Shadowing Practice: Beyond the Pain: Finding Your Purpose & Changing Everything - Learn English Speaking with Video

Ders oluşturuluyor...
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Life is not in a box.
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There's no rules.
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It's what you make with life.
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If you want to be old, you can be old.
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And if you fight a bit, you can carry on much longer.
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Doesn't mean you don't sometimes have aches and pains, that's for sure.
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Getting stiff or can't touch your toes as easily.
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Can't put your socks on, that's the main thing, early in the morning.
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But other than that...
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it's all in the mind.
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Oh, I've had enough of my own heart sores.
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My one and only child, she died at 15 months.
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And there was no chance of having another one.
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I remember I asked, the day when it happened, I asked the minister, will I ever be able to laugh again?
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And he said to me 'yes, you will laugh again'.
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And you do. You get to a point where you realise she wouldn't have wanted you to sit in that horrible deep hole that you were sitting in.
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The eina (pain) never really goes away.
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But you can live fully, by looking life square in the face.
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Look at it. Look at it and say yes, it does hurt.
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It hurts tremendously.
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But am I going to stay like this for another 50 years.
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No. That's all you get from me.
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You can feel sorry for yourself, to a point.
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But work through it, pull up your shoulders, and go on.
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Don't carry baggage with you.
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Where do you want to take it?
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It doesn't take you anywhere.
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Get angry and get it over with.
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Get angry, yah. Get angry and kick a door.
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Or go and sit in a corner and cry it out.
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Get angry. Everyone told you to behave. Why?
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Why must I behave?
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If I'm cross, I'm cross.
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So get angry, but get it over with.
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Getting it out, you get calmer, in your inner self.
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Don't ask me how, I don't know. But it does.
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There's no secret to life.
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I just think, don't put life in a box.
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It's your approach to life.
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Do you see the beauty in it, or do you just exist?
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Be careful to just exist.
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That's dangerous.
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It's not big things in life that make you happy.
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It's to be able to see the beauty in the small things.
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Or when you see a nice flower.
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Have you ever smelled it? Have you ever smelled earth?
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There are very few things that smell as nice as earth.
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Go for life.
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There is enough time where you're not there any more.
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Go for it while you are there.
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Be alive. To all of you who have contributed, for those of you who have shared our films, for those of you who have written out comments, this journey is just beginning.
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Thanks so much.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Beyond the Pain: Finding Your Purpose & Changing Everything”. This video has 53 sentences and 495 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:35. The speaker talks slowly, about 108 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
behave verb/bɪˈheɪv/To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
horrible adjective/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
contribute verb/kənˈtɹɪb.jut/To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
realise verbNon-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
toe noun/təʊ/Each of the five digits on the end of the human foot.
donate verb/ˈdoʊˌneɪt/To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
sore adjective/soɹ/Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
stiff adjective/stɪf/Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
sock noun/sɑk/A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
ache verb/ˈeɪk/To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
eina/ˈeɪnə/Ouch! (an exclamation of pain)
tremendously adverbGreatly; enormously

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
go away verbTo depart or leave a place.
pull up verb/ˌpʊl ˈʌp/To lift upwards or vertically.
work through verbTo get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.
written out adjectivedeleted or excluded from a narrative work or record.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • It's what you make with life.
  • Getting stiff or can't touch your toes as easily.
  • Where do you want to take it?
  • Have you ever smelled it?
  • Have you ever smelled earth?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, can't, doesn'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. 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 behave, horrible, flower.

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