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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 Young Animals by Rachel Bladen Read by Claire Willey Introduction
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Young animals grow up from babies into adults.
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Some young animals grow up very fast.
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Some young animals grow up slowly.
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What are these young animals?
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What young animals do you like?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about young animals.
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Chapter 1.
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Babies Some babies hatch from an egg.
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A mother duck makes a nest by the water.
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She lays her eggs in the nest.
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She sits on the eggs so they stay warm.
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Then the ducklings hatch.
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Some babies don't hatch from an egg.
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They are born from their mother.
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A baby zebra is born from its mother.
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The mother cleans the baby, and then it can stand up and walk.
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It can run when it's one hour old.
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Discover!
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A baby zebra has brown and white stripes.
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Chapter 2.
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Parents.
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Many young animals look the same as their parents.
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Look at these baby seahorses and their parent.
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Some young animals look very different from their parents.
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A caterpillar is a butterfly's baby.
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Some young animals live with their parents for weeks.
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Some young animals live with their parents for years.
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Parents feed and protect their babies.
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Some young animals don't meet their parents.
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A mother sea turtle lays her eggs in the sand.
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Then she goes into the ocean.
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Baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs.
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They don't meet their mother.
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Chapter 3 Help Many adult animals help young animals.
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A young elephant lives with its mother and other elephants.
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The mother feeds the young elephant.
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She cleans it and she gives it water.
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Adult elephants protect the young elephant.
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They help it to walk too.
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A mother chimpanzee carries her babies everywhere.
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A young ostrich lives with its mother and father.
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They help it to feed.
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They also protect it from the rain and the hot sun with their wings.
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Chapter 4 Danger There's danger for young animals.
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Other animals want to eat them.
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How do young animals stay safe?
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Young kangaroos live in their mother's pouch.
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It's safe there.
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Discover!
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Baby kangaroos are very little.
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You can put a baby kangaroo on a spoon.
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This young shark has spots.
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Other animals can't see the shark on the ocean floor.
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This caterpillar has poison in its body.
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Other animals touch the caterpillar and poison goes into them.
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Chapter 5 Food Some young animals drink milk from their mother.
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The milk is good and it helps them to grow.
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A young seal drinks its mother's milk.
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Discover!
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A young seal can grow from 10 kilograms to 30 kilograms in three weeks.
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A young owl doesn't drink milk.
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Its parents feed it frogs, fish, and other little animals.
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A toad eats insects and other little animals.
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A baby toad is very different.
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A baby toad is called a tadpole, and it eats plants.
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Chapter 6 Homes Young bears are born when the weather is very cold.
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The mother makes a home called a den.
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She puts branches and grass in an old tree or under a rock.
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The young bears are warm in the den, and they're safe from other animals.
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Beavers make a home called a lodge.
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They cut down trees and branches, and they make a dam in a river.
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The beavers make a lodge in the water, with branches and mud.
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A young beaver is safe in the lodge.
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Chapter 7 How Animals Learn Young animals learn many things.
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A young eagle learns to fly when it's about ten weeks old.
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The parents help the young eagle to fly.
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Young cheetahs watch their mother hunt.
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This helps them to learn to hunt.
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The mother cheetah gives little animals to her young cheetahs too.
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The young cheetahs learn how to hunt and eat the little animals.
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Discover!
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A cheetah can run more than a hundred kilometers per hour.
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That's very, very fast.
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Chapter 8 How Animals Grow Up A young lion lives with its mother and other lions in a pride.
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When it's about two years old, a young male lion moves to a different pride.
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A young beetle is called a larva.
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The larva looks very different from its parents.
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It grows a pupa.
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When it comes out of the pupa, it's an adult.
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Then it looks the same as its parents.
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Young animals grow up into adults and have babies.
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Their babies have babies too.
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Every day, young animals are born.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 95 frasi e 732 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:00. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 81 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/scoprire, trovare
elephant sostantivo/ˈɛlɪfənt/elefante
egg sostantivo/ɛɡ/uovo
hatch verbo/hæt͡ʃ/schiudersi
lion sostantivo/ˈlaɪən/leone
beaver sostantivo/ˈbivɚ/castoro
kangaroo sostantivo/ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/canguro
seal sostantivo/siːl/timbro
eagle sostantivo/ˈiːɡəl/aquila
poison sostantivo/ˈpɔɪ.zən/veleno
nest sostantivo/nɛst/nido
turtle sostantivo/ˈtɝtl̩/tartaruga, testuggine
sand sostantivo/sænd/sabbia, rena
grass sostantivo/ɡɹɑːs/erba, graminacea
duck sostantivo/dʌk/anatra

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
grow up verbocrescere
stand up verboalzarsi in piedi

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 6 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, can't, doesn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come discover, elephant, egg.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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