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Good day everyone, I am your IELTS tutor Jack and welcome back to another episode of the IELTS Plus English podcast.
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It's the end of another winter, the weather is warming up, we're getting more blue sky,
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it's starting to feel like we can go to the park and maybe have a picnic,
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all those things that we do in spring. is weather.
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Now you may or may not know, I have mentioned it in a podcast before I think, I really like the weather.
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I'm really interested in the weather.
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I was really interested from a very young age and my dream job was to be a meteorologist.
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That's one of today's keywords, meteorologist, which means someone who studies the weather and the atmosphere in order to predict future weather.
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And if you want this vocabulary and expressions, don't forget you can download it for free off jacks -english .com.
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Now do remember, you have to go to the website and there's a free content section at the top.
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That's what you need to click on.
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There's the IELTS Plus podcast.
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Everything is available there from episode one to today, which is episode 39.
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So please make the most of that.
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And yeah, so weather, super interested in it still.
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I know I'm not a meteorologist, but I just still have that interest in, you know, typhoons, wind, rain,
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heavy rain, floods, all these different things.
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It's quite fascinating to me.
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So, I guess let's get into our 39th topic.
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Next episode is the last one of the season.
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Can you believe it?
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So let's do some part ones to warm me up.
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What is the weather like in your country?
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Well, I come from England and the weather in England can be quite dull.
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I think a lot of people find it on the whole, quite dull.
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But I think it's not as bad as people around the world think.
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It's actually, there are a lot of sunny days.
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You can go to the park and have a picnic and it does get quite hot in summer.
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So on the whole, I think British weather is changeable.
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Fickle, we could even say, but there are a lot of dull days.
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- Good, okay, wow, I'm using two or three vocabulary already.
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So check out the list.
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Next question, do you experience extreme weather in your country?
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Thank you.
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We are starting to experience extreme weather more and more in the UK.
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In the past, I don't feel like there was so many events.
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There were sort of one -off events.
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There was a hurricane and there were some floods and things like that and some droughts.
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But nowadays it feels like every year there's some kind of big storm, some people die, you know, there are some bigger weather events.
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Excellent, well, part two.
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So today's part two is describe your favorite weather.
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So two minutes on the clock starting now.
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I'd like to tell you about sunny weather.
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When I was young, I was a golfer.
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I played a lot of golf.
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So sunny weather, calm sunny days with a blue sky was a real blessing.
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It made golf much easier and more enjoyable.
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Outside of golf, I just loved sunny weather.
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I loved going to the beach.
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I loved having a picnic at the park.
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I loved hiking in sunny weather.
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There was such a number of activities I could do if it were sunny and clear.
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Bots when it was windy
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and rainy it was quite restrictive you know you couldn't really go outside
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and there wasn't many indoor things to do so When I think back to my childhood in England,
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right up until 21 years old, sunny weather was a real blessing and made me feel so good.
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So let me tell you a little more about sunny days.
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So in England, we don't really have any issues with pollution.
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So when it's a sunny day, the The sky is very, very clear and it's a wonderful blue colour.
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Now, it's quite a rare occasion to have that kind of day in England.
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It's not a not every day kind of thing.
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And but it's more likely in summer.
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The thing that I always tell my students is those images you get of sort of every day raining
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and windy in England.
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is normally the winter or kind of early spring.
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That's when we get that nasty weather.
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For me personally, these days are so wonderful because they are quite rare.
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So you're more familiar with rainy or windy, cloudy.
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So when you get this bright day, You can do all the things you want to do.
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Oh, wow.
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I guess I really like this kind of weather because I had so much more to say.
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But that was good.
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That was fairly well structured.
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I was quite happy with that.
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Nothing I would change.
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So we'll go straight on to part three.
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Has the weather changed much in your country since you were young?
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Thank you.
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Well, it's a bit difficult for me to say because I haven't been in the UK much over the past 12 years,
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but I will try my best.
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When I was young, I feel like there weren't that many sunny days,
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and particularly the summer wasn't that hot.
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But the winters definitely got very cold.
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I clearly remember as a child, We would normally get a few snowy days in winter, and it really did get cold.
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We even had some white Christmases.
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Nowadays, however, definitely those days are gone.
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We seem to get very hot summers, sometimes really prolonged periods of very hot or sweltering weather.
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And in the winter, it just doesn't get that cold.
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Snow is very rare.
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So, yeah, I think there have been some changes.
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mainly related to temperature.
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Excellent.
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Part three, second question.
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Do you think weather affects people's mood or behaviour?
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I think it absolutely affects people's mood and behavior.
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I think that when we have a prolonged period of cold weather, particularly overcast weather where we can't see the sun,
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people start to feel a bit down.
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It does have that effect.
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Whereas a wonderful bright day like today, people just feel a bit more cheerful.
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And especially when you wake up and it's quite nice and warm, it's not too cold in the morning.
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I think people tend to feel a bit better.
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Now for me personally, I'm definitely difficult things for me in England was sometimes in winter,
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waking up every single day and it's
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rainy and windy outside so that was a really hard thing to wake up to every day.
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Good, okay, final question.
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Why do people live in places with extreme weather?
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This is a really tricky question.
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I'm not sure.
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I don't know really, because when I think about these places that come to my mind,
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for example, North Russia, which is freezing cold,
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you know, you look down towards these places that experience lots of...
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strong winds, typhoons, hurricanes.
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There's a lot of places that experience extreme weather.
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And I think really, why do people live in places like that?
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It's not, they don't really have a choice either.
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they don't have the money to move somewhere more desirable, or that's where they were born and they grew up in, so that's what they're familiar with.
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So I don't think people ever choose to do that.
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I don't think there's some opportunity,
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but we kind of have to deal with the hand that we're dealt for most of us.
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So yeah, I think that's why they live in these places.
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Excellent.
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That was quite a tricky question actually, that last one.
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Because honestly, I don't know.
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So if you get those kind of questions in IELTS, you just have to speculate.
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You just have to guess.
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And you can be very honest with the examiner.
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You can say, I don't really know to be honest.
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But after that, you must speculate.
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You must make some kind of guess why.
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Good.
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Okay.
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Well, another topic that I really liked.
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The final topic of the season, which will be next week, is urbanization.
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So that's you.
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Remember, this whole thing has been alphabetical order.
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So we started with animals and we finished with urbanization, you.
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There's no other topics after that.
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But as I said, I may come back for a few bonus episodes.
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So actually, yeah, if you have any requests for topics I haven't covered,
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to do some bonus episodes for you.
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So that's everything I have for you today.
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Thank you so much if you made it to here and of course please hit that like button, subscribe and become part of the IELTS Plus community.
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Have a wonderful week, study very hard and I'll see you next Wednesday for our final topic.
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Bye -bye.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “IELTS English Podcast - Speaking Topic: Weather”. Las palabras que más se repiten: weather, sunny, England, topic, winter. Este vídeo tiene 145 frases y 1482 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:38. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 139 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| sunny adjetivo | /ˈsʌni/ | asoleado, soleado |
| windy adjetivo | /ˈwɪn.di/ | ventoso |
| meteorologist sustantivo | /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɒ.lə.dʒɪst/ | meteorólogo |
| rainy adjetivo | /ˈɹeɪni/ | lluvioso, pluvioso |
| picnic sustantivo | /ˈpɪknɪk/ | jira, pícnic |
| dull adjetivo | /dʌl/ | romo, embotado |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| prolong verbo | /pɹoʊˈlɑŋ/ | prolongar |
| speculate verbo | /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/ | especular, elucubrar |
| urbanization sustantivo | urbanización | |
| typhoon sustantivo | /taɪˈfun/ | tifón |
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| tricky adjetivo | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | dificultoso, chungo |
| blessing sustantivo | /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/ | bendición |
| hurricane sustantivo | /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/ | huracán |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I'm really interested in the weather.
- That's what you need to click on.
- It's quite fascinating to me.
- What is the weather like in your country?
- Do you think weather affects people's mood or behaviour?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have mentioned · haven't been · have been |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | meteorologist, which means · today, which is · Russia, which is |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, haven't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: meteorologist /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɒ.lə.dʒɪst/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, desirable /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, overcast /ˈoʊvɚ.kæst/, restrictive /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, desirable /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: meteorologist /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɒ.lə.dʒɪst/, changeable /ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/, enjoyable /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/
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 sunny, windy, meteorologist.
¿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.