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Hello, let's bake a cake today.
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In today's video I am going to bake a birthday cake and you are going to learn English by listening and watching.
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This is called Comprehensible Input and it's the best way to learn a language.
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It is the natural way to learn a language.
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It is how you learned your mother tongue as a child.
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This weekend is a big weekend in my family.
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It is my husband, my husband's birthday and it's my mom's birthday.
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So they share a birthday, the 7th of April.
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They have the same birthday so I am going to make a birthday cake for both of them.
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It is also Easter weekend,
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Easter Sunday, so it is going to be an Easter birthday cake.
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So I'm going to make something like this,
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a chocolate log Easter cake with eggs,
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chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies and chocolate on top.
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First I will show you the ingredients that I'm using
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and then I'll show you the items or the things that I'm using.
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So in this log, chocolate log cake,
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first of all, self-raising flour is very important.
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Then we have castor sugar, castor sugar for sweetness.
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Now, because it is a chocolate cake,
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cocoa powder and also melt a bit of chocolate.
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So dark chocolate and cocoa powder.
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I also am using vanilla extract,
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a bit of sunflower oil and butter and then of course eggs,
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four eggs and I'm using the egg whites and the yolks in the middle.
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So that is all of the ingredients.
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Now I'm going to show you the what's the word the equipment
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so this is my baking corner my baking corner
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so here we have a mixer that's my stand mixer then
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here we have the bowls bowls mixing bowls here is the
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whisk the whisk whisk it all together here i have my measuring scales my measuring scales
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and then also baking tin baking tin
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and the parchment baking parchment let's get started the eggs have been cracked and separated
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so i separated the eggs the egg whites yolks i need 50 50 grams of sugar the eggs
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and sugar have been whisked together i'm going to pour two tablespoon a little bit of the sunflower oil in
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and a small dash of vanilla extract 50 grams of flour
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50 grams of flour poured in 15 grams of cocoa powder has been put in
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and now we whisk it all together i have whisked the egg whites
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and the sugar together and the chocolate mix
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and i'm going to fold fold this in here the cake
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is in the oven it is baking i mixed everything together
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and now i need to wait 15 minutes
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and now i need to make the icing we have icing sugar butter butter
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and the chocolate so i'm melting the chocolate in the oven
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and then i'll melt the butter with the icing sugar and mix it together
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Now I'm just going to wait and I will show you the cake
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when it is finished and Bobby are you excited for cake?
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Bobby is excited for cake.
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This is my Easter log cake.
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I put chocolate icing, mini eggs and then chocolate to look like the log.
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I rolled the cake and it's like an Easter egg cake
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and then I'm making another one number two to put here is going to be one big log
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so more icing and there's my
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finished product what do you think thank you
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so much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it i hope you learned some english words
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and also maybe how to make an easter chocolate log birthday kick lots of describing words there
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and i hope you have a lovely easter happy easter from here and i'll see you later bye
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Improve English Naturally while baking”. Las palabras que más se repiten: chocolate, cake, egg, easter, birthday. Este vídeo tiene 58 frases y 635 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:10. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 123 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 75 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| bake verbo | /beɪk/ | hornear, enhornar |
| whisk sustantivo | /ˈwɪsk/ | barrido |
| gram sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm/ | gramo |
| cocoa sustantivo | /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ | cacao |
| melt verbo | /mɛlt/ | derretirse, fundirse |
| flour sustantivo | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | harina, farina (disused) |
| powder sustantivo | /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ | polvo |
| mixer sustantivo | /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/ | batidora (amasadora) |
| parchment sustantivo | /ˈpʰɑɹt͡ʃmənt/ | pergamino |
| sunflower sustantivo | /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.əɹ/ | girasol, tornasol |
| yolk sustantivo | /joʊk/ | yema |
| ingredient sustantivo | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | ingrediente, excipiente |
| vanilla sustantivo | /vəˈnɪl.ə/ | vainilla |
| extract sustantivo | /ˈɛkstɹækt/ | extracto |
| oven sustantivo | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | horno |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is called · have been cracked · have been whisked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have been cracked · have been whisked · has been put |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir | am going to bake · am going to make · is going to be |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | I'm using · am using · is baking |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vanilla /vəˈnɪl.ə/, oven /ˈʌ.vn̩/
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 bake, whisk, gram.
¿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.