Shadowing Practice: 4000 Essential English Words 1 Unit 30 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 30.
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Word List Above If something is above, it is at a higher level than something else.
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He straightened the sign that was above the crowd.
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Ahead If something is ahead of something else, it is in front of it.
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The blue card drove on ahead of us.
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Amount An amount is how much there is of something.
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Can I use my card to pay for the entire amount?
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Belief A belief is a strong feeling that something is correct or true.
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A preacher or priest should have a strong belief in God.
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Center The center of something is the middle of it.
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The center of a dartboard is the most important spot.
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Common If something is common, it happens often, or there is much of it.
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It is common for snow to fall in the winter.
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Cost These designer shoes cost more than the regular ones.
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Demonstrate To demonstrate something is to show how it is done.
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She demonstrated her plan to her co -workers.
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Different Different describes someone or something that is not the same as others.
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Each of my sisters has a different hairstyle.
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Evidence Evidence is a fact or thing that you use to prove something.
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He used the pictures as evidence that UFOs are real.
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Honesty Honesty means the quality of being truthful or honest.
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A courtroom should be a place of honesty.
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Idiom An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from its words.
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The idiom, when pigs fly, means that something will never happen.
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Independent If something is independent, it is not controlled by something else.
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She chose to live an independent life in the country.
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Inside Inside means the inner part, space, or side of something.
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The inside of the box was empty.
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Jail A jail is a place to keep bad people.
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He was sent to jail for taking other people's cars.
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Master A master is a person who is very good at something.
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My brother is a master of Taekwondo.
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Memory A memory is something you remember.
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The memory of my first time in the city will always be the best.
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Pocket A pocket is a part of your clothing where you can keep things.
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She always had her hands in her pockets.
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Proper If something is proper, it is right.
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It is not proper to throw your garbage on the road.
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Sale If something is for sale, you can buy it.
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Everything for sale here is the same price.
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Cats and Secrets In English, there is a common idiom, let the cat out of the bag.
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It means to tell a secret.
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But where did this idiom start?
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It came from a part of England.
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Long ago, people there went from town to town to sell things like vegetables, clothes, and pigs.
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They had strong beliefs about honesty.
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They didn't like lying.
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One day, a man went to the town's center to sell things.
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I have a baby pig for sale.
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It won't cost much.
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he said.
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He held the animal above his head.
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His style was different from honest people's style.
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He was a master of tricking people and lying.
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A woman named Beth looked at his pig.
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He offered her the pig for one gold coin.
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That was a very small amount.
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Beth gave him the coin.
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He put it in his pocket.
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He walked ahead of Beth to get the pig.
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He gave her a closed bag and said, Here's your pig.
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He then left very quickly.
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Beth looked at the bag.
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It was moving.
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She opened it to let the pig out.
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A cat was inside.
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He tricked me.
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That isn't proper, she said.
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Later, the man returned to trick more people.
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Beth saw him, and the memory of the cat came back.
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She told her friends.
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They stopped him, but no one knew what to do next.
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Someone said, We need an independent and fair person to decide that.
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They went to the judge.
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Beth told him about the cat in the bag.
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The judge asked, Is there evidence?
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Can you demonstrate how he did it?
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Look in his bag, said Beth.
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She opened it and let a cat out of the bag.
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They learned the man's secret, and he went to jail.
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That's how the idiom, let the cat out of the bag, came to mean to tell a secret.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “4000 Essential English Words 1 Unit 30”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pig, Beth, cat, bag, idiom. Este vídeo tiene 81 frases y 728 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:30. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 112 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
pocket sustantivo/ˈpɑ.kɪt/bolsillo, bolsa
belief sustantivo/bɪˈliːf/creencia
demonstrate verbo/ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/demostrar, demonstrar
honesty sustantivo/ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/honradez, sinceridad
trick sustantivo/ˈtɹɪk/truco, artimaña
coin sustantivo/ˈkoɪ̯n/moneda, numerario
pig sustantivo/ˈpɪɡ/cerdo, chancho
clothing sustantivo/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ropa, ropaje
worker sustantivo/ˈwɝ.kɚ/trabajador, obrero
designer sustantivo/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/diseñador, diseñadora
priest sustantivo/ˈpɹiːst/sacerdote, cura
phrase sustantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/frase
shoe sustantivo/ˈʃu/zapato, taba
garbage sustantivo/ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/basura, desperdicios
cloth sustantivo/klɒθ/tela

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 not controlled · was sent
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould have · should be
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe most important · the best
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill never happen · will always be · won't cost

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, isn't, won't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, cloth /klɒθ/, truthful /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: designer /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/

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 pocket, belief, demonstrate.

¿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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