跟读练习: INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH STORY 😅 The Heatwave 🌡️ B1 - B2 | British English Reading & Listening Practice - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hello and welcome to Lovely English Stories.
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Thank you for stopping by.
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This story is written for intermediate English learners.
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Let's get started.
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B1, B2 English Story.
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The Heat Wave Kate grew up on the border of England and Scotland.
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She was used to bracing winds and cooler weather.
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She loved to go away to warm countries and feel the sun on her skin.
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She always said that when she grew up,
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she would move away to Spain or Italy or the south of France and live somewhere by the sea.
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She longed for the day when she didn't look out of her window and see grey, dull skies.
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Of course, sometimes the weather was okay on the borders,
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but it was nothing like it was in the south of England.
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She had visited London once and couldn't believe how different the climate was.
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Kate had heard on the news that a heat wave was coming
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and that everyone should prepare for it by making sure they shut their windows, blinds and curtains.
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Kate rolled her eyes at the news report.
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She was convinced she wouldn't need to do any such thing.
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The next morning, Kate woke up and to her surprise,
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when she opened her curtains.
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The sky was blue.
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She smiled the biggest smile.
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This was what she had always wanted.
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She ran downstairs and went out into her garden.
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She sat down on the grass and looked up to the sky.
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She couldn't see one cloud.
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It was glorious.
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It was the first time in a long time that she had felt warm at seven in the morning.
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After a few minutes of wistfully admiring the sky,
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she decided to head back inside and get ready.
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She had a shower, made some breakfast and tried out her new fancy coffee machine.
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Kate was in her final year of university and was working away on her dissertation.
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She had a couple of short online lectures and a meeting with her tutor,
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and then she was free for the day.
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She couldn't wait.
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As the day wore on,
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her room became hotter and hotter.
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She turned on her fan,
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but it did next to nothing.
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She started to get hot and sweaty.
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She wasn't ready for this.
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Maybe the news report was right after all.
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At 4pm she turned off her laptop,
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went downstairs and out into the garden.
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As she opened the door,
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it was like she was hit with a wall of heat.
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It took her breath away.
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She rushed back inside and drank a big glass of water.
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She was in shock.
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She had never known the weather to be so wonderfully hot and it was meant to get even hotter.
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She went up to her room and liberally applied some sun cream.
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Kate was very fair-skinned and burnt easily,
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so she had to be careful.
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She used factor 50 Then she found her hat,
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went back to the kitchen Made herself a cool cocktail
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And went out into the garden with a book She only sat in the sun for an hour
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And then she went back inside She started to feel a little strange
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She was dizzy and had a headache and started to feel sick.
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When she checked her phone,
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she saw it was hotter than she had realised.
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It was 36 degrees, much hotter than she'd ever known in the UK.
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She sat down on her bed and took deep breaths.
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Did she really want to live in a warm country
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if this was how her body was going to react to warm weather?
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She realised she had got sunstroke She drank a full glass of water
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and had a nap She woke an hour later to her
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housemates coming back from university She felt a lot better but still felt a little dizzy
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Her flatmates made her dinner and they watched a film together.
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The house felt very humid and they knew they were in for a hot night.
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The problem with their house and most houses in the UK is that aircon isn't a thing.
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So when hot weather comes,
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the only things people have to cool them down are fans.
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After the film, Kate had a cool shower and went to bed.
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She didn't sleep well.
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She tossed and turned all night.
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Her fan gave hardly any relief as the air was so hot and close.
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She had set her alarm for 7.30 as she wanted to
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make her housemates breakfast to say thank you for looking after her the day before.
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She got up and dressed,
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went downstairs and started to prepare pancakes.
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She opened the door and was hit with the warm air from outside.
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According to her phone, it was already 28 degrees.
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She had never known anything like it,
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except for when she went on holiday.
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She decided that she wouldn't make the same mistake as the day before.
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Instead, she would go out and have breakfast with her friends in their garden
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and then she would stay in the house and work on her dissertation all day.
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She didn't want to get sunstroke again.
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Breakfast was lovely, but Kate and her friends were already getting too hot.
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They made their way inside,
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closed up the curtains, blinds,
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doors and windows and all started on their university work.
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As the day went on,
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it got hotter and hotter.
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No matter how many cold drinks Kate had or how many times she washed her face with cool water,
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she couldn't get comfortable with the heat.
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She started to wonder whether life in a hot country really would be for her
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and she started to realise that she was contented living in a cooler place.
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Of course, she reminded herself again that she would have aircon abroad.
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But where's the fun in living somewhere hot if it's too hot to go outside?
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Kate loved to be out and about,
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and just these couple of days of extreme heat were too much for her.
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That night, as the temperatures were still sky high,
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she looked out of her window and saw the beautiful rolling hills and little towns in the distance,
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and realised that she was happy where she was.
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Life isn't always fun.
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Let's
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go through some of the vocabulary from this story.
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Burnt To be burnt To be burnt is to be destroyed or made black by fire or heat.
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You can get sunburn if you lay in the sun too long and your skin will go red and might be painful.
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Dizzy.
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Dizzy.
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Dizzy is feeling as if everything is turning around and that you are not able to balance and may fall over.
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Extreme.
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Extreme.
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Extreme is very large in amount or degree.
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React.
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To react is to act in a particular way as a direct result of something else.
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You can have good or bad reactions to things.
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Relief Relief is a relaxed,
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happy feeling that you get because something bad has not happened or a bad situation has ended.
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Rush To rush To rush is to go or do something very quickly Convince To convince
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To convince is to persuade someone of something Admire To admire
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To admire is to find someone or something attractive and pleasant to look at Nap, nap.
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A nap is a short sleep in the daytime.
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Dissertation, dissertation.
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A dissertation is a long piece of writing that you usually have to do as part of your university course.
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Tutor, tutor.
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A tutor is a type of teacher.
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To realise, to realise To realise is to understand a situation,
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sometimes suddenly
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关于本课
在本课中，学习者将通过一个温暖的英语故事进行口语和听力练习。故事围绕凯特（Kate）的生活展开，她是一个生活在英格兰和苏格兰边界的女孩，渴望体验阳光明媚的天气。学习者将有机会通过这个故事提升他们的英语理解和表达能力，特别是在气候和日常生活场景的对话中。
关键词汇和短语
- 热浪 (heatwave) - 指高温天气的持续现象。
- 窗帘 (curtains) - 用于遮挡窗户的布料。
- 阳光 (sun) - 太阳的光线，常常与温暖和快乐相联系。
- 花园 (garden) - 家里的户外空间，通常种植花草或树木。
- 大学 (university) - 提供高等教育的机构，通常授予学位。
- 论文 (dissertation) - 在完成学位课程时提交的研究作品。
- 热 (heat) - 温度升高，给人带来强烈的感觉。
练习建议
在听这个故事时，可以尝试使用 shadow speak 技巧来提高口语能力。从视频开始的那一刻起，注意凯特的语速和语调。由于视频的语速适中，适合中级学习者进行 shadowing 练习。以下是一些有效的练习建议：
- 选择短的段落，反复聆听并跟读，模仿演员的发音和语调。
- 在每次听完后，暂停视频，自己重述所听到的内容，确保能清晰表达。
- 注意句子的重音和韵律，试着在跟读时保持一致。
- 与朋友或同学一起练习，进行对话，可以增加互动性和趣味性。
通过这些方法，你将能够更自信地进行 英语口语练习，并在掌握新词汇的同时提升你的听说能力。记得多多练习，你也可以把自己在 shadow speech 过程中的进步分享给他人！
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。