Shadowing Practice: Home Alone - The Family Orders Pizza - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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How are you kids doing, huh?
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Good?
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Lot of action around here today, huh?
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Going on vacation?
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Where you going?
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You hear me or what?
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Going on a trip?
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Where you going, kid?
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Okay, that's $122.50.
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Not for me, kid.
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I don't live here.
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Oh, you're just around for the holidays?
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I guess you could say that.
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Hey, pizza's here!
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That's $122.50.
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It's my brother's house.
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He'll take care of it.
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Hey, listen, uh...
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Frank, remember to use the red plastic...
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Are you Mr. McAllister?
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Yeah.
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The Mr. McAllister who lives here?
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Yes.
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Oh, good, because somebody owes me $122.50.
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I'd like a word with you, sir.
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Am I under arrest or something?
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No, no, no, no, no. It's Christmas time.
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There's always a lot of burglaries around the holidays.
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So we're just checking the neighborhood to see if everyone's taking the proper precautions.
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That's all.
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Oh, yeah, well, we have automatic timers for our lights, locks for our doors.
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That's about as well as anybody can do these days, right?
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Did you get some eggnog or something like that?
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Come on, Deb.
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Eggnog?
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Pizza!
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Listen, will you be leaving, uh...
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Pizza!
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Grab yourself a napkin and you're gonna have to pour your own drinks.
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Mom, does Santa Claus have to go through customs?
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What time do you have to go to bed?
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Early.
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We're leaving the house at 8 a.m on the button.
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I hope you're all drinking milk.
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I wanna get rid of it.
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Hey, don't you?
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Honey, the pizza boy needs $122.50 plus tip. For pizza?
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Ten pizzas times twelve bucks.
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Frank, you got the money, don't you?
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Come on.
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Traveler's checks.
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Forget it, Frank.
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We have cash.
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You probably get the kind of traveler's checks that don't work in France.
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Did anyone order me a plain cheese?
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Well, yeah, we did.
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But if you want any, somebody's gonna have to barf it all up, because it's gone.
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Fuller, go easy on the Pepsi.
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Get a plate.
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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What do you mean?
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Passport!
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Watch it!
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Stop it!
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No, no, let's get these passports out of here.
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You moron!
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Get them, man!
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Come here.
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You all right?
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What is the matter with you?
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He started it.
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He ate my pizza on purpose.
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He knows I had sausage and olives and onions and...
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Look what you did, you little jerk.
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Kevin, get upstairs right now.
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Why?
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Kevin, you're such a disease.
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Sure.
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Kevin, upstairs.
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Say goodnight, Kevin.
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Goodnight, Kevin.
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Now it's for dinner.
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Brother's such a like we don't know.
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Wonderwars get treated like skunks.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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This house is just crazy.
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Crazy.
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We've got all these extra kids running around.
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My brother-in-law drove in from Ohio today.
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It's just nuts.
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How come we need to bring more cheese pizzas?
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Nice tip.
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Thanks a lot.
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Thanks.
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Having a reunion or something?
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Oh, no. My husband's brother transferred to Paris last summer, and both of his kids are still going to school here, and I guess he missed the whole family.
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He's giving us all this trip to Paris for the holidays so we can be together.
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You're taking a trip to Paris?
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Yes.
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We hope to leave tomorrow morning.
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Excellent.
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If you'll excuse me, this one's a little out of sorts.
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I'll be right back.
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Don't worry about me.
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I spoke to your husband already.
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And don't worry about your home.
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It's in good hands.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Home Alone - The Family Orders Pizza”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pizza, Kevin, kid, holidays, Frank. Este vídeo tiene 112 frases y 571 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:56. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 145 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 28 de sus 112 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 13 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
eggnog sustantivo/ˈɛɡ.nɑɡ/licor de huevos, ponche de huevo
upstairs adverbio/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/arriba
passport sustantivo/ˈpæspɔɹt/pasaporte
burglary sustantivo/ˈbɝ.ɡlɚ.i/allanamiento de morada, desvalijamiento
napkin sustantivo/ˈnæpˌkɪn/servilleta, toballeta (disused)
precaution sustantivo/pɹiːˈkɔ.ʃən/precaución
timer sustantivo/ˈtaɪmɚ/temporizador
sausage sustantivo/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/embutido, salchicha
onion sustantivo/ˈʌn.jən/cebolla
buck sustantivo/ˈbʌk/buco, gamo
olive sustantivo/ˈɑ.lɪv/aceituna, oliva
pour verbo/poɹ/escanciar, echar
owe verbo/oʊ/deber, adeudar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go through verboatravesar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • You hear me or what?
  • Am I under arrest or something?
  • Did you get some eggnog or something like that?
  • What time do you have to go to bed?
  • Frank, you got the money, don't you?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohave to pour · have to go · have to barf
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónHe'll take · will you · you'll excuse
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díaswe're just checking · We're leaving · You're taking
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna have · are still going to school

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

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 eggnog, upstairs, passport.

¿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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