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It's lunchtime, and the cafeteria is jam -packed.
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You balance your books and your corn dog as you make your way through the crowd when someone bumps into you.
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Okay, you manage to hold on to everything but one of the books.
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And as you bend down to pick up your dog -eared copy of Hunger Games...
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Oh, your pants tear right in the back in front of everybody.
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Welcome to Wellcast.
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Today, we're exploring embarrassment.
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We'll explain exactly what your brain is doing the moment after you trip in front of everyone,
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and give you our three -step method for brushing it off and moving on.
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Are you ready?
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Like many of the emotions you experience daily, embarrassment is a biological reaction.
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drilled into our brains by generation after generation of embarrassed ancestors.
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Embarrassment occurs in a boomerang -shaped region right behind the eyes called, get ready for this, pregenual anterior cingulate cortex.
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Okay, that's a mouthful, but you can just remember it as PAC.
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You know, like, PAC my belongings, I am moving to Canada and never returning, I am so embarrassed.
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Researchers at UC Berkeley discovered that the pack lights up whenever someone's embarrassed.
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They did this in an experiment where they forced subjects to, get this, sing the temptation song,
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My Girl, acapella, and then watch a video of their performances.
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Cruel, right?
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Activity in pack shot up and corresponded with sweaty hands, racing heartbeats, and general expressions of, oh my god, this is horrible.
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That's where we come in.
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It's time for our three tips to getting over embarrassment?
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Step one, force yourself not to be the center of the universe.
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You need to convince yourself that whatever just happened isn't as big a deal as your mind is rapidly making it.
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Odds are it isn't.
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In fact, there's a tested scientific principle called the spotlight effect
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that states that other people don't notice nearly as many of your guffaws as you think they do.
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One experiment that tested this had a bunch of college students wear bright yellow
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Barry Manilow and Blazin t -shirts to an introductory psych course.
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Afterwards the students were asked how many of their classmates they thought noticed the ugly t -shirt.
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Invariably the guest number was much much higher than the actual number.
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So first things first take a deep breath and repeat the mantra.
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Science says it's not as big a deal as my brain thinks it is.
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Step two, don't apologize, deal with it.
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Guys, the worst thing
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you can do after calling a lot of attention to yourself is drawing even more attention by apologizing a lot.
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Instead, downplay the moment.
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If you incessantly apologize after an embarrassing incident, you're only telling others that this is a big deal and they should treat it as such.
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Step 3.
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Don't dwell.
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Change the channel.
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There's a big difference between embarrassment and shame.
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Embarrassment is often a natural and unavoidable reaction to an awkward circumstance.
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But if you continue to fixate on what happened, replaying the moment over and over again in your brain,
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the embarrassment can turn into shame and anxiety.
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You don't want to carry that around with you.
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Instead, imagine your mind as a TV and the embarrassing situation as an obnoxious sitcom that's forever in syndication.
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Change the channel and replace that awful sitcom with something positive.
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A good memory or a joke or a book that you read that you really liked.
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Anything to get rid of that junk.
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Let's recap.
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Embarrassment is a completely healthy reaction to an awkward situation.
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Force yourself to remember that this is a big deal in nobody else's eyes but your own.
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Don't apologize.
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Instead, try to downplay the moment.
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And don't replay what happened over and over again.
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Change the channel!
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Tweet us at WatchWellCast, email us at WatchWellCast at gmail .com, or leave a comment down below.
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We'll see you next time!
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How to Deal with Embarrassment”. Las palabras que más se repiten: embarrassment, brain, step, moment, embarrassed. Este vídeo tiene 62 frases y 676 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:40. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 145 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| embarrassment sustantivo | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/ | vergüenza, corte |
| apologize verbo | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | disculparse [with con], pedir(le) perdón [with a] |
| embarrassed adjetivo | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | avergonzado |
| experiment sustantivo | /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ | experimento |
| awkward adjetivo | /ˈɔk.wɚd/ | torpe, desmañado |
| replay sustantivo | /ˈɹiːpleɪ/ | repetición |
| pants sustantivo | /pænts/ | pantalón, pantalones |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | ocurrir |
| awful adjetivo | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | infumable, malísimo |
| anxiety sustantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | zozobra, ansiedad |
| horrible adjetivo | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | horrible, horroroso |
| ear sustantivo | /ˈɪə̯/ | oído, oreja |
| afterwards adverbio | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | después, consecuentemente |
| odd adjetivo | /ɑd/ | extraño, raro |
| ugly adjetivo | /ˈʌɡli/ | feo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get over verbo | superar, sobreponerse a |
| light up verbo | iluminar |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
| shoot up verbo | balear, abalear |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- That's where we come in.
- It's time for our three tips to getting over embarrassment?
- You don't want to carry that around with you.
- We'll see you next time!
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | we're exploring · is doing · am moving |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | We'll explain · We'll see |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, isn't, we'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, mouthful /ˈmaʊθfʊl/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: brush /bɹʌʃ/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, obnoxious /əbˈnɑkʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, viewer /ˈvju.ɚ/, invariably /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bli/, unavoidable /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, junk /d͡ʒʌŋk/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como embarrassment, apologize, embarrassed.
¿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.