Shadowing Practice: How to Manage Your Time Better - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Are you constantly finding yourself behind at work or school?
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Do you arrive at the end of the day and realize you've accomplished nothing on your to-do list?
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Well, odds are you're not very good at time management.
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And that is not doing your psychological health any favors.
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In fact, a study published in Work and Stress found
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that workers who didn't productively manage their time felt less in control of their lives.
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Here's the good news.
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You can get better.
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Paying attention to how you spend your time will help you manage it more effectively, and we're going to help you learn how to do just that.
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Today on Wellcast, we're going to get you in control of your day with our RAC method.
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Recording, analyzing, and changing.
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Three easy steps to great time management.
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Pause and print a copy of our handy Wellcast day planner.
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Finished printing?
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Let's dive in.
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Step one, recording.
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When you wake up tomorrow, note the time in your day planner.
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As the day progresses, write down everything that you do.
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Yes, we mean everything.
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The 10 minutes you spent getting dressed, the half day of productive work, the hours you spent between social networking sites, we mean it all.
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Keep this up from the time you wake up until you go to sleep.
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Step two, analyzing.
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At the end of the day, go through the schedule and highlight any chunks of time that you don't feel were used productively.
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Pick out your five biggest time wasters in your day.
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Be honest with yourself.
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You spent a half an hour by the coffee machine talking to your co-worker.
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You spent an hour on Facebook.
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And you stared into space for 20 minutes.
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Come on, you get the picture.
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Especially focus on the time wasters at work.
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Why?
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A study published by the British Medical Journal says that workplace stress is minimized by effective time management.
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It also says that workplace stress bleeds over into home life and undermines a relaxed life at home.
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Here's the ugly part.
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Add up all the time you wasted.
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How much productive time did you blow on activities that got you no results?
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Step three, changing.
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Now it's time to come up with a way to get that time back.
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Here are three ways to change your time-wasting habits and become a better time manager.
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Prioritize.
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To-do lists are a really effective way to manage your time and your priorities.
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Limit the number of tasks you have on this list to five and assign rankings to them in order of importance.
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Declutter.
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Not only is decluttering great for your health, but you won't waste time digging around piles of stuff to find that one piece of paper that you really need.
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Check out our well cast on clutter for some helpful tips on lightening your load.
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Schedule.
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Hey, we all try to kill two birds with one stone, but odds are multitasking will actually just stress you out and delay you even more.
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Instead, set aside blocks of time for individual activities.
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For each activity, set start and stop points.
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This way your day is cleanly segmented.
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Then stick to this schedule.
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Try going one week using these tips to reduce your wasted time.
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At the end of a week, go figure out where you've improved your time management skills and how much time you've saved.
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Let's recap.
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Today you learned how to manage your time better by using our well-cast RAC method.
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You recorded, analyzed, and hopefully changed how you use your time.
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And you did this by learning how to prioritize your most important tasks, declutter your workspace to save you time,
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and you learned how to build yourself an effective schedule to block out your day.
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Hey, how did Rack work for you?
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We want to hear how much time you were wasting and how much you're saving now.
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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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “How to Manage Your Time Better”. Las palabras que más se repiten: manage, schedule, stress, spent, step. Este vídeo tiene 62 frases y 678 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:47. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 179 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| distress sustantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | distrés, distress |
| declutter verbo | /diːˈklʌtə(ɹ)/ | desbrozar, desembrozar |
| analyze verbo | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analizar |
| prioritize verbo | /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/ | priorizar |
| waster sustantivo | /ˈweɪstə/ | malgastador |
| planner sustantivo | /ˈplænɚ/ | agenda |
| workplace sustantivo | /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ | lugar de trabajo, curro |
| clutter sustantivo | /ˈklʌtɚ/ | desorden, revoltijo |
| multitasking sustantivo | multitarea | |
| chunk sustantivo | /t͡ʃʌŋk/ | trozo, pedazo |
| undermine verbo | /ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/ | socavar |
| assign verbo | /əˈsaɪn/ | asignar |
| bleed verbo | /ˈbliːd/ | desangrar |
| minimize verbo | /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/ | minimizar, achicar |
| stare verbo | /stɛɚ/ | mirar fijamente, quedarse mirando |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
| add up verbo | adicionar | |
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear | |
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse | |
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar | |
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| set aside verbo | /sɛt.əˈsaɪd/ | provisionar |
| write down verbo | apuntar, anotar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you've, we're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, minimize /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/, pause /pɔːz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como distress, declutter, analyze.
¿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.