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And now we'll finish with something you may have heard of, that when I was a boy, I had a favourite treat.
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And now we'll finish with something you may have heard of, that when I was a boy, I had a favourite treat.
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I had a favourite, favourite treat, and it was when my mum made...
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Chocolate cake.
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Spaghetti bolognese, that's...
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I had a favourite treat and it was when my mum made...
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Spaghetti bolognese.
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No, it was chocolate cake, actually, that's all right, yeah.
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I was just fooling you, that's good.
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So we'll do it properly, we'll do chocolate cake.
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I had a favourite treat and it was when my mum made...
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Chocolate cake.
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I loved chocolate cake.
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My mum, she says to me, listen, Michael, if there's any chocolate cake left over at the end of the day,
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you can take some to school tomorrow to have at playtime or lunchtime.
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And I used to go to school with a little box like that.
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It was right there, and I knew the chocolate cake was inside, so I'm off to school and I go, and I know it's in there, yeah!
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And I think about it, all shiny and sticky.
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I know it's in there!
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Then I'd get to school and it's playtime and I'd put it down, open it up and...
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Yeah!
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And take it out and it's all...
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You just peel it off like that.
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It's all sticky.
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Oh, a bit dribbling.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Whoa!
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Ah!
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Oh, hang on, somebody's name.
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No, never mind.
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Ah!
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Oh, no, somebody's name.
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Yeah.
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Ah!
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Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
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Mmmmm!
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At one time, there was some chocolate cake left over in the middle of the night, and I was fast asleep, fast asleep, fast asleep in bed.
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And then suddenly, I woke up and I thought, Chocolate cake!
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Maybe I could get up and go downstairs and have a little look at it.
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I'm not going to eat any.
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No, I'm just going to go downstairs, have a little look.
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So I get out of bed really quiet.
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Shh!
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Doesn't make any noise.
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There's my brother.
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He's asleep on the other side of the bedroom.
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Don't wake him up.
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He's bound to tell on me.
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Really quiet out the room.
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Shh.
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Out the room, down the passage.
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Careful not to tread on the creaky floorboard outside my mum and dad's room because if they hear that, I am in big...
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Big trouble!
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Exactly, so really carefully, really carefully, and then not tread on it.
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Grrr! Did they hear?
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No, it's okay.
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Grrr!
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It's okay.
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On down the passage, into the kitchen, over to the cupboard and...
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Yeah!
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No, shhh!
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I mustn't wake them up, they're upstairs.
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I'm just going to take it out and have a little look at it.
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I'm not going to eat any.
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And now I can see it's all shiny and I can see some little...
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Oh, it's dribbly again.
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I can see some little crumbs on the plate.
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I think I could pick up some of those crumbs and no one would know anything at all about it.
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Yeah, here we go.
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Well, yeah, it's really nice.
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I love that.
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Yeah, it's a hot one.
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Mmmmm!
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And then I notice some little crumbly bits on the side
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of the cake all mixed up with a bit of this sticky icing, So I think if I take a knife, I could just tidy it up a little bit.
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No one would know anything at all about it.
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No, here we go.
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And then I scoop it all together.
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Yeah! And I've...
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Oh, yeah.
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Put the chart in there.
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Yeah, belly, belly, belly.
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What's that?
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Oh, mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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And then I think if I've tidied it up over here, maybe I could just even it up a bit over here.
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So I take the knife through the crispy icing on the top, through the squashy icing in the middle, here we go, a whole slice.
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And I've got a whole slice this time and it's gonna go in there.
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I love it.
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And now I can't stop myself.
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I take the knife and I go...
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Oh, no. It's all gone.
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Oh, no, they're bound to notice now.
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A whole chocolate cake doesn't just disappear.
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What am I going to do now?
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I don't know how to make a cake.
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I know!
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I'll wash up the plate and the knife, I'll put them away and they won't know anything at all about it.
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Good thinking.
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Take the plate and the knife.
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Pshh.. onto the drainer.
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And the knife.
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Careful, health and safety.
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And then take the cloth, here we go, with the plate.
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Shoo-shoo-shoo.
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Shoo-shoo.
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Into the cupboard.
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Pfft!
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Pfft!
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And the knife, here we go.
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Careful health and safety in the drawer.
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And then upstairs, here we go, upstairs, along the passage.
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I know where the creaky floorboard is now, so all I've got to do is tread over it, because if I tread on it, and Mum and Dad hear, I am...
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Dead.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Really careful, don't tread on it.
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Do they hear?
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No, it's OK.
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Do they hear?
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No. And then down the passage, into the bedroom, into bed, under the covers.
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Where have I heard that before?
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Under the covers, nice warm feeling, chocolate cake in my belly, goody, goody, goody, and I go to sleep.
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Then when I get up in the morning, I go downstairs and I'm having my breakfast.
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You have your breakfast.
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Here we go.
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Have your breakfast.
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And my mum, she's really busy over here.
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She's really busy over there.
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And then she says, Michael, don't forget your book folder.
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And she hands me my book folder.
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And then I carry on having my breakfast and she's really busy over here, she's really busy over there, and then she says, oh yes, and there's something else nice.
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There's some chocolate cake left over from yesterday for you to take to school today.
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And I went, um, no, it's okay.
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And she says, what's the matter?
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You usually jump at the idea of having chocolate cake.
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And I went, no, it's okay, it's all right.
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And she's looking at me really closely just here.
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And she points at it and she says, what's that?
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And I said, what's what?
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She said, what's that?
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I said, what's what? Where?
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What do you mean? what, what do you mean?
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She said, it's not chocolate cake is it?
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And I went, hmm.
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And then she went over to the cupboard.
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It's gone.
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The chocolate cake's gone.
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You haven't eaten the whole of the rest of the chocolate cake, have you? Have you?
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And I said, I don't know.
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She said, you don't know.
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You don't know.
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You must know.
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Listen, that's the last time you ever have chocolate cake to take to school.
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Do you hear me?
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And I said, yeah.
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I was very good at saying, yeah.
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She said, off you go to school.
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No, before you go to school, go to the bathroom and wash your dirty, sticky face.
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I went in stores.
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I went to the bathroom.
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I looked in the mirror and I saw it just there.
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the chocolate smudge, the chocolate blob, and I looked at it and I thought, maybe next time we have chocolate cake, she'll forget about it.
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Do you think she will?
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How many of you here have got a mum who'll forget about it?
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And how many of you here have got a mum who'll remember and remember and remember our main?
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I can tell you something.
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My mum was brilliant at forgetting.
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That's why I'm a spoiled brat.
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Thank you.
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Hooray!
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Thank you.

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Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Il video di Michael Rosen che esegue la sua poesia "Chocolate Cake" offre un'opportunità unica per migliorare le proprie abilità nel parlato. Ascoltando la sua performance, gli studenti possono immergersi in un contesto ricco di emozioni e vivacità, tipico della comunicazione quotidiana. La costruzione narrativa e il tono giocoso di Rosen rendono il video coinvolgente, incoraggiando chi apprende l'inglese a imitare e praticare. Utilizzando il shadow speak come tecnica, gli studenti possono affinare la loro pronuncia e intonazione mentre si divertono, rendendo l'apprendimento linguistico un'esperienza più leggera e memorabile.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Durante la sua performance, Rosen utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi espressive che possono essere utili per gli studenti di inglese. Ecco alcune chiavi di lettura:

  • Uso del tempo passato: La narrazione avviene principalmente al passato, con frasi come "quando ero un ragazzo" e "eri sempre felice". Questo aiuta a comprendere la formazione dei racconti autobiografici e le espressioni temporali.
  • Domande retoriche: Frasi come "Ma chi lo sa?" coinvolgono l'ascoltatore e rendono il discorso più interattivo. È un ottimo modo per praticare il shadowing in inglese, rendendo il parlato più caratteristico e meno formale.
  • Descrizioni vivide: Rosen usa descrizioni dettagliate come "tutti lucidi e appiccicosi" per accrescere l'immaginazione dell'ascoltatore. Imparare a descrivere emozioni e oggetti è fondamentale per migliorare la fluidità linguistica.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Nel video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che potrebbero rivelarsi difficili per chi sta cercando di migliorare la pronuncia inglese. Ecco alcuni punti da considerare:

  • Chocolate cake: È importante praticare questa espressione per padroneggiare la combinazione di suoni. Potrebbe essere utile ripetere lentamente fino a sentire la fluidità.
  • Sticky: Questa parola può essere complicata per via della sua pronuncia, in particolare il suono "st". Esercitarsi nel shadow speech con questa parola aiuterà a evitare confusioni comuni.
  • Playtime: A causa dell'accoppiamento di suoni, potrebbe essere difficile per alcuni studenti. Provare a pronunciarla in contesti diversi li aiuterà a familiarizzare di più.

Incorporando queste pratiche nel loro apprendimento, gli studenti possono facilmente superare le proprie difficoltà linguistiche e progredire verso una comunicazione più sicura e naturale in inglese.

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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