Pratica di Shadowing: Ricky Gervais Explains The BIG Problem With Noah's Ark | Out Of England - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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37,000 different species of spider.
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37,000 different species of spider.
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I mean, millions and billions of individuals in each species.
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And that's just one class, arachnid, of one phylum, arthropoda.
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There could be 5 million species of animal alive now on the Earth.
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Best guess, okay?
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And that's 1% of all animal species that have ever existed.
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99% of all animal species that ever existed are now extinct and that remaining 1% is 5 million strong.
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Take one of those species, termites.
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If we were to weigh every termite alive now, it would be 10 times the tonnage of every human being on Earth.
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And it's statistics like that that make me think that this book isn't totally accurate.
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It's the Book of Noah.
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The children's edition.
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I actually got this awarded to me when I used to go to Sunday School every week.
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I believed in all this till I was eight.
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St. Agnes Sunday School presented to Ricky Gervais.
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R-I-K-K-I.
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Like a fucking mongoose.
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Right? For regular attendance.
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Not even for being good at anything, just for turning up.
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Right?
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He's always here, give him a prize, he'll be back.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Let's have a look at the evidence.
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Long, long ago, when God first made the earth...
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I'll let both those points go, we haven't got time.
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Right.
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Long, long ago, by the way, according to the Bible, is 5,000 years.
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According to the Old Testament, the Earth is no older than 5,000 years old, okay?
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It's actually 4.6 billion years old.
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Let's pop that in.
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4.6 billion years ago, when God first made the Earth and sky, alright, don't big it up,
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it's like, it comes as a package, really, doesn't it?
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I mean, do you know what I mean?
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The sky was never an optional extra.
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It's like, made you a planet, I can't breathe.
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Would you like an atmosphere?
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Of course I fucking would.
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So, well done, but...
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Everything was peaceful, everything beautiful.
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God made human beings too, and he wanted them to be good like himself.
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Arrogant.
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But very soon they wanted their own way.
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They would not listen to God.
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They became wicked and did wicked things.
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Look at them doing wicked things there.
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You don't get much more wicked than that, do you?
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Fuck off, oh fuck off wicked!
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Fuck off wicked!
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God just looking on, oh carry on, see what happens, see what happens, oh see what happens, yeah.
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Oh see what happens.
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Bloke there running off with a big bag of money.
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Don't put it in a bank you cunt.
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God looked at them and said to himself, they are so wicked, I will have to wipe them off the face of the earth.
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Really?
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Really?
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Straight to genocide?
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What happened to one verbal and two written warnings?
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Straight to the annihilation of the entire human race because of fatty yellow trousers picked someone's nose?
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Really?
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Fuck.
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Anger management, Matt just...
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Calm the fuck down, let's...
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Just chill, let's talk about this.
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Wow.
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I read that to Carl Pilkington, right, who is, yes.
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Yes.
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Head like a fucking orange, I know, yeah.
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And I read that bit to him, they are so wicked I have to wipe my face to the earth.
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And Carl said, he sounds gay.
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I said, what do you mean?
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He went, some gays are a bit like that.
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He thought God was like having a hissy fit.
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Like he's like, no, they treat me like a bastard, I'm gonna treat them like a bastard, I'm gonna show them, I'm gonna wipe them out.
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I said, Carl, God is not gay, okay?
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Read the Bible, he hates them.
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They are so wicked, I would have to wipe them off the face of the earth.
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And every living thing with them.
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What's the squid ever done?
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Red God has gone mad.
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What?
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But he's not gay.
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God is not gay.
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But there was one man who was still very good.
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His name was Noah.
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He was a friend of God.
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Just a friend, so don't know.
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Just a friend.
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A friend with big, hooped earrings.
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Rouge.
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What's he doing?
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He lives in a cave.
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What's he doing with this?
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What...
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What are you doing?
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Seeing God.
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You never know.
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Handlebar mustache.
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Holding God's hand.
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Who's wearing a blouse?
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God is not gay.
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God said to Noah, I am so angry with men.
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You mean men and women?
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Whatever.
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I am so angry with men that I have made my mind up to destroy them all.
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I have stretched my bow in the sky.
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It is a rainbow.
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That's got to be the world's first pun, hasn't it?
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It will make so much rain pour down on Earth that everything will be drowned, but not you.
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I want you to build an ark.
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It must be like a big boat with three decks and a roof over it.
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Yeah, I know how to build a boat, mate.
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And you will make a door in the side of it.
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Do you think I'm a complete idiot?
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Noah did exactly what God told him.
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And then God said to Noah, now, okay, okay, now this is aimed at children, admittedly, but it's taken from the Old Testament story in the Bible,
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but I don't think the author of this book is a zoologist.
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As we've said, there could be five million species of animal.
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I don't think he knows them all the way he backs out very quickly in this next sentence, okay?
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I want you to take two of every kind of animal with you into the ark.
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Two lions, two tigers, two elephants, and so on.
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What?
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I've got lions, tigers, elephants.. so on. On you go.
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Look after them well and keep them alive.
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And Noah did what God said.
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Now, I wanted to study that scenario.
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Okay, so, God is angry with mankind.
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He's fed up with them, they're wicked, right?
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He's gonna wipe them out and just start again with Noah and his wife.
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He's angry with the animals too, for some reason.
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I don't...
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So he's gonna start again with just two of each species.
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He calls a flood, they build an ark.
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Noah goes, right, two of every species.
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Two, just two, right, quick, first two.
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There's a stampede.
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Two elephants.
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Two toucans.
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Just walking.
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There's no rush.
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Just drooling, baby.
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I think this one is a bit more concerned than this one.
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This one's probably going, should we fly?
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Nah...
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No?
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Nah...
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I could do this all night.
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No?
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Nah...
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Sure?
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Yeah...
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I mean, we've got wings.
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We've got feet as well.
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Why don't you want to push in?
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That elephant's looking at me funny.
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Make me funny?
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Yeah.
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I fucking am.
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If you try and push in, I'm gonna stamp on you, you.. you big-nosed twat.
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Hold on, who are you calling big-nosed?
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What do you mean?
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No, just pot calling kettle black.
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What the fuck does that mean?
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Well, you know, if a pot's black, I'll forget it.
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I can't forget it, I'm a fucking elephant.
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Oh, two camels, two lions, two ostriches, two leopards, two tigers, two zebra.
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Ah, here's the crux of my point.
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Just one species on the ark at the moment, the giraffes.
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They got their first longer legs, okay?
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Five million more species to get on there.
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So two of it.
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So two animals on the ark at the moment, 10 million more animals to go.
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10 million more of those, okay?
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10 million, okay?
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As far as...
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10 million of them to get on there.
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Just two on there at the moment.
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Look how much room they're already taking up.
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It's at a third capacity.
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What's it going to be like on there when these two fat cunts get on?
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Then God bent the barb of his anger and the rain came flooding down, covering the earth with water.
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It rained for 40 days and nights.
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The flood water rose higher and higher until it covered the tops of the highest mountains.
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Every living thing was drowned except Noah and the animals in the ark.
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And the fish.
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They were fine, weren't they?
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They were fine.
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They were loving it.
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They were better off.
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In fact, all the sea creatures.
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I mean, mountains underwater, their domain had increased like tenfold.
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Also, it's so much more interesting.
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You've got crabs going, I'm on a fucking mountain!
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This is amazing!
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I never want this flood to...
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I've never been up here before.
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I think of that when you see on the news, like if there's a little village in Gloucester flooded or something.
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It's really sad to see people, they've lost their homes, and they're in dinghies, and they're carrying their pets.
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And you see a little row of antique shops completely underwater.
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And I think of a fish just looking in the window of that antique shop for the first time.
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So that's a chaise longue.
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For a hundred and fifty days the earth was covered with water.
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Then Noah opened the window of the ark and looked out.
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The water seemed to be going down, but how could he be sure?
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Well, ask God, you've been chatting to him all the way through.
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Why are we...
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Why are we getting cryptic all of a sudden?
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He sent a raven out, but it soon came flying back.
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It could find nowhere to settle.
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Noah waited another week, and he sent out a dove.
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Why did the raven lose his job?
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But the dove came back too.
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See, the raven wasn't bullshitting.
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This is...
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There was still no dry land anywhere.
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But one day the dove flew out and...
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Why did the dove get a second go and not the raven?
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Racist!
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But one day the dove flew out and brought back a green olive branch
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and no one knew that God was no longer angry.
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Then God told Noah to let the animals out of the ark.
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They must once more fill the earth with living things.
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The first thing Noah did was to build an altar.
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He offered a sacrifice to God to thank Him for saving them.
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And Noah said, I will make a pact of friendship with you.
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I will never again send a flood to destroy the earth.
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The rainbow which I put in the sky will no longer be a sign of my anger, but a sign of peace.
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It will be a sign of my friendship with men.
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That is how it is.
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That is how it is used today.
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They took it literally.
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It will be a sign of my friendship with men, which begins today, and which my son Jesus will one day prove by shedding his blood for men. Who?
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Your sea.
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There wasn't a teaser campaign in the Old Testament.
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Coming soon, the sequel.
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And so when you've done wrong, and you're feeling very sad about it, think of the rainbow, and the peace which God wants to put into your heart.
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He has promised to be your friend, promised to be his, and that's just one of 12 in the Dove Book series.
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I've only got one, number nine now, although I think my favourite would be number eight just from the title, Jesus and the Cripple.
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Thank you, cheers.
Perché praticare parlando con questo video?
Il video di Ricky Gervais offre un'opportunità unica per praticare l'inglese parlato in un contesto divertente e coinvolgente. Gervais utilizza un linguaggio colloquiale e frasi incisive che riflettono la sua personalità umoristica. Parlando attorno a temi come la biodiversità e le narrazioni bibliche, il comico stimola la riflessione, rendendo il collegamento emotivo con il pubblico un potente strumento di apprendimento. Utilizzando la tecnica del shadow speak, gli studenti possono migliorare la loro fluidità e acquisire sicurezza nella conversazione, ripetendo sketch e frasi dal video e cogliendo il suo stile narrativo.
Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto
Analizzando il discorso di Gervais, possiamo identificare alcune strutture chiave:
- Uso ripetuto di domande retoriche: "Would you like an atmosphere?" Questa domanda coinvolge l'ascoltatore e stimola una risposta riflessiva, utile per praticare le domande in inglese.
- Strutture di confronto: "It's actually 4.6 billion years old." Gervais utilizza il confronto tra le affermazioni bibliche e i dati scientifici per enfatizzare il suo punto di vista, permettendo pratiche su come formulare confronti.
- Frasi idiomatiche: Espressioni comiche come "like a fucking mongoose" forniscono uno spunto per comprendere l'uso delle metafore e delle similitudini nell'inglese parlato.
Trappole di Pronuncia Comuni
Nel video, alcuni passaggi e parole potrebbero risultare complicati da pronunciare. Ecco alcuni punti da considerare:
- Termini scientifici: Parole come "arachnid" e "arthropoda" possono presentare difficoltà di pronuncia, quindi è utile esercitarsi a ripeterli.
- Accenti tonali: Gervais usa un tono sarcastico che rende la pronuncia più espressiva, un aspetto da seguire durante la shadowing in inglese.
- Lasciar cadere le consonanti finali: Osservare come Gervais pronuncia alcune parole può aiutare a comprendere le variazioni di accento e a migliorare la chiarezza nel parlare.
Praticando queste strutture e quindi utilizzando le tecniche di shadowspeak, gli studenti possono affermarsi nella conversazione in inglese con maggiore sicurezza e abilità.
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.