跟读练习: STORY OF THE ''UNSINKABLE" TITANIC - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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The 14th of April 2012 was the centenary,
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The 14th of April 2012 was the centenary,
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that is the 100th anniversary,
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of the sinking of the passenger ship Titanic in the North Atlantic.
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This podcast is about Titanic.
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I hope it will help you to learn some new words and expressions about ships and the sea,
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and also that you will learn about unsinkable words.
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Don't know what unsinkable words are?
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Then listen carefully to the rest of the podcast.
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Titanic has appeared in one of these podcasts before.
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Just over a year ago we visited Belfast in Northern Ireland and the shipyard where Titanic was built.
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When she was launched, Titanic was the biggest ship in the world and one of the most comfortable and luxurious.
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One hundred years ago last week,
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she set sail from Southampton,
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on the south coast of England,
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on her maiden voyage to New York.
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On board there were over 1,300 passengers.
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About 300 of these were first-class passengers,
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who enjoyed facilities such as restaurants,
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cafes, a library, a gym,
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a swimming pool and a telegraph office,
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which could send radio messages back to families and business colleagues on shore.
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The first-class passengers included some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.
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Most of the passengers, however,
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travelled second or third class,
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in much more humble conditions.
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Then there were 885 crew members,
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including 300 men to look after Titanic's huge steam engines and feed them with coal.
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There were also large numbers of cooks,
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waiters, cleaners, and other people to look after the passengers.
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There was a cat, too, with her kittens.
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Titanic called first at Cherbourg in France,
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and then at Cove in Ireland,
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before setting out across the Atlantic.
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Then, shortly before midnight, on the 14th of April,
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1912, when she was 600 kilometres south of Newfoundland in Canada.
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She struck an iceberg.
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Slowly the ship filled with water.
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The crew launched the ship's lifeboats,
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but there were not sufficient places in them for everyone.
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Over 1,500 of the passengers and crew died in the freezing waters of the Atlantic.
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Only 710 were saved.
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The sinking of the Titanic shocked and horrified people in both Britain and America.
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They were shocked that there were not enough lifeboats.
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They were shocked that so many people had died and that the families of many of them were left in poverty.
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Nowhere was the shock greater than in Southampton,
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where many of the crew had lived.
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It is said that every street in the city had at least one family who had lost someone in the disaster.
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Also, people in Europe and the United States 100 years ago believed in technology and progress.
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They thought that modern technology and engineering could do almost anything.
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They were shocked to learn that nature could so easily destroy the biggest and most advanced ship in the world.
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The story of Titanic still fascinates people today.
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The wreck of Titanic was rediscovered on the bed of the Atlantic in 1985,
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and many items, such as crockery and bits of luggage,
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were brought to the surface and exhibited for people to see.
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There have been countless books and films about Titanic's first and last voyage.
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and theories about what really happened and who was to blame for the sinking.
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In Britain in the last few weeks,
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we have had several special television and radio programmes to mark the centenary of the disaster,
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and the film Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet,
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a film which you either love or hate,
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has been re-released in 3D,
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so that the iceberg looks even more scary.
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Some people have even dressed up in Edwardian dress and gone on a special cruise to the place where Titanic went down.
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On board the cruise ship,
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they have enjoyed some of the food that was on the menu in Titanic's restaurant.
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I am sure that they had a great time,
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but I do not think I would have enjoyed the trip.
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Now for some grammar.
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Look at the verb to sink.
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It is one of a group of English irregular verbs where the vowel changes twice in different tenses.
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Titanic sinks, present tense, Titanic sank,
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the simple past tense and Titanic has sunk the imperfect or has tense
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Other verbs with the same pattern are sing I sing I sang I have sung
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and ring the bells ring the bells rang the bells have rung If you can think of any more,
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put a comment on the website to tell us.
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And finally, many people 100 years ago said that Titanic was unsinkable.
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Unsinkable means cannot sink or cannot be sunk.
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How wrong they were!
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There are lots of words in English with the same pattern as unsinkable,
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that is, un plus something plus able.
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For example, if you say that something is unforgettable,
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you mean that you will never be able to forget it.
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If something or someone is unlovable,
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it means that you cannot love it.
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You can call words like this unsinkable words,
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if that helps you to remember what they mean.
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为什么通过这个视频练习口语？
通过观看并聆听《不沉的泰坦尼克号》的故事，您不仅能了解历史，还可以在轻松的情境中提高英语发音。这个视频生动地描绘了泰坦尼克号的奢华和悲剧，适合希望增强口语表达的学习者。在观看时，您会接触到丰富的词汇和短语，帮助您在英语对话中更显自信。
此外，视频中的叙述者使用引人入胜的讲述方式，可以提高语言理解能力。通过跟随叙述，您能学会正确的语调、节奏和发音，无论是在社交场合还是专业环境中都能派上用场。
语法与表达的使用背景
- 定语从句：视频中提到的“Titanic was the biggest ship in the world”展示了使用定语从句的方式，帮助学习者理解如何描述事物的特征。
- 时间状语：通过短语“on the 14th of April, 1912”，学习者可以练习如何在句子中使用具体时间的表达。
- 被动语态：如“were shocked that there were not enough lifeboats”，让学习者掌握被动结构，这在英语沟通中相当常见。
- 比较级：使用“more comfortable and luxurious”可以帮助您在描述事物时进行比较，丰富个人语言表达的多样性。
常见发音陷阱
在这个视频中，有些单词的发音比较棘手，可能会给学习者带来困惑。例如，“Titanic”的发音要特别注意，不同地区的口音可能会影响发音。此外，“iceberg”的发音容易被如“ice-berg”误读为两个音节，实际上应连读为一个音节。通过提高英语发音的练习，您可以利用“英语影子跟读”（shadow speak）的方法，与视频中的叙述者进行模仿，加深对正确发音的理解。
因此，我们建议您在观看视频时，尝试进行shadowing练习，在“shadowspeaks”的指导下，跟随声带进行重复，从而进一步巩固发音和语调的学习。使用这些方法，不仅能提高您的英语口语能力，更能让您在真实的对话中游刃有余。
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。