跟读练习: Making Things Again | practice English with Spotlight - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Liz Waid.
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And I’m Colin Lowther.
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Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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Have you ever had a problem?
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You are a person, so of course you have!
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Maybe your motorbike would not start.
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Maybe you needed to fix a toilet.
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Maybe you did not know how to download something to your smartphone.
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All people have problems.
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But what was the first thing you did to solve your problem?
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If you can connect to the Internet, one of the first things you probably did was search there for an answer.
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There, you can find information and videos to help you with almost any problem.
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These how-to videos are very popular.
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That is because more and more people are interested in doing things themselves.
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More people are becoming interested in growing, making, and fixing things.
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This growing interest is known as the maker movement.
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Today’s Spotlight is on the maker movement.
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The maker movement includes a lot of different people and ideas.
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It includes people working independently to invent, create or design.
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Makers are people who design and create their own clothes or grow their own food.
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Many makers look at things in the world and say, “I could make that.” Or they may say, “I think I could make that better.” Or they dream of something they wish existed.
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And when they do not find it, they try to create it.
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People have always made things.
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Ancient people made baskets, bowls, and tools.
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One generation of people taught the next.
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Parents taught children.
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This was how people shared knowledge, experience, and wisdom with each other.
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But things started to change.
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Machines made it easier to grow food.
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So, fewer people needed to work on farms.
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So they moved to cities.
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They found work in factories.
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But then factories started to use machines.
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It started to cost less money to buy a new thing than to fix an old one.
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People began to forget how to grow food, create things, or fix things when they broke.
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And many people are tired of this.
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They do not want to throw things away.
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They want to be able to fix things that break.
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They want to grow their own food.
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They do not want to depend on factories or stores.
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They want to use knowledge and skills instead of spending money.
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In this way, the maker movement is a kind of return to the way things used to be.
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The maker movement includes traditional work like weaving cloth, making things out of wood, and growing your own food.
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But it also accepts and uses new technologies.
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Computers are now much less frightening to people than they used to be.
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More people understand how they work.
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Children learn to write code for computers in school.
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The Internet provides training and a way to connect to other makers.
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People in the maker movement come together to make things.
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Maker Faires are gatherings of these people.
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They spend a few days together talking, planning, inventing, and solving problems.
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These Faires began in the United States, but have spread to every continent.
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For example, in 2016 there was a Maker Faire in Shenzhen, China.
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At the Faire people taught wooden knife making, drawing, and how to build a robot out of LEGO building bricks.
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There was even a clothes fashion show.
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Much of the clothing was wearable technology.
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It had built-in computers, lights, or body sensors.
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Another kind of gathering of makers is called a Repair Café.
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People bring their broken things to the Repair Café.
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The Café has tools and supplies to fix things.
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There are also experts who offer to teach people how to fix what they have brought in.
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But whenever possible, the people must do the work themselves.
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Repair Cafés began in Amsterdam, but have also spread around the world.
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There are Repair Cafés in Egypt, Kenya, Ghana, Thailand, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Azerbaijan, China and many other countries.
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And the maker movement is still growing.
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It is even starting to change education.
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Some schools are creating “maker spaces.” In these places, children can invent, combine, and discover.
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Jim Tiffin is a teacher in New York, in the US.
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His students do not just sit and listen to him talk.
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In the maker-space, they do things.
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He told the Scholastic website, "It has had the most empowering effect on students of any of the courses that I have taught.
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Students are taking the experiences from this class and using them in their other classes." Experts say that any school can be a maker space like this.
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They do not need high cost equipment or supplies.
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They can use paper, broken toys, string, clay or tape.
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Any materials will work. Students just have to make things!
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But schools are not the only places interested in the maker movement.
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Some big businesses also try to use the maker movement to sell more products.
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The clothing company Levis sells millions of pairs of blue jeans around the world.
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Many people do not consider them to be part of the maker movement.
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But Levis tries to find people who are making creative things.
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Then they put these things on their website.
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Big businesses like this tell the stories of these makers.
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People like the stories and buy more clothing.
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This way they try to seem like they are part of the maker movement even if they are making clothes in big factories.
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Many people do not want to just use things and throw them in the garbage.
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They want to use their hands. They want to learn.
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They want to be independent and in control.
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Tim Bajarin wrote about the maker movement for Time Magazine.
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He wrote: “The more I look into it, the more I believe that the maker movement is very important to America’s future.
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It may be able to turn more and more people into makers instead of just people who use things.
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I know from history that when you give makers the right tools and good ideas, they can change the world.” Do you like to learn new things?
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Do you like to create and repair? Tell us what you think.
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You can leave a comment on our website.
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Or email us at [email protected].
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You can also comment on Facebook at Facebook.com/spotlightradio.
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The writer of this program was Adam Navis.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight.
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You can listen to this program again, and read it, on the internet at www.radioenglish.net.
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This program is called, ‘Making Things Again’.
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Look out for our listening app in the Google Play store and in iTunes.
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program.Goodbye.
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为什么用这个视频练习口语?
在这个视频中,Liz Waid和Colin Lowther通过引入制作运动(maker movement)的话题,带我们走进一个有趣且有意义的英语学习体验。制作运动是一个涉及发明、创造和设计的运动,它吸引着越来越多的人们关注如何独立做事情。通过观看这个视频,学习者不仅能够了解制作运动的基本概念,还能在实际情境中提高自己的口语表达能力。通过模仿和跟读,学习者能更自信地在类似场合中分享自己的想法,增强自己的雅思口语练习能力。
语法与表达在语境中的分析
视频中使用了许多有助于提高英语口语的语法结构和表达方式。以下是几个关键点:
- 被动语态:例如"machines made it easier"展示了被动语态的使用,强调了行动的受害者而非行动者,这对于学习者了解不同句式结构非常重要。
- 条件句:如"If you can connect to the Internet"的句型,这可以帮助学生表达假设情况,适用于日常对话中表达条件和结果。
- 使用动词原形:如"to invent, create or design"强调了多个动词的使用,这不仅丰富了表达,还给了学习者更多的灵活性在口语中使用。
- 疑问句:使用"Have you ever had a problem?"的句型,可以教会学习者如何在交流中发起问题,与他人进行互动。
常见发音陷阱
在视频中,某些词和句子的发音可能会对学习者造成一定的困扰。以下是一些需要注意的发音陷阱:
- maker 和 make 的发音:强调发音的清晰度对确保交流流畅非常重要。
- independently:这个词较长,容易在发音时遗漏音节,建议反复练习以提高准确性。
- factory 和 fix:注意这两个词的辅音发音,确保在口语练习中不被忽略。
- 在正常语速下的“things”和“thing”可能会混淆,练习时可通过shadow speak来加强对这种细节的注意。
通过以上的练习和分析,学习者可以在进行英语口语练习、进行雅思口语练习的过程中,更有信心地表达自己,与他人有效交流。
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。





























