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Fiona.
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This happened a couple of years ago, just before Christmas.
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My boyfriend and I are out doing some last minute shopping and the roads are absolutely packed.
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Cars everywhere, traffic barely moving.
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So, we're in the car when I suddenly remember we've got no milk, no tea, no bread, basically nothing for breakfast tomorrow.
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So I say, we'd better pop into the grocers on the corner.
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I'll just grab a few things.
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And then I tell him, don't even bother trying to park.
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It'll take us all day.
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Just drop me off outside the shop and drive around the block.
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I'll only be a minute.
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So off I go, grab the things we need, and when I come out, I see his car slowly crawling past the shop.
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Oh, and bear in mind, it's freezing and I'm all wrapped up in a hat and scarf.
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You can barely see my face.
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I run over, jump into the back seat while the car's still moving, slap the back of the driver's seat and say, go, go, go.
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And the driver shouts, oh my God, oh my God.
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I realise it's not my boyfriend's voice.
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I pull my scarf down, look up, and there's this poor old man, maybe 70, absolutely terrified.
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Before I can say a word, he panics, slams his foot down on the accelerator, and we go straight into the car in front.
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So, yeah, I just gave a sweet old man the most traumatizing Christmas present ever.
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Amanda.
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So this happened a few years ago at work.
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I was part of this big team, a couple of hundred people, and there was this huge company convention coming up.
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Everyone was absolutely obsessed with getting one of the event shirts.
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So one of the guys on my team, John, couldn't go because he a jury duty, and he says, please, please save me a shirt.
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Get me a medium or a large.
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I don't mind.
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I just really want one for a gift.
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So I go to the convention, grab the shirts, but there are only extra large left, so I can only get one of those for John.
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When I get back, I send this email to the whole team saying something like, hey everyone, great event, hope you all had fun.
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Then I add, John, I left you an extra large shirt on your desk, sorry about the size.
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Then I head home.
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I'm driving and my phone just keeps ringing and ringing.
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I'm thinking, what's going on?
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Is there an emergency?
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So I finally pull over and check and it's John.
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Apparently, I'd missed the letter R.
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So instead of shirt, I'd written, John, I left you an extra large shit on your desk.
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Sorry about the size.
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Connor.
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This happened last summer while I was on holiday in Portugal.
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I'm just wandering around this little town, you know, exploring mind-to-mind business, when suddenly it just starts absolutely pouring down,
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down like proper buckets of rain.
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Within seconds I'm soaked through and then this lovely old lady, absolute angel, opens her door and says, oh you poor thing, come in,
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come in, have some coffee while it passes.
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So I go in, dripping all over her floor and she's so sweet.
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She even offers me a dry pair of trousers.
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Apparently they belong to her late husband.
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So I take them, thank her, and she points me to a little room so I can get changed.
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Now, my jeans are completely stuck to me, right?
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So I'm trying to pull them off, but they're like glued to my legs.
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And as I'm doing that, I sort of lose my balance, knock into a bookcase, and suddenly this urn on the top shelf wobbles
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and falls yeah the urn with her husband's ashes and
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because i'm wet they just stick all over me like honestly
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i'm standing there half naked dripping wet covered in well her husband She runs in,
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gasps, covers her mouth and I just go, I'm so, so sorry.
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And she says, oh, don't worry, dear.
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He always liked meeting new people.
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So, yeah, not exactly the cultural experience I was expecting.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “When I completely embarrassed myself – C1 English Listening Test”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: shirt, absolutely, grab, suddenly, pull. Questo video contiene 59 frasi e 700 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:29. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 156 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
drip verbo/ˈdɹɪp/gocciolare
scarf sostantivo/skɑːf/sciarpa, scaldacollo
bookcase sostantivo/ˈbʊkˌkeɪs/libreria
grocer sostantivo/ˈɡɹoʊ.səɹ/droghiere, droghiera
obsess verbo/əbˈsɛs/ossessionarsi
terrify verbo/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/terrorizzare
traumatize verbo/ˈtɹɔ.mə.taɪz/traumatizzare
soak verbo/soʊk/inzupparsi, imbeversi
wander verbo/ˈwɑndɚ/errare, vagare
litter sostantivo/ˈlɪt.ɚ/lettiera
crawl verbo/kɹɔːl/brulicare
glue sostantivo/ɡlu/colla
slap sostantivo/slæp/schiaffo, ceffone
shelf sostantivo/ʃɛlf/scaffale, mensola
shout verbo/ʃaʊt/gridare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come up verbovenire fuori, emergere
pull over verboaccostare
run over verboinvestire

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • I'll just grab a few things.
  • It'll take us all day.
  • I'll only be a minute.
  • I realise it's not my boyfriend's voice.
  • I'm thinking, what's going on?

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 23 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shelf /ʃɛlf/, shout /ʃaʊt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: drip /ˈdɹɪp/, scarf /skɑːf/, bookcase /ˈbʊkˌkeɪs/, obsess /əbˈsɛs/, traumatize /ˈtɹɔ.mə.taɪz/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: slap /slæp/, slam /ˈslæm/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come drip, scarf, bookcase.

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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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