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Hello and welcome to Lovely English Stories.
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Thank you for stopping by.
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This story is written for intermediate English learners.
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Let's get started.
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B1, B2 English Story.
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A new edition.
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Michael and Sarah had been together for four years.
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They met on a night out.
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Michael spotted Sarah across the bar and went over to talk to her.
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At first, Sarah wasn't interested in Michael at all.
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He was drunk and acting the goat.
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The following week, they saw each other again.
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This time, Michael wasn't as drunk and they had a coherent conversation.
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Michael and his friends were good fun and Sarah warmed to him.
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They saw each other several times at the pub quiz night
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before Michael plucked up the courage to ask her out on a date.
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Their first date was a bit of a disaster.
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They decided to meet at a country pub and have a carvery.
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The waiter accidentally spilt red wine all over Michael's new white shirt.
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Then Sarah tripped over someone's bags and hurt her arm.
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Then her car decided to not start up when they left.
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Michael tried to fix it and made matters worse.
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It didn't help that it was chucking it down and gale force winds.
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Their second date was much calmer.
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They met for a walk in the local park.
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They enjoyed a takeaway coffee and a good laugh.
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From then on, they started to see more of each other until they moved in together 18 months later.
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Moving in together wasn't easy at first.
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They both had different routines and ideas of how a house should be run.
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But now they had worked out how to make things work and they shared chores equally.
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Sarah was an assistant headteacher and Michael was a publishing assistant.
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They both loved their jobs and their lifestyle,
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but they were ready to take the next step and start a family.
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They had discussed it in depth before deciding this is what they wanted.
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They knew they'd be tired and stressed and have less money,
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but they wanted to have a family and create new traditions and routines with their loved one.
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Sarah's pregnancy was not an easy one.
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She suffered from severe morning sickness and high blood pressure.
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She had never had high blood pressure in her life.
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She was closely monitored by doctors and often felt lethargic and nauseous.
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This made her job as an assistant head quite difficult.
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She had to move away from her teaching duties and focus more on the office part of the job.
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That way, she wasn't moving around as much and was less likely to throw up mid-lesson.
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As Sarah's belly began to swell bigger and bigger, Michael started to panic.
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What if he was a terrible dad?
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What if their child was sick?
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What if something happened during childbirth?
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He dreaded seeing Sarah in so much pain He kept all of his concerns to himself
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and found he had many sleepless nights There wasn't much he could do except be there for Sarah whenever she needed him
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Sarah finished work two weeks before her due date She wanted
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to save as much of her parental leave as she could For
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when the baby was born She would take a full year's
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parental leave Her work colleagues got them some lovely gifts
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And some of the children at the school made her cards And brought in little presents they had made
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She was incredibly touched.
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In the two-week run-up to the baby's birth,
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they finished decorating the nursery and got all the bits and bobs they needed.
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They knew they would never feel fully prepared.
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Their life was about to change in ways they could never imagine.
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Sarah's belly was huge.
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It was uncomfortable and heavy.
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She was terrified of giving birth,
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but she was fed up with being pregnant.
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One night, at around 11.30pm,
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Michael had just dropped off and Sarah was reading in bed.
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She started to feel strange.
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She could feel twinges of pain and knew that something was happening.
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She didn't want to wake Michael yet,
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so she decided to walk around the house and try and ease the uncomfortable feeling inside her.
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She made herself a hot drink.
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This is it, she said,
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and she took a deep breath.
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She started to shake.
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She was scared.
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She knew she was about to embark on the most pain she will most probably ever experience.
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And she was petrified.
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Two hours passed
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and the pain started to become unbearable She decided it was
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time to call the midwife She explained the pain she was experiencing
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and talked through with the midwife about how often the contractions
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were happening The midwife advised Sarah to get ready for the hospital and to wake Michael up.
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She didn't need to rush,
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but she also shouldn't take her time.
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Sarah decided to have a quick shower.
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She felt tired and knew she had a long night ahead of her.
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She needed to wake up.
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Then she put on her comfortable clothes and gently woke up Michael.
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He started to instantly panic and Sarah had to calm him down.
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Michael took the pre-prepared bags to the car and came back to Sarah.
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They locked up and made their way to the hospital.
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The bumpy roads did not help Sarah's pain.
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The 20-minute journey felt like two hours to her.
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Once they arrived, the midwives brought her a wheelchair and then led her to her room for the delivery.
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They gave her an examination and she was already 8 centimetres dilated,
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only two more to go.
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Sarah started to take deep breaths on the gas and air
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and tried to do all the breathing exercises she had been taught.
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Michael sat next to her,
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stroking her hand and internally panicking.
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Hours went by when nothing seemed to happen and then suddenly Sarah shouted,
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I need to push!
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The midwives came running in to check her and agreed that it was time.
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Sarah was as cool as a cucumber,
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while Michael, who didn't have to do anything,
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was running around like a headless chicken.
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Sarah started to lose her patience.
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If you don't calm down,
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you're going to have to go.
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It's not you who's in excruciating pain, so stop it.
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Michael realised he was being ridiculous and calmed down instantly.
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After almost two hours of pushing,
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sweating and crying, their baby boy entered the world and,
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as he did, Michael promptly fainted.
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Sarah couldn't help
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but laugh as they gave her their baby boy to hold
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She couldn't believe it Her own little boy A new addition to their little family
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And a new life on the planet She kissed him
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and handed him back to the midwives So they could check everything was okay By the time Michael came around,
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Sarah was sitting up in bed, cuddling their little boy.
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He weighed a whopping nine pounds and three ounces.
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No wonder her belly was so big.
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He seemed calm and content in his mother's arms.
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Michael was so proud of Sarah for going through the birth.
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He knew he could never do something as arduous.
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They took a family photo and cooed over their favourite little man.
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They decided they would call him Oliver Michael.
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Michael after his dad and Oliver after Sarah's grandad who had recently passed away.
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If Oliver Michael became half the man her grandad was, she'd be happy.
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As Sarah dozed off to sleep,
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exhausted from the birth, Michael cuddled baby Oliver and cried a little.
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This was it.
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He was now a daddy and life looked quite different to him.
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He would try to do everything he could to give Oliver a wonderful,
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healthy and happy life.
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We hope you enjoyed this lovely English story.
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Bài học hôm nay xoay quanh một câu chuyện trung cấp thú vị mang tên "Một bổ sung mới". Qua câu chuyện của Michael và Sarah, người học sẽ thực hành việc nghe và nói tiếng Anh, đặc biệt chú trọng vào cách phát âm và cách sử dụng từ vựng trong ngữ cảnh. Người học sẽ được trải nghiệm các tình huống giao tiếp thực tế, hỗ trợ việc phát triển kỹ năng giao tiếp hàng ngày và khả năng hiểu ngữ điệu tiếng Anh chuẩn.
Từ vựng & Cụm từ quan trọng
- Spotted: Nhìn thấy.
- Cohesive conversation: Cuộc trò chuyện mạch lạc.
- Carvery: Món ăn nướng.
- Pregnancy: Thai kỳ.
- Monitor: Giám sát.
- Lethargic: Uể oải.
- Nauseous: Buồn nôn.
- Traditions: Truyền thống.
Mẹo thực hành
Khi thực hành nói tiếng Anh qua video này, người học nên áp dụng kỹ thuật shadow speak để cải thiện khả năng phát âm tiếng Anh chuẩn. Đầu tiên, hãy xem video một lần để nắm nội dung câu chuyện. Sau đó, nghe lại và cố gắng lặp lại theo từng câu, chú trọng vào tốc độ và ngữ điệu của nhân vật. Bài học này có tốc độ giao tiếp không quá nhanh, từ đó giúp bạn dễ dàng hơn trong việc luyện nghe nói qua video. Hãy chú ý đến cảm xúc và nhịp điệu của các nhân vật để cảm nhận rõ hơn về cách diễn đạt. Việc này không chỉ giúp bạn nắm vững từ vựng mà còn tạo điều kiện cho bạn nâng cao khả năng luyện nói tiếng anh một cách tự nhiên và tự tin hơn.
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.