跟读练习: Read and Repeat English Story (Intermediate) – Lesson 94: Connected Reading, Shadowing - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Well, hello, all of my students.
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I hope you're having a fantastic day.
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My name is Jay
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and welcome to another English lesson here on the channel where I have the opportunity to help you with your English comprehension,
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vocabulary, and your English fluency.
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Today, I have a read and repeat lesson.
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Now, it is a C1 leveled story, so it's somewhat intermediate.
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Of course, if you hang around until the end, I will have a quiz of today's lesson.
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Richard was shocked, shocked when he learned that his younger brother,
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David, had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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Also called MS. OK, before I explain, let's read and repeat.
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Richard was shocked. When he learned that.
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His younger brother, David. Had been diagnosed with.
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Multiple sclerosis.
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Okay, so one key word is diagnosed.
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So when a person is diagnosed with something, they have usually been examined by someone.
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It doesn't necessarily have to just be a doctor.
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Okay, you can look at a child, you can look at your spouse or a loved one, and you could diagnose certain things.
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You can look at their facial expression and you could diagnose from your observation,
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are you feeling okay?
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So basically a diagnosis is an examination where someone comes up with an opinion or a conclusion.
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Let's continue to find out what happened with Richard and David.
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He never he had never heard of the disease disease before
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and spent hours reading about how it affects the nervous system.
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Let's read and repeat.
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He had never heard. Of the disease before. And spent hours reading. About how it affects. About how it affects.
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The nervous system.
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Excellent job.
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So, of course, a disease can be defined as a sickness.
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OK, now, sometimes we use the word disease to discuss someone that may have an illness that is serious.
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OK, you wouldn't say if a person had a cold that that's a disease, you would just say, hey, you're sick.
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OK, but there are certain sicknesses that are considered major or serious.
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OK, so we define those as diseases and some sicknesses don't have man made cures.
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OK, so they consider it to be an incurable disease or sickness.
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All right.
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Now, notice the word affects affects.
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Now, there's another word called affect.
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It's spelled with an E instead of with an A.
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They sound the same, but they mean two different things.
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OK, so effect and affect sound the same again, but they mean two different things.
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So what does affect mean?
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All right.
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What does the word affect mean?
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It simply means how something influences a person, how something works on a person.
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Okay.
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So they wanted to know how multiple sclerosis affected a person.
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Okay.
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So the context of effect here has to do with how it works on a person, how it influence,
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how it troubles someone's health or someone else.
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Okay.
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And I'm trying to keep it very basic and simple because I know many of you, you're taking notes, you're listening,
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you're writing, and I want to give you the general concept of what something means.
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Now, the nervous system, the nervous system,
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notice MS or multiple sclerosis affected the nervous system.
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Say that with me.
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Nervous system.
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OK, it's the part of a person's body where how can I describe it?
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Matter of fact, let me just read.
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I know how to describe it, but let me just read a simple definition.
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The nervous system is the body's command center.
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That's a great way.
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Made up of nerve tissue that sends and receives electrical signals throughout the body.
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OK, so.
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When I told you guys in one of my lessons a few weeks ago
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that I was stung by a yellow jacket right on my head.
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OK, the nervous system sent a signal to me to let me know I'm injured right here.
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OK, and I knew it was going to hurt because I saw that yellow jacket come in fast.
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It was like, bye.
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And for the first second, it didn't hurt.
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But in just a few moments, oh, it started throbbing on my head.
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It affected my nervous system.
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When a person gets bitten by a rattlesnake, the poison affects the nervous system.
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OK, so it's the part of our body that sends signals to the brain to let us know what's happening,
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what's going on.
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MS or multiple sclerosis cause muscle weakness,
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balance issues and fatigue or tiredness, fatigue.
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So Richard knew they had to make changes in their home.
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Man, what an awesome brother to not cast his brother away now that he has some challenges.
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So let's read and repeat.
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MS could cause muscle weakness.
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Now, let me say MS also could be an abbreviation for the state of Mississippi.
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OK, MS, Mississippi.
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But here, MS stands for multiple sclerosis.
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Let's continue.
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MS could cause muscle weakness, balance issues and fatigue.
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So Richard knew they had to make changes in their home.
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Balance issues.
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So when a person has balance issues, they may can't stand straight.
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You may see them do this often.
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Muscle weakness.
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They may can't pick up simply something like a bottle of water
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or they cannot write with a pen because they're having muscle issues.
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And so when you see someone battling with that, I think it's important to be empathetic.
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And it should also cause us to reflect, to be grateful that we have our health and our strength.
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But let's find out what happens.
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First, we see that Richard studied and then he decided to make necessary changes in their home.
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Um, I had some friends of the family and I told you guys in my last video,
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um, how I had a friend who passed on last week and how she had her legs amputated,
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uh, probably about a year or so before she passed.
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But when I went back over their house, after she was bound to a wheelchair, they had to make changes in the home.
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They had to put a ramp in the front yard so she could get into the house.
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They moved some of the equipment around or some of the furniture around in the house.
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I was telling you about my neighbor who's elderly and he fell.
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He's considering getting a hospital bed.
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So when he falls on the floor or needs to get in the bed, he can pull himself in.
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So depending on what a person is going through, they often or might have to make changes in their home.
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And that's when the bills start adding up because it costs money to make certain changes.
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Let's find out what happens.
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He immediately, immediately, immediately or quickly or suddenly or without haste immediately started notice rearranging,
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rearranging, say that rearranging or changing furniture to make it easier for David to move around.
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And they even installed handrails on the bathroom.
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You know, before we read and repeat that sentence,
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I can remember my grandparents and I didn't understand as a child why they had a chair in the shower.
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I didn't understand why my mother -in -law and sometimes other elderly people, when you go to use their restroom,
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it's like they have a high chair on the toilet.
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You know, it's sitting way up.
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I didn't understand as a child that as you get older, your body changes.
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And so to help assist yourself in life,
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sometimes you have to purchase certain things or make rearrangements in your home.
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I can remember, you know, taking a bath as a kid, taking a shower.
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You didn't think anything about it.
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Why does my grandmother have this showerhead that's seemingly on a rope that you have to hold.
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It's because when you are going through things in your body or getting older, you don't want to slip and fall.
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So you get these things to make life more comfortable.
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Isn't it amazing how our perspective changes from being young to older and just experiencing life.
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OK.
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All right.
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Let's read and repeat.
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He immediately started rearranging furniture to make
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it easier for David to move around.
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And they even installed handrails in the bathroom.
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Excellent job.
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Let's continue.
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As the days passed,
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Richard became more aware of David's struggles or he became more conscious of some of his brother's challenges.
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You know, sometimes we're not empathetic or we think about what other people go through until we experience it for ourself.
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There's a saying that we have in English.
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We say, put yourself in my shoes or some people will say until you've walked a mile in my shoes.
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And that simply means you don't know what I'm going through until you sit down
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and talk to me or you've been through it yourself.
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And so now we see that Richard is becoming more conscious of what his brother has to deal with.
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But sometimes it's normal for us to be able to open our own door for ourselves
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when we go in a restaurant or a hotel.
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But imagine someone who has multiple sclerosis and they can't open the door.
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Sometimes we take for granted feeding ourselves.
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You know, when I bless my food now, sometimes I get strange looks because I thank God not only for my food.
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I not only ask him to bless my food,
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but I've gotten to the point now to where I realize it's a blessing to be able to feed yourself.
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Oh, I'm telling you, until you have to constantly feed someone else.
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or you see someone just struggling to bring a fork to their mouth just to feed themselves.
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It makes you grateful.
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I don't know about you.
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It just makes me grateful.
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OK.
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And so now that's where Richard is.
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Notice, let me start from the beginning.
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As the days passed, Richard became more aware of David's struggles
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and he found ways to help without making his brother feel helpless.
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Let's read and repeat.
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As the days passed, Richard became more aware of David's struggles.
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And he found ways to help without making his brother feel helpless.
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I've got to pause and tell you guys this story.
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So there's some people that may have different ailments in their body or struggles in their body or pain,
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and they don't want anybody to help them.
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They it may be because of pride or maybe they don't want you to have pity on them.
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It could be a number of reasons.
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And some people will tell you, look, I've got it.
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Leave me alone.
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Don't bother me.
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I got to tell you guys this story.
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So you know that I strive to have three free lessons for you guys every week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
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But I have a life outside of this.
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And I have other things that I do, schools that I visit, kids that I mentor.
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You guys know I do landscaping, you know, to help pay the bills.
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I cut grass.
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And so yesterday.
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My lawnmower broke and well, it didn't break.
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I thought it was broken.
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And so I had to take it to the to the repair shop, which was about 30 minutes away.
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And then I had to figure out how I was going to finish cutting my yard.
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So I called up a friend of mine and he and I asked him, could I use his lawnmower?
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And he said, sure, no thing, no problem.
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So I went over to get it.
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And here here's the story.
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So while we're loading up the lawnmower, he's telling me about a neighbor and it was an elderly woman or an older woman.
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And her grass had grown up to about your knees.
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It was knee high.
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It was thick.
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It was making the neighborhood look bad.
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So what he did was he went over to cut her yard for free.
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I mean, he went over there, knocked on the door and asked if he could cut her yard.
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He wasn't going to charge her.
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She didn't come to the door.
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So he began to cut the yard and he finished cutting the yard, making it look presentable.
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And how about this woman called the police?
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she called the sheriff on him because he gave her a free yard cutting.
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Okay.
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And so he asked the sheriff, what are you going to do?
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Lock me up.
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I'm trying to be a good Samaritan.
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And he said, no, don't worry about it.
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We understand.
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And he just left.
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So a few weeks later, the neighbor on the other side of the house started smelling something.
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And so they came and got my friend and said, do you smell that? And he said, yeah.
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So they were concerned.
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He had worked at a funeral home before.
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So he figured something was dead at that house, a pet, an animal or something.
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So they go to knock on the door and the smell got stronger.
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And come to find out, they called the police.
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The sheriff came over, knocked down the door.
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And that same woman was in the house, laid on the floor dead after about three weeks or so.
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And just a sad story.
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But I told that story because it made me think of this story that I have here.
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Some people, no matter their condition, they don't want your help.
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You can try to help them be nice, be courteous.
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And for whatever reason, they're just mean.
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Look, don't let that stop you from being nice and realize there are just some mean folk in this world.
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And what's amazing is, I mean, we all are going to die one day,
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but who wants to be remembered as being that person that died?
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It was just mean to your own neighbors.
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Wow.
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OK, I've extended today's lesson by sharing that story.
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Let's continue.
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The diagnosis, although challenging.
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gave them more time together as Richard became more involved in David's daycare.
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Let's read and repeat the diagnosis,
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although challenging, gave them more time together as Richard became more involved in David's daily care.
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They began spending their evenings talking more.
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So now they're cherishing their time, sharing stories and even planning small trips.
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That David could enjoy without over exerting himself.
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So when you talk about over exerting.
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it simply means you're not going to use too much energy to do something.
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Have you ever tried to lift something and you knew it was heavy,
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but you tried to lift it anyway and you ended up hurting your back or straining yourself?
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You overexerted yourself.
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Okay.
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It being just me and my wife, sometimes I try to get her to move stuff with me.
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Help me move this.
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And she's like, I can.
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I'm like, Yes, you can.
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I get her sometimes to over exert herself.
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Let's read and repeat.
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They began spending their evenings.
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Talking more.
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Sharing stories.
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And even planning small trips. That David could enjoy.
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Without over exerting himself.
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Excellent job.
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OK, one more sentence.
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The changes in their living arrangements were difficult at first.
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But they brought the but they bought the brothers closer than ever before.
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Let's read and repeat the changes in their living arrangements.
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living arrangements arrangements were difficult at first but they brought the brothers closer than ever before
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excellent job now look i'm sorry guys sometimes i get
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so into these videos and i made this one a little bit longer than I usually do,
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but consider that bonus time together since I didn't give you three videos this week.
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Okay, let's read through today's story at a faster pace without stopping,
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and let's see if you can keep up as well as understand what I'm reading.
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Richard was shocked when he learned that his younger brother David had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or MS.
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He had never heard of the disease before and spent hours reading about it, about how it affects the nervous system.
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MS could cause muscle weakness, balance issues and fatigue.
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So Richard knew they had to make changes in their home.
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He immediately started rearranging furniture to make it easier for David to move around.
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and they even installed handrails in the bathroom.
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As the days passed, Richard became more aware of David's struggles
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and he found ways to help without making his brother feel helpless.
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The diagnosis, although challenging, gave them more time together as Richard became more involved in David's daily health care.
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They began spending their evenings talking more,
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sharing stories, and even planning small trips that David could enjoy without overexerting himself.
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The changes in their living arrangements were difficult at first, but they brought the brothers closer than ever before.
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All right, let's look at a few quiz questions and then I'm going to let you go.
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Number one, answer these in the comments section.
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What does diagnosed mean?
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Number two, what does fatigued mean or fatigue?
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And number three, what is, I forgot, the nervous system?
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What is the nervous system?
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Well, I hope you have enjoyed today's lesson.
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Wow, I had a great time talking about something.
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and teaching you something that you may not have known about.
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Now, if you want my lessons on PDF form, be sure to join my Patreon.
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The link is in the description.
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And as I always say, thank you so much for hanging out with me.
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And if you have a friend that's also trying to improve their English, be sure to share today's lesson with them.
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I'm about to go make another video English lesson for my Parlay with Jay channel.
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So make sure you check that out where you can get some English listening lessons to help strengthen your English listening.
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All right.
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Until next time, enjoy your day.
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And I hope you join me on my next English lesson.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“Read and Repeat English Story (Intermediate) – Lesson 94: Connected Reading, Shadowing”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：Richard, nervous, lesson, brother, changes。 这段视频共有 290 个句子、2988 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 25:54。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 115 个词，很适合跟读。 86% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| lesson 名词 | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | 課業 /课业, -課 /-课 |
| muscle 名词 | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | 肌肉, 筋肉 |
| fatigue 名词 | /fəˈtiːɡ/ | 疲勞 /疲劳, 倦怠 |
| arrangement 名词 | /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/ | 排列, 安排 |
| weakness 名词 | /ˈwik.nɪs/ | 虛弱 /虚弱, 軟弱 /软弱 |
| shock 名词 | /ʃɔk/ | 衝擊 /冲击 |
| furniture 名词 | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | 家具 |
| diagnosis 名词 | /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/ | 診斷 /诊断 |
| sickness 名词 | /ˈsɪknɪs/ | 疾病 |
| grateful 形容词 | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | 感激, 感謝 /感谢 |
| knock 动词 | /nɑk/ | 敲 |
| sheriff 名词 | /ˈʃɛɹɪf/ | 郡治安官 |
| elderly 形容词 | /ˈɛldɚli/ | 老 |
| helpless 形容词 | /ˈhɛlplɪs/ | 無助的 /无助的, 無力的 /无力的 |
| neighbour 名词 | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | 鄰居 /邻居, 比鄰 /比邻 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| find out 动词 | 找出, 查明 |
| go through 动词 | 通過 /通过 |
| come up with 动词 | 想出, 提出 |
| end up 动词 | 到达 |
| figure out 动词 | 弄清楚 |
| hang around 动词 | 逗留 |
| knock down 动词 | 砍价 |
| pick up 动词 | 拾取, 撿 /捡 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：
- I hope you're having a fantastic day.
- Let's find out what happens.
- You know, it's sitting way up.
- You didn't think anything about it.
- I don't know about you.
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 | had been diagnosed · is diagnosed · can be defined |
| 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 usually been examined · you've walked · you've been |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | friend who passed · someone who has · shop, which was |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 52 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, I'm, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: thick /θɪk/, bath /bɑːθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: shock /ʃɔk/, sheriff /ˈʃɛɹɪf/, shoe /ˈʃu/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: nerve /nɝv/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, abbreviation /əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: fatigue /fəˈtiːɡ/, arrangement /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/, shock /ʃɔk/, diagnosis /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: grateful /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, funeral /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 lesson, muscle, fatigue 这类单词。
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。