Shadowing Practice: (Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I love singing, and I love books, so I'm very happy.
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My weekends are very exciting,
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but I enjoy my weekdays, too.
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I'm lucky.
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I live near the bookstore,
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and I don't start work until 10 a.m.
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Every morning I get up at 8,
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make breakfast, and watch the news on TV.
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Then I walk to work.
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I'm very busy all day.
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I help people find the books they want.
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At lunchtime, I get a sandwich from the deli,
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and I often go to the gym.
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I usually finish work at 5.30 p.m.,
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but on Tuesday and Thursday evenings,
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I work very late, until 10.30.
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I never cook after work.
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I'm too tired.
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I sometimes like going to the little restaurant near my apartment.
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Saturday mornings, I go shopping and clean my apartment.
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I don't eat dinner on Saturday and Sunday evenings because I'm too excited.
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I like singing, but I'm always nervous before the show.
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Lisa Parsons is 32 years old and lives in Manhattan.
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From Monday to Friday, she works at a bookstore in New York.
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Sometimes she stays at work until 10.30 at night,
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but Lisa doesn't relax on weekends.
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On weekends, she has another job.
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She is a singer.
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On Saturday afternoons, she practices with her band,
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and on Saturday and Sunday nights,
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she goes to nightclubs and sings.
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She has no free time,
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but she loves her life.
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I come from a small town in Minnesota.
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But I live in Hollywood now, and it's very different.
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In my hometown, people are very friendly.
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They walk down the street,
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and they speak to you.
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They say, Hi there, and How are you?
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Here in Hollywood, people don't walk.
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They drive everywhere.
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I live in this big house on Santa Monica,
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and sometimes I don't see anyone all day.
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Pamela is a doctor.
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She's Canadian, but now she lives in a small town near Nairobi,
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Kenya, in East Africa.
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She isn't an ordinary doctor.
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She's a flying doctor.
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Every day from 8 a.m to 10 a.m.,
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she speaks to people on her radio.
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Then she flies to help them.
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She works 16 hours a day nonstop,
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but she loves her job.
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She isn't married.
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She has no free time.
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Ishtvan is a music professor.
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He comes from Budapest in Hungary,
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but now he lives in the United States.
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He works four days a week at the University of Texas, Austin.
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He speaks three languages, Hungarian, English, and German.
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He's married to an American and has a daughter.
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He likes playing tennis in his free time.
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I do the same things every day.
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I wake up at 7,
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but I stay in bed until 7.15.
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Then I get up and have a shower.
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That really wakes me up.
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I get dressed and then I have breakfast,
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some toast and a cup of coffee.
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I leave the house at 8.30 and walk to the bus stop.
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I go to work by bus.
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I start work at about nine and I finish work at five or six.
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In the evening, I have dinner and watch television or play on the computer.
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I am usually in bed by eleven.
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I live with my mother and my father and my two brothers.
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They are called Owen and David.
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Owen is 20 and he's at university.
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David is 16 and he's at school, like me.
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I have two grandmothers and one grandfather.
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My other grandfather is dead.
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I have one uncle and one aunt.
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My aunt Janet is my mother's sister.
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They have two daughters.
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Rosa is ten and Gemma is fourteen, like me.
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They are my cousins.
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Mike is standing at the top of the stairs.
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He is reading something.
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Then he falls down the stairs.
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His leg hurts a lot.
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He tells his wife Judy that his leg is killing him.
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Judy gets ice for him,
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and then she takes him to the hospital.
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The doctor says that Mike's leg is broken.
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Mike isn't happy because he has to stay put.
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He can't go to work for a few days.
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A woman is coming home late from work because she missed her train.
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She has a cell phone,
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so she calls her husband and tells him she is late
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He will pick up the kids and have a chicken dinner ready when she gets home
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The wife thinks her husband is lucky because he works at home and he can take naps when he gets sleepy
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He says that he does the laundry and the dishes because he is home.
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I'm a carpenter.
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I work eight hours a day from Monday to Friday.
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I get up around 6 a.m and I work from 7 a.m until 3 p.m.
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I get home pretty early, about 4 p.m.
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I go to bed at 10.
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Well, I'm an accountant.
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It's a regular 9 to 5 office job,
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so I get up at 7 a.m and get home around 6 p.m.
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That's okay, though, because I like to go out at night.
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I go to bed around midnight on weekdays.
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Well, my hours are a bit different.
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I'm a nurse.
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I start work at 11 at night.
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I work until 7 a.m.
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I get home at 8 and go to bed at about 8.30,
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and I sleep until 4 p.m.
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Oh, you know, I have dinner, watch TV, see friends.
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It's a great schedule for me.
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Tom has to wake up early to go to the airport.
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But when his roommate wakes him up,
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he doesn't want to get up.
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The room is very cold and dark,
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and he wants to go back to sleep.
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Tom gets up, but he doesn't have time to take a shower.
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He gets dressed quickly and goes to the airport.
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He's lucky because he doesn't miss his plane.
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Alice and Peter go away for the weekend.
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They go to the beach.
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It is winter, so they can't go swimming.
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But they take walks on the beach,
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and they get plenty of fresh air.
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On Friday night, they go dancing,
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and on Sunday, they go ice skating.
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They have a good time and are very happy.
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The Internet Can you imagine a day before the Internet?
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Its history.
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The Internet started in the 1960s.
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The United States Department of Defense started it because they wanted a computer network to help the American military.
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In the 1970s, scientists worked on it and learned how to send messages between computers.
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Then, in the 1980s, telephone companies made it possible to communicate on the computer network in many more countries.
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International Computer Language was born,
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and the Internet went worldwide.
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These days.
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Now, of course, you can email,
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listen to music, and shop online.
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You can Google for information about anything and everything,
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or just put on your Google glasses.
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You can book a hotel,
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a vacation, or movie tickets.
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You can read a book.
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You can pay your bills.
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You can watch your favorite TV program.
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You can play chess with a partner in China.
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You can chat with your friends and share photos.
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You can.
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The list is endless.
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Canada through the seasons The weather is very different in this large country,
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so there's something to do for everyone in every season.
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Spring can arrive in February in Victoria on the west coast.
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In other parts of Canada,
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it gets warm in early April,
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and spring weather continues until June.
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In British Columbia, you can kayak,
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camp, or take a train trip through the Rocky Mountains.
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Summer brings warm to hot weather from May to September.
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This is a great time to fish in one of Canada's many lakes.
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Kayak among whales in Churchill,
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Manitoba, or have some Wild West fun at the Calgary Stampede.
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Fall brings cool temperatures in September and October.
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It's a good time of year to see the fall leaves in eastern Canada,
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enjoy hiking, visit museums, or go to the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Snow begins to fall in November and temperatures drop.
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Days are short in winter,
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but you can ski, go to an ice festival,
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or see the northern lights.
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In parts of British Columbia,
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the snow doesn't stay long and you can golf all year.

Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları

Bu B1 seviyesindeki konuşma dersi “(Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: computer, bed, walk. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 178 cümle ve 1356 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 13:18 sürüyor. Konuşmacı yavaş konuşuyor, dakikada yaklaşık 102 kelime; her sesi taklit etmek için zamanınız var. Kelimelerin %83’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodaki en ileri düzey 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

KelimeTelaffuzAnlam
kayak isim/ˈkaɪˌæk/eskimo kayığı, kayık
weekday isim/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/hafta içi, hafta arası
stairs isim/ˈstɛɹz/basamak, merdiven
aunt isim/ɑːnt/hala, bibi
grandfather isim/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/dede, büyükbaba
excite fiil/ɪkˈsaɪt/heyecanlandırmak
lunchtime isim/ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/öğle arası, öğle tatili
nonstop zarf/ˌnɑnˈstɑp/ara vermeden, durmadan
nightclub isim/ˈnʌɪtklʌb/gece kulübü
skate isim/skeɪt/paten
accountant isim/əˈkaʊn.tənt/muhasebeci, muhasip
roommate isim/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/oda arkadaşı, ev arkadaşı
carpenter isim/ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/dülger, marangoz
hometown isim/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/yurt, memleket
chess isim/t͡ʃɛs/satranç

Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller

KelimeTelaffuzAnlam
get up fiilkalkmak
wake up fiil/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/uyanmak

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemliare called · is broken · was born
Fiil + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — ardından -ing biçimi gelen fiillerlove singing · enjoy hiking
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — şu anda ya da bu sıralar olan bir şeyis standing · is reading · is killing
Zorunluluk: must / have to / need to bir şeyin gerekli olduğunu söylemekhas to stay · has to wake

Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı I'm, doesn't, don't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 23 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

  • “th” sesleri: grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

  • /w/ — dudaklar yuvarlak, /v/ değil: weekday /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/, whale /ˈweɪl/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, swim /swɪm/
  • Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, sleepy /ˈsliːpi/, skate /skeɪt/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
  • /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: kayak /ˈkaɪˌæk/, microgram /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, nap /næp/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/

Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır

  1. Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
  2. Normal hızda cümle cümle tekrar edin; ritminiz konuşmacıyla aynı olana kadar her cümleyi yineleyin.
  3. Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; kayak, weekday, stairs gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.

Gölgeleme Tekniği Nedir?

Gölgeleme, başlangıçta profesyonel tercüman eğitimi için geliştirilen ve çok dilli Dr. Alexander Arguelles tarafından popüler hale getirilen, bilim destekli bir dil öğrenme tekniğidir. Yöntem basit ama güçlüdür: ana dili İngilizce olan bir sesi dinler ve hemen yüksek sesle tekrar edersiniz — konuşmacıyı 1-2 saniye gecikmeyle takip eden bir gölge gibi. Pasif dinleme veya dilbilgisi alıştırmalarının aksine, gölgeleme beyninizi ve ağız kaslarınızı gerçek konuşma kalıplarını eşzamanlı olarak işlemeye ve yeniden üretmeye zorlar. Araştırmalar, telaffuz doğruluğu, tonlama, ritim, bağlı konuşma, dinleme anlama ve konuşma akıcılığını önemli ölçüde geliştirdiğini göstermektedir — bu da onu IELTS Konuşma hazırlığı ve gerçek dünya İngilizce iletişimi için en etkili yöntemlerden biri yapar.

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