Prática de Shadowing: RE2 Unit 12A - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Track 23.
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Reading 12a.
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The Dream of Flight.
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For thousands of years, humans have dreamed of taking to the skies.
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The ancient Greeks told the legend of Icarus, a boy who flies so high that the sun melts his man-made wings and he crashes down to earth.
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Across history, many more people have died after jumping from a tower or cliff with wings that didn't quite work.
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Flying, for humans, seemed an impossibility.
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Yet many continue to dream of flying.
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One such dreamer was the great 15th century artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
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He studied the flight of birds and even designed his own flying machines, but they, and he, never left the ground.
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Five hundred years later, standing on a windy hill in North Carolina, in the United States, I was about to make the dream come true.
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Unlike Leonardo, I had the help of a hang glider, a light, modern machine that makes flying simple and safe enough even for tourist entertainment.
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I held on to the hang glider as tightly as I could.
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Terrified, I ran down the hill, and suddenly, I was running in the air.
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I was flying.
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What a thrill!
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Now, I wanted more.
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A friend in my hang gliding class suggested I next try a tandem flight, flying in a hang glider made for two people.
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A small airplane carries you up 600 meters and then lets you go.
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I decided to try it with my instructor, John Thompson.
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Up into the air we went.
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When the airplane released us, it felt like falling from a building, head first.
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You can fly now, my instructor said.
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After a few moments, I found the courage to turn the glider a little to the left, and then a little to the right.
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I was more like a pigeon than an eagle, but I was flying.
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Of course, hang gliding is not the only way mankind has learned to enjoy the freedom of flight.
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Today, many people skydive, while base jumpers, those who jump off buildings, cliffs, and bridges, often get their thrills illegally.
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For a few exciting moments, they experience free-falling.
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falling downwards with nothing to slow them, before they open a parachute.
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It's as close as human beings can get to flying like a bird, says base jumper J.T.
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Holmes.
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Switzerland's Yves Rossi might disagree.
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The wings he has invented for personal flight have four small engines.
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He steers them just by moving his shoulders.
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For ten minutes at a time, Rossi seems to fly as free as a bird, having both power and control.
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One of his longest flights was across the water from France to England.
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It's awesome.
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It's great.
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It's fantastic, says Rossi.
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Since then, he has continued to improve his wing design
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and hopes he can motivate the next generation of thinkers to do something different, even if it seems impossible.
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Thank you.

Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B1 usa o vídeo “RE2 Unit 12A”. As palavras que mais se repetem: flying, flight, hang, glider, wing. Este vídeo tem 42 frases e 485 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 3:36. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 135 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. Apenas 78% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
glider substantivo/ˈɡlaɪdɚ/planador
glide verbo/ˈɡlaɪd/deslizar
jumper substantivo/ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/suéter
thrill verbo/θɹɪl/emocionar, excitar
airplane substantivo/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/avião, aeroplano
instructor substantivo/ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/instrutor, instrutora
cliff substantivo/klɪf/penhasco, falésia
dreamer substantivo/ˈdɹimɚ/sonhador, sonhadora
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/animar, empolgar
impossibility substantivo/ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/impossibilidade
terrify verbo/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/aterrorizar
thinker substantivo/ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/pensador, pensadora
parachute substantivo/ˈpæɹəʃut/paraquedas
windy adjetivo/ˈwɪn.di/ventoso
invent verbo/ɪnˈvɛnt/inventar

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraSignificado
run down verboatropelar

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

EstruturaNo vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agorahave dreamed · has learned · has invented
Past continuous was/were + -ing — uma ação em andamento em um momento do passadowas running · was flying

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

  • Os sons de “th”: thrill /θɹɪl/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: impossibility /ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/, illegally /ɪˈliːɡəli/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: glide /ˈɡlaɪd/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/, parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: thrill /θɹɪl/, eagle /ˈiːɡəl/
  • s + consoante no início — sem um “i” antes: skydive /ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/, steer /stɪɹ/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Faça shadowing frase por frase na velocidade normal, repetindo cada uma até o seu ritmo ficar igual ao do falante.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como glider, glide, jumper.

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.

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