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This is 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello, I'm Rob.
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Welcome to 6 Minute English.
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I'm joined today by Neil.
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Hello, Neil.
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Hello, Rob.
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Now, Neil, I have a question for you.
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Do you think you're a winner?
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Err, you mean someone who has a lot of success in everything?
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Well, not exactly.
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I'm just talking about competitions.
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Do you have a lot of success or luck in winning them?
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Err, competitions?
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No, not at all.
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Oh, I don't think I've ever won a competition.
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Ah, bad luck.
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That means you're not a compa.
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That's an informal name for someone who takes part in, or enters, competitions on an almost semi-professional basis.
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They spend a lot of time trying to win something.
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You mean winning prizes or free gifts?
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I do.
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And Neil, you could win a prize if you can correctly answer today's question.
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So are you ready?
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I'm ready.
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OK, well, a lottery is one kind of competition where the prize is money.
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The biggest cash prizes can be won in the USA.
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But do you know what the biggest ever cash prize to be paid in America is?
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Is it a $590 million, b $890 million, or c $1 billion?
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Well, things tend to be big in America, so I'm going to go for c $1 billion.
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Hmm, I'd like to win that.
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We'll find out if you're right or wrong later on.
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So let's talk more about compers, people who regularly take part in competitions.
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We could say they're hooked on, meaning addicted, to taking part.
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Yes, the lure or attractiveness of winning big prizes means these people just can't stop answering quiz questions,
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writing slogans and captions or solving puzzles.
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Some people go to great lengths or put a lot of effort into winning something, even if it's just a box of chocolates or a coffee mug.
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It's just the excitement of winning.
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But sometimes there are big prizes to win – a new car, a speedboat or a holiday of a lifetime.
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The only problem is that these prizes are either not easy to win
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or there are millions of people trying to win them.
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I've certainly never won anything as fantastic as that.
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But one man who's had plenty of good luck is Martin Dove, who is a retired lecturer and an expert comper.
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He certainly is.
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He's won a yacht, a racehorse, and lots of smaller prizes too.
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Let's hear from him now.
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Listen out for the names he says people have called him.
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I've been a comper for 40 years.
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It's like I've admitted to some addiction, isn't it, really?
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Some people have called me the master of comping, the king of comping, the guru of comping, but it's just a word, it's just a phrase.
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It was just...
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I was fairly high profile.
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So, he says he was fairly high profile.
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That means he was often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appeared on television.
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And because he was high profile, he got called a few nicknames.
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Names like the Master of Comping – so someone who's very good or skilled at it.
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And the King of Comping – not an actual royal king, but someone who is the best at doing something.
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And the Guru of Comping – that's someone who other people respect and go to for advice about comping.
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Well, he knows his stuff and he still checks out competitions on cereal boxes and crisp packets for the next big win.
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He's even written books on the subject and offered advice to other compers.
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But comping has changed, Rob.
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There are lots of competitions to enter on the internet now.
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Every web page you look at seems to tempt us with a fantastic prize to be won.
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Yeah, that's true.
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But Martin Dove doesn't think that is necessarily a good thing.
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Can you hear why?
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The thing is now, competitions are far easier to enter than they ever were.
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The only I could spend a fortnight crafting a slogan and really working hard and really being proud of it.
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Now all you have to do is click, click, click, click, click.
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And because they only take 30 seconds to do, 20 minutes, you can knock out 40 competitions.
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And you could get a million entries now, so it's a million to one.
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So competitions online are easier to enter – you just have to click.
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Martin said he could enter about 40 competitions in just 20 minutes.
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Ah, but because it's so easy, more people enter and so the odds, or chances of winning are less.
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Sometimes a one in a million chance of winning, a very rare or unlikely chance.
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I wonder what your chances are of getting today's question right, Neil?
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One in three, maybe.
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Maybe.
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Well, earlier I asked you what is the biggest ever cash prize to be paid out in a lottery in the USA?
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Is it a $590 million, b $890 million, or c $1 billion?
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I said it was c $1 billion.
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And you are wrong.
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It's actually only $590 million, OK?
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That was won by an 84-year-old woman in Florida last year.
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So, Neil, what's the biggest prize you've ever won?
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Err...
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I think I once, about ten years ago, won £10 on the British National Lottery.
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Wow, that's a big win.
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OK, well, for getting today's question wrong, you get the consolation prize of reminding us of some of the words that we've heard today.
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OK, we heard...
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luck compa prizes lottery hooked on the lure
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slogans high profile master guru the odds one in a million
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OK, thanks Neil, you really are a winner there.
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OK, well, we hope you've enjoyed today's programme.
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Please join us again soon for Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Bye.

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Perché questo video è ottimo per la pratica di conversazione in inglese

Il video "Bài 4 - Người Chuyên Săn Thưởng" è un materiale eccellente per chi vuole migliorare la pronuncia e la fluidità. La conversazione tra Rob e Neil è spontanea, con un tono colloquiale che simula situazioni reali: perfetto per esercitarsi a capire e riprodurre l'inglese parlato. Inoltre, include vocaboli specifici come "comper" (chi partecipa a concorsi) e espressioni come "hooked on" (dipendente da), che aggiungono varietà al tuo lessico. Ideale per la pratica di shadow speak, poiché la velocità è moderata e le frasi sono chiare.

Analizziamo le frasi chiave

Ecco tre frasi naturali da studiare:

  • "Do you think you're a winner?": La struttura semplice e la domanda diretta la rendono perfetta per la conversazione quotidiana. La pronuncia di "winner" con l'accento sulla prima sillaba è importante per essere capito.
  • "They spend a lot of time trying to win something.": L'uso di "spend time + gerundio" è una costruzione fondamentale. La parola "trying" si pronuncia con una "t" soft, tipica dell'inglese colloquiale.
  • "It's like I've admitted to some addiction, isn't it?": Il tag question "isn't it?" crea un tono informale e coinvolgente. La frase mostra come usare il present perfect per parlare di esperienze passate con effetti nel presente.

Una routine di pratica con shadowing in inglese

Prova questo semplice loop per esercitarti: 1. Ascolta un frammento del video (5-10 secondi). 2. Ripeti immediatamente dopo, cercando di imitare l'intonazione e la velocità. 3. Registrati e confronta con l'originale: nota le differenze nella pronuncia di vocali come "a" in "addicted" o nella lunghezza delle sillabe. Ripeti per 10-15 minuti al giorno: è il modo migliore per migliorare la tua fluidità. Ricorda: imparare l'inglese con YouTube è efficace se combini ascolto e ripetizione!

Con questa routine, il shadowing diventerà un'abitudine e la tua pronuncia diventerà più naturale. Non ti preoccupare degli errori: la pratica è la chiave!

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've ever won · I've certainly never won · have called
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo facan be won · be paid · was often seen
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosasomeone who has · someone who takes · people who regularly
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppoThe biggest · the best

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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