跟读练习: What's Education For? - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Everyone agrees that education is hugely important.
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Everyone agrees that education is hugely important.
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The thing is, we're not particularly sure what we want from it.
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The aim of education should be to prepare us for the challenges of adult life.
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Yet from this perspective, it's clear that schools fail all but a tiny portion of their students.
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Whether in highly academic private schools or in deprived government-run ones,
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trouble dealing with life's challenges remains very widespread indeed.
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Human ingenuity, energy, goodwill and talent is being lost on an industrial scale.
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To get more ambitious about education doesn't necessarily mean spending more money,
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building more schools, employing more teachers or making exams more difficult.
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Rather, it should mean focusing more on the real purpose of education.
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There are two fundamental tasks it should help us with.
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Working and sustaining good relationships.
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In order to address these needs,
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a future national curriculum might specify that the following subjects be studied.
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Firstly, capitalism.
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A conspiracy of silence exists around the economic system we live within.
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We find it hard to change its bad sides or defend its strengths because we simply don't fully understand how it works.
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A subject like maths should be geared to teaching its number one utility for 99% of the population.
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Dealing with money.
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Such classes would demystify the global economy by teaching students the importance of the means of production and how profits are made.
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The role of cash flow,
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HR, leadership, marketing and competition would also be studied.
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In a perfect school system you'd also then study a really big second subject yourself.
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Young students would be introduced to the idea that we humans are extremely prone to misunderstanding ourselves.
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They would be taken through the concepts of delusion,
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defensiveness, projection and denial in everyday life.
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Individual tutors would be on hand to help students draw personality maps with particular attention paid to their neuroses and fears.
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Doing this would ensure that students learn a lot about how complex they truly are
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and what types of people they would be best suited to hang out with.
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A crucial unit would be devoted to career self-knowledge.
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What job are you best suited to?
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Students would spend three hours a week exploring what they might do with their futures.
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Then one would study relationships.
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Being intensely aware of the social and individual cost of every unhappy relationship,
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an ideal education system would emphasize the acquisition of skills that help people to live better together.
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There would be units on kindness and forgiveness,
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as well as on anxiety reduction techniques.
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In this educational utopia, it wouldn't only be children who would go to school,
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but adults as well.
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Schooling would be for life.
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Education wouldn't just be taking place in classrooms.
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Media and the arts would be made to maximize their teaching potential
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and help to teach people what they actually need to learn.
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We're so hung up on the challenges of running a massive education system,
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we're failing to pinpoint the real source of its problems.
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These aren't primarily about money, salaries or discipline.
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These are really only a consequence of a more fundamental problem.
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Right now, and with no one quite meaning for this to happen,
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we've simply got the wrong curriculum.
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为何与这个视频练习口语？
在当今世界，教育的重要性不言而喻，而理解教育的真正目的能帮助我们更好地应对生活的挑战。通过观看和模仿此视频中的演讲，你不仅能提高英语口语能力，还能深入了解现代教育面临的问题及其解决方案。这种shadow speak练习方式，能够让你在语境中学习和使用新词汇，提高你与他人交流的自信心和流利度。通过将视频中的内容与自己的思考结合，你将能够在生活中更加从容地应对类似话题，提升你的英语表达能力与沟通技巧。
语法和表达方式分析
在视频中，演讲者使用了一些重要的语法结构和表达方式，对学习者来说，理解这些结构非常有帮助：
- 被动语态：演讲者提到“学校失败了”，在这里使用被动语态强调学校的作用和结果。”
- 定语从句：例如，“学生会学习……能够帮助他们更好地理解自己”，通过定语从句增强了句子的复杂性，展示了学习对学生自我认知的重要性。
- 条件句：对于假设性的表达，如“如果理想的教育体系……”，这种结构能帮助学习者理解条件语气的使用。
- 动词不定式：使用“去学习”或“去教导”的表达，强调行动和目的，为学习者提供了实用的动词短语。
通过英语口语练习这种方式，你可以将这些结构运用到自己的对话中，增加语言的灵活性与表达的多样性。
常见发音难点
在视频中，某些单词和短语可能会对学习者造成发音障碍：
- “capitalism”：注意元音的发音变化，确保你发出的“alism”部分流畅且自然。
- “conspiracy” ：有些学习者可能在“spira”部分容易出错，正确的发音应该注意重音的把握。
- “understanding” ：这个词在流利对话中需要快速且清晰地讲出，每个音节都应当被准确地表达。
通过反复收听并跟读这些用词，可以有效改善你的发音技巧，减少口语中的发音陷阱。结合shadowspeak的方法，你可以在更真实的语境中提高你的发音能力，达到更高的流利度。
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。