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Part 4.
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You will hear an interview with a tree surgeon called Andrew Smith, who carries out work on trees to make sure they're healthy and safe.
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Today we're talking to Andrew Smith, who's a tree surgeon.
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Andrew works on trees to make sure they're in good condition and not likely to damage people or property.
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How did you become a tree surgeon, Andrew?
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My dad's a tree surgeon, and as a child I sometimes watched him working.
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I also learned a lot about trees, and the birds and other creatures that live in them, from him.
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After college, I joined an IT company, but it quickly became clear to me I couldn't stand being inside for hours on end every day.
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So I asked my dad if I could work with him.
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He had his own tree care firm.
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He'd always avoided putting pressure on me to follow him into the business, but he was happy to take me on.
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Can you remember the first tree you cut down?
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Yes, it was eight years ago.
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An oak tree had died and needed removing.
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The whole job took two days.
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Dad said I did well, which was nice, though by the end I was so exhausted I couldn't really appreciate what I'd done.
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Tree care is obviously very physical work, but the way you climb with ropes rather than grabbing branches
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and pulling yourself up requires techniques that can take ages to get right.
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I hadn't realised that, even though I'd watched tree surgeons working.
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Do you enjoy working with your father?
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Yes, we're not that different in some ways.
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He's very thorough, he tries not to leave anything to chance, but if problems occur, which happens when you work with trees, he doesn't panic.
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And I think he's passed all that on to me.
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What I'm not always so good at, and I admire this about him, is thinking in broader terms and judging what the best way ahead will be.
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Hopefully I'll learn.
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Tell me about a job you've done for a client recently.
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Okay.
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A client was worried that two trees in her garden might fall onto her neighbour's roof.
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One was an old pear tree, which could easily have come down in a strong wind.
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I showed the lady evidence that it was rotten and suggested removing it.
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The other tree was an ash.
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I explained that it had some diseased branches which needed cutting.
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The next morning I went back with a couple of guys and by lunchtime we'd done everything.
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The lady said she was delighted.
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She'd assumed we'd be there for a few days.
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What do you like most about your job?
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You can't do this work on your own.
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You need workmates, and this way of working definitely suits the way I am.
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There's also a sense of progression.
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You can never know everything there is to know about trees, for example.
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And I regularly do courses and read research.
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What appeals to me more than anything, though, is that we help to make public places – parks, squares and streets – safe, but also beautiful.
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And what's the worst part?
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I can't say I always enjoy the last stage of a job, clearing away the dust, leaves, broken branches and cut up logs.
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I'd rather do that than fill in the risk assessment forms, safety checklists and so on that come with every job though.
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That stuff has to be done but it's definitely not my thing.
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Tree surgeons often complain it's too hot to work or too cold
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and you can't climb trees and use powerful electrical tools if it's snowing or even raining hard.
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A varied climate has its plus points though.
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How do you see your future as a tree surgeon?
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Well the work's so tough physically it becomes too difficult after a certain age, and I have to plan for that.
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Eventually, maybe in my 40s, I'll do more of what my dad does now, the business side of things, giving advice.
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With climate change, there's a fast-growing awareness of how important trees are for the world, and tree surgeons are experts.
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Hopefully, the value of what we know will be increasingly recognised.
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And we'll get better paid, too.
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Tree surgeons generally don't earn what they deserve.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 57 frases y 720 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:01. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 179 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
surgeon sustantivo/ˈsɝd͡ʒən/cirujano, cirujana
climb verbo/ˈklaɪ̯m/escalar, subir
earn verbo/ɝn/ganar, granjear
occur verbo/əˈkɜː/ocurrir
technique sustantivo/tɛkˈniːk/técnica
assessment sustantivo/əˈsɛsmənt/evaluación, expertización
dust sustantivo/dʌst/polvo
increasingly adverbiocada vez más
log sustantivo/lɔɡ/leño, tronco
physically adverbio/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/físicamente
panic sustantivo/ˈpænɪk/pánico
vary verbo/ˈvɛəɹi/variar
complain verbo/kəmˈpleɪn/quejarse, alegar
leaf sustantivo/lif/hoja, foja (desus.)
rope sustantivo/ɹoʊp/soga, maroma

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
carry out verbo/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/llevar a cabo, llevar al cabo
cut down verbotalar
cut up verbopicar, trinchar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, I'd, couldn'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. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como surgeon, climb, earn.

¿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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