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.

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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
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

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. 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。

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