跟读练习: Learn Real English Vlog: Spend a Day In Birmingham UK! 🇬🇧 - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Welcome to Birmingham, my home city.
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Today we're going to be taking you around Birmingham,
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showing you what it's like and also teaching you some English along the way.
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So if we say a word that I think maybe might be new to you,
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the definition will come on screen
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so you get to see a little part of the UK and learn some English at the same time.
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Let's go!
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Right, we're in Birmingham New Street.
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This used to be not a very cool station,
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but then when I was younger,
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they redid it all and now they've got like...
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Done it up.
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Yeah, they have done it up, definitely.
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And up here on the top,
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they've got all these restaurants and shops so
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if you're catching a train here and your trains delayed or you've got an hour wait there's plenty of restaurants.
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It's actually quite a nice place just to hang out to be honest.
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We've had just like food,
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they just come here for food sometimes.
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Yeah, really nice.
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And they've got this amazing bowl here which was for...
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This bowl was for the
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Commonwealth Games which is a little bit like the Olympic Games but for the countries in the Commonwealth.
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It was in Birmingham in 2020 21,
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22, something like that I think.
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And so then, yeah, look at this bull.
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This is the first thing that you'll see when you come to Birmingham, this big bull.
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So make sure you see him,
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take some pictures, he's very cool.
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Look at this bull moving, I love it.
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That was directly at me, that felt personal.
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So if you're coming to Birmingham,
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your ticket might take you to Birmingham New Street,
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New Street or you might see Birmingham Moore Street
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which is a station right next to Birmingham New Street they are five minutes apart
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so don't worry if you go to Birmingham New Street or Birmingham Moore Street you are in the centre of Birmingham.
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So we're here at Joe and the Juice.
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We've come here a couple of times to be It's very nice,
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Birmingham New Street, just to sit up here,
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people watch a little bit,
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see Ozzy the Bull, set you up for a nice day of shopping or eating out or going to the theatre.
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There's lots of things to do in Birmingham.
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I'm really excited for today.
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I've had a Prince of Green,
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whoa, which is just pineapple, cucumber and lemon.
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It's very cucumber-y.
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That is like heavy on the cucumber.
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That is a huge bird.
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Is that a real bird?
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What is that?
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Is that real?
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It's not real.
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It's the worn off pigeon.
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I was gonna say that's huge!
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So we're about to go into the Bullring Market which is a shopping centre but it's called the Bullring because I think,
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oh, hundreds of years ago,
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maybe like 400 years ago,
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maybe, they used to have bull baiting in there.
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So they had loads of bulls and they used to,
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like, get dogs to attack the bulls or something like that.
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I spent a lot of time here as a child.
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I came here with my friends,
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it was kind of like the meet-up spot that you would come to.
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And it's a great place to go shopping.
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If you need to get some stuff, there's everything.
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And my favourite shop in the whole world is called Selfridges.
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We're going to go there.
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Hello, bull.
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I might have to get some macarons.
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I love macarons so much.
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So Selfridges is like this big department store.
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They have everything and the Birmingham one is an incredible Selfridges.
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So they've got makeup, clothes,
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gifts, alcohol, food, cards, toys, everything.
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Me and Laura actually like coming here around Christmas time.
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It's a very good place to come at Christmas time just for...
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Yeah, just for a browse sometimes, just for a mooch.
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This bottle looks pretty cool.
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Whapass!
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Absolutely iconic to Birmingham is Cadbury chocolate.
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I think it's gone international.
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I think you can get Cadbury chocolate in other places,
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but you've got to get Cadbury chocolate.
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It is the best chocolate.
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It was made in Birmingham.
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And if you come to Birmingham,
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you can actually go to Cadbury World,
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which is like a theme park for Cadbury chocolate,
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which is a great day out.
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So yeah, they named one of their bars Bourneville because that's where Cadbury is made,
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in a place called Bourneville.
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Oh, there's a shop down there called Passing Fancies.
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A passing fancy is something that you really want for a second,
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but then it's gone.
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You don't want it for a life,
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but I just have a passing fancy for it.
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It does look a little bit like me.
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It's quite a nice place to come here sometimes just to...
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I don't know if anybody else feels like this,
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but me and Laura sometimes just really fancy going out shopping.
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Sometimes it's just nice to go shopping, just window shopping.
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I don't necessarily have to buy anything,
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but Selfridges is quite a nice place just to come and...
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It's kind of like an experience,
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do you know what I mean?
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Ooh, sushi!
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I really like in Birmingham you have the contrast of the very new,
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so all your shops and everything,
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but then right next to it you've got your very old.
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So this is St Martin's Church,
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it's from 1855 is when it was completed.
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And it's just such a nice sort of reminder of the history of Britain
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alongside all the new stuff
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because of course we want all the new stuff we want the sharps we want all of
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that fun stuff but then also like look at this amazing architecture we can have nice thing that's
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so cool Chinese restaurants are opening we're filming this around well
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right at the moment it's about 11 o'clock in the morning um
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so everything's kind of gearing up for the day i suppose
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the good thing about the really nice thing about Birmingham is that there's a lot of diversity
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I think the multiculturalism of Birmingham is part of its identity.
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Yeah.
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It's part of the fact that you can get food from any corner of the world in Birmingham
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and it's always amazing because we've got all cultures here.
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It's great, it's great fun.
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When I was growing up,
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this was the meeting point.
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When me and my friends came to Birmingham,
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we'd say, right, I'll meet you at the Bull.
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This is where I met all my friends growing up.
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An absolutely iconic landmark of Birmingham.
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You've got to come see it if you come to Birmingham.
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The Bull.
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I think they call him Bully.
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I think his name is officially Bully.
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I think it's Bully the Bull.
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I'm pretty sure.
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Also in Birmingham there is the tram service,
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which is very, very useful for just travelling around the city.
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You can just hop on and hop off.
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You can see the tram lines here and right on cue, here's the tram.
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It's amazing and it's actually one of those kind of buildings that I think people in the UK take for granted.
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Brits like to travel abroad and go to see like different cities like European cities and things like that of course.
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And I often think if that was in another country,
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people would go and people would flock there and take pictures of it and that kind of thing.
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But it's just there in Birmingham and people just walking past.
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Not really that bothered to be honest.
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And it's amazing, I think.
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So this water fountain up here is called the floozy and the jacuzzi.
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So the floozy, a floozy is quite a derogatory term actually
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for a woman who likes to take her clothes off maybe or a woman who is a bit promiscuous, a floozy.
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We don't really use it in modern day English
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but yeah she looks like she's in a jacuzzi so it's called informally the floozy in the jacuzzi. so so
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So we're now heading to the library which again is relatively new in Birmingham.
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It's quite a new addition and I remember it being built.
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Again, it's free to go in,
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it's got some really cool viewpoints.
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You can go right to the top and you can see all of Birmingham,
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well not all of it but a good chunk of it.
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So yeah, let's go have a look in the library.
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And we've just stumbled upon,
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it must be graduation day, which feels weird.
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I thought graduation was supposed to be in the summer.
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Well, it's September at the moment.
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But yeah, it's a university city.
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Here is the library.
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A lot of people didn't like the design when it was first revealed.
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It's still very controversial, quite divisive.
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A lot of people in Birmingham don't like it.
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I like it!
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It's fine, it's cool.
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It's like a wedding cake.
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It does look a bit like a wedding cake.
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I think it's fun.
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So we're going to go inside,
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have a little look around.
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I think it's great to have in the middle of a city,
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a huge, big library all about books and reading.
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I think it's nice and let's have a look
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I wonder how many books are in this library I reckon
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there's at least five it's actually really nice up here
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and you got like the hustle and bustle of the city but actually up here it's very calm and quiet
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this is the shakespeare collection guess what they have in here shakespeare stuff
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We're now in my favourite part of Birmingham, this is Brinley Place.
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It's a big area with canal running through it, they've got restaurants.
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It's just a really nice place to come if you want a meal or if you want to have a walk,
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this is probably the best bit.
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Anyone from Birmingham will tell you that there are more canals in Birmingham than in Venice.
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So that is the big fact that everyone likes to tell you.
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There are more canals running through Birmingham than Venice,
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and look at them, they're beautiful.
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Yeah, I like this area a lot.
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This is probably my favorite bit.
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Behind me is Broad Street,
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and that is where the best nightlife is in Birmingham.
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So if you're here for a night out or a good time,
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maybe pop to Broad Street.
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35 miles of canal Birmingham has.
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During the industrial revolution this is one of the reasons why Birmingham kind of grew so much,
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the industry grew so much because they could transport goods in and out of the city.
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We're heading to the custard factory which doesn't make custard
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but it used to make custard and now they've turned it into this cool like district with shops,
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restaurants, and pubs.
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It's just kind of really cool,
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artistic, fun little place to come. so Hello,
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it's me.
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I'm editing this and I just realised we didn't say goodbye in this video.
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So thank you so much for watching this.
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If you enjoyed it, please subscribe,
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please give it a like and tell us where you would like us to go next.
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We want to go all over the UK.
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We want to show you some amazing things in the UK and teach you some English at the same time.
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So where would you like to see?
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Let us know.
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Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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Ta-ta!
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观看这段以伯明翰为背景的英语 vlog，能够让你在真实语境中学习英语。视频的讲述者带我们游览这座城市，介绍当地的文化、美食和历史。在此过程中，他使用的语言富有生活气息，提供了一个学习英语口语的绝佳机会。通过模仿他的言语，你不仅能提高 英语口语练习 的能力，还能增强对英国文化的理解，然而，shadowing 的练习也将帮助你在真实交流中更自信地表达自己。
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在视频中，讲述者使用了多种语法结构和表达方式，适合英语学习者加以分析和模仿，以下是几个重要的例子：
- 现在进行时： "we're going to be taking you around Birmingham" 用于描述将要发生的动作，表明一种临时性。
- 过去时： "used to be not a very cool station" 用于回忆过去的状态，这是描述变化的有效方式。
- 主动语态与被动语态结合： "they have done it up" 强调了对原有事物的改变。
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常见的发音陷阱
在视频中，有一些词汇和短语的发音可能对学习者构成挑战。引起注意的包括：
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- Commonwealth - 这个词的发音较长，注意缩略音。
- Cadbury - 注意两个音节的轻重音，不要读错影响理解。
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