Pratica di Shadowing: CAE TEST29 PART4 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Part 4 consists of two tasks.
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You'll hear five short extracts in which people are talking about memorable events.
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Look at task 1.
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For questions 21 to 25, choose from the list A to H what the event was.
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Now look at task 2.
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For questions 26 to 30, choose from the list A to H why the speaker found the event memorable.
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While you listen, you must complete both tasks.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at Part 4.
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Thank you.
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I've just been to something I'm sure I'll remember all my life.
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It was one of my favourite bands of all time playing in front of the National Gallery.
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It was just the perfect setting, a square surrounded by elegant historic buildings.
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Quite a severe location in some ways, but that suited their style.
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The bit I'll personally always treasure was how taken my son was by it all.
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Usually he's a bit dismissive of my tastes in songs, but he agreed to let me drag him along
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and it was clear from his face
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that he found it spellbinding i've now agreed to go along to watch a cricket match with him
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and hope i'll be equally surprised to find it enjoyable
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speaker two it was an absolutely extraordinary evening well worth the
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long rail journey i'd had to make to get there the speakers were excellent managing to be both moving
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and witty in a way that seemed totally appropriate given the nature of the occasion,
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a hundred years since the halls that had housed such a major national exhibition had burnt down.
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But I remember the event also for personal reasons.
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I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen for a good ten years, a guy I used to play football with before we both headed off to university.
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I'd thought about him often but hadn't managed to find out where he was living or what he was doing now, despite googling him every now and then.
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Speaker 3 When you think back over the memorable events in your life,
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I think sometimes it's relatively ordinary ones that can stand out more than the big public occasions.
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My grandfather becoming 80, for example, had a surprisingly significant impact on my life.
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A famous actor who'd been to school with Grandpa, gave a very touching speech about the importance of roots, and it came to me with total clarity
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that I really did want to move back to the town where I grew up.
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I'd been turning the idea over in my mind for quite some time, but might never have got round to doing anything about it had it not been for that speech.
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Speaker 4 I met Fiona when we were both on a train going to the airport last month, and we started talking about where we were heading.
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Fiona told me she was going back to the island where she'd spent many happy holidays as a child,
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but this time because she had to attend a conference in connection with her work as an architect.
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I explained
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that I was off to the city where I'd had the
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luck as a child to go to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
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The thing that struck me most then were the fireworks over the snowy mountains.
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I don't think I've ever seen anything more stunning in the twenty years since.
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Speaker 5 I was a bit late coming home last night because I'd had to hand in a piece of lost property.
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I'd found a purse on the floor of the auditorium.
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You remember I was going to see one of my favorite plays it was an excellent performance
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but i think i'll remember the evening most because of that purse
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when i looked inside it the credit card had the name of a really famous political figure on it
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do you think they might ask to meet me
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when they learn their purse has been handed in they should be very grateful
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because there was a lot of money in there And I mean a lot.
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Enough to buy a new car.
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I've just been to something I'm sure I'll remember all my life.
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It was one of my favourite bands of all time playing in front of the National Gallery.
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It was just the perfect setting, a square surrounded by elegant historic buildings.
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Quite a severe location in some ways, but that suited their style.
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The bit I'll personally always treasure was how taken my son was by it all.
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Usually he's a bit dismissive of my tastes in songs, but he agreed to let me drag him along, and it was clear from his face that he found it spellbinding.
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I've now agreed to go along to watch a cricket match with him, and hope I'll be equally surprised to find it enjoyable.
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It was an absolutely extraordinary evening, well worth the long rail journey I'd had to make to get there.
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The speakers were excellent, managing to be both moving and witty in a way that seemed totally appropriate given the nature of the occasion,
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a hundred years since the halls that had housed such a major national exhibition had burnt down.
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But I remember the event also for personal reasons.
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I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen for a good 10 years, a guy I used to play football with before we both headed off to university.
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I'd thought about him often, but hadn't managed to find out where he was living or what he was doing now, despite googling him every now and then.
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Speaker 3 When you think back over the memorable events in your life,
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I think sometimes it's relatively ordinary ones that can stand out more than the big public occasions.
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My grandfather becoming 80, for example, had a surprisingly significant impact on my life.
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A famous actor who'd been to school with Grandpa gave a very touching speech about the importance of roots, and it came to me with total clarity
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that I really did want to move back to the town where I grew up.
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I'd been turning the idea over in my mind for quite some time, but might never have got round to doing anything about it had it not been for that speech.
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Speaker 4 I met Fiona when we were both on a train going to the airport last month, and we started talking about where we were heading.
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Fiona told me she was going back to the island where she'd spent many happy holidays as a child.
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But this time, because she had to attend a conference in connection with her work as an architect, I explained
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that I was off to the city where I'd had the
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luck as a child to go to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
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The thing that struck me most then were the fireworks over the snowy mountains.
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I don't think I've ever seen anything more stunning in the 20 years since.
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Speaker 5 I was a bit late coming home last night because I'd had to hand in a piece of lost property.
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I'd found a purse on the floor of the auditorium.
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You remember I was going to see one of my favorite plays.
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It was an excellent performance, but I think I'll remember the evening most because of that purse.
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When I looked inside it, the credit card had the name of a really famous political figure on it.
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Do you think they might ask to meet me when they learn their purse has been handed in?
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They should be very grateful because there was a lot of money in there.
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And I mean a lot.
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Enough to buy a new car.
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That's the end of part four.

Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?

Questo video è una risorsa fantastica per pratica di conversazione in inglese e per migliorare la tua capacità di comprendere e riprodurre discorsi spontanei. Le storie dei parlanti sono ricche di contesti reali, come eventi memorabili, incontri inaspettati e decisioni di vita, che ti aiutano a familiarizzare con l'uso dell'inglese nel quotidiano. Inoltre, la varietà di situazioni (concerti, riunioni, cerimonie) ti permetterà di ampliare il tuo vocabolario e di esercitare la shadowing (tecnica di ripetizione immediata), fondamentale per affinare la pronuncia e l'intonazione. È il modo perfetto per imparare l'inglese con i video in modo divertente e efficace!

Grammatica e espressioni in contesto

Ecco alcuni strutture chiave da analizzare:

  • "I've just been to something I'm sure I'll remember all my life": L'uso del present perfect ("I've just been") per descrivere un'azione recentemente completata, seguito da un relative clause ("I'm sure I'll remember") per specificare. Utile per parlare di esperienze recenti.
  • "might never have got round to doing anything about it had it not been for that speech": Una struttura condizionale inversa per esprimere una situazione ipotetica passata. "Had it not been for" è un modo elegante per dire "se non fosse stato per".
  • "the thing that struck me most then were the fireworks": "The thing that struck me most" è un'espressione comune per indicare ciò che ha colpito di più. Utile per condividere impressioni personali.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Nel video, alcuni vocaboli possono creare difficoltà: "memorable" (pronuncia: /ˈmemərəbl/, con la "a" debole nella seconda sillaba), "spellbinding" (/ˈspelbaɪndɪŋ/, attenzione alla "i" finale) e "auditorium" (/ˌɔːdɪˈtɔːriəm/, con la "u" non pronunciata). Inoltre, gli accenti vari (da speaker con diverse origini) possono influenzare l'intonazione: ascolta attentamente come i parlanti enfatizzano le parole chiave per dare importanza alle loro storie. Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese, usa la tecnica del shadowspeak: ripeti immediatamente dopo i parlanti, cercando di imitare il tono e il ritmo. Un shadowing site può aiutarti a esercitarti, ma anche ripetere il video più volte è efficace!

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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