Shadowing Practice: 2-4000-3-U17 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 17 Word List Affection Affection is a feeling of liking someone or something.
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Amanda has a lot of affection for her little sister Sarah.
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Agency An agency is a business or service set up to act for others.
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I went to a travel agency to help me arrange a flight home.
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Ash Ash is the gray or black powder created when something is burned.
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The end of his cigar was full of ashes.
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Confine To confine something is to keep it in one place.
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The elephant is confined to a cage in the zoo.
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Dismiss To dismiss something is to say it is not important.
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He quickly dismissed my idea about the new project.
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Erupt To erupt is to explode or blow apart, especially a volcano.
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The volcano erupted for the first time in 10 years.
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Fate Fate is a power that causes things to happen.
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Some people believe that the lines on a person's hand can tell his or her fate.
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Lava Lava is the hot substance made of melted rock that comes out of volcanoes.
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The red-hot lava poured from the volcano.
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Miserable A miserable person is very unhappy.
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He was miserable after his dog died.
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Navigate To navigate something is to control the way it moves or goes.
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She navigated the ship across the ocean.
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Originate To originate somewhere is to start there.
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The idea of democracy originated in ancient Greece.
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Remainder The remainder of something is what is left.
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He took a bite of the apple and then gave me the remainder of it.
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Retrieve To retrieve something is to find it and get it back.
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She retrieved her mail from the mailbox.
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Shallow A shallow thing is not deep.
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The kids were playing in the shallow water.
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Slope A slope is ground that is not flat.
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The slope to the top of the mountain was very steep.
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SPAN To span is to spread across an amount of time or space.
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His work at the bakery has spanned 20 years.
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Superstition.
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A superstition is something magical that people believe is real.
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It is a superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
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Sympathy Sympathy is a feeling of sadness for another person who feels bad.
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I felt sympathy for my sister, so I got her a balloon to cheer her up.
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Vibrate To vibrate is to shake very hard.
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The machine made his whole body vibrate as he broke up the ground.
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Wander To wander is to walk without going to a certain place.
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The boys like to wander in the woods and look at birds.
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The Magic Cup Paul and John were brothers.
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They fought all the time because they both wanted to be leaders of the agency they both worked at.
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There was a superstition in their town about a magic cup.
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People said the cup was in a volcano located far away.
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Anyone who retrieved the cup would have a wish come true.
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John and Paul both wanted to find it.
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Then, they could become the leader they both left to find
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the cup before their trip their mother said they should work together they dismissed that idea
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even though their trips originated from the same house each wanted to travel alone they were both miserable during the trip.
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They had to navigate small boats across shallow rivers and climb difficult slopes.
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Their journey spanned many days.
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When they finally got close to the volcano, the ground began to vibrate and the volcano erupted.
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Ash filled the sky and lava covered everything.
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John climbed to the top of a hill to keep from getting burned.
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A few moments later, his brother went up the same hill.
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They were confined to the hill until the lava cooled down.
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They talked about the things they had seen while wandering around the country.
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They felt more sympathy and affection for each other than ever before.
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They decided that fate had brought them together.
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The next day, they left to finish the remainder of the trip together.
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Everything seemed much easier.
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When they finally found the cup, they learned that it didn't make wishes come true It was only an ordinary cup
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But the trip to reach the cup taught them to work together and love each other

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “2-4000-3-U17”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cup, volcano, lava, trip, superstition. Este vídeo tiene 64 frases y 711 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:03. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 118 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
volcano sustantivo/vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/volcán
lava sustantivo/ˈlɑvə/lava
confine verbo/ˈkɑnfaɪn/confinar, encorsetar
erupt verbo/ɪˈɹʌpt/entrar en erupción, erupcionar
originate verbo/əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/originarse
vibrate verbo/ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/vibrar
wander verbo/ˈwɑndɚ/vagar, divagar
navigate verbo/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/navegar, singlar
retrieve verbo/ɹɪˈtɹiːv/recobrar
dismiss verbo/dɪsˈmɪs/despedir, echar
slope sustantivo/sloʊp/pendiente, cuesta
affection sustantivo/əˈfɛk.ʃən/afecto, afección
sympathy sustantivo/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/compasión
remainder sustantivo/ɹəˈmeɪndɚ/resto, remanente
shallow adjetivo/ˈʃæloʊ/no/poco/nada hondo/profundo, playo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
break up verboseparar, cisionar
cool down verbo/kuːl ˈdaʊn/enfriarse
go up verbosubir

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis burned · is confined · is left
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaperson who feels · Anyone who retrieved

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, shallow /ˈʃæloʊ/, ash /ˈæʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slope /sloʊp/, span /spæn/, steep /stiːp/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: volcano /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/, lava /ˈlɑvə/, vibrate /ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, retrieve /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, cage /keɪd͡ʒ/, magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/

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 volcano, lava, confine.

¿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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