Pratica di Shadowing: RE2 Unit 3B - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Track 6.
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Reading 3B.
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Who Killed the Iceman?
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In 1991, high in the mountains of Europe, hikers made a shocking discovery.
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A dead man partly frozen in the ice.
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The police investigation soon became a scientific one.
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Carbon dating indicated that the man died over 5,300 years ago.
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Today, he is known as the Iceman and nicknamed Utsi for the Uttal Alps where he was found.
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Kept in perfect condition by the ice,
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he is the oldest complete human body found on Earth. Who was the Iceman?
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Scientists believe Utsi was an important person in his village.
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Examinations of his teeth and skull tell us he was in his mid-forties when he died.
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The things he carried also tell us about who he was.
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His knife was made of stone, but he carried a copper axe.
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This was a valuable tool in Utsi's time, and suggests that he may have been a local leader.
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A fire-starting kit was discovered with him, so we know he could make fire.
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And the food he ate and carried enabled scientists to know exactly where in Italy he lived, a village down in the valley.
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Clues to an ancient murder.
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But why did Utsi die in such a high and icy place?
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Some said he was a lost farmer or shepherd.
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Others thought he was killed in a religious ceremony.
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No one knows for sure.
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Over the years, tiny scientific discoveries have led to great changes in our understanding of Utsi's story.
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Once the story was that he fled up there and walked around in the snow and probably died of exposure, said scientist Klaus Ogle.
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Now it's all changed.
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It's more like a crime scene.
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A bloody discovery.
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In fact, the newest scientific information indicates Utsi was cruelly murdered.
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In June 2001, an x-ray of the body showed a small dark shape beneath Utsi's left shoulder.
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It was the stone head of an arrow that had hit him from behind.
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CT scans showed that this caused an injury that killed him very quickly.
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Then, in 2003, an Australian scientist discovered the blood of four other people on Utsi's clothes.
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Was Utsi killed in a fight?
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It isn't likely, as Utsi's other injuries on his hand and head had already started to close.
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This means there probably was a fight, but it happened much earlier.
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Perhaps Utsi was being chased when he died.
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In 2010, scientists took the mummy out of the cold and examined him again.
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They discovered that just before his death, he had a big meal of bread
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and goat meat in 2018 further analysis of his stomach showed utzi had also eaten deer meat
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would someone being chased stop to eat a large meal the scientists don't think
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so more likely he was attacked while resting he may have thought he had escaped and was safe today the research continues,
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proving some of these ideas as false while opening the door to others.
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Utsi, it seems, has more to tell us about his life and the time in which he lived.

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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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