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We want to do well at school for an obvious reason.
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Because, as we're often told, it's the primary route to doing well at life.
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Few of us are in love with the A grades themselves.
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We want them because we're understandably interested in one day having a fulfilling career, a pleasant house and the respect of others.
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But sometimes, more often than seems entirely reassuring, something pretty confusing occurs.
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We come across people who triumphed at school but flunked at life and vice versa.
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The former stars who once knew exactly how to satisfy their teachers may now be flatlining in a law office
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or relocating to a provincial town in the hope of finding something better.
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The path that seemed guaranteed to lead to success has run into the sand.
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We shouldn't actually be surprised.
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School curricula are not designed by people who necessarily have much experience of or talent at the world beyond.
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School curricula are not reverse -engineered from fulfilled adult lives in the here and now.
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They were intellectually influenced by all kinds of slightly random forces over hundreds of years of evolution, shaped by, among other things,
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the curricula of medieval monasteries, the ideas of some 19th century German educationalists, and the concerns of aristocratic court societies.
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This helps to explain the many bad habits that schools can inculcate.
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They suggest that the most important things are already known, that what is is all that could be.
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They can't help but warn us about the dangers of originality.
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They want us to put up our hands and wait to be asked.
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They want us to keep asking other people for permission.
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They teach us to deliver on rather than change expectations.
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They teach us to redeploy ideas rather than originate them.
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They teach us to respect people in authority rather than imagine that in rather inspiring ways,
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no one actually knows quite what's going on.
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They teach us everything other than the two skills
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that really determine the quality of adult life Knowing how to choose the right job for us
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and knowing how to form satisfactory relationships
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They'll instruct us in Latin
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and how to measure the circumference of a circle long before they teach us these core subjects Work
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and love That said it isn't
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that all we need to do to succeed at life is
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flunk school a good life requires us to do two very tricky things.
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Be a very good boy or girl for twenty years
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and simultaneously never really believe blindly in the long -term validity or seriousness of what we're being asked to study.
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We need to be outwardly, entirely obedient, while inwardly, intelligently and unashamedly rebellious.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “Success at School vs Success in Life”. Questo video contiene 34 frasi e 450 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:00. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 150 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| flunk verbo | /flʌŋk/ | segare, cannare |
| fulfill verbo | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | completare |
| aristocratic aggettivo | /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/ | aristocratico |
| blindly avverbio | /ˈblaɪndli/ | alla cieca, a tentoni |
| circumference sostantivo | /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/ | circonferenza |
| educationalist sostantivo | educatore, educatrice | |
| inculcate verbo | /ˈɪn.kʌl.keɪt/ | inculcare |
| instruct verbo | /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/ | istruire, insegnare |
| intellectually avverbio | intellettualmente | |
| intelligently avverbio | intelligentemente | |
| obedient aggettivo | /əˈbidiənt/ | ubbidiente |
| originality sostantivo | /əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/ | originalità |
| originate verbo | /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/ | originare, avere origine |
| reassure verbo | /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/ | rassicurare, tranquillizzare |
| rebellious aggettivo | /ɹəˈbɛliəs/ | ribelle |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come across verbo | dare l'impressione, avere l'aria |
| put up verbo | collocare |
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 not designed · are already known · be asked |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who triumphed · people who necessarily |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 7 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, can't, isn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, unashamedly /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmɪdli/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, provincial /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: aristocratic /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/, originality /əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, unashamedly /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmɪdli/, satisfactory /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: flunk /flʌŋk/, aristocratic /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/, circumference /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/, inculcate /ˈɪn.kʌl.keɪt/, instruct /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: aristocratic /ˌæɹɪstəˈkɹætɪk/, flatline /ˈflætˌlaɪn/, originality /əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/, satisfactory /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come flunk, fulfill, aristocratic.
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.