跟讀練習: Climate Change Debate | Natalie Bennett | Opposition (8/8) - 通過影片學習英語口語
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And I now look to Natalie Bennett to close the case for the opposition.
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Well, thank you very much, Mr. President, and thank you everyone, both fellow speakers and floor, for what I think has been an excellent debate.
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Although I will think perhaps unconventionally I have to thank Mr. Secretary here
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because I do think he gave me some hints to cut out all of the sports references from my speech
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and to make sure I include a cocktail recipe or two because that was clearly the most popular part of his contribution.
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Now the final speaker for the proposition said he was in a difficult position with friends on both sides.
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Now, I would certainly hope to call him a friend, but I don't find myself in a difficult position at all.
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In fact, when the union contacted me and asked me to speak, I said I would only speak if I was on this side.
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And I very much would agree with the speaker from the floor who said,
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it is surprising there are two members of the Labour Party on the opposite side to me.
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Perhaps however they are from a particular part of the Labour Party.
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However, I will confess that there is also division on our side of the chamber.
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I won't deny that.
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I couldn't really, given the fact that if you look at my Twitter feed,
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you will find that yesterday I was at Preston New Road campaigning against fracking.
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There is division on this side on that.
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However, I would put to you that we have put an entirely coherent argument that what the proposition is suggesting,
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that individual apathy is the greatest threat, absolutely does not hang together at all.
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Now, if I run through a little bit about what the speakers on the other side said,
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The first speaker suggested that short termism is wedded into our DNA.
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Well, I think people can change.
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I'm actually old enough to remember the age of B.T before Twitter
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and the world has changed a lot since then and our behavior has changed a lot too.
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And he referred to the fact that the Australian electorate
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and for those of you who haven't worked it out yet that's where my accent comes from
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so I do have an interest in this.
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He said the Australian electorate put the issue of the quality of political leadership before climate change.
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I could just say Tony Abbott for those of you in the know, but for those of you who aren't,
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the quality of political leadership is a huge problem in Australia for climate change as for every other issue
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and indeed I'd argue the quality of political leadership in Britain
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is a huge issue on climate change as on every other issue.
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Because I think...
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Now I will give credit to the second speaker on the
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proposition side who did come up with a really good Harry Potter line.
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It's a great line.
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I agree.
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Choices show what we really are.
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What he didn't address, however, is whether we actually have choices.
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And he rightly preempted my speech by making lots of references to home insulation.
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And yes, I spend lots of my time talking about home insulation.
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It's hugely important.
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But he suggested it was apathy that stopped us dealing with home insulation.
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Well, because I belong in the modern era, I looked this up on the internet on my phone while I was here.
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And I found the Property Yields website, which has a headline, Energy Efficiency 2018,
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it's a threat to landlords' profits.
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The worst housing in Britain is private rental housing.
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I will bet there are some people in this room who
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are about to discover just how bad some of the private rentals in Britain are.
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And you will not have the choice to do anything about that because you are simply a tenant.
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You don't have a choice.
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Now the third speaker from the proposition pointed to you some
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really spectacular figures about the increase in the number of cars in Britain.
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Well I'm going to quote some figures back on that.
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And the figures are about the cost of car travel versus the cost of public transport.
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And between 1980 and 2014,
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the cost of private car travel has gone down in real terms 14%.
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The so-called war on the motorist is no war.
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It's a love fest for the motorist.
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That's been government policy.
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In the meantime, the cost of bus travel has gone up 58%.
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For lots of people in Britain, there is no choice.
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You cannot afford to take the bus.
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And I haven't even got to trains and the cost of trains and you certainly can't afford to take the train.
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Now, the final speaker for the proposition said that British governments haven't admitted what they were doing because it was public apathy.
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But actually, his second line entirely undermined his argument and supported our cause because Because he said, oh, it's public apathy.
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The government is worried about what the Daily Mail is going to say.
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That's not the public.
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That's the Daily Mail and the owner of the Daily Mail.
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So, as you consider which door to walk through here,
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I urge you to think about the words greatest threat.
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And I would say to you that our side has very clearly established
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that the hundred companies responsible for the 71% of climate change emission gases are one of the greatest threats.
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and I would invite you to consider that tonight let's imagine someone who doesn't have the luxury of being in this chamber.
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Let's imagine perhaps a single mum in Brixton who's struggling along with three zero hours contract jobs,
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a bit of top up from inadequate government benefits, who's worried about paying the rent,
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putting food on the table.
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She's worried about the safety of her sons out on the streets.
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And I would say to you, maybe she's not thinking about climate change tonight.
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But I don't think that's apathy.
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That's because we've created a society where she can't possibly have space or energy or time to think about climate change.
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So if you think about another of the greatest threats to their climate, I would say it's poverty.
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People cannot take actions if they can't afford them
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and they can't even think about it if they've just got to survive tomorrow and live for another day.
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And finally, I can't finish without, sorry, referring to Donald Trump again.
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Because if you want to identify another of the greatest threats,
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I'm surprised no one else has referred to this tonight, but Donald Trump, of course,
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was not democratically elected president of the United States.
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He got fewer votes than Hillary Clinton did.
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And as our third speaker said, there are countries like Germany, and indeed I'd add Denmark into this,
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where 42% of the electricity comes from renewables.
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The countries in the world that are doing best on climate change are the most democratic countries.
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So I'd suggest to you one of your alternative greatest threats is the lack of democracy in our society,
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the lack of democracy that produced Donald Trump that's the problem, not individual apathy.
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So please, as you choose which door to walk through over there, do you want to blame the single mum from Brixton?
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If so, you should vote for the proposition.
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If you want to blame the owner of the Daily Mail, poverty and lack of democracy, please walk through our side.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Climate Change Debate”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：speaker, climate, threat, apathy, proposition。 這段影片共有 98 個句子、1260 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 10:19。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 122 個詞，很適合跟讀。 86% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| apathy 名詞 | /ˈæ.pə.θi/ | 冷漠 |
| proposition 名詞 | /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ | 建議 /建議, 提議 /提議 |
| insulation 名詞 | /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/ | 孤立 |
| motorist 名詞 | /ˈməʊ.tə.ɹɪst/ | 汽車駕駛員 /汽車駕駛員, 司機 /司機 |
| electorate 名詞 | /ɪˈlɛktəɹət/ | 選民 /選民 |
| preempt 動詞 | /ˌpɹiːˈɛmpt/ | 搶佔, 搶先 /搶先 |
| coherent 形容詞 | /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/ | 凝聚的 |
| hugely 副詞 | /ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/ | 大大 |
| wed 動詞 | /ˈwɛd/ | 結婚 /結婚 |
| emission 名詞 | /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/ | 排放 |
| tenant 名詞 | /ˈtɛ.nənt/ | 房客 |
| inadequate 形容詞 | /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/ | 不適當 /不適當, 不足 |
| confess 動詞 | /kənˈfɛs/ | 承認 /承認, 懺悔 /懺悔 |
| cocktail 名詞 | /ˈkɑk.teɪl/ | 雞尾酒 /雞尾酒, 調酒 /調酒 |
| renewable 形容詞 | /ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/ | 可再生 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| come up with 動詞 | 想出, 提出 |
| go up 動詞 | 上昇 /上升, 上去 |
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 | has been · have put · has changed |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | website, which has · someone who doesn |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 24 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 can't, don't, haven't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, electorate /ɪˈlɛktəɹət/, democratically /ˌdɛməˈkɹætəkli/, inadequate /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 apathy, proposition, insulation 這類單詞。
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。