跟读练习: Phát âm chuẩn cùng VOA - Anh ngữ đặc biệt: Summer Work Travel / Changes (VOA) - 通过视频学习英语口语

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
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More than 100,000 international students will spend this summer working and traveling in the United States.
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They are participating in the Summer Work Travel Program through the State Department.
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They receive J-1 exchange visitor visas.
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The idea is for students to work for up to three months
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and earn enough money to then spend a month traveling before they return home.
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The summer work travel program has existed for years.
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This year, there are some changes.
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The State Department recently amended the employment rules.
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These changes follow a strike last summer by foreign students working at a distribution center for Hershey's chocolates.
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The State Department said the students were put to work for long hours in jobs
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that provided little or no contact with the outside world.
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The students complained about having to lift heavy boxes and to work overnight.
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They and other workers protested conditions at the plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
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The students also complained about being underpaid as a result of deductions from their earnings.
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of their pay had to go to subcontractors involved in the operations.
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The State Department has now banned the use of summer work travel students in warehouses or packaging plants.
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Also, the majority of their work hours cannot fall between 10 at night and 6 in the morning.
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The students are also barred from jobs in workplaces that the Federal Labor Department says are unsafe.
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More jobs will be banned in the fall.
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These include most construction, manufacturing and food processing jobs.
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Summer work travel students will also not be allowed to work in most mining and agricultural jobs.
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Daniel Costa at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington welcomed the new limits on jobs that the students can fill.
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He says the change will protect foreign workers from getting injured on the job.
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It also protects U.S workers, he says, because of high unemployment in many of those jobs.
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He also praised a requirement that employers only fill temporary or seasonal jobs with summer work travel students.
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Some employers have continually hired new student workers to avoid having to hire regular, full-time employees.
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Jacob Horwitz is lead organizer for the National Guest Worker Alliance, the group that organized the strike in Palmyra.
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He says the State Department's changes will help return the program to its original purpose as a cultural exchange program.
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For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal.
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Thank you.

背景与概述

本视频来自VOA特别英语教育报告，讨论了今夏超过10万名国际学生将参与美国的夏季工作旅行项目。这些学生持有J-1交流访问签证，计划在美国工作三个月后，再利用一个月的时间进行旅行。近年来，该项目获得了越来越多的关注，但最近由于去年夏季发生的罢工事件，国务院对就业规则进行了修改。这次罢工涉及在宾夕法尼亚州一个巧克力分销中心工作的外国学生，他们抱怨工作条件差和工时过长。

日常交流的五个关键短语

  • Summer Work Travel Program（夏季工作旅行项目）
  • J-1 exchange visitor visas（J-1交流访问签证）
  • work long hours（长时间工作）
  • unsafe working conditions（不安全的工作环境）
  • cultural exchange program（文化交流项目）

逐步跟读指南

为了有效提高您的英语口语能力，特别是通过本视频中的内容，您可以遵循以下分步跟读指南。

  1. 准备阶段：先观看视频一次，了解大致内容和语气，记录下您不熟悉的单词或短语。
  2. 逐句模仿：将视频按句子分段播放，暂停后尝试重复。这种方法称为“shadowspeak”，能帮助您在发音和语调上更贴近原声。
  3. 加强输出：跟读过程中，注意语音的连贯性和流畅性，尽量做到“shadow speech”，有意识地与原声进行同步。通过这种shadowing练习，可以增强您的听说能力。
  4. 反复练习：反复重复这个步骤，每次可能需要调整自己的发音，特别是与母语者的发音差异。
  5. 应用反馈：如果可以，找一个有英语基础的朋友或老师，听您说的内容并提供反馈，这样可以不断提升您的发音和表达能力。

通过这样的“shadowing site”方式，您不仅能提升口语水平，还能增强对英语语言的理解，使您在全球化交流中更加自信。

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。