跟读练习: VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 397 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
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Growers around the world are using new methods to grow grapes to make wine.
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These include natural and organic methods to control harmful insects and weeds instead of using chemicals.
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Now, a winery in Canada has imported a natural way to control its grapevines.
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The Featherstone Winery is in southern Ontario.
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It has eight hectares of perfect rows of grapevines.
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The vines, like other plants,
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need to be pruned every year.
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In general, dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.
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Pruning grapevines must be done very carefully.
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Only a targeted area of leaves is removed from the lower part of the vines to help the grapes grow better.
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But at the Featherstone Winery,
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no man or machine does the pruning.
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Instead, the job is done by 40 cute little woolly lambs.
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David Johnson owns the vineyard.
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He says he learned about using lambs while visiting wineries in New Zealand.
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Mr. Johnson says the young lambs are perfectly designed to do the job.
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They eat the grape leaves on the lower parts of the vine,
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but they are not tall enough to reach the grapes.
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They only weigh about 22 kilos,
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so they do not beat down the soil,
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and their waste makes good organic fertilizer.
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In addition, using the lambs costs much less than hiring workers to prune the vines for seven weeks in the summer.
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And when the pruning is done in August,
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the lambs, well, you might not want to know this part.
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They become lamb chops, tasty ones, says David Johnson.
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He says he had a difficult time finding enough lambs to do the job.
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There are about 50 million lambs in New Zealand,
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but there are not nearly as many in Ontario.
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Also, even some organic pesticides are harmful to lambs,
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and the lambs must be supervised so they do not prune too much.
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David Johnson says the lambs carry out his environmental ideas about farming.
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He says the lambs are lovely and peaceful,
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and he likes having them in his vineyard.
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People visiting the vineyard also enjoy watching the lambs do their job.
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And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
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It was produced by Joyce Kreizak with support from the Park Foundation and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation.
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You can hear more stories and subscribe to the daily podcast at environmentreport.org.
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And you can find more of our agriculture reports at voaspecialenglish.com.
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Thank you.
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本课介绍
在本节课中，学习者将通过观看VOA特别英语农业报告，练习如何用英语讨论农业的现代方法。本报告主要介绍了一家位于加拿大的酒庄使用小羊来修剪葡萄藤的有趣案例。这种创新且环保的农业实践为学习者提供了关于农业、可持续发展以及现代农艺的丰富背景知识，适合进行雅思口语练习和提高英语发音。
关键词汇与短语
- 修剪 (pruning) - 移除植物的死或活部分以促进更好的生长。
- 葡萄藤 (grapevines) - 生产葡萄的植物。
- 有机 (organic) - 指无化学物质的种植方法。
- 小羊 (lambs) - 年幼的羊，在报告中被用来帮助修剪葡萄藤。
- 环境 (environmental) - 影响生物和植物生长的自然条件。
- 肥料 (fertilizer) - 用于帮助植物生长的物质。
- 成本 (costs) - 进行某项工作的金钱支出。
练习技巧
在进行英语影子跟读时，建议学习者注意以下几点以提高发音和流利度：
- 在进行英语口语练习时，可以将视频播放速度调到适合自己的节奏，确保听清每个单词的发音。
- 尝试模仿视频中说话者的语调和情感表达，这将帮助你更自然地使用英语。
- 在每次练习时，暂停视频，重复说出关键短语和句子，并与原音的语调和节奏对齐，以提高发音准确性。
- 为了更有效地进行shadowing练习，可以在本视频的不同部分选择几句来反复跟读，使内容更加丰富且不单调。
- 同时，结合视频内容的主题，例如农艺或可持续发展，进行即兴讨论，从而提高自己的表达能力。
通过这些方法，学习者可以提升自己的雅思口语练习技巧，并在英语影子跟读中取得更大进步。
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。