Pratica di Shadowing: The Root Problem | Peep and the Big Wide World - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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The Root Problem It was a perfect morning.
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Just right for- AAAAAH!
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Quack, quack!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ohhhh!
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Ohhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Oh no!
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Ahhhh!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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AAAHH!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ahhhhh!
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Ohhhhh!
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Ohhhhh!
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Ohhhhhhh!
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Quack!
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Quack!
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Quack!
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What?
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What is it?
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Are you okay?
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There!
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Over there!
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A snake!
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Uh...quack?
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I don't mind sharing my pond with fish, but a snake is just too...
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Black!
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What?
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That's not a snake.
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It's a stick.
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Of course it's a stick.
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Pretending to be a snake.
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I didn't know you were scared of snakes, Quack.
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Me?
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I am not afraid of snakes.
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It's just, you know how snakes are.
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They sneak up on you and tickle your feet.
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I'm pretty sure snakes don't do that.
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You clearly don't know snakes.
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Anyway, we have to get rid of it.
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I'll just pull you out of the ground so you can't...
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...uh, scare ducks.
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Whoa!
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Okay...
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I'll dig you out.
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Peep, lend me a foot, please.
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This is a really big stick.
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Are you sure you want to dig it up?
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Of course I'm sure.
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It was bothering me, wasn't it?
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Ah!
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This must be the biggest stick in the world.
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You could be right.
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Which makes this an amazing discovery.
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And me, an amazing discoverer.
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I'll be famous.
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You think so?
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Definitely.
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Everybody loves big stick stories.
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And so, using a digging stick, little bird toes, and big duck feet, the three friends dug and dug and dug.
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And dug and dug and dug and dug and dug.
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Hey!
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Be careful with those feet!
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That's not a snake, is it?
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I don't think so.
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Sorry, but we're digging up the world's biggest stick.
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Sounds exciting, but I feel I speak for all earthworms when I say, please dig carefully.
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We live here.
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You live in dirt?
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Why? Because we eat dirt.
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And then we like to move it around.
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So it's just very convenient.
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Bye!
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So once again, the three friends dug and dug and dug and dug...
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Until...
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Look!
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A tunnel!
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Hello down there!
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Hello up there!
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The power of duck feet!
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The power of mole feet!
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Howdy!
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Moe's my name, and digging tunnels is my game!
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Hi, I'm Peep, and this is Chirp and Quack.
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Aren't you the ones digging up the world's biggest stick?
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Yes, that's right.
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How did you know?
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I can't see very well, but I have great hearing.
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And one of you is very loud.
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I am not loud.
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I'm exuberant.
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Well, anywho, all play and no hole makes for one homeless mole.
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Ciao.
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Once more, the three friends, dog and dog.
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Hey, I found a berry.
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Let me take a look.
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Hmm, round, check, small, check.
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Yep, that's a berry, all right.
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Who wants to play berry?
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Me.
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Me, not me.
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Hmm?
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A talking berry?
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Could this be, dare I say it, Another amazing discovery?
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I'm not a talking berry.
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I'm a pill bug.
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Why were you rolled up like that? For protection.
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See my shell?
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It's hard as a rock.
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Keeps me safe.
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Well, sorry to disturb you, but we're digging up this stick because Quack is afraid of snakes.
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I am not.
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Why not?
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Well, anyway, we have to dig it up.
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Good luck!
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By now, Peep, Quack, and Chirp were hot and tired.
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So they were very happy when the stick led them into the shade of Newton's tree.
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Hmm.
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I think our stick is stuck to Newton's tree.
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Really?
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Well, we'll have to dig up the tree then.
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Hmm.
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We're going to need a couple more ducks for that.
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Quack, we can't dig up Newton's tree.
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Well, I can't live with a snake.
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I mean, I could.
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But I don't want to.
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It's not a snake.
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It's a stick.
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It's not a stick or a snake.
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It's a root.
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It brings water to my tree.
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But I thought roots were under the ground.
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We kind of made a mess, didn't we?
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Don't blame me.
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Blame that snake!
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And so it turned out to be a perfect afternoon.
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Just right for covering a root with dirt.
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Come on, Quack.
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We have to undig all our digging.
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When we get to your pond, we can bury the snake, a stick, a root, under a rock or something.
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Is a duck's work never done? the duck asked.
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Capri and Hazel and I are digging holes.
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I found a worm right there. Where?
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Right there.
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Pick it up.
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They actually do help you.
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They make the soil nice and clean again.
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Hello, Dippies.
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I found a rock.
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This rock has some yellow in it.
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Maybe the leaves that fall on the ground, when they get crumbled, they go into the ground
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and they make dirt and they might have gave the dirt a little color to give the rock a little color.
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Ooh, what the heck is this?
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It's reddish-orange-ish and it's squished in the back.
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I think it's a tail of a different room.
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We are finding living things and things that are not living.
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It's green!
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Is it a marble?
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It probably is a marble or a little ball.
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I found a rock.
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It's a big one too.
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I know.
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It looks like a bunch of rocks glued together.
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It looks like it could be a chunk of sidewalk or something.
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I have a baby worm in my hand.
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And it's a little green worm.
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So maybe it's a tree worm that blends into the trees and stuff.
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See what you can find when you dig some holes.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 173 frasi e 923 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:15. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 90 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Solo il 72% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:

  • snake /sneɪk/ (sostantivo) — serpente, serpe. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
  • dig /dɪɡ/ (verbo) — scavare. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More…
  • dirt /dɝt/ (sostantivo) — terra. Soil or earth.
  • duck /dʌk/ (sostantivo) — anatra. Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and…
  • berry /ˈbɛɹi/ (sostantivo) — bacca, coccola. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • worm /wɝm/ (sostantivo) — verme. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
  • discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/ (sostantivo) — scoperta, scoprimento. Something discovered.
  • tunnel /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ (sostantivo) — tunnel, galleria. An underground or underwater passage.
  • scare /skɛɚ/ (verbo) — spaventare, impaurire. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
  • pond /pɑnd/ (sostantivo) — stagno. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  • marble /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/ (sostantivo) — marmo. A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
  • carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (avverbio) — minuziosamente, accuratamente. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
  • soil /sɔɪl/ (sostantivo) — suolo, terra. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • bother /ˈbɑðɚ/ (verbo) — disturbare, infastidire. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
  • shell /ʃɛl/ (sostantivo) — conchiglia. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

  • dig up (verbo) — disseppellire, dissotterrare. To excavate something.
  • come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — dai dai!. Come along with me; join me in going.
  • roll up (verbo) — arrotolare. To dominate by accumulating; to become dominant by accumulating.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 27 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, earthworm /ˈɜː(ɹ)θˌwɜː(ɹ)m/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shell /ʃɛl/, shade /ʃeɪd/, reddish /ˈɹɛdɪʃ/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: discoverer /dɪˈskʌvəɹəɹ/, exuberant /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come snake, dig, dirt.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodowe're digging · are digging · are finding
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsioneI'll just pull · I'll dig · I'll be
Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessariohave to get · have to dig · have to undig

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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