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I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent in their questions.
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A huge number here with loads of wonderful emojis attached to them.
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What is the early years?
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Help!
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With a wonderful emoji at the end of it.
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I suppose we're looking at it from pregnancy through to the age of five, so through to children starting school.
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What sparked my interest in the early years?
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I actually get asked this question a lot.
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I think people assume that because I'm a parent, that's why I've taken an interest in the early years.
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I think this really is bigger than that.
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This isn't about just about happy healthy children, this is about the society I hope we could and can become.
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Right from the early days meeting
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lots of people who are suffering with you know addiction
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or poor mental health and hearing time and time again
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that their troubles now in adulthood stem right back from early childhood experience.
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How do you manage toddler tantrums in your household, especially with multiple children?
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Yes, that's a hard one i'd also like to ask the
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experts myself as a mum of a two-year-old tantrums are something i'm very familiar with
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when my son has a tantrum i try to put into
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words um how i think he might be feeling in a slow and calm
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and gentle way okay the next question is what was the
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best part in the development of the early years project
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that I think has to be going around the nation
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when we launched the survey and I got to meet loads of amazing families, loads of amazing parents, hearing firsthand what they were going through,
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what their experiences of parenthood was really like
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but also meeting amazing people who have done fantastic work up
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and down the country in supporting families and children in the early What did you like most in your childhood?
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That's a very good question.
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I love spending time outside and that has stuck with me for my whole life.
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Gosh, I'm amazed by the honesty actually and some of the questions that are coming through.
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So this is a Covid, the impact of Covid on our children.
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So how can we help children adjust post lockdown?
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As grown-ups we can't take Covid away but we can try to help children feel better about it.
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And we can do that with our conversations, by modelling good behaviour and giving children some control.
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How important are the early years of a child for their future endeavours?
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That's a great question and such an important question to ask as well.
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I was amazed as a first time parent
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that 90% of our adult brain develops by the age of five
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so there's such a huge opportunity as parents and carers and all those looking after children in those early years.
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What links have you found between maternal mental health and the early years on children?
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Firstly there's suffering for everybody which is unquantifiable.
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There can also be a range of physical issues such as the baby arriving early, as well as a range of emotional,
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social and cognitive problems for the child as they develop.
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Do you think about taking the project to other countries?
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There's amazing work going on internationally because ultimately this is a global issue
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and it would be great to see best practice being shared.
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So yes, I hope so in the future.
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Are there any projects coming out for 2021?
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Yes, a lot.
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And I think there will be for quite some years to come too,
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because this really isn't something that we're going to be able to change quickly and overnight.
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It's going to take, you know, generations, and I'm keen to support this for the long term.
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So I think that's it.
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But thank you very much to everybody again for sending in your questions.
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This is just the start of the conversation, so thank you so much for being part of this.
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Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Duchess of Cambridge Q&A on Early Years”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: parent, amazing, tantrum, Covid, loads. Questo video contiene 56 frasi e 675 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:24. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 153 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire. 9 delle sue 56 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
tantrum sostantivo/ˈtæn.tɹʌm/bizza, capriccio
amaze verbo/əˈmeɪz/sbalordire
emoji sostantivo/ɪˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/emoji
firsthand aggettivo/ˈfɜːstˌhænd/di prima mano, nuovo
lockdown sostantivo/ˈlɑkˌdaʊn/confinamento, lockdown
firstly avverbio/ˈfɜɹstli/dapprima, prima
attach verbo/əˈtæt͡ʃ/legare, appiccare
maternal aggettivo/məˈtɝnəl/materno
toddler sostantivo/ˈtɑdlɚ/bambino, bambina
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/perbacco, accidenti
internationally avverbiointernazionalmente
spark sostantivo/ˈspɑɹk/scintilla
honesty sostantivo/ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/onestà, lealtà
adjust verbo/əˈd͡ʒʌst/adattare, adeguare
cognitive aggettivo/ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/cognitivo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go through verboattraversare

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaeveryone who sent · people who are · people who have
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've taken · have done · has stuck

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 11 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, isn't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: amaze /əˈmeɪz/, firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, spark /ˈspɑɹk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: tantrum /ˈtæn.tɹʌm/, firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come tantrum, amaze, emoji.

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