Prática de Shadowing: The Underground House | IELTS LISTENING TEST | SECTION-4 - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Section 4.
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You will hear part of a lecture about an experimental design for a house.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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Good morning.
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In the last few lectures, I've been talking about the history of domestic building construction.
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But today, I want to begin looking at some contemporary experimental designs for housing.
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So, I'm going to start with a house which is constructed more or less under the ground.
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And one of the interesting things about this project is that the owners, both professionals but not architects, wanted to be closely involved,
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so they decided to manage the project themselves.
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Their chief aim was to create somewhere that was as environmentally friendly as possible.
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But at the same time, they wanted to live somewhere peaceful.
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They'd both grown up in a rural area and disliked urban life.
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So the first thing they did was to look for a site, and they found a disused stone quarry in a beautiful area.
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The price was relatively low, and they liked the idea of recycling the land, as it were.
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As it was, the quarry was an ugly blot on the landscape, and it wasn't productive any longer either.
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They consulted various architects and looked at a number of designs before finally deciding on one.
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As I've said, it was a design for a sort of underground house,
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and it was built into the earth itself, with two stories.
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The north, east, and west sides were set in the earth,
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and only the sloping south-facing side was exposed to the light.
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That was made of a double layer of very strong glass.
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There were also photovoltaic tiles fixed to the top and bottom of this sloping wall.
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These are tiles that are designed to store energy from the sun,
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and the walls had a layer of foam around them too to increase the insulation.
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Now, what is of interest to us about this project is the features which make the building energy efficient.
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Sunlight floods in through the glass wall, and to maximize it, there are lots of mirrors and windows inside the house.
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That helps to spread the light around.
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So that's the first thing.
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Light is utilized as fully as possible.
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In addition, the special tiles on the outside convert energy from the sun and generate some of the house's electricity.
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In fact, and it is possible that in future the house may even generate an electricity surplus,
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and that the owners will be able to sell some to the national grid.
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As well as that, wherever possible, recycled materials have been used.
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For example, the floors are made of reclaimed wood,
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and the owners haven't bought a single item of new furniture.
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They just kept what they already had.
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And then there's the system for dealing with the waste produced in the house.
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This is dealt with organically.
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It's purified by being filtered through reed beds, which have been planted for that purpose in the garden.
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So the occupants of the house won't pollute the land or use any damaging chemicals.
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It's true that the actual construction of the house was harmful to the environment,
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mainly because they had to use massive amounts of concrete, one of the biggest sources of carbon dioxide in manufacturing.
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And, as you know, this is very damaging to the environment.
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In total, the house construction has released 70 tons of carbon dioxide into the air.
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Now that's a frightening thought.
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However, once the initial debt has been cleared, and it's been calculated that this will only take 15 years,
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this underground house won't cost anything, environmentally I mean, because unlike ordinary houses,
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it is run in a way that is completely environmentally friendly.
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So, eco-housing like this is likely to become much more...
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That is the end of section 4.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Este vídeo tem 53 frases e 658 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 6:05. O falante fala devagar, cerca de 108 palavras por minuto, o que dá tempo para imitar cada som. 84% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
tile substantivo/ˈtaɪ.əl/azulejo, ladrilho
electricity substantivo/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/eletricidade
layer substantivo/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/camada
underground adjetivo/ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/subterrâneo
experimental adjetivo/ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/experimental
generate verbo/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/gerar
lecture substantivo/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/conferência, palestra
architect substantivo/ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/arquiteto, arquiteta
dioxide substantivo/daɪˈɑksaɪd/bióxido
quarry substantivo/ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/pedreira
mirror substantivo/ˈmiɹɚ/espelho
carefully advérbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/cuidadosamente, cautelosamente
concrete adjetivo/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/concreto
efficient adjetivo/ɪˈfɪʃənt/eficiente
ordinary adjetivo/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ordinário, normal

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 8 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I've, won't, haven't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, experimental /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, organically /ɔːˈɡænɪkli/

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 tile, electricity, layer.

Gramática neste vídeo

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

EstruturaNo vídeo
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazis constructed · was built · were set
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agoraI've said · have been · haven't bought
Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisahouse which is · beds, which have

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.

Técnica de shadowing: leia o guia completo passo a passo →