Pratica di Shadowing: Dolphins | IELTS LISTENING TEST | SECTION-2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Section two.
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You will hear a woman called Alice Bussell talking on the radio about the Dolphin Conservation Trust,
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an organization which tries to protect dolphins.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
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Today we're pleased to have on the show Alice Bussell from the Dolphin Conservation Trust.
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Tell us about Trust, Alice.
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Well, obviously its purpose is to protect dolphins in seas all around the world.
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It tries to raise people's awareness of the problems these marine creatures are suffering because of pollution and other threats.
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It started 10 years ago, and it's one of the fastest growing animal charities in the country, although it's still fairly small compared with the big players in animal protection.
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We're particularly proud of the work we do in education.
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Last year, we visited a huge number of schools in different parts of the country,
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going round to talk to children and young people aged from 5 to 18.
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In fact, about 35% of our members are children.
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The charity uses its money to support campaigns, for example, for changes in fishing policy and so forth.
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It hopes soon to be able to employ its first full-time biologist with dolphin expertise to monitor populations.
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Of course, many people give their services on a voluntary basis, and we now have volunteers working in observation,
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office work, and other things.
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I should also tell you about the award we won from the Charity Commission last year for our work in education.
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Although it's not meant an enormous amount of money for us, it has made our activities even more widely publicised and understood.
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In the long term, it may not bring in extra members, but we're hoping it'll have this effect.
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Is it possible to see dolphins in UK waters?
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Yes, in several locations.
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And we have a big project in the east part of Scotland.
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This has long been a haven for dolphins because it has very little shipping.
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However, that may be about to change soon because oil companies want to increase exploration there.
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We're campaigning against this because although there'll be little pollution from oil, exploration creates a lot of underwater noise.
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It means the dolphins can't rest and socialise.
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This is how I became interested in dolphin conservation in the first place.
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I had never seen one, and I hadn't been particularly interested in them at school.
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Then I came across this story about a family of dolphins
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who had to leave their home in the Moray Firth because of the oil companies, and about a child who campaigned to save them.
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I couldn't put the book down.
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I was hooked.
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.
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I'm sure our listeners will want to find out what they can do to help.
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You mentioned the Adopt a Dolphin scheme.
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Can you tell us about that? Of course.
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People can choose one of our dolphins to sponsor.
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They receive a picture of it and news updates.
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I'd like to tell you about four which are currently being adopted by our members.
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Moondancer, Echo, Kiwi and Samson.
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Unfortunately, Echo is being rather elusive this year and hasn't yet been cited by our observers, but we remain optimistic that he'll be out there soon.
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All the others have been out in force.
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Samson and Moondancer are often photographed together, but it's Kiwi who's our real character, as she seems to love coming up close for the cameras,
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and we've captured her on film hundreds of times.
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They all have their own personalities.
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Moondancer is very elegant and curves out and into the water very smoothly, whereas Samson has a lot of energy.
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He's always leaping out of the water with great vigor.
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You'd probably expect him to be the youngest.
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He's not quite.
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That's Kiwi.
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But Samson's the latest of our dolphins to be chosen for the scheme.
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Kiwi makes a lot of noise, so we can often pick her out straight away.
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Echo and Moondancer are noisy too, but Moondancer's easy to find because she has a particularly large fin on her back, which makes her easy to identify.
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So, yes, they're all very different.
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Well, they sound a fascinating group.
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And how would you go back...
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That is the end of Section 2.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Thank you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 63 frasi e 748 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:27. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 116 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 83% 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
dolphin sostantivo/ˈdɑlf.ɪn/delfino
charity sostantivo/ˈtʃæɹɪti/ente di beneficenza, organizzazione benefica
pollution sostantivo/pəˈluʃən/inquinamento
exploration sostantivo/ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/esplorazione
carefully avverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/minuziosamente, accuratamente
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/paragonare
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/soffrire, penare
awareness sostantivo/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/coscienza
capture verbo/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/catturare, riprendere
whereas/(h)wɛɹˈæz/laddove, mentre
hook sostantivo/hʊk/gancio, gancetto
monitor sostantivo/ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/monitor
volunteer sostantivo/ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/volontario, volontaria
enormous aggettivo/ɪˈnɔː.məs/enorme, grandissimo
photograph sostantivo/ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/fotografia, foto

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come across verbodare l'impressione, avere l'aria
come up verbovenire fuori, emergere
find out verboscoprire
go back verbotornare

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 hooked · being adopted · been cited
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas made · have been · we've captured
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosafour which are · back, which makes

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, can't, couldn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/, exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/

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 dolphin, charity, pollution.

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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