Pratica di Shadowing: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect | The Birthday Wish - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Hey, Bob.
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Hey, Bob.
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So, why weren't you at work yesterday?
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Hi, Sam.
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Oh, I had a really crazy day.
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If I tell you, you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone.
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Oh no, it sounds serious.
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I promise I won't say a word.
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My mouth is sealed.
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What happened?
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Well, it all started at the train station.
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I was waiting for the train.
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When I saw a beautiful woman walk by,
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I couldn't believe my eyes.
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She was stunning.
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Honestly, she was like something from the movies.
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She suddenly stopped and started talking to me.
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I was talking to her when the train that I was supposed to get on stopped.
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I missed my train because she was asking me questions.
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And I couldn't stop talking to her.
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She was asking me what train she should take when my train arrived.
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Of course, I had to help her.
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It would have been rude to just jump on my train.
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So, I helped her find her way.
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Anyways, I was checking the train schedule for the next train I could take when she invited me for coffee.
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I checked my watch and I was already late for work,
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so I didn't know what to do.
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Should I go for a coffee and call in sick?
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Or should I politely explain that I was running late for work and miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
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That's when she told me that she was only visiting.
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She was planning to go back to her hometown after she visited her grandma at the hospital.
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There was a chance that I'd never see her again if I didn't go for coffee.
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It was then that I decided to call in sick.
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We hopped on the train and went to Central Station.
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There's a really quiet and fancy coffee shop very close to the station that I decided to take her to.
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We started walking when she received a message from her friend.
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She was replying to her friend when a man selling flowers walked by.
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I quickly bought a rose for her when she wasn't looking.
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I gave her the rose and she screamed with joy.
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Thanks, thanks, thanks.
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She was really thrilled.
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We were walking to the coffee shop when she suddenly stopped
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and told me that she needed to call her grandma and tell her she would be a little bit late.
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When I was standing on the street,
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waiting for her to finish talking to her grandma,
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I noticed our boss Cindy out of the corner of my eye.
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I quickly covered my face with a bag as she was walking by.
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I don't think she saw me,
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but I was a little bit worried.
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Anyways, she finished talking to her grandma,
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and we continued walking to the coffee shop.
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We got there, and it was completely full.
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There were no seats in the place.
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Just my luck.
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That is when she suggested that we wait.
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We were sitting in the waiting area when an old loud man came in.
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He looked at her and said, Wow!
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Are you from heaven?
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I think I'm in love with you.
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She smiled and thanked the old man.
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Then she did something that I wasn't expecting at all.
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She invited the old man to join us for coffee.
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He happily accepted her invitation.
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After waiting for nearly an hour, we got a table.
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We were looking at the menu and trying to decide what to order.
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When the old man suddenly passed out on the table,
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We looked at each other and started laughing hysterically.
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We were laughing when suddenly,
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out of the blue, an older-looking woman walked in the door.
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It was her grandma.
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That confused me.
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Since she had told me several times that visiting her grandma in the hospital was the whole purpose of her trip,
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I was thinking to myself, was she lying?
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Or did her grandma really make a sudden recovery?
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Her grandma was walking towards us with a huge smile on her face.
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Then she looked down and noticed the old man passed out at our table.
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She stopped in her tracks and screamed loudly.
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What is he doing here?
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Well, that really confused me.
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How did all of these strangers happen to know each other?
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I was thinking to myself,
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well, then her grandma started dancing to a song that came on the radio.
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The old man woke up and he suddenly started singing.
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We were clapping and laughing when the waitress came over with a birthday cake.
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Everyone in the coffee shop started to sing happy birthday to me.
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I couldn't understand why since my birthday was last month.
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It was really hot and I was sweating because I didn't know what was happening.
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I closed my eyes, made a wish and blew out the candles.
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That's when I woke up and realized it was all just a dream.
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I'd forgotten to set my alarm clock and slept in.
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Well, I was running late and decided to use a personal day to catch up on some errands.
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Well, that was a pretty entertaining dream and story.
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I'm relieved to hear that everything is okay with you, Bob.
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Next time, you can just give me the short answer.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, imparerai a utilizzare i tempi verbali del passato: Past Simple, Past Continuous e Past Perfect. Attraverso una conversazione vivace, scoprirai come raccontare eventi passati e come esprimere azioni che si sono svolte contemporaneamente. Questo è fondamentale per migliorare la tua capacità di narrare storie in inglese. Utilizzando imparare l'inglese con youtube, potrai ascoltare e praticare la pronuncia di situazioni quotidiane, affinando le tue competenze di shadowspeak e shadow speech.

Parole e frasi chiave

  • missed my train - ho perso il mio treno
  • she was stunning - era mozzafiato
  • call in sick - chiamare per dire che sei malato
  • once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - opportunità unica nella vita
  • she was replying - stava rispondendo
  • I was waiting - stavo aspettando
  • missed my train - ho perso il mio treno
  • invited me for coffee - mi ha invitato a prendere un caffè

Consigli per la pratica

Per migliorare la tua capacità di parlare in inglese, prova a fare shadowing mentre ascolti il video. Questo approccio ti permette di imitare i suoni, il ritmo e l'intonazione dell'oratore originale. Concentrati sul tono e sulla velocità della conversazione, che riflettono situazioni naturali e quotidiane. Quando ascolti la frase "I was checking the train schedule," prova a ripeterla seguendo la stessa intonazione. Shadowspeaks ti aiuterà a sviluppare un'abilità fondamentale per partecipare a conversazioni reali. Ricorda di praticare anche il shadow speak su frasi come "I didn’t know what to do," per acquisire sicurezza e fluidità. Aggiungi alla tua routine di studio l'uso di imparare l'inglese con youtube, che rende il processo di apprendimento più coinvolgente e stimolante.

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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