Pratica di Shadowing: CAM 20 | IELTS LISTENING TEST | TEST 2 - SECTION 3 #english #listeningpractice #ielts #education - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Part 3 You will hear two students, called Rosie and Colin, discussing their Human Geography assignment.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25.
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Colin, I'm really struggling to think of a topic for our human geography assignment.
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Me too, Rosie.
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I'll tell you what.
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Let's think about the different aspects of human geography and see
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if we can narrow the topic down a bit to help us decide.
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OK, so one aspect is population.
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That would be all about population density and migration and so on.
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Lots of facts and statistics.
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Maybe a bit boring?
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Yeah, but quite straightforward to find on the internet.
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I suppose so.
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How about health?
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I'd never thought about the links between that and geography until Professor Lee gave us that lecture on cholera.
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How in the 19th century, a physician used street plans and plans of water supplies to find the source of a cholera epidemic.
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Yes, fascinating, wasn't it?
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Or we could do something more general, like economies.
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So how financial and commercial factors are linked to the physical environment?
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Yeah.
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I thought that had been taken off the syllabus for this year. Has it?
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I'm not sure.
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But it might be best to avoid it.
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OK.
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Maybe we could do something on culture.
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We had that lecture about culture and geography last week.
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I didn't get much out of that.
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It was also general, and the lecturer didn't give any useful examples.
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Yeah, I hardly took any notes.
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It didn't seem worth it.
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Me neither.
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We could focus on poverty.
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That's something that's a global problem.
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The trouble is, Dr Lee was saying, that you have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty.
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They're sometimes deliberately manipulated.
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You mean the information gets changed for political reasons?
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That sort of thing, yes.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30.
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Thank you.
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Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30.
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So what are we going to do our assignment on?
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I'll tell you what, one of the possibilities we haven't discussed is urbanisation, and now over half the world's population lives in cities.
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That's really important.
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OK, good idea, Rosie.
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Let's do that.
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I love living in a big city, but of course there are problems.
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Things like theft and robbery?
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Yes, but where I come from, that's linked to another more serious issue, which is that a lot of people don't have jobs.
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That's getting worse and worse.
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And we also still have quite a lot of people who are homeless, though that's not quite so bad as it was.
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It'd be nice to talk about some positive developments, like some of the new developments on the outskirts of cities.
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Yeah, they've opened some massive new shopping centres outside my city.
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Yeah, the same with mine, but it's meant a lot of the shops in the city centre are closing down.
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But the outskirts are ideal for buildings that need a lot of space, like for conferences.
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They've opened a couple of big ones.
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Yes, we've got some too.
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It'd be nicer to have more facilities for things like football too, but that's not happening where I live.
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Same in my area.
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We could include something about developing disused industrial sites.
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It seems like a good idea because you're not doing any harm to the natural environment.
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Yeah, but aren't the buildings architecturally significant?
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Not really.
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And what people forget is that they often used quite dangerous materials, chemicals and things, which haven't been properly cleared away, so the whole site has to be made safe.
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Hmm, that can't be cheap.
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And I bet it's often not budgeted for.
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You're right.
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Have you read about Mazdar City?
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In Abu Dhabi?
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Yes.
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It was designed to be a green city, wasn't it?
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That might be a good example of a city which set out to depend entirely on renewable energy.
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Yes, we should say something about that.
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It was designed to be totally pedestrianised too, wasn't it?
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With the transport underground.
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Yes, and they had big plans for recycling to reduce waste to the lowest possible level.
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But let's stick to talking about power sources.
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Then there's that ecotown in England, Green Hill Abbots.
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It set out to conform to the usual principles – sustainability and so on.
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A lot of people were against it at first.
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They said the plans were unrealistic.
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I'm not sure how far they've got with it.
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I'll check.
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Right.
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So it looks as if we have a sort of plan.
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And we can work...
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That is the end of part three.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Praticare l'inglese attraverso questo video è un'opportunità unica per migliorare le proprie capacità di ascolto e di produzione orale. Ascoltare dialoghi come quello tra Rosie e Colin offre un contesto reale e pertinente per apprendere terminologie e frasi utilizzate in situazioni accademiche. Imparare l'inglese con YouTube consente di immergersi nella lingua attraverso conversazioni autentiche, stimolando l'apprendimento attivo. Applicare tecniche come shadow speak e shadowspeak permette di migliorare la fluidità e la pronuncia, poiché gli studenti possono ripetere immediatamente ciò che hanno ascoltato, cogliendo le sfumature della lingua.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nell'analisi del dialogo, emergono alcune strutture grammaticali chiave che possono arricchire il tuo vocabolario. Eccone alcune:

  • "How about..." - Questa espressione è utile per suggerire idee o proposte. Puoi usarla per iniziare conversazioni e coinvolgere gli altri.
  • "We could focus on..." - Questo modello permette di presentare argomenti specifici di discussione e si presta bene per gli assignment accademici.
  • "That's getting worse and worse." - L'uso della ripetizione nella forma comparativa enfatizza un problema crescente, utile per esprimere preoccupazioni e intensificare le proprie affermazioni.

Incorporare queste strutture nelle tue conversazioni può rendere il tuo inglese più naturale e incisivo.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Durante il video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono risultare insidiose per i non madrelingua. Ad esempio:

  • "cholera" - La pronuncia di questa parola può essere difficile. Presta attenzione alla pronuncia corretta per evitare fraintendimenti.
  • "urbanisation" - La 'u' iniziale e il suono 'ih' centrale sono spesso confusi; praticare con il shadow speech può aiutarti a superare questa difficoltà.
  • "population density" - La combinazione di suoni può sembrare complicata; esercitati a pronunciare lentamente per migliorare la tua chiarezza.

Utilizzando tecniche di shadowing in inglese, potrai affinare la tua pronuncia e acquisire maggiore sicurezza. Lavorare su questi dettagli può significativamente migliorare la tua comunicazione quotidiana 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.