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The Snail and the Whale Julia Donaldson Axel Scheffler The Snail and the Whale
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This is the tail of a tiny snail and the great big grey-blue humpback whale.
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This is a rock as black as soot and this is a snail with an itchy foot.
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The sea snail slithered all over the rock and gazed at the sea and the ships in the dock.
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As she gazed, she sniffled and sighed.
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The sea is deep and the world is wide.
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How I long to sail, said the tiny snail.
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These are the other snails in the flock, who all stuck tight to the smooth black rock,
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and said to the snail with the itchy foot, Be quiet, don't wriggle, sit still, stay put.
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But the tiny sea snail sighed and sniffed, then cried, I've got it, I'll hitch a lift.
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This is the trail of the tiny snail, a silvery trail that looped and curled and said...
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Lift wanted around the world.
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This is the whale who came one night, when the tide was high and the stars were bright.
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A humpback whale, immensely long,
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who sang to the snail a wonderful song of shimmering ice and coral caves and shooting stars and enormous waves.
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And this is the tail of the humpback whale.
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He held it out of the starlet sea and said to the snail, Come sail with me.
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This is the sea so wild and free that carried the whale and the snail on his tail.
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To towering icebergs and far off lands
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With fiery mountains and golden sands Ah!
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The waves are falling.
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These are the waves that arched and crashed, that foamed and frolicked and sprayed and splashed.
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The tiny snail on the tail of the whale.
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These are the caves beneath the waves where stripy fish with feathery fins and sharks with hideous toothy grins
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swam round the whale and the snail on his tail.
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This is the sky so vast and high, sometimes sunny and blue and warm, sometimes filled with a thunderstorm,
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with zigzag lightning, flashing and frightening, the tiny snail on the tail of the whale.
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And she gazed at the sky, the sea, the land, the waves and the caves and the golden sand.
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She gazed and gazed, amazed by it all, and she said to the whale, I feel so small!
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But then came the day.
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The whale lost his way.
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These are the speedboats running a race, zigging and zooming all over the place,
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upsetting the whale with their ear-splitting roar, making him swim too close to the shore.
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This is the tide slipping away.
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And this is the whale lying beached in a bay.
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Quick!
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Off the sand!
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Back to sea! cried the snail.
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I can't move on land.
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I'm too big! moaned the whale.
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The snail felt helpless and terribly small.
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Then, I've got it, she cried and started to crawl.
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I must not fail, said the tiny snail.
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I'm
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going to
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go to the next episode.
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This is the bell on the school in the bay, ringing the children in from their play.
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This is the teacher holding her chalk, telling the class, Sit straight, don't talk.
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This is the board as black as suit.
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And this is the snail with the itchy foot.
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A snail!
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A snail!
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The teacher turns pale.
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Look!
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Say the children, It's leaving a trail!
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This is the trail of the tiny snail,
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a silvery trail saying, Save the whale!
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These are the children running from school.
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Fetching the
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firemen, digging a pool .
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Squirting and spraying to keep the whale cool
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This is the tide coming into the bay.
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And these are the villagers shouting hooray,
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as the whale and the snail travel safely away.
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The Back
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to the dock and the flock on the rock, who said, How time's flown!
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And, Haven't you grown?
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And the whale and the snail told their wonderful tale of shimmering ice and coral caves and shooting stars and enormous waves.
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And how the snail, so small and frail, with her looping, curly silvery trail,
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saved the life of the humpback whale.
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Then the humpback whale held out his tail, and on curled the snail after snail after snail.
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And they sang to the sea as they all set sail on the tail of the grey-blue humpback whale.
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Thank you for watching!
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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello A2 si basa sul video “🐌🐳The Snail and the Whale - Animated Read Aloud Book”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: snail, whale, sea, tail, tiny. Questo video contiene 74 frasi e 733 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 13:06. Il 70% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

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15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
snail sostantivo/sneɪl/chiocciola, lumaca
whale sostantivo/ˈweɪl/balena
tail sostantivo/ˈteɪ̯l/coda
trail sostantivo/tɹeɪl/strascico, traccia
gaze verbo/ɡeɪz/fissare
cave sostantivo/keɪv/caverna, grotta
sand sostantivo/sænd/sabbia, rena
sail sostantivo/seɪl/vela
loop sostantivo/luːp/cappio
enormous aggettivo/ɪˈnɔː.məs/enorme, grandissimo
swim verbo/swɪm/nuotare, natare
dock sostantivo/dɑk/molo
sigh verbo/saɪ/sospirare
coral sostantivo/ˈkɔɹəl/corallo
flock sostantivo/flɑk/branco, gregge

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 9 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: smooth /smuːð/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, feathery /ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i/, slither /ˈslɪðɚ/, thunderstorm /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: flash /flæʃ/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, splash /splæʃ/, shimmer /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/

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 snail, whale, tail.

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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