Pratica di Shadowing: Summer 🌞⛱️ British English Podcast - Listening Practise for Intermediate English Learners - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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It's finally summer and it feels like we've been waiting for summer to come around for months and months and months.
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It's been raining so much and it's been so wet in England
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and it felt like the winter or the spring were never going to end.
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So now that summer's here, we're going to learn some words about the heat,
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because hopefully it's going to be warm, and some idioms which are related to the summer and heat.
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The first adjective that we have is scorching.
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Scorching means that it's extremely hot but it's not comfortable.
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It's not a nice warm heat.
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It's that type of heat where you can't be in the sun.
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So, in Italy, when I went on holiday,
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it was scorching outside, so I had to spend time under the parasol when I went to the beach.
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sometimes when it is very hot
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and there is a lot of moisture in the air
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and it makes you feel sticky your skin feels sticky then you say that it's humid or muggy
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Sometimes it's cloudy but it's still really really really hot and you can say that it feels muggy.
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When I went to London a few years ago it was extremely muggy
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and I felt the need to have a shower multiple times per day.
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Another word is arid.
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Arid means very dry and hot and it's normally used to describe a desert.
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So in the Sahara you can say that they have an arid climate because it's very hot and very dry.
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When you experience a period of hot weather
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that lasts like several days or a weekend or a few weeks
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and it's not usual then we call it a heat wave.
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We have already had a few heat waves in the UK.
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It was very hot, it was about 30 something degrees
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and maybe that doesn't seem that hot for you
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if you live in a hot country but I think that people don't really realise that
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in warm countries houses are prepared for the heat and
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when you go inside it doesn't seem as hot
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because the buildings are built differently but here
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because houses are built to stay warm in the summer it gets extremely hot inside
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and a lot of people don't have air conditioning at least here in England.
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I know
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that like in America in the United States a lot of people have aircon especially in the south
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but here you might have it in offices
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but people don't normally have it in their houses
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when it's hot some people like to stay in the sun
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i personally don't like the sun i prefer to stay in the shade you have to be careful with
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that word because a a lot of people say shadow.
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The opposite of being in the sun is the shade.
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So I like to stay cool in the shade.
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I normally stay inside when it's too hot out to keep cool.
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But a lot of people like sunbathing.
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So they go outside, they lie in the sun, maybe at the pool or at the beach
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or just in their garden to get a tan tanning is quite a big thing in the uk
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and maybe you haven't heard of it but a lot of people get fake tans fake tans are when you
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go to a tanning studio or salon and they basically spray tan on you so that your skin
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is darker so your skin is like more brown
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but you have to be careful
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because a lot of people sometimes look quite orange some people don't go to Cylons
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and they do it at home
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and what they do is they buy it's like a cream and they basically put it all over their body
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and it washes off so sometimes you see people
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and their hands are a different colour to their arms
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because in the end you wash your hands a lot more than you wash your arms so the colour
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comes off a lot quicker.
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So in the UK a lot of people like tanning, especially when they go on holiday abroad.
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If you want to say that you were under direct and very intense sunlight,
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you can also say bake.
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We normally use the word bake for baking a cake
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or baking a pie but if you say that it was very hot yesterday and we baked in the sun for hours,
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it means that you spent a lot of time in direct sunlight
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and the sun was very strong and you were very hot.
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You You can also say that you're melting.
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If you say can we turn on the aircon,
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the air conditioning or can we turn on the fan because I'm melting it means that you're very hot.
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So you want to turn it on to keep cool.
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Now let's go with some idioms.
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The first one is catch some rays.
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Sun rays are what you call a ray of light from the sun.
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So the beam of light that travels from the sun to the earth.
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And if you say that you're going to catch some rays it means
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that you're going to sunbathe or spend time sitting out in the sunshine.
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You could say that you're going to the beach this afternoon to catch some rays.
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Soak up the sun means to enjoy the sun and enjoy the heat.
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And you normally So you normally soak up the sun when you're relaxed.
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So I love going to the beach in the morning and soaking up the sun.
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And the last one is beat the heat.
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Beat the heat means to fight against the heat and win basically.
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So it means to find different ways to cope with the heat, to deal with the heat.
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So for example, it might be a good idea to install aircon this summer to beat the heat.
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It's important to beat the heat because you might get sunstroke
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or heatstroke which is a medical condition which you might suffer from
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if you spend too much time in the sun or in the heat.
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Some people faint or pass out when they spend too much time in the heat at the beach or just outside.
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It's also important to wear sunscreen or sunblock.
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Sunblock is the American word
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and in British English we normally say sun cream compared to sunscreen or sunblock.
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This is the lotion that you apply to your skin so that you don't burn it.
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It's important to wear sun cream because there is
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so much radiation from the sun and you can get burnt very easily without noticing it,
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especially if you're distracted having a good time outside this summer.
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I'm really looking forward to this summer.
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I really want to unwind which means to relax and to stop thinking about work and stress
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and I'm planning on doing a few getaways
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which means some quick holidays and I'm also planning or doing a staycation for a few weeks.
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A staycation is when you spend your holidays at home or in your local area instead of going somewhere else.
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So it's kind of being a tourist in your own area.
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I think that a lot of times we forget how nice it is to live where you live and it's
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easy to not do things like visit your local art galleries,
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spend time in nature nearby
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and I think that a staycation can be very enjoyable especially if you don't want to travel far away.
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If you have enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe.
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Hopefully this summer we can make a lot more videos.
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Let me know if you've enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.
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Bye!

Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Praticare il parlato utilizzando il video "Summer 🌞⛱️ British English Podcast" offre un'opportunità unica per imparare l'inglese con youtube in un contesto autentico e divertente. Durante l'ascolto, è possibile immergersi nella cultura britannica e apprendere lessico utile collegato all'estate e al clima. La descrizione del caldo torrido e delle esperienze estive non solo arricchisce il vocabolario, ma aiuta anche a comprendere l'espressione colloquiale, migliorando quindi la propria fluidità. Attraverso l'imitazione delle frasi del video, potrai esercitare la tua pronuncia e acquisire familiarità con le espressioni quotidiane.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Il video presenta diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che meritano attenzione:

  • Scorching: Un aggettivo che descrive un caldo eccessivo, utile per esprimere disagio a causa del clima.
  • Humidity e Muggy: Questi termini descrivono non solo la temperatura, ma anche la sensazione che provoca, evidenziando l'importanza degli aggettivi nel descrivere le esperienze.
  • Heat wave: Un'espressione che si riferisce a periodi prolungati di caldo intenso, utile per discutere del clima in contesti diversi.
  • Shade: Distinguere tra 'shade' e 'shadow' aiuta a evitare confusione e migliora l'accuratezza linguistica.

Queste strutture non solo sono fondamentali per una corretta comunicazione, ma rappresentano anche l'opportunità di migliorare la pronuncia inglese attraverso la ripetizione e l'imitazione delle frasi usate nel contesto di ascolto.

Trappole comuni per la pronuncia

Alcune parole e frasi nel video potrebbero risultare insidiose per i non madrelingua inglesi:

  • Scorching: La "sc" iniziale può essere difficile da pronunciare correttamente.
  • Muggy: Attenzione alla pronuncia della "u", può essere confusa con suoni simili in italiano.
  • Shade versus Shadow: È importante chiarire le differenze tra queste due parole per evitare malintesi nei dialoghi.

Utilizzare tecniche di shadow speak e shadow speech aiutando a praticare la corretta pronuncia di queste parole in contesti reali. Con un shadowing site dedicato, potrai affinare le tue capacità in un ambiente interattivo e stimolante.

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.