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Time is short
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What is your life it's even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanishes away
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If someone had told me when I was 20 years old That life was very short and would pass just like that
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I wouldn't have believed it. And if I tell you that you don't believe it either I cannot get young people to understand how brief life is how quickly it passes It seems like yesterday. I was in school
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Every one of us here has been given the same amount of time in a day
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Fourteen hundred and forty minutes a day
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168 hours per week
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Seventy years God allows us and it's interesting to me with all of our medical science. We've never passed that magic mark
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The average American male today lives
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seventy years and four months The average female 73 years and six months
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More people live to be 70
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but the average age
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of an American is still 70 as taught in the scriptures
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What a thing it is when you think that you have just one short life to spend and it will soon be over
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I'd write down my priorities in life and I'd get committed to certain priorities
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Now is the accepted time the things we ought to do the classes we ought to take the books we ought to read do it now The family that needs you spend more time now
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Write that letter home now that you've been meaning to write
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Money you ought to give give now time for study do it now people you ought to witness to do it now
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Every time the clock ticks, it seems to say now
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Today if you will hear his voice
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There may not be a tomorrow for you and for me
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Because there's a warning to time
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Time is running out for all of us time is too short for indecision and vacillation
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Do not halt between two opinions
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Fools say the time is long. Every morning we have 86,400 seconds to spend and to invest
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And each day the bank named time opens a new account for you and for me
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It allows no balances in no overdrafts if you fail to use the days deposits the loss is yours
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The Bible says redeem the time because the days are evil and the days in which we are living are very evil
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If there was ever a time for the gospel that can transform the human heart it's now
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Jesus said as long as it is day, we must do the work of him that sent us the night is coming when no Man can work The night is going to come in your life. Yet there was a serenity about the work of the Lord Jesus
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It's the quality of life. Not the length
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Jesus only had 33 years
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And it ended on the cross To the world He was a failure yet that moment yet at the end of his life He said I finished the work that thou gave me to do
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It doesn't matter whether you live another year or two years of five years
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Will your work be finished. Is there a quality to it. Is there a dedication to it
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Suppose all of our members tithe their time to witness for Christ as we tithe our income for the church
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Fill your heart with the Word of God, I found that those who know the scriptures are the ones that have the power today
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But we need men and women who walk with God And if you do that you too can finish the work that God gave you to do And help us to realize the brevity and the urgency of time
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And may we invest what little time we have in the kingdom of God
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “LIFE IS SHORT”. Las palabras que más se repiten: ought, spend, Jesus, write, average. Este vídeo tiene 39 frases y 640 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:13. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tithe sustantivo | /taɪð/ | diezmo |
| scripture sustantivo | /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/ | escritura, escriptura |
| brevity sustantivo | /ˈbɹɛvɪti/ | brevedad |
| indecision sustantivo | /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/ | indecisión |
| overdraft sustantivo | /ˈoʊvɚdɹæft/ | sobregiro |
| serenity sustantivo | /səˈɹɛnɪti/ | sosiego, tranquilidad |
| vacillation sustantivo | /væsɪˈleɪʃən/ | vacilación |
| vanish verbo | /ˈvænɪʃ/ | desvanecerse, esfumarse |
| redeem verbo | /ɹɪˈdiːm/ | redimir |
| urgency sustantivo | /ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/ | urgencia, premura |
| vapor sustantivo | /ˈveɪpɚ/ | vapor |
| litter sustantivo | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | cama, lecho |
| tick sustantivo | /tɪk/ | garrapata, rezno |
| dedication sustantivo | /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/ | dedicación, dedicatoria |
| transform verbo | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | trasformar, transformar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| write down verbo | apuntar, anotar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been given · We've never passed |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | has been given · be finished |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | those who know · women who walk |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, doesn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: indecision /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/, vacillation /væsɪˈleɪʃən/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: indecision /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/, serenity /səˈɹɛnɪti/, vacillation /væsɪˈleɪʃən/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: brevity /ˈbɹɛvɪti/, overdraft /ˈoʊvɚdɹæft/, vacillation /væsɪˈleɪʃən/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, vapor /ˈveɪpɚ/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como tithe, scripture, brevity.
¿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.