跟读练习: Story 25 How old Are you - 通过视频学习英语口语
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How Old Are You?
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One day some friends were talking.
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They were talking about how old they were.
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James said, I am seven years old.
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My brother is older.
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He is twice as old as me.
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How old is my brother?
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That's easy, said Ellen.
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You are seven.
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He is twice as old as you, so your brother is seven plus seven.
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He is fourteen years old.
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Then Jane said, I am eight.
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I have a baby sister.
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She is half my age.
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How old is my sister?
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That's so easy, yelled James.
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She is half of eight.
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So your sister is four years old.
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Chris was thinking hard.
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There was something on his mind.
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Then he asked, How old is a dinosaur?
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A dinosaur, said the puzzled children.
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Yes, how old is a dinosaur, said Chris again.
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The children thought really hard.
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A dinosaur is old.
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Very old, said Ellen.
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A dinosaur is millions of years old.
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A dinosaur is old, old, old.
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The children laughed.
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James said, a dinosaur is older than all of us combined.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Story 25 How old Are you”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dinosaur, seven, sister, James, brother. This video has 30 sentences and 178 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:36. The speaker talks at a steady 112 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
9 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| dinosaur noun | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. |
| combine verb | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. |
| puzzle noun | /ˈpʌzəl/ | The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in… |
| fourteen noun | /ˈfɔɹ.tin/ | A group of fourteen items. |
| yell verb | /jɛl/ | To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement. |
| laugh verb | /læf/ | To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and… |
| sister noun | /ˈsɪs.tɚ/ | A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. |
| twice adverb | /twaɪs/ | Two times. |
| plus | /ˈplʌs/ | And; sum of the previous one and the following one. |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dinosaur, combine, puzzle.
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。