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每日英语口语练习 2026-07-28 (星期二)

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每日英语口语练习 2026-07-28 (星期二)

📖 原文/对话

来源: BBC 6 Minute English — “Children in warzones” (2026年7月23日) 节目主持人: Neil & Becca 特邀嘉宾: Fergal Keane (BBC战地记者), Asma Khalid

Neil: Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil.

Becca: And I’m Becca.

Neil: Now, today, we’re going to be talking about the very serious topic of war and how it affects children.

Becca: Some of the discussions you hear will mention death and trauma. We won’t go into detail, but if you think you feel may uncomfortable, you can check the transcript for this episode before listening to it on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

Neil: Yes. And remember, you’ll find all this episode’s vocabulary, along with a free worksheet, and many other 6 Minute English episodes on our website.

Becca: The most recent figure from 2024 says that 520 million children are living in conflict zones. That’s about one in every five children worldwide.

Neil: In this episode, we’ll hear from Fergal Keane on the BBC World Service Programme The Global Story. Fergal is a BBC reporter known best for reporting from war zones around the world and, as a result, developed PTSD, a type of stress disorder.

Becca: Now, in the clips we’ll hear journalist Asma Khalid asks Fergal Keane about his own experience with childhood trauma. Fergal grew up in a home with an alcoholic father. Asma wanted to know how his own trauma affected his reporting on the experiences of children in warzones:

Fergal Keane: I was hyper-vigilant from the very earliest age, obviously watching out, you know, am I under threat, is there a danger to me here?

Neil: Fergal mentions that he was hyper-vigilant because he was in dangerous situations as a child. The adjective vigilant means to always be careful to notice things, particularly when there is a possibility of danger.

Becca: Yes. And the prefix hyper- expresses that there is a lot of or even too much of something.

Neil: So, hyper-vigilant means very, very careful and watchful. Hypervigilance, the noun, is a state of extreme alertness and sensitivity to surroundings, possibly of extreme anxiety.

Becca: Now let’s hear from Fergal as he talks about research on the experience of children in warzones:

Fergal Keane: I mean, they disagree about a few things, but on this they’re absolutely of one mind. And that is that you can’t recover from war trauma if you’re living with continuing trauma.

Becca: Fergal goes on to talk about some of the ways in which these children might be helped:

Fergal Keane: And so there’s a new field of theory, well I mean relatively new field of theory which encourages children to slowly and carefully try to confront — obviously not death and massacre again — but things like learning to sleep alone, not having to sleep with a parent because that’s what they did during the war because they were so consistently terrified. Now, it sounds like a simple thing, but as anybody who’s tried to put a child to sleep, who’s had a nightmare, a child who hasn’t been traumatised will know it’s very difficult.

Neil: Fergal says that children should be encouraged to slowly and carefully try to confront their experiences. To confront something is to meet with it or deal with it.

Becca: Sleeping alone seems simple enough, but Fergal compares the experiences of a child in a warzone to that of children who have nightmares.

Neil: Now, let’s hear Fergal talk about what he has learned from reporting on children in warzones:

Fergal Keane: The big lesson is that, given a chance, the human spirit, and especially children, are phenomenally resilient.

Becca: Fergal describes the children as being phenomenally resilient. The adverb phenomenally describes something being done or felt in an extreme or surprising way.

Neil: To be resilient is to be able to recover from and come back from something difficult or bad that’s happened. So, Fergal says that children can be surprisingly positive despite the negative things happening around them.

🎬 视频/音频资源

📝 重点词汇

1. hyper-vigilant /ˌhaɪpər ˈvɪdʒɪlənt/ (adj.)

2. be of one mind /biː ɒv wʌn maɪnd/ (phrase)

3. confront /kənˈfrʌnt/ (v.)

4. nightmare /ˈnaɪtmeər/ (n.)

5. phenomenally /fɪˈnɒmɪnəli/ (adv.)

6. resilient /rɪˈzɪliənt/ (adj.)

7. trauma /ˈtrɔːmə/ (n.)

8. PTSD /ˌpiː tiː es ˈdiː/ (abbr.) = Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

💬 跟读练习建议

  1. Shadowing（影子跟读）: 播放 YouTube 视频或 MP3，模仿 Neil 和 Becca 的语速、语调和停顿。特别注意 Neil 以标准英音（RP）发音，语速清晰适中，非常适合模仿。
  2. 分段练习: 将对话分成 5 个片段，每段反复听 3-5 遍，直到能跟随朗读。
  3. 角色扮演: 分别扮演 Neil、Becca 和 Fergal Keane 的角色，录制自己的声音后与原声对比。

🔄 即兴口语练习

练习 1: 观点表达

“Given a chance, the human spirit, and especially children, are phenomenally resilient.”

你同意 Fergal Keane 的这个观点吗？请用 2-3 分钟用英文发表你的看法。可以结合你个人的经历或身边观察到的例子。

练习 2: 角色改写

假设你是 BBC 记者，正在采访一位帮助战后儿童心理康复的心理学家。设计一个 1 分钟的英文对话（一问一答），内容包括：

练习 3: 词汇造句

使用今天学到的 3 个词汇（hyper-vigilant, confront, resilient）分别造一个与你自己生活相关的句子。

📋 发音技巧提示

1. 连读 (Linking)

2. 重读与弱读 (Stress & Weak Forms)

3. 特殊发音注意

4. 语调练习