How to start a movement Intermediate shadowing lesson
This is a short TED talk by Derek Sivers. He plays a video of one man dancing alone outdoors, then a first follower joins him and soon a whole crowd, and he shows that the first follower is what turns a lone dancer into a leader. He speaks clearly in short sentences, which suits intermediate shadowing.
- Intermediate
- Video
- 2:51
- 33 sentences
Practise it in the app
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
The sentences
Ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement.
So let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under three minutes and dissect some lessons from it.
First, of course you know, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed.
The video has 33 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- leadership
- the skill of leading people
- movement
- a group of people working for the same idea
- start to finish
- from the beginning to the end
- in under three minutes
- in less than three minutes
- dissect
- look at something closely, part by part
- the guts
- courage
- stand out
- be easy to notice, different from others
- be ridiculed
- be laughed at
How to practise this clip
Listen for the stress on the first part of leadership and movement, and how stand out and be ridiculed runs together in one breath.
- Listen to a sentence before you read it.
- Say it right after, at the speaker's pace, with the same pauses.
- After the first round, hide the text and practise from the sound alone.
Source
Derek Sivers at TED, on YouTube