ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry

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Talk to me softly There's something in your eyes
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Don't hang your head in sorrow And please don't cry I know how you feel inside I've-- I've been there before
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Somethin' is changin' inside you And don't you know
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Don't you cry tonight I still love you, baby Don't you cry tonight
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Don't you cry tonight There's a heaven above you, baby And don't you cry tonight
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Give me a whisper And give me a sigh
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Give me a kiss before you tell me goodbye
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Don't you take it so hard now And please don't take it so bad
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I'll still be thinkin' of you And the times we had, baby And don't you cry tonight
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Don't you cry tonight
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Don't you cry tonight There's a heaven above you, baby And don't you cry tonight
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And please remember That I never lied
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And please remember How I felt inside now, honey You gotta make it your own way
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But you'll be alright now, sugar You'll feel better tomorrow Come the morning light now, baby
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And don't you cry tonight
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And don't you cry tonight
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And don't you cry tonight There's a heaven above you, baby And don't you cry
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Don't you ever cry Don't you cry tonight Baby, maybe someday
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Don't you cry Don't you ever cry Don't you cry Tonight
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Tonight

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: cry, tonight, baby, heaven, inside. This video has 20 sentences and 222 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:20. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

10 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
honey noun/ˈhʌni/A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
someday adverbSometime; at some unspecified time in the future.
sigh verb/saɪ/To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary…
softly adverb/ˈsɔftli/In a soft manner; gently.
whisper verb/ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/To speak softly or under one's breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration of the…
sorrow noun/ˈsɑɹoʊ/unhappiness, woe
sugar noun/ˈʃʊɡə/A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
stupid adjective/ˈstjuːpɪd/Lacking in intelligence.
lie verb/laɪ̯/To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 28 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I've, you'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 honey, goodbye, someday.

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