Prática de Shadowing: CAE TEST6 PART3 - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

Part 3.

You'll hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone.

For questions 15 to 20, choose the answer A, B, C or D, which fits best according to what you hear.

You now have one minute to look at Part 3.

Thank you.

1990s which brought them fame and high living.

Then they lost it all and some years later bought a derelict house

which they renovated and now together they've created a garden.

They join me in the studio today.

You do seem to do most things in partnership like the jewellery business but using Jed's name.

Why is that?

Helena?

Well this is a bit of a bone of contention actually.

We have a friend in PR who said you have a great name Jed Stone.

People would pay a fortune for such a good name

but sadly at the time it never crossed my mind

that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do and

that does get to me sometimes

but there again I'm very bad at putting myself forward people see Jed as a figurehead

which is fine actually because I don't enjoy being recognized

or get any thrill out of that whereas Jed loves it is

that right Jed obviously I'd love to say no I don't

but but yeah I do even as a child I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street

and have people know who you were.

Ironically, that's the worst of it now.

It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something, but I suppose I do like being a public figure.

It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.

It doesn't stop me doing anything, but it does modify how I do it.

But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on The Travel Show.

That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.

Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.

I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.

It was ironic really because Jed adores travelling whilst I hate it.

The timing was critical though.

I mean, we were living in this derelict house.

We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows

and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to be there when it was done.

So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering

but I felt I had no choice because apart from anything else it would provide us with a reasonable income.

So what about this jewel garden?

Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?

Not at all.

In fact, we were provoked into action.

I was giving a lecture on gardening

and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants looked like

but these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.

So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.

It came straight out of my imagination.

It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.

Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up, saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.

And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.

Don't come now.

To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.

And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.

That was our incentive.

And why did you call it a jewel garden?

Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.

Well, I like to work on projects.

And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.

And design is all about reduction.

Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?

Yeah, but for me, it was also partly a metaphor.

It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.

We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.

There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.

um seem to waste not to take that bit of our lives

and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture to take the bad experience

and use it in a creative way jed and helena thank you for telling us about it today

now you'll hear the recording again Jed Stone's best known now for his talents as a garden designer,

but he and his wife Helena ran a highly successful jewelry business in the 1990s, which brought them fame and high living.

Then they lost it all, and some years later bought a derelict house, which they renovated, and now together they've created a garden.

They join me in the studio today.

You do seem to do most things in partnership, like the jewelry business, but using Jed's name.

Why is that?

Helena?

Well, this is a bit of a bone of contention, actually.

We have a friend in PR who said, you have a great name, Jed Stone.

People would pay a fortune for such a good name.

But sadly, at the time, it never crossed my mind that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do.

And that does get to me sometimes.

But there again, I'm very bad at putting myself forward.

People see Jed as a figurehead, which is fine, actually, because I don't enjoy being recognised or get any thrill out of that.

Whereas Jed loves it.

Is that right, Jed?

Obviously, I'd love to say no, I don't.

But yeah, I do.

Even as a child, I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street and have people know who you were.

Ironically, that's the worst of it now.

It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something.

But I suppose I do like being a public figure.

It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.

It doesn't stop me doing anything, But it does modify how I do it.

But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on the travel show.

That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.

Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.

I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.

It was ironic, really, because Jed adores travelling, whilst I hate it.

The timing was critical, though.

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I mean, we were living in this derelict house.

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We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows, and we could hardly afford to get the job finished.

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And I wanted to be there when it was done.

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So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it would provide us with a reasonable income.

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So what about this jewel garden?

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Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?

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Not at all.

107

In fact, we were provoked into action.

108

I was giving a lecture on gardening, and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants look like.

109

But these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.

110

So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.

111

It came straight out of my imagination.

112

It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.

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Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.

114

And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.

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Don't come now.

116

To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.

117

And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.

118

That was our incentive.

119

And why did you call it a jewel garden?

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Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.

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Well, I like to work on projects.

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And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.

123

And design is all about reduction.

124

Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?

125

Yeah, but for me it was also partly a metaphor.

126

It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.

127

We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.

128

There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.

129

It seemed to waste not to take that bit of our lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture, to take the bad experience and use it in a creative way.

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Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today.

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That's the end of Part 3.

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Now turn to Part 4.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “CAE TEST6 PART3”. As palavras que mais se repetem: jed, garden, jewel, helena, colours. Este vídeo tem 132 frases e 1576 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 9:40. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 163 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. Apenas 81% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
jewel substantivo	/ˈd͡ʒuːəl/	joia, gema
jewellery substantivo	/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/	joias, joalheria
partnership substantivo	/ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/	parceria
rush verbo	/ɹʌʃ/	apressar-se
bone substantivo	/boʊn/	osso
whereas	/(h)wɛɹˈæz/	enquanto, ao passo que
disaster substantivo	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	desastre
reduction substantivo	/ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/	redução, diminuição
journalist substantivo	/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/	jornalista, periodista
knock verbo	/nɑk/	bater
fame substantivo	/feɪm/	fama
fortune substantivo	/ˈfɔːtjuːn/	destino, fortuna
partly advérbio	/ˈpɑɹtli/	em parte
venture verbo	/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/	aventurar-se
laptop substantivo	/ˈlæp.tɑp/	computador portátil, portátil

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Significado
go down verbo	descer

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	they've created · I've done · have gone
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	being recognized · was done · were provoked

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 42 contrações e formas reduzidas, como don't, I'd, hadn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

Os sons de “th”: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, thrill /θɹɪl/
Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, journalist /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/, whilst /waɪlst/, knock /nɑk/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: jewel /ˈd͡ʒuːəl/, magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/, tackle /ˈtækəl/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, thrill /θɹɪl/
/h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, heroic /hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/, figurehead /ˈfɪɡjəɹˌhɛd/

Como praticar com este vídeo

Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como jewel, jewellery, partnership.

O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.

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