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A. She lives next door and she's always been really important in my life.
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When we were little and my mum was working, she used to look after us.
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She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
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It was like listening to fairy stories.
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Life was so different when she was a child.
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In her kitchen, she used to keep a special dish with sweets for us.
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and she was always baking cakes and pies now she doesn't bake
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so much she started eating more healthily in her old age salads and vegetables and things it's funny how she's changed
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she also goes to this special gym class for old people it's amazing
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i don't see her so often now but she's always the same person however much her lifestyle changes
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He's four years older than me and that seemed like a huge amount when we were children.
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When we were at the same school we never talked to each other during school hours, but now we're older it's a lot better,
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although I'll always be the little one, and that's annoying sometimes.
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He's taken me to rock concerts that I wouldn't have gone to otherwise, and when he was at uni I went to stay with him sometimes
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that was really cool it was great to see what the real student life was like
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when I was still at school now that he's working he's really busy
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but we still hang out sometimes we go to football matches together
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because we both support our home team it's always good to see him.
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C. We've known each other since we were five, and we've always got on really well.
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Well, apart from that time when we fell out because we both liked the same boy, but he went off with Heather Jenkins,
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so we made friends again quite quickly.
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We both liked the same kind of music and going dancing at the weekend, and when we were younger,
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we went out on our bikes together at school we're good at different things i'm good at languages
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and laura's good at maths that's good though it means that we can help each other with our homework
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next year i'm probably going to study in london and she's going to manchester but i'm sure our
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His family moved in just a few houses down from us when I was about ten,
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and I still remember how excited I felt when I found out there was another boy on the street.
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I'd been the only boy, you see.
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The others were all girls.
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We were good friends from the beginning because we were into the same things, computers and football mostly.
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But we had quite a few of the same hobbies for a while.
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I remember making lots of models of aeroplanes one year.
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Another year we took up fishing.
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We had all the equipment and everything, and we'd spend ages down by the river.
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I never go fishing now.
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His family moved away a couple of years ago.
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We're still friends on Facebook, but we don't really have much contact.
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E. I can remember all the details of when we met.
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I was wearing a red dress and I just had my hair cut.
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I can even remember what music was playing the first time I saw him.
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I knew he was special from the beginning and I was right.
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We've been together ever since.
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Well, it's only been 18 months and some people say that isn't very long, but it seems like ages to me.
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We've got such similar personalities and so much in common.
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I'm sure we'll stay together forever.
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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “listening important people by British Council”. Questo video contiene 46 frasi e 618 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:25. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 140 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
bake verbo/beɪk/cuocere (al forno), infornare
lifestyle sostantivo/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/stile di vita
dish sostantivo/dɪʃ/piatto, scodella
pie sostantivo/paɪ/torta, crostata
mathematics sostantivo/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/matematica
salad sostantivo/ˈsæl.əd/insalata
homework sostantivo/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/compito, compiti
hobby sostantivo/ˈhɑ.bi/hobby, passatempo
vegetable sostantivo/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/verdura
annoy verbo/əˈnoɪ̯/irritare, seccare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
find out verboscoprire
take up verbosollevare, prendere

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
  • I'd been the only boy, you see.
  • We've been together ever since.
  • I'm sure we'll stay together forever.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to look · used to keep
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoshe's always been · We've known · We've been
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas working · was always baking · was wearing
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsioneI'll always be · we'll stay

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 21 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we've, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bake /beɪk/, dish /dɪʃ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/

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 bake, lifestyle, dish.

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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