Pratica di Shadowing: Vol 3 - test 10 - section 2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Part 2.
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You will hear a radio program in which a man called Stephen talks about an organization called ExtraHands.com.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
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Stephen Jennings has been involved with an intriguing organization called ExtraHands.com.
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I'll let him explain.
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Thanks.
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Yes, ExtraHands.com was started 15 years ago by two New Zealanders who'd bought an old farm building and some land.
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They wanted to go organic, but they realized they'd need help clearing the fields for cultivation, and they just didn't have the money to pay for it.
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But they knew lots of people wanted to visit New Zealand.
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So they set up a website and advertised for volunteers to come and help on the farm there.
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Anyway, they got lots of volunteers and they got their farm going and extrahands.com was born.
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Today the organization matches people who need help with people who are willing to work as a way of seeing the world.
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You can either be a host, if you need assistance, or a volunteer, if you're offering to work.
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In either case, to become a member, you just fill out a form on the extrahands.com website and pay the $25 subscription.
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You only have to do that once.
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But for your membership to stay active, every 12 months you have to go back to the website and check the details on your form there,
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adding information about any help you requested or work you did over that period.
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So how does it work?
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Well, if a host has some work that needs to be done,
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he or she goes to the extrahands.com website and posts a description of the work.
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So the way most volunteers access these details on the website is by specifying the country
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or region they're interested in working in, but a few search according to how long they want to work for.
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Not many people have strong feelings about what sort of work they want to do.
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They're mostly fairly open about it.
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If you're interested in volunteering for a particular job,
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you can email your host to arrange the dates and establish things like accommodation and hours of work.
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It's all fairly informal.
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There are no legal documents or anything like that.
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But you do both need to have some sort of written record of what's been agreed before you actually arrive.
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What about problems?
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Well, there are too many members for the organization to be able to investigate them all.
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But there's an online message board where members can post details of any difficulties they've had.
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Things like unsatisfactory accommodation or volunteers who haven't done the work agreed.
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And this works very well.
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Before you hear the rest of the program, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.
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I know you've personally had lots of extrahands.com placements, Stephen.
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Tell us about them.
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Well, my first placement was in Portugal, where I helped a local guy with a guidebook he'd written in English.
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I read what he'd written and corrected the English and made some suggestions for improving it.
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I was very pleased with it when I finished, and I learned lots about the country.
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The next placement was on the other side of the world, in Australia.
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I was on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and since I'm pretty good in the kitchen, they had me fixing meals for thirty sheep shearers.
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I stayed two months, and it was a lot of fun, but I can tell you I was glad to get back home to California and just lie on a beach and relax.
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Okay, then, after a well-deserved rest, I did a job in South Korea for a small company that wanted an English speaker to show visiting Americans around.
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They gave me some books to read, and I learned as I worked.
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I loved it, and I developed a real taste for Korean food.
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My most difficult job was for an older lady in the USA.
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She had a gigantic house and grounds, but she couldn't maintain them all herself.
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So I worked for her, digging and planting flowers and stuff around her swimming pool.
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And she grew tons of vegetables, too.
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She was nice, but she fed me hot dogs morning, noon, and night.
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Now, my most recent placement was last summer in Italy.
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I helped a family add a room onto their house.
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I didn't speak Italian or know the first thing about building, but the husband had an English-Italian phrasebook,
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and together with sign language showed me exactly what to do.
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And the wife's cooking was out of this world.
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Thanks, Stephen.
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And if you want more information about...
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That is the end of Part 2.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to Part 2.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 63 frasi e 820 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:39. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 123 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| volunteer sostantivo | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | volontario, volontaria |
| placement sostantivo | /ˈpleɪ̯smənt/ | piazzamento, collocazione |
| accommodation sostantivo | /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ | alloggio |
| meal sostantivo | /ˈmiːl/ | pasto |
| membership sostantivo | iscrizione, appartenenza | |
| carefully avverbio | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | minuziosamente, accuratamente |
| establish verbo | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ | stabilire, confermare |
| flower sostantivo | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | fiore |
| nowhere avverbio | /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/ | da nessuna parte, in nessun posto |
| organic aggettivo | /ɔːˈɡænɪk/ | organico |
| arrive verbo | /əˈɹaɪv/ | arrivare, giungere |
| difficulty sostantivo | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | difficoltà |
| investigate verbo | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | investigare, indagare |
| ton sostantivo | /tʌn/ | tonnellata |
| suggestion sostantivo | /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/ | suggestione, suggerimento |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| fill out verbo | /fɪl ˈaʊt/ | compilare |
| set up verbo | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | preparare, installare |
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 | has been involved · was started · was born |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been involved · haven't done |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, he'd, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, cultivation /ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/, unsatisfactory /ˌʌnsætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/
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 volunteer, placement, accommodation.
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.