跟读练习: 15 Comparing Things - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Recording 11 The Olympics is probably the most exciting event in the sports calendar.
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It's one of the few opportunities we get to see some of the best athletes in the world competing against each other.
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And amazingly, each year they seem to be getting better and better.
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So you might imagine that the Masters Games, which is for athletes aged 30 and over, would be less exciting to watch.
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Well, this may not be true for long, because recent studies have shown that older athletes are getting faster and fitter.
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Now, it's true they're not as fast as their younger counterparts, and probably younger runners will always be faster than older runners.
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However, runners aged 50 and over are actually speeding up more rapidly than younger people.
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The researchers analyzed the finishing times of 415 ,000 runners in the New York Marathon between 1983 and 1999,
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and discovered that finishers from the older group showed the greatest increases in speed.
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Interestingly, women aged 60 to 68 improved the most markedly, running on average four minutes faster each year.
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Men of the same age ran just over one minute faster than previously.
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Not only that, a second study proved
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that older athletes can achieve the same degree of physical improvement as those in their 20s and 30s.
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In other words, they are just as likely to achieve their peak fitness as younger athletes.
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25 years ago, few 60 -year -old men and even fewer women would have considered it possible to complete a marathon,
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let alone set record running times.
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The researchers concluded that people grow weaker not simply because of age, but because they don't keep as active as they did when they were younger.
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It would seem that the longer athletes keep competing, the greater their chances of setting new records are.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “15 Comparing Things”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: athletes, younger, runners, faster, older. This video has 19 sentences and 295 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:13. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| athlete noun | /ˈæθ.liːt/ | A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. |
| runner noun | /ˈɹʌnɚ/ | A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete. |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| researcher noun | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | One who researches. |
| marathon noun | /ˈmæɹəθən/ | A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race. |
| finisher noun | /ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/ | A person who finishes or completes something. |
| markedly adverb | /ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/ | In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously. |
| interestingly adverb | In an interesting way. | |
| amazingly adverb | /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/ | In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully. |
| counterpart noun | /ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/ | Either of two parts that fit together or otherwise complement one another. |
| analyze verb | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | To subject to analysis. |
| weaker adjective | /ˈwikɚ/ | Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the latter entails the former, but the former does not entail the latter. |
| conclude verb | /kənˈkluːd/ | To end; to come to an end. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| speed up verb | /spiːdˈʌp/ | To accelerate; to increase speed. |
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | have shown |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | Games, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/
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 athlete, runner, excite.
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。