Pratica di Shadowing: How to start a presentation - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Music It always strikes me how people think about their presentations or how they prepare their presentations.
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I'm actually talking about the first words, the first sentences of a presentation.
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What most people do is they think of a presentation so automatically you think about a PowerPoint.
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So you make your slides.
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You look at your slides and you think about what will I say showing each slide.
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But my question to you is this: What are your first words?
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What are the first sentences?
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Very few people think about that.
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Just think a minute about the presentations that you have already seen in the past, maybe the presentations that you have done yourself.
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There is a cliché sentence that most speakers use to introduce their topic.
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They say something like, good morning, good afternoon.
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"My name is" if they don't know you.
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And then there is this typical sentence: "Today I'm going to talk to you about." Now you might say,
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"So what's the problem?" The problem with this sentence is that you're actually answering the wrong question.
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You're answering the "what" question.
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"What are you going to do?
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I'm going to talk about." If you think about it, most audiences know what you're going to talk about.
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Either you are introduced, or there is a program, or there is a meeting, so there is an agenda, so people know what your topic is all about.
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The most interesting question to answer is the "why" question.
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Why are you there? to talk about this topic and even more important, why is it important for the audience to listen to you?
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So, my advice for you is to focus on the "why" question.
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Now, how can you do that?
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I advise people to focus on a story to begin their presentation.
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Now, if you think about stories, stories begin with a timeframe.
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Just Look at fairy tales.
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They start with once upon a time.
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I'm not going to suggest that you start your professional presentation with once upon a time, but you can start with a time frame.
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Something like yesterday, two weeks ago, last year, three months ago.
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Now what's the kind of story that you can share then?
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Use real stories.
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It has to be something that happened to you.
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It has to be something that you heard.
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So you can refer to a conversation you had with a colleague.
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You can say something like, day I had a conversation with, but then there has to be a reason why you refer to that conversation.
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And there is this linking sentence that I use in lots of presentations.
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I tell my story, and then I continue saying, now why do I tell you this?
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Because my objective or my goal with this presentation is to.
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So what you can do is be very conscious of the company's stories, I might say.
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It can be something that happened with a customer.
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It can be an article you you heard about, it can be a conversation you had.
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So use these stories to begin your presentation, link them to your goal, and it will be so much more interesting for your audience
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because it will be crystal clear for them from the very first minute why it is important to them.
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So next time you prepare your presentation, focus on that why question and tell them a story.
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Come iniziare una presentazione: il segreto per catturare l'attenzione

Nel video, un esperto riflette su come le persone preparano le presentazioni, focalizzandosi in particolare sulle prime frasi. Spiega che la maggior parte dei presentatori inizia con cliché come "Oggi parlerò di...", ma questo risponde solo alla domanda "Cosa?", mentre il pubblico ha già spesso una idea del tema. Il vero obiettivo è rispondere a "Perché?", cioè perché la presentazione è importante per l'audience. Questo approccio rende le presentazioni più interessanti e chiare fin dal principio.

5 frasi utili per iniziare una presentazione in inglese

  • "Yesterday I had a conversation with..." (Ieri ho avuto una conversazione con...)
  • "Now why do I tell you this?" (Ora, perché vi racconto questo?)
  • "My objective with this presentation is to..." (Il mio obiettivo con questa presentazione è...)
  • "Three months ago, I read an article about..." (Tre mesi fa, ho letto un articolo su...)
  • "Let me start with a story that happened to me..." (Permettetemi di iniziare con una storia che mi è successa...)

Guida passo passo per lo shadowing: migliora la pronuncia inglese

Lo shadowing (o "shadowspeak") è una tecnica efficace per migliorare la pronuncia e la fluidità. Ecco come applicarla al video: 1. Ascolta il video una volta per capire il contesto. Nota come l'esperto usa le storie per introdurre il "perché". 2. Ripeti frasi brevi immediatamente dopo l'audio, cercando di imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo. Frasi come "Now why do I tell you this?" sono perfette per esercitarsi. 3. Focus su espressioni colloquiali, come "it strikes me how..." (mi colpisce come...), per acquisire una lingua più naturale. 4. Usa un shadowing site per esercitarti: alcuni siti permettono di ricalcare l'audio a tempo. 5. Analizza la struttura: come la storia si collega all'obiettivo della presentazione. Con la pratica, imparerai a creare presentazioni più persuasive e a parlare inglese con più confidenza.

Ricorda: lo shadow speech non è solo ripetere, ma capire il senso e l'emozione dietro le parole. Prova a iniziare con le storie del video e noterai come la tua pronuncia e la tua capacità di comunicare si migliorino!

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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