Prática de Shadowing: How to start a presentation - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Music It always strikes me how people think about their presentations or how they prepare their presentations.
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I'm actually talking about the first words, the first sentences of a presentation.
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What most people do is they think of a presentation so automatically you think about a PowerPoint.
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So you make your slides.
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You look at your slides and you think about what will I say showing each slide.
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But my question to you is this: What are your first words?
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What are the first sentences?
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Very few people think about that.
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Just think a minute about the presentations that you have already seen in the past, maybe the presentations that you have done yourself.
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There is a cliché sentence that most speakers use to introduce their topic.
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They say something like, good morning, good afternoon.
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"My name is" if they don't know you.
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And then there is this typical sentence: "Today I'm going to talk to you about." Now you might say,
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"So what's the problem?" The problem with this sentence is that you're actually answering the wrong question.
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You're answering the "what" question.
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"What are you going to do?
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I'm going to talk about." If you think about it, most audiences know what you're going to talk about.
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Either you are introduced, or there is a program, or there is a meeting, so there is an agenda, so people know what your topic is all about.
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The most interesting question to answer is the "why" question.
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Why are you there? to talk about this topic and even more important, why is it important for the audience to listen to you?
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So, my advice for you is to focus on the "why" question.
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Now, how can you do that?
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I advise people to focus on a story to begin their presentation.
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Now, if you think about stories, stories begin with a timeframe.
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Just Look at fairy tales.
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They start with once upon a time.
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I'm not going to suggest that you start your professional presentation with once upon a time, but you can start with a time frame.
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Something like yesterday, two weeks ago, last year, three months ago.
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Now what's the kind of story that you can share then?
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Use real stories.
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It has to be something that happened to you.
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It has to be something that you heard.
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So you can refer to a conversation you had with a colleague.
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You can say something like, day I had a conversation with, but then there has to be a reason why you refer to that conversation.
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And there is this linking sentence that I use in lots of presentations.
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I tell my story, and then I continue saying, now why do I tell you this?
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Because my objective or my goal with this presentation is to.
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So what you can do is be very conscious of the company's stories, I might say.
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It can be something that happened with a customer.
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It can be an article you you heard about, it can be a conversation you had.
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So use these stories to begin your presentation, link them to your goal, and it will be so much more interesting for your audience
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because it will be crystal clear for them from the very first minute why it is important to them.
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So next time you prepare your presentation, focus on that why question and tell them a story.
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Primeiras impressões: Por que esse vídeo é ótimo para prática de conversação em inglês
O vídeo "How to start a presentation" é uma jóia para quem quer aprender inglês com YouTube e aprimorar a fala. Ele não só ensina dicas práticas para apresentações, mas também usa uma linguagem clara, com frases cotidianas e uma entonação natural — perfeita para o método shadowspeaks, onde você imita a pronúncia e o ritmo. O foco no "por quê" em vez do "o quê" torna o conteúdo relevante, e as histórias como abertura mostram como a linguagem pode ser usada de forma envolvente, o que ajuda no shadow speak: você aprende a estruturar ideias enquanto treina a fluência.
Analisando frases: Por que elas soam naturais
Vamos quebrar algumas frases do vídeo para entender sua naturalidade:
- "It always strikes me how people think about their presentations": O verbo "strikes" (chama a atenção) é coloquial e expressivo, evitando a formalidade excessiva. Usar "how" em vez de "that" deixa a pergunta mais aberta, como na conversa real.
- "Now why do I tell you this?": A interrogação direta cria uma conexão com o ouvinte, como se estivesse conversando. A palavra "now" dá um toque de fluidez, como um pause natural na fala.
- "It will be crystal clear for them from the very first minute": A expressão "crystal clear" (claro como cristal) é idiomática e mais impactante do que "very clear". "From the very first minute" enfatiza a imediaticidade, uma estrutura comum em discursos informais.
Roteiro de prática: Repeat-and-record para masterizar o shadow speak
Para treinar com esse vídeo, siga esse loop simples:
- Escute e observe: Assista o vídeo sem legendas, focando no ritmo e na entonação. Repare como as histórias são contadas de forma casual, com pauses entre as frases.
- Imite (shadowspeak): Pause o vídeo a cada frase e repita em voz alta, tentando igualar o tom e a pronúncia. Use frases como "Yesterday I had a conversation with..." para treinar a estrutura de abertura.
- Gravando e revisando: Grave sua voz enquanto imita. Compare com o vídeo e note onde você pode melhorar o ritmo ou a pronúncia de palavras como "objective" ou "audience".
- Aplique: Crie sua própria história de abertura, usando o modelo do vídeo ("História + por quê + objetivo"). Grave e avalie se o "por quê" está claro, como no exemplo do vídeo.
Repita esse processo diariamente, e você verá como o shadow speak melhora sua fluência e confiança em apresentações em inglês. Lembre: o segredo é focar no "por quê" — e o vídeo é a chave para isso!
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.