Shadowing Practice: 3 06 Simple Past Tense Spring Cleaning - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So, Darcy, how was your weekend?
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Pretty good.
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I stayed home.
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I relaxed.
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I enjoyed myself.
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Watched a movie.
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Did some cooking.
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I went to an event, an Easter event, on Sunday.
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So I cooked some deviled eggs for the party.
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Oh, for Easter, deviled eggs.
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Yes.
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Nice.
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So I looked for honey mustard, but I couldn't find any.
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I walked to the conbini.
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They didn't have anything.
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And I went to A Price, but I had to make my own.
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So I mixed honey mustard.
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No, I mixed mustard and honey together to make my own honey mustard.
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Oh, nice.
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Sounds really good.
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It was very nice.
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Did people like it?
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Everyone ate them.
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They all disappeared.
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Oh, really?
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Yes.
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Oh, fantastic. So how about you?
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What did you do?
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Well, I did my spring cleaning.
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Ooh.
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So once a year I clean my house really well.
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We call it spring cleaning.
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So I did everything.
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I washed the windows.
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I dusted the shelves.
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I vacuumed the floor.
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I mopped the kitchen.
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I did a lot.
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I also gathered lots of old things that I don't need.
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And I got them together to take to the trash tomorrow
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and I packed up all my winter clothes and I stored them in a box for next year.
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That's nice.
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I only vacuumed my apartment and organized my fridge.
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Oh, that's good though.
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Still, that's a start.
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Yeah.
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Right now there's nothing in my apartment, so I can't do much.
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Oh, that's good.
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So you're now a minimalist.
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Yes.
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Oh, that's cool.
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Yeah.
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Well, what about preparation for work?
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Did you work at all?
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We're both teachers.
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Did you prepare any lessons or grade papers or do anything?
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No, I try not to take my work home.
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So this weekend I enjoyed myself, watched a couple TV shows and cooked and relaxed.
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How about you?
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That's good.
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Let's see.
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I actually did do a little marking.
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So I marked some papers and I prepared my lessons, but I did that to lower my stress.
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Like I get stressed out if I have a lot to do, you know, at the last minute.
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So I got prepared and now it's going to be a really easy relaxing weekend
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but I also watched a movie I watched a really good
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movie what did you watch actually I can't remember the name of it this is really bad
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because it was in Japanese so I didn't understand everything I understood about 50%
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but it was about a mother and father that had an argument about their son who was very rebellious
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and the son didn't do what the parents want him to do.
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He goofed off all day, he didn't study.
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And so the father was very strict and the mother was very worried
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and it was just about the the boy okay
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but it was in japanese so i didn't understand everything
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so i was confused a bit sounds like you understood a
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lot though a little bit like just watching visually how about
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you what movie did you watch um well i watched a
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tv show called the umbrella academy oh right it's It's a new TV show
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and some children were born on the same day
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and a man adopted the children and each kid has a superpower, kind of.
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So it jumps into the future or the present,
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but it skipped back to the past and showed kind of how they got their powers or what their powers were.
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And someone disappeared, but then he came back.
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It was really interesting.
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it's like a superhero TV show oh wow sounds like a
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good show I should check it out yeah it's really new
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if I can find the name of that movie I'll look it up I'll tell you okay umbrella Academy
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 87 frases y 641 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:04. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 158 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| honey sustantivo | /ˈhʌni/ | miel |
| mustard sustantivo | /ˈmʌstəɹd/ | mostaza, jenabe |
| relax verbo | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | relajar, aflojar |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| egg sustantivo | /ɛɡ/ | huevo, aguautle |
| devil sustantivo | /ˈdɛvəl/ | diablo, demonio |
| disappear verbo | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | desaparecer, desparecer |
| vacuum sustantivo | /ˈvæ.kjuːm/ | vacuo |
| umbrella sustantivo | /ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ | paraguas, ambrela |
| confused adjetivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confundido |
| wash verbo | /wɑʃ/ | lavar |
| trash sustantivo | /tɹæʃ/ | basura, tlazol |
| dust sustantivo | /dʌst/ | polvo |
| preparation sustantivo | /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ | preparación |
| skip verbo | /skɪp/ | saltar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| stress out verbo | agobiar, estresar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, can't, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: wash /wɑʃ/, trash /tɹæʃ/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, minimalist /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como honey, mustard, relax.
¿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.