Shadowing Practice: [Audio] Basic IELTS Listening - 52 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Exercise 5.
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Find the difference.
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In this part, you will hear some short descriptions of festivals.
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You will be asked to compare the information
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that you hear with similar information that you read and to underline the changes that have been made.
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Text 1.
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As you listen, read the text below and underline the three changes in the text.
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Valentine's Day On the 14th of February,
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St. Valentine's Day, a lot of people send a card to the one they love
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or someone whom they have fallen in love with.
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People usually do not sign these cards,
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and a lot of time is spent trying to guess who has sent them.
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Text 2 As you listen,
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read the text below and underline the four changes in the text.
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Easter Eggs At Easter time,
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the British celebrate the idea of new birth by giving each other chocolate Easter eggs,
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which are eaten on Easter Sunday.
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On Good Friday, bakers sell hot cross buns,
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which are toasted and eaten with butter.
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Easter Monday is a holiday,
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and many people travel to the seaside for the day
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or go and watch one of the sporting events such as football
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or horse racing text 3 as you listen please read the text below
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and underline the five changes in the text new year's eve
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New Year's Eve is on the night of the 31st of December.
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Most people stay up until at least after midnight in order to see in the new year.
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It's also the night of the year when most pubs
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and restaurants forget about their usual closing times and stay open until after midnight.
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In London, thousands of people go to Trafalgar Square to hear Big Ben chime midnight,
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and traditionally take a shower in the fountains in Trafalgar Square.
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The Christmas tree is an annual gift from Norway.
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Text 4.
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As you listen, read the text below and underline the six changes in the text.
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Pancake Day Ash Wednesday is the day in February when the Christian period of Lent begins.
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This refers to the time when Christ went into the desert and fasted for forty days.
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Although not many people give up eating during this period,
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on Pancake Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday,
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they eat lots of pancakes.
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These are made from flour,
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milk, and eggs, and fried in a hot pan.
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Some towns also hold pancake races on that day.
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People run through the streets holding a frying pan and throwing the pancakes in the air.
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Of course, if they drop the pancake, they lose the race.
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Text 5.
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As you listen, read the text below and underline seven changes in the text.
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Christmas.
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25th of December is the most important festival of the year.
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It combines the Christian celebration of the birth of Christ with the traditional festivities of winter.
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On the Sunday before Christmas,
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many churches hold a carol service where special hymns are sung.
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Sometimes you can hear carol singers singing on the streets as they collect money for charity.
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Most families decorate their houses with coloured Christmas decorations
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And they usually have a Christmas tree in the corner of the front room Glittering with coloured lights and decorations
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People put their gifts at the bottom of the Christmas tree.
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Text 6 As you listen,
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read the text below and underline eight changes in the text.
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Halloween On the 31st of October is Halloween.
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Halloween means holy evening.
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It's a more important festival in the United States than in Britain.
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Although it's celebrated by many people in the UK,
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it's particularly connected with ghosts.
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At parties, people dress up in strange costumes and pretend they are witches.
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They cut horrible faces in pumpkins and other vegetables,
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and put a candle inside,
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which shines through the eyes.
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People play difficult games, such as trying to eat an apple from a bucket of water without using their hands.
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In recent years, children dressed in white sheets knock on doors at Halloween
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and ask if you would like a trick or treat.
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If you give them something nice,
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a treat, they go away.
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If you don't, they play a trick on you,
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such as making a lot of noise or spilling flour on your front doorstep.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “[Audio] Basic IELTS Listening - 52”. Las palabras que más se repiten: text, underline, changes, pancake, Christmas. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 702 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:01. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 117 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
underline verbo/ˈʌndɚˌlaɪn/subrayar
pancake sustantivo/ˈpæn.keɪk/hot cake, pancake
decoration sustantivo/ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/decoración
fry verbo/fɹaɪ/freír
flour sustantivo/ˈflaʊ.ə/harina, farina (disused)
carol sustantivo/ˈkɛɹəl/aleluya
decorate verbo/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/decorar, engalanar
festivity sustantivo/fɛˈstɪvəti/festividad
doorstep sustantivo/ˈdɔː(ɹ)stɛp/lumbral
bun sustantivo/bʌn/bollo, panecillo
seaside sustantivo/ˌsiːˈsaɪd/costa, litoral
hymn sustantivo/hɪm/himno, salmo
pumpkin sustantivo/ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/calabaza, calabazera
spill verbo/spɪl/derramar, verter
candle sustantivo/ˈkæn.dəl/vela, candela

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
give up verborendirse, entregar
go away verboirse, marcharse
run through verboresumir
stay up verboquedarse despierto, empalmar

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 hacewill be asked · have been made · is spent
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave been made · have fallen · has sent

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, festivity /fɛˈstɪvəti/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: festivity /fɛˈstɪvəti/, 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 underline, pancake, decoration.

¿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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