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Asia Catastrophe in Nepal After the flood
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More disasters, fewer resources A week after it struck,
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it was still hard to gauge the extent of the catastrophe that hit the Himalayas on August 26th.
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But it is at least possible to be fairly precise about how it started.
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At 8 .37am,
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a collapsing glacier and ice rock avalanche crashed down and dammed the Lende River at the border between Nepal and Tibet.
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Three minutes later, the dam breached, releasing a fury of water,
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rock, mud and ice down the Botei Koshi and Trishuli rivers of Nepal's Rasuwa region.
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Shibu Giri saw a wave raise an entire bridge.
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Just before it tossed up his lorry, he darted for the forest.
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After sleeping in a cave, he was lifted to safety by an army helicopter the next day.
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Many were less lucky.
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The flash floods swallowed some villages entirely.
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A week later, more than 1 ,000 people were known to have died, and more than 4 ,000 were missing.
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They included several hundred foreigners, among them busloads of Hindu pilgrims, en route to Kailash, a holy mountain in Tibet.
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Some 80 bridges and 40 kilometers of road were wiped out.
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The loss of 14 hydropower plants, some still under construction, knocked out 10 % of Nepal's power generation.
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Nepal sits where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide, and the hot monsoon breeze meets the Himalayas' icy winds and shaky slopes.
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That makes it one of the most disaster -prone places on earth.
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Its region is heating faster than the rest of earth, its glaciers melting twice as quickly as they did in 2000.
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So, in the years ahead, more glaciers will collapse, and more lakes are likely to burst their banks.
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Nepal is among the world's poorest countries, and looks horribly ill -equipped to deal with the calamities this will bring.
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Its Prime Minister, Belendra Shah, is a 36 -year -old former rapper, in post, for a mere six months, after Nepali youths burned down
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Parliament a year ago, and kicked out their previous rulers.
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His government will have to find as much as $5 billion to meet the costs of recovery,
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at a time when the wealthier nations it would once have looked to for help are cutting their foreign aid budgets.
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The United Nations Climate Fund lacks the money to honor even existing requests from poorer nations.
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America has pledged $3 .6 million in assistance, less than 3 % of its contribution after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015.
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Besides limiting immediate humanitarian relief efforts,
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the shortage of funds scuppers plans to build back better by investing in climate -resilient roads, bridges, and villages.
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Himalayan nations, meanwhile, are too stingy and suspicious of one another to manage their shared home in harmony.
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The Hindu Kush Himalaya has more than 63 ,700 glaciers, but only 38 monitoring stations,
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only seven of which meet global standards.
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Pema Giamshou, who heads the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a research and policy initiative in Kathmandu,
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the capital, says Nepal will have to rely on neighbours with greater resources to equip the region with better sensors
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and monitors and real -time data sharing.
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But China tends to treat hydrologic flow rates as a national security secret, risking leaving its neighbours downstream blindsided.
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Perhaps no early warning system would have won Nepal the time to prepare for floods as sudden and ferocious as these.
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But to survive the devastation wrought in the years to come by its region's mountains and waters,
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it will need more funds and more cross -border transparency.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Video Project 3”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Nepal, glacier, nations, Himalaya, flood. Questo video contiene 40 frasi e 577 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:05. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 141 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. 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 del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| glacier sostantivo | /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/ | ghiacciaio |
| flood sostantivo | /flʌd/ | inondazione, alluvione |
| disaster sostantivo | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | disastro |
| resource sostantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | risorsa |
| monitor sostantivo | /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/ | monitor |
| collapse verbo | /kəˈlæps/ | collassare, crollare |
| neighbour sostantivo | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | vicino, vicina |
| catastrophe sostantivo | /kəˈtæstɹəfi/ | catastrofe |
| equip verbo | /ɪˈkwɪp/ | equipaggiare |
| meanwhile avverbio | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | intanto, nel frattempo |
| extent sostantivo | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | estensione |
| flash verbo | /flæʃ/ | lampeggiare, balenare |
| sudden aggettivo | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | improvviso |
| initiative sostantivo | /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/ | iniziativa |
| knock verbo | /nɑk/ | bussare, battere |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| kick out verbo | cacciare via in malo modo |
| wipe out verbo | obliterare, spazzare via |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was lifted · were known · were wiped |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have looked · has pledged |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
- I suoni “th”: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: glacier /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/, flash /flæʃ/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, humanitarian /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, harmony /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/, humanitarian /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, horribly /ˈhɔɹəbli/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: flood /flʌd/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, collapse /kəˈlæps/, equip /ɪˈkwɪp/, extent /ɪkˈstɛnt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: collapse /kəˈlæps/, catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/, flash /flæʃ/, dam /ˈdæm/, rapper /ˈɹæpɚ/
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 glacier, flood, disaster.
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.