Shadowing Practice: Children's Engineering Workshops ielts listening - Learn English Speaking with Video

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The test is in four parts.
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At the end of the test, you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
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Now turn to part one.
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Part 1.
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You will hear a man phoning to find out about some children's engineering workshops.
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First, You have some time to look at questions 1 to 3.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 3.
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Hello, children's engineering workshops.
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Oh, hello.
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I wanted some information about the workshops in the school holidays.
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Sure.
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I have two daughters who are interested.
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The younger one's Lydia.
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She's four.
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Do you take children as young as that?
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Yes.
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Our tiny engineer's workshop is for four to five year olds.
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What sorts of activities do they do?
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All sorts.
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For example, they work together to design a special cover
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that goes round an egg so that when it's inside they can drop it from a height and it doesn't break.
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Well, sometimes it does break, but that's part of the fun.
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Right.
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And Lydia loves building things.
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Is there any opportunity for her to do that?
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Well, they have a competition to see who can make the highest tower.
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You'd be amazed how high they can go.
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Right.
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But they're learning all the time as well as having fun.
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For example, one thing they do is to design and build a car that's attached to a balloon,
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and the force of the air in that actually powers the car and makes it move along.
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They go really fast too.
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OK, well, all this sounds perfect.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 4 to 10.
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Now listen and answer questions 4 to 10.
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Now, Carly, that's my older daughter, has just had her seventh birthday.
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So presumably she'd be in a different group?
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Yes, she'd be in the Junior Engineers.
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That's for children from six to eight.
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And do they do the same sorts of activities?
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Some are the same, but a bit more advanced.
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So they work out how to build model vehicles, things like cars and trucks,
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but also how to construct animals using the same sorts of material and technique.
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and then they learn how they can program them
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and make them move so they learn a bit of coding they do they pick it up really quickly
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We're there to help if they need it, but they learn from one another too.
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Right.
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And do they have competitions too?
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Yes.
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With the junior engineers it's to use recycled materials like card and wood to build a bridge.
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And the longest one gets a prize.
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That sounds fun.
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I wouldn't mind doing that myself.
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Then they have something a bit different, which is to think up an idea for a five -minute movie and then film it,
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using special animation software.
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You'd be amazed what they come up with!
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And of course that's something they can put on their phone and take home to show all their friends!
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Exactly!
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And then they also build a robot in the shape of a human
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and they decorate it and program it so that it can move its arms and legs.
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Perfect.
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So is it the same price as the tiny engineers?
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It's just a bit more.
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Fifty pounds for the five weeks.
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And are the classes on a Monday too?
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days.
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The classes are held in the morning from 10 to 11.
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OK.
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That's better for me, actually.
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And what about the location?
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Where exactly are the workshops held?
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They're in building 10A.
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There's a big sign on the door, you can't miss it, and that's in Fradston Industrial Estate.
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Sorry.
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Fredston.
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That's F.
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R A D S.
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tea, O -N -E.
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And that's in Grassford, isn't it?
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Yes, up past the station.
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And will I have any parking problems there?
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No, there's always plenty available.
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So, would you like to enrol Lydia and Carly now?
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OK.
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So, can I have your full name and...
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That is the end of part one.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers to part one.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Children's Engineering Workshops ielts listening”. Las palabras que más se repiten: workshop, answer, sorts, build, questions. Este vídeo tiene 87 frases y 682 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:58. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 114 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
workshop sustantivo/ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/taller
amaze verbo/əˈmeɪz/asombrar, pasmar
decorate verbo/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/decorar, engalanar
recycle verbo/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/reciclar
attach verbo/əˈtæt͡ʃ/adjuntar, atachar
balloon sustantivo/bəˈlun/globo, vejiga
construct verbo/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/construir
presumably adverbio/pɹɪˈzuːməbli/presumiblemente, presuntamente
animation sustantivo/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/vivificación, animación
robot sustantivo/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/robot
seventh adjetivo/ˈsɛvənθ/séptimo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come up with verboingeniar, ingeniarse
move along verbotransitar, circular
think up verboingeniar, discurrir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Do you take children as young as that?
  • You'd be amazed how high they can go.
  • I wouldn't mind doing that myself.
  • You'd be amazed what they come up with!
  • That's better for me, actually.

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 hacewill be given · be amazed · are held
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe highest · the longest
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill be · will hear · will I

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como she'd, they're, you'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: amaze /əˈmeɪz/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/

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 workshop, amaze, decorate.

¿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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