Pratica di Shadowing: Chapter 5 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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Chapter 5 Thursday, Taking Photos I phone Jeff.
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Hey, Jeff, are you asleep?
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I'm not now, he says.
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What's happening?
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I have a name for you.
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Are you ready?
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Yes.
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Anna Lund.
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He doesn't say anything for a minute, then...
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Anna.
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It's Anna.
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Are you sure?
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It's Anna's laptop.
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Perhaps she did it or perhaps her spark and flash friend did it, but it's her laptop.
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Right.
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Jeff Clayton's voice is angry.
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I'm calling the police in the morning.
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They can come to the office and when Anna walks in, Wait!
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I say.
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Here's the bad news.
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Anna or her friend downloaded the Blanding's file, but they didn't keep the file on her laptop.
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It went onto a memory stick.
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I took some screenshots of the file download.
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We can show the police those, but they don't prove anything.
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Somebody took the file from the office computer, yes, but the file's not on her laptop now.
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But the download happened on her laptop, says Jeff.
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Of course she's the thief.
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Listen, Jeff, what's she going to say?
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She's going to say, what file?
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What are you talking about?
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Where is this file on my laptop?
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I don't know anything about a file.
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She's not stupid, and she's going to be ready for any question.
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She did it, yes, but we can't prove it.
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Yes.
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Yes, I see.
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You're right, Shirley.
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Jeff's voice is very unhappy.
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So, what are we going to do?
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Well, the Trojan horse was plan A, and now I have plan B, I say.
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Where is the Blanding's file now?
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We need to know that.
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Maybe Spark and Flash have got the file already.
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But maybe they haven't, and maybe Anna is meeting somebody tomorrow,
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so I'm going to watch Anna all day.
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Where does she go?
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Who does she meet?
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OK, what can I do? asks Jeff.
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Go into the office tomorrow. Be normal.
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Be nice to Anna.
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Nice to everyone.
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Talk about work, the weather, the football, whatever.
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We know about Anna, but she doesn't know that.
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We don't want her to worry.
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OK, I get it, Jeff says.
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Watch and listen.
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Text me when Anna does anything.
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When she leaves the office, goes to lunch, makes a phone call.
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Use my Sally Hawker mobile number.
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I sleep for three or four hours, then get up, drink more coffee and call a taxi.
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I want to be outside Anna's apartment before the buses start in the morning.
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I wear my student disguise.
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I have long hair, a big hat and a wonderful long skirt with red and yellow flowers all over it.
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It's a great skirt.
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People look at the skirt and not at the face.
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Anna leaves her apartment at eight o'clock, walks down the street to the bus stop and gets on the first bus.
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There are lots of people on the bus.
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Anna goes upstairs and I sit downstairs.
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She gets off the bus and walks to the office, and I'm twenty metres behind her.
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She doesn't meet anybody.
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She doesn't talk to anybody.
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I text Jeff.
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Anna arriving now.
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Nothing happened.
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A text comes back from Jeff.
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OK.
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I find a sandwich bar not far from the Clayton office.
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I sit by the window and from there I can see the door of the Clayton office.
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I'm hungry.
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I eat two chicken and tomato sandwiches on brown bread and drink two cups of tea.
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I read on my iPad, watch the clock, and when the waiter gives me a hard look,
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I buy another cup of tea.
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Seven cups of tea.
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It's a long morning.
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A text arrives on my phone.
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Anna, leaving for lunch now.
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Everything normal.
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We talked about last night's football.
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When Anna comes out, I'm standing in the street looking into a shop window.
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She walks quickly for ten minutes and then goes into a big pub by the river.
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It's lunchtime and the pub is noisy, full of people.
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I go in at another door and look around for Anna.
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She's with a man, a tall man with red hair.
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Is he just a friend or...?
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No, he's more than a friend.
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Anna is kissing him.
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He's kissing her back.
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He has his arm around her.
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They're excited, happy, laughing.
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I move a little nearer to them.
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I get my phone out, hold the phone to my ear but take photos, lots of them.
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Nobody looks at me.
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I'm just a student in a long flowery skirt talking on my mobile phone.
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I take a taxi back to my office and sit down at my big laptop.
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I download the photos to the laptop.
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The camera in my phone is a good one, and these photos are really good.
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So who is this guy with Anna?
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Some people work for Spark and Flash Design and I have all the names.
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I begin with the people at the top of the company, put their names into Google and hit search.
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I'm looking for photographs.
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Yes!
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Got him!
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The third name brings up lots of photographs of a tall man with red hair.
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He has a Facebook page with all his photos on it.
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Stupid man.
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Stephen Nyberg, Director, Spark and Flash Design.
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I meet Geoff Clayton in Richmond Park again.
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This time it's raining, so we sit in his car and make a plan.
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Plan C.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Lo scenario: una conversazione tesa tra Shirley e Jeff

Il video ci presenta una scena di suspense: Shirley e Jeff discutono di Anna, sospetta di aver scaricato un file sensibile. La conversazione è ricca di espressioni colloquiali e reazioni emotive, perfetta per capire come le persone si comunicano in situazioni reali. Attraverso questo dialogo, possiamo osservare come la lingua inglese si usa per esprimere dubbi, rabbia e piani d'azione, elementi che rendono la pratica di conversazione in inglese veramente utile.

Frasi e collocazioni utili da memorizzare

  • "Are you asleep?": Una domanda informale per chiedere se qualcuno sta dormendo, spesso usata quando si chiama a un'ora non convenzionale.
  • "What's happening?": Un modo semplice per chiedere cosa sta accadendo, ideale in situazioni di sorpresa o urgenza.
  • "I see what you mean" (implícito in "You're right, Shirley"): Esprime che si capisce e si concorda con l'altro, fondamentale nella comunicazione.
  • "Be normal. Be nice to Anna": Due frasi brevi ma potenti per dare istruzioni, mostrano come usare verbi semplici per trasmettere un messaggio chiaro.
  • "Plan A, plan B": Un modo colloquiale per fare riferimento a piani primari e alternativi, usato spesso in contesti di problem-solving.

Il tuo challenge: shadowing in inglese

Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità, prova il shadowing speech: ascolta il video e ripeti immediatamente le frasi di Shirley e Jeff, cercando di imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo. Iniziamo con la parte dove Jeff dice: "I'm calling the police in the morning. They can come to the office...". Ripeti più volte finché non senti che la tua pronuncia si avvicina a quella originale. Questo esercizio, noto anche come shadowing in inglese, è uno dei metodi più efficaci per rafforzare l'orecchio e la voce. Se vuoi approfondire, puoi cercare un shadowing site che offra materiali specifici per questo tipo di pratica.

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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