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Welcome to Storyline Online brought to you by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
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I'm Olivia Munn, and today I'm going to read “The Most Magnificent Thing,” written and illustrated by Ashley Spires.
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For all the little perfectionists of the world.
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This is a regular girl and her best friend in the whole wide world.
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They do all kinds of things together.
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They race. They eat.
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They explore.
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They relax.
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She makes things.
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He unmakes things.
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One day the girl has a wonderful idea.
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She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing!
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She knows just how it will look.
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She knows just how it will work.
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All she has to do is make it.
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And she makes things all the time.
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Easy peasy!
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First, she hires an assistant.
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Next they gather their supplies.
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They set up somewhere out of the way and get to work.
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The girl tinkers and hammers and measures...
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...while her assistant pounces and growls and chews.
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When she is finished, she steps back to admire her work.
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She walks around one side.
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Her assistant examines the other side.
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It doesn't look right.
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Her assistant picks it up and gives it a shake.
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It doesn't feel right either.
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They are shocked to discover that the thing isn't magnificent.
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Or good. It isn't even kind of sort of okay.
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It is all WRONG.
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The girl tosses it aside and gives it another go.
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She smooths and wrenches and fiddles.
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Her assistant circles and tugs and wags.
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When she is finished, she stands up and takes a long look at it.
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Her assistant gives it a nudge with his paw.
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The thing is still wrong.
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She decides to try again.
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The girls saws and glues and adjusts.
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She stands and examines and stares.
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She twists and tweaks and fastens.
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She fixes and straightens and studies.
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She tries all different ways to make it better.
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She makes it square.
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She makes it round.
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She gives it legs. She adds antenna.
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She makes it fuzzy.
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She makes it long, short, rough, smooth, big, small — one even smells of stinky cheese!
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But none of them are MAGNIFICENT.
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Her hard work attracts a few admirers, but they don't understand.
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They can't see the MAGNIFICENT thing that she has in her mind.
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She gets MAD.
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The angrier she gets, the faster she works.
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She SMASHES pieces into shapes.
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She JAMS parts together.
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She PUMMELS the little bits in.
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Her hands feel too big to work, and her brain is too full of all the not right things.
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If only the thing...
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WOULD... JUST...
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WORK!!! The PAIN starts in her finger.
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It rushes up to her BRAIN...
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...and she EXPLODES!
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It is not her finest moment.
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I'm no good at this.
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I QUIT. Her assistant suggests a walk.
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It's not much help at first, But before long, she starts to feel different.
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Bit by bit, the mad gets pushed out of her head.
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As they stroll along, she comes across the first wrong thing she made.
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The bad feelings are about to start all over again.
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Then she notices something surprising.
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There are some parts of the WRONG things that are really quite RIGHT.
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The bolts on one, the shape of another, the wheel-to-seat ratio of the next.
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There are all sorts of parts that she likes!
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By the time she reaches the end of the trail, she finally knows how to make the thing MAGNIFICENT.
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She gets to work.
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She works carefully and slowly, tinkering, hammering, twisting, fiddling, gluing, painting.
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Her assistant makes sure there are no distractions.
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This is the perfect thing to ward off bears!
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This will stop that leak.
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This one's all wet.
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The afternoon fades into evening.
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Finally, she finishes.
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She alerts her assistant.
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The pair take a good long look.
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It leans a little to the left.
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and it's a bit heavier than expected.
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The color could use a bit of work, too.
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But it's just what she wanted!
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They climb aboard and take it for a spin.
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They are not disappointed.
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It really is THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING.
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You know, I like it when she says she's going to quit.
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As a kid, I think I always wanted to be able to scream, like, “I quit!” My mom, I have a I have a tiger mom, Asian mom, who will not let me quit anything.
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I wanted to quit piano.
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I couldn't quit piano.
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I wanted to quit, Taekwondo, I couldn't quit.
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I want to quit swimming.
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I wanted to quit everything.
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And she never let me quit.
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And so, the thing that I love about this little girl saying she quits is that for me I know if I was allowed to quit at any point, then I would really have regretted it as an adult.
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And I'm so happy that my mother made me keep going and keep pushing through all the tough feelings and the hard feelings and the tired feelings so that I could stick with it.
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And I love that in this book because she says I quit.
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But we know there's so much more to the book.
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You know, there's still so many more pages left.
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So we know that she, she's not going to quit.
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She's not going to let herself down.
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Thank you for watching Storyline Online.
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Perché praticare la conversazione con questo video?

Guardare e ascoltare un video come “The Most Magnificent Thing” con Olivia Munn è un ottimo modo per migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese. Questo video, adatto a tutti coloro che desiderano imparare l'inglese con youtube, presenta un contesto narrativo che ti permette di immergerti nel linguaggio quotidiano. Durante la lettura, Olivia utilizza una varietà di espressioni e toni che rispecchiano la comunicazione naturale. Imparare a parlare in questo modo ti aiuta a sviluppare la tua capacità di esprimerti fluentemente e con sicurezza.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel video, vengono impiegate diverse strutture grammaticali utili e comuni nella lingua parlata. Ecco alcune delle più importanti:

  • Frasi semplici e articolate: Olivia usa frasi brevi e dirette per mantenere l'attenzione degli spettatori. Per esempio: "She knows just how it will look".
  • Uso del presente semplice: La narrazione è prevalentemente in presente, rendendo facile seguire le azioni mentre si svolgono. Esempio: “She makes things.”
  • Conversazione colloquiale: Le domande retoriche e le esclamazioni, come "Easy peasy!", rendono il discorso più coinvolgente e naturale.

Utilizzare queste strutture mentre pratichi il shadow speech ti aiuterà a interiorizzare le forme grammaticali in modo che tu possa applicarle facilmente nel parlato quotidiano.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Durante la visione, potrebbero emergere alcune trappole di pronuncia da tenere a mente:

  • “Magnificent”: Fai attenzione alla sillabazione e all'accento su questa parola, che può risultare difficile. La corretta pronuncia è mahg-NIF-ih-kent.
  • “Assistant”: Ricorda di pronunciare la “a” correttamente e l’accento sulla seconda sillaba: as-SIS-tant.
  • “Explored”: In questa parola, assicurati di pronunciare il suono finale "-ed" come "d" e non come "t".

Praticare queste parole con il shadowing site ti permetterà di superare eventuali difficoltà fonetiche e di migliorare notevolmente la tua pronuncia complessiva. Rivedere il video e ripetere ad alta voce immediatamente dopo averlo ascoltato ti porterà a risultati sorprendenti!

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppoThe Most Magnificent · her best · her finest
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingkeep pushing · Keep watching
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivareI'm going to read · is going to make · she's going to quit
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsionewill look · will work · will stop

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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