Prática de Shadowing: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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The mixer tap.
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Brilliant invention, and yet something that seems to have passed Britain by.
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You'll get Americans coming over here and asking why our taps look like they're from the 1940s.
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And even here, in my parents' bathroom, I'm visiting my folks this weekend, and I just have a new bathroom put in.
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Separate hot and cold taps.
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And there are all sorts of theories out there about why that might be, generally revolving around that we're British and stiff upper lip, and, you know, we don't need mixer taps, we've never had them and,
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well, that's partly true, but it also goes back to how houses in Britain were constructed after World War II.
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In most old British houses, there's a cold -water storage tank up in the attic.
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It's reasonably sized, about 250 litres, and that, in turn, feeds a hot -water storage tank that's for the central heating
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and for hot water in the bathroom and the kitchen and so on.
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But the trouble is, that might not be entirely safe drinking water, because that cold water storage tank, in some houses that weren't properly maintained,
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might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or covered with iron rust, or in one particular case that you can read about, have a couple of dead rats floating in it.
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That water might technically not be drinkable, and under the regulations it is not counted as drinking water.
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The cold, meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom too, that cold water comes straight from the mains.
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That counts as drinkable.
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So here's the thing, you have cold, safe, the regulations call it wholesome drinking water, and you have, well, almost certainly safe,
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but not technically, not legally under the regulations, hot water.
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And never the twain shall meet.
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If you have a mixer tap, then technically, the unsafe hot water, in worst -case scenario where there's a backwash valve failure and the mains turns off,
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that unsafe water could go back, backwash through all the systems and go out to contaminate the rest of the street or the rest of the water system.
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That's not legal, therefore, no mixer tap.
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You don't cross the streams.
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Nowadays, of course, it's a little bit different.
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This house had its hot water tank ripped out a few months ago.
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The attic is now just a big empty space again.
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And, well, there's a very modern, shiny bit of technology downstairs that heats up water on demand.
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All new -build houses, go this way, they've got mixer taps, it'll be absolutely fine.
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But, I remember being told as a kid, never drink from the hot water tap.
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And that stuck with me.
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Even now, if there is a mixer tap and I want to drink from it, I will run the cold water for a few seconds, just to make sure that anything that's unsafe has come out of it.
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Even now, old habits die hard, and sometimes these things just feel a bit safer.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps”. As palavras que mais se repetem: tap, cold, hot, mixer, bathroom. Este vídeo tem 32 frases e 510 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:49. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 181 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 83% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

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

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
mixer substantivo/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/batedeira, varinha mágica
unsafe adjetivo/ʌnˈseɪf/inseguro
technically advérbio/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/na realidade, tecnicamente
drinkable adjetivo/ˈdɹɪŋk.ə.bəl/potável, bebível
attic substantivo/ˈætɪk/sótão
contaminate verbo/kənˈtæmɪneɪt/contaminar
revolve verbo/ɹɪˈvɑlv/orbitar
litre substantivo/ˈli.tɚ/litro
wholesome adjetivo/ˈhoʊl.səm/saudável
downstairs advérbio/daʊnˈstɛɹz/embaixo
rust substantivo/ɹʌst/ferrugem
stiff adjetivo/stɪf/rígido, duro
float verbo/fləʊt/boiar, flutuar
construct verbo/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/montar
reasonably advérbio/ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/razoavelmente

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraSignificado
go back verbovoltar
rip out verboarrancar
turn off verbodesligar, apagar

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 10 contrações e formas reduzidas, como don't, I'm, it'll. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: backwash /ˈbæk.wɑʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, contaminate /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/

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  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como mixer, unsafe, technically.

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