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Less than 347, Carnival.
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Clayann talks about the big tradition of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Listen to the end for bonus study materials.
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Now, let's begin.
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So, Clay -Ann, can you talk a little bit about Carnival in your country?
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Actually, Carnival in my country started a very long time ago, after the end of slavery.
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And now it has kind of changed a lot into a big festival.
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where everybody basically dances in the street wearing very little clothes, very colorful costumes listening to music.
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It lasts for two days.
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It's called Carnival Monday and Tuesday.
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And for those two days, that's when we have the big parades in the street, with big costumes, small costumes, and a lot of music.
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The days leading up to Carnival may actually be more important.
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than the two days of Carnival themselves,
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because that's when we have a lot of concerts and competitions for calypsonians and Calypstonians.
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Uh...
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people who sing Calypso, which is music that's native to Trinidad and Tobago.
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and We have a lot of steel band festivals and steel bands are like big musical bands who play the steel drums.
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which were invented in Trinidad and Tobago.
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So this is a national holiday everything is closed down for at least a week.
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A week?
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Yeah, even before before Carnival Monday and Tuesday.
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It's closed from the Wednesday of the week before.
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So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
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And then everybody goes right back to work?
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On the following Wednesday is Ash Wednesday.
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It started I think as a kind of a religious festival.
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I've seen examples of it all over the world including Europe.
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And actually it started from the Catholic Church.
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So on Ash Wednesday, people are supposed to go to church and confess their sins and get ashes.
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And I can assume that we probably have a lot to confess after Carnival Monday and Tuesday.
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So is it usually pretty much the same thing every year or does it change a little bit?
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It always changes because it's not government run.
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The carnival bands, that means the bands of people who parade the streets in different costumes, they're actually competing with each other to get a lot of people.
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to win the band of the year and their judge on their costumes.
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So we have private owners of bands who design different costumes every year with different themes.
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And they have to portray these themes on the street.
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And the aim is to win.
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the competition for band of the year and every year the costumes are different - Actually,
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Carnival is launched from the year before.
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So I think this year Carnival will be launched somewhere in...
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Actually, I think they already launched it last month, July.
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and so from july you're going to see all the bands um coming out with their
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costumes on display for people to decide which band they want to play in, which costumes they would like to use.
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artists start to release their sing their Calypso singles because there's all there's also competition for best calypso and Um...
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and other different types of music.
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which are not as big as calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Welcome back.
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This lesson comes with free study materials First, students can play the audio and read the transcript and go over the conversation.
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Students can also take a listening comprehension quiz and check their score.
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They can review the vocabulary used in the lesson, for example, "confess your sins," government run,
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And they could also do a grammar puzzle, my favorite.
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Students can read the script and try to choose the correct word and then get their grammar score at the end.
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Also, this lesson comes with a free worksheet similar to the grammar lesson that students can do offline.
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And of course, there are hundreds of more free conversations that students can listen to on Ello.
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Check the link below.
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for the free lesson details.
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And that's it for this lesson.
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Thanks so much.
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You've been listening to English Listening Lesson Library Online.
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My name's Todd.
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I'm an English teacher and the creator of the site.
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Thank you so much for your participation, and please stay tuned for more lessons.
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Contesto & Sfondo
In questa lezione, Clayann ci parla della tradizione vivace e colorata del Carnevale a Trinidad e Tobago, un evento che ha radici storiche profondamente legate alla cultura post-schiavitù. Il Carnevale non è solo una festa di due giorni, ma preceduto da una settimana di eventi, concerti e competizioni musicali, in particolare il Calypso. Questo contesto culturale offre un'opportunità unica per gli studenti di immergersi nell'inglese ascoltando un dialogo autentico che riflette la vivacità della sua cultura.
Top 5 Frasi per la Comunicazione Quotidiana
- Can you talk a little bit about... - Puoi parlarci un po' di...
- It started a very long time ago... - È iniziato molto tempo fa...
- That's when we have the big parades... - È allora che abbiamo le grandi sfilate...
- It always changes because it's not government run... - Cambia sempre perché non è gestito dal governo...
- We have a lot of concerts and competitions... - Abbiamo molti concerti e competizioni...
Guida passo-passo al Shadowing
Per sfruttare appieno questo video e migliorare la pronuncia inglese, segui questi passaggi di shadow speak:
- Ascolta attentamente: Prima di tutto, ascolta il video senza interruzioni. Raccogli il contesto generale e cerca di comprendere il tema del Carnevale.
- Leggi il trascritto: Scarica il trascritto e leggilo mentre ascolti. Questo ti aiuterà a collegare i suoni alle parole scritte.
- Esercitati con il shadow speech: Riproponi le frasi uno per uno, cercando di imitare la pronuncia di Clayann. Concentrati sul ritmo e sull'intonazione.
- Riascolta e registra: Dopo aver praticato, registrati mentre parli. Confronta la tua pronuncia con quella originale per identificare le aree di miglioramento.
- Ripeti il processo: Per ogni nuova frase o vocabolo che incontri, usa questi passaggi per consolidare la tua comprensione e migliorare le tue abilità in inglese.
Utilizzando il metodo di shadowing, potrai notevolmente migliorare la pronuncia inglese e sentirti più sicuro nelle tue capacità comunicative. Questa pratica non solo rende l'apprendimento dell'inglese più coinvolgente ma ti permette anche di assaporare la ricca cultura di Trinidad e Tobago attraverso il Carnevale. Inizia subito a imparare l'inglese con YouTube e scopri le meraviglie del Carnevale!
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 invented · is closed · is launched |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who sing · people who parade |
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.