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The last photo, Bernard Smith.
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The last photo, Bernard Smith.
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It is Saturday afternoon.
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Martin and his sister Pam are in Cambridge for the day.
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They are looking at the beautiful old buildings of this university city.
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She likes taking photos and sometimes they are very good, But sometimes they are not very good and Martin laughs at them.
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It is five o'clock.
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Pam and Martin are going home now.
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They are tired of their long day.
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They are in the garden near the bus station.
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Let's have a last photo of you, says Pam.
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Oh no, not again, says Martin.
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Come on, says Pam.
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It's the last one.
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I want to finish the film in my camera.
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Oh, all right, says Martin.
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He stands in front of the flowers.
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Look at me, says Pam and takes a photo.
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A man with a big rucksack on his back walked between Pam and Martin.
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Oh no, says Pam.
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Now I've got a picture of that man, not of you, Martin.
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The man looks at Pam.
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He's angry.
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He goes across the road without a word.
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That man isn't very nice, is he? says Martin.
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No, says Pam.
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And that was the last picture on the film, too.
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The man with the rucksack on his back goes into the bus station.
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He has got sunglasses and a blue hat.
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Come on, says Martin.
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Let's find our bus.
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They go into the bus station.
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Look, says Martin.
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There's that man again.
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He's getting to that bus.
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He's going to Aberdeen.
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That's in Scotland.
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Good, says Pam.
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Far from here, far from me.
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She's angry with the man.
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Three days later, on Tuesday, Pam has got her photos from the shop.
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Look at this, she says to Martin.
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There are the photos of us in Cambridge.
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Oh, these are all very good, says Martin.
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But not this last one, says Pam.
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Look, it's that man with the rucksack.
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In the photo, the man is in front of Martin.
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You cannot see Martin behind the man's rucksack.
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Wait a minute, says Martin.
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I know that face.
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It's in the newspaper.
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Have you got it?
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Today's newspaper, says Pam.
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Yes, it's here.
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Why?
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Yes, here he is.
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Look at this picture, says Martin.
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Pam looks at the photo in the newspaper.
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Who's that? she asks.
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It says in the paper his name is Alan Rook, says Marty, and he works in a bank in London.
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But on Monday morning, yesterday morning, no Alan Rook.
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The people at the bank don't know where he is.
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And they said he's got a hundred thousand pounds with him.
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The police are looking for him too.
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But is that the man in my photo? asks Pam.
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He hasn't got a beard and he hasn't any hair.
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Look at his ears.
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Look at his nose, says Martin.
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It's him, I know it is.
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Martin has an idea.
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He takes a pencil and starts to draw on the newspaper.
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What are you doing? asks Pam.
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Look, says Martin, I'm putting dark glasses and a two-day bed on the man in this photo.
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Now I'm drawing a hat on his head, see?
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Now look at the two pictures.
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You're right, says Bam.
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It's him.
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It's Alan Rook.
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Come on, says Martin, let's take these pictures to the police.
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At the police station, Pam and Martin speak to a policeman.
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They put Pam's photo and the newspaper on the table and they tell their story.
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That's Alan Rourke, says the policeman, in Cambridge at 5 o'clock on Saturday.
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The big question is, where is he now?
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We think we know.
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He's in Scotland in Aberdeen, says Pam.
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Or he's near there.
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They tell the policeman about the man and the bus to Aberdeen.
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He's got a rucksack and a tent on his back in the photo, says the policeman.
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He isn't living in a hotel.
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He's camping.
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If you're lucky, he's still in Scotland.
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I must make a telephone call.
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The policeman telephones the police station in Aberdeen.
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Alan Rooks is in Scotland, he says.
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We think he's camping near Aberdeen.
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He's got a short bear now.
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The next day, the police in Aberdeen find Alan Rook in a tent in the mountains near Aberdeen.
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The money from the bank is in his rucksack.
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The next morning, Pam Martin's story is in all the newspapers.
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There is Pam's photo of Alan Rook at the bus station.
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There is a picture of Martin and Pam, too.
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In the newspaper it says, Come at a girl, gets photo of Rook.
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Police in Aberdeen, find bank money.
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The people at the bank are very happy.
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They give Pam and Martin a thousand pounds.
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My last photo is a good one after all, laughs Pam.
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Now I can buy a very good new camera.

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Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Il video "The Last Photo" di Bernard Smith offre un'eccellente opportunità per esercitarsi nella pratica di conversazione in inglese. La storia segue un momento quotidiano che molti possono riconoscere: il ritorno a casa dopo una giornata di visite. Questo contesto familiare facilita l'immedesimazione e aiuta ad apprendere frasi utili in situazioni simili. Praticando il dialogo presente nel video, gli studenti possono migliorare le loro abilità di comunicazione e acquisire maggiore sicurezza nel parlare inglese.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Durante il video, si possono notare diverse strutture grammaticali che arricchiscono il linguaggio parlato:

  • Uso dei verbi al presente semplice: "Pam and Martin are in Cambridge" mostra come descrivere fatti correnti.
  • Frasi interrogative: "Is that man very nice?" esemplifica come formulare domande per esprimere opinioni o chiedere informazioni.
  • Espressioni colloquiali: "Oh no, not again" rappresenta un'espressione comune per esprimere frustrazione in un modo informale.
  • Imperativi: "Look at me" è un esempio di richiesta per attirare l'attenzione, utile in molte situazioni quotidiane.

Incorporare queste espressioni nel tuo shadowing in inglese può migliorare la tua fluidità e conferire naturalità alla tua comunicazione.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Alcuni termini e frasi nel video possono risultare complicati per gli apprendisti inglesi. Prestare attenzione alla pronuncia corretta di:

  • “rucksack”: è importante enfatizzare le sillabe, poiché può facilmente essere confuso con “backpack” in alcuni dialetti.
  • “Cambridge”: la pronuncia della /g/ è spesso difficoltosa; assicurati di non ometterla.
  • “Aberdeen”: la combinazione di suoni può risultare sfidante, quindi è utile ripetere la parola più volte durante la pratica di conversazione in inglese.

Usando tecniche di shadow speech e shadowspeaks, puoi affrontare queste difficoltà e migliorare notevolmente la tua pronuncia nel tempo.

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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