跟读练习: Part 2: Using Photography to Inspire Young Learners - 通过视频学习英语口语
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You know, I think photos can help inspire all kinds of emotions.
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You know, they can be beautiful.
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They can also help inspire wonder in people.
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So this is a photo of a tiny chameleon from the island of Madagascar.
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Do we have anybody from Madagascar here today?
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That would be really neat.
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This is a chameleon that is a fully grown adult.
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So it's really, really small and I put it on a human finger so you can see just how tiny it is.
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Amazingly, it's not even the smallest species in Madagascar.
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The smallest one can actually fit on the head of a match.
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Photos can also make us care about species and places that are really far away from our homes.
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Like this photo of a Sulawesi crested black macaque from Indonesia.
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And I saw earlier that we had somebody from Indonesia on this webinar, So that's wonderful to see.
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Photos can also make us aware of environmental issues, like the overfishing of sharks and other big fish that are found in our oceans.
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And this is an issue that's happening worldwide.
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So it was really this understanding of the power of photographs that inspired me to apply to National Geographic
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for a Young Explorers Grant to go to the country of Peru to photograph conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest.
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I actually, I just got a great question.
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Do I get scared?
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Yeah, sometimes I get a little nervous when I'm out in the forest, but it's absolutely worth it every time.
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But I really love being out there in the forest.
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And in this case, I spent 10 months in the Amazon rainforest.
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And I was photographing these conservation efforts from the high Andes Mountains,
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seen here, all the way to the lowland Amazon rainforest.
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To make photos like this one, I would have to get up at 4 o'clock a.m in the morning
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and drag myself out of bed
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and go into the dark forest in the middle of the night
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and to climb a radio tower that was about 60 meters high
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or 180 feet high so I could be above the canopy at dawn.
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But I wanted to do those things to really show how beautiful these landscapes are and to make people care about them.
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And Peru is full of adventures.
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In this case, we had to trek for a couple of hours through the forest.
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We crossed rivers 11 times, and then we camped in the forest for 10 days in Peru.
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I was working with these park rangers who were monitoring wildlife, but we went out there so that we could really show some of the animals that were living in this forest.
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I got to photograph some pretty cool critters like mustache monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon on,
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scarlet macaws soaring above the canopy, and even some smaller creatures,
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because I really love to not just show the big charismatic animals, but the more rare creatures, the ones that are overlooked.
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So like monkey frogs, these really cute little frogs that are found in the understory and are a little bit camouflaged.
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And I'm telling you about Peru because it was a really great learning experience for me.
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Of course, it was an adventure, but more than that, it was a learning experience because I got to work with students.
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As part of my project in Peru, I was able to give presentations and photo workshops to students in schools.
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And these are some of those students out bird watching in one of the forests.
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And as I shared my photos of wildlife with these students, like the mustache monkey or the scarlet macaw,
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what I realized is that these students had almost never heard of these animals.
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They actually knew more about elephants and giraffes
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in faraway Africa than they did about the incredible animals that are found essentially in their backyards.
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And that was a very important moment for me as a photographer,
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because I really realized that we have to connect kids with nature in the places where they live.
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Kids are not going to care about protecting wildlife if they don't even know that these species exist.
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为何用这段视频练习英语口语？
这段视频以摄影故事为载体，包含大量描述自然景观、动物特征和个人经历的表达，非常适合英语口语练习。其口语化的叙事风格贴近日常交流，能帮助学习者掌握如何生动讲述故事、表达情感。通过shadow speech（影子跟读）模仿 speaker 的语气和节奏，不仅能提升流利度，还能学会用语言传递感染力，让表达更具画面感。
语境中的语法与表达
- “It was really this understanding... that inspired me...”：强调句型，用于突出关键信息。练习时可替换内容，如“It was this photo that made me fall in love with nature”，增强表达的重点意识。
- “I would have to get up... and drag myself out of bed...”：“would have to”表达过去的必要性，结合“drag oneself out of bed”等生动短语，可用于描述过去的经历或任务，让口语更鲜活。
- “Kids are not going to care... if they don't even know...”：条件状语从句，说明因果关系。模仿时可练习“People won't protect the environment if they don't realize its importance”，提升逻辑表达能力。
常见发音陷阱
视频中部分单词发音需注意：chameleon（变色龙）的重音在第二个音节，易误读为“cha-ME-le-on”；macaque（猕猴）的“que”发/k/音，而非/kw/；canopy（树冠层）的“o”发/ə/，不要读成/ɒ/。shadowing site（跟读练习平台）上可反复听辨这些单词，结合影子跟读纠正发音。此外，speaker 讲述经历时的升调（如“Amazingly, it's not even the smallest species...”）传递惊讶感，模仿时需注意语调变化，让口语更自然。
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 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | are found · are overlooked |
| 过去进行时 was/were + -ing — 过去某一时刻正在进行的动作 | was photographing · was working |
| 最高级 the -est / the most … — 一组中最高或最低的 | the smallest |
| 义务：must / have to / need to 表示某事是必要的 | have to get · had to trek · have to connect |
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。