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We're in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of Shakespeare.
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We're going to be showing you around and teaching you some English along the way.
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God, Laura!
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Laura!
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You said Laura!
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Laura, push!
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Push off against that!
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Oh, Christ alive!
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And we're also going to be teaching you some of the words and idioms that Shakespeare actually invented.
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You'll notice that Shakespeare does a lot of heavy lifting in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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He is the guy here.
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Every shop has a picture of Shakespeare outside.
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The pubs are called things like The Bard.
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It is like Shakespeare Disneyland here really, which fair play, he was very influential.
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And right over there is the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Let's go have a look.
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So this is the RSC, which stands for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it's the theatre where you can see a lot of Shakespeare plays,
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and they do really interesting adaptations of them.
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It's not just the standard adaptation.
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I tried to steer the boat and I was absolutely awful.
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Like, couldn't even, like...
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My brain just doesn't work like that.
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I have no spatial awareness.
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I can't get my head around, go this direction.
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I just can't do it.
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I think when you had a go last time, we went in the bushes.
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Do you remember that?
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Yeah.
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We should be fine.
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There we go.
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Can we just keep a straight course?
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We're not.
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We're going that way.
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I'm on it.
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I'm on it.
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I'm on it.
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Don't worry nice
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laura oh my god i'm doing it now i'm doing it now just do you just
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that way no we have to go back now right we've
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been trying for about 10 minutes oh to get through this
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bridge the guy from the boat places we're okay oh god
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he's laughing right there you go there you go there you go there you There you go, there you go.
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But we're going through the wrong one.
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No, no, no, no. Oh, yeah, sorry.
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This is all we could do.
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We're going through the no entry one.
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Oh, forget it.
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Oh, forget it.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, no, there's a goat.
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Oh, no, no, they're coming with a boat, Laura.
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They're coming with a boat.
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We're OK.
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We're OK.
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Oh, God.
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They're coming to help us through the bridge.
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So we got through the bridge because that man pushed us.
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Gave us a hand.
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He gave us a hand.
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and he basically just pushed us through the bridge.
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It's really hard.
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But he said the wind conditions are really hard.
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He said the wind, he said it's very windy today so it's making it much more difficult.
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So that's the excuse I'm going for.
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Well, it's safe to say, I don't think we're very good at boating.
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I don't think it's our bag.
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I don't think it's our bag.
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Do you know what I found difficult?
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I found difficult to do like, I we were just going straight, I could do this.
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That's absolutely fine.
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But when we had to turn, I'd, like, focus on my right hand.
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And then my left hand would just kind of...
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The rudder would just be in the water.
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You've always been a bit rubbish with your left side, haven't you, actually?
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I have.
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No, genuinely.
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Genuinely.
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This left hand.
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OK, so we're by a statue of Hamlet.
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So let's learn an idiom that Shakespeare created that you can hear in Hamlet.
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My own flesh and blood.
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If someone is your own flesh and blood, they are related to you.
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So you might hear someone say, I can't betray my own flesh and blood.
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I can't betray my family.
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Here's another one from Hamlet.
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In my heart of hearts.
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And this idiom is a way of exaggerating how you truly feel.
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In your heart of hearts.
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I know in my heart of hearts I shouldn't do this, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
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Why is he stood like that?
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I can hear some geese over there, which reminds me of another Shakespeare idiom, a wild goose chase.
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If you're on a wild goose chase, you are foolishly pursuing something that is hard to get.
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The telltale sign that this is a Tudor building is these thick wooden beams here.
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So now we're going to pay the Holy Trinity Church a visit because inside there is something very, very interesting.
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So let's have a look.
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I think this is William Shakespeare's will and it's almost illegible really
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because because English is so different now and the writing was
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so different you can barely make out what it's trying to say.
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I think that's his signature there.
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MUSIC Like, I was just there then, I was thinking, like, I'm less than 10 metres away from William Shakespeare right now.
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Yeah, from the very hands that wrote the idioms that we're teaching people today, that people actually use.
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He was, like, right there.
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Yeah.
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And, like, he lived, he really lived his life and was really buried there.
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and then 500, 600, 700 years later, here we are.
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You come with this camera and it's crazy.
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And just like filming it and I'm stood right there.
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And it really helps you to connect with history, I think.
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Like Shakespeare, he's almost like a character now, isn't he?
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In a strange way.
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Yeah, like Santa Claus.
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Yeah, just like, oh, yeah, Shakespeare.
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Well, he's kind of omnipresent still in everyday life because we always reference him.
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There's always some kind of word that we say that he invented.
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He's just always around.
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It's not like someone who lived in the past and died, whatever.
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It is like Santa Claus.
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It's kind of like...
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You know when people say, like, you die twice.
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You die when the day you stop living and the day that somebody says your name for the last time.
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Shakespeare will never die, will he?
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No. These flowers are beautiful, but they might attract some bees.
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Speaking of bees, here's a good idiom that Shakespeare invented.
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The be-all and end-all.
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The be-all and end-all is the most important or crucial part of something.
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It is the all-important goal.
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When Bez's football team loses, I have to remind him that football is not the be-all and end-all.
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These houses were built in the 1500s.
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That is mental.
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So we just walked past the site of Shakespeare's family home, so where he lived with his family.
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And I asked the man, I said, how much are tickets?
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And he said, £27.
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And I said, each?
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And he said, yeah.
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So that's a little bit pricey, I feel.
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27 each, because if that's two of you, that's nearly 60 pounds to go inside the building.
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But if that's important to you, go for it.
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But I believe you can still see the outside of Shakespeare's birthplace without having to pay.
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So you can still see where he was born for free.
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But yeah, 27 I thought was quite a lot.
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I'm flagging a little bit.
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I'm flagging so I could do with a matcha.
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If you've watched my videos before i always grab a matcha
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and i can see a starbucks right across the road don't
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get hit by a car let's get a match i'm feeling quite tired today
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so here's a good idiom
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that shakespeare invented to not sleep a wink oh i haven't
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slept a wink i didn't sleep a wink it just means you didn't I can't sleep at all.
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Behind us is William Shakespeare's birthplace.
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Like I said, you don't need to pay to look at it because it's just on the high street.
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Yeah, which is very strange.
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It's just kind of here opposite a Christmas shop, weirdly.
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Well, I think in lots of towns in the UK, the town is built around the church, but I feel like this street has maybe become really Yeah, prominent.
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Popular and prominent because of the birthplace being here.
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But you don't need to pay to look at it.
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You can just look at it, but you do need to pay to go in.
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So because I'm in front of Shakespeare's house, it's only right that we learn another idiom that Shakespeare created.
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Eaten out of house and home.
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If you say, oh, he will eat me out of house and home, it means he's going to eat all my food.
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So he's going to come to my house, eat everything I have, and I will have to spend lots of money because he's eating all my food.
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I'm considering having a burger for my dinner, but all of the burgers have pickles in them.
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Shakespeare made that, didn't he?
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Yeah, he did, yeah.
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If you're in a pickle, it means that you're in a difficult situation.
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Imagine, like, you need a taxi to get home, but you haven't got any money.
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You're in a pickle.
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Ooh, thinking about ice cream has reminded me of another idiom that Shakespeare created.
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To break the ice.
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It means to dissolve a tense situation.
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Maybe you've met someone new, and you're a little bit awkward together, you don't know what to talk about, but then you make a joke,
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or you say something that relieves the tension.
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It breaks the ice, you feel comfortable around each other.
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I want an ice cream.
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That is what I'm talking about!
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We're both not very good with dairy, so we have to have vegan ice cream.
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And there was a shop that had vegan ice cream, Which is very nice.
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And I've got Biscoff sauce on it.
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And I've got raspberry sauce.
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That's the thing about Britain.
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It only needs to be about 10 degrees.
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And if the sun is out, people will be eating ice cream.
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Bez can't bite ice cream because he's got sensitive teeth, but I can.
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Is there anything I can do?
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If I bite?
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No, don't put yourself through that.
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Don't.
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Well, thank you so much for watching watching.
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If you enjoyed this video please subscribe.
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And you can find all of our amazing courses over on our website smashingenglish.com.
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And if you are a member you will receive a pdf for every video
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and in this video you'll get a pdf with all of the idioms
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that we taught you and more idioms that Shakespeare created.
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So click the join button to become a member.
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Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.
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Ta-ta-ra!

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Learn English Vlog - Visit Shakespeare's Hometown! 📜”. Las palabras que más se repiten: shakespeare, idiom, ice. Este vídeo tiene 195 frases y 1753 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:19. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 132 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
idiom sustantivo/ˈɪdiəm/dicción, lenguaje
invent verbo/ɪnˈvɛnt/inventar
birthplace sustantivo/ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/lugar de nacimiento, lugar natal
pickle sustantivo/ˈpɪkəl/encurtido
wink sustantivo/ˈwɪŋk/guiño, guiñada
goose sustantivo/ɡus/ganso, oca
flesh sustantivo/flɛʃ/carne
betray verbo/bɪˈtɹeɪ/traicionar, entregar
matcha sustantivo/ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/matcha
vegan sustantivo/ˈviːɡən/vegano, vegana
adaptation sustantivo/ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/adaptación
burger sustantivo/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/búrguer, burger
bee sustantivo/ˈbiː/abeja
genuinely adverbio/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/auténticamente, genuinamente
bite verbo/baɪt/morder, tarascar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
get through verbo/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/aguantar, salir adelante
go through verboatravesar
make out verbo/meɪk aʊt/librar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Let's go have a look.
  • My brain just doesn't work like that.
  • Can we just keep a straight course?
  • Do you know what I found difficult?
  • Is there anything I can do?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultadoIf you say, oh, he will eat · if the sun is out, people will be · if you are a member you will receive
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceare called · was really buried · were built
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraYou've always been · you've watched · has reminded
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosasomeone who lived · Yeah, which is · cream, Which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 75 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: flesh /flɛʃ/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, foolishly /ˈfuːlɪʃli/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, illegible /ɪˈlɛd͡ʒəbəl/, omnipresent /ˌɔmnɪjˈpɹɛz(ə)nt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: steer /stɪɹ/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, vegan /ˈviːɡən/, dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, relieve /ɹɪˈliːv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, omnipresent /ˌɔmnɪjˈpɹɛz(ə)nt/

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 idiom, invent, birthplace.

¿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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