跟讀練習: Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 6 pt. 1 - 通過影片學習英語口語
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18 句
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Hello and welcome to Learning Curve.
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Today we're talking about unusual homes.
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Where do you live?
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We want to know.
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Simon is with us from the studio in the UK.
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Hi Simon.
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Hello Penny.
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First let's look at a very interesting place to live in the Czech Republic.
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Here's a very unusual house.
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It turns and moves.
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A man named Bromil Lótoj built this round house.
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When it's cold, the house turns and moves up and gets a lot of sun to stay warm.
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It goes down into the ground when it's hot outside to stay cool.
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It's a very modern house.
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On Mindanao Island in the Philippines, some people live in tree houses.
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These traditional houses are high above the ground.
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The air on Mindanao Island is hot and wet, but it's dry up in the trees.
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And when the tree grows, people change the house and add more rooms.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 6 pt. 1”. This video has 18 sentences and 152 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:15. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| unusual adjective | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | Not usual, out of the ordinary. |
| studio noun | /ˈstudi.oʊ/ | An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works. |
| tree noun | /tɹiː/ | A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches. |
| hello | /hɛˈloʊ/ | A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| traditional adjective | /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/ | Of, relating to, or derived from tradition. |
| warm adjective | /wɔɹm/ | Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| move up verb | To promote, put onto a higher level. |
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 |
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| 現在進行時 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在發生的事 | we're talking |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, traditional /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, traditional /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/
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 unusual, studio, tree.
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。























