跟讀練習: Story 25 How old Are you - 通過影片學習英語口語

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How Old Are You?
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One day some friends were talking.
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They were talking about how old they were.
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James said, I am seven years old.
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My brother is older.
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He is twice as old as me.
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How old is my brother?
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That's easy, said Ellen.
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You are seven.
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He is twice as old as you, so your brother is seven plus seven.
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He is fourteen years old.
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Then Jane said, I am eight.
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I have a baby sister.
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She is half my age.
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How old is my sister?
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That's so easy, yelled James.
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She is half of eight.
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So your sister is four years old.
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Chris was thinking hard.
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There was something on his mind.
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Then he asked, How old is a dinosaur?
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A dinosaur, said the puzzled children.
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Yes, how old is a dinosaur, said Chris again.
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The children thought really hard.
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A dinosaur is old.
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Very old, said Ellen.
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A dinosaur is millions of years old.
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A dinosaur is old, old, old.
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The children laughed.
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James said, a dinosaur is older than all of us combined.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Story 25 How old Are you”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dinosaur, seven, sister, James, brother. This video has 30 sentences and 178 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:36. The speaker talks at a steady 112 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

9 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
dinosaur noun/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
combine verb/kəmˈbaɪn/To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
puzzle noun/ˈpʌzəl/The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in…
fourteen noun/ˈfɔɹ.tin/A group of fourteen items.
yell verb/jɛl/To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
laugh verb/læf/To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…
sister noun/ˈsɪs.tɚ/A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
twice adverb/twaɪs/Two times.
plus/ˈplʌs/And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

How to practise with this video

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

什麼是跟讀法?

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