Pratica di Shadowing: I'm So Clumsy! | Advanced English Listening Practice - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hello everybody, this is Elliot from ETJ English.
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How are you all doing today?
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So I thought today maybe we'd do a bit of a listening practice, okay?
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So we're just going to listen to me talk a little bit.
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Feel free to just kind of sit back, relax, listen to my voice and analyse the way I speak and also enjoy the story.
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But first of all, I want to talk about something called clumsiness
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or to be clumsy because this is really related to the story I'm going to tell you.
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So first of all, I am a very, very, very, very, very clumsy person.
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I'm extremely clumsy, okay?
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To be clumsy essentially is to be the sort of person who has a lot of accidents.
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Let's say you're, let me give you another true story.
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Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
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As always in the restaurant, I've got lovely glass of wine next to me.
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Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
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Maybe it's just, you know, just here on the table.
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I'm talking and bang!
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In the middle of conversation, the red wine is all over the white tablecloth.
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Everything is red now and I have ruined my date, let's say, or my whatever it is that I'm doing,
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my meal, and probably have to pay some kind of fine to the restaurant for for destroying their tablecloth
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and this is what clumsiness is essentially in its purest form clumsiness is
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when we always have accidents things always go wrong maybe we're
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not very good with our hands they always end up knocking
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things over to knock something over is to make something fall
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we might smash things imagine a glass drop it on the
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floor smashed um also we i'm not very good with my legs
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so i might fall over quite a lot hit my knee on a door
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or or walk into the bed or hit my head on something okay
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so this is what clumsiness is
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and this is me i want to tell you a little story about
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when i was uh about 14 i was in year eight in school
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and it was a very hot summer day okay very hot summer day
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and it was lunchtime break time some people call it where we have time out from lessons
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and we relax there's a place where all of my friends where we used to sit
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and chill out relax talk catch up with each other in a field
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and there was lots of trees in this field
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and me being the person i was
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when i was a teenager all i wanted to do was
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kind of impress the impress the girls make them think i'm i'm really cool
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which I'm not and I decided to climb a tree
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so I climbed to the top of this tree took me a while
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and when I got to the top of this tree I you know shouted I wanted everyone to see
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that I was at the top of this tree
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so I shouted I was right at the top of this tree look at me
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and um I fell so straight away I just went and
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that that was that my my wrists hit the ground one wrist went like
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that one wrist went like that
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and they were completely out of shape not the way they should be quite obviously they were broken
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because I'd fallen quite a high distance not only that
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but I also landed flat on my nose and it was broken and there was blood everywhere.
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I was knocked out, okay?
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To be knocked out means to be unconscious.
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So yes, I hit my head, my face so hard that I was knocked out.
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And the next thing I knew, I was woken up in hospital with two broken wrists and a flat nose.
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And that's probably why my nose is such a funny shape now.
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And this really did affect me it changed my my year i guess i had six months off school
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because i could do nothing with my arms i couldn't write
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i was stuck like a robot for a long time
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and um my mum had to wash me in the bath
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because i i couldn't i couldn't have a bath on my
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own my mum had to wash me even worse my my
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parents had to use the toilet paper on my bottom yes
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that's right my parents had to wipe my ass for me i never thought i would tell anyone this
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and now i'm telling 20 000 people
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that my parents have had to wipe my bottom
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when i was a teenager which is really embarrassing
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but this is what happened one thing i'd also like to
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tell you i want to teach you a bit of vocabulary in this
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comesy -ness runs in my family it runs in the family now
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if something runs in the family what that means is
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that it's something
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that kind of maybe happens to my dad he's always knocking
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glasses over at the table he's always smashing plates by accident dropping things so same as me
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It also happens to my sister.
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It also happened to my granddad before he passed away.
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So it's something that runs in the family.
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A lot of people in my family, it happens to them also.
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They also have this clumsy gene every day.
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It's an everyday problem.
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It's like a disease.
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And I actually think it's quite an endearing thing.
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Endearing.
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It's something that's quite interesting about a person.
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It's something different.
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It's unique and I embrace it.
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Now I laugh about any incidents that happened to me.
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But the reason I'm kind of telling this listening practice is because I actually want you to tell me, are you a clumsy person?
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Does this happen to you?
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Do you have any really interesting stories that you want to tell me about your clumsy experiences?
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Or are you a perfect person who never makes mistakes?
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Because I know there are some of you out there who are just very lucky and not clumsy at all.
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Now thank you very much for watching.
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If you would like to book a Skype lesson with me, learn real British English, pronunciation, connected speech, expressions, everything and become one of my friends as well as a student of mine,
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feel free to go down below in the description box and book a Skype lesson with me.
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The first lesson is just two pounds.
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It's been a pleasure telling you this story.
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Please do tell me if you enjoy these listening practices and I will do more along with the lessons also.
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But yes, thank you very much for watching guys.
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You're all great.
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There's 20 ,000 of you now.
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I could not be happier.
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Let's make it 100 ,000.
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Come on, let's do it.
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Tell all your friends about ETJ English.
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Help them become a fluent British English speaker.
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Cheers guys and I'll see you all in the next lesson.
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Stay clumsy.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?
Questo video è una fantastica occasione per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e esercitarti nel shadowing, una tecnica efficace per imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo del parlato naturale. La storia di Elliot, ricca di aneddoti e dettagli, crea un contesto reale che ti aiuta a capire come usare l'inglese in situazioni quotidiane. Ascoltando la sua voce, noterai come le emozioni (la vergogna, il sorriso per i propri errori) influenzano il tono, e questo ti renderà più confidente nel parlare con autenticità. E se vuoi approfondire, un shadowing site o strumenti come shadowspeak possono aiutarti a ripetere le frasi in tempo reale!
Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto
Analizziamo alcuni punti chiave del video:
- "To be clumsy": Espressione per descrivere chi ha spesso accidenti. Elliot la usa ripetutamente per definire se stesso, mostrando come un aggettivo può diventare un marchio di identità nel parlato. Esempio: "I am extremely clumsy" (Sono estremamente goffo).
- "To knock over": Verbo phrasal per "buttare qualcosa". Nella storia: "I knocked over the red wine" (Ho buttato il vino rosso). È fondamentale imparare questi verbi perché sono molto usati nel quotidiano.
- Past continuous vs past simple: "I was sitting at a restaurant... when I knocked over the wine". Questa combinazione mostra un'azione in corso (sedere) interrotta da un evento (buttare il vino), una struttura chiave per narrare storie.
Trappole di pronuncia comuni
Attenzione a questi dettagli per non sbagliare:
- "Clumsy": La pronuncia corretta è /ˈklʌmzi/, ma molti italiani tendono a dire "clumsy" con la "u" troppo aperta. Ascolta come Elliot la dice velocemente, quasi "klum-zi".
- "Smashed": La "a" è corta, come in "cat", non lunga. Elliot la pronuncia /smæʃt/, con l'accento sulla prima sillaba.
- Intonazione nelle domande: Anche se il video è una narrazione, Elliot usa domande retoriche come "How are you all doing today?" con un tono che sale alla fine, tipico dell'inglese parlato. Imita questo per rendere le tue frasi più naturali.
Con questo video, imparare l'inglese con i video diventa divertente e pratico. Ricorda: il segreto è ripetere, ripetere e ripetere, anche con l'aiuto di shadow speak. Non temere di sbagliare: anche Elliot, con la sua goffaggine, ci è riuscito a raccontare una storia fantastica! 🚀
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
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| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were broken · was broken · was knocked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have ruined · have had · It's been |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | person who has · teenager which is · person who never |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | might smash · might fall |
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.