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Hey, I'm Mike Forge, I work for Sierra General Contractor.

I'm a site super and this is a day in the life of...

So, what we're going to go check on now because the day started.

We got trades on site, they're coming.

We've got about five, six guys doing an orientation right now.

No matter how far along you are on a site, it seems like you're always doing orientations.

We had the heaters going all weekend.

The heat's going so the drywall is just still taping on the inside

which we'll go through later

but right now we're gonna go shoot temperature of the roof for the decking only

because our roofers require it to be no more than minus 10 out

which it is but then the decking itself can't be higher than minus 10

because otherwise their adhesive and their material won't apply and they can't roof.

Typical day is chaos.

Don't mind where it's a little warmer.

In the building every single trade here has a jar card that they've got to fill out.

We sign off and it's going to indicate what work they're doing, where they're doing it and how they're doing.

So with that, it's going to point out the hazards, how they're going to do it safely, and then we review it.

Because sometimes they're nearsighted, where you've got to think of a whole project.

So all the trade, we'll think about their job, their job only.

But we have to think of the whole thing.

So if he's putting in ductwork over there, who's under it?

Who's around it?

Everything we do has to be scheduled so the next guy can keep going so no one's holding each other up.

And when you're walking by, you see stuff like that, like the guys on the lift, you always have to look to see,

make sure they're tied off, so your head's always doing something.

You always got to be looking for something.

I saw that both of their harnesses, they're on, they're tied down, it's safe, they're good to go.

They've already taken out their permits to do it, so we're fine.

That guy up there, he's tied off, right?

So it's as simple as

that you're not we're not hounding anyone just got to make sure they're doing their job safely and correct

uh just it's the part of the job i really like is being able to rip food on it and then

then catching this stuff like it is the best part of

our job is like going how are we going to get it done right

and get it done and make sure it's actually done

So right now, obviously it's dark earlier.

So if it was a new build, they can't really even start until the sun comes out because there's nothing going on.

So on those typical days, you know, you're 7 o 'clock.

When the job progresses to the point where we're putting up steel, the trades want to start earlier, we start earlier.

Me typically, I like to be here a half hour earlier because I got a daily I got to start.

I got jar cards I got to fill out.

I got any hazards

I got to deal with as well as just kind of

get your head in the game for what's going to happen

because nine times out of ten there's going to be people showing up all the time supers were here early

but your trades they show up that they're usually at their shop for seven

so that means they're not on your site till eight nine ten o 'clock depending on

if they got to go get material or what but when

that happens they usually come go hey I need an orientation

and the big thing there is so that we can as supers explain to them is there hazards on site

They don't know.

They've never been here.

So they don't know if we're using some sort of, you know, chemical that can affect them a certain way.

We don't know their allergies.

There are people that break out in hives from paint, from dust.

So those things are the reasons why you have to come do an orientation.

So then we can, well, eliminate the hazard.

If there is a problem somewhere, it's either PPE or vented or go work somewhere else, right?

And that's a constant struggle for supers.

but that's a day in the life of a super.

So as a super we got to know everything.

We got to be the smartest person in the building.

We have to know how to build everything

or at least have a mindset of at least we think we know how to build everything.

So when these guys all show up to site they know absolutely nothing other than their one job.

I'm doing concrete, I'm doing electrical, I'm doing this.

But we as super has got to be able to make sure

that we know how to do it with them so it's effective.

I always said that if I can do your job, I would, but I can't.

I have to rely on you and your knowledge to get stuff done effectively.

I almost said .

So what I'll have to do is if I get a set of drawings, the first thing I'll do is I'll start from the foundation

or the footing and I'll color them because some buildings have different size puddings, different size, everything.

In order to make it easy, you color it.

Like this is this thick, make it yellow.

This is this big, make it red.

So when the traits come to do concrete, then it's here.

This is what I have.

You're able to use it, but you have to do your own drawing but I'm here to help.

We're here to help.

So the best way to help is make an idiot proof.

Color it.

And everyone works together.

It works.

It works good.

I tell all my trades, don't do anything without coming to look at my drawings first because all the RFIs,

all the change orders, I'll tape them to the drawing.

So if there's a change that they don't know about, they need to come look at it.

This is my typical daily.

You know, They have key points in here that we're supposed to look at.

It'll upload automatically the weather time and the weather conditions, wind speed, everything like that.

This is basically the day -to -day what's going on.

Anything I do, it's put into here.

It's supposed to be like a story, so everyone can track it through the day, what comes up, anything that happens,

orientations, materials, everything goes in here.

So right off the hop, you know, was there any scheduled delays?

Not a real delay, but we can't do the roofing because of weather conditions

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So I have to input that and then I have to put that in its own delay tracker

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So then down the road we can we have a reason right as every job we do is based on a schedule

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Which is a set time and it's one thing holds up another it's always a chain effect

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So it's important to keep as many notes as you can I've been a Sierra for 19 years Hitting 20.

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I like the fact that it's challenging every day.

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They have different styles of buildings

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You get to meet and talk to cool people, get different ways of thinking.

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There's more than one way to do everything.

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So it's a giant, vast of ways of doing stuff.

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It's really cool because construction is always changing.

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And that's the day in the life of a Sierra Sight Super.

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See ya.

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Have a good day.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “A Day in the Life”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: super, trade, site, orientation. Questo video contiene 112 frasi e 1311 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:47. Chi parla va veloce, circa 193 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 88% 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
orientation sostantivo	/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/	orientamento
delay sostantivo	/dɪˈleɪ̯/	ritardo
concrete aggettivo	/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/	concreto, reale
clock sostantivo	/klɑk/	contachilometri, tachimetro
deck sostantivo	/ˈdɛk/	pedana, pavimento
safely avverbio	/ˈseɪfli/	sicuramente, senza problemi
minus	/ˈmaɪ.nəs/	meno
vast aggettivo	/væst/	ampio, vasto
thick aggettivo	/θɪk/	spesso
dust sostantivo	/dʌst/	polvere
indicate verbo	/ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/	indicare
input sostantivo	/ˈɪnpʊt/	immissione
rely verbo	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	fare affidamento, basarsi
chaos sostantivo	/ˈkeɪˌɑs/	caos
permit verbo	/pɚˈmɪt/	permettere, autorizzare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
fill out verbo	/fɪl ˈaʊt/	compilare
come up verbo		venire fuori, emergere
go through verbo		attraversare
hold up verbo		ritardare, rallentare
point out verbo		additare
put up verbo		collocare
sign off verbo		disconnettersi, autorizzare
take out verbo		cavare, cacciare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

We got trades on site, they're coming.
We don't know their allergies.
I'm doing concrete, I'm doing electrical, I'm doing this.
Anything I do, it's put into here.
I like the fact that it's challenging every day.

La grammatica di questo video

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

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	They've already taken · They've never been · I've been
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	be scheduled · is based

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 60 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, we're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hazard /ˈhæzəd/, harness /ˈhɑɹ.nəs/, heater /ˈhitɚ/, hive /haɪv/, adhesive /ədˈhiː.sɪv/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: hazard /ˈhæzəd/, concrete /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/, tape /teɪ̯p/, clock /klɑk/, deck /ˈdɛk/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: hazard /ˈhæzəd/, vast /væst/, tracker /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/, allergy /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/

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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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