Pratica di Shadowing: Storyfun 5 Unit 4 The king's colours - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Students Book, page 28.
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4. The King's Colours My name's Oliver.
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I'm lucky because Dad and I do a lot of travelling together.
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I heard this story on the radio last year.
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I really liked it.
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Many thousands of years ago, in a country where the weather was always hot and dry, there was an important but sad king.
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The king was sad because there weren't many colours in his country.
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The sands and grasses everywhere were yellow, the skies were always blue, and the rocks and stones were all grey.
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All the animals were grey too.
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The camels in the sandy desert, the swans and the eagles, the horses in the hills and the hippos and snakes.
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I want more colours in my country, the king said.
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I want to see white,
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purple, orange, green, pink and black in my country.
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An old woman heard the king and walked for three days to speak to him.
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She was tired after her journey, but she didn't sleep.
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She sat down on a large rock, looked at the king and said, Don't be sad.
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"'I can't give you all six colours—white,
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pink, purple, orange, green, and black—but I can give you three more colours for your country.
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Which three colours would you like most of all?
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The king thought and thought, and then slept, and then thought and thought again, and then slept.
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On the third day, he had an answer for the old woman.
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Most of all, I'd like the colours orange, black and white, he said.
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Orange because that colour is like yellow, but it looks warmer and more interesting.
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Orange in my country could make me happy again.
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I'd like black because I never see black in the day.
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Black is an excellent, strong colour, and black in my country could make me feel stronger again too.
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I'd like white because white is the colour of the light from the moon,
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and I know that white in my country could make my heart sing.
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These three colours could make me the happiest king in the world.
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The woman looked at the king kindly, and, a minute later, a butterfly flew onto his shoulder.
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Its wings were a lovely orange colour.
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The king smiled.
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Amazing, he said.
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After another minute, a big black beetle climbed out from under a rock.
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The king was so happy he jumped up and down and waved his arms in the air.
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I feel stronger!
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Wonderful! he said.
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Another minute later, a beautiful white wolf ran down the hill towards them.
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When the king saw the white wolf, his heart began to sing.
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Excellent, he said.
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But this wasn't enough for the king.
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Please, old woman, make one of the animals in my country orange,
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black and white, he said.
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The old woman said,
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the highest hill, found the food, and carried it carefully back to the old woman.
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The orange butterfly, the black beetle, and the white wolf followed him on his long journey.
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The king put the food on the old woman's rock and waited.
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He waited for a week, and then another week, and another.
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I don't mind.
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I can wait, he thought each time the day ended and the night began.
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But at the end of the third week, he was tired and he fell asleep.
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The next day, the king woke up suddenly in the midday sun.
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He looked at the rock.
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The orange fruit, the black beans, and the white bread weren't there.
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Then something touched his back.
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Old woman, he whispered, is that you?
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But it wasn't the old woman.
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An enormous tiger, an amazing, wonderful, excellent tiger was standing behind him.
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It jumped in the air to show the king its strong orange, black and white striped legs and body,
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and then lay down in the yellow grass in front of the grey rocks under the blue, blue sky.
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Then it waved its tail and turned its head to look kindly at the king.
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Wow! the king said.
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Now I can smile my biggest smile Now my legs,
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arms and back feel strong and straight And now my heart is singing loudly again
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The king often went to wait by the old woman's rock She never came back But red,
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purple and green colours slowly began to appear in his country as well
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Red birds flew above large red strawberries that grew between the grey rocks
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Purple snakes slept between purple sweet potato plants that grew strong and tall from under the yellow grasses
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Green frogs jumped between the pink flowers
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and green pea plants grew high in the blue sky and waved their leaves in the wind
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soon the country was a much more colorful place for the king to smile walk and sing in
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello A2 si basa sul video “Storyfun 5 Unit 4 The king's colours”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: king, colour, orange, rock, purple. Questo video contiene 71 frasi e 800 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:20. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 109 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
purple sostantivo/ˈpɝ.pl̩/viola
grass sostantivo/ɡɹɑːs/erba, graminacea
wolf sostantivo/wʊlf/donnaiolo
tiger sostantivo/ˈtaɪɡə/tigre
snake sostantivo/sneɪk/serpente, serpe
kindly avverbio/ˈkaɪn(d)li/gentilmente
butterfly sostantivo/ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/farfalla
beetle sostantivo/ˈbiːtəl/coleottero, scarabeo
carefully avverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/minuziosamente, accuratamente
sand sostantivo/sænd/sabbia, rena
flower sostantivo/ˈfloʊɚ/fiore
desert sostantivo/ˈdɛz.ɚt/deserto
asleep aggettivo/əˈsliːp/addormentato
tail sostantivo/ˈteɪ̯l/coda
enormous aggettivo/ɪˈnɔː.məs/enorme, grandissimo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
come back verbotornare
run down verboinvestire, mettere sotto
stand behind verbomettere la faccia
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'd, don't, wasn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: grass /ɡɹɑːs/, wolf /wʊlf/, snake /sneɪk/, sand /sænd/, desert /ˈdɛz.ɚt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: sand /sænd/, sandy /ˈsændi/, camel /ˈkæm(ə)l/

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 purple, grass, wolf.

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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