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Part 2.
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You'll hear a guide taking a group of visitors around a museum.
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For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at Part 2.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.
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The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the collections built up over the years by the local cultural society,
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and is one of seven museums owned by the City Council.
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Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science science.
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Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.
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In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies and many others full of birds.
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Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,
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draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.
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It's called Let's Interact.
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And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.
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But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.
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Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.
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The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,
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and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.
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The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.
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It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.
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I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.
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So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.
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Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade,
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we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.
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Now, this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.
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As you can see, it's three and a half meters high and 14 meters long.
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Quite an intimidating sight.
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This Cytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.
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The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.
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Most of the neck, some of the spine, and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.
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The rest of the tail is polystyrene.
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For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.
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Now if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.
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The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the
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collections built up over the years by the local cultural society and is one of seven museums owned by the city council.
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Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science.
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Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.
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In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies, and many others full of birds.
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Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,
45
draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.
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It's called Let's Interact.
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And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.
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But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.
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Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.
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The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,
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and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.
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The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.
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It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.
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I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.
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So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.
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Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade, we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.
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Now this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.
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As you can see, it's three and a half metres high and 14 metres long, quite an intimidating sight.
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This Scytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.
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The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.
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Most of the neck, some of the spine and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.
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The rest of the tail is polystyrene.
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For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.
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Now, if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.
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That's the end of part two.
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Now turn to part three.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “CAE TEST2 PART2”. Las palabras que más se repiten: museum, collection, dinosaur, Rutland, tail. Este vídeo tiene 66 frases y 931 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:52. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 135 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| dinosaur sustantivo | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | dinosaurio |
| chronologically adverbio | /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/ | cronológicamente |
| intimidate verbo | /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/ | intimidar, amedrentar |
| lope verbo | /loʊp/ | correr a paso largo, trotar a zancadas |
| polystyrene sustantivo | /pɒliˈstaɪriːn/ | poliestireno |
| storeroom sustantivo | almacén, bodega | |
| stuffy adjetivo | /ˈstʌfi/ | mal ventilado, congestionado |
| woodcut sustantivo | /ˈwʊdˌkʌt/ | xilografía |
| boast verbo | /boʊst/ | alardear, fanfarronear |
| mummy sustantivo | /ˈmʌm.i/ | momia, chullpa |
| cellar sustantivo | /ˈsɛləɹ/ | sótano, furnia |
| undertake verbo | /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/ | emprender, acometer |
| millionaire sustantivo | /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/ | millonario, millonaria |
| metre sustantivo | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | metro |
| upstairs adverbio | /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ | arriba |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| dress up verbo | vestirse de gala, ponerse elegante |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 18 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we'll, I'm, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, polystyrene /pɒliˈstaɪriːn/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stuffy /ˈstʌfi/, spine /spaɪn/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: upstairs /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/, visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como dinosaur, chronologically, intimidate.
¿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.