Pratica di Shadowing: Addicted to sugar ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Georgie.
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Would you like a cup of tea, Neil?
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Oh yes, thanks Georgie.
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With milk and three sugars, please.
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Three sugars?
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Wow, you really have a sweet tooth.
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You like eating sweet things.
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Aren't you worried about your weight?
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Yes, but I can't say no to sugar.
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Just as our addiction to oil is causing a climate emergency, our addiction to sugar is causing a health emergency for our bodies.
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Sugar gives us an instant hit of the chemical hormone dopamine, making us feel good, but in the long run causing obesity,
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tooth decay and diseases like diabetes.
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But how did our addiction to the sweet stuff begin?
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That's what we'll be discussing in this programme and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
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Anyway, here's your tea, Neil.
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I just put one sugar.
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Thanks, Georgie.
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I'll give it a try.
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Now, before we go on, I have a question for you.
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Sugar cane, which grows naturally in Asia, Africa and the Americas, first came to England in the 11th century.
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Back then it was an expensive luxury item, affordable only to kings, queens and the very rich.
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So which English monarch loved eating sugar so much their teeth turned black?
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Was it a King Henry VIII, b Queen Elizabeth I, or c Mary Queen of Scots?
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I know Henry VIII was very unhealthy, so I'll guess it's him.
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OK, Georgie, we'll find out the answer later in the programme.
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Just now I compared sugar to oil as the world's most important commodity.
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A commodity is a product or natural resource that can be traded, bought and sold.
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Today, economies, governments and wars are based on controlling oil.
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But in earlier centuries, the same was true of sugar.
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For 400 years, sugar, along with coffee and tobacco, was grown in slavery plantations and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
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By the time slavery was ended in 1834, the demand for sugar in Europe and the United States was at a record high.
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Here's Professor of International History Ulber Bosmer explaining more to BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Aloud.
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Sugar was already an extremely important commodity in the 16th and 17th and 18th century.
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And in the 19th century we see a staggering growth of sugar consumption in Europe and the United States.
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And with that, sugar became the fuel for human bodies, whereas oil became the fuel for vehicles in the 20th century.
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Professor Bosma talks about the staggering growth in the popularity of sugar.
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The adjective staggering means shocking or surprising.
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Just like oil became the fuel for machine engines, sugar became the fuel for the human body.
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Fuel is a substance that is burned to provide heat or power.
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Trading companies had become rich selling sugar grown using slave labour.
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When people began to realise the health problems of sugar in the 20th century, these companies needed new ways to sell their product,
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and began using sugar in food which had previously contained none – food like bread, cereal and yoghurt.
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Here's Professor Bosma again, taking up the story for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Aloud.
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You can flood the market with a certain commodity, with sugar in this case, but that still does not mean that people will consume it.
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So the eating habits of people had to change.
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People, until the early 19th century, they had a few spoons of sugar per week, but not a kilo which people consume today in many countries in the world.
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companies flooded the market with their commodity.
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If you flood the market, you make a lot of your product available for sale, often at a low price.
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But just because something is cheap and easily available doesn't mean people will eat it.
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So sugar companies try to increase sugar consumption by changing people's eating habits – the way a group of people eat.
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For example, which types of food they eat, how much of it and how often.
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Instead of one or two spoons of sugar per week, people started eating kilos, with results we see around us every day.
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Worldwide, obesity and heart disease have tripled in the last 50 years.
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What's more, because sugary food is cheaper, it's often the poorest in society who are worst affected.
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Hmm, maybe it's time to try having your tea without any sugar, eh Neil?
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And to reveal the answer to your question, which English monarch's famous love of sugar turned their teeth black, I guessed it was the notorious overeater, Henry VIII.
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Which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid, Georgie.
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In fact, during the years before toothpaste and dentist, those black, stumpy teeth belong to Queen Elizabeth I.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this programme about sugar, starting with a sweet tooth,
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a fondness for eating sweet, sugary food and drinks.
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A commodity is a product or natural resource that can be traded, bought and sold.
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Fuel is a substance such as oil or coal that is burned to provide heat or power.
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The adjective staggering means very shocking and surprising.
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If a company floods the market, they release a lot of a particular product for sale, often at a low price.
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And finally, eating habits describe the way a particular group of people eat.
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For example, which types of food they eat, how much and how often.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Join us again soon for more trending topics and useful vocabulary here at 6 Minute English.
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Goodbye for now.
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Bye.
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Nel video "Addicted to sugar", i relatori Neil e Georgie discutono dell'importanza e degli effetti dello zucchero sulla salute umana. La conversazione inizia con un semplice scambio riguardo al tè e allo zucchero, ma presto si approfondisce il tema dell'adessione culturale e storica allo zucchero. Si evidenzia come lo zucchero, un tempo un lusso riservato a pochi, sia diventato onnipresente nella nostra dieta, creando una vera e propria emergenza sanitaria. La dinamicità della conversazione offre un ottimo esempio di come l'inglese colloquiale venga utilizzato per affrontare argomenti complessi, rendendo il video un utile strumento per chi desidera migliorare la propria competenza linguistica attraverso il metodo del shadowing in inglese.

Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • Would you like a cup of tea? - Ti piacerebbe una tazza di tè?
  • Wow, you really have a sweet tooth. - Wow, hai davvero una gran voglia di dolci.
  • I can’t say no to sugar. - Non posso dire di no allo zucchero.
  • How did our addiction to sugar begin? - Come è iniziata la nostra dipendenza dallo zucchero?
  • For 400 years, sugar was grown in slavery plantations. - Per 400 anni, lo zucchero è stato coltivato nelle piantagioni schiavistiche.

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  1. Ascolta attentamente: Guarda il video senza tentare di replicare. Concentrati sul contenuto e sulla pronuncia dei relatori.
  2. Segui il testo: Trova la trascrizione del video e inizia a leggerla mentre ascolti. Questo ti aiuterà a visualizzare le parole e le frasi.
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  4. Focalizzati su parole chiave: Presta attenzione a vocaboli come "sugar", "addiction" e "commodity". Impara a pronunciarli correttamente e utilizzali nelle tue conversazioni quotidiane.
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Utilizzando questa tecnica, non solo migliorerai la tua comprensione dell'inglese, ma svilupperai anche una pronuncia più fluida e naturale. Ricorda, il sito di shadowing è una risorsa utile per esercitarti e ampliare le tue capacità linguistiche!

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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