Pratica di Shadowing: 4000 Essential English Words 1 Unit 30 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Unit 30.
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Word List Above If something is above, it is at a higher level than something else.
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He straightened the sign that was above the crowd.
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Ahead If something is ahead of something else, it is in front of it.
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The blue card drove on ahead of us.
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Amount An amount is how much there is of something.
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Can I use my card to pay for the entire amount?
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Belief A belief is a strong feeling that something is correct or true.
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A preacher or priest should have a strong belief in God.
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Center The center of something is the middle of it.
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The center of a dartboard is the most important spot.
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Common If something is common, it happens often, or there is much of it.
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It is common for snow to fall in the winter.
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Cost These designer shoes cost more than the regular ones.
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Demonstrate To demonstrate something is to show how it is done.
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She demonstrated her plan to her co -workers.
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Different Different describes someone or something that is not the same as others.
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Each of my sisters has a different hairstyle.
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Evidence Evidence is a fact or thing that you use to prove something.
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He used the pictures as evidence that UFOs are real.
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Honesty Honesty means the quality of being truthful or honest.
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A courtroom should be a place of honesty.
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Idiom An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from its words.
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The idiom, when pigs fly, means that something will never happen.
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Independent If something is independent, it is not controlled by something else.
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She chose to live an independent life in the country.
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Inside Inside means the inner part, space, or side of something.
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The inside of the box was empty.
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Jail A jail is a place to keep bad people.
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He was sent to jail for taking other people's cars.
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Master A master is a person who is very good at something.
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My brother is a master of Taekwondo.
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Memory A memory is something you remember.
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The memory of my first time in the city will always be the best.
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Pocket A pocket is a part of your clothing where you can keep things.
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She always had her hands in her pockets.
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Proper If something is proper, it is right.
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It is not proper to throw your garbage on the road.
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Sale If something is for sale, you can buy it.
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Everything for sale here is the same price.
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Cats and Secrets In English, there is a common idiom, let the cat out of the bag.
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It means to tell a secret.
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But where did this idiom start?
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It came from a part of England.
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Long ago, people there went from town to town to sell things like vegetables, clothes, and pigs.
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They had strong beliefs about honesty.
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They didn't like lying.
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One day, a man went to the town's center to sell things.
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I have a baby pig for sale.
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It won't cost much.
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he said.
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He held the animal above his head.
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His style was different from honest people's style.
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He was a master of tricking people and lying.
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A woman named Beth looked at his pig.
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He offered her the pig for one gold coin.
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That was a very small amount.
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Beth gave him the coin.
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He put it in his pocket.
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He walked ahead of Beth to get the pig.
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He gave her a closed bag and said, Here's your pig.
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He then left very quickly.
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Beth looked at the bag.
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It was moving.
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She opened it to let the pig out.
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A cat was inside.
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He tricked me.
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That isn't proper, she said.
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Later, the man returned to trick more people.
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Beth saw him, and the memory of the cat came back.
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She told her friends.
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They stopped him, but no one knew what to do next.
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Someone said, We need an independent and fair person to decide that.
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They went to the judge.
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Beth told him about the cat in the bag.
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The judge asked, Is there evidence?
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Can you demonstrate how he did it?
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Look in his bag, said Beth.
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She opened it and let a cat out of the bag.
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They learned the man's secret, and he went to jail.
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That's how the idiom, let the cat out of the bag, came to mean to tell a secret.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “4000 Essential English Words 1 Unit 30”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: pig, Beth, cat, bag, idiom. Questo video contiene 81 frasi e 728 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:30. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 112 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
pocket sostantivo/ˈpɑ.kɪt/tasca
belief sostantivo/bɪˈliːf/credito, credenza
demonstrate verbo/ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/dimostrare
honesty sostantivo/ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/onestà, lealtà
trick sostantivo/ˈtɹɪk/inbroglio
coin sostantivo/ˈkoɪ̯n/moneta
pig sostantivo/ˈpɪɡ/maiale, porco
clothing sostantivo/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/abbigliamento, vestiti
worker sostantivo/ˈwɝ.kɚ/lavoratore, operaio
designer sostantivo/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/designer, progettista
priest sostantivo/ˈpɹiːst/prete, sacerdote
phrase sostantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/espressione, polirematica
shoe sostantivo/ˈʃu/scarpa, calzatura
garbage sostantivo/ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/immondizia, spazzatura
cloth sostantivo/klɒθ/stoffa, tessuto

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come back verbotornare

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais not controlled · was sent
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould have · should be
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe most important · the best
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsionewill never happen · will always be · won't cost

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 3 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, isn't, won't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, cloth /klɒθ/, truthful /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/, belief /bɪˈliːf/, demonstrate /ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/, trick /ˈtɹɪk/, pig /ˈpɪɡ/

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 pocket, belief, demonstrate.

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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