Pratica di Shadowing: Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Today you're coming with me around the city so
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that you can learn 20 everyday really useful English expressions like this
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and this helps us remember the expression make a splash
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and idioms like this this big fella behind me leads us to our next expression the lion's share and even this
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so you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression he's starkers hi i'm steve
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now this city is unusual
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because it's got two cathedrals this is what's commonly known as the old one
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and this one which as you can see is a lot more modern
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and you could say these two cathedrals are like chalk and cheese, which is our next expression.
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Chalk and cheese.
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This is used when two things are very different, like this.
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One of my kids likes riding their bike, but the other prefers reading.
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They're like chalk and cheese.
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If you look behind me, you can see lots of rope on this boat,
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which leads us nicely to our next expression, money but old rope.
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This means money that's easy to come by.
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You can get it without much effort.
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Use it like this.
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She's a television reviewer.
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Her job is money for old rope.
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Behind me is the only natural spring in the whole of this city.
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And it leads into this tiny little pond.
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And this helps us remember the expression, make a splash.
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To make a splash means to attract attention.
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Do something that makes you stand out.
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He really made a splash at the party by wearing a fancy jacket.
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Now behind me is grass.
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And that takes us to our next expression.
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The other man's grass is always greener.
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This means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you are.
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It's used like this.
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He said that he wanted to change his job, but I warned him that the other man's grass is always greener.
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These stones that I'm walking on are called cobbles, and that should help us with the phrase cobble together.
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This means to make or build something quickly, using whatever you already have.
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Chews like this.
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They cobbled together a meal from what was already in the fridge.
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And now I'm in the underground to bring you the next English expression. On the right track.
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To be on the right track means to be acting or thinking in a way that's likely to lead to success.
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She checked her notes again and realised she was on the right track for the test.
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Now we're inside the railway station, and behind me you can see a train.
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This leads us to our next expression, lose your train of thought.
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This means to forget what you were talking about, or thinking, because of an interruption.
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The loud noise made me lose my train of thought.
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Now this used to be a small prison and to say that someone's actually in prison, we use the expression behind bars.
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This means to be in prison.
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Use it like this.
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The gang of car thieves are all behind bars.
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Behind me are headstones.
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These belong on a grave.
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And that gives us our next English expression, pushing up daisies.
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This English expression means to be dead and buried.
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He was warned that he'll be pushing up daisies if he keeps driving so fast.
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As we look around the city, you can see that there's one building that's a lot taller than all the others.
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It's that tower behind me.
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So we could use the expression, it's head and shoulders above the rest.
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This means to be much bigger or better than everyone or everything else.
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She is head and shoulders above the rest of the applicants for the job.
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This statue behind me is really famous in this city and as you can see he's not wearing any clothes at all.
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So you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression, he's Stalkers.
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Stalkers means to be completely naked.
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Use it like this.
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He came out of the bathroom stalkers because he forgot to take his towel.
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In the UK, we usually don't say call a cab, we say hail a cab.
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Use it like this.
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In English we say we're going to hail a cab, basically it means to wave your hand to stop a taxi in the street.
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They stepped out into the rain and put their hand up to hail a cab.
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I've been walking for over an hour now making this video.
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So I could say I was tired, or I could use the expression, I'm pooped.
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If you're pooped, you're extremely tired or exhausted.
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So you might say...
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After working all day, I was far too pooped to go out for dinner.
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Now this statue is a member of the royal family riding a horse.
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And that leads us to our next expression.
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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This expression means to get information directly from the person who knows all about it.
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She knew the shop was closing because she heard it straight from the horse's mouth when the owner told her.
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This big fella behind me leads us to our next expression.
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The lion's share.
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The lion's share means the largest portion or the majority of something.
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She was like this.
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He spent the lion's share of his Saturday morning tidying the house before his guests arrived.
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and the next expression is it's fishy
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if something is fishy it means it's suspicious
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or you don't trust it something about his sudden decision to
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sell the business felt fishy the coffee shop behind me is one of my favorites
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because it gives all its profits to homeless people However, it's quite tricky to find.
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And that's because it's off the beaten track.
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Off the beaten track means located far away from busy roads or popular places where most people go.
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Often it's quite hard to find.
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We found a brilliant little seafood place off the beaten track.
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Now we're in one of the main shopping streets, which lets us use our next expression, to shop around, which is what these people are doing.
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This means to compare prices and quality at different places before you buy it.
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It's worth shopping around instead of buying the first thing, you see.
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This city has two football teams.
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Liverpool, who play in red and Everton, who play in blue.
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That reminds me of two really useful English phrases.
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out of the blue.
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Out of the blue means unexpectedly or without any warning.
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It was out of the blue when he asked her to marry him. And into the red.
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This means to spend more money than you really have.
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Paying for the roof to be fixed pushed their bank account into the red.
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and then click here and I'll see you there.
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Take care!
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: expression, English, lead, track. Questo video contiene 104 frasi e 1167 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:16. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 114 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| stalker sostantivo | /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/ | cacciatore, cacciatrice |
| poop sostantivo | /ˈpuːp/ | cacca |
| chalk sostantivo | /t͡ʃɔk/ | gesso, creta |
| hail sostantivo | /heɪl/ | grandine |
| rope sostantivo | /ɹoʊp/ | corda, cavo |
| daisy sostantivo | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | pratolina, margheritina |
| cathedral sostantivo | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | cattedrale, duomo |
| warn verbo | /woɹn/ | avvertire, avvisare |
| statue sostantivo | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | statua |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| interruption sostantivo | /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/ | interruzione |
| reviewer sostantivo | recensore | |
| tidy aggettivo | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | ordinato, pulito |
| applicant sostantivo | /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/ | candidato, richiedente |
| seafood sostantivo | /ˈsiːfuːd/ | frutti di mare, frutto di mare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are called · was warned · be fixed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | cheese, which is · person who knows · around, which is |
| Comparativi -er than / more … than — confrontare due cose | taller than · better than · more money than |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passato | were talking · was closing |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we're, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: splash /splæʃ/, interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hail /heɪl/, headstone /ˈhɛdstoʊn/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: splash /splæʃ/, poop /ˈpuːp/, chalk /t͡ʃɔk/, rope /ɹoʊp/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: splash /splæʃ/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, applicant /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/, taxi /ˈtæksi/, attract /əˈtɹækt/
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 stalker, poop, chalk.
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.