Pratica di Shadowing: Why the UK is in the EU - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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The writing's on the wall.
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Well, in any event, we'll have to think of something to make the public think kindly towards administration because of the Europass.
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Quite.
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Europass?
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Europass.
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European Identity Card.
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Well, Bernard, surely you've informed the Minister...
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Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
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No, I was redrafting the redraft of the draft.
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Well, briefly, Minister, Brussels is about to decree
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that there should be a new European Identity Card to be carried by all citizens of the EEC.
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Now the Foreign Office is quite ready to go along with it as a quid pro quo
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for a deal over the butter mountain, the wine lake and the milk ocean.
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The lamb war and the cod stink.
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And quite obviously the Prime Minister wants you to introduce the legislation.
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Me?
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Yes, well it's well known that you're pro-Europe you see
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and it would simplify our administration enormously in the long run So it's a good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Not a good idea.
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Political suicide.
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Trying to make British people carry compulsory identification papers.
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They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
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Is this what we fought two world wars for Humphrey?
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Well Minister it's really little more than a sort of driving license.
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It's the last meal in my coffin that's what it is.
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You might get away with calling it Euro Club Express.
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Why do we have to introduce it?
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Can't the Foreign Office do it?
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Well in fact that was the Prime Minister's original suggestion
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that the Foreign Secretary thought that this was a Home Office matter
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and the Home Office took the view that it was essentially an administrative matter and the Prime Minister agreed.
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They're all playing pass the parcel.
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Can you blame them when you can hear it ticking?
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Well I'm afraid that the identity card bill is planned to be the last action of this department.
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Wonderful ammunition for the anti-Europeans.
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Yes, don't the Foreign Office realize what damage this will do to the European idea?
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Well, I'm sure they do.
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That's why they support it.
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Well, surely the Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?
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Yes and no. If you'll forgive the expression.
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The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really anti-Europe.
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The Civil Service was united in its desire to make sure that the common market didn't work.
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That's why we went into it.
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What are you talking about?
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Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years to create a disunited Europe.
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In that cause, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
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Divide and rule, you see.
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Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
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Ancient history, surely.
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Yes, and current policy.
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We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.
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We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work.
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Now that we're inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing.
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Set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch.
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The Foreign Office is terribly pleased.
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It's just like old times.
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Surely we're all committed to the European ideal.
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Really, Minister?
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If not, why are we pressing for an increase in the membership?
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Well, for the same reason.
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It's just like the United Nations, in fact.
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The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
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Appalling cynicism.
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Yes.
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We call it diplomacy, Minister.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Why the UK is in the EU”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Minister, foreign, Europe, European, French. Questo video contiene 68 frasi e 618 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:29. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 178 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire. 13 delle sue 68 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
appalling aggettivo/əˈpɔːlɪŋ/terribile, orrendo
cynicism sostantivo/ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/cinismo
enormously avverbioenormemente
futile aggettivo/ˈfju.taɪl/futile
impotent aggettivo/ˈɪm.pə.tənt/debole
parcel sostantivo/ˈpɑɹsəl/pacchetto, plico
compulsory aggettivo/kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/obbligatorio, coatto
diplomacy sostantivo/dɪˈpləʊməsi/diplomazia
tick sostantivo/tɪk/zecca
coffin sostantivo/ˈkɔfɪn/bara, cassa da morto
decree sostantivo/dɪˈkɹiː/decreto, ordinanza
terribly avverbio/ˈtɛɹ.ɪ.bli/estremamente
ammunition sostantivo/ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/munizioni, arsenale
stir verbo/stɝ/mescolare
kindly avverbio/ˈkaɪn(d)li/gentilmente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
get away with verbofarla franca, cavarsela
go along with verboaccettare, adeguarsi
stir up verbo/ˈstɜː.ɹʌp/stimolare, appassionare

Frasi da ripetere

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

  • Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
  • They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
  • Why do we have to introduce it?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoyou've informed · has had · have fought
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabe carried · is planned · was united

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 17 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, didn't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/, diplomacy /dɪˈpləʊməsi/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: disunite /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/, impotent /ˈɪm.pə.tənt/, tick /tɪk/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, lamb /ˈlæm/

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 appalling, cynicism, enormously.

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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