Pratica di Shadowing: The Day Of The Dead - phần 1- Luyện Nghe Tiếng Anh theo phương pháp A.J. Hoge - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Day of the Dead.
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I arrive in Guatemala on the Day of the Dead,
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November 1st. I'm curious about this holiday,
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so I go to the cemetery to see what's happening.
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What I find is quite interesting.
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The atmosphere is like a party.
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There are people everywhere.
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Families are sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors.
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They clean the graves and add fresh flowers.
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I walk through the cemetery and admire the beauty of all the colorful flowers.
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There's also color in the sky because many kids are flying kites.
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Some families are having a picnic next to the graves.
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They eat, drink, and chat together.
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People laugh and smile.
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In the United States, cemeteries are always somber.
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We certainly never have festivals or parties next to graves.
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We don't laugh or play music or fly kites in cemeteries either.
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I find that I prefer the Guatemalan approach.
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I like the way they remember and celebrate those who have passed away.
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I like that they acknowledge death instead of denying it the way Americans do.
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I like that there is life as well as death in their cemeteries.
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Guatemalans call it the Day of the Dead,
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but it is also a day to appreciate life.
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ok this is the vocabulary for day of the dead
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so day of the dead
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I arrive in Guatemala on the day of the dead November
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1st I'm curious about this holiday holiday is the normal word we use for festival Some people say festival,
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but holiday is more common.
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Christmas is a holiday.
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Halloween is a holiday.
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So holiday is a common word,
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the most common word we use.
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Okay, so I say, I'm curious about this holiday,
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so I go to the cemetery.
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Cemetery is a place for dead people.
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Many, many dead people in a cemetery.
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So that's what a cemetery is, right?
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A place for dead people.
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Cemetery.
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It's a large area, usually.
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Large place.
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Cemetery.
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Okay.
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In the next paragraph, I say,
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the atmosphere is like a party.
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Here atmosphere means the general feeling of a place.
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For example, I might say this house has a happy atmosphere.
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It means the place has a happy feeling maybe it's very
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warm maybe a lot of nice people there many reasons
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but atmosphere means the feeling of a place place the atmosphere so the cemetery
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had an atmosphere a feeling like a party many people everywhere and people were sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors.
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A grave is a place where one dead person is buried.
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One dead person is in a grave,
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one dead body in a grave.
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Many graves in a cemetery.
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So a cemetery has many, many graves.
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So each grave has one body,
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and then many graves in a cemetery.
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Okay, they're sitting around the graves of their dead ancestors.
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An ancestor is a person who comes before you in your family.
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For example, your grandfather or grandmother is an ancestor.
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Or your great-grandmother is an ancestor.
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So all the people in your family older than you,
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who came before you, these people are ancestors.
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Ancestors.
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Ancestors.
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Let me say errs.
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Ancestors.
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Okay.
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They clean the graves and add fresh flowers.
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The families clean the graves.
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And I walk around through the cemetery and I admire,
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I appreciate, I like I admire the beauty of all the colorful flowers there's also color in the sky
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because many kids kids means children
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so many children many kids are flying kites kites are paper
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or or plastic with a string and you fly them in the wind.
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Usually children fly kites.
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That's kites.
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Some families are having a picnic next to the graves.
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Picnic is when you eat outside, right?
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Eat outside with many people.
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That is a picnic, a picnic.
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Okay, and the people, they eat, drink, and chat together.
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They laugh and they smile.
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This is different than the United States.
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In the United States, cemeteries are always somber.
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Somber means very serious.
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Serious, somber.
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serious and not fun serious and not fun somber somber
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so in America in the United States cemeteries are somber they are somber very serious not fun somber
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And we certainly, we never have festivals or parties next to graves.
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We don't laugh or play music or fly kites in cemeteries either.
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And then I say, I find that I prefer the Guatemalan approach.
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I find that.
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Here, find means realize.
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I realize that I prefer the Guatemalan approach.
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I find.
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I realize.
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I find that I prefer.
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I realize that I prefer.
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I understand that I prefer.
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Okay, so here find has a different meaning than normal.
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A little bit.
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So I find that I prefer the Guatemalan approach.
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Approach.
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Here, approach means way.
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Okay, I prefer the Guatemalan way the Guatemalan method.
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I prefer the Guatemalan way.
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I prefer the Guatemalan approach.
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I like the way they remember and celebrate those who have passed away.
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Passed away.
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To pass away means to die.
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It's very polite, very polite and very soft way to say die.
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If someone's mother dies, you can say,
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I'm sorry your mother passed away.
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I'm sorry your mom passed away.
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I'm sorry she died.
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I'm sorry she passed away.
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Passed away is softer and more polite.
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Okay, next sentence I say,
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I like that they acknowledge death.
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Acknowledge means to recognize, to see and recognize.
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Instead of denying it, denying is the opposite of acknowledge.
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Deny means avoid, to say no to something.
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To avoid something is to deny it, to deny it.
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The opposite of deny is acknowledge.
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Acknowledge and deny.
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Opposites.
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Okay, so they don't deny death the way Americans do.
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I like that there is life as well as death in their cemeteries.
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Guatemalans call it the day of the dead,
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but it's also a day to appreciate life.
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Appreciate means celebrate, to understand and like something, to appreciate.
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Okay, that is all of the vocabulary.
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Listen to the vocabulary lesson a few times.
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Read the text several times.
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Listen to the audio article a few times.
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And then, finally, listen to the mini-story many, many times.
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A lot.
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Every day.
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Okay.

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In questa lezione, esploreremo il "Giorno dei Morti", una celebrazione unica in Guatemala che combina la memoria dei defunti con una festosa celebrazione della vita. Attraverso l'ascolto attivo, avrai l'opportunità di migliorare le tue capacità di apprendimento dell'inglese e di espandere il tuo vocabolario in un contesto culturale ricco e interessante. In particolare, ci concentreremo su come le celebrazioni possono essere un modo per ricordare coloro che ci hanno lasciato, trasformando un momento di lutto in un'occasione per esprimere gioia e gratitudine.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • Day of the Dead - Giorno dei Morti
  • Cemetery - Cimitero
  • Atmosphere - Atmosfera
  • Curious - Curioso
  • Holiday - Festa
  • Celebrate - Celebrare
  • Graves - Tombe
  • Picnic - Picnic

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Per migliorare le tue capacità di speaking in inglese, prova a utilizzare la tecnica dello shadowing in inglese. Questo metodo ti consente di ascoltare la lezione e ripetere immediatamente ciò che senti, imitando la pronuncia, l'intonazione e il ritmo dell'oratore. Puoi trovare risorse utili di shadowing site che offrono video come questo per facilitare la tua pratica. Ricorda che il shadow speech funziona meglio quando ti concentri su una frase o un concetto alla volta.

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