Shadowing Practice: Level 3 Book 1 B11 When an Apple Falls - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Story 11 When an Apple Falls Imagine yourself under the cool shade of an apple tree.
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Your mind and body relax as you sit quietly, thinking.
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Suddenly, a ripe apple falls from the tree, narrowly missing your head.
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Most of us would be thankful that the apple did not hit us.
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and that would be the end of it.
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But sometimes an ordinary happening can lead to extraordinary results.
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Such was the case in the 17th century.
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Isaac Newton spent his life working out many of the laws of physics.
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He wanted to figure out how things worked.
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For him, the world was his laboratory in those early days of science.
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For a long time he had been working on the laws of motion.
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One lucky day, as he was sitting in his study at his mother's country home,
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he looked out over the yard.
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The apple trees were filled with ripe red apples.
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As he sat there thinking,
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he noticed an apple falling from the tree.
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Apples fall from trees all the time.
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They even fall and hit people on the head.
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But Isaac Newton's falling apple was no ordinary apple,
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and Newton was no ordinary man.
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He saw more than an apple falling from a tree.
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As he watched the apple hit the ground,
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he asked himself some simple questions.
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Why did that apple fall straight down?
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Why did it not fall sideways?
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Why did it not fall up towards the sky instead of down towards the center of the Earth?
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With these simple questions, Newton discovered gravity.
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More correctly, he discovered how gravity works.
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Scientists could now understand why the moon was held in orbit around the Earth.
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Gravity explained why people did not fall off the face of the Earth.
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Imagine if Newton had watched that apple falling and thought nothing more than,
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Oh yes, just another apple falling from a tree.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Level 3 Book 1 B11 When an Apple Falls”. Las palabras que más se repiten: apple, fall, tree, falling, Newton. Este vídeo tiene 32 frases y 315 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:30. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 126 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 90 % 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 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
gravity sustantivo/ˈɡɹævɪti/gravedad
ripe adjetivo/ɹaɪp/maduro, jecho
thankful adjetivo/ˈθæŋkfəl/agradecido
orbit sustantivo/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/órbita
quietly adverbio/ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/mansamente, despacio
shade sustantivo/ʃeɪd/sombra
scientist sustantivo/ˈsaɪəntəst/científico, científica
correctly adverbio/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/correctamente
relax verbo/ɹɪˈlæks/relajar, aflojar
laboratory sustantivo/ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/laboratorio

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
fall off verbocaer
figure out verboaveriguar, captar

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 gravity, ripe, thankful.

¿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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