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It was Nicky's idea, but we all think it's going to be brilliant.
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As soon as the last exams are finished, we're going to decorate the main hall at school with paper streamers and Chinese lanterns and things.
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Steve had this idea of projecting photos of everyone onto a wall, like a slideshow.
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And we've got
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Joe's brother, who's a professional DJ, coming along.
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Then there are three different bands lined up to play.
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Ours is the best because we've been together longest
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And we've got a great bass player
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Although I say so myself
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So, we're on last
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It's going to be cool B Every year there's a carnival in August in London You've probably heard of it
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The Notting Hill Carnival So this year me and my friends are going again
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We went last year and we had such a fantastic time.
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It's all Afro -Caribbean with people in amazing costumes and these brilliant steel bands.
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We don't go in costume, but we do dance a lot.
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It does get quite crowded, so you have to make sure you stick together.
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And you have to watch out for pickpockets when there are so many people in the same place.
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But it's really good fun.
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It's like London becomes a different country.
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Even the police dance sometimes.
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We're going to hire a boat for the day and take it up the river.
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It's my grandparents' golden wedding anniversary, so the whole family is getting together.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing my cousins again.
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I haven't seen them for ages.
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We've got this huge picnic planned, with loads of different types of sandwiches and salads and an enormous cake.
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My dad has borrowed an ancient gramophone player, you know, what they had before CD players and some old records.
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So as we go up the river, we're going to listen to music from the time my grandparents got married, the swinging 60s.
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D. Two of my best friends have their birthday in the same week,
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so some of us have decided to have a surprise party for both of them.
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One of my friends, Sandra, has a big house and her parents say we can use it.
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They're going away, luckily.
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It's at the end of October, so we're going to decorate the house with Halloween things, you know, spiders, webs and spooky things.
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We're going to make up an excuse to get the birthday girls to come round to the house
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Say we're going to help Sandra move some stuff or something
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Then, as soon as Sandra lets them in We're going to turn the lights out and jump out at them
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We just have to make sure nobody mentions anything on Facebook And gives away the surprise
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There's a royal wedding in June one of our princes is getting married
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so it's a public holiday lots of people are having parties in squares
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and parks and places and the people in our street decided to have one too well, it's a good excuse to have a party, isn't it?
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we're all going to take out tables and chairs
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and put them together in the middle of the road we're going to stop cars coming through,
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obviously We're all going to bring different dishes and share them round
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There are quite a lot of different nationalities living on our street
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People from India, China and different African countries
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So the food should be really interesting
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It'll be good to get to know more of the neighbours too
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Celebrations”. Questo video contiene 49 frasi e 612 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:16. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 143 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| costume sostantivo | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | costume |
| carnival sostantivo | /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/ | carnevale |
| cousin sostantivo | /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ | cugino, cugina |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | assoldare, noleggiare |
| swing verbo | /ˈswɪŋ/ | oscillare, ondeggiare |
| bass sostantivo | /beɪs/ | basso |
| enormous aggettivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, grandissimo |
| spider sostantivo | /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ | ragno |
| dish sostantivo | /dɪʃ/ | piatto, scodella |
| salad sostantivo | /ˈsæl.əd/ | insalata |
| borrow verbo | /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ | prendere in prestito |
| luckily avverbio | /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/ | fortunatamente, meno male |
| picnic sostantivo | /ˈpɪknɪk/ | picnic |
| nationality sostantivo | /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/ | nazionalità |
| neighbour sostantivo | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | vicino, vicina |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| give away verbo | regalare, dare via | |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene | |
| go up verbo | salire | |
| look forward to verbo | non vedere l'ora | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
| take out verbo | cavare, cacciare |
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 | we've been · You've probably heard · haven't seen |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the best · my best |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivare | it's going to be · we're going to decorate · We're going to hire |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo | are going · is getting · I'm really looking |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, we've, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: dish /dɪʃ/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, slideshow /ˈslaɪdˌʃoʊ/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bass /beɪs/, enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/, dish /dɪʃ/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: exam /ɪɡˈzæm/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, lantern /ˈlæ̝ntɚn/
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 costume, carnival, cousin.
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.