Pratica di Shadowing: Cambridge 15 Test 1 Section 4 Listening - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Part 4.
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You will hear a student giving a presentation about a type of tree known as the eucalyptus, which is common in Australia.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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Today, I'm going to talk about the eucalyptus tree.
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This is a very common tree here in Australia, where it's also sometimes called the gum tree.
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First, I'm going to talk about why it's important, then I'm going to describe some problems it faces at present.
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Right, well, the eucalyptus tree is an important tree for lots of reasons.
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For example, it gives shelter to creatures like birds and bats,
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and these and other species also depend on it for food,
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particularly the nectar from its flowers. So it supports biodiversity.
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It's useful to us humans too because we can kill germs with a disinfectant made from oil extracted from eucalyptus leaves.
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The eucalyptus grows all over Australia and the trees can live for up to 400 years.
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So it's alarming that all across the country numbers of eucalyptus are falling because the trees are dying off prematurely.
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So what are the reasons for this?
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One possible reason is disease.
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As far back as the 1970s, the trees started getting a disease called mundula yellows.
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The tree's leaves would gradually turn yellow, then the tree would die.
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It wasn't until 2004 that they found the cause of the problem was lime,
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or calcium hydroxide to give it its proper chemical name, which was being used in the construction of roads.
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The lime was being washed away into the ground and affecting the roots of the eucalyptus trees nearby
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What it was doing was preventing the trees from sucking up the iron they needed for healthy growth
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When this was injected back into the affected trees they immediately recovered
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But this problem only affected a relatively small number of trees By 2000,
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huge numbers of eucalyptus were dying along Australia's east coast of
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a disease known as bell minor -associated dieback The bell minor is a bird
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and the disease seems to be common where there are high populations of bell minors Again,
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it's the leaves of the trees that are affected What happens is
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that insects settle on the leaves and eat their way round them, destroying them as they go, and at the same time,
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they secrete a solution which has sugar in it.
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The bell miner birds really like this solution, and in order to get as much as possible,
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they keep away other creatures that might try to get it.
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So these birds and insects flourish at the expense of other species,
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and eventually so much damage is done to the leaves that the tree dies.
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But experts say that trees can start looking sick before any sign of bell minor -associated dieback.
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So it looks as if the problem might have another explanation.
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One possibility is that it's to do with the huge bushfires that we have in Australia.
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A theory proposed over 40 years ago by ecologist William Jackson is
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that the frequency of bushfires in a particular region affects the type of vegetation that grows there.
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If there are very frequent bushfires in a region, this encourages grass to grow afterwards,
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while if the bushfires are rather less frequent, this results in the growth of eucalyptus forests.
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So why is this?
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Why do fairly frequent bushfires actually support the growth of eucalyptus?
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Well, one reason is that the fire stops the growth of other species which would consume water needed by eucalyptus trees. And there's another reason.
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If these other quick -growing species of bushes and plants are allowed to proliferate,
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they harm the eucalyptus in another way by affecting the composition of the soil and removing nutrients from it.
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So some bushfires are actually essential for the eucalyptus to survive as long as they are not too frequent. In fact, there's evidence
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that Australia's indigenous people practised regular burning of bushland for thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans.
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But since Europeans arrived on the continent, the number of bushfires has been strictly controlled.
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Now, scientists believe that this reduced frequency of bushfires to low levels has led to what's known as dry rainforest,
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which seems an odd name as usually we associate tropical rainforest with wet conditions.
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And what's special about this type of rainforest?
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Well, unlike tropical rainforest, which is a rich ecosystem,
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this type of ecosystem is usually a simple one It has very thick,
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dense vegetation, but not much variety of species The vegetation provides lots of shade
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So one species that does find it ideal is the bell miner bird,
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which builds its nests in the undergrowth there But again, that's not helpful for the eucalyptus tree.
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That is the end of part four.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.
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Thank you.
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That is the end of the listening test.
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In the IELTS test, you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Cambridge 15 Test 1 Section 4 Listening”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: tree, eucalyptus, bushfires, bell, species. Questo video contiene 63 frasi e 845 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:04. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 93 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
leaf sostantivo/lif/foglia
frequent aggettivo/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/frequente, assiduo
vegetation sostantivo/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/vegetazione
frequency sostantivo/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/frequenza
tropical aggettivo/ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/tropicale
lime sostantivo/laɪm/lime, lima
ecosystem sostantivo/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/ecosistema
insect sostantivo/ˈɪn.sɛkt/insetto
miner sostantivo/ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/minatore
harm sostantivo/hɑːm/danno, male
carefully avverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/minuziosamente, accuratamente
thick aggettivo/θɪk/spesso
wash verbo/wɑʃ/lavare
encourage verbo/ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/incoraggiare, raccomandare
arrival sostantivo/əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/arrivo

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabeing washed · was injected · are affected
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaeucalyptus, which is · name, which was · solution which has
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas been · has led

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 4 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, wasn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: thick /θɪk/, undergrowth /ˈʌndɚˌɡɹoʊθ/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, wash /wɑʃ/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, sheet /ʃit/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, composition /ˌkɑm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: harm /hɑːm/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, hydroxide /haɪˈdɹɒks.aɪd/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: leaf /lif/, frequent /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, insect /ˈɪn.sɛkt/, thick /θɪk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, gradually /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/, extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, calcium /ˈkælsi.əm/, practise /ˈpɹæktɪs/

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 leaf, frequent, vegetation.

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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