Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Mock 8.5 | IELTS ZONE - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creando lección...
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So at the beginning I say, please come and take a seat.
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We're not going to do that.
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Then I say, can you tell me your full name, please?
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And then I say, can I see your ID, please?
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Have you got any ID?
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I do have my ID at home, but not here. At home?
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Well, that's not relevant. So let's begin.
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Can you tell me your full name, please?
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Yes, so my full name is Asil Bekyushupo.
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and you don't need to show me your ID.
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So we will start.
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In this first part, I'd like to ask some questions about yourself, okay?
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So let's talk about where you live now.
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Aselbek, do you live in a house or an apartment?
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Well, right now I live in an apartment.
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I think it's a two-bedroom apartment and I have three more roommates.
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Why?
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Because that way we can keep the cost of the rent down.
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So all four of us share the cost of the rent and that's why it's cheaper for us.
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And what things make your home pleasant to live in?
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Lots of different things like having an AC, air conditioning unit, that's one thing.
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And then having lots of trees nearby.
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So it creates a pleasant natural atmosphere.
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What's your favorite room in your home?
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Well, my favorite room is my room because there I usually go to bed and I wake up, get dressed, read a lot of books.
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So that's definitely my favorite room.
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Let's talk now about sports.
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Did you learn to play any sports as a child?
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As a child, I think I did learn to play football when I was way younger, probably 10 or 15, no, probably 10 or 11 years ago.
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So yeah, at the time, football was really, really popular.
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And we had an extra football class after school hours.
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So that's what I was really interested in.
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Do you think all children should do sports at school?
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Yeah, I definitely think so.
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Because nowadays, especially, lots of people are gaining, lots of young people are gaining weight over time.
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They're not doing physical activities as much as they used to do.
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So with sport classes at school, I think they can definitely become healthier.
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Which sports do you enjoy watching or playing?
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In terms of watching sports, I would say nowadays I watch a lot of UFC fights.
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It's become really popular in my country.
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A lot of boxing matches and sometimes football matches too.
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Why boxing?
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I guess because boxing became really popular in my country after some sports people won gold medals in the Olympics.
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and that's when I was practicing boxing as well so yeah that's how I became interested in boxing.
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Are there any sports you would like to try in the future?
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Extreme sports maybe like bungee jumping, skydiving, car racing.
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I did practice scuba diving recently it was really enjoyable.
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Why?
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One it was scary at first but then once I got the hang of it it became amazing.
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We dove underwater and explored coral reefs and whatnot.
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So it was scary at first, but then exciting.
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Let's talk now about feeling bored.
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Do you often feel bored?
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Yes and no. I mean, yes, because just like everybody else, I sometimes feel bored.
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But no, I don't think I feel bored as much as other people
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because I know it's a part of being human and I try to accept it naturally.
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Did you ever find school boring when you were a child?
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Not really.
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I mean, I did find school lessons boring, but not the school itself.
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The whole school experience is much more than just attending lessons.
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I used to play around a lot with my friends and do different activities other than taking part in school lessons.
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and what sort of things do you find most boring now
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now interestingly I find watching movies incredibly boring especially ever since I started reading actual books
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and novels for some reason story progression just feels really slow
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when I watch movies but if I read a book instead it feels much more alive and exciting.
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And what do you do to stop yourself feeling bored?
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I try to keep myself occupied.
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Nowadays I read books or watch some videos on social media.
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Like I'm trying to go on a diet and lose some weight so that's what I do nowadays.
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So I feel like I'm getting bored.
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Why?
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Because it's something useful and it's something I have to do. So
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if I'm gonna keep myself occupied why not also do something that's going to be useful for my body as well
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now i'm going to give you a topic uh asalbek
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and i'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes
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before you talk you will have one minute to think about what you're going to say
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and you can make some notes
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if you wish all right uh do you understand yes here is a piece of paper
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and a pen for making notes and here is your topic one second please
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uh yes i'd like you to describe a time when someone apologized to you
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all right remember you have one to two minutes for this
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so don't worry if i stop you i'll tell you when the time is up.
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Can you start speaking now please?
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Yes, all right.
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So to be honest with you, it's hard for me to remember when exactly someone apologized to me because it's,
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I feel like it's happened such a long time ago that it's difficult to remember.
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But in my memory there's one particular time which was really memorable for me.
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At the time my friend did say some things
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that hurt me really deeply and I immediately confronted him
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and told him like that's not what a friend is supposed to do.
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So the context is I was trying to start going to the gym
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and start eating healthy so I can lose some weight and get in shape and that's what I told my friends.
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So like at the end of this month this is what I'm going to do
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and as soon as I said
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that my friend just said no you're not going to do
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it like I'm your best friend I know the real you you're not going to do it.
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You say you're going it, but it's not gonna happen.
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Even if you do start taking it seriously, it's gonna fall out eventually.
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You're not gonna persist and finish what you set out to do.
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And that's when I realized words can be deeply hurtful because I realized even my own best friend doesn't believe in me.
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And then I said, I think that's not what a friend is supposed to say.
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sure I could be someone who doesn't take their goals seriously
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but at the same time I think if my friends
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and the people around me like my family members believe in me
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and they support and encourage me to do what I always want to do then I think even
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if I'm the kind of person you say you say I am then I could change
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and people have the potential to change and when I said
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that it took him a moment to realize what he just said himself
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and then he immediately apologized to me
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and he said you're right i think i was a bit too negative about your commitment to eating healthy
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and working out at the gym and i think that's what a healthy friendship is all about it's about
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making mistakes learning from your mistakes and apologizing to each other
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when you know you did something wrong and thank you yeah
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so um do you often apologize to other people
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if i feel like I've done something genuinely wrong yes
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but okay thank you all right can I have those back please yes thank you very much
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so we have been talking about a time when someone apologized to you
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and I'd like to discuss one
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or two more general questions related to this okay okay let's talk about.. let's talk about apologies in daily life.
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Can you tell me some common situations that require an apology in everyday life?
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So common everyday situations that require people to apologize, maybe when you step on someone's shoes in the subway station let's say,
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and when you're like crossing the street and you somehow bump into someone else,
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that's when you have apologize and when you're lining up at a queue
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and you overtake someone without knowing
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so i think those are the kind of situations where you'll have to apologize
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because you know we did something wrong um i don't know
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if you would agree but maybe some people find it difficult to apologize well i absolutely agree
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and i've seen it with my own eyes for some reason it feels like
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if people apologize no it feels like people have too much ego and they don't want to admit their own mistakes
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and if they apologize it makes them feel like they've done something wrong
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and even even though they've actually done something wrong they don't want to admit it
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because it makes them feel i don't know like a wrong person um so when people do apologize what makes
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a sincere apology, do you think?
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Well, words are empty if they're not accompanied by action.
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Like, you could say, I'm sorry 100 times.
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But if you don't actually try to make amends and make up for your mistake, then it doesn't mean anything.
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Like, let's say...
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But do people mean it in the moment that they say it, do you think?
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Here's the thing.
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You can only know whether they mean it
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or not by what they do afterwards
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so i don't think you can actually figure out whether
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that apology is sincere or not at the moment that's what you don't think
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that they feel sincere when they apologize i don't trust feelings i trust actions so no um let's talk about
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apologies on a larger scale now sometimes famous people
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or even politicians might make a public apology is
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that something that's important somehow well it's certainly important for them it's important for their public image
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and especially when the whole public knows that those people in power, you know, they really messed up.
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I think they should step up and apologize to the whole public for the wrong things they committed.
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But like I said, if it's just apology itself, it's just empty.
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Would you agree that that doesn't happen very often?
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Yeah, I know it doesn't happen very often because people at the top somehow they feel like
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they're above us and they don't owe us an apology for the things they did.
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Can you think of any examples when you've seen public shigas apologize?
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I think I've seen a few examples, especially in Japan.
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I remember there was one particular example where a Ministry of Energy or something,
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they bowed to the whole audience for about 15 minutes because that's how long the power outage was.
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That's how the power outage lasted.
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Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, that's what happened uh incident yeah it was a very good
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example of how even politicians should sometimes apologize uh what about
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uh whole nations uh sometimes nations apologize for historical wrongs um is
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that something that should happen do you think it's hard for me to say
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because uh if it's if it's something
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that happened long in the past then why should we apologize
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like it's not something we did well maybe it's something we may have done in the past
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but it's not something we the people of now did it right
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so why should we apologize for okay it's like it's like
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your ancestor your long last ancestor did something in the past and now you have to make up for it
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it's paying for something without actually buying it or taking it
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so what about if for example there was a genocide
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or something do you think later generations should mention it or
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or just it belongs to history um they should probably make a public apology
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and say okay uh our ancestors dead commit some atrocities let's say
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and we are deeply sorry for the harm caused
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but at the same I think we shouldn't judge current people by what people of the past did.
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Thank you very much.
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That is the end of the speaking test.
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Thank you.
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Thanks.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 179 frases y 2102 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:26. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 157 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| apologize verbo | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | disculparse [with con], pedir(le) perdón [with a] |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | aburrir |
| apology sustantivo | /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | disculpa |
| nowadays adverbio | /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ | hoy en día, hogaño |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| deeply adverbio | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | a fondo |
| sincere adjetivo | /sɪnˈsɪɹ/ | sincero |
| topic sustantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, tópico |
| everyday adjetivo | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | de diario, cuotidiano |
| scary adjetivo | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | temible, espantoso |
| commit verbo | /kəˈmɪt/ | encomendar |
| pleasant adjetivo | /ˈplɛz.ənt/ | placentero, placible |
| politician sustantivo | /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/ | político, política |
| occupy verbo | /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/ | ocupar |
| naturally adverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente, a natura |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| fall out verbo | caerse | |
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar | |
| mess up verbo | desbarajustar, desbarahustar | |
| step up verbo | aumentar, redoblar | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to do · used to play |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've done · i've seen · they've done |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | time which was · someone who doesn |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 55 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, shoe /ˈʃu/, progression /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
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 apologize, bore, apology.
¿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.