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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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To roll means to turn over and over.
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On a roll.
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So are Ana and Jonathan rolling around?
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Hey, Jonathan, are you going to the learning English softball game this weekend?
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Absolutely.
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Our team is on a roll.
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They have won most of their games this season.
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Doesn't Ashley play on the team?
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Yes, she does.
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She's on a roll, too.
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To be on a roll means to experience a series of good things, one after the other.
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This expression comes from the idea that something rolling forward just keeps rolling along.
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Some word experts say it became popular among gamblers, people who won often were said to be on a roll.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “English in a Minute: On a Roll”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: roll, rolling, English. This video has 15 sentences and 124 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:57. The speaker talks at a steady 131 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 3 of its 15 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 8 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| softball noun | A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand. | |
| gambler noun | One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles. | |
| expert noun | /ˈɛk.spɜːt/ | A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject. |
| expression noun | /əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ | The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. |
| roll verb | /ɹəʊl/ | To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| absolutely adverb | /ˌæb.səˈlut.li/ | In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly. |
| weekend noun | /ˈwiˌkɛnd/ | The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| roll around verb | To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body. |
| roll forward verb | To extend a condition, investment, position or benefit into a subsequent period. |
| turn over verb | To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom. |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have won |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were said |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who won |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | keeps rolling |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like softball, gambler, expert.
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.