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Most teenagers spend their time at home, watching TV or using their phones.
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But I have some unusual hobbies.
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My friends always ask me why I don't play video games with them or why I don't follow them on social media.
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and I always tell them that I am interested in other things.
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I think that spending hours on your phone is so boring,
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so I prefer to spend my time doing things that I really enjoy.
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One of my hobbies is gardening.
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You don't usually think of a teenager gardening.
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You always think of older people doing this activity.
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But I love it.
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My house has a big garden with grass and lots of trees and flowers.
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My dad loves gardening, so that is how I started this hobby.
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At the weekends I plant new flowers,
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water the plants and cut the dead flowers.
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Roses and daisies are my favourite flowers so we have a lot of them in my garden.
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I also like sunflowers but we don't usually grow them because they are too tall.
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Sometimes they can be 2 meters tall and they die very quickly.
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I usually spend 3 or 4 hours doing gardening at the weekends because I have more time then.
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During the week I have to do a lot of homework so I haven't got any time to spend outside.
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I also like to do it at the weekend because my dad doesn't work on Saturdays or Sundays.
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It's an activity that I love doing with him.
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He can teach me about the different flowers and trees.
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And we even buy magazines about gardening and we read them together.
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The best thing about this hobby is that it doesn't cost much money.
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I can spend time with my dad while I do it and it makes our house look very pretty.
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We usually choose flowers that are different colours like orange,
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yellow, red, pink and purple.
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And the garden in the summer and the spring looks really beautiful.
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We sometimes have dinner parties in the garden when the weather is nice and everyone always says that our garden is lovely.
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My other hobby is cooking.
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My mum is a really good cook so she taught me to cook when I was a young child.
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When I was about 6 or 7 years old,
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I baked cakes and cookies with my mum at the weekend,
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or for birthday parties.
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My favourite recipes to cook are from South America.
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The meals from those countries taste so different to the ones that we have here in the UK.
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So all of my friends and family love them.
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Some people never eat different types of food and haven't travelled to these countries so
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It is a surprise for some of them
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and they always ask me for the recipe so that they can cook it at home.
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Cooking is more expensive than gardening because I use a lot of special ingredients which are very expensive.
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Of course, foods like rice or pasta are very cheap,
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but there are some ingredients which are not typical in the UK,
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so I have to buy them in a special shop or online.
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In my city, there are a lot of international food shops.
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They sell food from all over the world and it is my favourite type of shop to go to.
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I think that it's exciting to try new foods and flavours.
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I love this hobby because I can learn new recipes and practice them every day.
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I think that it's boring when you have to eat the same food every day.
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It's nice to eat special and different meals.
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Also, because I am so good at cooking, I never go to restaurants.
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I think that restaurants are expensive and I prefer to spend
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that money on some special ingredients that I can use for many recipes.
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The other hobby that I have is reading.
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I don't like reading books.
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I prefer to read magazines.
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My favourite magazines are cooking and gardening ones.
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When I read a magazine, it gives me ideas.
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Sometimes I learn about new flowers, especially flowers from other countries,
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and other times I learn about fruits and vegetables that people grow in other countries.
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This helps me to learn about new recipes as well.
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I usually read magazines when I am on the school bus
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or at the weekends when it is rainy and I can't go outside to do gardening.
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If you have enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe.
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Thank you and I'll see you in my next video.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Hobbies - Podcast British English - Learning English”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: gardening, flowers, spend, hobby, recipe. Questo video contiene 65 frasi e 765 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:08. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 94 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
hobby sostantivo/ˈhɑ.bi/hobby, passatempo
ingredient sostantivo/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ingrediente
bore verbo/boɹ/annoiare, tediare
teenager sostantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/giovane, adolescente
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/stimolare, eccitare
sunflower sostantivo/ˈsʌn.flaʊ.əɹ/girasole
rainy aggettivo/ˈɹeɪni/piovoso, pluviale
daisy sostantivo/ˈdeɪ.zi/pratolina, margheritina
bake verbo/beɪk/cuocere (al forno), infornare
pasta sostantivo/ˈpɑ.stə/pasta, impasto
vegetable sostantivo/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/verdura
thumb sostantivo/ˈθʌm/pollice, dito grosso
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/abbonarsi
cookie sostantivo/ˈkʊki/biscotto
meter sostantivo/ˈmitəɹ/metro, contatore

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • You don't usually think of a teenager gardening.
  • It's an activity that I love doing with him.
  • I don't like reading books.

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 adessohaven't travelled · have enjoyed
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaingredients which are
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodois gardening · is cooking · is reading
Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessariohave to do · have to buy · have to eat

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 11 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, doesn't, haven't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/, bake /beɪk/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come hobby, ingredient, bore.

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