Pratica di Shadowing: CAMBRIDGE 13 TEST 2 SECTION 2 LISTENING - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Section 2.

You will hear a manager in a company talking to employees about volunteering for charity work.

Thanks for coming everyone.

Okay, so this meeting is for new staff and staff who haven't been involved with our volunteering projects yet.

So basically the idea is

that we allow staff to give up some of their work

time to help on various charity projects to benefit the local community.

We've been doing this for the last five years and it's been very successful.

Participating doesn't necessarily involve a huge time commitment.

The company will pay for eight hours of your time.

That can be used over one or two days all at once or spread over several months throughout the year.

There are some staff who enjoy volunteering

so much they also give up their own free time for a couple of hours every week.

It's completely up to you.

Obviously many people will have family commitments and aren't as available as other members of staff.

Feedback from staff has been overwhelmingly positive.

Because they felt they were doing something really useful, nearly everyone agreed that volunteering made them feel more motivated at work.

They also liked building relationships with the people in the local community and felt valued by them.

One or two people also said it was a good thing to have on their CVs.

One particularly successful project last year was the Get Working project.

This was aimed at helping unemployed people in the area get back to work.

Our staff were able to help them improve their telephone skills, such as writing down messages and speaking with confidence to potential customers,

which they had found quite difficult.

This is something many employers look for in job applicants.

and something we all do without even thinking about every day at work.

We've got an exciting new project starting this year.

Up until now, we've mainly focused on projects to do with education and training,

and we'll continue with our reading project in schools and our work with local charities.

But we've also agreed to help out on a conservation project in Redfern Park.

So, if any of you fancy being outside and getting your hands dirty, this is the project for you.

I also wanted to mention the annual Digital Inclusion Day, which is coming up next month.

The aim of this is to help older people keep up with technology.

And this year, instead of hosting the event in our own training facility, we're using the ICT suite at Hill College, as it can hold far more people.

We've invited over 60 people from the Silver Age Community Center to take part, so we'll need a lot of volunteers to help with this event.

If you're interested in taking part, please go to the volunteering section of our website and complete the relevant form.

We won't be providing any training for this, but you'll be paired with an experienced volunteer if you've never done it before.

By the way, don't forget to tell your manager about any volunteering activities you decide to do.

The participants on the Digital Inclusion Day really benefited.

The majority were in their 70s, though some were younger, and a few were even in their 90s.

Quite a few owned both a computer and a mobile phone, but these tended to be outdated models.

They generally knew how to do simple things, like send texts, but weren't aware of recent developments in mobile phone technology.

A few were keen to learn, but most were quite dismissive at first.

They couldn't see the point of updating their skills.

But that soon changed.

The feedback was very positive.

The really encouraging thing was

that participants all said they felt much more confident about using social media to keep in touch with their grandchildren,

who prefer this form of communication to phoning or sending emails.

A lot of them also said playing online games would help them make new friends and keep their brains active.

They weren't that impressed with being able to order their groceries online, as they liked going out to the shops,

but some said it would come in handy if they were ill or the weather was really bad.

One thing they asked about was using tablets for things like reading newspapers.

Some people had been given tablets as presents, but had never used them.

So that's something we'll make sure we include this time.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 54 frasi e 742 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:00. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 148 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:

volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ (sostantivo) — volontario, volontaria. One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
charity /ˈtʃæɹɪti/ (sostantivo) — ente di beneficenza, organizzazione benefica. An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
commitment /kəˈmɪtmənt/ (sostantivo) — impegno, promessa. The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
skill /skɪl/ (sostantivo) — abilità, capacità. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ (sostantivo) — valutazione, riscontro. Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ (sostantivo) — partecipante, che partecipa. One who participates.
necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (avverbio) — necessariamente, a tutti i costi. Inevitably; of necessity.
encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ (verbo) — incoraggiare, raccomandare. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ (verbo) — partecipare (a). To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
telephone /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ (sostantivo) — telefono. A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to…
fancy /ˈfæn.si/ (sostantivo) — fantasia, immaginazione. The imagination.
invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/ (verbo) — invitare. To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/ (verbo) — coinvolgere. To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
employer /ɪmˈplɔɪə/ (sostantivo) — datore di lavoro, datrice di lavoro. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
keen /kin/ (aggettivo) — propenso, incline. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

give up (verbo) — arrendersi. To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
come up (verbo) — venire fuori, emergere. To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
keep up with (verbo) — tenere dietro a. To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one.
look for (verbo) — cercare, ricercare. To seek.
write down (verbo) — sottoscrivere, annotare. To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 20 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we've, we'll, weren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

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

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	haven't been involved · has been · we've also agreed
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	been involved · was aimed · be paired

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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