Prática de Shadowing: Phrasal Verbs For Meetings - Business English - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Hi everybody!
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Hope you're all doing well.
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In this short lesson I'm going to show you eight useful phrasal verbs that are often used in business meetings.
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Welcome back to English for Professionals.
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I'm Derek and I'm here with another short lesson for you busy people.
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And now let's get started.
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For each phrasal verb, you'll see two example sentences.
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To practice your speaking and pronunciation skills, repeat each example sentence with me after you hear 1, 2, 3.
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And our first phrasal verb is get through.
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Get through.
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If you get through a task or an amount of work, you complete it.
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The first example sentence is something that you would hear at the start of a meeting.
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We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin.
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One, two, three.
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We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin.
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And the second example is something you would hear at the end of a meeting.
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Thanks for a great meeting, everybody.
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We got through a lot of important business today.
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One, two, three.
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Thanks for a great meeting everybody we got through a lot
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of important business today one two three thanks for a great
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meeting everybody we got through a lot of important business today
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and the second phrasal verb is knuckle down knuckle down
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and this means to focus and work hard on the task or job to be done
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we'll have to really knuckle down if we want to finish the project on schedule 1, 2, 3.
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We'll have to really knuckle down if we want to finish the project on schedule.
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The start of the month was hard, but we knuckled down and hit our sales targets in the end.
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1, 2, 3.
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The start of the month was hard, but we knuckled down and hit our sales targets in the end.
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Up next we have go over.
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Go over which means to carefully check or review something.
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This proposal is very important so let's go over it one more time.
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One two three.
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This proposal is very important so let's go over it one more time.
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Alex please go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes.
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One, two, three.
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Alex, please go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes.
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The next phrasal verb is bring up.
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Bring up, which means to start discussing a topic.
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That's a very interesting point.
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I'm glad you brought it up.
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One, two, three.
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That's a very interesting point.
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I'm glad you brought it up.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think we have time for that.
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Maybe you should bring it up at the next meeting.
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One, two, three.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think we have time for that.
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Maybe you should bring it up at the next meeting.
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Up next, we have go on.
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Go on.
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And this means to start talking again after a pause or interruption.
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Please go on.
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I'm sorry for interrupting.
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One, two, three.
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Please go on.
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I'm sorry for interrupting.
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And the second example is a little more formal.
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You would use this after you've been interrupted in a formal meeting.
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May I go on?
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One, two, three.
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May I go on?
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Up next we have break something down.
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break something down and this means to separate something into smaller parts
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so that it's easier to do
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or understand the process sounds quite complex could you break it
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down for us please one two three the process sounds quite
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complex could you break it down for us please there's a lot involved in this task
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so it might be better to break it down into smaller tasks.
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One, two, three.
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There's a lot involved in this task so it might be better to break it down into smaller tasks.
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And the next phrasal verb is point something out.
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Point something out.
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Which means to tell someone something that they did not already know or had not thought about that's completely new to me.
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Thanks for pointing it out.
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One, two, three.
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That's completely new to me.
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Thanks for pointing it out.
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I'd just like to point out that these results are from last year, not this year.
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One, two, three.
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I'd just like to point out
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that these results are from last year not this year
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and our last phrasal verb is to think something through think something through
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which means to carefully think about the possible result of doing something I'm afraid
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that wasn't our best decision we just didn't think it through one two three I'm afraid
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that wasn't our best decision we just didn't think it through I'm sorry
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but I don't think this plan will work you
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and your team need to think it through again one two three I'm sorry
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but I don't think this plan will work you
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and your team need to think it through again so
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that brings us to the end of another short lesson I hope you found it helpful and
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Contexto e Fundo

No vídeo "Phrasal Verbs For Meetings - Business English", o instrutor Derek compartilha dicas práticas para quem quer aprimorar o inglês empresarial, especialmente no contexto de reuniões. Ele apresenta phrasal verbs essenciais, com exemplos reais, e incentiva a prática ativa. Essa aula é perfeita para profissionais ocupados que querem aprender inglês com vídeos de forma eficiente, focando em habilidades práticas de comunicação.

Top 5 Phrasal Verbs para Reuniões Empresariais

  • Get through: Significa completar uma tarefa ou quantidade de trabalho. Exemplos: "We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin" (Temos muito a completar hoje, então vamos começar) e "We got through a lot of important business today" (Completamos muitos assuntos importantes hoje).
  • Knuckle down: Significa se concentrar e trabalhar duro. Exemplos: "We'll have to really knuckle down if we want to finish the project on schedule" (Temos que nos concentrar muito se quisermos terminar o projeto no prazo) e "We knuckled down and hit our sales targets" (Nos concentramos e atingimos nossas metas de vendas).
  • Go over: Significa revisar ou verificar cuidadosamente. Exemplos: "Let's go over the proposal one more time" (Vamos revisar a proposta mais uma vez) e "Go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes" (Revise o relatório e certifique-se de que não há erros).
  • Bring up: Significa começar a discutir um tópico. Exemplo: "I'm glad you brought it up" (Fico feliz que você mencionou isso).

Guia Passo a Passo para Shadowing

O shadowing (ou "shadowspeak") é uma técnica excelente para melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e a fluência. Aqui's como aplicá-la nesse vídeo:

  1. Escute e observe: Assista o vídeo uma vez sem pausar, focando na entonação e no ritmo das frases.
  2. Repita imediatamente: Pause após cada exemplo e repita a frase em seguida, tentando imitar a pronúncia e a velocidade do Derek. Isso ajuda a treinar o ouvido e a articulação.
  3. Grave e compare: Grave sua voz enquanto repete e compare com o áudio original. Note diferenças na pronúncia de palavras como "knuckle" ou "through" e ajuste.
  4. Pratique diariamente: Dedique 10 minutos por dia a esse exercício. Com o tempo, você notará uma melhora na confiança e na clareza da sua fala.

Essa técnica, combinada com o foco em phrasal verbs específicos para reuniões, torna o aprendizado mais eficaz. Lembre-se: a chave é a prática constante!

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.