Shadowing Practice: A2 FLYERS Speaking test – CHLOE | SPEAKING TEST 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello Chloe, I am Teacher Billy.
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Today we have the Cambridge test.
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Are you ready to do it with me?
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Yes.
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Very good.
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I will ask you first how old you are.
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I'm nine years old.
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Okay.
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And where do you live?
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I live in Ho Chi Minh City, in Binh Han.
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Binh Han.
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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Let's start with the pictures that have differences.
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There are two pictures here,
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and can you tell me things that are different about them?
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Okay.
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In picture one, the car is blue,
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but in picture two, it's yellow.
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In picture one, it's in the night,
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but in picture two, it's in the day.
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In picture one, the little girl is holding a porch,
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but in picture two, she's holding a flag.
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Yes. In picture one,
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the woman with the yellow t-shirt is coming into the tent,
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but in picture two, she's just going out.
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Going out, yes, okay.
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And one more.
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In Nature 1, there is a house and two trees,
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but in Nature 2, there are no house.
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Just three trees?
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Yeah.
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Very good.
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Thank you very much for that.
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Let's turn the page.
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And in this one, we get to ask each other questions.
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So I'm going to start by asking you about Mary's house.
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Yeah.
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And then after that, you could ask me about Tom's house, okay?
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Okay.
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So for Mary's house, is it a big house or a small house?
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It's a big house.
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Thank you.
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And is it an old house?
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What would you think the age of the house is?
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It's five years old.
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Okay.
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Relatively new.
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How many people live inside the house?
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There are eight people.
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Aha.
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And where in the house does Mary do her homework?
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Mary does her homework in her bedroom.
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Aha.
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And for Mary's house, what color is the front door?
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It's blue.
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It's blue?
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Yeah.
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Very good.
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Now, can you ask me about Tom's house?
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And I'll give you the same answers.
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Okay.
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Is Tom's house big or small?
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Tom lives in a small house.
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How old is it?
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He is a very old house.
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It's a hundred years old.
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Okay, how many people live in that house?
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In Tom's house, there are four people living there.
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Where does Tom do his homework?
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Usually does his homework in the dining room.
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What color is the fun door?
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Tom's house has a door that is white.
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Thank you.
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Now we've got another picture story.
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I've turned this around.
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I've got five pictures.
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Can you tell me what's going on?
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Yesterday was Betty's birthday.
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She's standing on a chair to take the can of coffee.
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Suddenly she fell.
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Suddenly she fell.
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Ouch!
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It was hurt.
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So her mom helped her to take the bandage to apply the bandage.
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Yes.
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Okay, okay.
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But, and she fell asleep.
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Uh-huh.
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Her friend's coming and she...
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I don't know.
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What do you think?
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Her friends and her mom wanted to make her surprise,
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so they make a birthday party in her bedroom.
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I think so.
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It looks like they arrived while she was sleeping.
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Yeah.
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So it's a nice surprise for her when she woke up.
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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And now I've got one more part here.
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And this one, Betty's birthday party, yes.
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And now I want to talk a little bit about school.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So, what time do you usually go to school?
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I usually go to school at 15 minutes to 7.
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Okay.
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How do you get to school?
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I get to school by my mom's motorbike.
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Your mom's motorbike.
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Yeah.
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At school, what's your favorite lesson?
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My favorite lesson is English.
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Oh, that's good.
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Do you play any sports at school?
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I play basketball at school.
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Okay.
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And can you tell me a little bit about your best friend at school?
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My best friend's name is Boone.
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She's got short hair.
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Okay.
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And she's very nice.
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Aha.
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Did you see her today?
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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I think that's the end of this part.
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So I want to say thank you very much.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Let's say goodbye to the camera.
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Goodbye.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “A2 FLYERS Speaking test – CHLOE”. Las palabras que más se repiten: picture, homework, aha, birthday, fell. Este vídeo tiene 132 frases y 689 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:04. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 114 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 26 de sus 132 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
homework sustantivo/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/deberes, tarea
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
bedroom sustantivo/ˈbɛdˌɹum/alcoba, dormitorio
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/adiós, hasta luego
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/llegar, arribar
asleep adjetivo/əˈsliːp/dormido, jato
tent sustantivo/tɛnt/tienda, toldo
porch sustantivo/pɔɹt͡ʃ/pórtico, porche
ouch/ˈaʊt͡ʃ/ay, uy
bandage sustantivo/ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/venda, vendaje
dine verbo/daɪn/cenar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
go out verbosalir
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/despertarse, recordar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Are you ready to do it with me?
  • Can you tell me what's going on?
  • How do you get to school?
  • At school, what's your favorite lesson?
  • Do you play any sports at school?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis holding · is coming
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill ask · I'll give

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I've, I'm, don't. 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 homework, lesson, bedroom.

¿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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