Prática de Shadowing: Matthew Dicks at The Moth GrandSLAM Championship | A Masterclass in Storytelling - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Please welcome Matthew Dix to the stage.
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Thank you.
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I'm standing on the playground behind my school.
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It's recess duty.
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When my son was very little, he asked me, is recess duty like duty?
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Like poop?
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And I said, yeah, actually, it is just like that.
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And I sent him away.
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I am sure that conversation created enormous problems for him at some point in his life, but it was an accurate description of recess duty.
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I waste my precious time putting band-aids on cuts that are not cuts, pretending to listen to stories about cousins' birthday parties,
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and telling mean children that they have no one to play with because they are mean.
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And so I'm standing there doing all of these things when I hear these four words that strike fear into my heart.
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Never have I ever.
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And I look over and I see three of my students, 10-year-old girls, on the sidewalk, and apparently they are playing this game.
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So now I am running, because I have played Never Have I Ever.
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I understand the dynamics of this game.
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This is not a benevolent game where we acquire knowledge about our friends.
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This is social combat.
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This is...
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We extract information from foolish children, and then we sharpen it, and we stab them with it later on.
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So I'm running over.
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Like 1985, Jimbo Powers' birthday party.
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Melissa says, Matt, never have you ever kissed someone?
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And immediately I have to figure out, do I tell the truth?
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Basically what I'm wondering is, is everyone else in this room kissed somebody?
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Because if so, now I have to lie and say yes, and I have to prepare myself for the questions that will come, which will undoubtedly be, who did you kiss?
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And since no one has ever kissed me in my school, and probably never will, I have to make up a story about the time my parents took me to the far-flung land of or Pawtucket,
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Rhode Island, or Woburn, and I was in a candy store, and I had a tryst by a licorice stand with a girl.
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A story that did not work.
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A kid once asked me, never have you ever gone to third base?
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And I knew it wasn't about baseball, but that is all I knew about that question.
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So I am running to these girls, and as I get close, I hear one of them say, never have I ever gone to bed without brushing my teeth.
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And I sort of grind to a halt, because this is not 1985 sex and drugs, never have I ever.
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This is like Paw Patrol Never Have I Ever.
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It's fine.
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There's nothing wrong here.
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And as I turn to walk away, the girls say, Mr. Dix, you want to play Never Have I Ever?
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And they explain to me that their game's a competition.
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They stand on the sidewalk, and if you've never, ever done something, you take a step forward, and whoever gets to the bench first wins.
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And now I'm all in, because I love competition.
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I love to crush small children in games
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that are utterly meaningless They're utterly meaningless so I can feel better about myself as a human being.
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So I'm standing there on the line with the girls and the first girl says, never have I ever climbed a mountain.
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And all three of them step forward.
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I'm like, are you kidding me?
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You're 10 and you've never gone up a mountain?
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Like no lie, when I'm 12 I get lost in the white mountains of New Hampshire for two days and nobody cares including me.
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They've never climbed a mountain before?
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And the next girl says, never have I ever gone to bed without a nightlight on.
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And I think, oh my god, lady, don't say that, because we're all going to make fun of you for it.
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And then I realize, oh my god, I'm the only one who's going to make fun of her for this.
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Like this group of children that I'm taking care of, they're so different than I was.
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Like they've taken all their daggers and put them away.
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They're sweet.
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They're accepting.
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It's not all good.
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No, no, it's not all good.
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Like they, this generation of children can't get ten feet from a water
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bottle without being They're the most hydrated group of kids I've ever met in my entire life.
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It is a nightmare.
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They can't go through my math lessons without a squishy thing or a stuffed animal.
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I had a girl last week in my math lesson with a blanket wrapped around her.
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I said, what's up with the blanket?
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She said, it makes me happy during math.
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I said, math isn't happy.
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It's awful.
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It's hard.
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It's onerous.
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I would have loved to have a water bottle and a blanket
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and a stuffed animal during math when I was a kid.
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All I had was angst and despair.
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It made me who I am.
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I can't stand these kids.
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And I'm losing the game because I have done everything and they've done nothing.
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So they're nine steps ahead of me.
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And then the tallest girl says, never have I ever met my father's expectations.
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And I think that is nonsense because I know your fathers.
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They're all fine men.
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What are you talking about?
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And one of the girls says, well, I'm a swimmer and when I get a PR in the pool and I come out, my dad's happy for me.
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But then he says, but just imagine how much better you could have been
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if you had nailed the kick turn on the third lap.
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And the next girl says, well, I mastered my multiplication facts last month, and when I came home to my dad, he said, that's great, but why didn't you do it in October when you were supposed to?
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And the third one says, my dad always tells me how I can be better, and I know he does it because he loves me, but it never feels like love.
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And now I'm panicking, I'm thinking, what about my children, Charlie and Clara?
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Have I ever told them that they've met my expectations?
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They never have.
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I mean, they don't even come close.
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But how have I at least fooled them into believing that they occasionally meet my expectations?
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And so as I'm panicking about this situation, the tall girl says, Mr. Dix, have you ever met your father's expectations?
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And I catch for a minute.
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I don't know what to say.
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But then I know exactly what to say, because I've been working with kids for 25 years as a teacher, and I know they're more capable than we all know.
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And so I tell her, I say, my father left when I was seven and he never came back.
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And so I don't think he ever had expectations for me.
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And three hands reach out and they grab my wrist and they pull me forward.
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And that girl says, that counts, Mr. Dix.
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And then she tells me, I'm sorry your father abandoned you when you were a kid.
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And it is crazy, but from the age of 7 to 52,
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I have basically been waiting for my father to come back.
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And it is not until I'm on a sidewalk with a 10-year-old girl
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that I understand for the first time that he is not coming back.
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It is the first time I have ever in my life heard the word abandoned used to describe what happened to me.
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And it is the first time ever that a human being has ever said to me, I'm sorry that happened to you.
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My friends have said, that sucked, it was terrible.
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I know that my wife hates what happened to me as a boy.
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But that 10-year-old girl, she was the first person to tell me, I am sorry for what happened to you when you were seven.
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When people ask me today why I am still a public school teacher after 25 years, with all of the unspeakable,
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ridiculous, nonsensical, impossible things that school teachers go through today,
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and with, quite honestly, all the other opportunities I have to leave a classroom and go do other things with my life,
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my answer is always immediate and simple.
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I love kids, but far more important than that,
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kids understand me, and they speak truth to me, and they love me.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Matthew Dix.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Assistir ao vídeo de Matthew Dicks no The Moth GrandSLAM Championship é uma oportunidade incrível para aprender inglês com youtube. A forma como ele narra histórias não apenas entretém, mas também ensina nuances linguísticas que são essenciais para a comunicação eficaz. Praticar a fala com este vídeo oferece um contexto real e dinâmico, onde você pode observar a entonação, a emoção e o ritmo naturais da língua inglesa. Ouvir e repetir as falas dele pode ajudá-lo a melhorar sua fluência e aprimorar sua capacidade de contar histórias, uma habilidade valiosa em qualquer idioma.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

No discurso de Matthew, podemos identificar algumas estruturas e expressões que são particularmente úteis para praticar:

  • “Never have I ever…” - Esta expressão é usada para iniciar perguntas no jogo de mesmo nome, permitindo que os ouvintes se entrem em debates sobre experiências pessoais. É uma ótima maneira de praticar o passado perfeito (present perfect).
  • “I have to figure out…” - Essa construção expressa a necessidade de tomar uma decisão, ilustrando o uso do presente simples como um modo de transmitir obrigações ou tarefas.
  • “I am all in…” - Aqui, Matthew utiliza uma expressão idiomática que significa estar totalmente comprometido. Frases como essa são comuns em conversas informais e ajudam a enriquecer seu vocabulário.

Essas estruturas fornecem exemplos práticos de como usar a gramática em um contexto de fala, facilitando a retenção e compreensão para quem está aprendendo inglês com shadowing.

Armadilhas Comuns na Pronúncia

Durante sua apresentação, algumas palavras e frases podem ser desafiadoras para quem está no processo de shadowing em inglês. Aqui estão alguns pontos de atenção:

  • “Recess” - A pronúncia pode ser complicada devido à sua sonoridade e ao “c” que é pronunciado como “s”.
  • “Ever” - Certifique-se de pronunciar corretamente o som do “v”, que pode ser confuso para falantes de português que não têm esse som em sua língua nativa.
  • “Mountain” - O som nasal e a combinação de sílabas podem gerar erros. Pratique a articulação clara para melhorar a sua pronúncia.

Participe dessa experiência com Matthew Dicks e melhore sua fala em inglês de forma divertida e eficaz. O uso do shadowspeak pode ser uma técnica poderosa, permitindo que você se torne um comunicador mais confiante.

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.