Prática de Shadowing: Literature Anthology Grade 3.Vote! - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Suppose your town is about to choose a new mayor.
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How will you do it?
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You'll vote.
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Voting is a way to choose.
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You can vote for favorite books, movie stars, candy bars, or even puppies.
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If someone wants to be elected mayor, she needs to convince as many people as possible to vote for her.
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Many people just don't vote.
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Why not?
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Maybe they think their vote is like a little drop of water in an enormous ocean.
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Their vote is only one out of many, many votes.
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But sometimes, the winner of an election is decided by just a few votes.
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Who decided who could vote?
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When this country began, the Founding Fathers wrote a constitution.
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It said how we would govern ourselves.
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It said people should vote, but it didn't say who could vote.
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That was left to each state to decide, and that was a problem.
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Angry people protested.
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They wrote letters.
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They held rallies and made speeches.
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They marched, were arrested, and went on hunger strikes.
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Some were killed trying to claim their right to vote.
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But it took many years, four amendments to the Constitution, and several new laws before all citizens,
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18 years or older, were allowed to vote.
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If you want to vote, you need to register. Where?
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At your town office.
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Or you can download a registration form from the Internet
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or you might even find a booth set up at a shopping mall or at a political rally.
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Do you want to join a political party?
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You've probably heard of the Democrats and the Republicans, but you could join the Green Party, the Libertarians, the America First Party,
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or the Progressives, to name just a few.
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Or you could be independent and not join any party at all.
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Before you vote, you'll need to find out about the different candidates.
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How?
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Read newspapers, watch TV news, listen to the radio, or surf the Internet.
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Do you agree with their ideas?
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How do we know if Chris will be a good mayor?
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She lets us sleep on the couch.
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That's important.
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You might have a chance to hear the candidates' debate.
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You might even be able to ask questions.
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We need new schools.
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Classes are being held in halls.
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There you go again, spending our money.
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Before an election, everyone tries to guess who will win.
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Pollsters ask some of the voters whom they're planning to vote for.
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Then they estimate who will be the winner
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but voters can change their minds someone just called to ask who i'm voting for and you said
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maybe brown what but smith is so much better that pollster should have asked me
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do you need help we sure do we have to mail 14 000 letters by tonight
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We're hoping you'll vote for Chris Smith.
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How can you help your candidate win?
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You can volunteer to answer phones, call voters, address envelopes, or hand out flyers.
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Campaigns need lots of help.
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And they need lots of money to help pay for phones, computers, stamps, flyers, and bumper stickers.
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And most of all, ads and more ads.
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Where will they find the money?
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What do the letters say?
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Please vote for Chris Smith and please donate money.
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You might want to donate a few dollars to your favorite candidate's campaign.
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Or maybe you'll be invited to a fundraising dinner.
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Would you like to pay $250 for a fancy hamburger and a chance to meet the candidate?
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Thank you if you donate lots of money maybe the candidate will listen to you more than to other voters
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is that fair does
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that mean your vote will count more than other voters votes
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there's a lot of disagreement about this by the last week of the campaign everyone is tired
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but the candidates make more speeches they shake more hands
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and they run more
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and more ads maybe just maybe they will convince another few
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voters to vote for them see we keep hearing Smith wants to spend all our money
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that worries me Chris Smith wants to spend your money that's
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an ad for Brown he's trying to worry us save your
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money vote for bill brown honest reliable a nice guy honest that ad isn't honest brown makes sense to me
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some of these ads can be very misleading
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i'm worried lots of these signs are for brown it's going to be a close election finally it's election day.
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Please sign in here, your name.
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Dad, are you voting for Mom?
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He'd better vote for me.
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Why do they have to sign in?
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Most voters are assigned a particular place to vote, a school, a library, a church basement, wherever there is space for voting booths.
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What if you're away on voting day?
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You can get an absentee ballot in advance.
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Some places let people vote by mail or on the internet.
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A few places set up voting machines early.
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But however you vote, you get just one vote.
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You can't go back and vote again.
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to check if they're registered and to make sure they vote only once.
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In most places, people use voting machines.
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Many cities and towns are replacing old machines with new electronic ones.
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But in very small towns, voters still mark paper ballots with a pencil.
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However you do it, you'll vote in a private booth truth.
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No one can see how you vote." There's lots to vote for,
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the mayor and city council, and a question.
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Should dogs be on leashes in public places?
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I finally decided, but don't ask.
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Votes are secret." He voted for Brown.
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You peaked.
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When the voting ends, the counting begins.
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Who will win?
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Stay close to your TV or radio to find out.
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Usually a few hours after the polls close, the winner is announced.
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Looks like Brown is winning.
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Oh no, but there are still lots more votes to count.
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And the winner is my mom.
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Congratulations, Madam Mayor.
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I'll be Mayor Dog.
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We won! But wait.
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What if the election is won by only a few votes?
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The candidate who lost can ask that the votes be counted again.
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Then it could take a few days or longer to carefully recount the ballots and find out who really won.
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Uh -oh, Brown wants a recount?
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I'll tell her.
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What's wrong?
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I won by just 105 votes out of 35 ,000.
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That's why Bill Brown wants a recount.
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Do you think Chris will lose?
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She might.
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At last, the election is decided.
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In the end, someone does win.
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And someone does lose.
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The votes have been recounted.
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Bill Brown was correct.
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Mistakes were made.
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Smith actually has 203 votes more than Brown.
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Almost half the voters don't want Chris to be mayor.
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Look at the bright side.
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Slightly more than half do want her.
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Brown lost.
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I guess we won't get a new stadium.
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But we might build new schools.
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I'm going to write a letter to Chris Smith and tell her why this town needs a stadium.
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She needs to listen to all the voters.
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You aren't happy?
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You wish the other candidate had won?
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Well, remember, the mayor works for everyone, even the people who didn't vote for her.
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She'll need to listen to all the voters.
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After she is sworn in, the new mayor will have a few years to do her new job.
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What are they doing?
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Chris is being sworn in as mayor.
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I promise to do my best.
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She won't please all the people all the time, but if she does a good job, maybe the voters will elect her again.
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I wonder if I'll be sworn in as mayor, dog.
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Who says you get to be mayor, dog?
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What about me?
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About the author and illustrator Eileen Cristolo had a strange dream when she was just three years old.
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She dreamed she could read.
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In first grade, she really did learn to read.
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From then on, Eileen's nose was almost always in a book.
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As Eileen grew up, she discovered art and photography.
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She also liked children's books and thought about writing and illustrating one of her own.
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After a lot of work, Eileen's first book was published.
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She went on to publish many more.
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Eileen gets her story ideas from newspapers, the radio, and even conversations.
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Primeiras impressões: Por que esse vídeo é ótimo para falar inglês
O vídeo sobre voto é uma jóia para quem quer aprender inglês com vídeos. A linguagem é simples, mas cheia de expressões cotidianas — como "a little drop of water in an enormous ocean" — que refletem como os nativos falam no dia a dia. Além disso, a história tem um fluxo natural, com perguntas e respostas que imitam conversas reais, o que ajuda a treinar a fluência. É perfeito para shadowing, pois a pronúncia é clara e o ritmo não é muito rápido, ideal para quem está começando.
Analisando o que faz o diálogo soar natural
Vamos quebrar 3 frases do vídeo que mostram como o inglês é falado no cotidiano:
- "Maybe they think their vote is like a little drop of water in an enormous ocean." A metáfora "drop of water in an enormous ocean" é usada para expressar a ideia de "pequena importância" de forma criativa, algo comum nos discursos informais.
- "That pollster should have asked me!" A estrutura "should have + verbo" é usada para reclamar de algo que não aconteceu, uma forma natural de expressar frustração sem ser agressivo.
- "We're hoping you'll vote for Chris Smith." "We're hoping" é mais suave do que "we want", mostrando como os nativos usam expressões menos diretas para convencer alguém.
Rotina de prática: Repetir e gravar para melhorar
Para treinar com esse vídeo, use o método shadowing em inglês: assista um trecho de 5-10 segundos, pause e repita imitando a pronúncia, intonação e ritmo. Grave sua voz e compare com o original — você vai notar como melhorar a fluência. Um shadowing site pode ajudar a sincronizar a repetição, mas até mesmo um aplicativo de gravação no celular funciona. Faça isso diariamente por 15 minutos: comece com frases curtas, depois aumente o tempo. Lembre-se: o segredo é shadow speak — ouvir e repetir imediatamente, como um eco. Com o tempo, as expressões vão ficar naturais na sua fala!
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | be elected · is decided · was left |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | You've probably heard · have been recounted |
| Possibilidade com “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo possível, mas não certo | might even find · might have · might even be |
| Conselho com “should” should + verbo — dizer o que é uma boa ideia | should vote · should have · Should dogs |
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.