Pratica di Shadowing: Complete IELTS Band 5-6.5 - UNIT 1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Complete IELTS, Bands 5 to 6.5, by Guy Brookhart and Vanessa Jakeman,
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published by Cambridge University Press.
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This recording is copyright.
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Track 1, Unit 1, Listening, Exercise 3.
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Hello, come in and take a seat.
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Oh, thanks.
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Good.
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And how can I help you?
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Well, I'd quite like to join this international social club, and I was hoping you could help me.
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Yes, no problem.
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Let me just get the form up on my screen and I'll fill in your details.
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Let's see.
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Yes, here we are.
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Okay, the first thing we need is your name.
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Jenny Fu.
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That's F double O.
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OK, great.
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And can you tell me how old you are, Jenny?
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I'm 21.
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Great.
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And how long have you been here in Australia, by the way?
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I arrived just last month, two weeks before the start of the academic year, just to sort things out and settle in a bit.
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Good idea.
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Where are you from originally?
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I'm from Kuala Lumpur.
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That's where I was born and brought up.
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So, you're Malaysian, are you?
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That's right.
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Though I lived in the United States for a couple of years when I was a teenager.
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We went there for my father's job.
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Right.
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And can you tell me your current address, please?
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Sure.
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Just at the moment, I'm lodging with a family at 13 Anglesey Road in Bondi.
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Okay, let me just type that in.
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How do you spell Anglesey, by the way?
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It's spelled A-N-G-L-E-S-E-A.
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Thanks.
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That's quite a long way from the city centre, isn't it?
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Is it a problem getting into the city centre?
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Not really, because the buses are good and It's a nice, quiet area to live in.
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That's true.
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So I guess you must have a cell phone number you can give me
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so we can keep you informed of events and so on.
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Yes.
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Let me just have a look.
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It's a new one, so I haven't learned the number yet.
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Ah, here it is.
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It's 040-422-9160.
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040-422-9160.
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OK, good.
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And you like the family you're living with?
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Sure.
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They've got a little boy who is quite noisy, but he's really no trouble.
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Fine.
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Now, let's see, what's next?
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Yep.
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Can you tell me what you do?
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I mean, are you working or studying?
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Well, at the moment I'm doing a temporary job with a company here in Sydney.
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I'm an economist, in fact.
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OK.
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And how long do you think you'll be here in Sydney?
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At least a year.
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I may look for work here afterwards.
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Great.
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Now, you want to join the International Social Club, and it will be good to know a bit about your free time interests as well.
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What do you like doing?
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Well, I'm quite musical and I really enjoy singing.
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Back home I sang with a band, just, you know, for fun.
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But for me, what I like best is dancing.
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You know, the modern sort?
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I really love it.
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Track two.
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Unit one.
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Listening.
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Exercise five.
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So, how are you getting on here?
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I mean, your level of English is better than most people who come from overseas to work, and you've got a really nice American accent,
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so I don't suppose you have any communication problems in the office, though you might find some of our Australian slang more difficult to understand.
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Well, a bit.
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But I haven't met that many Australians yet, outside of work, I mean.
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Right.
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But could you tell me a bit about the international club now I've joined?
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Sure.
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We've got, let's see, currently about 50 members, but people join all the time, so I should think that figure will go up.
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Last year we had 30 members and the year before just 18, so we're growing and getting better known.
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I reckon that at this rate, next year we'll have about 80.
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And does the club hold regular meetings?
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Yes, every second Thursday evening, in fact, so a couple of times a month.
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Though, of course, when you start making friends, you'll be getting together with them more often than that, I guess.
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The next meeting will be next Thursday, if I'm not mistaken.
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Yes, that's right.
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And what happens when the club meets?
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I mean, what sort of things are organised?
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The usual thing is for one of the members to give a little presentation about where they're from, their customs and so on.
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But from time to time they do other things, outings to places around Sydney or meeting up to eat together in a restaurant
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or go to a concert together or something like that.
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OK, that sounds fun.
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And the members aren't just people from other countries?
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Non-Australians, are they?
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No, not at all.
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The main point of the club is to give people like
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you the chance to mix in more with people from this country, people of all ages.
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You'll find us very friendly.
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I think the contact has a positive effect on visitors to this country.
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And in fact, it It affects us locals positively as well.
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You know, it's a sort of intercultural experience for everybody.
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And of course, you should get the chance to do all sorts of activities with other members of the club
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if you want to.
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It's not just for talking.
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And hopefully you'll make friends with people who have similar interests.
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It sounds great.
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I'm really looking forward to the first meeting.
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Thank you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 114 frasi e 905 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:15. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 145 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
spell sostantivo/spɛl/incantesimo, formula magica
temporary aggettivo/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/temporaneo
custom sostantivo/ˈkʌstəm/usanza, costume
afterwards avverbio/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/dopo, poi
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/arrivare, giungere
settle verbo/ˈsɛtəl/risolvere
overseas avverbio/ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/all'estero
copyright sostantivo/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/copyright, diritto d'autore
inform verbo/ɪnˈfɔɹm/informare
accent sostantivo/ækˈsɛnt/accento
teenager sostantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/giovane, adolescente
visitor sostantivo/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ospite, visitatore
positively avverbio/ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/positivamente
economist sostantivo/iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/economista
noisy aggettivo/ˈnɔɪzi/rumoroso

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
bring up verbomenzionare, nominare
go up verbosalire
look forward to verbonon vedere l'ora

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 28 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you'll, haven't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, economist /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/

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 spell, temporary, custom.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohaven't learned · haven't met · I've joined
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas born · are organised
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapeople who come · people who have

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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