跟读练习: History of Helen Keller for Kids | Bedtime History - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Close your eyes and imagine darkness is your world.
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Complete darkness.
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Now also cover your ears, and I won't talk for a few seconds.
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You can focus on what it feels like.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to not be able to see or hear?
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Your world would be completely dark and silent.
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How would you talk to your friends and family?
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How would you eat?
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How would you walk around the house and play with friends?
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Tonight we're going to talk about a girl who lived most of her life without being able to see or hear.
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This is the amazing story of Helen Keller.
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Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Alabama.
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She was a healthy child and lived a pretty normal life for her first year.
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She learned to talk at six months old and walked like most kids when she was one.
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When she was 19 months old, she became very sick.
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After she was well, her mother noticed she couldn't see or hear anything.
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Helen had permanently lost her sight and hearing.
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Close your eyes again and cover your ears.
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This is how Helen lived and it was very difficult for her to cope with life afterward.
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Imagine trying to walk around the house and eat your dinner.
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trying to go outside and play and do basic things like play with your toys or friends.
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Because Helen couldn't hear, her ability to speak never improved, so she wasn't able to talk to people in her family either.
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All of these challenges led to Helen acting out in ways that made life for her and her family very hard.
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If you put yourself in Helen's shoes, you can think of how hard it would be to act normal under such circumstances.
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Helen would often kick and pinch her family members.
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When she was angry, she would fall on the floor and scream and yell.
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At the dinner table, she grabbed food off their plates.
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The family felt so bad for Helen, they just let her do whatever she wanted.
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They didn't know how to deal with a child who couldn't see or hear.
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Some friends and family said they should send her away because she was causing so much trouble for the family, but her parents loved her too much to do that.
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One day her mother was reading about another child who was blind, but received help from Alexander Graham Bell.
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Alexander Graham Bell was also known for the invention of the telephone.
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They met him and he recommended they go to a school called the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.
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They traveled there and for the first time they met Ann Sullivan.
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Ann agreed to move to Alabama to help Helen.
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Ann first taught Helen sign language.
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Sign language is where you move your hands and fingers in different ways to communicate words.
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For example, if you want to say you, you point.
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If you want to eat, you motion towards your mouth with your fingers.
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But of course this didn't work for Helen, so they tried to spell words into Helen's hand so she could feel them.
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But Helen didn't understand and became very frustrated.
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One day at the dinner table, she yelled and started grabbing everyone's food off their plates.
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Anne took control of the situation and had everyone leave the room.
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This made Helen even more upset.
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But Anne was determined to show her that even when she'd throw tantrums, she wouldn't get what she wanted.
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Before she could improve at sign language, she'd need to learn some basic discipline.
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Anne soon realized that the only way to teach Helen would be to live somewhere else.
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So they got in a carriage and rode circles around the family's home for a while, and then they stopped at a small home nearby.
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They did this so Helen thought they had traveled very far, when really they were only living around the corner.
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But it was important for Helen to know that only Anne was around, so she'd have to rely on her to learn.
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One day Anne had the idea to put Helen's hand under the water to let her feel it first.
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Then she held her hand out and spelled W-A-T-E-R into her hand with sign language.
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She did this over and over until it clicked for Helen that she could use these hand signs to communicate with others.
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She spelled the word back into Anne's hand.
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Helen became very excited.
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By that evening, they learned 30 new words.
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Once Helen could learn to communicate, she wasn't as frustrated.
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Often when someone's angry or acts out in ways we don't understand, they may do this because they aren't understood.
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Before you judge others and criticize them, first try to understand why they may be behaving this way.
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Anne did this with Helen and it completely changed her life.
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With Anne's help, Helen continued to learn new signs and eventually learned to read books using braille.
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Braille is bumps on a page that represent words.
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When a person cannot see, they can feel the words instead.
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For example, the letter A is a single dot, and the letter B is two dots.
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Helen also attended a school in Boston for other children who were deaf.
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She really wanted to be able to speak and for many years worked on improving this ability.
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She was also determined to go to college, but it was very expensive, so she wasn't sure how to make it happen.
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Around this time, she met Mark Twain, the famous American author who wrote books like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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They became good friends and Twain introduced her to a wealthy friend who decided to pay for her college.
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Helen attended and later graduated college, a major achievement for someone who is deaf and especially for someone who is deaf and blind.
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Helen later wrote a book about her life and traveled
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and spoke to others about her experiences and ways to improve the world for people with disabilities.
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She She also spoke in favor of women being able to vote.
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Soon people all over the world knew about Helen Keller and listened to her speak and read her books.
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In 1920, she helped start the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Over the years, Helen traveled to 35 different countries, sharing her ideas and spreading her influence to others who were inspired by her incredible life.
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Helen once said, She also said,
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Spend some time thinking about what it would be like to live like Helen.
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Do you know anyone who can't see or hear?
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When you try to see the world the way someone else does, we call this putting yourself in someone else's shoes.
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It helps you to understand them.
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Often we get caught up in our own little world, but we have to realize the world is made up of people with many different life situations and experiences.
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And when you get the chance, look up sign language symbols and letters and try to learn a few.
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It can be a lot of fun.
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Think of the challenges Helen faced and think of your own challenges.
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It may not be obvious, but everyone has their own struggles and their own challenges.
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Spend some time thinking about yours and what you might do to change your situation.
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You may also realize there are some things you just can't change.
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For example, Helen wasn't able to change that she couldn't see or hear.
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You may have similar challenges.
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You may be stuck in a place you don't like or with someone who's hard to be around.
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Or maybe you have physical disabilities like Helen.
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But remember, even though you can't always change your situation, you can change how you react to it.
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Helen couldn't make herself see, but she could learn new ways to communicate.
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She learned sign language and then braille so she could read.
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She learned how to type so she could write books.
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Everyone has their own unique challenges, so it's up to you to come up with a plan on how you can act and improve your situation.
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And often this will mean asking others for help, and that's okay too.
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Thanks for taking the time to listen.
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I hope you learned something new and were inspired by the life of Helen Keller like I was.
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We'll talk to you next week.

背景与介绍

在这个视频中，我们讲述了海伦·凯勒的故事，她是一位在生活中面临许多挑战的非凡女性。生于1880年6月27日的阿拉巴马州，海伦在19个月大时因病失去了视力和听力。想象一下，生活在完全黑暗和寂静的世界里，海伦的生活变得充满困难。视频通过生动的叙述让孩子们理解海伦的挑战，并展示了她如何在失去感官的情况下努力沟通与生活。此内容适合英语学习者使用shadowing技巧，提高口语表达能力。

日常交流中的五个关键短语

  • Close your eyes.（闭上你的眼睛。）
  • Imagine darkness is your world.（想象黑暗是你的世界。）
  • How would you talk to your friends?（你将如何与朋友交流？）
  • She couldn't see or hear anything.（她什么也看不见，也听不见。）
  • She was very sick.（她病得很重。）

逐步影子跟读指南

为了有效地利用这段视频进行英语学习，跟随以下影子跟读步骤：

  1. 观看视频：初次观看视频时，专注于内容，尽量理解海伦的故事及其挑战。
  2. 选择短语：从上面的关键短语中选择你感兴趣的句子，逐句学习。
  3. 停顿重复：在视频每句话之后暂停，尝试跟随说出相同的句子，这是shadowspeak技术中的关键环节。
  4. 发音练习：注意每个词的发音，通过大声朗读模仿说话者的语调和节奏，提升你的英语口语表达能力。
  5. 反复练习：反复进行影子跟读，直到你能够流利地复述这些句子，增强语言的自然流畅性。

通过这种方式，不仅可以学习重要的词汇和短语，还能提高你的英语口语能力，使学习过程更加生动和有趣。利用英语影子跟读的方法，感受与海伦·凯勒的故事相关的情感，深化对语言的理解。

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。