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The trouble with goats.
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How hard could it be to take care of one little goat, Kelly thought.
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Mrs. Smith was going on vacation and needed someone responsible to take care of her very loved and very pampered goat, Elmer.
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Kelly did not know much about goats, but Elmer was adorable.
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He was small, mostly black with a gray patch over one eye, and his short legs were white, so it looked like he was wearing socks.
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Kelly just needed to feed him, give him water, and spend time with him so he would not get lonely.
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Kelly was excited to be trusted with this responsibility, and as a bonus, Mrs. Smith was going to pay her $25.
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Kelly clutched the instructions that Mrs. Smith had written for her as she approached Elmer's pen.
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Step 1.
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Get Elmer's food from the red bucket by his pen.
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Only feed him one scoop three times a day.
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Kelly scooped some fragrant alfalfa pellets into a bowl.
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When Elmer heard her, he began to bleat in excitement.
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Hi, Elmer.
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Easy boy, she greeted him.
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Elmer got more excited and leapt into the air, twisting his body from side to side.
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Kelly unlatched the gate and carefully stepped into the pen.
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Now for step two.
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She tried to read the next instructions but accidentally dropped the paper.
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She was bending over to pick it up when something bumped against her.
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Ouch! she cried as she lost her balance and landed in the dirt, spilling pellets all around her.
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Elmer stood innocently beside her and seemed to be smiling.
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Elmer, you knocked me over!
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Elmer kicked his back feet in the air playfully.
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That was when Kelly noticed something white in Elmer's mouth.
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It was the instructions.
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Elmer, no. Kelly tried to pull the paper out of his mouth, but he had already eaten half of it.
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She held up a soggy scrap of paper and read what was left.
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Step two.
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Don't ever turn your back to Elmer.
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He will headbutt you.
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That would have been a good thing to know in advance, Kelly thought.
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Kelly was cleaning up the spilled food when she noticed that Elmer was strangely quiet it.
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She glanced up and discovered that the gate was wide open, and Elmer was gone.
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Kelly raced out of the pen and looked up and down the street.
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Finally, she spotted him in the middle of Mrs. Ware's yard, munching on her prized flower garden.
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No, not the petunias, Kelly yelled.
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Elmer looked at her and ran in the opposite direction.
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He was speedy for a goat with such short legs.
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He trotted directly toward Mr. Johnson's fancy red car and ran right over the top of it, his little hooves clicking and scraping on the metal hood.
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That goat was fast, and he was getting farther and farther away from his home.
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Kelly did not know what to do.
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How would she get him back to his pen?
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All she knew was to feed him three times a day, give him water, and never turn her back on him.
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Then, Kelly had an idea.
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Maybe her cleverest idea ever.
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Elmer, she called out.
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Elmer turned to look at her curiously.
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Kelly turned her back to him and waited.
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She checked behind her and saw him charging toward her.
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Elmer could not resist trying to headbutt her from behind.
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Kelly ran as fast as she could, and Elmer chased her all the way back to his pen.
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The second he was inside, Kelly slammed the gate shut.
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Elmer looked at the closed gate, looked at Kelly, bleated loudly, and then gave her another goat smile.
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That goat was trouble, but he was still adorable.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Kelly, Elmer, goat, pen, looked. Questo video contiene 55 frasi e 619 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:08. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 150 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 77% 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
goat sostantivo/ɡoʊt/capra
gate sostantivo/ˈɡeɪ̯t/cancello
instruction sostantivo/ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/istruzione, addestramento
adorable aggettivo/əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/adorabile
spill verbo/spɪl/rovesciare, versare
scoop sostantivo/skup/mestolo, cucchiaione
carefully avverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/minuziosamente, accuratamente
bonus sostantivo/ˈbəʊ.nəs/bonus, extra
gray aggettivo/ɡɹeɪ/grigio
chase verbo/t͡ʃeɪs/inseguire, cacciare
flower sostantivo/ˈfloʊɚ/fiore
vacation sostantivo/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/vacanza
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/scoprire, trovare
fancy sostantivo/ˈfæn.si/fantasia, immaginazione
knock verbo/nɑk/bussare, battere

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
clean up verboripulire
hold up verboritardare, rallentare

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 fabe trusted · was left
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas going · was wearing · was bending

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: adorable /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, curiously /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/, innocently /ˈɪnəsəntli/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: goat /ɡoʊt/, gate /ˈɡeɪ̯t/, scoop /skup/, bonus /ˈbəʊ.nəs/, chase /t͡ʃeɪs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: fancy /ˈfæn.si/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, patch /pæt͡ʃ/, slam /ˈslæm/, glance /ɡlæns/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come goat, gate, instruction.

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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