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Chapter 5 News from Mr. Havisham The news went round the village and the farms faster than a carriage with six horses. Did you hear?
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The vicar went up to the castle and spoke to the earl about poor Mr. Higgins.
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And the boy was there, little Lord Fauntleroy.
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Yes, and the earl said to his grandson, You write to Mr. Newick, you tell him.
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And the boy did.
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And the vicar took the letter to Mr. Newick,
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and now Mr. Newick can't put poor Higgins and his family out in the street.
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Yes, and they've got another month to find the rent.
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Days and weeks went past, And by now, everybody knew about Lord Fauntleroy and his mother.
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They loved the boy with his golden curly hair and his happy smile.
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They saw him every day on his new pony.
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And he always had a friendly word for everyone everyone.
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The village people loved Mrs. Errol too, because of her kind heart and her sweet face.
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When somebody was ill in the village, Mrs. Errol was always there to help.
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But the The Earl never saw her,
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never spoke to her, never went to her house.
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Cedric, of course, saw her every day,
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but his heart was sad because his best friend did not live with him in the same house.
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The Earl liked his little grandson more and more every week.
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He often forgot about his painful foot, and he began to smile more.
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Sometimes he even laughed.
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He liked to please his grandson.
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When Lord Fauntleroy wanted new houses for some very poor villagers, the Earl built new houses.
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When the boy wanted to talk about his mother, the Earl listened.
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But he did not like it.
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"'Do you never forget about your mother?
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He said to his grandson one day.
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No, said Cedric.
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Never, and she never forgets about me.
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I don't forget about you, you know, when I'm away.
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The young Lord did not forget his friends in America either.
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Letters went to and from New York,
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and Dick and Mr. Hobbs heard all about Cedric's new life.
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One day, the Earl gave a great party,
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and all the important families for miles around came to it to meet Lord Fauntleroy.
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Mr. Havisham came from London too, but he was very quiet all evening and looked worried.
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At the end of the party, the Earl spoke to him.
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Well, Havisham, what's the matter?
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I bring some bad news, my lord, about your heir.
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My heir?
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Fauntleroy is my heir.
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What do you mean?
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My lord, said Mr. Havisham, Cedric Errol is not your heir.
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He is not Lord Fauntleroy.
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The true Lord Fauntleroy is the son of your oldest son,
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Bevis, and at the moment he is in London with his mother.
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The Earl's face was as white as his hair.
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Bevis, he said, "'This isn't true.
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Havisham, tell me this isn't true.' "'A woman came to my office this morning,' said Mr. Havisham.
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"'Bevis married her six years ago in London.
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"'She has all the papers.
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"'He left her after a year, but she had a son.
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He's now five years old.
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The woman is American.
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She's beautiful, but, well, she can only just write her name,
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and she's only interested in the money.
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The Earl's face was now dark red.
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He jumped up from his chair and began to walk up and down the room.
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Bevis was always the worst,' he said angrily.
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"'I hated him, and he hated me.
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I must stop this.
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Cedric is very dear to me, Havisham, very dear.
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He's a fine boy, and he's going to be a better Earl of Dorincourt than me,
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or any child of Bevis's.
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Far away in New York, two of Cedric's friends sat round a table in a grocery store.
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They ate a supper of bread and cold meat, and talked about Lord Fauntleroy.
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Dick usually came round to the grocery store once a week.
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He and Mr. Hobbs were now good friends,
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and they enjoyed reading the letters from England and talking about them.
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When they wrote back to Cedric, Mr. Hobbs helped Dick with his writing, because writing was difficult for Dick.
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I didn't get much time for school, see, Dick told Mr. Hobbs one day.
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Pa and Ma were dead, and there was no money, so me and my brother worked.
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That was your brother Ben, was it?
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Mr. Hobbs said.
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Yeah, my older brother, said Dick.
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He was good to me, Ben was.
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But then he married this girl, and oh dear, she was bad news.
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She was a good-looking girl.
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Big black eyes, long black hair, but she was always angry about something or somebody.
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Me or Ben or the baby.
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I remember she broke a plate on Ben's head once.
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She hit the baby, too.
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A nice mother she was.
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"'Women,' said Mr. Hobbs.
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"'Best to keep away from them, I say.
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I never married.' "'Well, she didn't stay long,' Dick said.
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"'She was angry with Ben because he didn't make money faster.
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So one day she left with the baby.
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We never saw her again.
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She left New York, someone told us.
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What happened to your brother?
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Mr. Hobbs asked.
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Ben's out in California now, working with horses, on a big farm somewhere.
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He was sad about Minna and his baby son for a long time.
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Poor old Ben.
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After supper, Mr. Hobbs took out a letter.
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This came from our friend today, he said.
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Let's read it together now.
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He opened the letter, and they began to read.
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My dear friend Mr. Hobbs, I have some surprising news to tell you and Dick.
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I am not Lord Fauntleroy,
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because my Uncle Bevis had a little boy,
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but nobody knew about him.
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My uncle Bevis was the oldest son of the earl,
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and so his son is Lord Fauntleroy, and I am just Cedric Errol again.
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My papa was the youngest son, and youngest sons don't have anything,
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so I am not very rich,
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and I am going to learn to work perhaps with horses, because I like them a lot.
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My grandfather is very angry about it, and I never saw him angry before.
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With love from your old friend Cedric Errol,
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not Lord Fauntleroy." "'Well,' said Mr. Hobbs, "'well, I don't know.
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Did you ever hear anything like that before?' "'No, I didn't,' said Dick.
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But I know one thing.
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Young Cedric needs his friends at a time like this.
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Let's write back to him, Mr. Hobbs.
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And let's do it now.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Le parole che ritornano più spesso: lord, Fauntleroy, Hobbs, earl, Dick. Questo video contiene 118 frasi e 1103 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 12:38. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 87 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 12 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
earl sostantivo/ɝl/conte
grandson sostantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/nipote
heir sostantivo/ˈɛə̯/erede, ereditiera
litter sostantivo/ˈlɪt.ɚ/lettiera
supper sostantivo/ˈsʌpɚ/cena, desinare
angrily avverbio/ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/irosamente, rabbiosamente
villager sostantivo/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/paesano, paesana
curly aggettivo/ˈkɝli/arricciato
pony sostantivo/ˈpoʊni/pony
carriage sostantivo/ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/carrozza
grandfather sostantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/nonno
painful aggettivo/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/doloroso

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
take out verbocavare, cacciare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • What do you mean?
  • What happened to your brother?
  • Let's read it together now.
  • Hobbs, "'well, I don't know.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppohis best · your oldest · the worst
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivarehe's going to be · am going to learn

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, don't, isn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: grandson /ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/, angrily /ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/

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 earl, grandson, heir.

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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