Pratica di Shadowing: To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

If you look up an image of the Earth and Moon, you're gonna get a picture where they're quite close together.

Something like that.

But in reality, the Earth and Moon are about,

About that far apart, that is the Earth and the Moon to scale.

Taking the same concept but for the solar system, every single picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale.

If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic and you won't be able to see them.

There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there.

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.

Welcome to Black Rock Desert.

This is Alex.

I'm Wiley.

He's going to be behind the camera.

I'm going to be probably making a lot of mistakes on camera.

We have 36 hours to measure the distances, trace out the orbits, and set up a time -lapse shot from up on top of a nearby mountain.

To create a scale model with an earth only as big as this marble,

you need seven miles of empty space so that's why we're here why did you guys come I don't have a job

at this scale the Sun is a meter and a half so about about that big around

So we are driving right now to Mercury, and we've arrived.

Venus is the same size as Earth.

I have the world in my pocket somewhere. And Earth.

And this is Mars, got a couple of robots rolling around on that one.

Once the time lapse is ready, we'll drive each orbit with a light.

Hopefully you'll be able to tell just how big they really are.

Onward to the outer planets,

Jupiter, Saturn,

that tiny light out there is our sun just over a mile away.

The sun is way, way out there now. So this is it.

This is the edge of the solar system.

So right now it's about 7 a .m.

We just woke up right before the sun's about to rise.

We are on Earth's orbit.

Wiley is over there holding our sun.

Cue the dramatic sunrise music.

So if we've made our model correctly,

your perspective from where Earth is on the model will match your perspective from standing on the real Earth.

So if you look back at the sun, you will see that the model sun and the real sun are the exact same size.

And that's how you can tell that the proportions are correct.

There are 24 people in the entire history of the human species,

billions of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes.

Following the breakfast, the astronauts went to the soup room where they donned their spacesuits.

This is man's attempt to get to the moon.

Zero.

We have liftoff.

Liftoff at 751.

In Earth orbit, the horizon is just slightly curved.

When you head on out to the moon, that horizon slowly curves around and upon itself, and all of a sudden, you're looking at something that is very strange, but it is very, very familiar.

Oh, my God, look at that picture over there.

Wow, that's pretty.

You can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb.

everything that you have ever known, all behind your thumb.

Not any bigger than that, way up there.

It's really beautiful.

You can cry.

That's what I really wanted to try and capture.

We are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.

When you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering.

Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 57 frasi e 626 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:36. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 95 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
orbit sostantivo	/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/	orbita
thumb sostantivo	/ˈθʌm/	pollice, dito grosso
curve sostantivo	/kɚv/	curva
horizon sostantivo	/həˈɹaɪ.zən/	orizzonte
marble sostantivo	/ˈmɑɹ.bəl/	marmo
pocket sostantivo	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	tasca
capture verbo	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	catturare, riprendere
dramatic aggettivo	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	drammatico
sudden aggettivo	/ˈsʌd.ən/	improvviso
arrive verbo	/əˈɹaɪv/	arrivare, giungere
robot sostantivo	/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/	robot
correctly avverbio	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	correttamente
trace sostantivo	/tɹeɪs/	orma
soup sostantivo	/sup/	minestra, brodo
proportion sostantivo	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	proporzione

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
set up verbo	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	preparare, installare
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	svegliarsi

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 13 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we've, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

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

La grammatica di questo video

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

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	we've arrived · we've made · have actually seen
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsione	won't be · we'll drive · you'll be
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivare	gonna get · He's going to be · I'm going to be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo	are driving · you're looking

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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