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Hey friends, welcome back to the channel.
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If you're new here, my name is Ali, I'm a doctor working in Cambridge, and this is a day in my life.
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It's a Saturday, and I'm on call at the hospital, so I get up at 6 .30
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and take half an hour for general life maintenance before setting up my camera stuff to film a video before work.
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From 7am to 10 past 8, I stumble my way through this video wishing that I'd scripted it better.
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This 70 minutes of filming later turns into a 22 minute
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video with the hopefully clickbait title of How to Rank First at Medical School
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and then I rush out of the door and drive 45 minutes to work.
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During the commute if I'm feeling productive I listen to podcasts
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or if I'm feeling lazy I listen to audiobooks on audible
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or if I'm feeling reflective I drive in silence with my thoughts which is what I do today.
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I get into the hospital by 9am and get a handover from the doctor who was on call overnight.
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She tells me there's a new patient who needs to have a physical examination done
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and another patient who needs a blood test.
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This is admittedly quite a light list of jobs so I'm happy
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and feel optimistic that I'll be able to get some studying done that day as well.
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We chat for a bit until 9 .30
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when I get a phone call from the nurse asking for a prescription for some medication.
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While I'm on the ward I do a few other bits of paperwork
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that needed doing and then at 10am I go and see one of the patients to take their blood.
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Because I'm a pro and she had good veins I get it on my first attempt.
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After sending the blood to the lab for testing I head over to the hospital's restaurant to grab some breakfast
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and while I'm there I run into a friend who's very confused as to why I'm filming food.
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She films me pouring ketchup onto my plate and then at 11am I head back to the ward.
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I turn on the bluetooth speaker that I brought into the office, I play my Spotify playlist from my first year of university
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and then get started on some discharge letters for patients that had gone home that week.
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At 11 .30 I get two calls in a row, one to see a patient with painful knees and another to prescribe various medications for various patients on the ward.
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Sorting this stuff takes around an hour and I get back to the doctor's office at 12 .40.
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I spend the next 20 minutes continuing with my discharge letters, and then head back to the restaurant at 1pm to grab some lunch.
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I happen to run into colleagues from other specialties who are also on call that day, and so we chat for half an hour over lunch, and then one of them visits my ward afterwards,
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and we play some cheeky table tennis in the gym for about 20 minutes.
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At 1 .50 I head back to the office to continue working on these discharge letters.
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On psychiatry the discharge letters are super long and complicated, and so I finish the first one at half past two, and then pop down to the ward to rewrite a drug chart,
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then take a toilet break where I scroll through Twitter on my phone for a few minutes
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and finally I finish the second discharge letter at 3 .40pm.
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At this point my day is looking reasonably free and so I decide to do some studying.
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I get started on lecture 4 in the heart and circulation series in human physiology, the subject that I'm supervising some medical students in at Cambridge University.
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I only manage this for around half an hour before losing concentration, realising that the early start this morning to film the video meant that I only got around 5 hours of sleep.
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So I head down to the on -call junior doctor's room to have a quick nap.
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I manage to sleep for a few minutes
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but at quarter to five I get woken up to review a patient who was having an anxiety attack.
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I get back to bed but over the next hour every time I do a job
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and think I'm finally done for the day I get called again to do something else.
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Eventually I give up on the thought of having a nap
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and I head back to the doctor's office to do some more studying.
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I spend half an hour doing some more cardiovascular physiology and planning out my teaching session for the medical students.
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From 7 to 8 p .m I grab dinner again at
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the hospital restaurant with some colleagues who happen to be there at the same time.
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I don't film anything properly here because i don't want them to think i'm weird
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and then i head back to the office
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and spend half an hour making a start on the next series of cardiovascular physiology lectures
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immediately i realized that the lecture notes don't really make sense to me
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and so i bust out a pdf of a physiology textbook
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and grapple my way through it
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while thinking damn this is a really good book i wish
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i discovered it sooner it hits 8 35 p .m
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and at this point i've got 25 minutes left in my shift
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and i'm pretty confident i won't get called so i decide to chill out and watch a documentary about Alzheimer's disease.
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I'm actually on my old age psychiatry placement at the moment, and we see a lot of patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease, which has actually made me really scared about getting it when I'm older.
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This documentary goes over the pathophysiology of the disease in a very easy to understand fashion, and discusses some of the ways that researchers are trying to reverse the disease process.
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I'm watching it on CuriosityStream, who are very kindly sponsoring this video.
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CuriosityStream is the world's leading documentary streaming subscription platform, founded by John Hendricks, who's the founder of the Discovery channel
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and they've got thousands of documentaries across all genres from science and history to technology and lifestyle.
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I quite enjoy watching documentaries as a form of productive procrastination
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so if you'd like to join me you can sign up to a free trial at curiositystream .com forward slash
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and if you enter the coupon code ULLI at checkout you'll get a free 30 -day trial in
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which you can watch any or all of the documentaries that you like.
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Anyway at 9pm I hand over to the evening on Core Doctor giving her the good news
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that there's nothing outstanding that needs doing because I've done everything for the day, and wishing her a pleasant night ahead.
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And so that brings us to the end of this day in the life video.
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I hope you found it vaguely interesting.
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I haven't really done one of these videos before, so I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
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Do you want to see more of these?
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Is there anything else you'd like to see instead?
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Let me know.
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But if you like the video, then here is a playlist of some of my other vlog -esque videos.
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Have a lovely day, and I'll see you hopefully in the next one.
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Bye -bye.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Day in the Life as a Doctor”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: patient, hour, discharge, ward, letter. Questo video contiene 78 frasi e 1229 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:05. Chi parla va veloce, circa 242 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
documentary sostantivo/ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/documentario
ward sostantivo/wɔɹd/guardiano
physiology sostantivo/ˌfɪziˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/fisiologia
lecture sostantivo/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/conferenza, lezione
productive aggettivo/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/produttivo
medication sostantivo/mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/medicazione
colleague sostantivo/ˈkɒliːɡ/collega
cardiovascular aggettivo/ˌkɑːdi.əʊˈvæskjʊlə(ɹ)/cardiovascolare
playlist sostantivo/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/playlist
psychiatry sostantivo/saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/psichiatria
rush verbo/ɹʌʃ/affrettarsi, correre
chart sostantivo/t͡ʃɑɹt/carta, carta nautica
complicated aggettivo/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/complicato, intricato
confused aggettivo/kənˈfjuːzd/confuso
founder sostantivo/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/fondatore, creatore

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
set up verbo/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/preparare, installare

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 adessohas actually made · I've done · haven't really done
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosathoughts which is · disease, which has

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 33 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, physiology /ˌfɪziˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, cardiovascular /ˌkɑːdi.əʊˈvæskjʊlə(ɹ)/, psychiatry /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: ward /wɔɹd/, discharge /dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/, productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/, playlist /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: cardiovascular /ˌkɑːdi.əʊˈvæskjʊlə(ɹ)/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come documentary, ward, physiology.

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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