Pratica di Shadowing: Pixar in a Box: Story Structure - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hi, I'm Kristen Lester, a story artist here at Pixar.
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Today we're going to talk about story structure, the way we organize and tell our stories.
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But before we begin, Have you guys heard the joke about the mushroom that goes to the discotheque?
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A mushroom walks into a discotheque and he walks up to a lady and he asks her to dance.
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She says, "Ugh, gross, no, you're a mushroom !" So he walks up to another lady and asks her to dance.
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Meh, I'm not interested.
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Lady after lady after lady.
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Rejected, rejected, rejected.
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Nobody wants to dance with him.
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Finally, the mushroom walks over to the bartender and he's so confused.
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He says, "I don't get it.
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Why does nobody want to dance with me?
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I mean, I'm a fun guy." See, this joke has a structure.
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It's got an opening, a buildup in the middle, and an ending, which is, you know, the punchline.
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That structure is a big part of what makes it funny.
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Structure is the answer to the question, what do you want the audience to know and when?
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If you get the order wrong, it can be a real problem.
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Check it out.
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Hey, can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's this fun guy and...
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shoot!
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I messed up the opening!
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Okay...
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Can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's a mushroom who walks into a discotheque, and then there's a bartender there.
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Ah, darn it!
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I messed up the middle!
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Hey, hey, hey, can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's a mushroom who walks into a discotheque and there's a bunch of ladies on the dance floor.
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He asks them to dance and they say yes!
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Dang!
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Without conflict, joke over!
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Ugh!
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See?
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Structure is important.
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Just as structure is a big part of telling a funny joke, it's also essential to making a movie that has the emotional impact you want on your audience.
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Shhh!
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This is a great example!
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"Nemo !" In earlier versions of Finding Nemo, the structure of the story was very different than the final film.
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The director wanted to interweave scenes of Nemo's parents' lives before they had kids as flashbacks throughout the whole movie.
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So you would see them meet, fall in love, and eventually move into their house at the drop -off in little scenes throughout the film.
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"Oh honey, it's..." "It's beautiful !" The main story of Marlin
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and Nemo and their journey was pretty much exactly the way it is now.
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But with the flashback structure, it wasn't until the end of the film that you would find out that Marlin's wife Coral, Coral, look out! and all of her eggs were killed by a barracuda.
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When they showed the movie with this structure, They had one big problem.
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The audiences, well, they didn't like Marlon.
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Looking at their story structure, the team realized that in this version of the film, the audience didn't find out why Marlon was acting this way towards his son until the movie was almost over.
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So, they decided to re -edit the movie and remove almost all of the flashbacks, leaving only the scenes where Coral and Marlon's home is attacked by the Barracuda,
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killing Coral and all of her eggs, except for Nemo.
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They moved these scenes to the beginning of the movie.
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This change in the story structure changed the audience feelings about Marlin a lot.
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They knew right from the beginning how much Marlin had lost and how brave it was for him to go after Nemo.
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and they loved him for it.
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In the case of Finding Nemo, finding the problem was a matter of rearranging the story structure.
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Of course, all our movies are different, and their story structure challenges are too.
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In this lesson, we'll look at the many different ways we think about story structure here at Pixar, and you'll get to try out for yourself different approaches to structuring your story.
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Hmm, I wonder if I told the mushroom jokes and flashbacks.
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It'd be funnier.
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Probably not.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Pixar in a Box: Story Structure”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: structure, joke, mushroom, movie, Nemo. Questo video contiene 59 frasi e 682 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:53. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 176 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 10 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| egg sostantivo | /ɛɡ/ | uovo |
| confused aggettivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confuso |
| lesson sostantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lezione |
| gross aggettivo | /ɡɹoʊs/ | grossolano, grave |
| honey sostantivo | /ˈhʌni/ | miele |
| brave aggettivo | /bɹeɪv/ | coraggioso, ardito |
| edit verbo | /ˈɛdɪt/ | redigere, elaborare |
| organize verbo | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | organizzare |
| darn verbo | /dɑɹn/ | rammendare |
| rearrange verbo | /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/ | ricombinare, riarrangiare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| mess up verbo | incasinare |
| look out verbo | fare attenzione, stare attento |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- He says, "I don't get it.
- Why does nobody want to dance with me?
- Hey, can I tell you a joke?
- Can I tell you a joke?
- Hey, hey, hey, can I tell you a joke?
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, didn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, flashback /ˈflæʃ.bæk/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: egg /ɛɡ/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, gross /ɡɹoʊs/, brave /bɹeɪv/, edit /ˈɛdɪt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: flashback /ˈflæʃ.bæk/, barracuda /ˌbæɹəˈkuːdə/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come egg, confused, lesson.
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.