Pratica di Shadowing: DH - Meet the Housewives 1x01 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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I was laid to rest on a Monday.
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After the funeral, all the residents of Wisteria Lane came to pay their respects.
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And, as people do in these situations, they brought food.
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Lynette Scavo brought fried chicken.
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Lynette had a great family recipe for fried chicken.
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Of course, she didn't cook much while she was moving up the corporate ladder.
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She didn't have the time.
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But when her doctor announced Lynette was pregnant, her husband Tom had an idea.
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Why not quit your job?
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Kids do better with stay-at-home moms.
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It would be so much less stressful.
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But this was not the case.
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In fact, Lynette's life had become so hectic, she was now forced to get her fried chicken from a fast-food restaurant.
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Lynette would have appreciated the irony if she stopped to think about it, but she couldn't.
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She didn't have the time.
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Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it!
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No!
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You are going to behave today.
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I am not going to be humiliated in front of the entire neighborhood.
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And, just so you know how serious I am...
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What's that?
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Santa's cell phone number.
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How'd you get that?
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I know someone who knows someone who knows an elf.
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And if any of you acts up, so help me, I will call Santa, and I will tell him you want socks for Christmas.
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You willing to risk that?
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Uh-uh.
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Okay.
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Let's get this over with.
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Gabrielle Solis, who lives down the block, brought a spicy paella.
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Since her modeling days in New York, Gabrielle had developed a taste for rich food and rich men.
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Carlos, who worked in mergers and acquisitions, proposed on their third date.
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Gabrielle was touched when tears welled up in his eyes.
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But she soon discovered this happened every time Carlos closed a big deal.
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Gabrielle liked her paella piping hot.
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However, her relationship with her husband was considerably cooler.
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If you talk to Al Mason at this thing, I want you to casually mention how much I paid for your necklace.
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Why don't I just pin the receipt to my chest?
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He let me know how much you paid for his wife's new convertible.
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Look, just work it into the conversation.
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There's no way I can just work that in, Carlos.
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Why not?
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At the Donahue party, everyone was talking mutual funds, and you found a way to mention you slept with half the Yankee outfield.
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I'm telling you it came up in the context of the conversation.
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Hey, people are starting to stare.
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Can you keep your voice down, please?
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Absolutely.
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I wouldn't want them to think we're not happy.
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Three van de camp who lives next door brought baskets of muffins she baked from scratch.
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Brie was known for her cooking.
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And for making her own clothes.
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And for doing her own gardening.
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And for reupholstering her own furniture.
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Yes, Brie's many talents were known throughout the neighborhood.
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And everyone on Wisteria Lane thought of Brie as the perfect wife and mother.
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Everyone, that is, except her own family.
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Oh, Paul.
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Zachary.
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Hello, Mrs. Vandekamp.
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Bree, you shouldn't have gone to all this trouble.
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It was no trouble at all.
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Now, the basket with the red ribbon is filled with desserts for your guests, but the one with the blue ribbon is just for you and Zachary.
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It's got rolls, muffins, breakfast-type things.
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Thank you.
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Well, the least I could do is make sure you boys had a decent meal to look forward to in the morning.
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I know you're out of your minds with grief.
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Yes, we are.
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Of course, I will need the baskets back once you're done. Of course.
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Susan Mayer, who lives across the street, brought macaroni and cheese.
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Her husband Carl always teased her about her macaroni, saying it was the only thing she knew how to cook, and she rarely made it well.
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It was too salty the night she and Carl moved into their house.
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It was too watery the night she found lipstick on Carl's shirt.
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Carl's shirt.
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She burned it the night Carl told her he was leaving her for his secretary.
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A year had passed since the divorce.
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Susan had started to think how nice it would be to have a man in her life, even one who would make fun of her cooking.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 76 frasi e 731 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:24. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 166 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 81% 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
basket sostantivo/ˈbæskɪt/cestino, cesto
fry verbo/fɹaɪ/friggere
ribbon sostantivo/ˈɹɪbən/nastro, fettuccia
meal sostantivo/ˈmiːl/pasto
rarely avverbio/ˈɹɛəɹli/raramente
decent aggettivo/ˈdiː.sənt/perbene
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/scoprire, trovare
resident sostantivo/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/residente
funeral sostantivo/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/funerale
divorce sostantivo/dɪˈvɔːs/divorzio
tear verbo/tɛɹ/strappare, dilaniare
furniture sostantivo/ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/mobilio
acquisition sostantivo/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/acquisizione
announce verbo/əˈnaʊn(t)s/annunciare, segnalare
mutual aggettivo/ˈmjuːt͡ʃuəl/mutuo, vicendevole

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
look forward to verbonon vedere l'ora

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

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

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, casually /ˈkæʒuəli/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, considerably /kənˈsɪdəɹəbli/, macaroni /ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come basket, fry, ribbon.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas laid · was now forced · be humiliated
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosasomeone who knows · one who would

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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