Shadowing Practice: 2 South for the Winter - Learn English Speaking with Video
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South for the Winter I never stay in one country for a long time.
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It gets boring.
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I like to move on, see new places, meet different people.
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It's a good life, most of the time.
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When I need money, I get a job.
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I can do most things.
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Hotel and restaurant work, building work, picking fruit.
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In Europe, you can pick fruit most of the year.
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You need to be in the right country at the right time, of course.
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It's not easy work, but the money's not bad.
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I like to go south in the winter.
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Life is easier in the sun, and northern Europe can get very cold in the winter.
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Last year, 1989 it was, I was in Venice for October.
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I did some work in a hotel for three weeks, then I began slowly to move south.
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I always go by train when I can.
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I like trains.
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You can walk about on a train, and you meet a lot of people.
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I left Venice and went on to Trieste.
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There, I got a cheap ticket for the slow train to Sofia, in Bulgaria.
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This train goes all down through Yugoslavia and takes a long time, a day and a half, but that didn't matter to me.
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The train left Trieste at nine o'clock on a Thursday morning.
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There weren't many people on it at first, but at Zagreb more people got on.
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Two girls went along the corridor, past my carriage.
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They looked through the door, but they didn't come in.
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Then an old woman came in, sat down and went to sleep.
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The two girls came back along the corridor and looked into the carriage again.
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The train left Zagreb, and I looked out of the window for about ten minutes, then I went to sleep too.
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When I opened my eyes again, the two girls were in the carriage.
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They looked friendly, so I said, Hello.
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Hi, they said.
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You're American, I said.
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Or Canadian, right?
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American, the taller girl said.
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She smiled. And you're twenty-three?
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Your name's Tom Walsh.
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You've got blue eyes.
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And your mum lives in Burnham-on-Sea, UK, right?
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How did you know all that?
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I asked.
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The second girl laughed.
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She looked at your passport.
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It's in your coat pocket.
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Oh, right.
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My coat was on the seat next to me.
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I took my passport out of my pocket and put it back in my bag. Who are you then?
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I asked.
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They told me.
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Melanie and Carol from Los Angeles, USA.
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They liked Europe, they said.
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They knew a lot of places.
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Britain, Holland, Denmark, Germany, France,
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Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece.
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I'm going to Bulgaria now, I said, for about a month.
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Then I'm going south for the winter.
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Cyprus, or perhaps North Africa.
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Oh yes, they said.
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We love Bulgaria.
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Sofia is a great town, wonderful.
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What do you do about money?
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I asked.
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Well, you know, Carol smiled.
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Sometimes we get a little job.
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This and that. But what about you?
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Yeah, come on, Melanie said.
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Tell us about you.
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Tom Walsh with the blue eyes and the mum in Burner Monsi.
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What are you doing with your life, hey? So I told them.
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They were nice girls.
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They were older than me, perhaps twenty-seven or twenty-eight, but I liked them.
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We talked and laughed for hours.
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I told them a lot of stories about my life.
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Some of the stories were true, some weren't.
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But the girls laughed and said I was a great guy.
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I asked them about Bulgaria, because I didn't know the country.
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They knew Sophia well, they said.
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Hey, Carol, Melanie said, we're staying in Bela Palanka for a day or two.
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But let's go over to Sophia this weekend and meet Tom there.
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We can meet him on Saturday night at the Hotel Marmara.
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Yeah, it's a good hotel, Carol told me.
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Cheap, but good.
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What do you think, Tom?
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Great, I said.
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Let's do that.
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The train was very slow.
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We got to Belgrade at six o'clock in the evening, and a lot of people got off.
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There were only me and the girls in the carriage then.
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The guard came and looked at our tickets, and went away again.
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Carol looked at Melanie.
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Hey, Mel, she said, why don't you and Tom go along to the restaurant?
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I'm not hungry, and I want to sleep for an hour.
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Er, food's very expensive on the train, I said.
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I haven't got much money just now.
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I'm going to get a job in Sofia.
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Oh, Tom, Melanie said, why didn't you tell us?
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Look, you're a nice guy, right?
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We're OK for money this week.
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We can buy you a meal?
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Of course we can, Carol said.
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And look, in Sofia, we can take you to the best restaurant in town.
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It's a great place.
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We love it.
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What could I say?
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I was hungry.
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They had money.
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I didn't.
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So Melanie and I went to the restaurant and had a meal.
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When we came back, Carol was still alone in the carriage.
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Melanie put her feet on the seat and went to sleep.
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At Nys, some more people got on the train, and two old men came into our carriage.
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They looked at Melanie's feet on the seat and talked in loud voices.
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Carol laughed, and Melanie opened her eyes and sat up.
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"'Are we nearly there?' she asked Carol, and looked out of the window.
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"'Yeah, about half an hour, I think.' "'Why are you getting off at Bela Palanca?' I asked.
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"'What are you going to do there?' Melanie smiled.
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Find a cheap hotel, meet people, take a look at the town, you know.
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"'Just for a day or two,' Carol said.
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"'But there's nothing there.' "'Oh, well, you never know,' Melanie laughed.
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"'See you in Sofia, right?
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On Saturday night.
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"'The Hotel Marmara, okay?
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Eight o'clock,' Carol said.
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"'Don't forget now.' "'Okay.
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Great,' I said.
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"'See you there.' The train came into Bella Polanka and stopped.
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The two girls got off and stood on the platform.
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They smiled at me through the window.
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"'Saturday, eight o'clock,' Melanie shouted.
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"'Okay,' I called.
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They couldn't hear me because of the noise in the station.
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They smiled again, picked up their bags and walked away.
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Nice girls.
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I'm going to have a great time in Sofia, I thought.
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The train left Yugoslavia and crossed into Bulgaria at two o'clock in the morning.
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Then the train stopped at some village.
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I don't remember the name.
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I ate an apple and looked out of the window.
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Suddenly, there were a lot of policemen on the train.
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Everybody in the carriage sat up and began to talk.
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What's happening?
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I said in Italian to the old man next to me.
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I don't know, he said in bad Italian.
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Perhaps they're looking for somebody.
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Look, the police are taking some people off the train.
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Then two policemen came into our carriage, a tall, thin one and a short, fat one.
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They looked at everybody carefully.
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And then they looked at me again.
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Come with us, please, the fat policeman said in English.
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What, me?
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I said.
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Why?
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What's the matter?
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And bring your bag with you, the tall policeman said.
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I began to ask a question, but policemen never like questions from young men with long hair.
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So I stayed quiet, picked up my bag, and went with them.
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In the station building there were a lot more policemen and some people from the train.
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They were all young people, I saw.
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Some were afraid, some were bored.
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The police looked in everybody's bags, and then the people went back to the train.
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My two policemen took me to a table.
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"'Your passport, please,' the fat policeman said, "'and opened your bag.' "'They looked at my passport,
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and I opened my bag.
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"'There was a young policewoman with red hair at the next table.
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"'She had a nice face, so I smiled at her, and she smiled back.
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"'Aha!' the tall policeman said suddenly.
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All my dirty shirts and clothes were out on the table.
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The policeman picked up my bag and turned it over.
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Onto the table, out of my bag, fell packet after packet of US American dollars.
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Nice new dollars.
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Fifty dollar notes in big packets.
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A lot of money.
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My mouth opened and stayed open.
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I couldn't find my voice.
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I was suddenly a very interesting person,
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and a lot of police ran up to our table and stood behind me.
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Fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, a hundred and fifty thousand,
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there's two hundred thousand dollars here, the tall policeman said.
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What an interesting bag, Mr. Tom Walsh.
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I found my voice again quickly.
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But it's not my bag, I shouted.
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There was a big happy smile on that policeman's face.
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Well, he said, it's got your name on it, look.
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So I looked, and of course there was my name, and yes, of course, it was my bag.
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So how did two hundred thousand US dollars get into my bag?
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You cannot bring US dollars into this country, the fat policeman said.
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He had very short grey hair and little black eyes.
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He didn't smile once.
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But I didn't bring them, I said quickly.
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They're not my dollars.
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I never saw them before in my life, and...
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There was a lot of noise in the station.
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I looked out of the window and saw my train.
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Slowly, it began to move.
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Hey!
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I shouted.
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That's my train!
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The tall policeman laughed.
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It was a great day for him.
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Oh, no, he said.
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You're not getting back on that train.
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You're staying here with us, in our beautiful country.
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He smiled happily.
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So, I never got to Sophia on Saturday.
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I was very unhappy about that.
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I wanted to have a little talk with Melanie and Carol.
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Ask them one or two questions, you know.
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You're a nice guy, Tom.
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See you in Sophia, OK?
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Take you to the best restaurant in town.
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Yeah, great.
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And I never got down to Cyprus or North Africa that winter.
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Oh, well, I live and learn.
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It's not an easy life in prison, but it's warm in winter, and the food's not bad.
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And I'm meeting some interesting people.
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There's a man from Georgia, USSR.
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Boris, his name is.
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He comes from a place by the Black Sea.
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He's a great guy.
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When we get out of here, he and I are going down to Australia.
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Brisbane, perhaps. Or Sydney.
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Get a job on a ship.
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Start a new life.
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Yeah.
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Next year's going to be OK.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “2 South for the Winter”. Las palabras que más se repiten: train, looked, bag, Melanie, Carol. Este vídeo tiene 225 frases y 1795 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 17:18. El hablante habla despacio, unas 104 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| carriage sustantivo | /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/ | coche, carruaje |
| passport sustantivo | /ˈpæspɔɹt/ | pasaporte |
| packet sustantivo | /ˈpæk.ɪt/ | paquete |
| shout verbo | /ʃaʊt/ | gritar, desgañitarse |
| corridor sustantivo | /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ | corredor, andador |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | aburrir |
| policewoman sustantivo | policía, agente | |
| cloth sustantivo | /klɒθ/ | tela |
| unhappy adjetivo | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | infeliz |
| happily adverbio | /ˈhæp.ə.li/ | felizmente, alegremente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
| get off verbo | bajarse |
| sit up verbo | sentarse |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse |
| sit down verbo | sentarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- How did you know all that?
- It's in your coat pocket.
- What do you do about money?
- What are you doing with your life, hey?
- We can buy you a meal?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo | the best |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | I'm going · are you doing · we're staying |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir | I'm going to get · are you going to do · I'm going to have |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 33 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como carriage, passport, packet.
¿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.