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Part 2.
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You'll hear a guide taking a group of visitors around a museum.
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For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at Part 2.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.
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The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the collections built up over the years by the local cultural society,
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and is one of seven museums owned by the City Council.
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Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science science.
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Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.
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In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies and many others full of birds.
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Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,
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draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.
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It's called Let's Interact.
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And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.
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But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.
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Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.
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The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,
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and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.
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The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.
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It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.
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I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.
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So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.
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Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade,
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we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.
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Now, this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.
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As you can see, it's three and a half meters high and 14 meters long.
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Quite an intimidating sight.
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This Cytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.
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The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.
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Most of the neck, some of the spine, and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.
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The rest of the tail is polystyrene.
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For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.
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Now if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.
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The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the
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collections built up over the years by the local cultural society and is one of seven museums owned by the city council.
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Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science.
42
Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.
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In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies, and many others full of birds.
44
Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,
45
draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.
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It's called Let's Interact.
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And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.
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But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.
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Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.
50
The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,
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and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.
52
The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.
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It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.
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I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.
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So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.
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Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade, we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.
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Now this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.
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As you can see, it's three and a half metres high and 14 metres long, quite an intimidating sight.
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This Scytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.
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The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.
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Most of the neck, some of the spine and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.
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The rest of the tail is polystyrene.
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For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.
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Now, if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.
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That's the end of part two.
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Now turn to part three.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “CAE TEST2 PART2”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: museum, collection, dinosaur, Rutland, tail. Questo video contiene 66 frasi e 931 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:52. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 135 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
dinosaur sostantivo/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/dinosauro
chronologically avverbio/ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/cronologicamente
intimidate verbo/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/intimidire
lope verbo/loʊp/procedere a lunghi salti
polystyrene sostantivo/pɒliˈstaɪriːn/polistirene
stuffy aggettivo/ˈstʌfi/chiuso
thematically avverbiotematicamente
woodcut sostantivo/ˈwʊdˌkʌt/xilografia
boast verbo/boʊst/vantarsi
mummy sostantivo/ˈmʌm.i/mummia
cellar sostantivo/ˈsɛləɹ/cantina, scantinato
undertake verbo/ˌʌndəˈteɪk/imprendere, intraprendere
millionaire sostantivo/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/milionario
metre sostantivo/ˈmiːtəɹ/metro
upstairs avverbio/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/di sopra

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 18 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we'll, I'm, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, polystyrene /pɒliˈstaɪriːn/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, lope /loʊp/, refit /ˈɹiːfɪt/, woodcut /ˈwʊdˌkʌt/, boast /boʊst/

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 dinosaur, chronologically, intimidate.

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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