Shadowing Practice: Heroes 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Word List.
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Medicine Take this medicine three times a day.
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Hospital.
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There are no patients in the hospital.
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Earthquake.
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We couldn't use the road after the earthquake.
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Understand.
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He wants to understand the picture.
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Quit.
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My uncle quit smoking.
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Truth.
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I will tell only the truth.
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Crash!
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The plane crashed because of bad weather.
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Visit.
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She visited my home today.
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Great!
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Those fireworks are great!
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Kid.
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The kid is on a swing.
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Player.
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She is the best sports player in the school.
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Speak.
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The girl is speaking to her brother.
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Always.
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Always brush your teeth carefully.
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Kind.
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The doctor was very kind to the sick woman.
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Plain.
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I go to Japan by plane.
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Soon.
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The meeting will start soon.
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Lesson 15 Great Player, Great Heart.
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Roberto Clement loved to play baseball.
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As a kid, he played baseball in Puerto Rico.
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When Roberto was 19, he left Puerto Rico to play in the United States.
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Roberto was a great player.
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He was also a great man with a big heart.
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At first, living in the United States was very hard.
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Roberto couldn't speak English.
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People could not understand him because he spoke Spanish.
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Some people treated him differently because he was from Puerto Rico.
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But Roberto loved baseball, so he didn't quit.
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He worked hard and played well.
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People liked him for this and because he always told the truth.
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Roberto was also very kind.
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He liked helping others.
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He often visited sick children in hospitals.
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In 1972, there was a big earthquake.
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Many people needed help.
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Their homes were gone, and they had no place to live.
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Roberto collected food, money and medicine for these people.
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He also used some of his own money to help them.
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On December 31st, Roberto got on a plane.
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He was going to visit the people he had helped in the earthquake.
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But there was a problem with the plane.
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It crashed soon after taking off.
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Roberto Clement died that day.
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Both a great baseball player and a great man were lost.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: Roberto, player, earthquake, baseball, plane. Este vídeo tiene 59 frases y 335 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:42. El hablante habla despacio, unas 90 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 86 % 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 13 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
earthquake sustantivo/ˈɝθkweɪk/terremoto
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
carefully adverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/cuidadosamente
uncle sustantivo/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/tío
plain sustantivo/pleɪn/llanura, planicie
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, recoger
swing verbo/ˈswɪŋ/balancear, mecerse
brush sustantivo/bɹʌʃ/pincel, cepillo
differently adverbio/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/diferentemente
firework sustantivo/ˈfaɪɚˌwɚk/fuego artificial
baseball sustantivo/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/béisbol, beisbol
crash sustantivo/ˈkɹæʃ/choque
smoke verbo/sməʊk/fumar, purear

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
take off verboquitarse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: brush /bɹʌʃ/, crash /ˈkɹæʃ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swing /ˈswɪŋ/, smoke /sməʊk/

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 earthquake, lesson, carefully.

¿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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