Shadowing Practice: LEARN ENGLISH WITH THE WORD WORTH - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today we meet the English word worth and a famous cosmetics company that tells us that we are worth it.
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Worth means simply the value that something has.
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Sometimes we use it in a literal way to mean how much money would people pay.
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But often we use it figuratively to mean how much time and effort and energy would people pay.
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Here are some examples.
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Kevin is, as I'm sure you know,
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a fan of the loudest punk rock group in the world, Futile Vendetta.
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He has all their records and CDs.
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His collection of records and CDs is worth about £300,
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which means that if Kevin sold them,
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he might get £300 for them.
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But he's not going to sell them.
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They are worth much more than £300 to him.
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Kevin's friend George lives in a flat.
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George owns the flat.
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He does not rent it from a landlord.
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George wants to move to another flat, closer to his work.
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The first thing he does is to ask an estate agent to look at his flat
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and tell him how much it is worth.
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That is, how much somebody might pay for it.
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When he knows this, George can work out how much he can afford to pay for a new flat.
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Last summer, Kevin and Joanne went for a holiday in the Lake District in the northwest of England.
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They climbed a mountain called Scorfell Pike.
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Scorfell Pike is less than a thousand meters high,
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but it is still the highest mountain in England.
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It was a long climb.
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After about an hour, their legs were tired and their feet were sore.
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They were out of breath and it had started to rain.
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Their clothes were wet and Kevin had water in his boots.
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Eventually they reached the top.
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Suddenly the sun broke through the clouds,
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they could see all the way to the sea,
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far away to the west and the south.
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They could see the other mountains around and the valleys and lakes far below.
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It was magic.
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It was worth the aching legs and the wet clothes.
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Or, as we often say in English, it was worth it.
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If you say that something is worth it,
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you mean that that thing has a bigger value than the money you paid,
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or the work you did,
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or the time you spent,
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or the emotional upset which you had in order to get that thing.
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Here are some other things which are worth it, or not worth it.
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Kevin's football team United has paid £10 million for a new striker.
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The first time he played for United, he scored twice.
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He was worth it.
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Joanne wants to see a new film,
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but the only cinema which is showing it is on the other side of town.
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It would take nearly an hour to get there.
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Is it worth it?
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Wonders Joanne.
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George's dad grows vegetables in his garden.
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It is hard work, but George's dad says that fresh,
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homegrown vegetables are worth it.
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Jimmy and Carol, whom we met in an earlier podcast,
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and who were doing fine the last time we saw them,
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have had a row.
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Joanne finds Carol in tears.
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Don't get so upset, says Joanne.
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He's not worth it.
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And finally, we come to the French cosmetics company L'Oréal.
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L'Oréal sells industrial chemicals that people put on their bodies to make themselves look younger or smell sweeter.
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Some of their products are quite expensive,
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but as L'Oréal tells us in their advertisements on TV, you're worth it.
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They mean you are wonderful and beautiful,
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you want to stay wonderful and beautiful.
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So it is worth spending lots of money on our products,
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and worth spending time putting them on your face and taking them off afterwards.
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Trust L'Oreal, you are worth it.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “LEARN ENGLISH WITH THE WORD WORTH”. Las palabras que más se repiten: worth, Joanne, flat, Kevin, George. Este vídeo tiene 69 frases y 639 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:14. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 122 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 90 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | escalar, subir |
| cloth sustantivo | /klɒθ/ | tela |
| vegetable sustantivo | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | verdura, legumbre |
| cosmetics sustantivo | /kɒzˈmɛt.ɪks/ | cosmético, cosméticos |
| cloud sustantivo | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | nube, nimbo |
| jimmy sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ | palanqueta |
| afterwards adverbio | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | después, consecuentemente |
| tear verbo | /tɛɹ/ | rasgar, desgarrar |
| breathe verbo | /bɹiːð/ | respirar |
| boot sustantivo | /but/ | bota |
| cinema sustantivo | /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ | cine, cinematógrafo |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| northwest sustantivo | /nɔɹθˈwɛst/ | noroeste, nordoeste |
| meter sustantivo | /ˈmitəɹ/ | medidor, contador |
| sore adjetivo | /soɹ/ | dolorido |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, northwest /nɔɹθˈwɛst/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: cosmetics /kɒzˈmɛt.ɪks/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, jimmy /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/
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 climb, cloth, vegetable.
¿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.