跟读练习: BBC 6 MInute English - Dealing With Boredom (2014 AUG 21) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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This is 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello, I'm Rob.
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This is 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello, I'm Rob.
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Welcome to 6 Minute English.
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I'm joined today by Finn.
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Hello, Finn.
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Hi, Rob.
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You know, I'm happy you called me to present this programme with you
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because I was there by my desk feeling a bit bored.
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Great yawn, Finn.
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Yeah.
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Now, yawn, of course, is a typical reaction of someone who is bored.
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Yeah, it's when you open your mouth wide and take some air in and slowly out.
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OK, well, let's make this programme all about boredom, shall we?
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And I'll start by stimulating your imagination.
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Thank you, but how are you going to make me excited and interested in something, Rob?
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OK, well, how about I challenge you to a question that you might not know the answer to?
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OK, well, you can try.
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OK, well I know you like the theatre.
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I do, but it has to be an exciting play or I get restless.
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Restless, you mean unable to sit still because you get bored or worried even.
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OK, well I wonder how you'd feel watching the longest continuous play recorded?
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Well that's quite an offer.
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What do you mean?
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Well, according to the Guinness Book of Records,
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the longest continuous dramatic performance was held in New Jersey in the US in 2010.
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But do you know how long the cast for the Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco was on stage four?
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Was it for about...
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A. Eight hours?
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B. Seventeen hours?
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Or C.
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Twenty-three hours?
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Wow, they're all pretty long.
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I'll say B.
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Seventeen hours, Rob.
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Goodness, right.
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OK, well, I'll let you know the answer at the end of the programme.
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Now let's talk more about boredom.
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I think this is a feeling we have to learn how to cope with.
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Yes, we have to learn to deal with this situation successfully,
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to cope with it.
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But people often feel they want to change their life,
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to change their job.
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They might feel stuck in a rut.
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That's a good phrase, stuck in a rut.
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So you mean you have become too fixed in one kind of job.
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Yes, you know, Rob, even I sometimes dream of something a bit more exciting,
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like being a professional diver or maybe even a pilot of a really fast plane.
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Well, guess what?
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Even pilots get bored, you know.
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Not when they're flying anyway.
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Wrong.
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When they're up in the air.
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No way, really.
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I don't believe you.
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Well, Missy Cummings, an American, was a fighter pilot.
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Listen to the phrasal verb she uses,
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meaning to stop being bored at least for a while.
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Is there ever time for a fighter pilot to get bored?
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Oh, my gosh, sure.
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For the same reasons that commercial pilots get bored.
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These fighter jets are very automated when it comes to just holding altitude and heading.
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So you'd turn everything on autopilot.
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And I probably listened to more Oprah Winfrey TV shows on the high-frequency radios
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and so you get good about using the technology to figure out how to stave off that boredom.
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Ah, so she listened to a show hosted by the American presenter Oprah Winfrey on the radio to stave off her boredom.
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Now to stave off means to stop or to keep an unpleasant feeling away.
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In this case she means boredom.
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Yes indeed.
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But some experts think there's something good about feeling bored.
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Really?
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Let's hear what Tiffany Watt-Smith has to say.
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She works for the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Queen Mary University of London.
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Pay attention to the word she uses to describe what boredom does to people.
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On the one hand people are worried about being under-occupied and bored.
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On the other, there is a set of anxieties about us not having any more downtime.
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You know, we can constantly check our phones at the bus stop.
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Everything is to be filled and what does that do to our minds?
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I think boredom is a very useful emotion.
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It's an emotion which spurs people on to change something about their environment.
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If you're bored, it gives rise to creativity.
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So boredom spurs people on to change something.
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Now, to spur on means to stimulate or to encourage someone to do something.
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So what are you going to do, Finn?
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How will you change your life?
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Change my life?
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OK, two things.
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The first one is...
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I want to know if I got that question right.
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Well, I said at the beginning of the programme
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that the longest continuous dramatic performance was held in New Jersey US in 2010.
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And I asked you, how long was the cast on stage for to play the bald soprano by Eugene Ionesco?
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Yes, the options were 8 hours,
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17 hours and 23 hours, I think.
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And I said 17.
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Was I right?
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You were not.
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Oh no. It was even longer.
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Oh wow.
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OK, according to the Guinness Book of Records,
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yes, the play lasted 23 hours,
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33 minutes and 54 seconds.
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It was achieved by the 27 o'clock players who performed The Bald Soprano at Belmar,
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New Jersey, USA on the 27th of July 2010.
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Anyway, Finn, what's the second thing you're going to do to stave off your boredom?
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You know what, Rob?
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I'm going to book myself a fantastic holiday.
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Maybe I could start with a visit to Patagonia in Argentina to see the penguins.
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Sounds very exciting.
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But before you head off to Patagonia,
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could you remind us of some of the English words we've heard today?
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We heard yawn, stimulating, restless,
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to cope with, stuck in a rut,
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to stave off, to spur on.
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Thanks, Finn.
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That's it for this programme.
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I hope you didn't find it boring.
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Not at all.
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I loved it!
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Please join us again soon for another 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Bye-bye!
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Bye!
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关于本课
在本课中，您将通过与Rob和Finn的对话来探索无聊这一主题。您将学习如何有效应对无聊的感受，并了解到如何通过不同的活动来激发兴趣。此外，您还将增强语音和听力技巧，以便更流利地表达自己。在这个过程中，将会有很多适合您提高英语发音的实践机会，您可以通过使用影子跟读的方式来观察和模仿他们的语音语调。
关键词汇和短语
- 无聊 (bored) - 一种常见的情绪，通常发生在缺乏兴趣的情况下。
- 打哈欠 (yawn) - 当人感到无聊时，身体做出的自然反应。
- 焦躁不安 (restless) - 由于感到无聊或烦恼而无法安静下来。
- 陷入困境 (stuck in a rut) - 指在某种状况下无法改变或进步。
- 刺激想象力 (stimulating your imagination) - 启发思考、激发创造力的过程。
- 成功应对 (cope successfully) - 有效处理情绪或情况的方法。
- 长时间的戏剧表演 (longest continuous play) - 持续进行的一场戏剧演出，通常需要极大的耐力和专注力。
练习技巧
在观看这段视频时，尽量跟随Rob和Finn的速度和语调进行模仿，这是提高英语发音的一个有效方法。您可以使用影子跟读方法，即在聆听对话的同时重复说出他们所说的话。以下是一些具体的建议：
- 选择视频的一小段，反复观看，直至您能够流利地跟读。
- 注意他们的发音、语调和节奏，尽量模仿。
- 可以暂停视频，尝试自己先说出他们的对话内容，再对照视频进行纠正。
- 在练习时，保持放松心态，避免因犯错而感到沮丧，因为无聊的情绪本身就是一个学习的机会。
- 利用该 shadowing site 提供的练习，帮助您更好地掌握发音技巧。
通过积极实践和使用 看YouTube学英语 的方法，您将能够提高自己的口语能力，使自己在日常交流中更加自信。
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。