ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Top Notch 2 Unit 7 Street Interviews

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Who are you most like in terms of personality?
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My mother.
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And why do you say that?
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Outgoing.
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She smiles a lot.
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Do you have any brothers or sisters?
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One brother, two, three sisters.
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Okay, and how are you different?
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Is, say, one more extroverted than the other or more introverted?
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Well, I'm quiet, calm.
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I don't really get excited over things and just take it easy.
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I don't let things bother me a lot.
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While my sisters, they will get excited and get upset and I'm not like that.
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Okay, how about first children?
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Do you think that they have certain traits that they share?
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Well, I think my brother, being the oldest and the only boy, was allowed to get away with things a lot more than my sister and I.
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And what I mean by that is, as the oldest and as a boy, he was able to go to concerts at an earlier age than my sister or I.
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He kind of got out of household duties that my sister and I had because he was babysitting us.
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And how about if you're the last in a big family?
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Do you think that you get special benefits from that?
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Yeah, you get clothes.
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What about birth order?
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Do you think that makes a difference?
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Who's the oldest and who's the youngest?
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I don't think so.
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Not important.
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I don't think it's important.
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It's just the personality.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Top Notch 2 Unit 7 Street Interviews”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sister, oldest, brother. This video has 28 sentences and 240 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:34. The speaker talks at a natural 153 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 12 of its 28 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
household adjective/ˈhaʊshoʊld/Belonging to the same house and family.
bother verb/ˈbɑðɚ/To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
youngest adjective/ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/Most recently begun or formed.
cloth noun/klɒθ/A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes…
trait noun/tɹeɪt/An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
outgoing adjective/aʊtˈɡəʊɪŋ/Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving.
babysit verb/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
extroverted adjective/ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/Turned or thrust outwards, especially
introverted adjective/ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/Thinking about internal or spiritual matters.
personality noun/ˌpɜɹ.səˈnæ.lə.ti/Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
quiet adjective/ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
smile verb/ˈsmaɪl/To have (a smile) on one's face.
upset verb/ʌpˈsɛt/To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
concert noun/kənˈsɝt/An agreement in a design or plan; a union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; an accordance in a scheme; harmony; a simultaneous action.
calm adjective/kɑm/Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
get away with verbTo get away, or escape, taking (something) with one.
get out of verbTo leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Who are you most like in terms of personality?
  • Do you have any brothers or sisters?
  • I don't let things bother me a lot.
  • Do you think that they have certain traits that they share?
  • Do you think that makes a difference?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 7 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, cloth /klɒθ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, introverted /ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/, personality /ˌpɜɹ.səˈnæ.lə.ti/

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 household, bother, youngest.

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