ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: GIFTED All Movie Clips

กำลังสร้างบทเรียน...
1
I made you a special breakfast.
2
You can't cook.
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Hey, Mary, open up.
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You look beautiful.
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I look like a Disney character.
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Where's the special?
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The what?
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You said you made me a special breakfast?
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Please don't make me go.
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You can keep homeschooling me.
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I'll tell you everything I know.
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But I don't want to go.
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Well, I don't want to go to work, but I do.
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You don't go to work.
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You fix both on and off.
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Okay, it's a poor example, but you're still going.
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But.. but what about Fred?
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What about him?
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You won't take care of him.
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You don't like cats.
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I don't like two-eyed cats.
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I don't like two-eyed cats.
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Fred, as you know, is monocular.
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Who's gonna throw him his ping pong ball?
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Fred's gonna be fine.
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No more argument, okay?
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We've discussed this ad nauseam.
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What's ad nauseam?
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Oh, you don't know?
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Wow looks like someone needs school Gonna be great, you know just I don't know try being a kid
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There's still time for you to undo this nonsense.
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Go, get in your car and go get that child.
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Are you technically allowed to use those keys whenever you want?
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How can you stand there acting all calm and everything?
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Frank can make light of this.
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Now go get her back before it's too late.
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She's got to get out in the world.
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She has no friends to raise, no social skills.
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She doesn't know how to be a kid.
40
Two nights ago, she told me that even if Germany bails out the Euro, there could still be a worldwide depression.
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I was staring at the ceiling for three hours.
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I'm so worried.
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Come on, Roberta.
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If you start crying, I'm gonna have to pretend to start crying.
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Hey, you know, there's something you could be overlooking.
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This could work out.
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Maybe.
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But if anybody takes that baby away, I'll smother you in your sleep.
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Morning, Fred.
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For my show and tell, I have the most awesome cat in the history of time.
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Not only is his name Fred, but he has just one eye.
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Oh no. Go ahead and count, but I promise you, it's always one.
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Hey, let's go outside.
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No. Come on, it's nice stuff.
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No more math today.
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I didn't want to go to this stupid school in the first place.
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And the boy in the next row acts inappropriately for someone who's a child.
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I'm sorry, I'm still passive-aggressively ignoring you.
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Other kids answer questions, and they don't get into trouble.
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You didn't get in trouble for answering questions.
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You yelled at the principal.
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Oh, you know what?
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You're going to find this interesting.
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So I googled first graders who yell at the principal, and statistically you're never gonna believe how many kids do it.
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How many?
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None. Is there a God?
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I don't know.
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Just tell me.
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I would if I could.
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But I don't know.
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Neither does anybody else.
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Roberta knows.
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No. Roberta has faith.
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That's a great thing to have, but faith's about what you think, feel, not what you know.
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What about Jesus?
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Love that guy.
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Do what he says.
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I'll tell you what though.
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One way or another, we all end up back together in the end.
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That's what you're asking, right?
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Yep.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “GIFTED All Movie Clips”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Fred, cat, kid, Roberta. This video has 81 sentences and 555 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:31. The speaker talks at a steady 123 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 16 of its 81 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
yell verb/jɛl/To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
grader noun/ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.
homeschooling nounTeaching children at home instead of sending them to school.
inappropriately adverbIn an inappropriate manner.
monocular adjective/məˈnɑkjələɹ/Having one eye.
smother verb/ˈsməðər/To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
overlook verb/ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
undo verb/ʌnˈduː/To reverse the effects of an action.
aggressively adverbIn an aggressive manner.
statistically adverb/stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/In a statistical way.
ping verb/pɪŋ/To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
stare verb/stɛɚ/To look fixedly (at something).
bail noun/beɪl/Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
passive adjective/ˈpæs.ɪv/Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
technically adverb/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/Based on precise facts, which, however, may be contrary to common belief or casual terminology.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
bail out verbTo secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
end up verbTo bring to a conclusion.
go ahead verb/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/To proceed with; to begin.
open up verbTo open.
work out verb/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/To calculate.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • You said you made me a special breakfast?
  • Please don't make me go.
  • I'll tell you everything I know.
  • You don't go to work.
  • You won't take care of him.

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
กริยา + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — กริยาที่ตามด้วยรูป -ingkeep homeschooling · start crying
อนาคตด้วย “going to” be going to + กริยา — แผนหรือสิ่งที่เห็นว่ากำลังจะเกิดgonna throw · gonna be · gonna have
อนาคตด้วย “will” will + กริยา — การตัดสินใจ คำสัญญา หรือการคาดการณ์I'll tell · won't take · I'll smother
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — สิ่งที่กำลังเกิดขึ้นตอนนี้หรือช่วงนี้you're still going · you're asking

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, gonna, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: smother /ˈsməðər/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • Long words — get the stress right: monocular /məˈnɑkjələɹ/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like yell, grader, homeschooling.

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Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

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