ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Sometimes size does matter #stem #map #perception

กำลังสร้างบทเรียน...
1
This is the new world map, and only one nation voted against it.
2
Most people have known that the current map, the Mercator, is not to scale.
3
It was designed in the 1500s by Gerardus Mercator to help European sailors navigate the world.
4
That's why Europe is in the middle, and Africa, which is about 14 times bigger than Greenland, looks about the same size.
5
Now, to be fair, squeezing a 3D shape onto a 2D surface does require sacrifices regardless.
6
If you pulled the sticker off a globe and tried to lay it flat on a table, there would be a lot of gaps.
7
The Mercator map was designed to preserve angles and shapes, which helped sailors plot a course, for example, in a straight line with a compass.
8
If you stretch some of these nations, then the distance of travel isn't as accurate.
9
Basically, either the nations are true to size or true to shape.
10
You can't have both.
11
But we don't travel like this anymore.
12
So in 2018, a group of cartographers created what they call the Equal Earth Projection.
13
But it wasn't until a vote yesterday that the UN approved it.
14
164 nations voted in support, six were abstained, but only one voted against it.
15
The US's argument was that we should focus on other things, and implementing it will be hard.
16
Correcting the map is important because it shapes people's perceptions of the world.
17
Spatially speaking, we could use this map, or this one, or this one where China's in the middle.
18
But we don't, because deep down we know that perception matters.
✨ วิดีโอแนะนำ
Can Earth Run Out of Water?B2
133
16 ประโยค

Can Earth Run Out of Water?

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
People of Science with Brian Cox - Uta Frith on Alice LeeB2
2
48 ประโยค

People of Science with Brian Cox - Uta Frith on Alice Lee

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
What If you Could See the 4th Dimension?B2
3
303 ประโยค

What If you Could See the 4th Dimension?

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
YOU Own the Moon. And Mars. And Venus.B2
6
23 ประโยค

YOU Own the Moon. And Mars. And Venus.

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
Are We Measuring Life the Wrong Way? | B2 English ShadowingB2
1
176 ประโยค

Are We Measuring Life the Wrong Way? | B2 English Shadowing

Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
Spending a Day on Earth 200 Million Years AgoB2
5
5 ประโยค

Spending a Day on Earth 200 Million Years Ago

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Yosemite Permits, Italy Superbonus, Salary Caps (Vol. 22)B2
3
51 ประโยค

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Yosemite Permits, Italy Superbonus, Salary Caps (Vol. 22)

Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
Why did white men conquer the world?C1
291 ประโยค

Why did white men conquer the world?

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
27 Facts That Will Make You Question Your ExistenceB2
5
49 ประโยค

27 Facts That Will Make You Question Your Existence

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
Powering The Internet is Becoming a Big ProblemB2
3
169 ประโยค

Powering The Internet is Becoming a Big Problem

British AccentBusiness EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
Why women’s clothing sizes don’t make senseB2
2
46 ประโยค

Why women’s clothing sizes don’t make sense

Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
The Story of UsB2
8
35 ประโยค

The Story of Us

Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Sometimes size does matter”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: map, shape, nation, Mercator, voted. This video has 18 sentences and 265 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:14. The speaker talks fast, about 215 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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

The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
sailor noun/ˈseɪ.lɚ/A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
perception noun/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
abstain verb/əbˈsteɪn/Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
cartographer nounOne who makes maps or charts.
spatially adverbWith reference to space or arrangement in space.
navigate verb/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
sticker noun/ˈstɪkə/Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
compass noun/ˈkʌmpəs/A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
squeeze verb/skwiːz/To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.
approve verb/əˈpɹuːv/To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
preserve verb/pɹəˈzɝv/To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
implement verb/ˈɪmpləmənt/To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำwas designed · were abstained
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบันhave known
Relative clauses who / which + อนุประโยค — ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับคนหรือสิ่งของAfrica, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, can't, isn't. 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. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like sailor, perception, abstain.

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

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

เทคนิค shadowing: อ่านคู่มือฉบับเต็มทีละขั้นตอน →