跟讀練習: 15 Comparing Things - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Recording 11 The Olympics is probably the most exciting event in the sports calendar.

It's one of the few opportunities we get to see some of the best athletes in the world competing against each other.

And amazingly, each year they seem to be getting better and better.

So you might imagine that the Masters Games, which is for athletes aged 30 and over, would be less exciting to watch.

Well, this may not be true for long, because recent studies have shown that older athletes are getting faster and fitter.

Now, it's true they're not as fast as their younger counterparts, and probably younger runners will always be faster than older runners.

However, runners aged 50 and over are actually speeding up more rapidly than younger people.

The researchers analyzed the finishing times of 415 ,000 runners in the New York Marathon between 1983 and 1999,

and discovered that finishers from the older group showed the greatest increases in speed.

Interestingly, women aged 60 to 68 improved the most markedly, running on average four minutes faster each year.

Men of the same age ran just over one minute faster than previously.

Not only that, a second study proved

that older athletes can achieve the same degree of physical improvement as those in their 20s and 30s.

In other words, they are just as likely to achieve their peak fitness as younger athletes.

25 years ago, few 60 -year -old men and even fewer women would have considered it possible to complete a marathon,

let alone set record running times.

The researchers concluded that people grow weaker not simply because of age, but because they don't keep as active as they did when they were younger.

It would seem that the longer athletes keep competing, the greater their chances of setting new records are.

Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “15 Comparing Things”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: athletes, younger, runners, faster, older. This video has 19 sentences and 295 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:13. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% 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:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
athlete noun	/ˈæθ.liːt/	A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
runner noun	/ˈɹʌnɚ/	A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
excite verb	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
researcher noun	/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/	One who researches.
marathon noun	/ˈmæɹəθən/	A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
finisher noun	/ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/	A person who finishes or completes something.
markedly adverb	/ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/	In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.
interestingly adverb		In an interesting way.
amazingly adverb	/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/	In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully.
counterpart noun	/ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/	Either of two parts that fit together or otherwise complement one another.
analyze verb	/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/	To subject to analysis.
weaker adjective	/ˈwikɚ/	Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the latter entails the former, but the former does not entail the latter.
conclude verb	/kənˈkluːd/	To end; to come to an end.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
speed up verb	/spiːdˈʌp/	To accelerate; to increase speed.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have shown
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	Games, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The “th” sounds: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like athlete, runner, excite.

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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