Pratica di Shadowing: INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH STORY 🧗New Adventures 🚣B1 - B2 | British English Reading & Listening Practice - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Hello and welcome to Lovely English Stories.
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Thank you for stopping by.
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This story is written for intermediate English learners.
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Ready?
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Let's get started.
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B1, B2 English Story.
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New Adventures.
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The tick-tock of the clock was all that could be heard in the dark room.
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Rosa lay in bed listening.
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She was staring at the ceiling, waiting for her alarm clock to sound.
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She felt nervous.
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Her stomach was churning.
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Rosa was starting to regret her decision.
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Why has she done this?
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She could have had such an easy life, but she always seemed to make things difficult for herself.
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Rosa huffed and pulled the duvet over her head.
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She wanted to silently scream into her pillow.
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She looked at her alarm clock.
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It was 4.30am.
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She still had another three hours until she needed to get up.
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Rosa got out of bed and the floorboards started to creak.
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This wasn't her room.
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It was a dusty room in a bed and breakfast a long way from her home.
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She did some stretches, looked out of the window and got back into bed.
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She didn't want to make too much noise and wake up the other people who were staying at the accommodation.
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Rosa had set herself the challenge of saying yes to more things.
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She had always been quite pessimistic and after a friend recently got very ill,
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she realised that life was too short and she needed to do more with her time.
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She needed to say yes and experience some new adventures.
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Since then, she had said yes to more parties, dates, random workout classes and,
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annoyingly, more overtime at work.
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But it was the extra hours she had worked that had paid for her next adventure.
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Rosa looked at her clock again, 4.45am.
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She was being picked up at 8.15 by someone called Drew.
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Drew was a friend of a friend.
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He had just started working as an outdoor activities instructor and was setting up his own adventure park.
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He wanted some people to test out his activities and Rosa, in a moment of madness, had said yes.
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Rosa was terrified of quite a few things, including water and heights.
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Her day ahead was going to involve white water rafting and climbing a huge rock.
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Rosa was petrified, but it was too late to back out now.
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She knew the activities were safe as they had all been inspected by professionals
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and she knew she was lucky that she was going to try out all these so-called fun things with her friends.
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But she couldn't budge the feeling of fear.
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Rosa must have dozed off as the next time she opened her eyes, her alarm clock said 6.55am.
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She decided to get out of bed, have a shower and get prepared for her day.
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She then made her way down to the breakfast room where she met two of her friends,
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Richard and Felicity, who were also going to take part in some activities.
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They were more excited than scared and it made Rosa feel like she was overreacting.
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Rosa forced herself to eat some breakfast as she knew she would need the energy.
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She managed some cereal, a banana and a slice of toast.
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She then went back to her room, packed her bag, and did a few more stretches to calm her shaking hands.
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She made her way downstairs, checked out, and then waited outside with Richard and Felicity.
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Suddenly, a coach arrived with some other participants, and they set off.
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Everyone was friendly and chatty and there was a buzz of nervousness in the air.
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Rosa knew she was doing the right thing.
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But at that very moment, she felt like her saying yes to this adventure was a very silly idea.
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Once they arrived at the outdoor activity centre,
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they were given a quick tour and left their belongings in lockers before heading off to their given activities.
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Rosa would not have chosen to climb a huge rock or go white water rafting.
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She would have chosen cycling or perhaps archery.
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She got to the climbing area and was helped into a harness
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She then listened to a safety talk Before one of the instructors showed them how to climb the rock surface
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Drew came over to check that everything was okay And he gave everyone some snacks and water
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Rosa took a deep breath and started to pull herself up the climbing wall.
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She tried to keep looking up.
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She didn't want to look down as she knew she would feel sick.
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She didn't feel strong enough to do this.
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She kept her eyes on the instructor who was at the top of the wall guiding her and the other participants.
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She was doing better than she realized, and before she knew it, she was at the top.
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Finally, she looked down and saw how far she had come.
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She wanted to cry, laugh, and be sick all at once.
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The instructor assumed she had climbed before.
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She told them it was pure fear that drove her up the wall so quickly.
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She just wanted it to be over.
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Rosa cheered on the other climbers.
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She felt proud.
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That was one new adventure ticked off her list.
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Now it was time to have a quick snack before heading over to the white water rafting activity.
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This was what Rosa was really worried about.
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She was scared that she might fall into the water or the boat might sink.
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Luckily, the buzz of climbing so well had helped her to feel calmer.
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Again, Rosa and the other volunteers were given a safety talk by one of the instructors
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and then they were off to their rafts.
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She felt safer knowing she was wearing a life jacket and that the water wasn't actually that deep.
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Luckily, as there hadn't been much rain, the water was flowing downstream quite calmly.
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She got on the boat, put on her helmet and prepared herself.
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She kept telling herself it was all going to be fine.
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One of the other people in her boat was quite nervous,
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so she found herself trying to calm him down, which helped her too.
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Then, without any warning, they were off paddling downstream.
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Rosa found herself screaming and laughing.
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Cool water was flying in her face and she almost fell in the water three times, but she didn't care.
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By the time they had reached the end of the ride, she wanted to do it again.
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She felt like she had caught the extreme sports bug,
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even though she had been terrified just a few hours earlier.
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As they dried off, Rosa started to feel very tired.
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The excitement of the day had finally caught up with her.
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As she took a huge sip of her orange juice, she smiled to herself.
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Now she was glad she had said yes.
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She'd had such a wonderful day experiencing some new adventures with people who would become her friends for life.
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Now let's go through some of the vocabulary from this story.
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Chatty.
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Chatty.
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If someone is chatty, then they enjoy talking a lot in a friendly way.
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Inspect. To inspect.
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To inspect is to look at something carefully in order to check that it is correct or good enough.
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Participant A participant is a person who takes part in or becomes involved in a particular activity.
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Random Random If something is random,
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it is chosen or is happening without any particular method or purpose.
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Assume To assume To assume is to accept something to be true without question or proof.
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Helmet Helmet A helmet is a hard hat that you wear to protect your head.
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Pessimistic, pessimistic.
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If someone is pessimistic, they think that bad things are more likely to happen
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or perhaps they focus on the bad part of a situation.
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Petrified, petrified.
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To be petrified is to be very scared.
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Calm.
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Calm.
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To be calm is to be peaceful, quiet and without worry.
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Instructor.
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Instructor.
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An instructor is a person whose job is to teach people a practical skill.
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Regret. To regret.
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To regret is to feel sorry and sad about something you have said and done or perhaps not said or done.
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Suddenly Suddenly If something happens suddenly then it happens quickly or unexpectedly.
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Perché esercitarsi a parlare con questo video?
Praticare l'inglese parlato utilizzando questo video offre un'opportunità unica per migliorare le proprie abilità linguistiche in un contesto coinvolgente e narrativo. La storia di Rosa, un'apprensiva avventuriera, permette agli studenti di immergersi in situazioni quotidiane e di comprendere le emozioni e le sfide che molti affrontano. La tecnica di shadowspeak è particolarmente utile qui: ripetere ciò che ascoltano non solo aumenta la fluidità ma aiuta anche a stabilire un collegamento più profondo con la lingua. Gli studenti possono scegliere di imitare la pronuncia e l'intonazione dell'oratore, facilitando una pratica di shadow speech che rende l'apprendimento dell'inglese più interattivo e motivante.
Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto
Il transcript del video presenta diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi che gli studenti possono utilizzare nella comunicazione quotidiana. Ecco alcune espressioni chiave:
- “Why has she done this?” - Usata per esprimere sorpresa o rimorso, questa struttura interrogativa aiuta a praticare l'uso dei tempi verbali.
- “She was terrified of quite a few things” - Questa frase esemplifica l'uso del passato continuo per descrivere stati d'animo prolungati nel tempo.
- “She had said yes to more parties” - Qui possiamo vedere l'uso del past perfect, utile per descrivere azioni completate nel passato rispetto a un'altra azione passata.
- “It was too late to back out” - Un'espressione colloquiale che si può usare in situazioni di impegno o decisioni.
- “She needed to say yes and experience some new adventures” - Una frase che incapsula l'idea di apertura verso nuove esperienze, incoraggiando l’uso di verbi modali.
Trappole comuni nella pronuncia
Ci sono alcuni termini e frasi nel video che possono risultare difficili da pronunciare per gli studenti. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti:
- “Tick-tock” - La ripetizione di suoni in questa parola richiede attenzione per evitare una pronuncia affrettata.
- “Adventures” - Prestare attenzione alla pronuncia delle “v” e “t” per evitare confusione nel suono.
- “Creak” - La transizione tra le consonanti può risultare complicata; fare pratica contribuendo a migliorare l'articolazione.
- “Rafting” - La pronuncia della “r” in parola può essere insidiosa; esercitarsi con il shadowing in inglese può aiutare.
Incorporando queste pratiche nei tuoi esercizi di shadowing site, puoi migliorare significativamente le tue capacità di ascolto e pronuncia in inglese.
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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