Prática de Shadowing: CAM 20 | IELTS LISTENING TEST | TEST 2 - SECTION 3 #english #listeningpractice #ielts #education - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Part 3 You will hear two students, called Rosie and Colin, discussing their Human Geography assignment.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25.
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Colin, I'm really struggling to think of a topic for our human geography assignment.
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Me too, Rosie.
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I'll tell you what.
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Let's think about the different aspects of human geography and see
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if we can narrow the topic down a bit to help us decide.
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OK, so one aspect is population.
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That would be all about population density and migration and so on.
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Lots of facts and statistics.
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Maybe a bit boring?
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Yeah, but quite straightforward to find on the internet.
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I suppose so.
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How about health?
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I'd never thought about the links between that and geography until Professor Lee gave us that lecture on cholera.
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How in the 19th century, a physician used street plans and plans of water supplies to find the source of a cholera epidemic.
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Yes, fascinating, wasn't it?
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Or we could do something more general, like economies.
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So how financial and commercial factors are linked to the physical environment?
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Yeah.
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I thought that had been taken off the syllabus for this year. Has it?
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I'm not sure.
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But it might be best to avoid it.
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OK.
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Maybe we could do something on culture.
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We had that lecture about culture and geography last week.
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I didn't get much out of that.
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It was also general, and the lecturer didn't give any useful examples.
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Yeah, I hardly took any notes.
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It didn't seem worth it.
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Me neither.
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We could focus on poverty.
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That's something that's a global problem.
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The trouble is, Dr Lee was saying, that you have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty.
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They're sometimes deliberately manipulated.
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You mean the information gets changed for political reasons?
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That sort of thing, yes.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30.
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Thank you.
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Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30.
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So what are we going to do our assignment on?
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I'll tell you what, one of the possibilities we haven't discussed is urbanisation, and now over half the world's population lives in cities.
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That's really important.
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OK, good idea, Rosie.
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Let's do that.
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I love living in a big city, but of course there are problems.
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Things like theft and robbery?
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Yes, but where I come from, that's linked to another more serious issue, which is that a lot of people don't have jobs.
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That's getting worse and worse.
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And we also still have quite a lot of people who are homeless, though that's not quite so bad as it was.
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It'd be nice to talk about some positive developments, like some of the new developments on the outskirts of cities.
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Yeah, they've opened some massive new shopping centres outside my city.
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Yeah, the same with mine, but it's meant a lot of the shops in the city centre are closing down.
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But the outskirts are ideal for buildings that need a lot of space, like for conferences.
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They've opened a couple of big ones.
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Yes, we've got some too.
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It'd be nicer to have more facilities for things like football too, but that's not happening where I live.
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Same in my area.
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We could include something about developing disused industrial sites.
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It seems like a good idea because you're not doing any harm to the natural environment.
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Yeah, but aren't the buildings architecturally significant?
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Not really.
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And what people forget is that they often used quite dangerous materials, chemicals and things, which haven't been properly cleared away, so the whole site has to be made safe.
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Hmm, that can't be cheap.
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And I bet it's often not budgeted for.
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You're right.
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Have you read about Mazdar City?
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In Abu Dhabi?
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Yes.
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It was designed to be a green city, wasn't it?
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That might be a good example of a city which set out to depend entirely on renewable energy.
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Yes, we should say something about that.
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It was designed to be totally pedestrianised too, wasn't it?
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With the transport underground.
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Yes, and they had big plans for recycling to reduce waste to the lowest possible level.
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But let's stick to talking about power sources.
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Then there's that ecotown in England, Green Hill Abbots.
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It set out to conform to the usual principles – sustainability and so on.
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A lot of people were against it at first.
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They said the plans were unrealistic.
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I'm not sure how far they've got with it.
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I'll check.
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Right.
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So it looks as if we have a sort of plan.
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And we can work...
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That is the end of part three.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Praticar a fala com o vídeo "CAM 20 | IELTS LISTENING TEST | TEST 2 - SECTION 3" é uma excelente forma de aprimorar suas habilidades de comunicação em inglês. Ao assistir a dois alunos discutindo um trabalho de Geografia Humana, você poderá aproveitar o contexto acadêmico para desenvolver vocabulário específico e estruturas conversacionais. O diálogo fornece um modelo claro de como expressar ideias, discutir tópicos complexos e fazer perguntas pertinentes, habilidades essenciais para o IELTS e para a vida acadêmica em geral.

Utilizando técnicas de shadowspeak, você pode melhorar a fluência e a pronúncia. A repetição do discurso dos falantes ajuda a internalizar a entonação correta e a construção de frases, tornando sua fala mais natural e confiante.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

  • Discussões sobre tópicos: Os alunos utilizam perguntas indiretas como "Não temos discutido..." para sugerir uma nova ideia. Essa estrutura é útil ao debater ou apresentar opiniões.
  • Uso de conjunções: Palavras como "mas" e "ou" são empregadas para contrastar ideias. Por exemplo, "Isso é interessante, mas pode ser complicado." Isso ajuda a construir argumentos mais elaborados.
  • Expressões para pedir feedback: A frase "O que você acha?" é uma expressão simples que demonstra engajamento e abre espaço para a troca de opiniões, essencial em qualquer debate acadêmico.

Essas estruturas podem ser utilizadas em suas conversas cotidianas ou em situações formais, melhorando sua capacidade de se expressar com clareza e assertividade.

Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia

No vídeo, alguns termos podem ser desafiadores para pronunciar corretamente. Palavras como "urbanização" e "população" podem levar a erros de entonação se não forem praticadas. Além disso, preste atenção ao sotaque e à velocidade do discurso dos falantes, que pode dificultar a compreensão inicial.

A prática de shadow speech, replicando os sons e a cadência da fala, pode ser um método eficaz para superar essas armadilhas. Ao gravar sua própria voz e comparar com a dos falantes nativos, você poderá identificar áreas que precisam de mais atenção e, assim, melhorar a pronúncia em inglês.

Incorporar essas técnicas na prática diária de conversação pode transformar sua habilidade no idioma, reforçando a segurança ao falar em público ou ao participar de discussões informais.

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.