Shadowing Practice: How to bake a cake in English - Learn English Speaking with Video

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To bake a cake, you first need to break the eggs.
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Break.
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Okay.
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What are you doing?
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You said, break the eggs.
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Break them gently.
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Oh, you mean crack the eggs.
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Crack the eggs.
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Crack.
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Hi guys.
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My name is Giovanna and in this video, I will teach you English while baking a delicious cake.
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Come with me.
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Why can't I say break?
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Because break is used for when something is fully damaged.
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snapped or in pieces like a broken plate or bone.
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Oh, I think it's better if we take a look at the receipt.
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This one?
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What for?
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No, I mean the...
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Oh, you mean the recipe, the instructions for making the cake.
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If you say receipt, you're talking about a document showing proof of payment.
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Okay, here.
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To make a strawberry cake, the recipe says we need one cup of water.
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Bye.
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one cup of water Thank you.
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Check.
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1 /3 cup of vegetable oil.
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1 /3 cup.
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This is 1 /3 cup.
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vegetable oil and three eggs okay but first we need to put oil in this thing grease the pan
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Grease the pan.
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Okay.
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check check now i will heat the oven to 350 degrees
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fahrenheit farin what fahrenheit fahrenheit fahrenheit is a temperature scale used mainly in the united states
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and a few other countries it's different from celsius
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which is more common in most parts of the world 350 degrees fahrenheit equals about 180 degrees Celsius,
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if that's more familiar.
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Oh, Fahrenheit Celsius.
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Got it.
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Now use that mixer thing to mix everything.
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This is a stand mixer.
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stand mixer because it stands by itself.
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So I will mix the ingredients using my stand mixer.
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So mix the ingredients and put the cake mess in the other things.
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You mean add the cake mix?
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This is the cake mix.
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I will also add the oil. and the water.
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Thank you.
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The recipe says to beat it in the mixer on medium speed for a few minutes.
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What's that thing?
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A tablet?
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It's called the iFlytech AI Note Air 2 and I use it for everything.
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Taking notes,
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scanning documents and writing.
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I even scanned the cake recipe from the box, and now I can cross out each step as I go.
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wow i think my students also need something like this it's wonderful
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if you want to make your life much easier i have
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placed the link to iflytech ai note air 2 in the
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description below big thanks to iflytech for sponsoring this video let's mix the ingredients on medium speed for two minutes
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Great!
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What is the next step in this recipe?
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Put the mess in the baking pan?
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Mass.
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Mass is like the weight of something and also the name of the main service in the Catholic Church.
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If you're talking about this, this is the batter.
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Batter.
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Okay.
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Cake batter is the wet mixture you get after mixing all the ingredients.
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It's what you pour into the pan before baking the cake.
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Okay, and now?
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Now I have to preheat the oven.
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Preheat?
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I have to heat the oven before putting the cake in.
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Oh, for some minutes, right?
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For a few minutes, actually.
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Some minutes is not an amount of time, but a noun phrase.
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For example, others, but you can say "bake the cake for some minutes".
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Okay, and how many time to bake it?
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You should say how long should we bake it for?
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How long should we bake it for?
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According to this chart, it depends on the size of our baking pan.
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My pan is 13 by 9 inches or about 33 by 23 If you use centimeters instead of inches,
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So we have to cook it for 26 to 31 minutes?
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Correct.
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But before you remove the cake, you have to put a stick in.
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Stick?
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This?
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Whoa!
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No, I mean those things we use to clean the teeth.
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Oh, a toothpick.
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Yes, insert a toothpick and if it comes out clean, the cake is ready.
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Okay.
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It's still under baked.
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Yeah, let's wait a bit more.
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I think it's ready now.
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Put on some gloves and grab it.
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Oh.
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uh okay um no no no no i mean those gloves
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for for food oh not gloves um oven mitts oven mitts okay
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wow now we need to put the cover cover uh this no the delicious cover on it oh uh the the
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This is the frosting.
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It's made with whipped cream.
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Remember that frosting is only for thick spreads like whipped cream.
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But you can call anything that goes on top of the cake the topping.
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Okay, let's put the frosting.
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If you use the verb put, you need to have a preposition.
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Like, let's put the frosting on the cake.
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Let's put the frosting on the cake.
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It won't make sense if you don't use a preposition.
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You can also say "frost the cake".
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Frost the cake.
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I'm frosting the cake.
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Frosting the cake.
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Oh, it's so delicious.
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Yeah, you can say it's yummy. So good.
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Yummy, tasty, delicious.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “How to bake a cake in English”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cake, frosting, fahrenheit, pan, mix. Este vídeo tiene 117 frases y 838 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:53. El hablante habla despacio, unas 94 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 18 de sus 117 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
bake verbo/beɪk/hornear, enhornar
frost sustantivo/fɹɔst/escarcha, helada
mixer sustantivo/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/batidora (amasadora)
oven sustantivo/ˈʌ.vn̩/horno
recipe sustantivo/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/receta
ingredient sustantivo/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ingrediente, excipiente
batter verbo/ˈbætə/apalear
glove sustantivo/ɡlʌv/guante, maniquete (fingerless)
preheat verbo/pɹiːˈhiːt/precalentar
preposition sustantivo/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/preposición
yummy adjetivo/ˈjʌm.i/delicioso, rico
grease sustantivo/ɡɹis/grasa
receipt sustantivo/ɹɪˈsiːt/recepción, recibimiento
vegetable sustantivo/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/verdura, legumbre
whip sustantivo/ˈwɪp/fusta, látigo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz
cross out verbotachar, tarjar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What are you doing?
  • Why can't I say break?
  • You mean add the cake mix?
  • If you're talking about this, this is the batter.
  • How long should we bake it for?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould say · should we bake
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesarioneed to break · need to put · have to preheat
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill teach · will heat · will mix
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasare you doing · you're talking · I'm frosting

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, can't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scan /skæn/, strawberry /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/, sponsor /ˈspɒn.səː/, snap /snæp/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: oven /ˈʌ.vn̩/, glove /ɡlʌv/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, verb /vɝb/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/

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 bake, frost, mixer.

¿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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