Shadowing Practice: Environmental pollution - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Environmental pollution has made negative effects on the life of every living things on Earth.
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Nearly all of our achievements in the fields of industrial progress, science, and technology have been realized at the cost of our health so far.
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Even our flora and fauna have been found to be at risk of extinction.
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All this really makes us wondering whether all our gains
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and industrial civilization really enable us to climb the peaks of prosperity or simply bring us down the blind alleys of adversity.
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Many programs against environmental pollution are strenuously implemented,
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against the indiscriminate violations committed daily in the name of development.
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The environmental pollution is not only caused by the emission from nuclear tests or industries.
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The smoke from the automobiles and other vehicles, the increasing use of synthetic detergents,
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nitrogen insecticides, and fertilizers contaminate both air and water.
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The water we use to drink the vegetables are all contaminated.
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As a result, our world is suffering from a number of incurable diseases.
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Nothing in this world is immune, no life is safe and the prospect of this world is bleak.
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The factories are mostly built in residential areas, and the smoke -emitting vehicles ply through the congestion areas.
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Besides causing immense disturbances, it also leads to increasing number of case of pulmonary thrombosis and tuberculosis,
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and various sorts of brain and heart complications.
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Air pollution may cause severe lung diseases,
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brain disorder diseases, asthma etc. Soil pollution may negatively affect farm output ratio.
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It can also contaminate the groundwater.
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Noise pollution have negative effects on hearing ability.
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It can also cause deafness, tiredness, and mental losses.
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The heat generated by industries and vehicles causes thermal pollution, by raising the environmental temperature of the nearby areas.
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The birth of mills and factories is the result of the growth of industry in this machine -predominated period.
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As long as they will be there, they must emit smoke, pollute the air and hasten our end by slow poisoning.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 25 frases y 332 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:47. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 119 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 77 % 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| pollution sustantivo | /pəˈluʃən/ | polución, contaminación |
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | sufrir, penar |
| output sustantivo | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | producción, output |
| mill sustantivo | /mɪl/ | molino |
| ratio sustantivo | /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/ | razón, cociente |
| achievement sustantivo | /əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/ | logro |
| commit verbo | /kəˈmɪt/ | encomendar |
| residential adjetivo | /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/ | residencial |
| disorder sustantivo | /dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/ | desorden |
| enable verbo | /ɪˈneɪ.bəl/ | habilitar, posibilitar |
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | escalar, subir |
| generate verbo | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ | generar |
| implement verbo | /ˈɪmpləmənt/ | implementar |
| violation sustantivo | /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ | violación, vulneración |
| immune adjetivo | /ɪˈmjuːn/ | inmune |
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 | has made · have been realized · have been found |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | have been realized · have been found · is not only caused |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “th”: thermal /ˈθɜːməl/, synthetic /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/, thrombosis /θɹɑmˈboʊsɪs/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: pollution /pəˈluʃən/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, prosperity /pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/
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 pollution, suffer, output.
¿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.