Pratica di Shadowing: 6 Confusing Words: fun & funny, famous & popular, surprise & shock - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Commonly confused words.
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You will, maybe, mix up words.
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These words are very close in meaning, but they're actually different.
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My name's Ronnie.
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I'm going to help you figure out some four, six words that are confusing in English,
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and you think maybe they're even the same word they are
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not the same word they are different they have different meanings don't ever get them wrong again okay
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so commonly confused words the first one is fun
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and you confuse this with funny and I say what's the difference between fun
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and funny and you say oh oh I know fun is an adjective.
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It's the police again.
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They've come to get me.
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We're having too much fun.
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And I say, well, if fun is an adjective, what kind of word is funny then?
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And you go, oh, it's an adjective too.
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So what's the difference?
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The difference is fun means you are having a great, great time doing something.
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You are having fun.
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It's great.
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Maybe you are drinking.
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Maybe you are watching English videos.
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Maybe you're studying.
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I really wouldn't think that studying would be fun, but learning on the internet is fun.
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Then we have funny.
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Funny funny means it makes you laugh.
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If something is funny, you will laugh.
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A lot of people say, I went to Disneyland and it was funny.
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Oh, why?
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What happened?
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I went on rollercoaster.
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Okay, but a roller coaster is not funny.
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If I went to an amusement park, I wouldn't look at a roller coaster and go, ah!
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What, what, what?
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Look at it, it's a roller coaster, it's funny.
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No, you would go on the roller coaster and go, woohoo, it is fun. So, difference.
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Fun means, basically, a good time, I'm having a good time,
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versus funny, it makes you laugh.
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This word looks like la -ha -ha -g, but the pronunciation is actually laugh laugh.
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Fun means it's a good time, like at a party.
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Funny means it makes you laugh.
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You can have both together.
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You can go to a party.
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The party can be super fun, and someone at the party could be funny.
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Maybe there's a clown.
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Clowns can be funny.
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Next one is surprise surprise versus shock.
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I hear a lot of people say,
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for example, I went home last night and I saw my mom and my dad naked.
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I was surprised.
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Are you having a party?
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You're getting out the camera.
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Hi, mom.
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Hi, dad.
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What's up?
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No, no, no, no. You were not surprised.
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Surprise.
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You were scarred for life.
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You were in shock or in the past tense, you were shocked.
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You weren't happy about something.
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You were shocked.
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So surprise, we always use for a positive event.
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For example, For example, if you bought a lottery ticket and you won, surprise, you have a million dollars.
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Cool, compared to shocking news.
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Let's say that you just got a phone call
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that your friend is in the hospital because they got hit by a donkey.
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Surprise, your friend got hit by a donkey.
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No. I'm shocked.
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My friend got hit by a donkey.
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Surprise is always positive.
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Shocked is always a bad thing or a negative situation.
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On to the last one.
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Famous versus...
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popular.
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These are very similar in meaning, but, again, different.
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Famous means many people know you, or know someone.
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So if you look at an example, you can take any president of the United States of America.
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I would wager a bet any president or prime minister in the world, most people would know their name.
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So, if I took the president of Canada, we don't have a president of Canada.
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If I took the prime minister of Canada, no, I don't want to take him.
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If we took the president of America, if we took George W.
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Bush, the past president of America, most people have heard of the word Bush before.
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George W.
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Bush, but many people know this name.
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Many people know the name Bush.
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Popular.
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Do you like George Bush?
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George W.
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Bush?
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I'm sorry.
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George W.
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Bush was very, very famous, but he was not popular.
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Popular means many people actually like someone.
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So, people who are popular,
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they don't have to have a lot of people that know who they are, but they have to have a couple people who actually like them.
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Another example of someone who is famous, but not popular, again, it's all about the government,
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isn't it, would be the famous but much -hated Hitler.
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Everyone knows who Hitler is.
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I hope people don't like Hitler, come on, really, this guy's terrible.
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So, Hitler is famous, but not popular.
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Maybe when you were in high school, there was the popular boy.
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Oh, you talk like this, he was so popular, okay?
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Or there was the popular girl.
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People liked the popular boy or the popular girl, but if you went to a different school and you said, hey, do you know Benny,
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the guy that talks like this?
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People go, no, I don't know Benny.
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Benny is well -liked or popular at your school, but many people don't know who he is.
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Famous, popular.
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Surprise, shock.
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Fun, funny.
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That's all for now.
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www .engvid .com.
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Do a quiz.
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Bye.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 113 frasi e 885 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:02. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 110 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| shock sostantivo | /ʃɔk/ | trauma, trauma emotivo |
| versus | /ˈvɝsəs/ | contro |
| donkey sostantivo | /ˈdɑŋ.ki/ | asino, somaro |
| confused aggettivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confuso |
| commonly avverbio | /ˈkɑmənli/ | comunemente, frequentemente |
| clown sostantivo | /ˈklaʊ̯n/ | pagliaccio, pagliaccia |
| confuse verbo | /kənˈfjuːz/ | confondere |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| wage sostantivo | /weɪd͡ʒ/ | salario, paga |
| naked aggettivo | /ˈneɪkɪd/ | nudo, ignudo |
| lottery sostantivo | /ˈlɑtɚi/ | lotteria |
| tense sostantivo | /tɛns/ | tempo |
| quiz sostantivo | /kwɪz/ | quiz |
| scar sostantivo | /skɑɹ/ | cicatrice |
| amusement sostantivo | /əˈmjuzmənt/ | divertimento |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 21 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, rollercoaster /ˈɹoʊlɚˌkoʊstɚ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come shock, versus, donkey.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | If something is funny, you will laugh |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were scarred · were shocked |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who are · people who actually · someone who is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | They've come · have heard |
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.