Pratica di Shadowing: CAE 4 -O-TEST 2 PART 1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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And now, Joan Yates discovers the origins of aquaba sauce.
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The Australians say it's absolutely brilliant on barbecues.
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The French claim it brings out the piquancy of steak tartare.
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And there's nothing the Chinese like better than to dip their dim sum in it.
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In fact, aquaba sauce is a product that's on the tip of just about everyone's tongue.
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Maurice Bond started it all on his return to the town of Charlton in England from India in 1835.
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At a chemist's shop in Tower Street, he handed over a secret recipe for a special spicy sauce.
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Mr John Ford was behind the counter, and so was Mr William Stott.
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They had the knowledge.
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They concocted the ingredients, and they kept a little for themselves.
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One day, when they were clearing the cellar out, they found it, dusted it off, brought it back up, tried it, and Eureka!
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Aquaba sauce.
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They then began commercial production in 1837, each bottle bearing the words genuine and original on labels.
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A High Court order would later prevent other sauce manufacturers from using these words these words.
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In 1904 came royal approval, the ultimate acclaim, and with the help of explorers,
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Akwaaba Source started to reach many parts of the world.
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For example, Colonel Middleton was on his way to China
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and he stopped off in Tibet to pay his respects to the High Priest, the High Lama.
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He found that the poor old High Lama was not very well, so he left some of the source and proceeded on his way.
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He came back some two or three years later, called in to see how things were,
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and lo and behold the High Lama had made a miraculous recovery.
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Until the 1950s, Akawaba sauce bottles were hand wrapped in special paper.
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In the US, they continue the tradition to this day.
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The ingredients are on the bottle for all to see.
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Molasses from the West Indies, anchovies from the Mediterranean, tamarins from India.
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But what happens to these ingredients behind the closed doors of
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the Akawaba factory remains a closely guarded secret known only to four key employees.
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Inside the making house, in vats holding 30,000 litres, the young sauce is matured for months on end.
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In two other locations, there are the lines of maturation vessels, in which the separate ingredients stand for three years.
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Eventually, they're brought together and slowly stirred.
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They produce 12 million bottles a year in the UK alone, and they make it under licence in the US, Canada and Australia.
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Its shelf life, they claim, is indefinite.
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They still pass on the original recipe by word of mouth, and they still retain the distinctive long-necked glass chemist's bottle.
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After all, to change the design or go for plastic would be to change a winning formula.
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Now you will hear the recording again.
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And now Joan Yates discovers the origins of a quaba sauce.
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The Australians say it's absolutely brilliant on barbecues.
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The French claim it brings out the piquancy of steak tartare, and there's nothing the Chinese like better than to dip their dim sum in it.
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In fact, aquaba sauce is a product that's on the tip of just about everyone's tongue.
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Maurice Bond started it all on his return to the town of Charlton in England, from India in 1835.
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At a chemist's shop in Tower Street, he handed over a secret recipe for a special spicy sauce.
42
Mr John Ford was behind the counter, and so was Mr William Stott.
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They had the knowledge.
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They concocted the ingredients, and they kept a little for themselves.
45
One day, when they were clearing the cellar out, they found it, dusted it off,
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brought it back up, tried it and Eureka, Aquaba sauce.
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They then began commercial production in 1837, each bottle bearing the words genuine and original on labels.
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A High Court order would later prevent other sauce manufacturers from using these words.
49
In 1904 came royal approval, the ultimate acclaim, and with the help of explorers,
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Aquaba sauce started to reach many parts of the world.
51
For example, Colonel Middleton was on his way to China, and he stopped off in Tibet to pay his respects to the High Priest, the High Lama.
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He found that the poor old High Lama was not very well, so he left him some of the sauce and proceeded on his way.
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He came back some two or three years later, called in to see how things were, and lo and behold, the High Lama had made a miraculous recovery.
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Until the 1950s, Akawaba sauce bottles were hand-wrapped in special paper.
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In the US, they continue the tradition to this day.
56
The ingredients are on the bottle for all to see.
57
Molasses from the West Indies, anchovies from the Mediterranean, tamarins from India.
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But what happens to these ingredients behind the closed doors of the Aquaba factory
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remains a closely guarded secret known only to four key employees.
60
Inside the making house, in vats holding 30,000 litres, the young source is matured for months on end.
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In two other locations, there are the lines of maturation vessels in which the separate ingredients stand for three years.
62
Eventually, they're brought together and slowly stirred.
63
They produce 12 million bottles a year in the UK alone, and they make it under licence in the US, Canada and Australia.
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Its shelf life, they claim, is indefinite.
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They still pass on the original recipe by word of mouth, and they still retain the distinctive long-necked glass chemist's bottle.
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After all, to change the design or go for plastic would be to change a winning formula.
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That is the end of part one.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “CAE 4 -O-TEST 2 PART 1”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: sauce, bottle, ingredients, aquaba, word. Questo video contiene 67 frasi e 942 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:25. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 127 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
ingredient sostantivo/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ingrediente
acclaim verbo/əˈkleɪm/acclamare
anchovy sostantivo/ˈænˌt͡ʃoʊ.vi/alice, acciuga
concoct verbo/kənˈkɒkt/intrugliare, preparare
indefinite aggettivo/ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/indefinito
maturation sostantivomaturazione, crescita
miraculous aggettivo/mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/miracoloso
molasses sostantivo/məˈlæsɪz/melassa
tartare aggettivo/tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/tartar
litre sostantivo/ˈli.tɚ/litro
vat sostantivo/væt/tino, tinozza
cellar sostantivo/ˈsɛləɹ/cantina, scantinato
behold verbo/bɪˈhəʊld/guardare
spicy aggettivo/ˈspaɪsi/piccante
explorer sostantivo/ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/esploratore

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come back verbotornare
hand over verbocedere, trasferire

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, indefinite /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, concoct /kənˈkɒkt/, indefinite /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, molasses /məˈlæsɪz/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: anchovy /ˈænˌt͡ʃoʊ.vi/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, molasses /məˈlæsɪz/, tamarin /ˈtæməɹɪn/, vat /væt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come ingredient, acclaim, anchovy.

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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