Shadowing Practice: The Engineering Process: Crash Course Kids #12.2 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm going to take a wild guess and say you've probably used the phone.
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And I bet you've enjoyed the benefits of a little thing we call air conditioning.
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You know who made those things possible?
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Engineers.
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We were just talking about engineers in our last video, people who design and build things to solve problems, and there are lots of different kinds of engineers.
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No matter what type of engineer you want to be though, civil, mechanical, electrical, or a kind that doesn't even exist yet,
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there's a series of steps that all engineers follow when they're trying to solve a problem.
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This process is called, wait for it, the engineering process.
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Makes sense to me.
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So what sort of steps are included in the engineering process?
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And why do we need it?
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Let's go through it step by step and discover how awesome things are made.
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First thing you gotta do is just define the problem.
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I mean, before you can solve a problem, you have to figure out what it is, right?
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For example, back in the 1800s, an engineer named Alexander Graham Bell was trying to come up with a simpler, cheaper way for people to communicate.
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Back then, the best you could do was a telegraph, which was an old -fashioned system of sending messages over electrical wires.
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Bell identified his problem.
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Communicating with people who were far away was expensive and took a lot of time.
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So his invention, or solution to this problem, was something you may have heard of.
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The telephone.
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Nice.
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Now, once you've figured out what problem you want to tackle, you need to do your research.
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You can start by just making a list of questions you have and what information you need to start answering them.
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You can also look around and find what other things already exist that have tried to solve this same problem.
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Maybe they can be improved.
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A good example here is the man who helped us blow stuff up.
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The chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel invented the explosive known as dynamite.
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Not because he particularly enjoyed explosions, but because miners and other people who, well, needed to blow stuff up to do their jobs, needed an explosive that was safer to use.
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So before he started on that problem, Nobel did research to see what explosives already existed, which ones worked well and which ones didn't.
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This takes us to step three, develop a solution.
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After your research is done, this is where you say exactly how you think you can solve the problem.
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And once you've thought of a good solution, you have to figure out how it'll actually work and what it will look like.
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So you have to design your solution.
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This is where you get to draw.
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Civil engineers always sketch out their ideas, like buildings and bridges and towers, to show what they'll look like when they're done.
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Gustave Yiffel designed the famous Eiffel Tower in France, and he definitely showed up on day one of construction knowing exactly what it was going to look like.
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On to step five, build a prototype.
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A prototype is just a simple model that lets you test out your design.
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It can be as big as the real thing's going to be, or it can be a smaller version.
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You just need to have a prototype so you can test it.
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This may be the most important step in the whole process.
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Engineers need to test their design to see if it works like they want it to.
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So say if your building's a big tower, does it stand up?
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Does it stay standing up?
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If you're designing something with moving parts, does it work the way you want?
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Now take it from me, my future engineers you might have a great idea, a really terrific solution to a really big problem.
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But when you get to this step, your prototype probably won't work exactly the way you want.
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At least, not on the first try.
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Most engineers test their prototypes over and over and over again.
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That's why a lot of time and brainpower goes into the very last step, evaluating your solutions.
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Evaluating just means asking yourself whether things are working the way you want, or why they are, or aren't.
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I like to think of this step as question everything.
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This is when engineers review all of the facts and ask themselves questions, followed by even more questions.
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What worked well?
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Why did it work?
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Why didn't it work?
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How could it be made better?
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And most of the time, the answers to these questions are going to send you back several steps.
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Like, once you've figured out why your prototype wasn't working, you'll have to design a new solution and then build it and then test it again.
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Sometimes, engineers go through this process four, five, even six times or more.
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Take Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning.
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He tested his prototypes for years before he figured out the design
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that worked the way he wanted and solved the problem he wanted to fix.
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Like all engineers, he failed a lot before he succeeded.
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And that's okay because he learned something from every failure, which made his product even better in the end.
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And I, for one, am glad he kept going.
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So the engineering process is a series of steps that engineers, or anyone, should use when they're facing a challenge.
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The process is important because it allows engineers to experiment, and also, to fail.
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Both of these things give engineers a chance to go back and improve on their original idea, giving us something even better down the road.
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So the next time you fail at something, don't feel too bad.
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Think about the telephone, and the air conditioner, and the Eiffel Tower.
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And then try again.
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Thank you.
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Bu Klip İçin Konuşma Hedefleri

Bu video, gölge konuşma tekniği ile pratik yaparken mantıksal düşünme ve detaylı anlatım becerilerini geliştirmenize yardımcı olur. Özellikle problem çözme sürecini adım adım anlatırken kullanılan cümle yapıları, IELTS konuşma pratiği gibi resmi sınavlarda da önemli olan "açıklama yeteneği"ni güçlendirir. Hedef: 5-6 adımdan oluşan bir süreci akıcı bir şekilde anlatmak ve örnekler vererek konuyu canlandırabilmek.

Konuşma Kütüphanesi

  • "define the problem" – "problemi tanımlamak"
  • "develop a solution" – "çözüm üretmek"
  • "build a prototype" – "prototipe inşa etmek"
  • "evaluate your solutions" – "çözümlerinizi değerlendirmek"
  • "test out your design" – "tasarımınızı test etmek"
  • "improve upon existing ideas" – "mevcut fikirleri geliştirmek"

Bu ifadeler, mühendislik dışında da iş görüşmeleri, proje sunumları gibi durumlarda sıkça kullanılabilir. Örneğin: "Bugün toplantıda projenin temel problemini tanımlayacağız" veya "Yeni ürünü test etmeden önce küçük bir prototipe ihtiyacımız var."

Zayıf Yanlarınızı Düzeltin

Video, uzun cümleleri doğal bir ritimle konuşma becerisini geliştirir. Özellikle "step by step" (adım adım) anlatırken kullanılan artımsal ifadeler (örneğin: "once you've figured out, then you have to, this takes us to") konuşma hızını ve akıcılığını test eder. Gölgeleme tekniği ile bu cümleleri tekrarladığınızda, "research", "prototype", "evaluate" gibi kelimelerin telaffuzunu da düzeltebilirsiniz. Unutmayın: İngilizce konuşurken vurgulama ve duraklama noktalarını doğru belirlemek, anlaşılırlığı çok artırır! Örneğin, "Most engineers test their prototypes over and over and over again" cümlesinde "over and over" ifadesini vurgulamak, konuşmanızı daha canlı hale getirir.

Bu video, hem ingilizce konuşma pratiği yapmak hem de mühendislik dünyasını tanımak için mükemmel bir kaynak. Gölge konuşma tekniğiyle her adımı tekrar edin, kelimeleri pekiştirin ve kendi örneklerinizi ekleyerek pratiği kişiselleştirin – sonuçlar hızlı görülecektir!

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemliis called · are included · are made
Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylemyou've enjoyed · you've figured · have tried
İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgipeople who design · telegraph, which was · people who were
Past continuous was/were + -ing — geçmişte bir anda sürmekte olan bir eylemwere just talking · was trying · wasn't working

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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