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
- 0:27 Good morning. How are you?
- 0:29 Good.
- 0:31 It's been great, hasn't it?
- 0:33 I've been blown away by the whole thing.
- 0:35 In fact, I'm leaving.
- 0:43 There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about.
- 0:48 One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity
- 0:53 in all of the presentations that we've had and in all of the people here;
How to practise this talk
- Press a line from the list; it opens in Sada ready to go.
- Listen once, then press Record and say it with the speaker (Shadow) or after them (Repeat).
- Open Compare to see every word, and go again until they are all green.
- Finish one minute a day, and Sada shows your first try against your latest.