跟讀練習: Tuvalu’s Battle with Climate Change - BTN High - 通過影片學習英語口語

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I grew up in Tuvalu and I was also born there.

Life in Tuvalu is very easy and it's beautiful.

We have coconut trees.

When it's hot they go swimming, fishing.

And cooking the traditional food, the language and the cultural dance.

It's very important so that we can keep our traditional culture on going.

Poeva and Akisa are sisters from the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu,

which is around 4,000 kilometres northeast of Australia.

It's made up of a group of nine small islands and is home to around 11,000 people.

But despite their love for their home country, many Tuvaluans, like Poweva and Akisa, have made the tough decision to leave.

My family moved here to Australia for better opportunities, like, especially for education and work.

And the climate change is also affecting Tuvalu, so moving here makes us feel more safer about our future.

Climate change and sea level rise, It's, like, affecting our houses, so that's why we came in.

Like, strong winds happened, like, lately, and it's destroying our houses, and the sea level rise, it's, like, flooding everywhere.

I don't want to see my country disappear.

At its highest, Tuvalu is only about 4.5 metres above sea level.

So, as sea levels rise due to climate change, Tuvalu is starting to disappear.

It's predicted that by 2050, half of the capital, Fulnafuti, will be flooded.

On top of that, extreme weather events are eroding the Tuvaluan coasts, threatening homes and destroying crops.

Some experts say the country could be uninhabitable by the year 2100.

Tuvaluwan leaders have been calling for support from other countries and in 2023, they made an agreement with Australia.

I believe that developed nations have a responsibility to provide assistance, and that is precisely what we are doing.

Australia promised millions of dollars to help Tuvalu adapt to climate change and pay for critical services and security.

It also created a new visa system, which allows a small number of Tuvaluans to migrate to Australia each year.

280, to be exact.

The most significant agreement between Australia and a Pacific Island nation ever.

This partnership stands as a beacon of hope.

Last year, more than 8,000 Tuvaluans applied for visas to Australia.

Pastor Manu was one of the first to be granted one.

We are all lowland islands, alive.

There is, like, the ocean is our friend.

Every day we wake up.

If you look around, the ocean is just beside you.

Right or left, look around, it's all over there.

Climate change really, the things are now happening at home.

Yeah, it's happening.

Because the land has been taken out by the sea.

Manu is happy to be here in Australia and lives in Narricourt, a regional town in South Australia.

But he says one of the things he

and many other Tuvaluans worry about is how to maintain their culture in a new country.

Culture is life.

Without culture, you cannot navigate in this life.

That's in the perspective of a Tuvaluans person.

It's a different kind of world here.

For many, Tuvaluans culture is centred around faith and family.

On each Tuvaluan island, there are communal meeting places called Fale Kupule Houses.

Here, people gather to listen to elders and learn about culture and traditions.

And Manu says things like this aren't easy to replicate in Australia.

So, that house already is a special house for learning.

So, we learn things from there, not academic, but part of living as a Tuvalu in the land, because we have to have knowledge how to live,

like fishing, cultivating, you know, things like that, there will come a time.

We cannot force growing kids to maintain our culture because they are starting to absorb some of the things from other people,

all their friends.

Manu is trying to do what he can here in Australia to build a strong Tuvaluwan community.

In Narakaw, there are about 30 Tuvaluwan migrants, and he says this makes things easier.

It gives us opportunity to maintain our way of living.

And also, because we have kids, they really need this.

You need to maintain your way of living

so that you can be identified as a Tuvaluwan person because our behaviour really helps us with our identification.

Poeva and Akisa are part of this Narraquat community and both are still adjusting to life here.

Akisa says she's struggling with the weather and the language and she misses her friends and family.

Some of my friends are, like, going to New Zealand and Fiji and some are staying because,

like, they can't leave their grandparents.

I miss the close community and the families surrounded by family and culture.

Pueva hopes to one day go back to Tuvalu as a lot of her friends chose not to leave.

But she says she wants to do what she can within her community here in Australia to keep her culture alive.

We strongly maintain our language and other traditional culture in our house,

so we don't have to forget or leave our culture, our tuvaluant life.

I just hope that people understand that we move here for safety and opportunities,

not because we want to leave our culture behind.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Tuvalu’s Battle with Climate Change - BTN High”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：culture, Australia, Tuvalu, Tuvaluan, maintain。這段影片共有 70 個句子、863 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:52。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 126 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
disappear 動詞	/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/	消失
visa 名詞	/ˈviːzə/	簽證 /簽證
cultivate 動詞	/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/	耕種 /耕種, 種植 /種植
grandparent 名詞	/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/	祖父母
kilometre 名詞	/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/	千米, 公里
lowland 名詞		低地
migrate 動詞	/maɪˈɡɹeɪt/	遷徙
communal 形容詞	/kəˈmjuː.nəl/	社群的 /社群的, 社群的
beacon 名詞	/ˈbiːkən/	烽火, 狼煙
migrant 名詞	/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/	移民
metre 名詞	/ˈmiːtəɹ/	米, 公尺
surround 動詞	/səˈɹaʊnd/	包圍 /包圍, 圍繞 /圍繞
absorb 動詞	/æbˈsɔɹb/	吸收
coconut 名詞	/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/	椰子
threaten 動詞	/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/	威脅 /威脅, 恐嚇 /恐嚇

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
look around 動詞		環顧 /環顧
take out 動詞		取出
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	醒, 醒來 /醒來

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
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was also born · will be flooded · be granted
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 made · has been taken

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 4 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, aren't, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, northeast /noːˈθɪjst/
長單詞——注意重音位置: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

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/, cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, migrate /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/, replicate /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, replicate /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/, precisely /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/

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 disappear, visa, cultivate 這類單詞。

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