Pratica di Shadowing: Listening B1, PET 2, Test 4, Part 3 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Now turn to part three, questions 14 to 19.
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You will hear a man talking about Tanya Perry's life.
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For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
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You now have 20 seconds to look at part three.
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Now we are ready to start.
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Listen carefully.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hello and welcome.
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We're spending the first part of today's programme talking about Tanya Perry.
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And with me today is Ray Potter, her friend and colleague for many years.
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Yes, well, I've known Tanya for nearly 20 years.
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Not many people know that she was born in London in 1948.
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In 1952, her parents moved with Tanya and her brother to the North West.
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They lived in various places before finally coming to Manchester in 1956.
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Tania spent a very happy period at school.
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In fact, she was in the same class as Jack Peters, the famous poet.
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David Thompson, the artist, was also at the school, a couple of years below her, I think.
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So it was an interesting time for Tania, who actually began to write short stories while she was at school.
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One of her stories appeared in the school magazine.
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I have a copy here.
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It's extraordinary.
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You can see a lot of her ideas starting to grow.
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When Tanya left school, she didn't go to university, as Jack Peters did, but got a job immediately.
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She was never interested in university life life, what she wanted was to be part of the real world,
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to meet different people and get more experience of life.
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So in the early 1970s, she became a waitress, working in what was then one of the most popular cafes in Manchester.
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She was writing at night, and in 1975, she had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival accessible.
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She gave up her day job the following year to be able to write full -time.
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Several of her plays were performed, including one at the Court Theatre in London.
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This was where she met film director
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Robin Newgate, who she later married.
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Robin introduced her to the film world, and in 1979 she wrote the story which later became the film
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City Life, which which Robin directed.
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It won the prize for best foreign film at an important French film festival in 1984.
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Tania could have moved to Hollywood then, but she was still married to the theatre, and to Robin, so she decided to stay here.
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Now she has twenty -four plays in print, eighteen in translation, which makes her work very widely known all over the world.
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Now, listen again.
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Hello and welcome.
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We're spending the first part of today's programme talking about Tanya Perry.
40
And with me today is Ray Potter, her friend and colleague for many years.
41
Yes, well, I've known Tanya for nearly 20 years.
42
Not many people know that she was born in London in 1948.
43
In 1952, her parents moved with Tania and her brother to the North West.
44
They lived in various places before finally coming to Manchester in 1956.
45
Tania spent a very happy period at school.
46
In fact, she was in the same class as Jack Peters, the famous poet.
47
David Thompson, the artist, was also at the school, a couple of years below her, I think.
48
So it was an interesting time for Tanya, who actually began to write short stories while she was at school.
49
One of her stories appeared in the school magazine.
50
I have a copy here.
51
It's extraordinary.
52
You can see a lot of her ideas starting to grow.
53
When Tanya left school, she didn't go to university, as Jack Peters did, but got a job immediately.
54
She was never interested in university life.
55
What she wanted.. was to be part of the real world, to meet different people and get more experience of life.
56
So in the early 1970s she became a waitress, working in what was then one of the most popular cafes in Manchester.
57
She was writing at night, and in 1975 she had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
58
She gave up her day job the following year to be able to write full time.
59
Several of her plays were performed, including one at the Court Theatre in London.
60
This was where she met film director
61
Robin Newgate, who she later married.
62
Robin introduced her to the film world, and in 1979 she wrote the story which later became the film
63
City Life, which Robin directed.
64
It won the prize for best foreign film at an important French Film Festival in 1984.
65
Tanya could have moved to Hollywood then, but she was still married to the theatre, and to Robin, so she decided to stay here.
66
Now she has 24 plays in print, 18 in translation, which makes her work very widely known all over the world.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Listening B1, PET 2, Test 4, Part 3”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Tanya, film, Robin, Tania, Peters. Questo video contiene 66 frasi e 795 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:15. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 127 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 90% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

13 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
translation sostantivo/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/traduzione
introduce verbo/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/presentare
extraordinary aggettivo/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/straordinario, straordinaria
poet sostantivo/ˈpoʊ.ət/poeta, poetessa
colleague sostantivo/ˈkɒliːɡ/collega
waitress sostantivo/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/cameriera
carefully avverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/minuziosamente, accuratamente
accessible aggettivo/əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/accessibile
perform verbo/pəˈfɔːm/eseguire
prize sostantivo/ˈpɹaɪ̯z/trofeo
print verbo/pɹɪnt/stampare
widely avverbio/ˈwaɪdli/comunemente, generalmente
fill verbo/fɪl/imbottire, riempire

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
give up verboarrendersi

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 fawas born · were performed
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've known
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosatranslation, which makes
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas writing

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 6 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, I've, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, twenty /ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i]

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: introduce /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/, poet /ˈpoʊ.ət/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/, waitress /ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/, prize /ˈpɹaɪ̯z/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, cafe /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, programme /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

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 translation, introduce, extraordinary.

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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