Shadowing Practice: Five Short Plays Chapter 5 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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Slow Food Excuse me, is my food ready?
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What did you ask for?
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I asked for chicken.
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Erm, let's see, another five minutes?
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Five minutes?
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Sorry, ten minutes?
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Ten?
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That's no good.
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I must go back to my office in ten minutes.
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And what about my food?
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I asked for a burger and french fries 15 minutes ago I'm sorry,
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but there are a lot of people eating here today But how long is it going to take?
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My train leaves in 40 minutes Not long, I'm very sorry Excuse me,
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I was before these men Where is my coffee?
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And what about me?
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I asked for a sandwich and a Coke half an hour ago.
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Well, I'm before all of you.
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I asked for a pizza 45 minutes ago.
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Look here.
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In your window it says fast food.
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Yes, it does.
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Then why is it so slow?
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It isn't slow.
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But people today want everything faster and faster.
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What are you talking about?
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Look, I can't wait.
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I have to get back to work.
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And I have a meeting.
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I'm late.
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Time is money, you know.
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Where's my pizza?
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Where's my coffee? what about my chicken we want our food
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please everybody please your food is coming he's doing it
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now he sorry they the chefs are doing it now
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how many chefs have you got oh lots how many some how many exactly tell us um 12.
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your restaurant has 12 shifts well no not now we had
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one in january one in february one in march one every month for the last year
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that makes 12 well where are they now they all stopped working here why did they leave
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because it was too fast for them and how many chefs have you got now well Well, erm.. one.
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One?!
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No, sorry, that's wrong.
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I'm happy to hear it.
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We haven't got any.
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What?!
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That's right.
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There's only me here.
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Our last chef left yesterday.
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He was fed up with fast food.
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Fed up?
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Yes.
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He said to me, that's it, enough.
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No more fast food for me.
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I'm going.
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And he went.
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But what about our...
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And do you know, I'm fed up too.
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Yes, I'm really, really fed up.
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Fast chicken, fast burgers, fast french fries, fast coke, fast coffee, fast talking,
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fast walking, fast eating, fast sleeping, fast living, fast dying.
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I'm fed up with it all.
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But who is going to...
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What's the matter with everybody these days?
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Why is everything so fast?
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Come here.
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Come on.
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Look outside.
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Go on, look.
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It's a beautiful day.
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Life is beautiful.
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We can all be happy.
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But first we must slow down.
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We must take the time to live.
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Liv?
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But we have to work.
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We have lots to do.
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And we want food.
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We want fast food.
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Not slow food.
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We haven't got time to...
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Time, time, time.
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Don't talk to me about time.
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You don't understand it.
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You...
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Oh, it's no good.
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You're not listening to me.
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Hey, where are you going?
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I'm going out.
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I'm going to sit in the sun.
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I'm going to look at the sky and listen to the sea.
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I'm going to do nothing, slowly.
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But what about our food?
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What about my burger?
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You can do it.
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What did you say?
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I said you can do it.
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Behind me is the kitchen.
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In the kitchen, there's a big bag of chicken and another bag of burgers.
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You can do your own food and you can do it as fast as you like.
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Goodbye!
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But we don't!
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And have a nice day!
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Five Short Plays Chapter 5”. Las palabras que más se repiten: fast, fed, slow, burger, chef. Este vídeo tiene 103 frases y 602 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:12. El hablante habla despacio, unas 97 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 91 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 22 de sus 103 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
chef sustantivo/ʃɛf/chef
burger sustantivo/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/búrguer, burger
pizza sustantivo/ˈpi.tsə/pizza
coke sustantivo/koʊk/coque, cok
fry verbo/fɹaɪ/freír
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/adiós, hasta luego
leaf sustantivo/lif/hoja, foja (desus.)
kitchen sustantivo/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/cocina
restaurant sustantivo/ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/restaurante, restorán
slowly adverbio/ˈsloʊli/lentamente, despacio
shift sustantivo/ˈʃɪft/cambio, desviación

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get back to verboresponder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar
go out verbosalir
slow down verbodesacelerar, decelerar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What did you ask for?
  • Erm, let's see, another five minutes?
  • What are you talking about?
  • I'm happy to hear it.
  • Hey, where are you going?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis coming · are doing · I'm going
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariomust go · have to get · must slow
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirI'm going to sit · I'm going to look · I'm going to do

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, haven't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: chef /ʃɛf/, shift /ˈʃɪft/

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 chef, burger, pizza.

¿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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