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Tour the world of speed.
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Eating a competitive eating or speed eating is exactly what its name suggests.
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Contestants won eat as much as they can, usually within a time limit.
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Eating competitions can involve various foods, pizza, pies, ice cream, chilli peppers.
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They can also offer large prizes to the winners.
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The biggest competition.
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B, the world's largest competitive eating event is Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
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The event is held every 4th of July in Brooklyn, New York.
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According to legend, this tradition began over a hundred years ago.
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Four immigrants were arguing about who loved their new country the most.
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Finally, they worked out a way to decide.
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They would see who could eat the most of a famous American food, the hot dog.
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James Mullen, an Irish immigrant, won by eating 13 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
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Nathan's 4th of July tradition was born.
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Eating champions see the current champion of the contest is Joey Chestnut.
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Chestnut, an American, also holds the world record for hot dog eating, 74 in less than 10 minutes.
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That's just over 8 seconds per hot dog.
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For many years the Nathan's contest champion was Takeru Kobayashi from Japan.
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He is smaller and lighter than chestnut and doesn't look like an eating champion.
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However, he holds many world records for eating different types of food.
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Bad taste or just sport?
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D. Not everybody thinks competitive eating is a good thing.
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It can be unhealthy for the contestants and many people in the world are going hungry.
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Kobayashi first won the event in 2001 when he was 23 years old.
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So are eating competitions in bad taste?
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For competitive eaters, it's a sport like any other.
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As Kobayashi says, food fighters think of themselves as athletes.

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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 FOUNDATIONS UNIT 2 2A THE WORLD OF SPEED EATING”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: eating, dog, hot, competitive, champion. Questo video contiene 27 frasi e 288 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:10. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 133 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 14 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
immigrant sostantivo/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/immigrante
argue verbo/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/discutere, dibattere
hungry aggettivo/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/affamato, avere fame
legend sostantivo/ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənd/leggenda, favola
pizza sostantivo/ˈpi.tsə/pizza
fighter sostantivo/ˈfaɪtɚ/combattente, lottatore
involve verbo/ɪnˈvɑlv/coinvolgere
pie sostantivo/paɪ/torta, crostata
pepper sostantivo/ˈpɛp.ə/peperone
athlete sostantivo/ˈæθ.liːt/atleta
chili sostantivo/ˈt͡ʃɪli/peperoncino
unhealthy aggettivo/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/malsano, insalubre
chestnut sostantivo/ˈt͡ʃɛs(t)ˌnʌt/castagna
eater sostantivo/ˈiː.tɚ/mangiatore

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais held · was born
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodoare going · are eating

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • I suoni “th”: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/

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 immigrant, argue, hungry.

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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