser found the same type of the bacteria, E coli.
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He then looked at the bacteria's DNA.
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It showed him that type of E coli was dangerous.
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See, Dr. Besser knew E coli could move from animals to humans.
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Had the children touched animals that carried the bacteria?
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Besser found other E coli cases in the area where the children lived, but it wasn't enough.
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D. Besser then made a list of what the sick children had eaten.
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They had all eaten cheese, apple juice and fish.
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He then made a list of what healthy children in the area had eaten.
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They had eaten the cheese and fish, but not the apple juice.
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Case closed.
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Besser went to where the apple juice was made.
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He saw animals around the apple trees.
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He also saw the workers using dirty apples that had fallen on the ground.
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More importantly, he saw that the apples were not washed before the juice was made and that the juice was not heated.
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Doing these things would kill the bacteria.
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Besser then knew it was the apple juice that made the children sick.
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F. Besser's E coli case had a happy ending.
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The children got better.
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And what Besser learned that day now helps keep others safe.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 26 sentences and 273 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:51. The speaker talks at a steady 148 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| illness noun | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| worker noun | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. |
| detective noun | /dɪˈtɛktɪv/ | A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator. |
| importantly adverb | /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/ | Used to mark a statement as having importance. |
| coli noun | /ˈkoʊ.laɪ/ | Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. |
| bacterium noun | /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəm/ | A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles. |
| germ noun | /d͡ʒɝm/ | The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. |
| cheese noun | /t͡ʃiz/ | A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. |
| strange adjective | /stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ | Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation. |
| expert noun | /ˈɛk.spɜːt/ | A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject. |
| dirty adjective | /ˈdɝti/ | Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like juice, illness, wash.
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.