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A. She lives next door and she's always been really important in my life.

When we were little and my mum was working, she used to look after us.

She'd tell us stories about her childhood.

It was like listening to fairy stories.

Life was so different when she was a child.

In her kitchen, she used to keep a special dish with sweets for us.

and she was always baking cakes and pies now she doesn't bake

so much she started eating more healthily in her old age salads and vegetables and things it's funny how she's changed

she also goes to this special gym class for old people it's amazing

i don't see her so often now but she's always the same person however much her lifestyle changes

He's four years older than me and that seemed like a huge amount when we were children.

When we were at the same school we never talked to each other during school hours, but now we're older it's a lot better,

although I'll always be the little one, and that's annoying sometimes.

He's taken me to rock concerts that I wouldn't have gone to otherwise, and when he was at uni I went to stay with him sometimes

that was really cool it was great to see what the real student life was like

when I was still at school now that he's working he's really busy

but we still hang out sometimes we go to football matches together

because we both support our home team it's always good to see him.

C. We've known each other since we were five, and we've always got on really well.

Well, apart from that time when we fell out because we both liked the same boy, but he went off with Heather Jenkins,

so we made friends again quite quickly.

We both liked the same kind of music and going dancing at the weekend, and when we were younger,

we went out on our bikes together at school we're good at different things i'm good at languages

and laura's good at maths that's good though it means that we can help each other with our homework

next year i'm probably going to study in london and she's going to manchester but i'm sure our

His family moved in just a few houses down from us when I was about ten,

and I still remember how excited I felt when I found out there was another boy on the street.

I'd been the only boy, you see.

The others were all girls.

We were good friends from the beginning because we were into the same things, computers and football mostly.

But we had quite a few of the same hobbies for a while.

I remember making lots of models of aeroplanes one year.

Another year we took up fishing.

We had all the equipment and everything, and we'd spend ages down by the river.

I never go fishing now.

His family moved away a couple of years ago.

We're still friends on Facebook, but we don't really have much contact.

E. I can remember all the details of when we met.

I was wearing a red dress and I just had my hair cut.

I can even remember what music was playing the first time I saw him.

I knew he was special from the beginning and I was right.

We've been together ever since.

Well, it's only been 18 months and some people say that isn't very long, but it seems like ages to me.

We've got such similar personalities and so much in common.

I'm sure we'll stay together forever.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “listening important people by British Council”. Este vídeo tiene 46 frases y 618 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:25. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 140 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 89 % 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

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
bake verbo	/beɪk/	hornear, enhornar
lifestyle sustantivo	/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/	género/estilo de vida/vivir/vivencia, estilo/género vital/vivencial
dish sustantivo	/dɪʃ/	vajilla
pie sustantivo	/paɪ/	pastel, pay
mathematics sustantivo	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	matemáticas, matemática
salad sustantivo	/ˈsæl.əd/	ensalada
homework sustantivo	/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/	deberes, tarea
hobby sustantivo	/ˈhɑ.bi/	afición, hobby
vegetable sustantivo	/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/	verdura, legumbre
annoy verbo	/əˈnoɪ̯/	enchilar, crispar
healthily adverbio		saludablemente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
fall out verbo	caerse
find out verbo	averiguar, anoticiarse

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
I'd been the only boy, you see.
We've been together ever since.
I'm sure we'll stay together forever.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto	used to look · used to keep
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	she's always been · We've known · We've been
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	was working · was always baking · was wearing
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción	I'll always be · we'll stay

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we've, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/

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 bake, lifestyle, dish.

¿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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