Shadowing Practice: HỌC FCE1 TEST 1 PART 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Now turn to part four.
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You'll hear an interview with Trina Travos, a pop singer who is only 15.
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For questions 24 to 30, choose the best answer A, B or C.
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You now have one minute in which to look at part four.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Marina, you're 15 and you've just come back from America where you've been making records.
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What was it like?
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It was wonderful.
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I had the six-week school summer holidays and, you know, went over there for a month and then started school again.
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What did your classmates at school think?
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I just told close friends what I was doing in the States and I thought, well, if the records were successful then I'd tell everyone.
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And they were successful.
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Right.
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And my friends were very good about it, not envious or anything.
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Did you like being in the USA?
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Oh, yes.
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Most of the time it was great.
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The people are so friendly.
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Did you manage to write any songs there?
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Well, yeah, I did.
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Most of the stuff I'd done in England had been about the people closest to me.
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You know, mum, dad, my sister.
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They weren't with me in the States.
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And although I miss them, and silly things like the rain in England and fish and chips, being surrounded with new faces gave me lots of material for my songs.
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Now, your home in England is a long way from London.
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Yes, about as far as you can get.
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So, is it easy to get into the music business if you live that far away?
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Don't you have to be in London, or near a big city at least?
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No, no. We did play in London once.
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We were actually approached at a local concert, so I don't think it's impossible to get noticed anywhere.
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There are lots of record companies looking for bands, and they do go quite a long way from the cities to find them.
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I was lucky with my band, and there have been other bands like us that have been lucky as well, so you don't have to come from a huge city to be discovered.
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Now, in the USA, you did a song with someone who was a star when I was your age, David Pearson, and you hadn't any idea who he was.
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No, it was embarrassing, actually, but he was a really pleasant guy.
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Yeah?
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He was recording an album in the same studio, and he had this song that he needed someone to sing with him.
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And he asked me, and I was only too delighted to do it.
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But that wasn't the only famous star you worked with in the States, was it?
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No, there was Lance Lakatov.
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But you had heard of him?
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Yes.
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He's a bit of a hero of mine, in fact.
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And you were in his TV series?
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Yes.
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And what was that like?
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It was a really good experience.
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I hadn't done anything like that before.
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And they filmed us for three or four days, you know, and that was the end of it.
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Oh, so I thought, but they'd made some mistakes, which was such a shame, because I had to go back to the USA.
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Oh!
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I came home to England, and then they phoned up and said they had some bad camera work, etc., and had to fly all the way back and do it again.
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Actually, in the USA, your record did well, but not here in England.
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Why is that?
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Because you've never been able to get it over here in Britain.
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The record company's never had any arrangements to sell their records in Britain, so it's always just been the USA, which is nice, in a way.
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Why do you say that?
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Well, it's good to come home and get away from it.
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But is it that the company don't think your style will appeal over here?
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No, it's purely the fact they don't operate over here.
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But the company's just been sold, and the new company does operate over here.
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So maybe they will release the record.
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So, where do you see your career going?
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Will you go back to the States?
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Well, not for a while, I shouldn't think, as I have another two years at school here in England.
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I know my school friends are thinking of college, but I'm not sure that's for me, even to do music.
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Then, my agent has been trying to persuade me to do it full time, and my parents say it's up to me, but I'm happy to wait a while before that happens.
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I can still write, after all.
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In fact, one of my songs is in the American charts at the moment, but sung by someone else.
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Well, the best of luck, Trina.
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Now you'll hear part four again.
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Trina, you're 15 and you've just come back from America where you've been making records.
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What was it like?
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It was wonderful.
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I had the six-week school summer holidays and, you know, went over there for a month and then started school again.
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What did your classmates at school think?
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I just told close friends what I was doing in the States.
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and I thought, well, if the records were successful, then I'd tell everyone.
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And they were successful.
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Right.
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And my friends were very good about it.
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Not envious or anything.
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Did you like being in the USA?
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Oh, yes.
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Most of the time it was great.
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The people are so friendly.
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Did you manage to write any songs there?
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Well, yeah, I did.
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Most of the stuff I'd done in England had been about the people closest to me.
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You know, mum, dad, my sister.
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They weren't with me in the States.
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And although I miss them, and silly things like the rain in England and fish and chips, being surrounded with new faces gave me lots of material for my songs.
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Now, your home in England is a long way from London.
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Yes, about as far as you can get.
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So, is it easy to get into the music business if you live that far away?
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Don't you have to be in London, or near a big city at least?
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No, no. We did play in London once.
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We were actually approached at a local concert, so I don't think it's impossible to get noticed anywhere.
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There are lots of record companies looking for bands, and they do go quite a long way from the cities to find them.
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I was lucky with my band, and there have been other bands like us that have been lucky as well, so you don't have to come from a huge city to be discovered.
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Now, in the USA, you did a song with someone who was a star when I was your age, David Pearson, and you hadn't any idea who he was.
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No, it was embarrassing, actually, but he was a really pleasant guy.
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Yeah?
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He was recording an album in the same studio, and he had this song that he needed someone to sing with him, And he asked me, and I was only too delighted to do it.
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But that wasn't the only famous star you worked with in the States, was it?
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No, there was Lance Lakatov.
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But you had heard of him?
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Yes, he's a bit of a hero of mine in fact.
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And you were in his TV series?
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Yes.
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And what was that like?
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It was a really good experience.
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I hadn't done anything like that before and they filmed us for three or four days, you know, and That was the end of it.
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Or so I thought.
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But they'd made some mistakes, which was such a shame, because I had to go back to the USA.
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Oh!
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I came home to England, then they phoned up and said they had some bad camera work, etc. And had to fly all the way back and do it again.
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Actually, in the USA, your record did well, but not here in England.
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Why is that?
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Because you've never been able to get it over here in Britain.
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The record company's never had any arrangements to sell their records in Britain, so it's always just been the USA, which is nice in a way.
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Why do you say that?
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Well, it's good to come home and get away from it.
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But is it that the company don't think your style will appeal over here?
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No, it's purely the fact they don't operate over here.
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But the company's just been sold, and the new company does operate over here.
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So maybe they will release the record.
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So, where do you see your career going?
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Will you go back to the States?
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Well, not for a while, I shouldn't think, as I have another two years at school here in England.
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I know my school friends are thinking of college, but I'm not sure that's for me, even to do music.
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Then, my agent has been trying to persuade me to do it full-time, and my parents say it's up to me, but I'm happy to wait a while before that happens.
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I can still write, after all.
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In fact, one of my songs is in the American charts at the moment, but sung by someone else.
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Well, the best of luck, Trina.
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That's the end of part four.
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There'll now be a pause of five minutes for you to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet.
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Be sure to follow the numbering of all the questions.
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I'll remind you when there is one minute left so that you're sure to finish in time.
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That's the end of the test.
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Please stop now.
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Your supervisor will now collect all the question papers and answer sheets.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “HỌC FCE1 TEST 1 PART 4”. Las palabras que más se repiten: record, England, Usa, song. Este vídeo tiene 143 frases y 1645 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:16. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 178 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 91 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 32 de sus 143 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
chart sustantivo/t͡ʃɑɹt/chart
sheet sustantivo/ʃit/hoja, folio
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
silly adjetivo/ˈsɪl.i/bobo, tonto
chip sustantivo/t͡ʃɪp/astilla, cepa
arrangement sustantivo/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/arreglo, arreglada
pleasant adjetivo/ˈplɛz.ənt/placentero, placible
purely adverbio/ˈpjʊɹli/puramente
delight sustantivo/dəˈlaɪt/deleite, regocijo
persuade verbo/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪd/persuadir, chamuyar
surround verbo/səˈɹaʊnd/envolver, cercar
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, recoger
remind verbo/ɹəˈmaɪnd/(hacer) recordar/arrecordar, hacer acordar/arrecordar (se de)
pause sustantivo/pɔːz/pausa
supervisor sustantivo/ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/supervisor, director

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go over verbosentar, pasar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What did your classmates at school think?
  • Did you manage to write any songs there?
  • I hadn't done anything like that before.
  • Why do you say that?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúayou've been making · has been trying
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultadoif the records were successful then I'd tell · if the records were successful, then I'd tell
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorayou've just come · have been · you've never been
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebeing surrounded · were actually approached · be discovered

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 43 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you've, hadn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, supervisor /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/, envious /ˈɛnviːəs/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: pleasant /ˈplɛz.ənt/, pause /pɔːz/, supervisor /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/

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 chart, sheet, discover.

¿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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