Improve your English with an ESL listening lesson from popular HBO program The Last of Us. Joel explains how the pandemic started.
It is important to read the vocabulary and background before you watch the video. This will improve your ability to understand the video. It will also help you understand how the new vocabulary is used naturally.
The first time you watch the video, just try to understand the overall situation.
First, try to answer all the questions from memory. Then rewatch the video and try to answer the questions that you missed.
Watch the video again while you read the script. Reading and listening at the same time will help you hear each individual word and improve your listening accuracy.
There are several different activities that focus on listening accuracy, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure.
Es importante leer el vocabulario y los antecedentes antes de ver el video. Esto mejorará su capacidad para comprender el video. También le ayudará a comprender cómo se usa el nuevo vocabulario de forma natural.
La primera vez que vea el video, intente comprender la situación general.
Primero intente responder todas las preguntas de memoria. Luego, vuelva a ver el video e intente responder las preguntas que se perdió.
Mire el video nuevamente mientras lee el guión. Leer y escuchar al mismo tiempo lo ayudará a escuchar cada palabra individual y mejorará su precisión auditiva.
Hay una serie de actividades diferentes que se centran en la precisión auditiva, la pronunciación, el vocabulario, la gramática y la estructura de las oraciones.
비디오를 보기 전에 어휘와 배경을 읽는 것이 중요합니다. 이렇게 하면 비디오를 이해하는 능력이 향상됩니다. 또한 새로운 어휘가 어떻게 자연스럽게 사용되는지 이해하는데 도움이됩니다.
비디오를 처음 볼 때 전체 상황을 이해하려고 노력하세요.
먼저 모든 질문에 답을 해보세요. 그런 다음 비디오를 다시보고 놓친 질문에 답해보세요.
대본을 읽는 동안 비디오를 다시 보세요. 읽기와 듣기를 동시에 하면 각각의 단어를 듣고, 듣기 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있습니다.
듣기 정확도, 발음, 어휘, 문법 및 문장 구조에 초점을 맞춘 다양한 액티비티가 있습니다.
É importante ler o vocabulário e o histórico antes de assistir ao vídeo. Isso melhorará sua capacidade de entender o vídeo. Também ajudará você a entender como o novo vocabulário é usado naturalmente.
Na primeira vez que assistir ao vídeo, tente entender a situação geral.
Primeiro, tente responder todas as perguntas de memória. Em seguida, assista novamente ao vídeo e tente responder às perguntas que você errou.
Assista ao vídeo novamente enquanto lê o roteiro. Ler e ouvir ao mesmo tempo ajudará você a ouvir cada palavra individualmente e a melhorar sua precisão auditiva.
Existem várias atividades diferentes que se concentram na precisão auditiva, pronúncia, vocabulário, gramática e estrutura da frase.
Важливо прочитати словник і основну інформацію перед переглядом відео. Це покращить вашу здатність розуміти відео. Це також допоможе вам зрозуміти, як нова лексика використовується природно.
Коли дивитеся відео вперше, просто намагайтеся зрозуміти загальну ситуацію.
Спочатку спробуйте відповісти на всі запитання з пам'яті. Потім перегляньте відео ще раз і спробуйте відповісти на запитання, які ви пропустили.
Перегляньте відео ще раз, читаючи сценарій. Читання і слухання одночасно допоможе вам почути кожне окреме слово і покращити точність сприйняття на слух.
Існує кілька різних завдань, які зосереджені на точності сприйняття на слух, вимові, лексиці, граматиці та структурі речень.
Check the words you already know. Marca las palabras que ya conoces. Marque as palavras que você já conhece. 이미 아는 단어에 체크하세요. Позначте слова, які ви вже знаєте.
n. - noun, v. - verb, phv. - phrasal verb, adj. - adjective, exp. - expression
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Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order.
Use a present time frame (tense).
( ) = optional [ ] = necessary
Instrucciones: Escriba oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de la palabra o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras. Usa el tiempo presente.
( ) = opcional [ ] = necesario
Instruções: Escreva frases sobre o videoclipe usando as palavras dadas. Você pode alterar a forma da palavra ou adicionar palavras, mas não pode alterar a ordem das palavras. Use o tempo presente.
( ) = opcional [ ] = necessário
지시 : 주어진 단어를 사용하여 비디오 클립에 대한 문장을 씁니다. 어형을 변경하거나 단어를 추가할 수 있지만 어순은 변경할 수 없습니다. 현재 시제를 사용합니다.
( ) = 선택 사항 [ ] = 필수 사항
Інструкції: Напишіть речення про відеокліп, використовуючи подані слова. Ви можете змінювати форму слова або додавати слова, але не можете змінювати порядок слів.
Використовуйте теперішній час.
( ) = необов'язково [ ] = обов'язково
Joel / Ellie / come / across / wreck / old / airliner
Joel and Ellie come across the wreck of an old airliner.
Ellie / impress / Joel / fly / airplane
Ellie is impressed (that) Joel flew in an airplane.
Ellie / want / know / how / pandemic / start
Ellie wants to know how the pandemic started.
pandemic / start / when / Cordyceps / fungus / mutate / and / get / basic / ingredient / like / flour
The pandemic started when the Cordyceps fungus mutated and got into basic ingredients like flour.
taint / food / hit / shelf / Thursday
The tainted food hit the shelves on (a) Thursday.
after / people / eat / some / taint / food / they / sick / and / start / bite / other
After people [ate/had eaten] some of the tainted food, they [got/became] sick and started [biting/to bite] each other.
pandemic / break / out / Friday / September / 26 / 2003 / and / civilization / end / by / Monday
The pandemic broke out on Friday, September 26th, 2003, and civilization had ended by Monday.
Joel / want / cut / across / wood / prevent / Ellie / see / mass / grave
Joel wants to cut across the woods (in order) to prevent Ellie from seeing a mass grave.
week / after / outbreak / soldier / start / evacuate / people / countryside
A week after the outbreak, soldiers started [to evacuate/evacuating] (the) people from the countryside.
if / there / no / room / people / one / quarantine / zone / soldier / kill / them
If there was no room for the people in one of the quarantine zones, the soldiers killed them.
soldier / kill / them / because / they / reason / dead / people / not / infect
The soldiers killed them because they reasoned (that) dead people couldn't be infected.
Ellie: Holy shit. Did you fly in one of those?
Joel: A few times, sure.
Ellie: So lucky.
Joel: It didn’t feel like it at the time. Get shoved into a middle seat, pay 12 bucks for a sandwich.
Ellie: Dude, you got to go up in the sky.
Joel: Yeah, well, so did they.
Ellie: Grim.
Ellie: So, everything came crashing down in one day?
Joel: Pretty much.
Ellie: How? I mean, no one was infected with Cordyceps. Everybody’s fine, eating in restaurants and flying in planes. And then, all at once? How did it even start? If you have to get bit to be infected, then who bit the first
person? Was it a monkey? I bet it was a monkey.
Joel: It wasn’t a monkey. I thought you went to school.
Ellie: FEDRA school. They don’t teach us how their shitty government failed to prevent a pandemic.
Joel: No one knows for sure, but, the best guess (is) Cordyceps mutated. And some of it got into the food supply. Probably a basic ingredient like flour or sugar. There were certain brands of food that were sold everywhere,
all across the country, across the world. Bread, cereal, pancake mix. You eat enough of it, it'll get you infected. So the tainted food all hits the store shelves around the same time, Thursday. People bought it, ate some
Thursday night or Friday morning. The day goes on, they started to get sick. Afternoon, evening, they got worse. Then they started biting. Friday night, September 26, 2003. And by Monday, everything was gone.
Ellie: It makes more sense than monkeys. Thanks.
Joel: Sure.
Ellie: What?
Joel: We'll cut across the woods here.
Ellie: Isn't the road easier?
Joel: Yeah, it's just, there's stuff up there you shouldn't see.
Ellie: Well, now I have to see.
Joel: I don't want you to. Serious. Ellie!
Ellie: Can it hurt me?
Joel: No.
Ellie: You're too honest, man. You should have said axe murderer.
Ellie: Uh, whatever it was, I think it's gone.
Joel: About a week after Outbreak Day, soldiers went through the countryside, evacuated the small towns. (They) Told you that you were going to a QZ. And you were, if there was room. If there wasn't...
Ellie: These people weren't sick?
Joel: No, probably not.
Ellie: Why kill them? Why not just leave them be?
Joel: Dead people can't be infected.