Pratica di Shadowing: Beginner/Intermediate English Listening Practice - Easter - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Easter is a Christian festival that is celebrated all over the world.
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Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus when he came back to life.
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In the United Kingdom, Easter has been celebrated for hundreds of years.
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There are many Easter celebrations and customs,
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so today we are going to see how it is celebrated in the United Kingdom.
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In the UK, there is a four -day bank holiday weekend to celebrate Easter.
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The first day of the holiday is Good Friday and the last day is Easter Monday.
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People usually don't have to work so they can spend time with their friends and family or even go on holiday.
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The Easter celebrations start the week before,
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on Palm Sunday, which is a week before Easter Sunday.
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There are special services at churches on Palm Sunday.
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If you go to a church on Palm Sunday, they will give you a palm leaf,
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which people normally keep for a whole year, to the Palm Sunday of the following year.
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Good Friday is another important day.
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It is the day when Jesus died on the cross, when he was crucified.
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On this day, people remember the suffering of Jesus.
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There are some people who do not eat alcohol or meat.
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Deciding not to eat is called fasting in English.
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Another Easter celebration in the UK is the Easter egg,
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which is a symbol of new life and rebirth.
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It is typical to give them as a gift during Easter.
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You can give them to your friends or your family,
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and especially to children, who love this season because of the delicious chocolate eggs and bunnies.
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Some people also decorate and paint on boiled eggs during Easter,
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and make them beautiful to give them as gifts.
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Another important Easter tradition is the Easter Bunny.
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It comes from a German custom called the Oosterhäuser.
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It was a hare, which is very similar to a rabbit, that laid eggs.
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Like Easter eggs, the Easter bunny is a symbol of rebirth,
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as Jesus was reborn.
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Also, it is a symbol of fertility.
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The Easter bunny leaves chocolate eggs for children to find.
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A lot of communities, like clubs, families or schools, have an easter egg hunt.
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In these egg hunts, children have to search for their eggs in a garden,
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a playground or or a park.
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Finally, Easter Sunday is the most important day of the Easter celebrations.
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It is the day when Jesus Christ resurrected, meaning that he came back to life.
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A lot of people go to church services on Easter Sunday?
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On Easter Sunday, families and friends have a meal together.
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The typical dish for Easter Sunday is roast lamb.
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Another typical food that people eat are hot cross buns,
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which are sweet buns that have a cross on the top.
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Now, let's go with the questions.
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Write your answers in the comment box and I will correct your answers.
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The first one is, do you celebrate Easter in your country?
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And how do you celebrate it?
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For example, this is how Easter is celebrated in my country but in reality a lot of people don't really celebrate it.
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They go on holiday or they eat easter eggs but they don't usually go to church,
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especially the younger generation.
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The second question is, have you ever eaten an easter egg or an easter bunny?
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If you come to the UK during the Easter holidays or a few months before,
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you will see that that the supermarkets are full of easter eggs
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and easter bunnies and normally there are easter eggs of each different type of chocolate.
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So for example, if you like Twix or you like Mars, then there is an easter egg for you.
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So, depending on your favourite type of chocolate, you can buy one easter egg or another.
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And normally they cost around £6 or £7 depending depending on how big they are and if they are a brand.
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Then the third question is, what religious celebrations do you celebrate in your country?
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So tell me, are there any religious celebrations that you celebrate that are similar to Easter? or if you celebrate Easter,
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are there any different celebrations that you do in your country?
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Because I know that there are different ways to celebrate it all around the world.
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If you have enjoyed today's video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel.
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Thank you very much and I'll see you in the next one.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Beginner/Intermediate English Listening Practice - Easter”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: easter, egg, celebrate, Sunday, celebration. Questo video contiene 62 frasi e 747 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:09. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 92 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| celebration sostantivo | /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/ | celebrazione, ricorrenza |
| bunny sostantivo | /ˈbʌni/ | coniglietta |
| palm sostantivo | /pɑm/ | palmo |
| depend verbo | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | dipendere |
| symbol sostantivo | /ˈsɪmbəl/ | simbolo |
| bun sostantivo | /bʌn/ | panino, pagnotta |
| leaf sostantivo | /lif/ | foglia |
| crucify verbo | /ˈkɹuːsɪfaɪ/ | crocifiggere, crocefiggere |
| decorate verbo | /ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/ | decorare |
| hare sostantivo | /hɛɚ/ | lepre |
| resurrection sostantivo | /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/ | resurrezione |
| supermarket sostantivo | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | supermercato |
| playground sostantivo | /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/ | parco giochi, parco gioco |
| boil verbo | /bɔɪ(ə)l/ | far bollire |
| roast verbo | /ɹoʊst/ | arrostire |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is celebrated · has been celebrated · was crucified |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | Sunday, which is · people who do · hare, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been celebrated · have enjoyed |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsione | will give · will correct · will see |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 4 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: rebirth /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, resurrection /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, resurrection /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, rebirth /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/, leaf /lif/, decorate /ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/, resurrect /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: lamb /ˈlæm/, rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come celebration, bunny, palm.
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.