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Section 2 You will hear part of a talk about Mount Rushmore given by a tour guide.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
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Good morning everybody and welcome to Mount Rushmore.
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To start your visit, I'm just going to give you a brief account of the
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history of the memorial before letting you roam about on your own.
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I won't keep you long, OK?
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Mount Rushmore is South Dakota's top tourist attraction and features the heads of four United States presidents George Washington,
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Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
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Each head is 18 metres tall, which is taller than the heights of 11 people combined.
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The sculptor initially wanted to depict the presidents from head to waist, but due to a lack of funding,
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the construction had to stop before this vision could be realised.
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In total, it cost the government $1 million to sculpt the heads at Mount Rushmore.
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Before the construction of the President's heads, the mountain was just bare rock and forest, attracting only a few hikers a year.
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The new carving at Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential greatness
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and has appeared in works of fiction and other popular works.
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The sculpture has also worked perfectly as a way to develop tourism, which was its intended purpose,
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and now attracts over two million people a year.
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The original plan was to carve the president's faces into the granite pillars known as the needles.
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However, the sculptor soon realised that these rocks were too eroded and delicate to support such a large sculpture.
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Instead, he chose to locate the carving at Mount Rushmore due to its grand appearance
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and brightly lit rock faces that experience maximum exposure to sunlight throughout the day as a result of the southeast orientation.
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Upon seeing Mount Rushmore, the sculptor declared, America will march along that skyline.
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The name of Mount Rushmore also has an interesting history.
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The location was originally known as the Six Grandfathers.
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However, during an expedition in 1885, the mountain was renamed after Charles E.
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Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer who joked
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that his annual treks to the mountain had earned him the right to have it named after him.
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Forty years after the mountain was renamed, Charles E.
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Rushmore donated $5 ,000 towards the sculpting of the president's heads, the largest single contribution.
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In 1927, the construction work started and seven years later was complete with no fatalities.
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So that's the history for you.
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If you'd like any more information, please feel free to ask me questions or you can soak up the information from our fantastic guidebook.
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.
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Now I'm going to give you a plan of the site
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and I'd just like to point out where everything is so that you can explore everything for yourself.
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We're currently standing at the entrance which is marked with the arrow on the map.
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If you follow the trail up to our left you will find the information centre.
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There's a great photo booth there where you can have your
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photograph taken with Mount Rushmore in the background for a fee of only $10.
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What a great souvenir.
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In front of us is the refreshment centre where you can help yourselves to coffee,
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locally grown tea and a delicious selection of cold drinks and biscuits.
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Be sure to stay hydrated as it can get really hot up here.
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To our right, not far up the trail, is the gift shop.
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Here we sell copies of the guidebook and it's also the perfect place to pick up some small souvenirs for yourself, your family and friends.
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Now, further up the trail, behind the gift shop, is a big stone building with a workshop.
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This is where all of our souvenirs are made by hand, which you can purchase in the gift shop, like I said before.
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Some are even carved from pieces of rock taken from Mount Rushmore itself.
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If you carry on walking up the trail past the workshop, you'll find our state -of -the -art visitor centre,
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where you can find maps of the walking trails here at Mount Rushmore.
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Now for the real treat.
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After you have walked past the visitor centre, you can follow the trail up to the left, which will take you to our wooden shelter.
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From here, you will have the best view of Mount Rushmore that there is.
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An experience not be forgotten.
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Right, if anyone wants a guided tour, then I'm starting at the Information Centre.
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If you'd like to follow me, this way please.
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That is the end of Section 2.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Now turn to section 3.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 62 frasi e 806 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:13. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 112 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| trail sostantivo | /tɹeɪl/ | strascico, traccia |
| attract verbo | /əˈtɹækt/ | attirare |
| workshop sostantivo | /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ | laboratorio, bottega |
| visitor sostantivo | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | ospite, visitatore |
| sculpture sostantivo | /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/ | scultura |
| carving sostantivo | /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/ | intaglio |
| earn verbo | /ɝn/ | guadagnare |
| carefully avverbio | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | minuziosamente, accuratamente |
| exposure sostantivo | /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ | esposizione |
| fiction sostantivo | /ˈfɪkʃən/ | finzione |
| entrance sostantivo | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | entrata |
| contribution sostantivo | /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/ | contributo |
| delicious aggettivo | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | squisito, delizioso |
| prominent aggettivo | /ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/ | prominente, rilevante |
| wooden aggettivo | /ˈwʊdn̩/ | di legno, ligneo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| point out verbo | additare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | could be realised · was renamed · is marked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has become · has appeared · has also worked |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | tall, which is · tourism, which was · entrance which is |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 9 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you'd, I'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, booth /buθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: memorial /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, fatality /feɪˈtælɪti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come trail, attract, workshop.
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.