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Do you believe in ghosts?
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Yes.
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People always make fun of me because whenever they have a sleepover with me,
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I'll be in bed and at some point in the night there's a hundred percent chance that I will wake up screaming,
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run around the room, something will be in the room.
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I will always pick up on the ghost that is there.
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In my dreams, kind of like I'll wake up and I'll see a guy in the corner.
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He like banged his head and then I'll be like, we need to save him, we need to save him.
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Then I'll wake up the next morning and everyone's like, you were crazy last night.
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And then we search it up and it's like 30 year old man died in room, blah, blah, blah.
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And I'm in that room.
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It's happened to me so many times.
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I don't think they're mean.
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I usually am pretty scared of them.
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One of the things on my rider
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now is they have to scrub the internet for the word haunted beside any place
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that we go to because they will come visit me in my sleep. So.
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I started dancing when I was six.
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My mom was my dance coach my whole life.
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My mom is one of the scariest people to walk into the room during rehearsals, for sure.
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Honestly, my mom would just be like, tell a story and perform from your heart.
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And she was my biggest motivator.
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I loved her.
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Were you always this ridiculously limber?
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No, I was actually pretty stiff when I was younger.
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And then when I was seven, I made a bet that I would get all my splits.
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And then I did.
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I also worked with this really intense Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach.
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She would make me sit on two chairs,
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one leg on one chair and then one leg on the other and she would like sit on my knees.
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It was crazy.
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I was definitely a theater kid.
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Dancing was the only place I really felt understood.
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You can see it all over the internet.
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I have way too many videos of me at musical theater competitions, me trying out for Broadway shows.
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I did everything on the planet and I had a YouTube channel with all of them.
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I was really intense.
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I would get to the competitions two hours early.
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I'd have like an abs set, a squat set.
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I was like eight years old.
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And what were your costumes?
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They were kind of ugly because me and my mom were designing them, so they were always a little ugly.
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But I didn't really get too nervous.
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Stages don't really freak me out.
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Did you go up to auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance?
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I did.
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I was 11 or 12 years old, and I had to get an O1 visa to go audition.
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I was in this long yellow dress, and I did this really emotional violin orchestra piece, and it was really intense.
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What posters did you have in your room growing up?
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I didn't have any posters.
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For a while, I went through a really emo phase.
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I would write everything on my wall, be like, nobody understands me.
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It was actually like the most embarrassing high school thing I could have done
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because then we would have people over and then they would see this wall.
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It was a phase.
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I loved to play dress up when I was younger.
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I would always come downstairs and have my mom's pearls and like a beret and like wings on.
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Every single Halloween, I would be seven different characters mixed into one.
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When I was three, my mom wanted me to be Bam Bam from The Flintstones.
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I had bone in my head and then I said I also want to be a cowboy and a fairy.
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So then I had cowboy boots on, fairy wings, pearls.
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My mom was like, you are too and you look like a hooker.
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I was literally like, had her lipstick on, her makeup on, it was crazy.
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Who was your cinematic or movie or TV crush when you were growing up?
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It used to be Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can specifically.
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I love him in Titanic too.
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Have I ever crashed a party?
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I've definitely crashed a party when I was younger.
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I went to the same school as my brother.
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I was just like, get me into your parties.
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I just want to be your friend.
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I was like, you're not my friend.
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It was a time with lots of friction between us.
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I would just try to get in anywhere he was.
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I'd be like, why are you here?
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Do you have any good scars?
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I have one scar on my foot, on like the side of my foot.
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Wow, I've literally never talked about this before.
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I got cut by coral when I was five.
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It has stayed with me my whole life.
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I used to live in the Middle East, so we were swimming in the ocean.
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I thought I got bit by a shark.
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I'm like the most dramatic person ever.
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I'm like, Mom, a shark got me.
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It's like the smallest little scar.
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My dad's like running in to save me.
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Where was your first kiss?
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My first kiss was on a couch with my first boyfriend in his living room.
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It was crazy.
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I remember explaining to my friends, like you will never experience this feeling in your life.
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It's the craziest rush of emotions.
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They're like, girl, you're the last one to kiss out of our friend group.
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Maybe it just made it really amazing in my head.
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Did you stay together after the first kiss?
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Yeah, for a year and a half.
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It was very cute.
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What was the best event on your birthday?
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I was always competing on my birthday.
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When I was younger, because I have the same birthday as Canada,
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so I'd be like, walk outside and see all the fireworks and be like, for me?
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My dad's like, Jesus, we're raising a diva.
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But I'd be like, I can't believe he did all this for me.
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And they're like, it's Canada.
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Do you do karaoke?
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When I was like eight years old, I did karaoke.
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Grenade by Bruno Mars.
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It's literally like the best song ever.
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It's not your usual eight -year -old song.
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Definitely not.
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No, I was an emotional child.
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I was that kid that every Friday would pull on my mom's laptop, photo booth it, karaoke for like six hours.
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Oh yeah, every karaoke song I'd be like in front of the laptop.
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Today's the day that I'm going to become famous.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“Tate McRae Talks Ghosts, First Kiss, & Emo Phase”為素材。 這段影片共有 113 個句子、1129 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 4:55。 說話人語速較快,每分鐘約 230 個詞,會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞,詞彙難度較高。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞,附發音和釋義:
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| scar 名詞 | /skɑɹ/ | 疤, 傷疤 /傷疤 |
| ghost 名詞 | /ɡoʊst/ | гуй, 鬼 |
| ugly 形容詞 | /ˈʌɡli/ | 難看 /難看, 醜 /醜 |
| theater 名詞 | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | 劇場 /劇場, 劇院 /劇院 |
| laptop 名詞 | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | 手提電腦 /手提電腦, 手提計算機 /手提計算機 |
| poster 名詞 | /ˈpoʊstɚ/ | 招貼 /招貼 |
| pearl 名詞 | /pɝl/ | 珍珠, 璣 /璣 |
| cowboy 名詞 | /ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/ | 牛仔 |
| audition 名詞 | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | 試演 /試演 |
| rush 動詞 | /ɹʌʃ/ | 急速去, 急速做 |
| bone 名詞 | /boʊn/ | гўдў, гўдўзы |
| dramatic 形容詞 | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | 戲劇的 /戲劇的 |
| compete 動詞 | /kəmˈpiːt/ | 競爭 /競爭, 高下 |
| scary 形容詞 | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | 恐怖 |
| knee 名詞 | /ni/ | 膝, 膝蓋 /膝蓋 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| wake up 動詞 | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | 醒, 醒來 /醒來 |
| grow up 動詞 | 長大 /長大 | |
| go through 動詞 | 通過 /通過 | |
| run around 動詞 | 忙碌, 奔忙 |
值得反覆跟讀的句子
影片中簡短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常對話裡:
- Do you believe in ghosts?
- Were you always this ridiculously limber?
- Have I ever crashed a party?
- I'd be like, why are you here?
- Do you have any good scars?
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 |
|---|---|
| “used to” used to + 動詞 — 過去的習慣或狀態,現在已不再如此 | used to be · used to live |
| 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 I ever crashed · I've definitely crashed · I've literally never talked |
| 最高階 the -est / the most … — 一組中最高或最低的 | the scariest · my biggest · the most embarrassing |
| 過去進行時 was/were + -ing — 過去某一時刻正在進行的動作 | were designing · were growing · were swimming |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 27 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 I'd, I'll, I'm。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, booth /buθ/, rhythmic /ˈɹɪð.mɪk/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, kinematic /kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/, motivator /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音:
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/,上齒輕觸下唇: visa /ˈviːzə/, violin /ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/, motivator /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚,後面不要加母音: intense /ɪnˈtɛns/, ghost /ɡoʊst/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: coral /ˈkɔɹəl/, rehearsal /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/, ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, limber /ˈlɪmbə(ɹ)/
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。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀,熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 scar, ghost, ugly 這類單詞。
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