Pratica di Shadowing: Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 👑 Snow | Fun Kids Cartoons | Super Toons TV - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Today's adventure starts at the great elf tree on Christmas Eve.
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Snow!
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Come on elves, let's get the elf plane loaded.
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Righty-ho, wind the engine.
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Roger that, Mr. Elf.
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Wind the engine.
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Righty-ho!
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Hi boys!
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Hi girls!
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What's happening?
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Dad has an important job to do.
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What kind of job?
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He's flying to the North Pole.
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The North Pole?
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Yes, we're making our final delivery of toys to Father Christmas.
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Ooh!
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Flight 1000, ready for takeoff.
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Flight 1000, you are cleared for takeoff.
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Roger that, Control.
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Why are you delivering toys to Father Christmas?
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Well, who do you think makes all Father Christmas' toys?
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Um, elves?
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That's right.
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Us elves.
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Ah.
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Elves work all year deep underground in the elf factory making toys.
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Then, in December, Ben's dad flies to the North Pole and delivers the toys to Father Christmas.
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Does he land at the North Pole and meet Father Christmas?
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No, he never lands.
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He drops the toys by parachute.
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Then Father Christmas wraps the toys up and delivers them to the children of the world.
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All the children?
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Even our friend Lucy?
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Oh, yes.
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Even Lucy.
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I love Christmas.
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And I love snow.
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Me too.
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I wish it was snowing now.
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Yes.
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It's Christmas Eve.
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When's it going to snow?
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Maybe it's time for a weather forecast.
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Weather forecast?
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Yes.
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We can use my elf weather detector.
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Wow.
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So can this machine tell if it's going to snow? Of course.
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How does it work?
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I listen to the weather through this giant ear trumpet.
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It's so sensitive, I can hear a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa.
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Can you hear any butterflies?
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Don't talk loudly into the trumpet.
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Sorry, wise old elf.
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Now, please stay quiet quiet.
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Ah, interesting.
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Is it a butterfly?
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No, I can hear weather.
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What sort of weather?
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There's a chance of sun or rain with clear skies or clouds.
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Is it going to snow?
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I can say it certainly might.
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But then again, it might not.
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Oh.
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I know.
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Let's ask Nanny Plum if it's going to snow.
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Why ask Nanny Plum?
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Nanny can tell the future.
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Ha!
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This I must see.
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Nanny Plum!
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Nanny Plum!
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You can tell the future, can't you?
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I certainly can.
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Can you tell if it's going to snow?
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Yes, I'll use my special snow forecasting globe.
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Ho ho, I see.
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You gaze into the crystal ball and it tells our fortune, I suppose.
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No, you just shake it, like this.
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There we are.
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It'll snow today.
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Hooray!
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Stop, stop, stop.
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How on earth can that thing predict the weather?
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It's never been wrong.
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What if you shook it in the summer?
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Well, you don't shake it in the summer, obviously.
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That would be silly!
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Well, you can't tell exactly when it's going to snow, can you?
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Yes, I can.
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It's going to snow now.
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Abracadabra!
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That's cheating.
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No, it's not.
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Make it snow!
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Nanny's made it snow!
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Let's go and see it!
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What?
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But where is the snow?
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NANNY PLUM!
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It's snowing inside!
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Snow!
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Snow!
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Let's play Snowballs!
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NANNY PLUM!
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It's snowing in the sitting room!
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Is this your doing?
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Yes, it is!
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Inside is for sitting in armchairs and reading.
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Outside is for snow.
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Inside, outside, whatever.
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Nanny Plum, you're fired!
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Don't be silly.
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I'm taking away your wand until you learn how to control your spells better.
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But what about the snow?
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Not another word.
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Everyone out.
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Now Daddy's taken Nanny Plum's wand.
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She won't be able to magic any snow.
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Now we won't have any snow for Christmas.
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There's always a chance it might snow anyway.
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I can hear something.
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Is it snow?
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No, it's the elf plane.
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Dad's back from the North Pole.
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That's the last delivery done.
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Dad, did you see snow?
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Yes, lots of it.
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Enough snow to last me a lifetime.
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Now you've finished your work, Mr Elf.
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Are you on holiday?
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Holiday?
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Good gracious, no. It's Christmas Eve.
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There's work to be done preparing tonight's elf and fairy feast.
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Oh, yes, the midnight elf and fairy feast.
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On Christmas Eve. With music. And singing. And lanterns.
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Yes, and those lanterns don't hang themselves up to work.
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Stop, Mr Elf.
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It's about time you had a rest.
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A rest?
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You've been working hard all year.
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Just sit down and relax for five minutes.
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I can give you three.
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You work too hard.
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Elves like working hard.
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And I'm an elf.
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Oh, dear.
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You really must relax.
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Just say, I'm on holiday.
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Well, all right.
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I'm on holiday.
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That's nice.
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Hello, wise old elf speaking.
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Ho, ho, ho.
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It's Father Christmas here.
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Oh, Mr. Christmas.
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We seem to be missing some toys.
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I can't find Box 571.
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Box 571?
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I need those toys before tonight, or some children will not get their Christmas presents.
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Never fear, Mr. Christmas.
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We will get the box to you.
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I will deliver it personally.
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Box 571?
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It could be anywhere.
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We'll never find it.
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Is it this box, Dad?
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The one that says Box 571?
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What?
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Well done, Ben.
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You found it.
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To the elf plane.
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We leave immediately.
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Well, that was a nice holiday while it lasted.
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Are you going back to the North Pole?
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Can we come?
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Can we, Dad?
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Please?
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Please, Mr Elf.
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I don't mind who comes, but we must leave straight away.
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Hooray!
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Brilliant!
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I'll just get my wands back from King Thistle.
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There's no time for that, Nanny.
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We need to get these toys to Father Christmas right away.
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Elf Anna is at stake.
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Ready for take-off, Captain.
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Everyone on board.
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Ben, it's snowing.
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Oh, wow!
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Snow!
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You see?
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My snow globe is never wrong.
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Hmm.
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What do all these buttons do?
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Don't touch anything, please, Nanny Plum.
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Wind the engine.
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Righty-ho!
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Ready for take-off!
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North Pole, here we come!
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I can't wait to play in the snow!
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Me too!
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We're not going to play in the snow.
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We're just dropping off the toy box and coming straight home.
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So we won't meet Father Christmas?
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Good gracious, no. We're on a mission.
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There'll be no playing in the snow and no meeting Father Christmas.
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Join us in our next episode when we play in the snow and meet Father Christmas

Lo scenario: una conversazione natalizia tra amici

Il video presenta una scena accogliente di Natale in cui bambini e elfi discutono di preparativi per il regalo dei giocattoli a Babbo Natale. Questo scenario è perfetto per la pratica di conversazione in inglese perché riflette situazioni reali: domande su impegni, spiegazioni su tradizioni e desideri per il tempo. Le frasi sono semplici ma ricche di espressioni colloquiali, ideali per chi vuole imparare l'inglese con i video in modo divertente.

Frasi utili e collocazioni da memorizzare

  • "Righty-ho": Espressione informale per "Va bene" o "Capito", spesso usata in contesti amichevoli.
  • "Cleared for takeoff": Frazione tecnica (ma anche usata in modo colloquiale) che significa "Autorizzato a decollare".
  • "Final delivery": "Consegna finale", una collocazione comune nel contesto di trasporti o lavori.
  • "Weather forecast": "Previsioni del tempo", essenziale per discutere del meteo.
  • "Drop by parachute": "Lasciare cadere con paracadute", un esempio di verbo + preposizione + sostantivo utile per descrivere azioni.

La tua sfida: shadowspeak per migliorare la pronuncia

Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e l'intonazione, prova il shadowspeak: ripeti immediatamente dopo i personaggi del video, imitando il tono e la velocità. Scegli un frammento di 30 secondi (ad esempio, la parte dove si parla del weather detector) e ripetilo 5 volte. Concentrati su "Hi boys! Hi girls!" e "I wish it was snowing now" per esercitare l'accento e la connessione tra le parole. Questo metodo, usato da insegnanti esperti, aiuta a internalizzare le frasi in modo naturale. Non ti preoccupare di sbagliare: la pratica costante è la chiave per padroneggiare la conversazione in inglese.

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.