Shadowing Practice: 12 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 Young Animals by Rachel Bladen Read by Claire Willey Introduction
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Young animals grow up from babies into adults.
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Some young animals grow up very fast.
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Some young animals grow up slowly.
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What are these young animals?
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What young animals do you like?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about young animals.
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Chapter 1.
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Babies Some babies hatch from an egg.
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A mother duck makes a nest by the water.
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She lays her eggs in the nest.
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She sits on the eggs so they stay warm.
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Then the ducklings hatch.
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Some babies don't hatch from an egg.
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They are born from their mother.
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A baby zebra is born from its mother.
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The mother cleans the baby, and then it can stand up and walk.
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It can run when it's one hour old.
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Discover!
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A baby zebra has brown and white stripes.
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Chapter 2.
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Parents.
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Many young animals look the same as their parents.
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Look at these baby seahorses and their parent.
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Some young animals look very different from their parents.
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A caterpillar is a butterfly's baby.
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Some young animals live with their parents for weeks.
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Some young animals live with their parents for years.
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Parents feed and protect their babies.
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Some young animals don't meet their parents.
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A mother sea turtle lays her eggs in the sand.
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Then she goes into the ocean.
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Baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs.
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They don't meet their mother.
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Chapter 3 Help Many adult animals help young animals.
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A young elephant lives with its mother and other elephants.
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The mother feeds the young elephant.
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She cleans it and she gives it water.
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Adult elephants protect the young elephant.
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They help it to walk too.
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A mother chimpanzee carries her babies everywhere.
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A young ostrich lives with its mother and father.
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They help it to feed.
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They also protect it from the rain and the hot sun with their wings.
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Chapter 4 Danger There's danger for young animals.
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Other animals want to eat them.
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How do young animals stay safe?
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Young kangaroos live in their mother's pouch.
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It's safe there.
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Discover!
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Baby kangaroos are very little.
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You can put a baby kangaroo on a spoon.
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This young shark has spots.
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Other animals can't see the shark on the ocean floor.
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This caterpillar has poison in its body.
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Other animals touch the caterpillar and poison goes into them.
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Chapter 5 Food Some young animals drink milk from their mother.
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The milk is good and it helps them to grow.
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A young seal drinks its mother's milk.
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Discover!
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A young seal can grow from 10 kilograms to 30 kilograms in three weeks.
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A young owl doesn't drink milk.
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Its parents feed it frogs, fish, and other little animals.
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A toad eats insects and other little animals.
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A baby toad is very different.
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A baby toad is called a tadpole, and it eats plants.
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Chapter 6 Homes Young bears are born when the weather is very cold.
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The mother makes a home called a den.
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She puts branches and grass in an old tree or under a rock.
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The young bears are warm in the den, and they're safe from other animals.
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Beavers make a home called a lodge.
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They cut down trees and branches, and they make a dam in a river.
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The beavers make a lodge in the water, with branches and mud.
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A young beaver is safe in the lodge.
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Chapter 7 How Animals Learn Young animals learn many things.
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A young eagle learns to fly when it's about ten weeks old.
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The parents help the young eagle to fly.
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Young cheetahs watch their mother hunt.
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This helps them to learn to hunt.
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The mother cheetah gives little animals to her young cheetahs too.
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The young cheetahs learn how to hunt and eat the little animals.
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Discover!
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A cheetah can run more than a hundred kilometers per hour.
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That's very, very fast.
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Chapter 8 How Animals Grow Up A young lion lives with its mother and other lions in a pride.
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When it's about two years old, a young male lion moves to a different pride.
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A young beetle is called a larva.
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The larva looks very different from its parents.
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It grows a pupa.
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When it comes out of the pupa, it's an adult.
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Then it looks the same as its parents.
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Young animals grow up into adults and have babies.
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Their babies have babies too.
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Every day, young animals are born.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 95 frases y 732 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:00. El hablante habla despacio, unas 81 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
elephant sustantivo/ˈɛlɪfənt/elefante
egg sustantivo/ɛɡ/huevo, aguautle
hatch verbo/hæt͡ʃ/eclosionar
lion sustantivo/ˈlaɪən/león
lodge verbo/lɑd͡ʒ/meterse
beaver sustantivo/ˈbivɚ/castor
kangaroo sustantivo/ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/canguro
seal sustantivo/siːl/sello
eagle sustantivo/ˈiːɡəl/águila
poison sustantivo/ˈpɔɪ.zən/veneno, ponzoña
nest sustantivo/nɛst/nido
turtle sustantivo/ˈtɝtl̩/tortuga, quelonio
sand sustantivo/sænd/arena
grass sustantivo/ɡɹɑːs/pasto, hierba

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
grow up verbocrecer
cut down verbotalar
stand up verbolevantarse, ponerse de pie

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como discover, elephant, egg.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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