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Hello everyone, my name is Dylan and welcome to another British English listening exercise.
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So today I'll be reading you an original short story called Love Me, Love Me Not by Nicola Prentice.
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So this story is at an B2 to C1 level, so upper, intermediate.
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However, it is very well written, so it's quite easy to follow.
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All you need to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy.
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Kate looked around the room at the other participants, 10 men and 10 women all around the same age.
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Thank you for coming today and offering your time to help advance medicine.
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LimeRen, the medicine we're testing, is in what we call the phase 4 stage,
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which means previous human trials have shown us the drug is completely safe." Kate stopped paying attention.
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She'd read the information the medical research company had sent her,
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so she knew the vitamin tablets had already been approved for sale and that they were just fine -tuning now, not testing side effects.
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She didn't know any of the other people in the group.
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Presumably none of them had jobs either, or they wouldn't have signed up to a medical study to earn money.
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But otherwise, it was impossible to know if she had anything in common with any of them.
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She hoped so, or it was going to feel like a very long four days stuck in the hospital -like research centre.
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Known side effects are that some people experience heightened emotions and psychological states as well as a feeling of general well -being.
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The lead researcher finished off his presentation.
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We'll be interviewing each of you and taking standard physical tests through the day and night.
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So, if you can all sign the consent forms, we can get started.
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Cade signed and dated her form without reading the information.
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Hopefully, this was going to be the easiest money she ever made.
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I hope the food's better than last time, said the guy sitting next to her as he handed in his form.
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Kate smiled.
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I'm Michael.
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Kate, she said.
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You've been here before, as often as they'll let me, he laughed.
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Easiest money I ever made.
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She smiled back, someone she had something in common with after all.
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A few hours later, eating dinner and having taken her second dose of Lyme Wren that day,
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Kate couldn't deny she felt extra relaxed.
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Maybe it was the drug, or maybe it was just being in a place where nothing was expected of her.
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There were books to read, films to watch, and even board games and puzzles.
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It was nothing like her normal days,
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sending job application after job application and going to stressful interviews that never led to a job.
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She looked up and saw Michael smiling at her.
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Fancy playing a board game? he asked.
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His eyes were such a deep shade of brown, Kate thought.
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She couldn't think why she hadn't noticed earlier.
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To her annoyance, she felt her cheeks going red.
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Sure, she replied.
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I'm very competitive though, she warned.
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Perfect, he said.
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Me too.
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Was it her imagination, or did his cheeks look a bit pink too?
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For the next two days, Kate and Michael hung out all the time, playing games, chatting and watching films.
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I feel as if I've known you for months, not days, she said.
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She already knew he lived not far away, that he was a student studying for his PhD and
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that he had dimples in his cheeks when he smiled
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and a cute way of putting a pen behind his ear when he was reading.
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She couldn't be completely certain, but she thought he seemed to be making sure he sat next to her for meals
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and hung out with her whenever he could.
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Or maybe she was the one who was always looking for him.
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So, do you think you're feeling any side effects?
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He asked her one evening.
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They were sitting on the sofa watching a film, Michael's knee was almost touching her leg, and if his hand moved even a tiny bit,
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it would be touching hers.
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Her heart beat faster and all she could think about was closing the gap and feeling his skin touch hers.
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She was blushing again.
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She knew it.
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Any what? she asked, forcing her mind back to the conversation.
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These side effects of Lymerin that they told us about at the presentation, he said, moving his hand away.
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Her skin immediately felt cold, as if the presence of his hand had been warming the air between them.
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Oh, I was only half listening, she said.
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We'd still get paid anyway though, right?
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And then he did it.
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He moved his hand so that it covered hers.
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A warm feeling went all the way through her fingers and across her skin.
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She turned her hand over and held his hand.
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He smiled and leaned towards her slightly.
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Can everyone line up for their evening dose of Lyme Ren, please?
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called a nurse.
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Michael dropped her hand and followed the rest of the group to the nurse's room.
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Kate couldn't remember ever feeling so happy.
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Thank you everyone for taking part in this trial.
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You are now free to go, the lead researcher said the next morning as the trial ended, any side effects will wear off over the next few days.
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Those of you who have experienced strong feelings, emotions, and happiness will find that the feelings lessen,
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but we don't expect anyone to become depressed.
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However, we will follow up with all of you in the next few days to make sure everything is fine.
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We can have our first date now, Michael said to Kate.
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Breakfast?
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Over breakfast, they talked and talked.
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Kate knew she was in love.
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It was stupid, but it was true.
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Michael said it first.
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I can't believe I met you.
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I've never felt like this about anyone before.
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This does feel amazing, Kate said.
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And then a quiet worry that she had been ignoring became too loud to ignore.
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You don't think, what?
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What if it's the lime wren making us feel like this?
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What was it he said about heightened emotions?
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There's only one way to find out, Michael said.
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If you don't want to be my girlfriend anymore after a few days, will know it was just the limeroom.
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She felt herself melt at the word girlfriend.
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Maybe your side effects will wear off first.
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Maybe, he laughed, but I don't think so.
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This feels real to me.
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Me too, she said.
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Four months later.
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Looking back a few months later, Kate had to admit nothing was ever going to be as perfect as those first days together,
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eventually, real life had to interrupt.
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She got a job a few days after the trial ended
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and he went back to the library and his books and research projects.
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It was the end of her money worries
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but also the end of spending all day every day together and all the excitement of falling in love.
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But still, they saw each other when they could and met each other's parents.
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Everyone expected them to get married, and when he finally produced a ring and asked her to marry him, she felt that old excitement again.
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Three years later.
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You do it, Kate shouted.
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She hated doing the weekly shopping.
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Why couldn't he do it?
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I will, but I can't go right now.
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I'm sorry, Michael said quietly.
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He never shouted, but sometimes Kate found his quiet patience irritating.
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Fine, I'll go then, she said, slamming the door.
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Kate felt as if these kind of arguments were happening more often.
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As she walked around the supermarket, she thought about how they'd been before when they were in love.
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Can it ever feel like that again?
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She wondered.
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Walking into the health section, she spotted a word she recognized on the shelves.
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Lime Wren.
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The vitamin's name reminded her of a time she was really crazy about Michael.
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She picked up a box and put it in her basket.
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When she got home, Michael was already in bed, so she ate dinner alone, taking her Lime Wren tablet with a big glass of water.
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The next morning, she woke up early as usual, but instead of jumping straight in the shower, she joined Michael downstairs for breakfast.
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Good morning, she said, feeling a sudden desire to kiss him on the cheek as she sat down next to him at the table.
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He was eating in front of a big pile of books, looking cute with a pen behind his ear.
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What are you working on?
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I'm writing a grant application for my next research project, he said oh, good luck.
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What's the project about?
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After breakfast, she reflected on how nice it had been to see him talking about his passions.
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She'd forgotten how cute his dimples were when he smiled, she thought.
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Or maybe she hadn't seen him smile much recently.
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Anyway, she decided to have breakfast with him every day since it had been such a lovely start to the day.
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It couldn't hurt to make a bit of effort, could it?
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Two years later.
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The baby hadn't stopped crying for two hours, but now she was calm, her little face peacefully as she slept.
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Kate sighed with annoyance.
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Where was Michael?
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She walked out of the bedroom angrily and went downstairs to find him filling bottles with milk for the baby.
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Well done, Michael said.
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That didn't sound easy.
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No, she said angrily, it isn't.
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You're doing an amazing job, he said.
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Okay, so I've done all the laundry, made your lunch for later and arranged to come home early this afternoon so that you can have some time for yourself.
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Kate managed to smile and say thank you.
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He really was being very sweet, even if she was too tired to feel grateful or to be nice back.
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As soon as he had left for work, she reached for the box of lime wren.
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By the time he came home, even earlier than he'd promised, Kate's smile matched his smile at seeing her.
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One year later.
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Kate was putting clothes away while her daughter slept.
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She picked up one of Michael's favourite jumpers and held the soft fabric next to her cheek.
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She missed him and he had only been out an hour.
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Putting it back, she noticed something hard underneath the rest of the jumpers in the drawer.
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The something turned out to be boxes and boxes of Lime Wren.
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She was shocked to see them, even though, by now, she took Lime Wren every day.
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And every day she felt madly in love with her wonderful husband.
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She thought of it as a quick way to those feelings she'd always had for Michael.
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Everyone said marriage was hard work and she just didn't have the time
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or energy to work at love as well as her part -time job and a young baby.
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She found that when she took the tablets, she made more effort at all those small gestures that made their life together nice.
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If he did something nice for her, she said thank you.
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But most of all, she actually felt thankful.
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She paid him compliments and noticed things about him.
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She asked him about his day and remembered things that were important to him.
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She'd seen nothing wrong with the shortcut.
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Until now, that is.
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Now she knew why he had always been so good at doing those same things for her.
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It was all fake.
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Instead of being all smiles when Michael got home, she was angry.
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Clearly, the limerun only had a limited ability to make everything perfect.
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Her rose -tinted glasses were definitely off now.
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What are all these, she asked, pointing to the limerun packet she'd taken from the drawer and piled up on the kitchen table.
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Michael moved closer to the boxes and tried to read the writing.
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They're vitamins, aren't they?
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Don't act as if you've no idea why I'm asking, said Kate.
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Angry, he was acting innocent.
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These boxes, she said, dramatically, pointing to the pile again, are our relationship.
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Oh, he said.
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It's Limerin.
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Yes, it's Limerin, she said i know exactly what they are he looked confused
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so why are you asking me what they are i remember
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the name now you've said from the place we met right but i've not taken those for years
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what i just i don't know it's better to get vitamins from fruit and vegetables isn't it he said
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The medical trial company sent us a load of them years ago, but I put them away somewhere and forgot to throw them away.
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We eat a balanced enough diet, so there's no need to take vitamins.
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What about...
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She felt her voice getting louder and louder, but also something made her feel a slight doubt as she planned the words.
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It sounded ridiculous.
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What about the falling in love part?
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The side effects?
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You were always so wonderful and perfect, the ideal husband, and now I know why.
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Uh, thanks?
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He laughed.
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I know they told us there were some side effects, but we were just joking when we said we fell in love because of the tablets, weren't we?
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Besides, he added, turning the box over in his hands.
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They must have changed the ingredients or something, because it doesn't say anything on the box anywhere about side effects.
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See?
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He held it out for her to look.
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Maybe they changed the recipe after we did that trial. Who knows?
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He gave her a big hug.
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The perfect husband is all natural.
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Don't worry.
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He went off upstairs to check on the baby, and then she heard him banging pots and pans in the kitchen as he started to make dinner.
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She too examined the boxes and it was true.
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There was nothing written on the box about side effects or even on the leaflet inside.
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The tablets were just vitamins after all.
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Lime Wren wasn't a shortcut to love and it never had been.
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Right, guys, thank you so much for watching.
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I hope you enjoyed today's video.
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If you did, please consider liking the video and subscribing to the channel.
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And of course, please comment down below and let me know your thoughts on today's story.
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Once again, a big shout out to the author, Nicola Prentice.
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Right, I do have a few of these storytime videos, which I will put as a card on the screen.
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Now I'll put the playlist on there.
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So make sure to check those out as well right guys thank you again for watching and until next time cheers
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 216 frasi e 2461 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 17:20. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 142 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| lime sostantivo | /laɪm/ | lime, lima |
| vitamin sostantivo | /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ | vitamina |
| cheek sostantivo | /t͡ʃiːk/ | faccia tosta, sfrontatezza |
| emotion sostantivo | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | emozione |
| pile sostantivo | /paɪl/ | mucchio, catasta |
| shout verbo | /ʃaʊt/ | gridare |
| ignore verbo | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorare |
| dose sostantivo | /ˈdəʊ̯s/ | dose |
| excitement sostantivo | /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ | eccitamento, orgasmo |
| researcher sostantivo | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | ricercatore, ricercatrice |
| drawer sostantivo | /dɹɔɹ/ | cassetto |
| downstairs avverbio | /daʊnˈstɛɹz/ | giù, di sotto |
| jumper sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/ | maglione, pullover |
| earn verbo | /ɝn/ | guadagnare |
| finger sostantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dito, dita |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare | |
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| finish off verbo | terminare, rifinire | |
| go off verbo | esplodere | |
| hand over verbo | cedere, trasferire | |
| sit down verbo | sedersi, accomodarsi | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | svegliarsi |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have shown · You've been · I've known |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | been approved · was expected |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 57 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, couldn't, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, shock /ʃɔk/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come lime, vitamin, cheek.
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.