Pratica di Shadowing: Listening part three (Work experience for veterinary science students) @ieltslisteningpro.24 - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Part 3.
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You will hear two veterinary science students called Diana and Tim discussing their work placements and their course modules.
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First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.
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So, Tim, we have to do a short summary of our work experience on a farm.
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Right.
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My farm was great, but arranging the work experience was hard.
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One problem was it was miles away and I don't drive.
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And also, I'd really wanted a placement for a month,
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but I could only get one for two weeks.
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I was lucky.
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The farmer let me stay on the farm,
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so I didn't have to travel.
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But finding the right sort of farm to apply to wasn't easy.
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No, they don't seem to have websites, do they?
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I found mine through a friend of my mother's, but it wasn't easy.
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No. My farm was mostly livestock, especially sheep.
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I really enjoyed helping out with them.
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I was up most of one night helping a sheep deliver a lamb.
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On your own?
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No, the farmer was there,
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and he told me what to do.
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It wasn't a straightforward birth, but I managed.
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It was a great feeling to see the lamb stagger to its feet and start feeding almost straight away,
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and to know that it was okay.
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Then another time, a lamb had broken its leg,
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and they got the vet in to set it,
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and he talked me through what he was doing.
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That was really useful.
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Yes, my farm had sheep too.
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The farm was in a valley,
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and they had a lowland breed called Suffolk's,
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although the farmer said they'd had other breeds in the past.
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So were they bred for their meat?
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Mostly, yes.
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They're quite big and solid.
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My farm was up in the hills,
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and they had a different breed of sheep.
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They were cheviots.
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Oh, I heard their wools really sought after.
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Yes, it's very hard-wearing, and they use it for carpets.
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Right.
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I was interested in the amount of supplements they add to animals' feed nowadays.
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Like, even the chickens got extra vitamins and electrolytes in their feed.
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Yes, I found that too.
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And they're not cheap.
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But my farmer said some are overpriced for what they are,
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And he didn't give them as a matter of routine,
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just at times when the chickens seemed to particularly require them.
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Yes, Mai said the same.
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He said certain breeds of chickens might need more supplements than the others,
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but the cheap and expensive ones are all basically the same.
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So, did your farm have any other livestock, Diana?
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Yes, dairy cows.
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I made a really embarrassing mistake when I was working in the milk shed.
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Some cows had been treated with antibiotics,
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so their milk wasn't suitable for human consumption,
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and it had to be put in a separate container.
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But I got mixed up,
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and I poured some milk from the wrong cow in with the milk for humans,
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so the whole lot had to be thrown away.
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The farmer wasn't too happy with me.
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I asked my farmer how much he depended on the vet to deal with health problems.
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I'd read reports that the livestock's health is being affected as farmers are under pressure to increase production.
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Well, he didn't agree with that,
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but he said that actually some of the stuff the vets do,
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like minor operations, he'd be quite capable of doing himself.
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Yeah, my farmer said the same,
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but he reckons vet skills are still needed.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation,
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you have some time to look at questions 27-30.
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Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.
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Now we've got to give a bit of feedback about last term's modules,
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just short comments apparently.
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Shall we do that now?
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OK.
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So, medical terminology.
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Well, my heart sank when I saw that,
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especially right at the beginning of the course,
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and I did struggle with it.
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I thought it'd be hard,
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but actually I found it all quite straightforward.
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What did you think about diet and nutrition?
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OK, I suppose.
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Do you remember what they told us about pet food
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and the fact that there's such limited checking into whether or not it's contaminated?
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I mean, in comparison with the checks on food for humans,
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I thought that was terrible.
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Hmm.
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I think the module that really impressed me was the animal disease one.
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When we looked at domesticated animals in different parts of the world,
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like camels and water buffalo and alpaca,
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the economies of so many countries depend on these,
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but scientists don't know much about the diseases that affect them.
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Yes.
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I thought they'd know a lot about ways of controlling and eradicating those diseases,
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but that's not the case at all.
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I loved the wildlife medication unit.
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Things like helping birds that have been caught in oil spills.
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That's something I hadn't thought about before.
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Yeah.
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I thought I might write my dissertation on something connected with that.
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Right.
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So, actually, I was thinking something along the same lines...
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That is the end of part three.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers to part three.

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Perché praticare il parlare con questo video?

Praticare l'inglese parlato attraverso questo video è fondamentale per migliorare non solo le competenze linguistiche ma anche la comprensione dell'accento e del lessico tecnico. In questo estratto, due studenti di veterinaria, Diana e Tim, discutono delle loro esperienze lavorative in fattoria. Questa conversazione offre uno spunto reale per ascoltare e comprendere come si discute di argomenti specifici nel contesto professionale. Il shadowing in inglese può essere particolarmente vantaggioso, poiché consente di imitare il discorso dei parlanti nativi, migliorando così la fluenza e l'accento.

Grammatica & Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel corso della conversazione, emergono alcune strutture grammaticali ed espressioni che possono essere utili per gli studenti. Ecco alcuni esempi significativi:

  • "I was lucky." - Questa frase esprime fortuna. Utilizzando forme passate come "was", gli studenti possono praticare la narrazione di esperienze passate.
  • "It wasn't easy." - Un ottimo esempio di negazione in inglese, utile per ridurre incertezze e discutere di sfide.
  • "He talked me through what he was doing." - Un'espressione utile per descrivere come qualcuno guida o spiega un processo, ideale per i contesti di apprendimento.
  • "They don't seem to have websites." - Questa struttura esprime un'osservazione, arricchendo il vocabolario in ambito commerciale o di ricerca.

Incorporare queste frasi nel proprio shadow speech aiuta a migliorare la propria capacità di esprimere esperienze e osservazioni personali.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Durante la visione del video, prestare particolare attenzione a alcune parole e frasi che potrebbero risultare difficili da pronunciare. Ad esempio:

  • "sheep" e "lamb" - Questi termini possono essere facilmente confusi per gli studenti, quindi è utile praticarli ripetutamente.
  • "Suffolk" e "Cheviots" - Le pronunce di nomi di razze possono essere complesse; la pratica quotidiana aiuta a migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  • "supplements" - Un termine comune nel settore animale che merita attenzione per evitare errori di pronuncia.

Includere queste parole nel proprio shadowspeaks può davvero affinare le proprie abilità oratorie, rendendo l'apprendimento dell'inglese più efficace.

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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