Prática de Shadowing: The Engineering Process: Crash Course Kids #12.2 - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say you've probably used the phone.
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And I bet you've enjoyed the benefits of a little thing we call air conditioning.
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You know who made those things possible?
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Engineers.
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We were just talking about engineers in our last video, people who design and build things to solve problems, and there are lots of different kinds of engineers.
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No matter what type of engineer you want to be though, civil, mechanical, electrical, or a kind that doesn't even exist yet,
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there's a series of steps that all engineers follow when they're trying to solve a problem.
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This process is called, wait for it, the engineering process.
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Makes sense to me.
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So what sort of steps are included in the engineering process?
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And why do we need it?
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Let's go through it step by step and discover how awesome things are made.
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First thing you gotta do is just define the problem.
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I mean, before you can solve a problem, you have to figure out what it is, right?
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For example, back in the 1800s, an engineer named Alexander Graham Bell was trying to come up with a simpler, cheaper way for people to communicate.
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Back then, the best you could do was a telegraph, which was an old -fashioned system of sending messages over electrical wires.
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Bell identified his problem.
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Communicating with people who were far away was expensive and took a lot of time.
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So his invention, or solution to this problem, was something you may have heard of.
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The telephone.
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Nice.
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Now, once you've figured out what problem you want to tackle, you need to do your research.
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You can start by just making a list of questions you have and what information you need to start answering them.
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You can also look around and find what other things already exist that have tried to solve this same problem.
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Maybe they can be improved.
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A good example here is the man who helped us blow stuff up.
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The chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel invented the explosive known as dynamite.
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Not because he particularly enjoyed explosions, but because miners and other people who, well, needed to blow stuff up to do their jobs, needed an explosive that was safer to use.
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So before he started on that problem, Nobel did research to see what explosives already existed, which ones worked well and which ones didn't.
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This takes us to step three, develop a solution.
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After your research is done, this is where you say exactly how you think you can solve the problem.
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And once you've thought of a good solution, you have to figure out how it'll actually work and what it will look like.
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So you have to design your solution.
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This is where you get to draw.
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Civil engineers always sketch out their ideas, like buildings and bridges and towers, to show what they'll look like when they're done.
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Gustave Yiffel designed the famous Eiffel Tower in France, and he definitely showed up on day one of construction knowing exactly what it was going to look like.
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On to step five, build a prototype.
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A prototype is just a simple model that lets you test out your design.
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It can be as big as the real thing's going to be, or it can be a smaller version.
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You just need to have a prototype so you can test it.
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This may be the most important step in the whole process.
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Engineers need to test their design to see if it works like they want it to.
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So say if your building's a big tower, does it stand up?
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Does it stay standing up?
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If you're designing something with moving parts, does it work the way you want?
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Now take it from me, my future engineers you might have a great idea, a really terrific solution to a really big problem.
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But when you get to this step, your prototype probably won't work exactly the way you want.
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At least, not on the first try.
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Most engineers test their prototypes over and over and over again.
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That's why a lot of time and brainpower goes into the very last step, evaluating your solutions.
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Evaluating just means asking yourself whether things are working the way you want, or why they are, or aren't.
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I like to think of this step as question everything.
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This is when engineers review all of the facts and ask themselves questions, followed by even more questions.
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What worked well?
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Why did it work?
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Why didn't it work?
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How could it be made better?
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And most of the time, the answers to these questions are going to send you back several steps.
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Like, once you've figured out why your prototype wasn't working, you'll have to design a new solution and then build it and then test it again.
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Sometimes, engineers go through this process four, five, even six times or more.
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Take Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning.
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He tested his prototypes for years before he figured out the design
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that worked the way he wanted and solved the problem he wanted to fix.
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Like all engineers, he failed a lot before he succeeded.
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And that's okay because he learned something from every failure, which made his product even better in the end.
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And I, for one, am glad he kept going.
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So the engineering process is a series of steps that engineers, or anyone, should use when they're facing a challenge.
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The process is important because it allows engineers to experiment, and also, to fail.
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Both of these things give engineers a chance to go back and improve on their original idea, giving us something even better down the road.
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So the next time you fail at something, don't feel too bad.
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Think about the telephone, and the air conditioner, and the Eiffel Tower.
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And then try again.
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Thank you.
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Por que esse vídeo é ótimo para praticar fala em inglês?
O vídeo sobre o processo de engenharia é uma excelente ferramenta para quem quer aprender inglês com vídeos, especialmente por sua linguagem clara e conversacional. As explicações são diretas, com frases curtas e exemplos reais (como o telefone e o ar-condicionado), o que ajuda a fixar o vocabulário técnico de forma natural. Além disso, a narração tem uma entonação tranquila, perfeita para o shadowing — uma técnica onde você repete frases em tempo real, imitando a pronúncia e o ritmo. Isso torna o clip ideal para quem quer melhorar a fluência e a confiança na fala.
Analisando frases naturais do vídeo
Vamos desmembrar algumas frases que mostram como o inglês falado soa natural:
- "I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you've probably used a phone." A contração "gonna" e a expressão "take a wild guess" são muito usadas no dia a dia, mostrando que o inglês não é só formal. Essa frase cria uma conexão com o ouvinte, tornando a conversa mais próxima.
- "No matter what type of engineer you wanna be though..." A palavra "though" no final da frase é uma marca de linguagem coloquial, usada para contrariar ou acrescentar uma ideia. "Wanna" é outra contração comum, mostrando que a fala informal prioriza a praticidade.
- "Take it from me, my future engineers, you might have a great idea..." A expressão "take it from me" significa "confie em mim" e é usada para dar conselhos de forma amigável. Essa estrutura torna a fala mais pessoal e persuasiva.
Rotina de prática: shadowing com o vídeo
Para treinar usando esse vídeo, siga esse roteiro simples, perfeito para um shadowing site ou até mesmo no seu celular:
- Assista o vídeo uma vez para entender o contexto. Anote as frases que mais chamaram sua atenção.
- Repita cada frase pausadamente: pause o vídeo após cada frase, ouça novamente e repita imitando o ritmo, a entonação e a pronúncia. Use um gravador para comparar sua fala com a do narrador.
- Faça o shadowing em tempo real: toque o vídeo e tente repetir as frases ao mesmo tempo que o narrador. Isso ajuda a melhorar a fluência e a adaptação ao ritmo natural do inglês.
- Revise e ajuste: ouça sua gravação e identifique pontos a melhorar (como pronúncia de palavras difíceis). Repita o processo com as frases que você achou mais desafiadoras.
Essa rotina, feita diariamente por 10-15 minutos, vai ajudar você a internalizar a linguagem coloquial e a falar inglês de forma mais natural. Lembre: o shadow speech é sobre imitar e aprender com os melhores — e esse vídeo é um ótimo professor!
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.