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With me on Careers Talk is Jake Watson, who's an air traffic controller, making sure planes take off and land safely at a busy airport.
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Jake, welcome.
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We've got many questions emailed by our teenage listeners.
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OK.
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First, Sarah asks what you find challenging about your job.
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The job's extremely interesting, but it's not easy.
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Obviously, it involves keeping radio contact with aircraft and directing their movements.
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I also have to provide information to pilots about weather conditions, for example, so there's a lot involved.
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I get to use advanced radio communication to maintain contact with pilots.
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I also speak to air authorities to make sure planes pass safely through their airspace.
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And it's when I have to deal with all this at once that I'm really stretched.
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Ben asks how you ended up doing such an unusual job.
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I've always loved being around airports.
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After graduating in aircraft engineering, I got my private pilot's licence.
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I'd always wanted to become a commercial pilot.
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But then I was offered a job in aircraft maintenance.
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That was pressured at times, so it was good training.
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And I was lucky enough to be getting a good salary.
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But after a while, it became a bit routine, so I started looking at what else was available and saw the job advertised.
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Samantha wants to know how hard it was to get the job.
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The selection process was tough.
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I was given lots of tasks, like problem solving to test my analytical skills, which I'd been nervous about.
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To my surprise, I had no problems with them.
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I've always been good at math, which probably helped.
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Actually, I thought math would be a basic necessity for this work and that doing the job would make me even better at it.
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In fact, only straightforward calculations are involved.
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Anyway, I got through.
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Peter asks how you felt when you first took charge of landing a plane without any help.
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Yes, well, as a trainee, you're used to having someone listening to you when you're talking to pilots, but eventually you have to do it alone, of course.
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My instructors assured me that I'd had all the necessary preparation.
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I wasn't convinced, but in fact the whole thing happened almost without me realising it.
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I'd been so absorbed in what I was doing, it was only afterwards that I remembered no one had been there checking up on me.
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So it was fine.
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B asks what air controllers do when the weather's foggy.
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Well, they airport's near a river, so some days everything's covered in dense fog.
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Then the regular buzz of activity dies down, and there's just screens lighting up with wind speed reports and so on, which we still keep a close eye on.
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It doesn't mean we can relax completely.
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The fog can hang around for hours or clear within minutes.
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We make the most of those times when we're not dealing with 50 planes an hour, though.
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Now, a question from Richard.
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Are you aware of how much people hate flight delays?
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Well, controllers actually work to speed up flight departures, but I realise why people get frustrated when flights are running late.
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I know from experience, though, that it doesn't do any good.
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I do sometimes feel sorry for passengers, but the delay in departure schedules isn't something I let myself get concerned about up in the control tower.
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The departure times are decided according to the routes aircraft take, among other things, but that's hard to get that over to passengers.
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Finally, I read that air traffic controllers recently helped out with an air display at the airport.
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How did that go?
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Really well.
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We'd spent several months preparing for it.
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It was amazing how little disruption there was to flights.
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My job was talking to helicopter pilots filming the display, as well as monitoring other aircraft at the show.
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I hadn't expected to see quite such big crowds.
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It was certainly a satisfying feeling when it was over, and nothing had gone wrong.
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Thanks, Jake.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “[B2 LISTENING] - Interview with an air traffic controller "Jake Watson"”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pilot, aircraft, controller, asks, plane. Este vídeo tiene 54 frases y 675 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:49. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| controller sustantivo | /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/ | controlador, contralor |
| mathematics sustantivo | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | matemáticas, matemática |
| airspace sustantivo | espacio aéreo | |
| frustrate verbo | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustrar |
| trainee sustantivo | /tɹeɪˈni/ | practicante, educando |
| listener sustantivo | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | oyente, escucha |
| advertise verbo | /ˈædvɚˌtaɪ̯z/ | anunciar |
| disruption sustantivo | /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/ | quebranto, incidente |
| calculation sustantivo | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | cálculo, calculación |
| absorb verbo | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | absorber |
| straightforward adjetivo | /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/ | sencillo, llano |
| necessity sustantivo | /nɪˈsɛsəti/ | necesidad, menester |
| satisfy verbo | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | satisfacer |
| dense adjetivo | /ˈdɛns/ | denso |
| instructor sustantivo | /ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/ | instructor, instructora |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar | |
| get through verbo | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | aguantar, salir adelante |
| speed up verbo | /spiːdˈʌp/ | acelerar, apurarse |
| take off verbo | quitarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- We've got many questions emailed by our teenage listeners.
- I've always loved being around airports.
- I'd always wanted to become a commercial pilot.
- I've always been good at math, which probably helped.
- It doesn't mean we can relax completely.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was offered · was pressured · was given |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've always loved · I've always been |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, doesn't, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/, necessity /nɪˈsɛsəti/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: advertise /ˈædvɚˌtaɪ̯z/, buzz /bʌz/
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 controller, mathematics, airspace.
¿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.