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Shadowing Sir Ken Robinson

Do Schools Kill Creativity? — The most watched TED talk ever: witty, warm British English with great timing — ideal for copying rhythm and intonation.

  • Level: B2
  • Accent: British
  • Length: 20 min · 276 lines to practise
  • Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Sir Ken Robinson — Do Schools Kill Creativity?Start from the beginning

The first lines: press any line to practise it

  1. 0:27 Good morning. How are you?
  2. 0:29 Good.
  3. 0:31 It's been great, hasn't it?
  4. 0:33 I've been blown away by the whole thing.
  5. 0:35 In fact, I'm leaving.
  6. 0:43 There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about.
  7. 0:48 One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity
  8. 0:53 in all of the presentations that we've had and in all of the people here;

How to practise this talk

  1. Press a line from the list; it opens in Sada ready to go.
  2. Listen once, then press Record and say it with the speaker (Shadow) or after them (Repeat).
  3. Open Compare to see every word, and go again until they are all green.
  4. Finish one minute a day, and Sada shows your first try against your latest.

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