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Hi everyone, I'm Courtney.
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Welcome to video number four in this series called How It's Made.
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In this series, I tell you how common objects are made.
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Today, I'm going to tell you how chocolate is made.
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The process to make chocolate has many steps.
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Let's look at each step together.
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Remember, if you like this video,
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Alright, let's find out how chocolate is made.
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Chocolate is a favorite food for many people.
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Chocolate can be sweet, dark, bitter, and creamy.
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The process to make chocolate is long.
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Chocolate starts with cacao trees.
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Cacao trees are trees that grow near the equator in warm places.
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The trees grow cacao pods.
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Inside each pod are cacao beans.
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These cacao beans are the start of chocolate.
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Workers collect the pods.
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They open the pods and remove the cacao beans.
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The beans are wet and white at first.
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They don't taste like chocolate yet.
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They must go through many steps.
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First, the beans are fermented.
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They sit in boxes for several days.
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The beans change flavor and color during this time.
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This part of the process is very important.
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Without fermentation, the beans will not taste like chocolate.
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Next, the beans dry in the sun.
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Workers spread them on the ground.
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The workers turn the beans every day.
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The beans must be completely dry.
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Dry beans last a long time.
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Then the beans go to a chocolate factory.
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The factory roasts the beans roasting the beans makes them
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smell like chocolate it also makes the chocolate flavor stronger after
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roasting the beans are cracked open inside each bean is a cacao nib the nibs are ground into a thick paste.
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This paste is called chocolate liqueur.
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Chocolate liqueur doesn't contain alcohol.
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It's just the name.
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Next, the factory mixes the chocolate liqueur with sugar.
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For milk chocolate, they also add milk powder.
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Machines mix and heat the chocolate.
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This makes the chocolate smooth.
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This process can take many hours.
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After mixing, the chocolate is tempered.
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Tempering chocolate is the process of heating and cooling the chocolate.
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This step makes a chocolate shiny and firm.
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It also helps the chocolate break cleanly.
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Tempered chocolate tastes better.
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Finally, the chocolate is poured into molds.
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These molds give the chocolate its shape.
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The chocolate cools and becomes solid.
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Workers wrap the chocolate bar in tinfoil or other types of wrappers.
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Then the chocolate is put into boxes
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and shipped all around the world now you can eat chocolate
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and now you know how chocolate is made thanks for watching i'm courtney have a nice day

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “🟡 How Chocolate Is Made”. Las palabras que más se repiten: chocolate, bean, cacao, process, pod. Este vídeo tiene 57 frases y 452 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:13. El hablante habla despacio, unas 87 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bean sustantivo/ˈbi(ː)n/haba, frijol
worker sustantivo/ˈwɝ.kɚ/trabajador, obrero
roast verbo/ɹoʊst/asar, rostir
temper sustantivo/ˈtɛmpɚ/temperamento, carácter
pod sustantivo/ˈpɑd/vaina, capi
flavor sustantivo/ˈfleɪvə/sabor, gusto
pasta sustantivo/ˈpɑ.stə/pasta
mold sustantivo/moʊld/moho, mufa
thick adjetivo/θɪk/grueso, espeso
crack sustantivo/kɹæk/grieta
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, recoger
powder sustantivo/ˈpaʊ.dɚ/polvo
bitter adjetivo/ˈbɪ.tɚ/amargo, acibarado
wrap verbo/ɹæp/envolver, fajar
pour verbo/poɹ/escanciar, echar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse
go through verboatravesar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, doesn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thick /θɪk/, smooth /smuːð/

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 bean, worker, roast.

¿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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