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IELTS 14.
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Test 3.
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Section 1.
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You will hear a man phoning the customer services manager of a hotel, to get information about holding a conference there.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 1 to 5.
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Listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 5.
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Hello Flanders Conference Hotel?
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Oh, hi.
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I wanted to ask about conference facilities at the hotel.
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Have I come through to the right person?
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Mm -hmm, you have.
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I'm the customer services manager.
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My name's Angela.
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So, how can I help you?
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Well, I'm calling from Barrett and Stansons.
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We're a medical company based in Perth.
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Oh yes? and we're organising a conference for our clients to be held in Sydney.
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It'll be held over two days and we're expecting about 50 or 60 people.
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When were you thinking of having it?
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Sometime early next year, like the end of January, It'd have to be a weekend.
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Ah, let me see.
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Our conference facilities are already booked for the weekend beginning January the 28th.
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We could do the first weekend in February.
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How about January the 21st?
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Ah, ooh, I'm afraid that's book two.
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Well, let's go for the February date then.
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So, that's the weekend beginning the 4th.
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Okay.
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Now, can you tell me a bit about what conference facilities you have?
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Sure.
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So, for talks and presentations, we have the Tesla Room.
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Sorry?
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Tesla, that's spelled T -E -S -L -A.
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It holds up to 100 people and it's fully equipped with a projector and so on.
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How about a microphone?
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Yes, that'll be all set up ready for you.
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And there'll be one that members of the audience can use too, for questions if necessary.
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Fine.
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And we'll also need some sort of open area where people can sit and have a cup of coffee.
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And we'd like to have an exhibition of our products and services there as well, so that'll need to be quite a big space.
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Mm -hmm, that's fine.
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There's a central atrium with all those facilities, and you can come before the conference starts if you want to set everything up.
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Great.
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And I presume there's Wi -Fi?
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Oh yes, that's free and available throughout the hotel.
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Okay.
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Would you also like us to provide a buffet lunch?
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We can do a two -course meal with a number of different options.
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What sort of price are we looking at for that?
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Well, I can send you a copy of this standard menu.
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That's $45 per person.
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Or you can have the special for $25 more.
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I think the standard should be okay, but yes, send me the menu.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, You have some time to look at questions 6 to 10.
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Now listen and answer questions 6 to 10.
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Now, we're also going to need accommodation on the Saturday night for some of the participants.
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I'm not sure how many, but probably about 25.
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So, what do you charge for a room?
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Well, for conference attendees, we have a 25 % reduction So we can offer you rooms at $135.
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Normally a standard room's $180.
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And does that include breakfast?
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Sure.
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And of course, guests can also make use of all the other facilities at the hotel.
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So we've got a spa where you can get massages and facials and so on.
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and there's a pool up on the roof for the use of guests.
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Great!
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Now, what about transport links?
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The hotel's downtown, isn't it?
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Yes, it's about 12 kilometres from the airport, but there's a complimentary shuttle bus for guests,
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and it's only about 10 minutes walk from the central railway station.
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Okay.
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Now, I don't know Sydney very well.
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Can you just give me an idea of the location of the hotel?
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Ah, well, it's downtown on Wilby Street.
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That's quite a small street and it's not very far from the sea.
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And of course, if the conference attendees want to go out on their Saturday evening, there's a huge choice of places to eat.
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Then, if they want to make a night of it, they can go on to one of the clubs in the area There are a great many to choose from.
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Okay, so if we go ahead with this, can you give me some information about how much we're looking at...
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That is the end of section 1.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: conference, hotel, facilities, questions, weekend. Este vídeo tiene 115 frases y 791 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:06. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 111 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 88 % 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

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
attendee sustantivoasistente
menu sustantivo/ˈmɛn.juː/menú, carta
atrium sustantivo/ˈeɪ.tɹi.əm/atrio
complimentary adjetivo/ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/lisonjero
kilometre sustantivo/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/kilómetro, quilómetro
projector sustantivo/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/proyector, proyectora
equip verbo/ɪˈkwɪp/equipar
buffet sustantivo/bəˈfeɪ/bufé, bufet
presume verbo/pɹɪˈz(j)um/presumir
microphone sustantivo/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/micrófono
participant sustantivo/pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/participante, partícipe
shuttle sustantivo/ˈʃʌtəl/lanzadera
massage sustantivo/məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/masaje
accommodation sustantivo/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/alojamiento, hospedaje
facial adjetivo/ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/facial, fisonómico

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Have I come through to the right person?
  • I'm the customer services manager.
  • When were you thinking of having it?
  • Ah, ooh, I'm afraid that's book two.
  • Yes, that'll be all set up ready for you.

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 hacebe held · are already booked
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill hear · It'll be · that'll be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasI'm calling · we're organising · we're expecting
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohave to be · need to be

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 19 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, I'm, that'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: presume /pɹɪˈz(j)um/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/

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 attendee, menu, atrium.

¿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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