Listening Exercise

Please click on the following link and then choose a speed and accent you want to hear and listen to the sound file. Try to challenge yourself with faster speeds.

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2012/201227-early-humans-l.html

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Script for the 2nd Movie Clip

Gandalf:  The world is not in your books and maps.  It’s out there.

Bilbo:  I can’t just go running off into the blue.  I am a Baggins of Baggend.

Gandalf:  You are also a Took.  Did you know that your great great great uncle Bandobras Took was so large he could ride a real horse?

Bilbo: Yes

Gandalf:  Well he could!  In the battle of Green Fields he charged the goblin ranks, he swung his club so hard it knocked the Goblin Kings head clean off and it sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole.  And thus the battle was won and the game of golf invented at the same time.

Bilbo:  I do believe you made that up.

Gandalf:  Well all good stories deserve embellishment.  You’ll have a tale or two to tell of your own when you come back.

Bilbo:  Can you promise that I will come back?

Gandalf:  No, and if you do, you will not be the same.

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Listening Exercise Part 2

Hi everyone. Here is the video clip with my voice added to it. I hope that this can help you to catch the softer and smoother sounding native English. Please remember to never think that it is too fast. All you have to do is learn the softer and smoother native English pronunciations. Once you learn them and get used to them it will become very simple to catch native level English.

Clip with My Voice Added
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Listening Exercise Part 2

Hi everyone,

Lets continue listening to clips from the 2012 movie “The Hobbit, an Unexpected Journey”. This clip should be a little slower than the last clip and hopefully you are a little used to listening to the voices of the two characters. Please also try to answer the following questions.

  1. Gandalf says “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s ____ ______.
  2. Bilbo then says ” I can’t go running off into the ______”.
  3. Bilbo’s family name is Baggins. His mothers maiden name ( 旧姓 ) was Took. What could Bilbo’s great great great uncle do?
  4. In the battle of Green Fields, Bilbo’s uncle charged the goblin ranks (お化け軍隊) and then what did he do to the goblin king?
  5. What did Bilbo’s uncle invent?
  6. Was Gandalf’s story a true story?
  7. Bilbo asks Gandalf “Can you promise that I will come back?” What is Gandalf’s answer?
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Listening Exercise

Hello everyone,

Good Job on the listening exercise. It was a little difficult this time but I hope that you all could get some good practice. Below is the video clip with my voice to help you with the listening. I have also posted the words from what they say.

Bilbo:  Good morning.

Gandalf:  What do you mean?  Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not.  Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning.  Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on.

Bilbo:  All of them at once I suppose.  Can I help you?

Gandalf:  That remains to be seen.  I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.

Bilbo:  An adventure?  Now I don’t imagine anyone west of Brie would have much interest in adventures.  Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things, make you late for dinner. 


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