跟读练习: IELTS English Podcast - Speaking Topic: Weather - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Good day everyone, I am your IELTS tutor Jack and welcome back to another episode of the IELTS Plus English podcast.
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It's the end of another winter, the weather is warming up, we're getting more blue sky,
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it's starting to feel like we can go to the park and maybe have a picnic,
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all those things that we do in spring. is weather.
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Now you may or may not know, I have mentioned it in a podcast before I think, I really like the weather.
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I'm really interested in the weather.
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I was really interested from a very young age and my dream job was to be a meteorologist.
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That's one of today's keywords, meteorologist, which means someone who studies the weather and the atmosphere in order to predict future weather.
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And if you want this vocabulary and expressions, don't forget you can download it for free off jacks -english .com.
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Now do remember, you have to go to the website and there's a free content section at the top.
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That's what you need to click on.
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There's the IELTS Plus podcast.
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Everything is available there from episode one to today, which is episode 39.
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So please make the most of that.
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And yeah, so weather, super interested in it still.
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I know I'm not a meteorologist, but I just still have that interest in, you know, typhoons, wind, rain,
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heavy rain, floods, all these different things.
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It's quite fascinating to me.
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So, I guess let's get into our 39th topic.
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Next episode is the last one of the season.
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Can you believe it?
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So let's do some part ones to warm me up.
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What is the weather like in your country?
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Well, I come from England and the weather in England can be quite dull.
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I think a lot of people find it on the whole, quite dull.
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But I think it's not as bad as people around the world think.
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It's actually, there are a lot of sunny days.
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You can go to the park and have a picnic and it does get quite hot in summer.
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So on the whole, I think British weather is changeable.
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Fickle, we could even say, but there are a lot of dull days.
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- Good, okay, wow, I'm using two or three vocabulary already.
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So check out the list.
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Next question, do you experience extreme weather in your country?
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Thank you.
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We are starting to experience extreme weather more and more in the UK.
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In the past, I don't feel like there was so many events.
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There were sort of one -off events.
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There was a hurricane and there were some floods and things like that and some droughts.
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But nowadays it feels like every year there's some kind of big storm, some people die, you know, there are some bigger weather events.
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Excellent, well, part two.
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So today's part two is describe your favorite weather.
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So two minutes on the clock starting now.
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I'd like to tell you about sunny weather.
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When I was young, I was a golfer.
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I played a lot of golf.
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So sunny weather, calm sunny days with a blue sky was a real blessing.
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It made golf much easier and more enjoyable.
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Outside of golf, I just loved sunny weather.
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I loved going to the beach.
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I loved having a picnic at the park.
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I loved hiking in sunny weather.
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There was such a number of activities I could do if it were sunny and clear.
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Bots when it was windy
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and rainy it was quite restrictive you know you couldn't really go outside
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and there wasn't many indoor things to do so When I think back to my childhood in England,
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right up until 21 years old, sunny weather was a real blessing and made me feel so good.
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So let me tell you a little more about sunny days.
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So in England, we don't really have any issues with pollution.
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So when it's a sunny day, the The sky is very, very clear and it's a wonderful blue colour.
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Now, it's quite a rare occasion to have that kind of day in England.
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It's not a not every day kind of thing.
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And but it's more likely in summer.
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The thing that I always tell my students is those images you get of sort of every day raining
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and windy in England.
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is normally the winter or kind of early spring.
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That's when we get that nasty weather.
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For me personally, these days are so wonderful because they are quite rare.
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So you're more familiar with rainy or windy, cloudy.
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So when you get this bright day, You can do all the things you want to do.
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Oh, wow.
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I guess I really like this kind of weather because I had so much more to say.
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But that was good.
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That was fairly well structured.
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I was quite happy with that.
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Nothing I would change.
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So we'll go straight on to part three.
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Has the weather changed much in your country since you were young?
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Thank you.
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Well, it's a bit difficult for me to say because I haven't been in the UK much over the past 12 years,
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but I will try my best.
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When I was young, I feel like there weren't that many sunny days,
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and particularly the summer wasn't that hot.
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But the winters definitely got very cold.
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I clearly remember as a child, We would normally get a few snowy days in winter, and it really did get cold.
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We even had some white Christmases.
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Nowadays, however, definitely those days are gone.
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We seem to get very hot summers, sometimes really prolonged periods of very hot or sweltering weather.
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And in the winter, it just doesn't get that cold.
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Snow is very rare.
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So, yeah, I think there have been some changes.
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mainly related to temperature.
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Excellent.
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Part three, second question.
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Do you think weather affects people's mood or behaviour?
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I think it absolutely affects people's mood and behavior.
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I think that when we have a prolonged period of cold weather, particularly overcast weather where we can't see the sun,
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people start to feel a bit down.
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It does have that effect.
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Whereas a wonderful bright day like today, people just feel a bit more cheerful.
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And especially when you wake up and it's quite nice and warm, it's not too cold in the morning.
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I think people tend to feel a bit better.
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Now for me personally, I'm definitely difficult things for me in England was sometimes in winter,
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waking up every single day and it's
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rainy and windy outside so that was a really hard thing to wake up to every day.
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Good, okay, final question.
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Why do people live in places with extreme weather?
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This is a really tricky question.
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I'm not sure.
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I don't know really, because when I think about these places that come to my mind,
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for example, North Russia, which is freezing cold,
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you know, you look down towards these places that experience lots of...
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strong winds, typhoons, hurricanes.
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There's a lot of places that experience extreme weather.
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And I think really, why do people live in places like that?
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It's not, they don't really have a choice either.
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they don't have the money to move somewhere more desirable, or that's where they were born and they grew up in, so that's what they're familiar with.
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So I don't think people ever choose to do that.
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I don't think there's some opportunity,
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but we kind of have to deal with the hand that we're dealt for most of us.
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So yeah, I think that's why they live in these places.
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Excellent.
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That was quite a tricky question actually, that last one.
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Because honestly, I don't know.
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So if you get those kind of questions in IELTS, you just have to speculate.
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You just have to guess.
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And you can be very honest with the examiner.
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You can say, I don't really know to be honest.
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But after that, you must speculate.
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You must make some kind of guess why.
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Good.
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Okay.
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Well, another topic that I really liked.
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The final topic of the season, which will be next week, is urbanization.
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So that's you.
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Remember, this whole thing has been alphabetical order.
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So we started with animals and we finished with urbanization, you.
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There's no other topics after that.
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But as I said, I may come back for a few bonus episodes.
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So actually, yeah, if you have any requests for topics I haven't covered,
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to do some bonus episodes for you.
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So that's everything I have for you today.
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Thank you so much if you made it to here and of course please hit that like button, subscribe and become part of the IELTS Plus community.
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Have a wonderful week, study very hard and I'll see you next Wednesday for our final topic.
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Bye -bye.
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you

为何这个视频是绝佳的口语练习素材?

视频围绕雅思口语高频话题“天气”展开,内容贴近生活且包含丰富实用表达。对话中不仅有“meteorologist(气象学家)”“fickle(多变的)”等雅思核心词汇,还融入了自然的口语节奏与真实的情感表达,非常适合用来提升英语发音和口语流畅度。此外,话题覆盖了Part 1和Part 2的典型问题,能帮助学习者熟悉考试结构,是英语口语练习的优质素材。

拆解自然表达,学习地道口语

我们可以从对话中提炼几个典型句子,分析其为何听起来自然:

  • “It's actually, there are a lot of sunny days.” 这里的停顿和“actually”的使用的非常口语化,避免了过于正式的表达,让句子更贴近日常交流。
  • “British weather is changeable. Fickle, we could even say.” 用“Fickle”补充说明“changeable”,不仅丰富了词汇,还通过短句增强了表达的节奏感。
  • “sunny weather, calm sunny days with a blue sky was a real blessing.” 多个形容词叠加描述天气,生动且具体,符合雅思口语“细节丰富”的评分标准。

简单有效的Shadow Speak练习法

利用这个视频进行口语练习,可采用“重复-录音”的shadow speak循环法:首先播放视频片段,逐句跟读,注意模仿发音、语调和停顿;然后录音自己的跟读内容,对比原音,找出发音和节奏的差异;最后针对薄弱部分反复练习。例如,练习“the weather is warming up, we're getting more blue sky”时,要重点模仿“warming up”的连读和“more blue sky”的自然重音。坚持这种方法,能有效提升英语发音和口语流畅度,让你的表达更接近母语者水平。

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
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事have mentioned · haven't been · have been
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物meteorologist, which means · today, which is · Russia, which is

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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