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Women are choosing not to identify as feminist.
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Women are choosing not to identify as feminist.
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Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong,
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too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men, unattractive even.
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Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?
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I am from Britain, and I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts.
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I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body.
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I think...
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I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies
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and the decisions that will affect my life.
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I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men.
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But sadly, I can say
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that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
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No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality.
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These rights I consider to be human rights,
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but I am one of the lucky ones.
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My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn't love me less because I was born a daughter.
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My school did not limit me because I was a girl.
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My mentors didn't assume that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day.
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These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today.
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They may not know it,
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but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today.
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We need more of those.
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And if you still hate the word,
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it is not the word that is important.
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It's the idea and the ambition behind it.
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because not all women have received the same rights that I have.
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In fact, statistically, very few have been.
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In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women's rights.
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Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today.
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But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30% of the audience were male.
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How can we affect change in the world
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when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
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Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
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Gender equality is your issue too.
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Because to date, I've seen my father's role as a parent being valued less by society,
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despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother's.
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I've seen young men suffering from mental illness,
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unable to ask for help,
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for fear it would make them less of a man.
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Or less of a man.
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In fact, in the UK,
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suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49,
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eclipsing road accidents, cancer, and coronary heart disease.
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I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success.
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Men don't have the benefits of equality either.
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We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes,
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but I can see that they are and that when they are free things will change for women as a natural consequence.
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If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted,
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women won't feel compelled to be submissive.
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If men don't have to control,
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women won't have to be controlled.
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Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive,
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both men and women should feel free to be strong.
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It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.
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If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are,
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are, we can all be freer.
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And this is what he or she is about.
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It's about freedom.
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I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters,
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sisters, and mothers can be free from prejudice,
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but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too.
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We claim those parts themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
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You might be thinking, who is this Harry Potter girl and what is she doing speaking at the UN?
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And it's a really good question.
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I've been asking myself the same thing.
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All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better.
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And having seen what I've seen and given the chance,
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I feel it is my responsibility to say something.
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Statesman Edmund Burke said, all
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that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
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In my nervousness for this speech,
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and in my moments of doubt,
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I've told myself firmly, if not me, who?
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If not now, when?
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If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you,
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I hope that those words will be helpful.
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Because the reality is that if we do nothing,
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it will take 75 years,
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or for me to be nearly 100,
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before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
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15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children.
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And at current rates, it won't be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.
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If you believe in equality,
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you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier.
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And for this, I applaud you.
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We are struggling for a uniting word,
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but the good news is that we have a uniting movement.
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It is called He for She.
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I am inviting you to step forward,
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to be seen and to ask yourself if not me, who?
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If not now, when?
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Thank you very, very much.
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Perché esercitarsi a parlare con questo video?

Il video con il discorso di Emma Watson offre un'eccellente opportunità per praticare l'inglese parlato. Attraverso il shadowing, una tecnica che consiste nel ripetere ciò che si ascolta, gli studenti possono migliorare la loro pronuncia e la loro fluidità. Questo discorso affronta tematiche rilevanti come l'uguaglianza di genere, permettendo così agli studenti di apprendere vocabolario elevato mentre si esplora un argomento significativo. Utilizzando un shadowing site o semplicemente ascoltando il video più volte, possiamo cogliere sfumature e intonazioni che arricchiscono il nostro modo di esprimerci.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Durante il suo discorso, Emma Watson utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali che meritano attenzione:

  • Direttive e opinioni: Frasi come "I think it is right that..." illustrano la costruzione di frasi per esprimere opinioni personale in modo chiaro.
  • Uso del presente semplice: Frasi come "There is no one country..." evidenziano come il presente possa essere utilizzato per affermare verità generali.
  • Condizionali: La frase "If men don't have to be aggressive..." è un esempio di come i condizionali possano formulare situazioni ipotetiche e suggerire cambiamenti.

Queste strutture sono essenziali per chi vuole migliorare non solo il proprio speaking, ma anche la comprensione delle dinamiche delle conversazioni in inglese.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Nel suo discorso, Emma Watson utilizza alcune parole e accenti che possono risultare complicati per gli studenti. Ecco alcuni punti da considerare:

  • Pronuncia di "feminist": Spesso, la pronuncia di questa parola può essere difficile; è importante praticare per evitare confusione.
  • Accento britannico: Emma ha un accento molto marcato, quindi, ascoltare con attenzione è fondamentale per abituarsi a diverse inflessioni e suoni dell'inglese.
  • Intonazione: Prestare attenzione a come Emma sottolinea certe frasi può aiutarci a migliorare la nostra pronuncia in inglese e il nostro tono di voce.

Utilizzando tecniche di shadowing in inglese e praticando queste frasi, gli studenti possono affinare la propria abilità e acquisire maggiore sicurezza mentre parlano.

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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