跟读练习: What is the “generation gap problem”? - 通过视频学习英语口语

The generation gap problem is a problem that began to be analyzed in the late 1960s.

In fact, the phrase generation gap dates from 1967, as far as we can tell.

Jonathan Green, who's a lexicographer, puts it at that particular year,

and that's very significant because that's the year of the summer of love of hippies

and all of the efflorescence of the Beatles and Sgt Pepper

and also it's a year when political protest was gaining momentum

so young people were defining themselves for the first time in

living memory over against the variation of their parents way of living their parents generation

if you like and that was all to do with the legacy of the Second World War, recovering from the austerity of World War II.

And young people with a bit more economic freedom, but also with the pill coming on stream and sexual permissiveness, were beginning to say, we have another way of living.

And so the so -called baby boom generation took hold.

And analysts from that point onwards began to see generational difference in terms of antipathy between the generations.

It hadn't been quite so acute before then, but it became quite acute after that.

And ever since, there's been a sort of analysis around every 20 years a new generation having to come through.

So Generation X followed the baby boomers.

So millennials followed Generation X.

And now people are starting to talk about Generation Z.

And they're all assumed to have their own characteristics and their own particular psyche.

But I would want to say that that's prone to really massive generalisation and we need a more biblical view of things.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“What is the “generation gap problem”?”为素材。这段视频共有 19 个句子、279 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 1:48。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 155 个词，接近日常对话。 82% 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
acute 形容词	/əˈkjut/	激烈, 敏銳 /敏锐
protest 名词	/ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/	抗議 /抗议
legacy 名词	/ˈlɛɡəsi/	遺產 /遗产
define 动词	/dɪˈfaɪn/	界定
psychology 名词	/saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	心理學 /心理学
phrase 名词	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	短語 /短语, 片語 /片语
recover 动词	/ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/	追回, 收复
variation 名词	/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/	變化 /变化, 變動 /变动
momentum 名词	/ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/	動量 /动量
pill 名词	/pɪl/	藥丸 /药丸, 藥片 /药片
characteristic 名词	/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/	特性, 特質 /特质
biblical 形容词	/ˈbɪblɪkəl/	聖經的 /圣经的
analyze 动词	/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/	分析
antipathy 名词	/ænˈtɪpəθi/	反感
austerity 名词	/ɔˈstɛɹɪti/	緊縮 /紧缩

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	be analyzed

需要注意的发音

长单词——注意重音位置: psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, antipathy /ænˈtɪpəθi/, austerity /ɔˈstɛɹɪti/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: recover /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: acute /əˈkjut/, protest /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, analyst /ˈænəlɪst/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: efflorescence /ˌɛfləˈɹɛsəns/, lexicographer /ˌlɛksɪˈkɑɡɹəfɚ/

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。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 acute, protest, legacy 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。

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