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Unit 5.
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B. The Stories in the Rock When he was just six years old,
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Jörn Höram turned his bedroom into a small museum.
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His shelves became filled with a growing collection of fossils.
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For Höram, these fossils were not just rocks, but things that could tell the history of life on this planet.
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He imagined them saying, I am not a rock, I am a fossil.
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I have a story to tell.
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B. Hurum earned a PhD in paleontology in his native Norway.
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Since then, he has been on expedition seeking fossils all over the world.
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Much of his work has been carried out in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands north of the Arctic Circle.
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In the hills of this cold and remote region, Hurum and his team have found the fossils of many sea creatures.
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It might seem surprising to find the remains of such animals at the tops of hills,
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but in prehistoric times, these areas were actually seabeds about 100 metres deep.
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See, Hurum has returned to Svalbard many times.
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The dig season in the region is very short, from July to August.
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During that time, the temperature is just about warm enough to soften the frozen ground, allowing easier access to the fossils.
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There is also less wind, and the midnight sun makes it easy for the scientists to have long, productive days.
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D, even a dream job, has its challenges, however.
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Sometimes we find explodosaurs, he says.
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The team may find many broken bone pieces spread across a hillside.
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Then it becomes impossible to recreate the entire animal.
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We have to identify the entire animal from individual pieces.
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Each of Huram's expeditions also requires a lot of preparation.
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We have between 15 and 20 people, tons of equipment, food, jackhammers, water, he explains.
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There's a lot of work before you start the cool thing.
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E for Hurum, the cool thing, is the act of discovery.
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In 2006, his team made its greatest discovery so far.
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After removing about 60 tons of rock by hand, Hurum and his team eventually dug out an enormous fossil.
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We knew immediately this was something special, says Huram.
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The large pieces of bone told us that this was big.
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It was a plesiosaur, a prehistoric sea monster with teeth the size of cucumbers.
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The fossil was not complete, but it included a front flipper, a shoulder, and pieces of skull and neck.
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F for Huram, the discovery of this 15-metre-long creature nicknamed Predator X, was an amazing moment.
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It's like one of those scratch-off lottery tickets every time you dig, he explains.
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Sometimes you start digging and you might just find part of a skull or other bone.
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Sometimes you find the skull and the vertebra.
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Then you know it's a jackpot.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “READING EXPLORER 2 Unit 5B The Stories in the Rocks”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: fossil, Hurum, pieces, rock, skull. Questo video contiene 37 frasi e 463 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:12. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 144 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 76% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| fossil sostantivo | /ˈfɑsl̩/ | fossile |
| prehistoric aggettivo | /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/ | preistorico |
| metre sostantivo | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | metro |
| expedition sostantivo | /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ | spedizione |
| ton sostantivo | /tʌn/ | tonnellata |
| cucumber sostantivo | /ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/ | cetriolo |
| flipper sostantivo | /ˈflɪpɚ/ | pinna |
| jackhammer sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒækˌhæmɚ/ | martello pneumatico |
| paleontology sostantivo | /ˌpeɪli.ənˈtɑləd͡ʒi/ | paleontologia |
| plesiosaur sostantivo | /ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ/ | plesiosauro |
| seabed sostantivo | fondale marino | |
| soften verbo | /ˈsɑfən/ | ammorbidire, addolcire |
| vertebra sostantivo | /ˈvɝ.təb.ɹə/ | vertebra |
| jackpot sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/ | montepremi |
| nickname sostantivo | /ˈnɪkneɪm/ | soprannome |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been · has been carried · have found |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | might seem · may find · might just find |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, paleontology /ˌpeɪli.ənˈtɑləd͡ʒi/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/, hillside /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/, jackhammer /ˈd͡ʒækˌhæmɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/, hillside /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/, jackpot /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/, recreate /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: jackhammer /ˈd͡ʒækˌhæmɚ/, jackpot /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come fossil, prehistoric, metre.
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.