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There is some rubbish going around on the internet about how the numbers on these toaster dials are actually minutes.
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And it is completely, utterly untrue, and I shall now prove it.
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All these four toasters are set to two on each of their dials.
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We have the cheap toaster, beloved students everywhere.
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We have the not -so -cheap toaster, beloved of people who have just stopped being students and thought, I shouldn't buy the cheapest toaster.
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And we have the slightly more expensive toaster, for people who think that adjustable, removable crumb tray is a good feature.
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We also have the office toaster, which I've nicked from the office next door.
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All of them set to tomb, and I guarantee you none of them will pop up in exactly two minutes.
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Why?
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Because toasters don't have timing chips on them.
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They're far too cheap for that.
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What these have is a bimetallic strip.
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Two bits of metal, back to back, that heat up and expand at different rates, so the strip slowly curves.
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What you're changing with these dials is how far
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that strip has to curve before it triggers the thing that pops the toast up again.
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There we go, nowhere near two minutes, and at a completely different time to all these other toasters.
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Two minutes on the toaster's arms is absolutely rubbish, and here's the thing, it doesn't even make sense, because even if there were minutes,
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what would that do to help you?
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You still have to experiment through trial
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and error to find out how many minutes your particular type of bread needs to be in there for,
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and I'll tell you, it's way more than we've currently got.
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The office toaster?
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The one that is apparently this kind of enterprise -grade thing designed to toast your factory?
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Toast your toast quickly?
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No. Nothing at all.
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What we have here are four completely different toasters, all set to the same dial number, none of them popping up in two minutes.
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Someone is wrong on the internet, and now you can correct them.
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Where anyone like some toast?
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That's not very well done.
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It's not actually done so, is it?
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That's parable.
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Well, I'm still wrong, this toaster still hasn't popped up.
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That's how different the the dials are.
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We are literally waiting for toast to pop up now.
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There we go.
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Tom?
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Yeah?
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I think that one was two minutes.
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What, on the nose?
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I think so.
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Okay, so maybe expensive ones do have chives in them.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Do The Numbers On Toaster Dials Mean Minutes?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: toaster, toast, dial, strip, cheap. Este vídeo tiene 41 frases y 423 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:10. El hablante habla rápido, unas 196 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 10 de sus 41 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
toast sustantivo/toʊst/pan tostado, tostada
dial sustantivo/ˈdaɪ.əl/dial
strip verbo/ˈstɹɪp/remover
beloved adjetivo/bɪˈlʌvd/amado, querido
curve sustantivo/kɚv/curva
guarantee sustantivo/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/garantía, caución
nowhere adverbio/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/en ninguna parte, en ningún lugar
enterprise sustantivo/ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/empresa, destajo
experiment sustantivo/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/experimento
expand verbo/ɪkˈspænd/ampliar
chip sustantivo/t͡ʃɪp/astilla, cepa
trigger sustantivo/ˈtɹɪɡɚ/gatillo, perrillo
tomb sustantivo/tum/tumba
tray sustantivo/tɹeɪ/bandeja, charola
adjustable adjetivo/əˈd͡ʒʌstəbəl/ajustable, regulable

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
pop up verboaparecerse
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave just stopped · I've nicked · hasn't popped
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosapeople who have · people who think · one that is
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohas to curve · have to experiment · needs to be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasyou're changing · are literally waiting

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como doesn't, don't, hasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, adjustable /əˈd͡ʒʌstəbəl/, bimetallic /baɪmɪˈtælɪk/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/, curve /kɚv/, chive /t͡ʃaɪv/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como toast, dial, strip.

¿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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