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This is a peach.

Soft, fuzzy, sweet, and oh -so -delicious.

When you get a really good peach, it's a tremendous kind of sensory experience.

The U .S produces 600 ,000 tons of this stone fruit each year, and it's synonymous with one place, Georgia.

That's one of those Georgia peaches.

Georgia peaches.

Those are considered the best.

In your outfit, you look like a little Georgia peach.

It's on license plates and road signs and at the end of almost every film you've ever watched.

There's even an entire county named after it.

But here's the thing.

Despite its nickname, Georgia doesn't even produce the most peaches in the U .S.

So there's an act of myth -making it's really not a southern fruit in particular.

So how did Georgia become the peach state?

A peach is what's called a stone fruit, meaning there's a hard pit at the center.

There are clingstones, which cling tightly to the pit, and freestones, which pull away cleanly.

They could be yellow or white, fuzzy or smooth.

Those are nectarines, same fruit, just no fuzz.

And like most crops grown in the U .S., peaches came from somewhere else.

The earliest evidence we have for peach usage dates back to China around 7 ,000 years ago.

They came to Europe via the Silk Road, and so they acquired the scientific name Prunus persica because it was assumed they originally came from Persia.

From there, Spanish explorers carried peach bits across the Atlantic in the 1500s and planted them across Florida, where Native Americans used them for food and medicine and spread them up the coast.

So by the time English colonists arrived in Virginia in the early 1600s, peaches were abundant.

But they weren't glamorous.

Most peach usage seems to have been for foraging hogs and making cider and brandy.

It tastes like peach brandy to me.

No one was calling it a state symbol.

It would take a war, a broken economy, and a new generation of horticulturalists to turn

that idea into an industry when the civil war ended george's economy was shattered

because cotton had built the old south there's a really strong push among a lot of newspaper men

and sort of upper class folks in the south to develop

a new reputation like a new face for the south there was also in georgia really active horticultural society

so there's a lot of language like queen peach is dethroning king cotton to sort of say georgia is doing something different.

We're making a new kind of agricultural civilization.

Peaches were already growing in Georgia, but getting them to market was the issue.

They bruise easily and spoil fast, so if Georgia was going to build a new identity around this fruit, it needed a peach that could travel.

Enter Samuel Rumpf.

In Georgia, the most important commercial peach variety was developed.

It was called the Alberta by Samuel Henry Rumpf, done in Marshallville.

Rumpf likely crossed Chinese cling with a yellow freestone known as early Crawford.

However, he was never able to provide a clear genealogy for the Alberta.

He named it after his wife.

That was also kind of an important move for, you know, a Southern gentleman.

And at the same time Rumpf was experimenting in his orchards, something else was changing.

The development of refrigerated transport, that was a key part of getting the commercial industry going in the South.

Georgia really is kind of the first peach growing region that's

shipping at a considerable distance to some of the big marketplaces of the north.

There were at one time more Alberta peaches grown than any other fruit variety.

By the early 1900s, Georgia was known for its peaches.

Labels on crates shipped north featured the word Georgia front and center.

Macon, Georgia hosts a big peach carnival in the 1890s.

That culminates in the 1920s in Peach County.

Peaches were becoming something people in Georgia rallied around.

There were pies and cobblers and crisps.

Even during During World War I, peach pits were burnt down and packed into the filters of gas masks.

But despite their many uses, peaches never really did overtake cotton.

Peaches were never more important than cotton economically, as far as I can tell.

Peaches fit kind of hand in glove with the cotton economy, especially with regard to labor.

But the story stuck.

More than a century after the Alberta peach was introduced, Georgia made it official.

In 1995, the peach became the state fruit.

But today, George's reputation is bigger than its harvest.

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now back to peaches south carolina and california have both overtaken peaches

and and today california produces by far the most peaches in the country

but even they're dwarfed by china china produces way more in

peaches than anybody else in the world by the 1920s nearly

150 000 acres of peaches were planted across the state

but by 2017 georgia just had nearly 12 000 acres of peaches left in georgia peaches

and the people growing them look different today the mostly black labor forest

that powered these early orchards declined during the great migration

and modern orchards rely heavily on immigrant labor mainly through h2a guest worker programs

and labor isn't the only challenge peaches needed a certain amount

of chill hours every winter time below 45 degrees to reset

and bloom properly in the spring too much cold and there's risk

if peach trees start to bloom

and then there's a late freeze you can lose most of

your crop in 2023 some georgia growers reported losing more than 90 % of their peaches.

The season was described as disastrous.

But despite all this, Georgia is still the peach state.

At that moment when the South was really looking for this sort of new reputation, a new face, peaches were there.

They were emerging as a major crop.

I think there's been a continuation of a maintenance of the myth.

Because it turned peaches into a story.

And that lasts longer than any crop ever could.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «The biggest peach myth in America». Чаще всего повторяются слова: peaches, georgia, peach, fruit, cotton. В этом видео 91 предложений и 1149 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 6:47. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 169 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. Только 76% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
peach существительное	/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/	пе́рсик
cotton существительное	/ˈkɑt.n̩/	хло́пок, хлопча́тник
crop существительное	/kɹɑp/	посе́в, сельскохозя́йственная культу́ра
reputation существительное	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	репута́ция, про́филь
orchard существительное	/ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/	сад, фрукто́вый сад
usage существительное	/ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/	испо́льзование, примене́ние
myth существительное	/mɪθ/	мифоло́гия
acre существительное	/ˈeɪ.kɚ/	акр
bloom существительное	/blum/	цвет, расцве́т
fuzzy прилагательное	/ˈfʌzi/	пуши́стый
brandy существительное	/ˈbɹændi/	бре́нди, конья́к
membership существительное		чле́нство, принадле́жность
label существительное	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	ярлы́к, этике́тка
worker существительное	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	рабо́тник, рабо́тница
decline глагол	/dɪˈklaɪn/	спада́ть

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
check out глагол	проверя́ть, прове́рить
pull away глагол	отрыва́ться, оторва́ться

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	are considered · was assumed · was shattered
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	you've ever watched · there's been

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 10 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например doesn't, we're, didn't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: myth /mɪθ/, smooth /smuːð/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, economically /ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: worker /ˈwɝ.kɚ/, acquire /əˈkwaɪɚ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, hormone /ˈhoɹmoʊn/, hog /hɔɡ/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: orchard /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/, usage /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, regard /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

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Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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