Shadowing Practice: Climate Change Debate | Prof. Bruce Pardy | Opposition - Learn English Speaking with Video

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And now look to Professor Bruce Pardee to close the case for the opposition and the debate as a whole.
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Mr. President, friends, Britons, countrymen, lend me your hearts.
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I come to praise your country, not to bury it.
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The evil that nations do lives after them.
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The good is oft lost in moral panic.
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So it is in this chamber.
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My friend LaCrosse has said that the West has brought upon the Earth the curse of climate change,
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that developing nations are victims, and the West is to blame.
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It is hard to remember what one has not seen, what life was like before,
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a century ago, or two or three, for the mass of humanity across the earth,
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a life of subsistence, hand to mouth,
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dawn to dusk, nasty, brutish, and short.
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90% in extreme poverty.
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And then, gradually, rescued by revolution.
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Not resistance, not marching in the streets, not by their revolution, but by yours.
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By the industrial revolution that raised humanity from the ditch.
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The developing embrace it, their people rise and prosper,
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which makes them victims, and the West is to blame.
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Where developing once met poor and weak,
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it now includes the largest engines on this earth, Not Ethiopia or Tuvalu.
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You know the ones.
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China, India, Indonesia, Brazil.
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Those poor and weak whose economies are larger than our own.
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Can we call China what it is?
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A wealthy, smoggy place with people spilling out from everywhere.
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Oh, the people!
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Two score of them, two score, for everyone at home.
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And each a source of climate change.
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Yes, so small a source, you say.
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Yes, a modest carbon print from each.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten, times ten. and still not done.
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The developing countries are victims, and the West is to blame.
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The developing contribute more than half, have done so for a decade.
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The sky cares not how much from each.
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What matters is the total.
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from developing two-thirds and then three-quarters, and on and up we go, enough.
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Except developing countries are victims and the West is there to blame.
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The West has no right, they say, no right to save us all.
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No tit for tat, that's tyranny.
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To seek a quid pro quo to save the Earth may be just.
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They will not restrain themselves, for they are just developing.
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I am naive.
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I thought the cause was climate change.
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I see now it is not the gases in the sky, but blaming that we seek.
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The world will burn. So be it.
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For we have done the more important thing.
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Confessed our father's sins.
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Called developing nations victims.
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And blamed them on the West.
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One year ago, I went to see a piece of history.
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The source, the start, the first rumbling of the other revolution your country did bring to the world.
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Perhaps the best idea it has ever seen, no less so than coal and steam.
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A piece of paper where it all started.
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Under glass, the Magna Carta.
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The beginning of the rule of law.
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What does it mean, this rule of law?
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So many things, but here is one.
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Responsibility for our own actions.
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Punish not the son for the sins of his father, or his grandfather, or his great, great, great, great.
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our Western debt?
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There's no such thing.
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To seek rights and wrongs in history, to see whose lineage is owed and owes.
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Oh, to be a man whose lineage is free from sin.
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Name one, just one, who has not somewhere in his line Wrongs done by and to and on behalf.
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Surrender this, this counting up on ledgers of the past, reparations, apologies, accounting on behalf of people long dead,
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who lived in different times.
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We know not of their lives, the judgments that they made.
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We should start from where we are, deal with what we have, deal with people here and now,
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the ones who are alive, with intent to act within a deal to save the earth,
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with rules that apply equally to every nation.
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If climate change is as you say,
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no trifling thing but end of days,
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the answer is clear for all to say.
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For every country, keep its emissions to itself.
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For every nation, net emissions should be none.
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If not done by all, not done by anyone.
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So please, vote no. If not to be,
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a yes vote has us lose both the justice of the rule of law and the climate battle too.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Climate Change Debate”. Las palabras que más se repiten: developing, ten, victims, climate, nation. Este vídeo tiene 80 frases y 762 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:31. El hablante habla despacio, unas 89 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 87 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
lineage sustantivo/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/linaje, estirpe
emission sustantivo/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/emisión
brutish adjetivo/ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/cafre, abrutado
countryman sustantivo/ˈkʌntɹimən/paisano, paisana
prosper verbo/ˈpɹɑspɚ/prosperar
reparation sustantivo/ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/reparación
restrain verbo/ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/refrenar, restreñir
rumble sustantivo/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/pelea callejera, riña
trifle sustantivo/ˈtɹaɪfəl/sopa inglesa
tyranny sustantivo/ˈtɪəɹəni/tiranía
naive adjetivo/naɪˈiv/cándido, ingenuo
confess verbo/kənˈfɛs/confesar
spill verbo/spɪl/derramar, verter
bury verbo/ˈbɛɹi/enterrar
ditch sustantivo/dɪt͡ʃ/foso, surco

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, brutish /ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/, reparation /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: reparation /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

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 lineage, emission, brutish.

¿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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