Shadowing Practice: CAE TEST30 PART2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You'll hear a woman called Harriet O 'Neill talking about a holiday tour of South Africa.
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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 two.
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Thank you.
5
I was really lucky last year to have the opportunity to visit South Africa.
6
It was absolutely the holiday of a lifetime.
7
I went with my husband.
8
He had some relatives who emigrated there recently, an uncle and some cousins.
9
So we spent a bit of time with them, which was good.
10
Oddly enough, my grandfather was actually born in Johannesburg, but he'd left before he was ten years old.
11
Still, that's always made me feel I have a connection with the country, and I've always wanted to go there.
12
The main impetus for our visit, however, was that our son's mad on sport, and his school had organised a tour,
13
so the boys in the first and second teams could play some rugby matches there.
14
Quite a few of us parents decided to go out there at the same time to watch them play,
15
which was quite scary as the South African boys all seemed so much bigger than ours.
16
But anyway, they all survived with no broken bones and we managed to have a really exciting holiday too.
17
Although we were following the same route as the school tour, we travelled independently.
18
The school used a travel agent called Rainbow Tours and they were able to make arrangements for us too.
19
We considered organising our trip through another company called Safari Holidays, but didn't use them in the end,
20
though they also had some very good deals.
21
It was an amazing country.
22
As soon as I got off the plane after a overnight flight, I was impressed by the light there.
23
It was just so clear, quite different from what we have here.
24
It was beautifully warm too, of course, but we'd been expecting that.
25
One of the best things we did was spend a weekend at a safari park.
26
That was just brilliant.
27
It was such a privilege to see so many beautiful animals in their natural habitat.
28
Black and white rhinos, giraffes, elephants, aardvark.
29
I loved seeing lions sleeping in the bush.
30
Best of all for me were the cheetahs, which we saw when we went on a night drive.
31
My husband's favourites were the hippos.
32
We saw interesting animals elsewhere as well as at the safari park.
33
We hired a car to get around, and we caught sight of lots of zebras and ostriches as we were driving along the east coast.
34
One day we broke our journey at a crocodile farm and learnt so much about them.
35
We went in January and it was a little hot for comfort at times.
36
I'm told the best time to go is April.
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It's cooler then, at night particularly, and so you've got more energy for sightseeing.
38
It's still plenty warm enough to lie on the beach in the daytime, if that's your thing.
39
We felt so relaxed during the trip.
40
I was taken aback when we got home to discover how exhausted I was.
41
I suppose we'd just done so much over a short time.
42
Anyway, we soon recovered, and I hope we'll visit again someday.
43
Now you'll hear part two again.
44
I was really lucky last year to have the opportunity to visit South Africa.
45
It was absolutely the holiday of a lifetime.
46
I went with my husband.
47
He has some relatives who emigrated there recently, an uncle and some cousins.
48
So we spent a bit of time with them, which was good.
49
Oddly enough, my grandfather was actually born in Johannesburg, but he'd left before he was ten years old.
50
Still, that's always made me feel I have a connection with the country, and I've always wanted to go there.
51
The main impetus for our visit, however, was that our son's mad on sport, and his school had organised a tour,
52
so the boys in the first and second teams could play some rugby matches there.
53
Quite a few of us parents decided to go out there at the same time to watch them play,
54
which was quite scary, as the South African boys all seemed so much bigger than ours.
55
But anyway, they all survived with no broken bones, and we managed to have a really exciting holiday too.
56
Although we were following the same route as the school tour, we travelled independently.
57
The school used a travel agent called Rainbow Tours and they were able to make arrangements for us too.
58
We considered organising our trip through another company called Safari Holidays but didn't use them in the end,
59
though they also had some very good deals.
60
It was an amazing country.
61
As soon as I got off the plane after a overnight flight, I was impressed by the light there.
62
It was just so clear, quite different from what we have here.
63
It was beautifully warm too, of course, but we'd been expecting that.
64
One of the best things we did was spend a weekend at a safari park.
65
That was just brilliant.
66
It was such a privilege to see so many beautiful animals in their natural habitat.
67
Black and white rhinos, giraffes, elephants, aardvark.
68
I loved seeing lions sleeping in the bush.
69
Best of all for me were the cheetahs, which we saw when we went on a night drive.
70
My husband's favourites were the hippos.
71
We saw interesting animals elsewhere as well as at the safari park.
72
We hired a car to get around
73
and we caught sight of lots of zebras and ostriches as we were driving along the east coast.
74
One day we broke our journey at a crocodile farm and learnt so much about them.
75
We went in January and it was a little hot for comfort at times.
76
I'm told the best time to go is April.
77
It's cooler then, at night particularly, and so you've got more energy for sightseeing.
78
It's still plenty warm enough to lie on the beach in the daytime, if that's your thing.
79
We felt so relaxed during the trip.
80
I was taken aback when we got home to discover how exhausted I was.
81
I suppose we'd just done so much over a short time.
82
Anyway, we soon recovered, and I hope we'll visit again someday.
83
That's the end of part two.
84
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 TEST30 PART2”. Las palabras que más se repiten: holiday, tour, safari, visit, warm. Este vídeo tiene 84 frases y 1070 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:59. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 134 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 |
|---|---|---|
| safari sustantivo | /səˈfɑːɹ.i/ | safari |
| aardvark sustantivo | /ˈɑɹd.vɑɹk/ | cerdo hormiguero |
| aback adverbio | /əˈbæk/ | atrás, hacia atrás |
| cheetah sustantivo | /ˈt͡ʃiːtə/ | guepardo, chita |
| crocodile sustantivo | /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/ | cocodrilo, crocodilo |
| emigrate verbo | /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/ | emigrar |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | emocionar |
| giraffe sustantivo | /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/ | jirafa |
| impetus sustantivo | /ˈɪm.pə.təs/ | ímpetu |
| ostrich sustantivo | /ˈɔs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/ | avestruz |
| sightseeing sustantivo | turismo, excursionismo | |
| oddly adverbio | /ˈɑdli/ | extrañamente, curiosamente |
| daytime sustantivo | /ˈdeɪtaɪm/ | día |
| exhaust verbo | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | agotar |
| beautifully adverbio | /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/ | bellamente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get off verbo | bajarse |
| go out verbo | salir |
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 actually born · was impressed · was taken |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've always wanted |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | them, which was |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 18 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we'd, didn't, he'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, independently /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: zebra /ˈzɛb.ɹə/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/
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 safari, aardvark, aback.
¿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.