Shadowing Practice: Listening B1, PET 2, Test 4, Part 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Now turn to part three, questions 14 to 19.
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You will hear a man talking about Tanya Perry's life.
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For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
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You now have 20 seconds to look at part three.
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Now we are ready to start.
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Listen carefully.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hello and welcome.
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We're spending the first part of today's programme talking about Tanya Perry.
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And with me today is Ray Potter, her friend and colleague for many years.
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Yes, well, I've known Tanya for nearly 20 years.
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Not many people know that she was born in London in 1948.
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In 1952, her parents moved with Tanya and her brother to the North West.
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They lived in various places before finally coming to Manchester in 1956.
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Tania spent a very happy period at school.
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In fact, she was in the same class as Jack Peters, the famous poet.
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David Thompson, the artist, was also at the school, a couple of years below her, I think.
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So it was an interesting time for Tania, who actually began to write short stories while she was at school.
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One of her stories appeared in the school magazine.
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I have a copy here.
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It's extraordinary.
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You can see a lot of her ideas starting to grow.
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When Tanya left school, she didn't go to university, as Jack Peters did, but got a job immediately.
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She was never interested in university life life, what she wanted was to be part of the real world,
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to meet different people and get more experience of life.
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So in the early 1970s, she became a waitress, working in what was then one of the most popular cafes in Manchester.
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She was writing at night, and in 1975, she had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival accessible.
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She gave up her day job the following year to be able to write full -time.
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Several of her plays were performed, including one at the Court Theatre in London.
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This was where she met film director
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Robin Newgate, who she later married.
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Robin introduced her to the film world, and in 1979 she wrote the story which later became the film
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City Life, which which Robin directed.
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It won the prize for best foreign film at an important French film festival in 1984.
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Tania could have moved to Hollywood then, but she was still married to the theatre, and to Robin, so she decided to stay here.
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Now she has twenty -four plays in print, eighteen in translation, which makes her work very widely known all over the world.
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Now, listen again.
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Hello and welcome.
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We're spending the first part of today's programme talking about Tanya Perry.
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And with me today is Ray Potter, her friend and colleague for many years.
41
Yes, well, I've known Tanya for nearly 20 years.
42
Not many people know that she was born in London in 1948.
43
In 1952, her parents moved with Tania and her brother to the North West.
44
They lived in various places before finally coming to Manchester in 1956.
45
Tania spent a very happy period at school.
46
In fact, she was in the same class as Jack Peters, the famous poet.
47
David Thompson, the artist, was also at the school, a couple of years below her, I think.
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So it was an interesting time for Tanya, who actually began to write short stories while she was at school.
49
One of her stories appeared in the school magazine.
50
I have a copy here.
51
It's extraordinary.
52
You can see a lot of her ideas starting to grow.
53
When Tanya left school, she didn't go to university, as Jack Peters did, but got a job immediately.
54
She was never interested in university life.
55
What she wanted.. was to be part of the real world, to meet different people and get more experience of life.
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So in the early 1970s she became a waitress, working in what was then one of the most popular cafes in Manchester.
57
She was writing at night, and in 1975 she had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
58
She gave up her day job the following year to be able to write full time.
59
Several of her plays were performed, including one at the Court Theatre in London.
60
This was where she met film director
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Robin Newgate, who she later married.
62
Robin introduced her to the film world, and in 1979 she wrote the story which later became the film
63
City Life, which Robin directed.
64
It won the prize for best foreign film at an important French Film Festival in 1984.
65
Tanya could have moved to Hollywood then, but she was still married to the theatre, and to Robin, so she decided to stay here.
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Now she has 24 plays in print, 18 in translation, which makes her work very widely known all over the world.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Listening B1, PET 2, Test 4, Part 3”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Tanya, film, Robin, Tania, Peters. Este vídeo tiene 66 frases y 795 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:15. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 127 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

13 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
translation sustantivo/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/traducción, transmisión
introduce verbo/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/presentar
extraordinary adjetivo/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/extraordinario, descomunal
poet sustantivo/ˈpoʊ.ət/poeta, poetisa
colleague sustantivo/ˈkɒliːɡ/colega, compañero
waitress sustantivo/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/camarera, mesera
carefully adverbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/cuidadosamente
accessible adjetivo/əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/accesible, asequible
perform verbo/pəˈfɔːm/despalillar, bordar
prize sustantivo/ˈpɹaɪ̯z/botín
print verbo/pɹɪnt/imprimir, emprimir
widely adverbio/ˈwaɪdli/comúnmente, generalmente
fill verbo/fɪl/llenar, implar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
give up verborendirse, entregar

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas born · were performed
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've known
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosatranslation, which makes
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas writing

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I've, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, twenty /ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i]

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, prize /ˈpɹaɪ̯z/

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 translation, introduce, extraordinary.

¿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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