ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Life changes – A2 English Listening Test
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I used to work such long hours that I didn't have any time to enjoy life.
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I was like a robot – get up, go to work, go back home, sleep.
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I had no personal life and I started to feel really miserable.
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I decided that I wanted to have more free time,
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so I told my boss that I was going through some personal issues and that I needed to work part-time.
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She agreed.
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Now I have time to do everything I want.
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I don't have as much money, but I'm much, much happier.
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Jasmine is three weeks old today.
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I remember a month or so ago thinking that I would go back to work within two or three months.
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Now I know that's not going to happen.
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I just can't imagine leaving her with someone else.
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I'll miss my colleagues, of course, but work will pay me an allowance for a year, so I've decided to take that.
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I worked as a singing teacher for ten years and I've had some really good success stories,
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But I felt that I had gone as far as I could go in that career and I wanted a change.
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I didn't just want to do a different job in music.
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I wanted to do something completely different.
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That's why I applied to do this engineering course.
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It's challenging definitely, but I really love it.
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For the last nine years, I've done the responsible thing.
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I got a well-paid job close to home so that my wife didn't have to work, and I could be home by half past four to spend time with the kids.
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It's worked, but I really began to hate work.
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Now the kids are older, so after some discussion, my wife agreed I could get a job I loved, even though I will be home much later and earn less.
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I started last week.
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It's great.
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My wife and I both had really good jobs, which we really enjoyed.
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But we rarely saw our kids, and they started to have difficulties at school.
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We began to think we were being selfish.
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Together, we were earning far more money than we needed.
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So we decided that I would give up work and teach the children myself at home.
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it's not easy but now we spend a lot more time together and it's good for all of us
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👨🏻💻 My Life | Present Simple | American | A2 Listening Practice #english #presentsimple
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 31 sentences and 400 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:41. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| rarely adverb | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. |
| difficulty noun | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | The state of being difficult, or hard to do. |
| robot noun | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. |
| selfish adjective | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making. |
| miserable adjective | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. |
| colleague noun | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. |
| allowance noun | /əˈlaʊəns/ | Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. |
| jasmine noun | /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/ | Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers. |
| teach verb | /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/ | To pass on knowledge to. |
| sing verb | /ˈsɪŋ/ | To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. |
| engineer noun | /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/ | A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, I've, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, engineer /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
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 earn, rarely, difficulty.
ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้
โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:
| โครงสร้าง | ในวิดีโอ |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบัน | I've decided · I've done |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — การกระทำที่กำลังดำเนินอยู่ ณ ช่วงหนึ่งในอดีต | was going · were being · were earning |
| อนาคตด้วย “will” will + กริยา — การตัดสินใจ คำสัญญา หรือการคาดการณ์ | I'll miss · will be |
| ความจำเป็น: must / have to / need to บอกว่าสิ่งใดจำเป็นต้องทำ | needed to work · have to work |
เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?
Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ