跟读练习: 3. Endangered WB - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Track 3, Unit 4, Exercise 4.
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Track 3, Unit 4, Exercise 4.
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You will hear a zookeeper called Helena Tompkins talking about her work.
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For questions 1 to 10,
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complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at the questions.
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Thank you.
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Hello.
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Thank you for inviting me here to talk to you today.
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I've wanted to work with animals ever since I was four or five years old.
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What really interested me was not looking after cats or dogs like other children,
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but lying in the long grass watching insects.
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That interest in nature stayed with me throughout my childhood,
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and when fairly young, I decided to become a zookeeper.
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In order to achieve my aim,
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I had to work hard to get into university.
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I did biology,
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though for my job you can do a variety of different degrees as long as they have some connection with animals.
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Things like zoology, obviously, and psychology and animal science are fine too.
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When you're appointed as a zookeeper,
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you generally work with just one species of animal.
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I worked with the sea lions for a couple of years,
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but for the last few months I've been in charge of the pandas,
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which is particularly exciting as they're an endangered species and we have a special breeding programme in place.
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There are some downsides to being a zookeeper.
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We sometimes have to work quite long hours,
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sometimes all night, especially in the hospital when an animal's sick.
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But I don't really mind that as it's part of the job.
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What does get me, however, is the rain.
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It's quite hard to make yourself go outside when it's wet.
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Even the animals don't like it.
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My typical day usually starts around seven o'clock.
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I guess the main task I have in the morning is getting the food ready.
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I don't clean out the enclosures,
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someone else is responsible for that.
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Then in the afternoon I write up health reports or assist with any medical procedures.
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On Saturdays and Wednesdays I also do talks,
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but that's only in the summer when we have a lot of visitors.
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In the winter it's obviously much quieter and I can get more involved in research projects.
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The animals I look after can be dangerous,
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so you need to take care when you were around them.
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Early on in my career,
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a monkey bit my finger,
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but I only needed a few stitches.
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Someone else I worked with had his arm bitten by a tiger,
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so I've been lucky.
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That sort of thing doesn't happen very often,
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though, I'm pleased to say.
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I don't have to carry a stick or anything to protect myself
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but what you do have to have with you is a radio
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and if we get on that someone will come running immediately.
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It's always good to know that there are other people around to give you a hand
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if things get difficult with an animal.
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The visitors are usually great, especially the children.
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The people who do irritate me though are sometimes the teachers who bring their class to the zoo.
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They often don't spend enough time talking to their pupils,
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explaining about each animal.
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I think they see it as a day out, really.
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It's a pity as it's a missed opportunity, I always think.
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As to the future, you do get attached to the animals you're looking after,
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so it would be hard for me to leave them at the moment.
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However, there are a couple of things I might do in the future.
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I've been offered the chance to go to China next spring to see how my animals behave in the wild.
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There's also a possibility of going to the USA to work on a breeding project,
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but that's not going to happen for a few years yet.
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I do hope what I've told you has given you some insight into what I do.
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I can definitely recommend being a zookeeper.
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关于本课
在本课中，学习者将通过收听动物园管理员海伦娜·汤普金斯的讲述，练习与动物相关的英语口语。这段对话不仅介绍了她作为动物园管理员的工作职责，还探讨了她对动物保护的热情。通过本课，您将提高英语口语练习技能，特别是在动物及生物相关话题的表达能力。
重要词汇与短语
- 动物园管理员 - zookeeper
- 濒危物种 - endangered species
- 育种项目 - breeding programme
- 生物学 - biology
- 健康报告 - health reports
- 医疗程序 - medical procedures
- 阴影跟读 - shadowspeak
- 提高英语发音 - improve English pronunciation
练习建议
进行英语影子跟读时，建议您与海伦娜的讲解速度保持一致。这段对话的语速适中，适合各个水平的学习者。您可以先仔细聆听一次，然后尝试重复其句子。提升英语发音的关键在于声调和节奏，因此可以选择早期的部分进行多次练习，尤其是她描述动物工作时的兴奋感与情感。
此外，您可以在重复时模仿她的语调和情感，用心体会讲述中对动物的热爱与责任感，这将有助于您在实际对话中更自然地表达自己。
在练习的过程中，也可以使用shadowspeaks的方法，逐句停顿，确保每一个词汇都被正确发音。持续的练习将帮助您在真实场景中更加自信地与他人交谈。
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。