WARM-UP VIDEO FOR SOUNDS THAT BLEND INTO NEW SOUNDS

Instructions. When a word ends in the /s/ sound and the next word starts with /j/, /s/ might sound like /sh/. Similarly, /z/ might sound like /zh/. Watch a video by BBC Learning English that explains this pronunciation feature, and then do the quiz below.

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

mirrorless cameras are becoming more and more popular underwater. Here'¬s a little line up of Nauticam housings. The Sony NEX series is pretty popular. The NEX 7 in particular is really interesting (1) ………….. can put magnified obstacle viewfinders to look at their very large electronic viewfinder underwater. This Olympus OMDEM5, easy to remember model name, is also really popular. People have been getting great results with them. So things We just fill-- use these strobes to fill. If you'¬re in the shallows, you can shoot a little bit'³You can use white balance. You don'¬t need to use strobes as much. You can use the strobes to fill as much (2) ………….. can for these scenes that have subjects that go further off. But the strobes that we'¬re bringing are actually quite big, but they still don'¬t light the reef up for very far. They like maybe six feet in front of you. We shoot super this very long lens in the front, which is pseudo endoscopic. So it'¬s a relay lens with many, many different elements. I think there are 18 elements or something. Bad for image quality, but great for composition. And so what happens (3) ………….. get a fisheye view, a very, very wide angle view at the end of the lens. You can focus all the way up to the lens. Very unusual underwater. Normally we use big dome ports for wide angle optics that around Valentine'¬s Day, because it looks kinda like a heart. [pause] More close-up polyp detail. This is a large heart coral. Hard to photograph in wide angle in an interesting way. (4) ………….. the alien landscape. I have a short video [video starts, water sounds] of me actually shooting this rig. You can see how the working distance is really close. That'¬s a frogfish, that orange blob. used this picture on one of the events. It'¬s a school of scalloped hammerheads taken in the Galapagos off of Darwin, which is the northernmost island, which is a place only divers go to, (5) ………….. can'¬t go on land there. So of course, the Galapagos are very well known, are very famous for their giant tortoises, the blue-footed, red-footed boobies, the northernmost penguins, and marine iguanas. Albatross, some other stuff too. But underwater, the camera is the thing between you and the shark. If you'¬re not there, they can sometimes swim on the swim step, which is really uncomfortable for those people around you who have not moved yet. [laughs] Or I was yelling, '¬Hold the line! Hold the line!'® (6) ………….. have to make sure that you have a solid line of cameras there. [laughter] Yeah. Also, we use both acrylic and glass stone ports underwater. Acrylic is'³has the same'³a mammals, so they'¬re probably more scavengers here than they are ambush predators. So we really do find that they move very slowly. You have to be careful, of course, because they are wild animals. But (7) ………….. can see, you can get very close. They are so fixated on finding out where that fish smell is that they just swim around you looking for the stuff. We do know many of these tiger sharks individually had happen before. >>Male #1: Why? What'¬s the difference between snorkeling and diving? >>Cheng: The difference (8) ………….. '¬re on the surface, and sharks pretty much always investigate anything floating on the surface. So if you want to get attention from a shark, just jump in and float around, and you'¬ll get'³[laughter] There will be'³And there are sharks around. in the last few years is that a lot of countries and states are now banning shark fins. California banned shark fin. This is the last year. You can'¬t buy it anymore if you own a restaurant, but you can still serve it (9) ………….. . We'¬re finding a lot of legislation, now, to ban shark fins. But mostly, it has to happen in Asian, high-density Asian areas, so mostly in Asia. And it'¬s already starting. The Chinese government

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

mirrorless cameras are becoming more and more popular underwater. Here'¬s a little line up of Nauticam housings. The Sony NEX series is pretty popular. The NEX 7 in particular is really interesting (1) (because you) can put magnified obstacle viewfinders to look at their very large electronic viewfinder underwater. This Olympus OMDEM5, easy to remember model name, is also really popular. People have been getting great results with them. So things We just fill-- use these strobes to fill. If you'¬re in the shallows, you can shoot a little bit'³You can use white balance. You don'¬t need to use strobes as much. You can use the strobes to fill as much (2) (as you) can for these scenes that have subjects that go further off. But the strobes that we'¬re bringing are actually quite big, but they still don'¬t light the reef up for very far. They like maybe six feet in front of you. We shoot super this very long lens in the front, which is pseudo endoscopic. So it'¬s a relay lens with many, many different elements. I think there are 18 elements or something. Bad for image quality, but great for composition. And so what happens (3) (is you) get a fisheye view, a very, very wide angle view at the end of the lens. You can focus all the way up to the lens. Very unusual underwater. Normally we use big dome ports for wide angle optics that around Valentine'¬s Day, because it looks kinda like a heart. [pause] More close-up polyp detail. This is a large heart coral. Hard to photograph in wide angle in an interesting way. (4) (This shows) the alien landscape. I have a short video [video starts, water sounds] of me actually shooting this rig. You can see how the working distance is really close. That'¬s a frogfish, that orange blob. used this picture on one of the events. It'¬s a school of scalloped hammerheads taken in the Galapagos off of Darwin, which is the northernmost island, which is a place only divers go to, (5) (because you) can'¬t go on land there. So of course, the Galapagos are very well known, are very famous for their giant tortoises, the blue-footed, red-footed boobies, the northernmost penguins, and marine iguanas. Albatross, some other stuff too. But underwater, the camera is the thing between you and the shark. If you'¬re not there, they can sometimes swim on the swim step, which is really uncomfortable for those people around you who have not moved yet. [laughs] Or I was yelling, '¬Hold the line! Hold the line!'® (6) (because you) have to make sure that you have a solid line of cameras there. [laughter] Yeah. Also, we use both acrylic and glass stone ports underwater. Acrylic is'³has the same'³a mammals, so they'¬re probably more scavengers here than they are ambush predators. So we really do find that they move very slowly. You have to be careful, of course, because they are wild animals. But (7) (as you) can see, you can get very close. They are so fixated on finding out where that fish smell is that they just swim around you looking for the stuff. We do know many of these tiger sharks individually had happen before. >>Male #1: Why? What'¬s the difference between snorkeling and diving? >>Cheng: The difference (8) (is you) '¬re on the surface, and sharks pretty much always investigate anything floating on the surface. So if you want to get attention from a shark, just jump in and float around, and you'¬ll get'³[laughter] There will be'³And there are sharks around. in the last few years is that a lot of countries and states are now banning shark fins. California banned shark fin. This is the last year. You can'¬t buy it anymore if you own a restaurant, but you can still serve it (9) (this year) . We'¬re finding a lot of legislation, now, to ban shark fins. But mostly, it has to happen in Asian, high-density Asian areas, so mostly in Asia. And it'¬s already starting. The Chinese government

Sources: 

Channel: Talks at Google. Photographers@Google: Eric Cheng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13SVH1Tx6Xs

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