Shadowing Practice: 12 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Scene 4.
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Where is Ellen now?
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It is night time.
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Jerry is sitting on the bed.
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Brad is walking up and down.
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Seven hours.
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We waited seven hours.
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Where is she, Jerry?
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I said this before.
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I don't know.
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Just wait.
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She isn't coming, because you're here.
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Brad, I say again.
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One, I sleep here.
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This is my room.
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Two, I am your friend, and I am not leaving you like this.
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Jerry, is this all a big laugh for you?
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No, not now.
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I want to see Ellen, too.
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I want to help.
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Okay.
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Thanks, Jerry.
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Sorry.
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Hey!
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Here she is.
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Ellen.
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Ellen?
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It's me, Brad.
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Matthew.
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Man, oh man, it's all true.
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Ellen, please, tell me, what happened in 1760?
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You must remember.
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No. We sold things, you and me.
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Rich people's things.
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You stole them, remember?
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Wow!
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Brad, you were Robin Hood.
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Sorry.
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The rich people didn't like me.
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They said bad things about me.
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Ellen Bannister is a witch.
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They said that, but it's not true.
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Of course not.
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Then, one day, they came for us.
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Twenty men.
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What happened?
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We ran away.
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You found a ship.
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A ship going to America.
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You said, see you at 1.15, at the harbor.
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We can go away, you and me.
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And then what happened, Ellen?
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The ship went early.
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I wasn't there in time.
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You went on the ship.
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You didn't wait for me.
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Oh, no. When I arrived, there were a lot of ships there.
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I didn't know the name of our ship.
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I looked for you.
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I waited and waited and waited.
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Ellen.
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Oh, Ellen.
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I'm sorry.
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Then the men came.
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They put me in prison.
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I died three months later.
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And then I came back home.
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Here.
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And I waited again.
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I waited for you.
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I love you, Ellen.
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I love you too, Matthew.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 74 frases y 310 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:18. El hablante habla despacio, unas 72 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

10 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • steal /stiːl/ (verbo) — robar, shacar. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
  • arrive /əˈɹaɪv/ (verbo) — llegar, arribar. To reach; to get to a certain place.
  • harbor /ˈhɑːbə/ (sustantivo) — puerto, refugio. Any place of shelter.
  • laugh /læf/ (verbo) — reír. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…
  • ship /ˈʃɪp/ (sustantivo) — barco, buque. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
  • rich /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ (adjetivo) — cargado. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
  • sell /sɛl/ (verbo) — vender. To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  • scene /siːn/ (sustantivo) — escena. The location of an event that attracts attention.
  • sit /sɪt/ (verbo) — sentarse, estar sentado. To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
  • prison /ˈpɹɪzn̩/ (sustantivo) — cárcel, prisión. A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or…

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • go away (verbo) — irse, marcharse. To depart or leave a place.
  • go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuar. To continue in extent.
  • look for (verbo) — buscar, lambisquear. To seek.
  • run away (verbo) — huir. To flee by running.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. 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 steal, arrive, harbor.

¿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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