跟读练习: Being a beauty influencer - 6 Minute English - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Sam.
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In the UK, there's a well-known children's game called Happy Families.
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Players have to collect all the cards belonging to one family.
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There's a butcher, a baker,
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a carpenter, a doctor and a tailor.
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of the traditional jobs that people in the UK have been doing for centuries.
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But since the invention of the internet and social media,
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a more up-to-date list of jobs in the 21st century would be very different.
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It would include modern jobs which didn't exist before.
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Online jobs like web designer and YouTuber.
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One of the most unusual of these new digital jobs is
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the influencer – someone who is paid by a company to promote their brand on social media,
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encouraging people to buy their products.
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In this programme, we'll meet two beauty influencers from different parts of the world – Nigeria and Pakistan.
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We'll discover how these women are using their online influence to change attitudes towards female beauty and,
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as usual, we'll learn some related vocabulary too.
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But first I have a question for you, Sam.
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YouTube makeup tutorials are very modern,
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but make-up has been around for a long time.
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So when was lipstick first used?
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Was it a around 3,000 years ago by the ancient Celts,
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b around 4,000 years ago by the ancient Egyptians,
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or c around 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians?
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I'll say it was being used 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians.
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OK, Sam, we'll find out if you're right later on.
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Dima Ume is a beauty influencer from Nigeria.
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She's been creating make-up video tutorials for women of colour for eight years and has hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Her videos go from eyebrow-shaping tips to shopping trips in Nigeria's bigger city, Lagos.
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Here's Dima telling BBC World Service programme The Conversation how her life as an influencer got started.
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So, I did a Makeup Do's and Don't video in 2017.
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I had seen a couple of people do it prior to that,
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but then, you know, I kind of did it in a way that was a bit funny,
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maybe cracked a couple of jokes around the ways
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or the maybe not so great ways some people were doing things at the time and that video just took off.
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In 2017, Dima made a YouTube video of make-up do's
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and don'ts – rules about what to do
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and what not to do in a certain situation or when doing a certain activity.
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Dima wasn't the first Nigerian influencer to post videos on YouTube,
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but the difference was her humour – the way she laughed and cracked jokes.
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More and more people started watching Dima's make-up videos and they soon took off,
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meaning they suddenly became successful and popular.
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Our next beauty influencer is Ramal Mehmud,
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a photographer turned make-up artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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As well as make-up tips,
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Ramal creates colourful face painting designs which,
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she says, helped her through a period of depression.
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She has popular Instagram and YouTube accounts on which she shares content to help other women with their confidence and mental health.
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Like Deema, Ramal now has Instagram followers numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
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So how does she decide what to share in her blogs and videos?
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What boundaries does she set for her followers?
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Here's what Ramal told BBC World Service programme, The Conversation.
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Well, people are very intrigued about your personal life as a blogger.
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That's a given.
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But you need to have strong boundaries.
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I do share about my family and friends.
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You actually have to ask people if they are comfortable being on your platform or not.
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Ramal says her followers are intrigued about her personal life.
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If you're intrigued, you're very interested in someone,
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often because of something unusual or unexpected about them.
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Ramal accepts that her followers' interest in her personal life is a given – something
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that is considered to be a fact or that is certain to happen.
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For example, you could say,
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it's a given that there will be champagne at a typical British wedding.
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Meaning, it's certain, it's a fact, there will be champagne.
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But just because her followers' interest in her life is a given,
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that doesn't mean Ramal shares everything with them.
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She has to set boundaries.
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Both Dima and Ramal make money as beauty influencers,
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but what's amazing is how they're using social media to start conversations about what beauty means to women in their country,
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and sharing some great lipstick tips as well.
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And speaking of lipstick, let's reveal the answer to my question.
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Sam, I asked you when lipstick was first used.
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I said it was around 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians.
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Which was the correct answer!
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Ancient Sumerians, both men and women,
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painted their faces, eyes and lips – a very early kind of lipstick.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme on influencers – people who influence their social media followers to try different products.
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Do's and don'ts are rules about what you should and shouldn't do in certain situations.
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To crack a joke means to tell a joke.
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The phrasal verb take off means to suddenly become popular or successful.
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If you are intrigued, you are interested in someone,
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often because of something unusual about them.
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And finally, a given – describe something that is considered to be a fact or that is certain to happen.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Goodbye for now.
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Bye-bye.
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6 Minute English from the BBC.
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在这个视频中，BBC Learning English的主持人Neil和Sam讨论了现代社交媒体时代的新兴职业，尤其是美妆网红（influencer）。视频通过对来自尼日利亚和巴基斯坦的两位美妆网红的采访，展示了她们如何利用网络影响力改变对女性美的看法。这种职业不仅是一个盈利的机会，也是一个表达自我和帮助他人的平台。从她们的互动中，我们可以学习到很多与美妆及自信相关的英语表达，从而提高我们的口语能力。
日常交流中的五个常用短语
- make-up do's and don'ts（化妆的注意事项）：指在化妆时应遵循的规则与禁忌。
- shopping trips（购物之旅）：指去逛街购物的过程。
- took off（迅速成功）：表示某事物突然变得受欢迎。
- confidence and mental health（自信和心理健康）：强调提升个人自信心以及心理健康的重要性。
- colourful face painting designs（多彩的面部彩绘设计）：指用于化妆和创造艺术效果的彩绘风格。
逐步模仿指导
在处理这段视频时，我们可以采取以下步骤来增强我们的英语口语能力和发音技巧：
- 观看视频并仔细听：首次观看时，不要急于理解每一个单词，重点在于整体内容和语气。
- 逐句跟读：使用影子语音（shadow speech）的方法，尝试模仿视频中网红的语调和发音。这对提高英语发音非常有效。
- 记录重点短语：将短语和句子记录下来，尤其是视频中提到的美妆相关表达，进行复习和练习。
- 反复练习：每天花一些时间重听视频，跟读并进行复述。利用社交媒体分享你的学习成果，增加交流机会。
- 进行雅思口语练习：将学到的内容运用到雅思口语的练习中，模拟考官问题，增强自信。
通过这些方法，不仅能增强你对英语口语的理解，还能提升你的发音技巧，帮助你在实际交流中更加自信，并在社交场合中游刃有余。看YouTube学英语是提高语言能力的一个有效途径，记得持续保持练习哦！
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。