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Track 16, Reading 8B, Highway of Dreams

A new road that connects the Pacific with the Atlantic could bring riches and environmental ruin.

Marylou's Gueira remembers a trip she took in 2003 from the city of Cusco, high in the Peruvian Andes,

to her home in Puerto Maldonado, a city in the Amazon rainforest.

By plane, this 320 -kilometer journey would have taken only 37 minutes,

but Mary had traveled by truck along narrow mountain roads, across rushing rivers, and through dense jungle.

It took her three days to reach home.

During the long trip, she remembers thinking, I can't wait till they build that highway.

Almost ten years after that long journey, Mary's wish came true.

Bridging a Continent In early 2012, the Transoceanic Highway opened to public vehicles for the first time.

A dream of Peru's political leaders since the 1950s,

work on the vast network of roads and bridges began in 2006 and was completed in 2011.

Today, the East -West Passageway spans 2 ,600 kilometers.

From Peru's Pacific Ocean coastline, it continues across the Andes Mountains and through a large part of Peru's Amazon rainforest.

It then travels into Brazil, where it connects with a network of existing highways to the Atlantic.

The trans -oceanic highway has been celebrated as one of South America's greatest engineering feats,

and supporters say it will greatly improve people's lives.

Until recently, travel between the cities of Cusco and Puerto Maldonado in Peru took days by bus or truck,

as Mary's story illustrates, and drivers had to use narrow, partially unpaved mountain roads.

Now, the trip only takes a few hours and is much safer.

Improving people's lives

In addition to making travel faster and easier, supporters say the highway will be good for business.

There is enormous demand in North America and Asia for Brazilian and Peruvian products, including soybeans, beef, and gold.

A number of companies in Cusco and Puerto Maldonado also sell wood to different corners of the world.

Many of these companies transport their lumber to the Pacific, where it travels by ship to other countries.

Thanks to the highway, wood can now reach the Pacific in days.

In the past, it could take a week or more.

This lowers costs and allows the wood to reach customers sooner and in better condition.

In the long run, say many business owners, this will mean more profit.

The highway will also open up areas of the Peruvian Amazon that were not accessible just a few years ago.

This may increase activity in these areas and give people new places to live in and travel to.

This, in turn, could mean more jobs and money for Peruvians.

Environmental Challenges Despite the highway's many potential benefits, environmentalists are concerned.

The trans -oceanic passes directly through a large part of the Amazon rainforest in the state of Madre de Dios in Peru.

According to a Peruvian government study, the forested area in the western mountains of this state has the greatest biodiversity of any place on earth.

And until recently, large parts of the forest were in pristine condition.

As more people move into the region, environmentalists worry about the impact this will have on the Amazon's plants and animals,

many of which are found nowhere else.

Shortly after the highway opened, large numbers of people began coming into Puerto Maldonado from all over Peru and the world to mine gold.

There's a lot of money to be made in mining as well as in farming, says environmental photographer Gabby Salazar.

I think we're going to see a big increase in farming, she says.

Right across the border in Brazil, you see soybean farms all over the place.

Studies show that 95 % of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon occurs within 50 kilometers of a highway,

and environmentalists like Salazar are concerned that the same thing is happening in Peru.

It's having an impact on the environment, she explains.

It's having an impact on the people as well.

Faced with these risks, many Peruvians talk about the importance of being practical.

In rural Peru, a lot of people are living in poverty, so it's very difficult to say, don't build the highway, explains

Roger Mastalish, president of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research.

But every time you see a road like this going through, you soon see major changes.

Will these changes be mostly positive or negative?

Many Peruvians are hopeful, but only time will tell.

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Le parole che ritornano più spesso: highway, Peruvian, Amazon, Peru, travel. Questo video contiene 52 frasi e 737 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:46. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 128 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
narrow aggettivo	/ˈnæɹəʊ/	stretto, angusto
translation sostantivo	/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/	traduzione
connect verbo	/kəˈnɛkt/	connettere, connettersi
supporter sostantivo	/səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/	promotore, promotrice
vast aggettivo	/væst/	ampio, vasto
practical aggettivo	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	pratico
rush verbo	/ɹʌʃ/	affrettarsi, correre
occur verbo	/əˈkɜː/	verificarsi
shortly avverbio	/ˈʃɔɹtli/	subito
poverty sostantivo	/ˈpɑːvɚti/	povertà
nowhere avverbio	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	da nessuna parte, in nessun posto
greatly avverbio	/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/	molto, grandemente
ruin sostantivo	/ˈɹuː.ɪn/	rovina
photographer sostantivo	/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/	fotografo, fotografa
enormous aggettivo	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	enorme, grandissimo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
go through verbo	attraversare
open up verbo	aprire

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 3 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, don't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, partially /ˈpɑɹʃəli/, oceanic /ˌəʊʃiˈænɪk/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, oceanic /ˌəʊʃiˈænɪk/, biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, deforestation /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: connect /kəˈnɛkt/, vast /væst/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, beef /bif/, enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: narrow /ˈnæɹəʊ/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, vast /væst/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, span /spæn/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
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Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come narrow, translation, connect.

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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