Prática de Shadowing: Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Imagine that we've been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the weekend, it's 11 in the morning.
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A succession of small bits of bad news have been coming in over the past 24 hours.
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Someone's unhappy with our performance at work.
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A customer complained about our attention to detail.
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We have a traffic fine to pay.
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The milk is off.
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A friend is accusing us of not caring enough about them.
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And then, the final straw, someone we very much hoped to see for dinner, cancelled on us abruptly, with an unconvincing excuse about their mother.
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We try to keep the different strands separate, but eventually, in the stillness of the small living room, they coalesce into an overwhelming impression.
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We're not very worthy.
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There's something wrong with us.
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We're ugly inside and out.
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We've been like this since the start.
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No one likes us.
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We're going to die alone, unhappy and mediocre.
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The impression is stronger than we are.
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We curl into a ball and can't hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.
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Ten minutes pass, then another twenty.
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Finally, we can't take it any longer.
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We have to pull ourselves out of the spin.
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So, with a newfound urgency, we grab our jacket, run downstairs and head for the nearby park.
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This expanse of green was laid out by a group of enlightened planners and municipal engineers a few generations ago.
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There's an inner and an outer circle, a small fountain, a playground and a statue of a man who pioneered research into bees.
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More importantly, the park has very little idea of us.
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It hasn't heard of our place of employment.
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It doesn't have any views on our romantic life.
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It couldn't care less whether we're alive or dead.
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And the ignorance, far from crushing us further, has an immediate soothing effect.
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A grand oak tree that's been sitting patiently in this spot for 150 years at least, has priorities blessedly far from our own.
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It's pulling nutrients from the soil, it's showing its freshest, newest leaves to the sun.
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It's providing a nesting place for robins and an athletic park for grey squirrels.
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The indifference is not nature's alone.
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There's a person in scrubs on a break from the nearby hospital, sitting on a bench with a flask of tea.
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They might later be fixing up catheters on the children's ward or ministering to a dying nonagenarian.
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To their left, a little boy is playing tag with his father.
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His joyful screams are unabashed.
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It's a game, but something very serious, about love and self-esteem and having a home, is also being exercised.
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Overhead planes, perhaps heading back from Singapore or Madrid, are locking onto the final approach beacons at the airport to the west.
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In the distance, a line of uncomplaining pylons is bringing in electricity from the coast to power hair dryers and video games.
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Our strange, extraordinary, pathetic species in all our glory, complexity and mundanity.
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With all this in view, it suddenly seems not to matter quite so much that we may or may not be a wretch, that a lover has let us down.
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Heaven knows they might have their reasons and we aren't perfect either.
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or that we should, in all fairness, probably make more of an effort with our career.
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The individual ego diminishes.
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We let ourselves dissolve into a wider realm.
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What happens to us no longer has to be the measure of everything.
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We are, in part, also the trees, the houses, the clouds overhead, the pigeon who has come to peck at a leftover sandwich,
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and the young boy now being hugged tightly by his dad.
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Our ultimate fate ceases to concern us so tightly.
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What does it matter quite so much what we're worth or where we end up?
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We rejoin the ocean from which we've been in frightened exile for too long.
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None of the elements that have helped us to recover our balance care to articulate a theory of existence.
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They may have one nevertheless.
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The oak tree has its own distinctive silent take on love, achievement, success and power, as do the clouds,
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the robins, the squirrels and the contrails.
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Each one of them is whispering very quietly indeed, matter less, forget more, open your heart, let go of your resentments, surrender.
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We can be so much happier
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when we manage for a time to still the clamour of the I and live less intimately with ourselves,
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when we stop insisting that everything that happens to us must say something profound about us, when we can wear our fate more lightly.
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We may end up alone, we may be foolish, we may be sad.
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None of it, the park tells us, might matter too much anyway.
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We'll cope, after all, perhaps we'll go to the cinema alone tonight, or have a drink on the terrace.
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We haven't just taken a walk, we've had a covert philosophy lesson.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Este vídeo tem 63 frases e 840 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 5:01. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 167 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. Apenas 78% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| cloud substantivo | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | nuvem, nimbo |
| fate substantivo | /feɪt/ | destino, fado |
| impression substantivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | impressão |
| robin substantivo | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | pisco-de-peito-ruivo |
| unhappy adjetivo | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | infeliz, triste |
| overhead substantivo | /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/ | overhead |
| squirrel substantivo | /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/ | esquilo |
| lesson substantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lição |
| element substantivo | /ˈɛləmənt/ | fundamento |
| silent adjetivo | /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ | silencioso |
| electricity substantivo | /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/ | eletricidade |
| romantic adjetivo | /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ | romântico |
| soil substantivo | /sɔɪl/ | solo |
| ugly adjetivo | /ˈʌɡli/ | feio |
| priority substantivo | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | prioridade, prioridades |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — uma ação que começou antes e continua | have been coming · that's been sitting |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | we've been · hasn't heard · has let |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | is absorbed · was laid · are unabashed |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 18 contrações e formas reduzidas, como we're, we've, can't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, catheter /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, municipal /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como cloud, fate, impression.
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.