Pratica di Shadowing: CAE8 O TEST1 PART2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hi, my name's Kerry, and the topic of my presentation this evening is a bird called the Swift.
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For people living in most of Europe, the Swift's a familiar bird, but it only stays in the Northern Hemisphere for a few weeks each summer,
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the rest of the year it spends in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Indeed, one of the best-known facts about this incredible bird is
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that it has one of the longest migrations of any living creature.
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The other incredible fact is that a Swift spends most of its life in the air, where it eats, drinks and sleeps, only landing to build a nest and raise its young.
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Indeed, the name of the bird in German translates to wall glider in English, whereas its Latin name means without feet,
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both reflecting the fact that the bird never seems to touch the ground.
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In Europe, swifts are a familiar sight, wheeling around high up on summer evenings, making a lot of noise.
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But swifts don't produce a song like some birds, nor do they go tweet-tweet.
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Instead, they produce what can only be called a scream.
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You must have heard it.
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Swifts are not large birds, but they have a very characteristic shape in flight.
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Some people say this reminds them of a new moon, and the birds certainly crescent-shaped with a very noticeable forked tail.
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But for me, the thing that comes to mind when I see a swift is a boomerang, you know, the thing made and thrown by traditional peoples in Australia.
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So swifts come to Europe to breed, and they often make their nests in buildings, especially chimneys and for some reason ancient monuments.
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Because they can't land, the swifts' nests need to be in places from which they can launch themselves into the air.
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Probably cliffs were their original preference, but even out of town, these days they'd tend to go for man-made places like quarries.
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As you'd expect, leaves and grasses are used to build the nests, but even here the link with humans is evident, as amazingly paper is often used,
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together with less surprising things like the feathers of other birds.
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materials the swift probably catches in flight.
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Because they never land, swifts are very vulnerable to bad weather
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and in Europe retreat to their nest sites during periods of rain or high wind.
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I was once lucky enough to observe a large group of
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swifts travelling at great speed to get out of the way of a thunderstorm.
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It was an awesome sight that I'll never forget.
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As I said, swifts only spend a short time in Europe each year,
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generally June and July, with even the newborn birds making the incredibly long journey to Africa in about 48 hours.
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One strange fact I discovered in my research is that once it gets back to Africa, the bird is silent, people there being unaware of that characteristic call.
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Swifts have always fascinated people, especially because the birds have always been attracted to towns and buildings.
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traditionally in Europe the bird was used as a symbol by
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the younger sons of wealthy families who without land to inherit were destined to wander the globe I like
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that so before I go on to where now play the recording again
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that is the end of part two 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 “CAE8 O TEST1 PART2”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: swift, bird, Europe, nest, Africa. Questo video contiene 34 frasi e 563 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:19. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 169 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 80% 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| nest sostantivo | /nɛst/ | nido |
| characteristic sostantivo | /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/ | caratteristica |
| boomerang sostantivo | /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/ | boomerang, bumerang |
| glider sostantivo | /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/ | aliante, veleggiatore |
| thunderstorm sostantivo | /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/ | temporale |
| inherit verbo | /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/ | ereditare |
| chimney sostantivo | /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/ | camino, ciminiera |
| crescent sostantivo | /ˈkɹɛs.ənt/ | crescente, falce |
| quarry sostantivo | /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/ | cava di pietra, cava |
| amazingly avverbio | /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/ | straordinariamente, incredibilmente |
| wander verbo | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | errare, vagare |
| feather sostantivo | /ˈfɛðə/ | piuma, penna |
| newborn sostantivo | neonato, neonata | |
| unaware aggettivo | /ˌʌnəˈwɛɚ/ | ignaro, inconsapevole |
| monument sostantivo | /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/ | monumento |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 5 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, don't, I'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thunderstorm /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/, feather /ˈfɛðə/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: nest /nɛst/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, inherit /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/, crescent /ˈkɹɛs.ənt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, boomerang /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come nest, characteristic, boomerang.
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.