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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Georgie.
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Neil, have you ever ridden a horse?
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Yes, I have.
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I can't say that I enjoyed it much.
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I was a bit scared, to be honest.
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How about you?
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I used to ride horses a lot, actually.
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My favourite thing was to ride a horse through the countryside.
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I love horses, they're so majestic and lovely.
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The relationship between humans and horses has been close throughout history, but recently this has gone beyond riding horses for fun or using them for work.
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Equine Assisted Services, sometimes called horse therapy, is a health trend where caring and interacting with horses is used to heal physical and mental illness.
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Here's Dachyani Navanayaga, presenter of BBC World Service programme The Conversation, to explain.
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Equine Assisted Services is now an umbrella term which encompasses a whole range of treatments involving activities and interactions with horses to promote better human wellbeing.
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Equine Assisted Services is an umbrella term, a term for a large number of different things which all belong to a single common category.
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So horse therapy includes many activities, from feeling the horse's movement, which can help children with muscle disorders like cerebral palsy, to simply grooming the horse, which can help calm anxiety.
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Grooming a horse means cleaning and brushing the horse's coat of hair.
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Various animals can be used in therapy, but horses are particularly suitable as they're very sensitive to human emotions.
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Being in contact with them affects the limbic area of the brain dealing with stress.
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In this episode, we'll hear more about the horses helping people work through mental, emotional and physical challenges, and as usual, we'll learn some useful new vocabulary.
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And remember, you'll find all the words and phrases from this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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But now I have a question for you, Neil.
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We've heard some of the special qualities horses possess, but which of the following about horses is also true?
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Is it a horses always sleep standing up, b horses can make over 100 sounds or c horses have almost 360 degree vision?
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Well, I'm sure I've seen a horse lying down, so I don't know about its vision though, so I'm going to say B.
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A horse can make over a hundred sounds.
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OK, well we'll find out the answer later in the programme.
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Horse therapist Claudia Nicholson first felt the healing power of horses as a child.
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She now runs her own centre for equine-assisted learning in the south of England, where she spoke with BBC World Service programme The Conversation.
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I would spend hours on end sitting in a stable with my pony.
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I was going through puberty, my parents had separated, I had a lot of unanswered questions,
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and I would feel met and safe and held with the connection of the pony.
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As a child, Claudia spent hours on end with her pony.
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Phrases like days or hours on end mean days or hours doing something continuously without stopping.
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Spending time with her pony helped Claudia through puberty, the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.
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It was her teenage experiences that led Claudia to start her own horse therapy centre.
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She works a lot with teenage girls and children in care.
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A child in care is a child who's being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents or family.
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Here, Claudia talks more about her work with children and horses to BBC World Service's The Conversation.
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It would take maybe a few sessions for a relationship of trust to be formed.
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And it's quite extraordinary to see a child that's experienced a lot of trauma, especially these children in care.
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They can be brushing the pony's body.
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They might want to have a cry which they've been holding on to.
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The horse regulates them.
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Many of the children Claudia works with suffer trauma.
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It takes time for them to build a bond of trust with their horse.
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The phrase bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.
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Horses really are special animals.
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They sense human feelings like fear or sadness through breath, heart rate and movement and respond with gentleness and calm.
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This makes them perfect animal therapists.
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And that's not all, right Georgie?
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Let's find out the answer to your question.
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Yes, Neil.
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Well, I asked you which sentence about horses was true and you said that horses can make over 100 sounds.
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Sadly, that was the wrong answer.
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The correct answer was C.
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Horses have near 360 degree vision, which is surprising.
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Wow, that's amazing!
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with umbrella term, a term used to describe many different things which all belong to a single common category.
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Grooming an animal, like a horse or a dog, means brushing and cleaning its coat of hair.
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If you do something for hours on end, you do it continuously, without stopping.
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Puberty is the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.
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A child who is in care is being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents.
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And finally, a bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.
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Once again, our six minutes are up, but remember, you'll find a quiz and worksheet for this episode over on our website bbclearningenglish.com.
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See you there soon, but for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Informazioni su Questa Lezione

In questa lezione, esploreremo il legame tra gli esseri umani e i cavalli, con un focus particolare sui benefici terapeutici che questi animali possono offrire. Attraverso l'ascolto della discussione e la pratica, avrai l'opportunità di migliorare la tua comprensione dell'inglese e di arricchire il tuo vocabolario. Sarai anche in grado di esercitarti a parlare e a pronunciarti su un argomento interessante, utilizzando tecniche di shadowing in inglese e shadowspeak per affinare la tua pronuncia.

Vocabolario Chiave & Frasi

  • Equine Assisted Services - Servizi assistiti da cavalli, indicano vari trattamenti che comportano l'interazione con i cavalli.
  • Grooming - Spazzolare o pulire il manto di un cavallo, un'attività che può aiutare a calmare l'ansia.
  • Trauma - Esperienze emotive difficili che possono influenzare il benessere mentale.
  • Bond of trust - Un forte sentimento di fiducia reciproca tra due individui.
  • Puberty - La fase dello sviluppo in cui un bambino diventa un adulto.
  • Muscle disorders - Disturbi muscolari che possono influenzare la mobilità.
  • Child in care - Un bambino che non può essere curato dai propri genitori e viene seguito dalle autorità locali.
  • Majestic - Maestoso, un aggettivo che descrive la bellezza dei cavalli.

Consigli di Pratica

Quando pratichi l'imparare l'inglese con youtube, è utile ascoltare le parti più significative del video più volte. Prova a ripetere le frasi dopo averle sentite, utilizzando la tecnica dello shadowing. Questo ti permetterà non solo di migliorare la pronuncia, ma anche di assorbire il tono e il ritmo della conversazione. Poiché il video ha una durata limitata e un linguaggio accessibile, puoi concentrarti su frasi chiave e assicurarti di padroneggiarle. Per ottenere il massimo dal shadow speech, prova a registrare la tua voce mentre ripeti le frasi. Ascoltati successivamente e confronta la tua pronuncia con quella dei relatori. Questo esercizio ti aiuterà a ricevere un feedback immediato e a migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese in modo efficace.

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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