Pratica di Shadowing: Learn English Clothes Vocabulary (B1-B2) | Comprehensible Input - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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This box
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is full of old clothes and magazines and today I've decided to reuse them and help you guys learn some clothes English.
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But first, what do we need?
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A pair of scissors, some coloured pens, a glue stick, a magazine,
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and last but not least, a sketchbook.
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The plan for today is to make my own magazine using this sketchbook and these old magazines.
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I'm going to use my pair of scissors to cut up
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or cut out different sections and I'm going to use the glue stick to stick the cutouts in my sketchbook.
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So let's jump in.
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Right now I'm flicking through the magazine to find a page or a design that catches my eye.
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When something catches my eye, it gets my attention.
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And I think I've found something already.
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I'm going to take my pair of scissors and cut out the trainers.
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I'm going to take my sketchbook of London.
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This is Big Ben, because obviously, England!
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Why is it called a sketchbook?
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Okay, nice, thank you for that question.
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It's called a sketchbook because we sketch in it, we draw in it.
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If you'll notice, the pages are blank.
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is perfect for sketching, which is rough drawing.
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Do I want my magazine vertical or horizontal?
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Normally a magazine is portrait vertical.
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Okay, I have drawn my title and we've called it casual and that represents casual clothes.
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Clothes that you wear every day.
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I have my trainer or my sneaker.
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My glue stick taking off the lid of the glue stick and I'm using my fingers to press it down.
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That trainer is stuck to the page and now I'm going to label it.
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The front part of the trainer, the things that you tie, are called laces.
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That part of the shoe is called the tongue and just like the tongue that you have in your mouth, that's the tongue of the trainer.
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This back The back part of the trainer is called the heel.
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And the front part of the trainer, just like on your foot, is called the toe.
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The bottom part of the trainer is called the sole.
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S-O-L-E, sole.
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Not like your soul or your spirit.
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First part, done.
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Here I have stuck the trainer to the page.
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This is my first part in my fashion collection.
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Back to the magazine.
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Let's flick through the magazine.
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Alright, I found the perfect thing.
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A pair of trousers.
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These trousers are quite skinny, quite slim.
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And I used to wear skinny trousers.
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But for my birthday, Chang bought me some loose trousers.
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some baggy trousers.
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I wasn't sure about them initially but when I tried them on I thought these are great.
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Lovely.
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Now I'm going to take my glue stick and stick these in my English magazine.
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I'm sticking the trousers.
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Okay where am I gonna put these?
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I'm gonna put these nice and straight.
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Right, trousers done.
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I need to label them.
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Next item of clothing.
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I'm gonna flick through the magazine once more.
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Oh, all right, we have a jacket and the material that this jacket is made from is called denim.
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Bob's your uncle.
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denim jacket it's very common for denim to be used
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in jeans here is the pocket where you put your pen inside
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or your phone and these jeans are from Levi's Levi original 501s
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if you know you know these are very good quality jeans but they're quite old now and actually they're ripped.
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There's a rip in the jeans.
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You can see here there is a small hole.
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We call that a rip in my jeans.
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So they need to be fixed.
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This is a sewing needle and this is the thread.
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Chang is sewing the hole with a needle and thread.
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The thread is red.
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It's red thread.
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beautiful.
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Next we have a stripy shirt.
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This is a long-sleeved shirt just like the one I am wearing right now.
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This top part of the shirt is called the collar.
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The end of the shirt, this part here, is called the cuff.
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Cuff.
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This is the button.
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And I've shared this in my last video but if you want to undo your shirt, you unbutton it.
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I'm unbuttoning my shirt.
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Hairy belly.
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And buttoning up my shirt.
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Now let's compare this shirt to my t-shirt.
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This is a short-sleeved t-shirt.
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And the colour of this t-shirt is navy blue or dark blue.
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Alright, moving on.
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Let's talk about women's clothes.
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Chang is wearing a black tube top, a red back, and a polka dot skirt.
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Now she's wearing a blue flowery dress.
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Thank you Chang.
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Now let's talk about fancy clothes.
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Fancy clothes.
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When a man puts on a suit for an event, you can say he's suited and booted.
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It means he's dressed in a suit, ready for an event like a wedding.
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So for my fancy page, I'm gonna do it horizontal.
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Hey, it's James Bond.
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I'm gonna cut out James Bond.
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007. Has anyone ever seen James Bond?
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favorite James Bond film with Daniel Craig is called Casino Royale.
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There we go.
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Daniel Craig is wearing a full black suit, black leather gloves.
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That looks funny.
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Licence to kill.
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I have found a kilt.
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A kilt is a traditional Scottish outfit.
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Scottish men will wear a kilt at a wedding.
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This is a Highland cow.
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The coo is a cow in the Scottish accent and this Highland coo is wearing a tartan kilt.
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A kilt.
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I've just cut out this man's torso and he's wearing a maroon
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or burgundy blazer with a black tie and in his suit pocket
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or his blazer pocket we have a pocket square which is that little piece of fabric
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that goes inside a men's or a man's suit pocket.
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Tie can also be a verb.
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You can tie your laces.
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You can tie a knot in something.
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And actually an idiom to tie the knot is to get married.
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This man is holding a briefcase.
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If a man or a gentleman is looking very handsome,
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well-dressed, A good compliment you can give him is calling him suave.
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Fancy.
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Next for the accessories.
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The first accessory is a watch and it's going around my wrist.
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Here I have stuck a watch to the page and written some times.
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Seven o'clock.
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Seven o'clock.
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For 7.15 we say quarter past seven.
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For 7.30 we can say half seven.
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What time is it?
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Er, sarf seven.
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I would say sarf seven.
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Seven forty five is quarter to eight.
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It's fifteen minutes until eight o'clock.
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We say quarter to eight.
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And seven fifty five here, it's five minutes to eight o'clock, so we say five to eight.
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This man is wearing a beanie hat and above him are a pair of sunglasses.
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Speaking of hats, what do you think about this one?
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The front part of the cap is called the peak, the peak of the cap, which is the same word for the top of a mountain,
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the peak of the mountain or the summit of a mountain.
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The word for sunglasses is sunnies, as we say in the UK.
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And the part around the edge, the structure, is called the frame.
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The part in the middle is called the lens.
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Oh, there's some perfume and aftershave.
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Let's do that.
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So in this image, we have a bag, and at the top here, we have some woman's perfume.
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Frank, can you go get your perfume?
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In the UK in general, we tend to refer to a man's cologne as aftershave.
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And I'm gonna spritz myself or spray myself.
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And this one is a woman's.
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So we call this perfume and it's in a bottle.
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This at the top is called the nozzle.
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And I would...
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Can I spray it?
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the perfume.
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Just had to ask Chang before I spray it because it's very fancy.
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Oh that's cool.
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It's like it's magnetic.
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Look at that.
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And it pops off and on like that.
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Wow.
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I love the design of these things.
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Mmm smells beautiful.
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A sip of tea.
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Why did I decide to create my own English magazine today.
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I believe in being creative.
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It is a wonderful way to express ourselves and actually feel better.
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Which leads me on to the final word of the day, catharsis.
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Catharsis is an emotional release when you do something artistic.
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So, making this English magazine has given me a sense of catharsis.
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Thank you so much for watching, have a lovely day, see you next time.
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Peace.

Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, esplorerai il lessico relativo ai vestiti in inglese, concentrandoti su parole e frasi utili per la conversazione quotidiana. Imparerai a descrivere diversi tipi di abbigliamento, come scarpe, pantaloni e accessori, mentre acquisisci competenze pratiche per migliorare la tua pronuncia in inglese. Utilizzando tecniche di shadow speak, potrai ripetere e praticare le frasi in modo da assimilare meglio la pronuncia e il ritmo della lingua.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Sneaker (scarpa da ginnastica)
  • Laces (lacci)
  • Tongue (linguetta della scarpa)
  • Heel (tacco)
  • Toe (punta della scarpa)
  • Sole (suola)
  • Skinny trousers (pantaloni attillati)
  • Baggy trousers (pantaloni larghi)

Consigli per la pratica

Durante la visione del video, prova a shadowing, ripetendo le frasi subito dopo averle sentite. Fai attenzione alla velocità del parlato e cerca di imitare non solo le parole, ma anche l'intonazione e il ritmo. Questa tecnica di pratica di conversazione in inglese è particolarmente efficace quando il relatore utilizza un tono naturale e amichevole, come in questo video. Se l'oratore parla troppo rapidamente, non esitare a mettere in pausa il video e ripetere frasi a un ritmo più lento. Utilizza la funzione di rallentamento su YouTube per migliorare la tua comprensione e per migliorare la pronuncia inglese. Concentrati sulla pronuncia di parole specifiche come "trainer" e "trousers" per rafforzare il tuo vocabolario in modo pratico e interattivo.

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.