Shadowing Practice: Learn English Extr@ (Episode 6.1) Aprender Inglés (Capitulo 6.1) - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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This is the story of Bridget and Annie who share a flat in London and the boys next door,
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Nick and his friend Hector from Argentina.
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Stand by for Extra.
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Today you will have a change in career which will give you more money.
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More money?
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Oh, it's my lucky day.
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Now where was I?
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99,100.
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Good, that's done.
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Now the cushions.
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In my special order, orange, pink, purple.
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Hi, Bridget.
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Oh, hi, Hector.
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Red.
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Hi, Annie.
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I'm just...
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I'm just...
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Bridget!
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Bridget, no!
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It's okay, Bridget.
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You didn't see it.
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You didn't see it!
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What are you wearing?
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Take it off!
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What?
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Your shirt!
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It's that color!
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Take it off!
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This shirt?
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What is wrong with the color?
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What's wrong with yellow?
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Don't say it!
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Don't say that color!
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Just take it off...
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and throw it out.
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OK, OK.
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Done?
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Done.
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Bridget must not see anybody wearing that colour.
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Why?
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Because that colour.. is very unlucky for me.
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And today is Lotto Day!
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Lot-a-day.
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The lottery.
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I pick five numbers.
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My numbers are 66, 11, 89, 18 and 69.
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If my numbers are the same as the lottery numbers on television, I win millions.
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I've never heard of it.
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Bridget gets very excited, but I know how to keep calm Yoga So there we are Hector
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Great I am going shopping do you need anything?
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Yes?
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Could you get my dress from the dry cleaners, please?
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dry cleaners Okay The blue ticket is on the board.
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Oh Got it.
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See you later, Bridget.
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Four, six, four, seven...
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Hector!
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Hi, Nick.
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I've just been to see Bridget.
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Yes, I can see.
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Anyway, where are you going?
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Oh, I am going shopping.
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Ah.
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Now, wait, wait, wait.
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Come in here.
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7-9-4-6-4-6-4-7, 7-9-4-6-4-6-4-7, pen, pen, I need a pen.
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7-9-4-6-4-6-4-7, paper, paper!
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7-9-4-6-4-6-4-7, whew!
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Thanks, Hector.
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What is it?
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Today, I met a girl called Emily.
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She is very beautiful.
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Long, blonde hair.
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Big.
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Yes?
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Blue eyes.
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And she is crazy about me.
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Where did you meet her?
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She was in her sports car.
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At the traffic lights.
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Oh.
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I asked her for a lift.
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She said, no. But she shouted her phone number.
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79464647. Oh, I see.
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Hey.
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Maybe she has a friend.
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Or a sister.
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Wow, yeah.
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Let's go out today.
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It's my lucky day.
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Now, it's time for the National Lottery.
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Oh, good.
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Is this my lucky day?
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And the numbers are...
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Yes!
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Oh, hello, Mother.
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Mother.
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Yes, well I'm a bit busy.
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Can I call you back?
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I've won!
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Mum, I've won!
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I must go!
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And those were this week's Bucky Numbers www.world.org What is it??
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Honey...
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Ah...
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No...
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Bridget, I can't understand you...
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Honey...
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I...
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Have won The National Lottery...
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From
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now on, it will be a life of luxury.
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Designer clothes, exotic holidays, luxury homes,
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the very best restaurants, all mixing with the stars.
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But of course, I will give a lot of money to charity.
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No more work, no more bosses.
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In fact, I'll call now and resign.
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Hello, this is Harry Bowler.
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Leave a message and I'll ring you back.
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Harry, it's Bridget.
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I resign.
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I quit.
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I'm off.
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Keep your job.
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Goodbye!
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Oh dear.
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From now on, no more bosses for Bridget.
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Bridget is the boss.
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Now, I'll just get my lucky little ticket.
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What is it?
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My lottery ticket has disappeared.
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What?
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But the dry cleaning ticket is still there.
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Hector has taken the wrong ticket.
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We'll go to the dry cleaners.
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Today was lottery day and as usual I did exactly the same thing to bring me luck.
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I brushed my hair 100 times.
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99, 100.
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I arranged the cushions in my special order.
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I did my yoga.
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Guess what?
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The good news is Bridget has won the lottery.
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The bad news is her winning lottery ticket has disappeared.
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Bridget asked Hector to collect her dry cleaning,
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but Hector took the wrong ticket.
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Got it!
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Oh dear.
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Poor Bridget.
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My lottery ticket has disappeared.
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Hey, Nick, that waitress really likes you.
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Two girls in one day.
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Call me Mr Irresistible.
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Hi, girls.
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Hi, Bridget.
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Oops!
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Your dress, Bridget, I forgot.
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I forgot, have...
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How did you collect the cleaning when I had the ticket?
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No, Hector, darling.
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You have the wrong ticket.
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I have the wrong ticket?
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Ticket?
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You have the wrong ticket.
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Now give it to me.
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Yes, I have it here, Bridget.
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You have got the ticket, Hector.
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Yes, I have got the ticket, Bridget.
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I have lost the ticket.
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You have lost the ticket, Hector!
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I have lost the ticket, Bridget.
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You've lost the ticket, Hector.
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You can't have lost the ticket!
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Emily's number is on the back!
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Are you OK, Bridget?
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The ticket you took from the board was not the dry cleaning ticket.
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It was my lottery ticket.
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My winning lottery ticket.
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Or...
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I am a multi-millionaire.
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But with no tickets!
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And you...
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You can stop smiling because this is your fault too!
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OK!
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Nick!
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Hector!
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Where have you been?
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Well, first we went to the CD shop.
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No, no, no. First we went to Leo's cafe.
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Remember the waitress?
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Oh, yeah!
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She was with us!
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Yes, and?
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Then we went to the CD shop.
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Then we went to Koeman.
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Oh.
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And then we went to the motorbike showroom.
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Yeah!
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Stop!
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So, you are going back to look for it?
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Yes, ma'am!
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And don't come back until you've found it, OK?
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OK!
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Okay!
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The ticket must be claimed by 10 o'clock tonight.
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Now get going!
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Understood?
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Understood!
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Cancer!

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Learn English Extr@ (Episode 6.1) Aprender Inglés”. Las palabras que más se repiten: ticket, Bridget, Hector, lottery, dry. Este vídeo tiene 206 frases y 912 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:19. El hablante habla despacio, unas 68 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 32 de sus 206 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
lottery sustantivo/ˈlɑtɚi/lotería
cleaner sustantivo/ˈkli.nɚ/limpiador
disappear verbo/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/desaparecer, desparecer
waitress sustantivo/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/camarera, mesera
cushion sustantivo/ˈkʊʃən/cojín, almohadón
resign verbo/ɹɪˈzaɪn/resignarse, renunciar
yoga sustantivo/ˈjoʊ.ɡə/yoga
showroom sustantivo/ˈʃoʊˌɹum/sala de muestras, salón de exhibición
blond adjetivo/blɑnd/rubio, macho
unlucky adjetivo/ʌnˈlʌki/desafortunado, infortunado
oops/ups/uy, vaya
millionaire sustantivo/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/millonario, millonaria
exotic adjetivo/ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/exótico
arrange verbo/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/arreglar, acotejar
cloth sustantivo/klɒθ/tela

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go out verbosalir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Great I am going shopping do you need anything?
  • Anyway, where are you going?
  • Where did you meet her?
  • Is this my lucky day?
  • Can I call you back?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've never heard · I've just been · I've won
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill have · will be · will give
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasare you wearing · am going · are you going
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariomust not see · must go

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: cushion /ˈkʊʃən/, showroom /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/, shout /ʃaʊt/, brush /bɹʌʃ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: resign /ɹɪˈzaɪn/, exotic /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/

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 lottery, cleaner, disappear.

¿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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