Pratica di Shadowing: BBC 6 MInute English - Dealing With Boredom (2014 AUG 21) - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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This is 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello, I'm Rob.
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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 Finn.
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Hello, Finn.
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Hi, Rob.
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You know, I'm happy you called me to present this programme with you
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because I was there by my desk feeling a bit bored.
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Great yawn, Finn.
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Yeah.
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Now, yawn, of course, is a typical reaction of someone who is bored.
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Yeah, it's when you open your mouth wide and take some air in and slowly out.
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OK, well, let's make this programme all about boredom, shall we?
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And I'll start by stimulating your imagination.
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Thank you, but how are you going to make me excited and interested in something, Rob?
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OK, well, how about I challenge you to a question that you might not know the answer to?
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OK, well, you can try.
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OK, well I know you like the theatre.
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I do, but it has to be an exciting play or I get restless.
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Restless, you mean unable to sit still because you get bored or worried even.
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OK, well I wonder how you'd feel watching the longest continuous play recorded?
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Well that's quite an offer.
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What do you mean?
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Well, according to the Guinness Book of Records,
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the longest continuous dramatic performance was held in New Jersey in the US in 2010.
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But do you know how long the cast for the Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco was on stage four?
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Was it for about...
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A. Eight hours?
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B. Seventeen hours?
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Or C.
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Twenty-three hours?
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Wow, they're all pretty long.
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I'll say B.
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Seventeen hours, Rob.
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Goodness, right.
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OK, well, I'll let you know the answer at the end of the programme.
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Now let's talk more about boredom.
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I think this is a feeling we have to learn how to cope with.
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Yes, we have to learn to deal with this situation successfully,
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to cope with it.
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But people often feel they want to change their life,
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to change their job.
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They might feel stuck in a rut.
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That's a good phrase, stuck in a rut.
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So you mean you have become too fixed in one kind of job.
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Yes, you know, Rob, even I sometimes dream of something a bit more exciting,
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like being a professional diver or maybe even a pilot of a really fast plane.
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Well, guess what?
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Even pilots get bored, you know.
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Not when they're flying anyway.
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Wrong.
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When they're up in the air.
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No way, really.
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I don't believe you.
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Well, Missy Cummings, an American, was a fighter pilot.
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Listen to the phrasal verb she uses,
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meaning to stop being bored at least for a while.
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Is there ever time for a fighter pilot to get bored?
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Oh, my gosh, sure.
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For the same reasons that commercial pilots get bored.
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These fighter jets are very automated when it comes to just holding altitude and heading.
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So you'd turn everything on autopilot.
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And I probably listened to more Oprah Winfrey TV shows on the high-frequency radios
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and so you get good about using the technology to figure out how to stave off that boredom.
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Ah, so she listened to a show hosted by the American presenter Oprah Winfrey on the radio to stave off her boredom.
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Now to stave off means to stop or to keep an unpleasant feeling away.
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In this case she means boredom.
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Yes indeed.
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But some experts think there's something good about feeling bored.
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Really?
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Let's hear what Tiffany Watt-Smith has to say.
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She works for the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Queen Mary University of London.
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Pay attention to the word she uses to describe what boredom does to people.
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On the one hand people are worried about being under-occupied and bored.
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On the other, there is a set of anxieties about us not having any more downtime.
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You know, we can constantly check our phones at the bus stop.
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Everything is to be filled and what does that do to our minds?
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I think boredom is a very useful emotion.
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It's an emotion which spurs people on to change something about their environment.
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If you're bored, it gives rise to creativity.
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So boredom spurs people on to change something.
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Now, to spur on means to stimulate or to encourage someone to do something.
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So what are you going to do, Finn?
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How will you change your life?
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Change my life?
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OK, two things.
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The first one is...
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I want to know if I got that question right.
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Well, I said at the beginning of the programme
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that the longest continuous dramatic performance was held in New Jersey US in 2010.
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And I asked you, how long was the cast on stage for to play the bald soprano by Eugene Ionesco?
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Yes, the options were 8 hours,
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17 hours and 23 hours, I think.
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And I said 17.
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Was I right?
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You were not.
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Oh no. It was even longer.
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Oh wow.
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OK, according to the Guinness Book of Records,
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yes, the play lasted 23 hours,
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33 minutes and 54 seconds.
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It was achieved by the 27 o'clock players who performed The Bald Soprano at Belmar,
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New Jersey, USA on the 27th of July 2010.
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Anyway, Finn, what's the second thing you're going to do to stave off your boredom?
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You know what, Rob?
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I'm going to book myself a fantastic holiday.
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Maybe I could start with a visit to Patagonia in Argentina to see the penguins.
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Sounds very exciting.
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But before you head off to Patagonia,
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could you remind us of some of the English words we've heard today?
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We heard yawn, stimulating, restless,
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to cope with, stuck in a rut,
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to stave off, to spur on.
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Thanks, Finn.
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That's it for this programme.
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I hope you didn't find it boring.
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Not at all.
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I loved it!
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Please join us again soon for another 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Bye-bye!
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Bye!

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In questa lezione, praticeremo la comprensione e l'espressione orale attraverso il tema della noia. Discuteremo strategie per affrontare la noia e come queste possano influenzare le nostre vite. Attraverso il dialogo tra Rob e Finn, avrai l'opportunità di ascoltare esempi reali di conversazione in inglese, migliorando così le tue abilità di shadowing in inglese. Imparerai anche frasi chiave che ti saranno utili nella vita quotidiana e nelle situazioni sociali.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • Boredom: noia
  • Yawn: sbadigliare
  • Restless: irrequieto
  • Stuck in a rut: bloccato in una routine
  • Cope with: affrontare, gestire
  • Challenge: sfida
  • Exciting: emozionante
  • Cast: cast, compagnia teatrale

Consigli per la Pratica

Quando pratichi utilizzando il shadowspeak, cerca di prestare attenzione al ritmo e al tono dei relatori nel video. È importante ascoltare attentamente come Rob e Finn esprimono le loro emozioni e le loro idee. Prova a fare shadow speech ripetendo ciò che dicono subito dopo averlo ascoltato, cercando di imitare la loro intonazione e il loro ritmo naturale. Inizialmente, il video potrebbe sembrare veloce, ma la pratica costante ti aiuterà a migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese e la tua fluidità. Includi le pause naturalmente mentre parli, per rendere il tuo discorso più simile a una conversazione reale. Ricorda che l'obiettivo è diventare sempre più sicuro e competente nella tua comunicazione in inglese. Con la pratica regolare, puoi diventare un oratore fluente e sicuro di te!

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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