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This recording is from the British Council.
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So, we think we know how to motivate people, right?
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Offer them a reward, do this and you'll get this.
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Do this faster, earn more money.
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Do this better than everyone else, here's a promotion.
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We offer incentives when we want people to do things.
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We do it at work, at school, even at home with our kids.
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Tidy your room and you can watch TV.
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But when social psychologists test whether incentives work, they get surprising results.
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Sam Glucksberg from Princeton University, America, set people a problem to solve and told them he was going to time them to see how long they took.
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Then he put them in two groups.
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He offered one group a reward for finishing fast,
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$5 for anyone finishing in the top 25% and $20 for the person who finished the fastest of all.
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To the other group, he offered no incentive
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but he told them he was going to use their times to calculate an average time.
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The first group, the ones with the reward, solved the problem faster, you'd think, right?
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Well, no. No, they actually took three and a half minutes longer than the group who just thought they were being timed.
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Incentive didn't work.
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In fact, it made them slower.
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This experiment has been repeated with the same results many times.
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But in business, we still offer bonuses, promotions and rewards to staff.
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That's fine if we want them to do something simple, like chop wood.
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We'll pay you more if you chop the wood faster.
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An incentive works then.
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But if we want someone to do something complex,
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something creative, something where they have to think, rewards don't work.
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They might even have the opposite result and make people perform worse.
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Another study by Dan Ariely showed that the bigger the reward, the worse the subjects performed on a complex task.
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The reward made them focus so hard on the result that they couldn't think creatively anymore.
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And this all matters because more and more simple jobs will become automated.
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We'll be left with creative, problem-solving jobs that computers will never do.
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And we need to find a way to motivate people to do those jobs when we've proved traditional incentives don't work.
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So what does work?
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Giving your workers freedom.
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Freedom to work on the things they want to work on.
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Freedom to choose when, where and how they work.
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Want to work from home three days a week?
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Get up late and work into the night instead?
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Fine, just do the job well and evidence shows people who choose the way they work get results.
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Companies that give employees time during the week to work on things
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that interest them and are not part of their regular job achieve amazing things.
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Some of the big tech companies are good examples of this with ping pong tables and areas to relax in.
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This recording is from the British Council.
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To find more activities to practice your English, visit www.britishcouncil.org forward slash learn English.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “LE listening B2 A talk about motivation”. Las palabras que más se repiten: reward, incentive, result, faster, freedom. Este vídeo tiene 44 frases y 512 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:53. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 132 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
reward sustantivo/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/recompensa
incentive sustantivo/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/incentivo, aliciente
solve verbo/sɒlv/resolver, solucionar
promotion sustantivo/pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/ascenso, promoción
chop verbo/t͡ʃɑp/picar, tajar
motivate verbo/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/motivar
earn verbo/ɝn/ganar, granjear
bonus sustantivo/ˈbəʊ.nəs/bonificación, plus
worker sustantivo/ˈwɝ.kɚ/trabajador, obrero
experiment sustantivo/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/experimento
relax verbo/ɹɪˈlæks/relajar, aflojar
calculate verbo/ˈkælkjʊleɪt/calcular
psychologist sustantivo/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/psicólogo, psicóloga
tidy adjetivo/ˈtaɪ.di/pulcro, prolijo
automate verbo/ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/automatizar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get up verbolevantarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebeing timed · has been repeated · be left
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas been repeated · we've proved
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaperson who finished · people who choose

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we'll, couldn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, solve /sɒlv/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como reward, incentive, solve.

¿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.

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