跟读练习: For Beginners| One Story A Day| Book 3 - 29 Tomato Plants - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Story 29 Tomato Plants In early spring,
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Uncle Ted planted a few tomato plants in his garden.
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A few weeks passed.
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The plants were still the same.
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Uncle Ted said to me, My tomato plants are not growing.
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For the last two weeks, they're just sitting there, waiting.
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Waiting, I asked.
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What are they waiting for?
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My uncle said, the sun, the heat.
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Keep growing, plants.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “For Beginners”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: plants, tomato, uncle, waiting. This video has 10 sentences and 65 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:41.
Key vocabulary in this video
8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| uncle noun | /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ | The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| plant noun | /plɑːnt/ | An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a… |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| spring noun | /ˈspɹɪŋ/ | An act of springing: a leap, a jump. |
| sit verb | /sɪt/ | To move oneself into such a position. |
| heat noun | /hit/ | Thermal energy. |
| garden noun | /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ | An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. |
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 |
|---|---|
| 动词 + -ing enjoy、keep、stop… + -ing — 后接 -ing 形式的动词 | Keep growing |
| 现在进行时 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在发生的事 | are not growing · they're just sitting |
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 uncle, tomato, plant.
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。




























