Pratica di Shadowing: Let's go to the Cafe - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hello!
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Let's go to a cafe.
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Let's learn English using the world around us.
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Let's learn how to order in a cafe.
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Let's go!
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This is a menu.
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Now I am looking at the menu.
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I'm seeing what I want to drink and and to eat.
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Now let's learn how to order in English.
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How do we order in English?
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This is how I order in English.
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Hello.
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Can I have one Americano?
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One orange juice, no sugar.
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One pomelo juice, no sugar. And one croissant.
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Can we talk about ice?
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Ice, please.
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Thank you.
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So that's how I order in English.
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I said can I have?
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Can I have a water please?
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Can I have a coffee please?
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You can also say could I have.
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Could I have is more polite.
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Could I have an orange juice please?
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That sounds very polite.
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While I wait for my coffee and my juice to arrive,
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I will show you around this beautiful cafe.
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Let's take a look.
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This is a small orange wall.
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A small wall.
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And I can sit on the wall.
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I am sitting on the wall.
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I was just sitting on the wall.
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Now, I'm not sitting on the wall.
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Let's go over there.
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This is the inside of the cafe, the interior area and there are two lamp shades hanging from the ceiling.
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This is the ceiling and this is the floor.
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The floor is a pretty pattern.
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The ceiling is black.
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The lamp shades are made from wicker, from a woody material.
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These are hanging plants.
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There are plants hanging from the ceiling.
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They are hanging down.
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And we are hanging out in a cafe.
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To To hang out is to spend time together.
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To hang out.
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So let's hang out and continue to learn English.
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This is a picture hanging on the wall.
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The picture is hanging on the wall.
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And in the picture there is a man smiling.
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He looks happy.
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In this cafe, there are lots of tables and chairs so that people can sit down.
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I am sitting down on a chair.
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I am sitting at the table.
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On the table we have a yellow rose.
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That's pretty.
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There are some napkins.
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This is a napkin.
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And you use a napkin to dab your mouth. To dab.
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I am dabbing my mouth.
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This table is made from wood.
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It's a wooden table.
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It's made from wood.
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This chair is also made from wood. And metal.
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The legs are made from metal.
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A chair has legs.
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One leg, two legs, three legs, four legs.
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I have two legs.
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A chair has four legs.
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Now, it's time to go upstairs.
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You can see my shadow.
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Shadow.
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Shadow.
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Let's go upstairs.
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I'm walking upstairs.
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This is a bike.
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It's a race bike.
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Because the tires, the tires are very thin.
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They are thin.
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These are the handlebars.
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The handlebars.
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You hold the handlebars.
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I am holding the handlebars.
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This is the seat, the seat where you sit.
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And down here, these are the pedals,
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the pedals, where you push and you pedal.
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I'm hot.
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In England, when I'm hot, I say I'm boiling.
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Boiling is very hot.
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Right now, I'm boiling.
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I am boiling.
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I'm sweating.
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I'm sweating. But look.
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Here we have a calendar.
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This is the date.
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The 29th of April.
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The 29th of April.
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And this is a clock.
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A big clock.
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And it says here, alarm clock.
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This is a radio.
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There are speakers on the side.
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This radio looks old.
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It looks old.
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A little bit retro.
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It looks retro.
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Retro means old and cool, funky, stylish, fashionable.
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Let's go back downstairs.
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Let's go downstairs.
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These are the stairs.
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This is the hand rail that you hold.
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And I am walking down the stairs.
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This is a speaker.
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They are playing music from the speaker.
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Now let's go from inside to outside.
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This is the entrance.
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The entrance to the cafe.
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The entrance is the place that you go inside.
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Outside the entrance there is a board, a wooden board.
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Remember, this is wood.
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It's wooden.
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And on the board it says, it's time for a cocktail.
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Happy hour.
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Happy hour is when a drink is cheaper than usual.
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Normally a a drink is five pounds,
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a fiver, but in happy hour it's two pounds fifty.
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It's half price.
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Happy hour is from 3 p.m until 6 p.m and they say buy two beers,
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get one free.
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Buy two, get one free.
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British people love happy hour.
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Now let's go inside.
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The food has arrived.
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Thank you.
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This is a croissant.
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It's on a white plate.
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This is is butter and this is jam you put the butter and the jam on the croissants the drinks have arrived
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thank you you.
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My Americano.
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This is an Americano, which is a black coffee.
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Chang is drinking, she's drinking a grapefruit juice from a straw.
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How does it taste?
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Refreshing.
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Oh that's a good word.
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All right.
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Refreshing guys.
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That's refreshing.
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A cold drink on a hot day is refreshing.
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Now I'm going to eat the croissant.
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I'm gonna eat the croissants.
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I am eating the croissants.
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That's good.
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I have just eaten the croissants.
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Ten seconds ago, I ate the croissants.
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It was good.
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I want more.
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So one more time.
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This is my coffee, my Americano, in a glass.
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This is the straw.
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And this is an orange juice in a glass.
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There is a straw inside the glass glass.
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On the glass there is a slice of orange.
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This is a slice of orange.
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It's attached with a pink peg.
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The slice of orange is attached with a pink peg.
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Let's put that back now.
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Now I'm going to sip my orange.
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I am sipping my orange.
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I just sipped my orange juice.
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Cheers guys!
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We are sitting on a bench.
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I'll show you the bench.
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This is, we call it a seat or a bench.
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It's like an outside seat.
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And Chang is sipping her drink and putting it on the table.
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Now she's eating the croissant and it tastes delicious.
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Good.
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Behind her there are cushions.
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This is a cushion.
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There are two cushions and on the cushions There is a moon,
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a crescent moon, and some other pattern.
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We call this an abstract pattern.
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Abstract is something organic, something that has no form.
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It's abstract, it's unusual, it's not a face, it's not a flower, it's abstract.
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This is a beautiful flower, a pink flower.
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And these delicate things here are called petals.
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These are petals.
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And these are leaves, green leaves.
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We say one leaf, two leaves.
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Can you repeat?
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One leaf, two leaves.
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One leaf, two leaves.
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Down here is a fan.
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This fan is keeping us cool.
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It's providing a nice breeze.
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Keeping me cool.
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Okay, I've just finished my orange juice.
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It's empty.
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I've just finished it.
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But now, I need the loo.
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I need a wee.
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I need the loo, I need the toilet, I need a wee.
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How do we ask for the toilet in a cafe or a restaurant well we would say excuse me
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where are the toilets ah down there thank you that's how to ask And the beautiful tiles.
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This is the mirror.
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I can see you in the reflection.
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I can see me in the reflection.
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This is the sink.
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The sink.
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And this is the tap.
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I'm turning on tap.
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Now I'm turning off the tap.
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Turn on, turn off.
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Anyway, this is not for your eyes.
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Okay, shall we get the bill?
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Let's pay.
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Excuse me.
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Hi.
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Could I have the bill please?
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Could I pay please?
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Thank you.
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So when you ask for the bill you say could I have the bill please?
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Can I pay please?
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Or the classic That always works too.
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Use your body, use your hands.
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Now, I hope you learned some new English in this video.
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Right now, you can go to J.I and practice speaking about the words
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that you learned in this video to make it even useful to reinforce the vocabulary that you learned today.
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Thank you for watching, I'll see you next time and have a BEA beautiful day!
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Peace!

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 231 frasi e 1378 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 18:26. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 75 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 77% 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
juice sostantivo/d͡ʒuːs/succo
leaf sostantivo/lif/foglia
entrance sostantivo/ˈɛn.tɹəns/entrata
ceiling sostantivo/ˈsilɪŋ/soffitto
abstract sostantivo/ˈæbˌstɹækt/estratto, sunto
boil verbo/bɔɪ(ə)l/far bollire
refresh verbo/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/rinfrescare
cushion sostantivo/ˈkʊʃən/cuscino
shadow sostantivo/ˈʃædəʊ̯/ombra
clock sostantivo/klɑk/contachilometri, tachimetro
flower sostantivo/ˈfloʊɚ/fiore
bench sostantivo/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/banco, panca
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/arrivare, giungere
wooden aggettivo/ˈwʊdn̩/di legno, ligneo
slice sostantivo/slaɪs/fetta, trancio

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
turn off verbospegnere
go back verbotornare
sit down verbosedersi, accomodarsi

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, I'll, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, shade /ʃeɪd/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come juice, leaf, entrance.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo faare made · is made · is also made
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas arrived · have arrived · have just eaten
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodoam looking · I'm seeing · am sitting
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivareI'm going to eat · gonna eat · I'm going to sip

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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