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It was Nicky's idea, but we all think it's going to be brilliant.
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As soon as the last exams are finished, we're going to decorate the main hall at school with paper streamers and Chinese lanterns and things.
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Steve had this idea of projecting photos of everyone onto a wall, like a slideshow.
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And we've got
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Joe's brother, who's a professional DJ, coming along.
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Then there are three different bands lined up to play.
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Ours is the best because we've been together longest
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And we've got a great bass player
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Although I say so myself
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So, we're on last
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It's going to be cool B Every year there's a carnival in August in London You've probably heard of it
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The Notting Hill Carnival So this year me and my friends are going again
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We went last year and we had such a fantastic time.
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It's all Afro -Caribbean with people in amazing costumes and these brilliant steel bands.
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We don't go in costume, but we do dance a lot.
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It does get quite crowded, so you have to make sure you stick together.
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And you have to watch out for pickpockets when there are so many people in the same place.
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But it's really good fun.
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It's like London becomes a different country.
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Even the police dance sometimes.
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We're going to hire a boat for the day and take it up the river.
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It's my grandparents' golden wedding anniversary, so the whole family is getting together.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing my cousins again.
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I haven't seen them for ages.
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We've got this huge picnic planned, with loads of different types of sandwiches and salads and an enormous cake.
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My dad has borrowed an ancient gramophone player, you know, what they had before CD players and some old records.
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So as we go up the river, we're going to listen to music from the time my grandparents got married, the swinging 60s.
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D. Two of my best friends have their birthday in the same week,
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so some of us have decided to have a surprise party for both of them.
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One of my friends, Sandra, has a big house and her parents say we can use it.
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They're going away, luckily.
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It's at the end of October, so we're going to decorate the house with Halloween things, you know, spiders, webs and spooky things.
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We're going to make up an excuse to get the birthday girls to come round to the house
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Say we're going to help Sandra move some stuff or something
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Then, as soon as Sandra lets them in We're going to turn the lights out and jump out at them
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We just have to make sure nobody mentions anything on Facebook And gives away the surprise
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There's a royal wedding in June one of our princes is getting married
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so it's a public holiday lots of people are having parties in squares
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and parks and places and the people in our street decided to have one too well, it's a good excuse to have a party, isn't it?
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we're all going to take out tables and chairs
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and put them together in the middle of the road we're going to stop cars coming through,
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obviously We're all going to bring different dishes and share them round
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There are quite a lot of different nationalities living on our street
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People from India, China and different African countries
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So the food should be really interesting
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It'll be good to get to know more of the neighbours too
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Celebrations”. Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 612 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:16. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 143 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 86 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| costume sustantivo | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | traje |
| carnival sustantivo | /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/ | carnestolendas, carnaval |
| cousin sustantivo | /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ | primo, prima |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | contratar, emplear |
| swing verbo | /ˈswɪŋ/ | balancear, mecerse |
| bass sustantivo | /beɪs/ | bajo |
| enormous adjetivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, ingente |
| spider sustantivo | /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ | araña |
| dish sustantivo | /dɪʃ/ | vajilla |
| salad sustantivo | /ˈsæl.əd/ | ensalada |
| borrow verbo | /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ | pedir prestado, tomar prestado |
| luckily adverbio | /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/ | afortunadamente, por suerte |
| picnic sustantivo | /ˈpɪknɪk/ | jira, pícnic |
| nationality sustantivo | /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/ | nacionalidad |
| neighbour sustantivo | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | vecino, vecina |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come along verbo | avanzar, marchar | |
| get together verbo | reunir, juntar | |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse | |
| go up verbo | subir | |
| look forward to verbo | no ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | reponer, suplir |
| take out verbo | sacar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | we've been · You've probably heard · haven't seen |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo | the best · my best |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir | it's going to be · we're going to decorate · We're going to hire |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | are going · is getting · I'm really looking |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 22 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, we've, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: dish /dɪʃ/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, slideshow /ˈslaɪdˌʃoʊ/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swing /ˈswɪŋ/, spider /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/, spooky /ˈspuːki/, slideshow /ˈslaɪdˌʃoʊ/, streamer /ˈstɹiːmɚ/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/, exam /ɪɡˈzæm/
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 costume, carnival, cousin.
¿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.