Pratica di Shadowing: The pain of chasing your dreams - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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Good evening.
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I'm Steve Jobs from Apple Computer.
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We're very glad to be here tonight.
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Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.
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That's it.
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No big deal.
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Just three stories.
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The first story is about connecting the dots.
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
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It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me
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and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
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Throughout the campus, every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed, and I found it fascinating.
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
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But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
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Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards.
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So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever,
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because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart
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even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
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My second story is about love and loss.
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I was lucky.
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I found what I loved to do early in life.
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Was and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.
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We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
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And then I got fired.
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone.
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I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
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I felt that I'd let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down.
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I'd been rejected, but I was still in love.
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
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It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.
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During the next five years I started a company named Next, another company named Pixar, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
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I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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You've got to find what you love.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life
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and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
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As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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My third story is about death.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
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The past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
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Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, These things just fall away in the face of death.
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Remembering
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that you are going to die is the best way I
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know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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Everything else is secondary.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Thank you all very much.

Di Questa Lezione

In questa lezione, gli studenti di inglese esploreranno le storie ispiratrici di Steve Jobs e come queste riflettano i temi della passione, della perdita e della vita. Gli studenti avranno l'opportunità di migliorare la loro pronuncia e fluidità grazie a tecniche di shadowing. Utilizzeranno la trascrizione del video per esercitarsi nel "shadowspeak", seguendo il ritmo e il tono di Steve Jobs. Questa pratica non solo migliorerà le loro competenze linguistiche ma li aiuterà anche a comprendere meglio la narrativa e le emozioni trasmesse nel discorso.

Vocabolario Chiave & Frasi

  • Connect the dots: collegare i punti, un modo di vedere come le esperienze passate si uniscono nel futuro.
  • Follow your heart: segui il tuo cuore, un invito a perseguire ciò che si ama.
  • Love what you do: ama ciò che fai, enfatizza l'importanza di trovare la propria passione nel lavoro.
  • Best decisions: le migliori decisioni, un riferimento alle scelte più significative della vita.
  • Avoid the trap: evitare la trappola, parlare di come non lasciarsi bloccare dalla paura.
  • Creative period: periodo creativo, un momento di grande ispirazione e innovazione.
  • Death reminder: promemoria della morte, un concetto motivante per vivere pienamente.
  • Karma: karma, un concetto di causa ed effetto nelle esperienze di vita.

Consigli per la Pratica

Per sfruttare al meglio questa lezione, prova a utilizzare le tecniche di shadow speech. Inizia ascoltando attentamente il video, prestando particolare attenzione al ritmo e al tono di Steve Jobs. Dopo aver ascoltato, ripeti le sue parole seguendo il suo stesso ritmo. Questa pratica di shadowspeaks è estremamente utile per migliorare la tua pronuncia e comprensione del linguaggio parlato. Un buon consiglio è quello di fare pause brevi dopo ogni frase, permettendoti di assimilare meglio le espressioni e il vocabolario chiave. Ricorda di essere paziente con te stesso e di ripetere le parti che trovi più difficili, perché ogni piccola ripetizione contribuisce al tuo progresso. Infine, prova a riflettere su come le storie di Jobs possano risuonare con la tua vita, rendendo l'esperienza di shadowing non solo educativa ma anche personale e motivante.

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.