跟读练习: Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why | Reverse Assumptions - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Music Where do you work?
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I am a freelancer.
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I've been working in advertising for a little bit.
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What do you do for a living?
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I am a residential coordinator.
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My job is to help people with mental disabilities, maintain a sense of independence in the workplace and in the neighborhood.
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I work in a home with adults with mental disabilities.
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I've also worked as a teacher and with students with mental disabilities.
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What do you do?
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I teach voice lessons to people and I music direct children's musicals.
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What's your family like?
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I have a pretty big family.
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I'm the youngest.
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My brother was in a motorcycle accident a month after I graduated high school
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and he ended up losing his right arm and had a traumatic brain injury.
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I never thought about ableism or being an abled body person until this happened.
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I have a disability and throughout my life I had some insecurities about it.
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Like how was I supposed to like contribute in a world
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that I felt like everyone had the same abilities and I had different?
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Like I feel for your brother, you know?
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A wise woman she told me, you know, I shouldn't, don't feel sorry for them.
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They don't want that.
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They just want you to understand.
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I myself suffer from mental illness in a sense, and I hardly ever talk about it.
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It took me years to recover, literally recover my psyche.
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I've been working with people with disabilities since I was 17.
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But the things that I've seen, it made me so much more of an advocate.
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It's weird that growing up, I feel like my parents were always really fearful for me getting into adulthood.
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And I kind of always thought like, why don't you guys think I have a future?
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We live in kind of like a new world.
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Now we're talking about it.
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Now this is like an open thing.
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What do you like about yourself?
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I'm athletic.
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I mean, I work out.
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I try to get some cardio in, and I'm good at it.
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Yeah, well, you have that up on me.
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I hate exercise so much.
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I like the kind of exercise where you don't have to think about the fact that you're exercising.
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You sound like you're 25.
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I bet you got a blue shirt on, blue jeans.
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I bet you was born in Chicago.
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I bet you are a soprano, because I know you say as you're saying.
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You are some type of Hispanic background,
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between like 5'10", 6' tall, around your late 30s.
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I think you are 29.
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I think you're wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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I think you're from the East Coast, maybe like Pennsylvania.
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Maybe mixed, maybe Asian.
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Kind of petite, short.
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I know you give small little hints at some kind of walking apparatus.
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Not in the chair, though.
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I feel like you're pretty young, 19, 20.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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What's up?
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I was right about a couple things.
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It's so weird having a couple conversations.
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I was visualizing you a whole different way.
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Oh, really?
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A whole different.
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I thought you had a blue shirt.
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You got the brown hair.
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I said you were 29?
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No, I'm not.
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I'm 23.
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Oh, what's all I?
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You said I was 25.
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I'm from the south.
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I'm from EFUS.
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I'm from EFUS, embassy.
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I'm from San Jose, Silicon Valley.
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Oh, okay.
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I am German, not Norwegian.
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You're not German in here?
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Sure, yeah.
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Like a lot.
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You said I was a soprano, I'm not.
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Oh, alto?
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Yeah, low voice.
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Alto, I was a tenor.
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That makes sense.
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You sound like a tenor.
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Let's just sing randomly.
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Sure, yeah.
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Let's sing a song.
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Alright.
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What you saying?
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What's all I going to say?
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We'll do that later.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Finally I actually meet you.
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I feel like I know you.
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I did not expect you in a chair other than when you gave tiny little hints.
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It threw me off for a second.
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And I'm actually 29.
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29?
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Wow.
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I was really off.
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You were right.
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I actually am Asian, which no one guesses.
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So you guessed it without looking.
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In looking now, I was like, I was wrong.
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You gave me some inches, I was like, sweet, I'll take it.
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What do you got?
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I think you said five, eight, six.
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I'm like, oh my god, I'm like five, seven, on a good day, maybe?
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I said short, petite, so I was pretty spot on.
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I don't know how tall you would be.
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I don't think you would tower over me.
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No, 5'1".
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As we get older, things get harder, right?
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I'm just having to come to face with the fact that I think I'm a little sensitive.
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I think you're too hard on yourself.
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I think you just feel things and that's good.
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Yeah.
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You're like, I'm sensitive.
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You're just, you're a person with feelings. For sure. For sure.
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I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like? getting dressed, getting fed.
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No, so I'm actually not confined to the chair.
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I can do a little bit of walking, but I walked a lot as a kid, and I only started using the wheelchair when I was in high school.
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But I grew up with my parents being fearful of my future, you know?
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Like, I don't know how she's gonna make it in the world.
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And they would say things to me like, well, we wanna get a house that we can have like an apartment that you can live in, like a basement apartment.
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I'm like, I don't need to live with you.
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I can do this on my own.
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It was nice to meet you, Oshie.
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Yeah, it was nice to meet you too.
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Carolyn, it was really nice meeting you.
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I honestly had a great experience just talking to you.
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So I don't know if you're a handshaker or a hugger, but I still give you hugs.
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Yeah.
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That's just awesome.
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It was fun.
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It's nice to meet you, Albert.
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Likewise.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:disabilities, mental, meet。 这段视频共有 136 个句子、1005 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 5:59。 说话人语速自然,每分钟约 168 个词,接近日常对话。 只有 78% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇难度较高。 全部 136 个句子中有 21 个是问句,适合练习疑问语调和简短回答。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| alto 名词 | /ˈæl.toʊ/ | 中音 |
| petite 形容词 | /pəˈtiːt/ | 嬌小 /娇小 |
| soprano 名词 | /səˈpɹænoʊ/ | 女高音 |
| tenor 名词 | /ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/ | 男高音 |
| hint 名词 | /hɪnt/ | 暗示 |
| ableism 名词 | /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/ | 體能歧視 /体能歧视, 健全主義 /健全主义 |
| cardio 名词 | /ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/ | 有氧運動 /有氧运动, 有氧 |
| confine 动词 | /ˈkɑnfaɪn/ | 局限, 囿於 /囿于 |
| freelancer 名词 | /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/ | 自由職業者 /自由职业者 |
| visualize 动词 | /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/ | 遙想 /遥想 |
| adulthood 名词 | 成年 | |
| apparatus 名词 | /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/ | 儀器 /仪器, 裝置 /装置 |
| wheelchair 名词 | /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/ | 輪椅 /轮椅 |
| coordinator 名词 | 協調者 /协调者 | |
| randomly 副词 | /ˈɹændm̩li/ | 随机 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| end up 动词 | 到达 | |
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 | |
| work out 动词 | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | 計算 /计算, 算出 |
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:
- What do you do for a living?
- What's your family like?
- What do you like about yourself?
- What's all I going to say?
- I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like?
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 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作 | I've been working |
| 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 | I've also worked · I've seen |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 51 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, you're, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- 长单词——注意重音位置: ableism /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
中文母语者容易读错的音:
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: petite /pəˈtiːt/, hint /hɪnt/, jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, wheelchair /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/, randomly /ˈɹændm̩li/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大,不要读成 /e/: alto /ˈæl.toʊ/, soprano /səˈpɹænoʊ/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, traumatic /tɹɔˈmætɪk/
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 alto, petite, soprano 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。













