Pratica di Shadowing: RE2 Unit 2A - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Track 3.
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Reading 2A.
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Song of the Humpback.
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Herman Melville, the writer of the famous whale story Moby Dick, once wrote that humpback whales were the most lighthearted of all the whales.
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A favorite of whale watchers everywhere, they often swim in ocean areas close to land and are active at the surface.
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They can often be seen breaching or rising out of the water and then coming down with a great splash.
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Humpbacks are intelligent animals and can be seen working together to hunt schools of small fish.
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And, if you listen closely, you might even hear one singing.
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Recording Gentle Giants Marine biologist Jim Darling has studied the songs of humpback whales for more than 25 years.
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While recording whale songs on a boat near Hawaii, he invited author Douglas Chadwick to experience diving with a humpback.
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In the water, Chadwick heard the whale's songs in a way he had never heard them before.
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Suddenly, I no longer heard the whale's voice in my ears.
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He said, I felt it inside my head and bones.
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When swimming with the whale, Chadwick could see that it was aware of him, but not worried by his presence.
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The 13-meter-long giant looked him over curiously, but never harmed him.
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The whale then swam under the boat.
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It pointed its head down to the ocean floor and, with flippers extended out to its sides, began to sing.
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Up in the boat, Darling recorded the whale's song.
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Humpback whale songs can be long and complex, sometimes lasting for 30 minutes or more.
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They are perhaps the longest songs sung by any animal.
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Why do they sing?
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Darling says that only male humpbacks sing, but for unknown reasons.
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One idea is that they sing to attract females.
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However, when a group of scientists played recordings of whale songs in the ocean, female whales did not respond.
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Another idea is that male humpbacks use their songs to let other males know they are in the area.
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Researchers have also found that humpback whale songs are different in different parts of the world, perhaps like whale national anthems.
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They may also be like hit tunes on the radio, changing over time, from one year to the next, or even over a single breeding season.
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There is still so much the scientists don't know, and years of study lie ahead for whale researchers like Jim Darling.
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Why do I do it?
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He wonders aloud.
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Human beings like puzzles.
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I want to know.
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Another member of the research team, photographer Flip Nicklin, recalls a special moment he had while interacting with a humpback.
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While he was snorkeling some distance from the huge animal, it approached him until it was just a few meters away.
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It then gently carried Nicklin toward its eye with the flipper, as if examining him.
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Apparently, the desire to understand a different species goes both ways.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 36 frasi e 480 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:42. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 129 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 79% 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
whale sostantivo/ˈweɪl/balena
swim verbo/swɪm/nuotare, natare
scientist sostantivo/ˈsaɪəntəst/scienziato, scienziata
researcher sostantivo/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ricercatore, ricercatrice
bone sostantivo/boʊn/osso
harm sostantivo/hɑːm/danno, male
ear sostantivo/ˈɪə̯/orecchio, orecchia
recall verbo/ɹɪˈkɔl/ritirare, revocare
invite verbo/ɪnˈvaɪt/invitare
intelligent aggettivo/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/intelligente
photographer sostantivo/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/fotografo, fotografa
tune sostantivo/tjuːn/melodia
attract verbo/əˈtɹækt/attirare
examine verbo/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/esaminare
breach sostantivo/ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/breccia

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come down with verboprendersi un malanno

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm], biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, curiously /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come whale, swim, scientist.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas studied · have also found
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabe seen · can be seen

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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