Shadowing Practice: Engineers vs GIANT Egg Drop - Learn English Speaking with Video

Today we're pitting the greatest minds at CrunchLabs, - Oh man.

- against the most classic engineering challenge, finding a way to drop an egg from really, really high without breaking it.

Cause they can only build with whatever supplies they can afford.

- Nine dollars?!

- from a random store that's picked for them by the CrunchLab's spinning wheel of destiny.

- Toy engineers.

- Hello. - So I actually made a video about all the physics on how to win an egg drop about 12 years ago.

Have any of you seen that?

Wow... - I saw it, Mark.

- Thank you, Bob.

OK, so there's three arrows, you each get a color, it'll make it easy.

You're red, you're yellow, you guys are blue.

Here we go.

Wheel of ultimate destiny.

- 200! 200!

- Come on. - So Bam and Nick got $50, Adam and Danny got $150 and Danielle and Jack...

- 15 dollars?!

- 15 is crazy!

- Let's go, $150.

- There's one more catch.

You're not all going to the same store.

Why don't we start here with Team Blue, a hardware store, that's good.

- 15 dollars?!

- Yeah. Team red.

- Yeah! Easy! Easy.

- That's pretty good, and Team yellow.

- I hope you're hungry.

- There's a McDonald's hardware store, right?

- And today, the prize is a limited edition gold iPad.

In fact, only four have ever been made in history.

- I don't trust you.

- I know there's a bit of the history with the prize we've given.

The winner does get a Toyota! A Toy Yoda.

- Oh Mark. - That is a 24 carrot, goal necklace.

It's your Hawaiian Crews.

It's an iPad.

- I am an iPad kid.

- OK, grab your eggs.

The cars are waiting- Not those eggs.

That's my lunch.

- What? - Bob?

- What?! - What is that?

- Those are fake.

- No way. - These are actual bona fide ostrich- - Oh my gosh, - Bam!

- These are heavy!

- Once the ostrich eggs have been distributed, - Get the heck out of here!

- It was time for the toy engineers to purchase their supplies.

- What are we doing, dude?

- And after buckling up for safety, - Your egg-ellence.

- they tried to think of some good supplies.

- I think we want foam and stuff.

- There's the boxes that are like- - Like that you get the nuggets in?

- That they could get with their cash.

- So 15 dollars.

- 15 dollars.

- Or lack thereof.

- They're not gonna think that this is weird having this giant ostrich egg.

- But soon enough, it was time to get shopping.

- Here's a strategy, we just throw everything in here and then choose at the end.

- I feel like we want to be a little selective.

- Keep your eyes peeled for anything that looks free.

- What could be a parachute?

- Wait, we can just order on this.

- Let's go through the entire menu, y'all.

- And immediately...

- Ketchup packets!

- McDonald's team made an incredible discovery.

- They're zero dollars!

We could have infinite ketchup packets.

- Yo... - What's this?

- Bam, let's start with some foam.

- I'm sorry.

- And while the art world was full of tempting potential splurges.

- Ooh... - It's 20 dollars.

- Wait, ostrich?

- That's 45 dollars.

- This would be so perfect.

Look at this.

- How much was it?

- I don't know.

- So a roll of duct tape would be half of our budget.

- OK. - The hardware team was finding that for them, - Everything's so expensive.

- It was all a splurge.

- This is the kind of stuff we would want, but that's more than our budget right there.

- I was done with sauces?

- And it seemed like this legendary McDonald's order hack might never end.

- Like, I didn't even know McDonald's served preserves.

- I think we gotta get 10 forks, 10 knives, 10 spoons.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, 55 burgers.

- Mmm... - Until it did.

- They caught on to us.

Oh boy. - Hey, how's it going?

We kind of have a big order.

- But the hardware team found their own cheat codes.

- Can we get three of the big ones?

- How much do these cost?

- Oh those are free.

- Oh, these are free?

- Yep. - I'll just take a few more.

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Oh, the samples are free!

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I'll take a few of these.

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Anything that you're trying to get rid of?

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Hey! - Yeah, thank you so much.

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- Ultimately, all the teams found, - Can we have a big bag for this?

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We're trying to support this from a drop, - Is this real?

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- Yeah. - No way.

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- That the most efficient way to stretch their budget.

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- Yes! You're the best.

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- Relying on the kindness of strangers.

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- I was gonna see if you guys would like this?

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- A cardboard box!

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Oh my goodness, thank you.

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- Thank you so much.

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- You are an angel and a treasure.

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- And they headed home in high spirits.

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- No, I'm gonna get attached to this egg.

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- They hoped wouldn't come crashing to the ground during the first official CrunchLab's ostrich egg drop competition.

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- Welcome back!

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What did you guys get?

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- Team Michael's had foam blocks, twine, duct tape, a bunch of balloons, and some trash bags.

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- $50 buys you a lot.

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- Team hardware store got a bucket, some cardboard, some tape, a tarp, and a whole lot of junk for free.

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- What did you actually buy here for $15?

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- The tape was like a third of the budget.

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- Wow, that's a lot of ketchup.

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- And Team McDonald's, - Keep going.

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- Only a third of it.

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- Got lots of ketchup, 10 cheeseburger Happy Meals with fries or apple slices, 10 drink cups, 1 trash bag, 16 bags of ice, 2 cardboard boxes, and even more ketchup.

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- Harry Potter bag!

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You have 30 minutes.

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- 30 minutes?!

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- 30?! - Clock starts...

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Now! - Oh man.

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- The question is like, how do we attach everything together?

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- What are you thinking?

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- We've got an egg in a bucket, that's all we've got so far.

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- OK. - The problem the toy engineers are ultimately trying to solve is energy management.

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- There is a certain amount of energy holding these molecules in the shell together, Bob.

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- When the egg falls, the gravity pulling it to the ground increases its kinetic energy, and if that kinetic energy is greater than the bonding energy of the eggshell molecules holding the eggshell together, it will break on impact, which leaves you only two options to stay below the eggshell break line.

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You either reduce the kinetic energy by slowing it down in the air, like with a parachute, - Big old tripod, parachute on top.

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- or you find ways to spread out that energy over time.

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- So maybe we have to make like an outer shell with a foam core.

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- Ooh, yeah, maybe we attach the balloon to the foam core.

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- Yeah. - This is basically the whole reason for airbags, and it's also why long jumpers land in sand.

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Instead of on asphalt, you basically take longer to dissipate that energy, which keeps those harmful energy spikes much lower.

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- Mm. - You got apples in there?

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- We'd be willing to trade.

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- You can barter.

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Bartering is accepted.

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- Are you guys partial to apples?

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- Don't trade anything.

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- I know what I have that you want.

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- Is that packing tape?

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- I do want packing tape.

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- How many apples?

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- Danielle! Danielle, tape is our main resource.

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- I'm coming for your apples.

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- Oh, is this perfect or what?

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- Are you sure these aren't too stiff?

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- Well, we have balloons.

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It's gonna take a while to blow up the balloons, but...

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- We wanna do a real life test off the balcony, so we gotta make a 3.4 pound thing... out of what though?

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Out of ice?

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- Oh yeah! Ready Adam?

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- Ready. - Oh, let's observe this test.

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- Does this look good?

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- Yeah. - Crack.

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- How'd that feel, guys?

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- I think it would have survived.

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- Yeah? - I think it's done.

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- Can we borrow a bag of ice?

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- You gotta barter for it.

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- And while Bam didn't seem interested in bartering.

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- No, we're not.

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- Nicholas was so tempted, he got distracted.

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- What was that?!

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- Air compressor.

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- I'm so sorry.

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- And at this point, - Halfway!

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- No way. - The toy engineers really had to focus, so I tried to help.

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- Hey! Wait! The balloons! The balloons!

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- Oh, it came right back to me!

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I've thought of this.

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Oh, too hard.

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- OK, yeah, you can keep shooting, it's OK.

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- The CrunchLabs Build Box rapid-fire crossbow that you could build alongside me, where we learn all about the engineering principles of tension and latches.

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- You guys do know that Camp CrunchLabs is coming back, which means you can get the boxes, not just every month, but how often, Bam?

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- Every week?

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- That's right.

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- And this year, along with our most epic science explosions yet, you got another chance to win the platinum ticket, so make sure you tune in.

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- Something to keep you busy for the summer.

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Do you get nervous when you look over and see this?

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- They started getting a little closer, and I keep my balloons very far away, so...

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- It's literally taller than me.

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- There was no size constraint on this challenge.

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- Look, I don't wanna put my money on any group, but this one looks pretty good.

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What have you guys been doing?

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Where is your contraption?

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This is all I see.

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- We've worked really hard, - Worked really hard on this.

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- Look, I don't wanna pick any favorites.

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But my money's not on this crew.

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- We need to barter for tape, honestly.

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- And at this point in the build, people had gotten hungry, specifically hungry for apples.

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- Are there any apples left?

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- We need tape.

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- How much tape does this buy?

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- Three feet.

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- No! - 3 ft.

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- We only have 60!

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- But wouldn't it be so sad if you didn't get to eat an apple today?

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- There you go.

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- Get your last touches in.

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- I like that.

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- Grab the corners.

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We just need to tape- tape this like right... there.

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- How are we gonna do that?

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- Wow. - Didn't expect that, did ya?

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- Three minutes left!

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- Oh no, oh no.

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- I'm panicking a little bit.

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- Egg in. Stuff on top.

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- I don't- I'm not scared of this.

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I'm scared of the tape coming off.

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- Ignore this, Danny.

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Whoa, I said ignore it, not catch it like a ninja!

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- 10 seconds left.

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- 10 seconds?!

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- 10 seconds left!!

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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, - One!

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- OK. - They definitely don't all look the same.

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- To the mezzanine!

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- The first to present their creations to us were Bam and Nick.

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- This is Omar's first birthday.

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- Omar is inside this block of foam.

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- It'll hit the bottom of the balloons oriented by this parachute.

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- He's gonna survive.

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- This looks awfully familiar.

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In the video I did that allegedly no one watched- - What video?

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- Oh, the clip.

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- And I blew up bigger balloons and then just tied it all together with some string.

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Guess you wish you would have watched the video now, don't you?

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Bob, do the honors.

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OK, here we go, Bob.

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- It was time to get cracking.

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- Oh wow, it's pretty from down here.

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- Omar! - CrunchLab's first ostrich egg drop in, 3, 2, 1!

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- It was less than an elegant landing.

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- It's stuck in my thumb.

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- Bob!! - So I had to crack it open to see if Omar had survived his party.

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- He's alive!

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- Omar!! - Alright, we got a winner!

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- Let's go!

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- Great job.

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- So next up, could Danielle and Jack's monstrosity, - Wow...

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- do the same?

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- So we call this the Free rider.

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Most of the materials we got for free.

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- Well, the parachute is used to orient it so it lands on its feet.

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- To protect in the case of a tip, extra members coming out in all directions.

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- Ah, smart.

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This also reminds me of something that I saw in a video that again, allegedly, no one here has seen Bob.

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- Allegedly. Boy, they used a lot of the same principles.

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- Interesting.

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- Maybe we're just both smart.

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- Bob, good luck getting this up the stairs.

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I'll be down here.

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- Ooh! Woah, camera.

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Wheel of Destiny.

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- Good. - Everything's gonna be fine, kids.

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- I don't want a premature drop.

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- It's gonna be good.

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- Bob's got it.

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- It's fine.

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Everything's great, guys.

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- You got one leg that's...

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- Uh... - Uh oh.

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- Starting to get heavy.

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- Jack go help.

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- Got it. - Part of it was planning for the Bob factor.

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- Ready! - Three, - two, one, Go!

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- That was good!

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- That was graceful.

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- But was it graceful enough to have saved the life of poor fragile, - Does it have a name?

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- We never named it, no, it's a nameless egg.

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- We never named it.

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- That is intact!

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Two for two.

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- And finally we had team McDonald's.

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- Taking the trash out?

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- Yeah... - Yeah, so there's a lot of technology going on, a lot of innovation.

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- Yeah, here, get a load of our ketchup packets.

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- What is that exactly?

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- This is, this is our patented wet bag technology, and it was full of ice.

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Now it's full of water.

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- Does this have a name?

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- It's the Big Mark.

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- The Big Mark?

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- Yeah, see, it's you!

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- Remember that video I made 14 years ago about egg drops?

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- I do. - Nothing in that video resembled this even in the smallest fashion.

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- That's weird because we base this off of your video.

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- It was a blueprint for making this right here.

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- You guys are terrible note takers.

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Bob. - Take the trash out.

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- Take the sophisticated engineering out, you mean?

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- It's a pendulum.

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- That part's very off-putting.

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- We thought you'd like it.

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- OK, it was time to get serious.

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- Bob! - Yeah!

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- OK, it's so gross looking.

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- So gross.

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- From down here it's way worse.

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Just hanging there.

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- You're all crying.

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- OK, and we're back.

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OK. Alright, ready.

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Three, two, Here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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- That was so loud.

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- But was it also destructive?

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- Is Mixie OK?

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- Well, there's something wet.

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Could be ketchup.

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- And indeed, - It looks so cute!

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- Mixie had survived.

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- Wet bag technology.

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- Which left us in a bit of a predicament.

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- Good news is all of your eggs survived, bad news is I only have one gold iPad.

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And that means it's time for a three-way tiebreaker field trip.

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- And in this round, we were raising the stakes.

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So after the toy engineers did some final tune-ups on their egg drop contraptions, we all stopped to see just how high.

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- Where's Bob?

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- Up here! We're gonna drop them from up here.

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- Who's first?

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- Not us. - Them.

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- Danielle and Jack, it is.

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- Danielle and Jack's giant spike ball would be the first to be tossed off the bridge.

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- You got this, Bob.

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- As long as Bob could pull it off.

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- You gotta remember the Bob factor.

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- Count me down!

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- Three, two, one, - go!

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- And this time it was not graceful.

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- Bob the parachute!

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- Alright, that was on Bob.

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- It's oozing!

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- Indeed there were clearly no survivors.

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- Wow. - Oh my God.

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- There's so much yolk in there.

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- What do you guys think happened there?

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- The parachute was supposed to be nicely spread out before launch, but instead it was in a little clump.

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- You got to design for the Bob factor.

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One down, two to go.

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All right, Bob, ready?

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- All right, count me down!

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- Three, two, one, - Let's go!

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- Oh, that seemed pretty good.

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- That was good.

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- And indeed upon checking, - I feel no yoke.

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We're good.

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- Let's go!

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Happy second birthday, Omar.

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- Bob, bring out the Big Mark!

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- We're the only team out here with WBT.

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- What's the WBT?

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- It's the wet bag technology.

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- It's true.

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- OK, are we ready?!

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- Three, two, one!

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- Actually, I think the WBT came through.

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- Wow. It burst so that Mixie didn't.

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- But once I dug through all the trash.

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- No way! - So, to be clear, This landed on the bottom, - And hit the bag!

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- And one thing saved it!

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- WBT! - And for the final round, - I'm holding a knife.

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- we added a twist.

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- Because...

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- No! - No, our parachute, our parachutes!

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- Mark! We need that!

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- No parachutes.

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- I would be removing both the parachutes and the - Cut the sack, cut the sack!

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- No, don't, I'm not cutting the bag.

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Here we go!

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- So let's see how that changes things.

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- Are we ready?

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- We're getting an iPad, Omar.

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- Three! Two!

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One! I love the lone balloon.

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- Had Omar celebrated his final day?

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- Happy 4th birthday, Omar!

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- iPad, iPad!

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- Omar! iPad kid!

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- But could Omar match the WBT?

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- Alright, trash for the win.

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- Three, two one!

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- I think they're OK!

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- Right on the bag!

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- And although I felt liquid, - It smells like ketchup.

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- It could be WBT remnants, or it could be - Uh oh.

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Mixie, I hate to see it.

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That feels like a clean break to me.

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You know what?

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You made it way farther than anyone expected.

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Well done. Well done.

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- Thanks, Mark.

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- Congratulations, Bam and Nicholas, as promised...

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- Happy birthday.

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- Happy birthday, Omar!

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- You have...

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a limited edition...

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gold plated iPad.

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- The plate!

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The plate is...

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- More of an eye patch than an iPad.

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- Yeah... Winners pick up.

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- Yeah. - Wait, what?

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- All right.

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- See ya. - No, I don't think, I don't think that's how it works- - You guys are winners.

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You have your iPad.

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- OK, OK, here, Bam.

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- What the heck!!

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- It feels good not to waste food.

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- I love a cold burger.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 424 frases y 2824 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 16:59. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 166 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/ (sustantivo) — paracaídas. A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float…
balloon /bəˈlun/ (sustantivo) — globo, vejiga. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
trash /tɹæʃ/ (sustantivo) — basura, tlazol. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
foam /ˈfɔʊ̯m/ (sustantivo) — espuma, jabonadura. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially
hardware /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/ (sustantivo) — hardware, soporte físico. Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as…
hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (adjetivo) — hambriento, tener hambre. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
crack /kɹæk/ (sustantivo) — grieta. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
destiny /ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/ (sustantivo) — destino, destinación. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/ (adverbio) — supuestamente, dizque. According to allegation(s); supposedly, reportedly.
packet /ˈpæk.ɪt/ (sustantivo) — paquete. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
cardboard /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/ (sustantivo) — cartón, cartulina. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/ (verbo) — ignorar, desoír. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
knife /ˈnaɪ̯f/ (sustantivo) — cuchillo. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
shell /ʃɛl/ (sustantivo) — concha, caparazón. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
principle /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ (sustantivo) — principio. A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

bring out (verbo) — realzar, resaltar. To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — hala, vamos. Come along with me; join me in going.
go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuar. To continue in extent.
go through (verbo) — atravesar. To travel from one end of something to the other.
look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
look over (verbo) — revisar. To check quickly; to make a brief or cursory visual inspection of.
pick up (verbo) — coger, asir. To lift; to grasp and raise.
rely on (verbo) — depender de, atenerse a. To be confident in.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 78 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, gonna, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thumb /ˈθʌm/, thereof /ðɛˈɹʌv/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/, trash /tɹæʃ/, shell /ʃɛl/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, monstrosity /mɒnˈstɹɒsɪti/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

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	have ever been made · we've given · have been distributed
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	been made · have been distributed · was done
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo	the greatest · the most classic · the most efficient
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	was finding · was planning · were raising

¿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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