Shadowing Practice: Man Kills Rattlesnake, Drinks Own Urine While Lost During Hike - Learn English Speaking with Video
Elige un modo de práctica
Cada modo abre una sala de práctica a pantalla completa.
106 oraciones
Si las oraciones son demasiado cortas o largas, haz clic en Editar para ajustarlas.
1
I'm alive.
2
Put a helmet on you.
3
I've been in so many miraculous situations where I should have died in Nam and car accidents, motorcycle.
4
And because of my wife and my wonderful family,
5
I just didn't feel that it was my time.
6
You know, my time's not up.
7
And so I just said, keep going.
8
76-year-old Vietnam vet Mark Eric Young shares how he survived five days lost in the Arizona wilderness.
9
He was in town for a wedding and decided to go hiking.
10
I made several mistakes.
11
The first one was I have a GPS.
12
And because I've been in this area,
13
I never turned it on until I really needed it.
14
And when I turned it on, it wasn't functional.
15
Coming back, I decided to come back on a different cow trail to make a shortcut.
16
That was the second long decision.
17
He camped out since he didn't need to meet with a friend until the next night.
18
I've spent many nights out.
19
Vietnam, wilderness, hikes, whatever, campouts.
20
So that wasn't a big thing.
21
And I had enough survival gear for certainly two days, right?
22
Plenty of water, plenty of food.
23
So I wasn't overly concerned until the next day,
24
I figured that I would just go over one mountain
25
and then I would hit that riverbed and then make my way back to the vehicle.
26
Well, again, a wrong decision.
27
When I hiked over one mountain,
28
there was another, one after the other.
29
On day three, he ran out of water.
30
I'd say Saturday was my roughest day,
31
and I was dehydrated, and my brain went right.
32
Just overly fatigued.
33
And so I drank my own urine and that helped.
34
He eventually found water but had a run-in with wildlife.
35
I came around a tree and this rattlesnake, it's a blacktail.
36
I heard the rattle, but I was looking at the ground.
37
And then when I heard him, I looked at him.
38
He opened his mouth and he struck at me.
39
I took a step back,
40
picked up a rock and killed it. in anger.
41
Even with everything he was dealing with,
42
he kept his family on his mind and tried to stay calm.
43
You have to not panic.
44
Even in Nam, you can get scared and you can get nervous,
45
but you've got to keep your self-control.
46
You've got to be able to think straight.
47
It's important when you're in very stressful situations to try and,
48
you know, keep your head, You know, keep calm.
49
There were times when he was uncertain if he'd be found.
50
Yeah, of course I prayed.
51
I never felt that I was going to die.
52
You know, you're sweating during the day and shivering at night.
53
But I definitely got discouraged because of the dehydration on Saturday.
54
I mean, I'm totally exhausted.
55
That was when I just thought,
56
because I was so tired and not motivated,
57
I thought, you know, dying ain't so bad.
58
With a little bit of a dash of humor in it.
59
On day five, he found more water and was on the move again.
60
Then he heard familiar voices.
61
I heard hikers for the first time there on Monday,
62
and I hollered down.
63
And then I heard Dad,
64
and then I saw him.
65
And because it was the fifth day and I was exhausted,
66
I just, man, I cried like a baby.
67
They came up and we huddled.
68
And to have your two sons find you was nothing short of a miracle.
69
Mark is grateful for all the people he knew and didn't know that came together to find him.
70
The rescue people, the helicopters,
71
the drones, the volunteers, local cowboys with horses,
72
old friends, my family, my brothers.
73
Unbelievable.
74
I had no idea how loved and how wonderful these people are themselves.
75
Again, it just wasn't about me.
76
It's their character, their toughness, their selflessness.
77
The people that showed up to me represents America and Americans.
78
They don't know me from Adam.
79
They've never even laid eyes on me, right?
80
And yet they're willing to lay their lives down to help another person.
81
It blows me away.
82
Mark was taken to the hospital and didn't have any serious injuries.
83
He says he returned home to 413 text messages and had family,
84
friends, and people from all chapters of his life reach out to him.
85
It's hard for me not to even leak a little bit right now.
86
It's overwhelming, and I'm so encouraged and so thankful.
87
I'm renewed as a result of it.
88
And again, I'm trying not to cry,
89
Dr. I try not to get emotional.
90
But I'm 76 six.
91
And, you know, the reality is,
92
is I'm in the last quarter of my life,
93
but I'm blessed with good health.
94
Although this incident scared Mark,
95
he still plans on reuniting with nature soon.
96
Are your hiking days over or are you going to get out there again?
97
You can take the boy from the mountains,
98
but you can't take the mountains from the boy.
99
Yeah, I'll be out, but I will never,
100
at my age I will never do that again.
101
I'll be back in Arizona this fall for sure.
102
But I won't be alone.
103
If I would have got hurt I'm not sure I would have made it out.
104
I don't know.
105
You just never know.
106
For Inside Edition Digital, I'm Andrea Swindle.
Descargar app
Todo lo que necesitas para hablar con fluidez
Pronunciación con IAEvalúa cada oración
Práctica de IPADomina cada sonido
VocabularioConstruye tu banco de palabras
Juego de vocabularioAprende mientras juegas
Mismo canal
B22
Choking Man Saves His Own Life
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B26
World Health Organization Wants More Info From Russia About Death Of Worker At Plague Lab
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B13
Woman Predicted Her Future Husband at 4 Years Old
TeensDaily ConversationHigh School Students
B14
Cops Rescue Baby From Car Swept Up In Floodwater During Storm
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B211
Could Bacon at Breakfast Lead to Dementia?
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B12
People Line Up to See and Smell 'Corpse Flower' in Australia
University Students
B12
Internet-Famous Bear Has Crowds Running to Chinese Zoo
TeensDaily ConversationHigh School Students
B15
Only 1 Person Survived This Shipwreck
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
B16
4-Year-Old Doing OK After Having 8 Heart Surgeries
KidsTeensHigh School Students
B22
Woman Says Man Has Been Harassing Her For Years After Facebook Marketplace Listing
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B218
Woman Turns Tables On Alleged Peeping Tom In Kids’ Clothing Store
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B22
What Is 'Dry January?'
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
B242
How Are Tariffs Affecting iPhone Prices?
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
B25
Police Rescue Woman Who Locked Herself In Bathroom During Alleged Arson
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B15
World's Oldest Man Dies at 112
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
Family Grieves Father and Son Killed in Massive House Explosion
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B112
Stray Kitten Found in Christmas Tree Looking For Forever Home
TeensDaily ConversationHigh School Students
B1'Spider-Man' Tom Holland Goes Undercover to Experience High School
TeensDaily ConversationHigh School Students
B2Former Cellmate of Jodi Arias: ‘She’s a Sociopath’
University StudentsWorking Adults
FOR YOU
Recomendar Video
B12
291 oraciones
Camping in an Alaskan Survival Cabin
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B13
31 oraciones
The luckiest unlucky man to ever live (Frane Selak)
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B11
54 oraciones
I had surgery... my body tried to drown me
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B11
27 oraciones
South America, 1936 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B2409 oraciones
MOST SHOCKING High-Speed Police Chases Caught on Dashcam! You Wouldn't Believe if Not Filmed #41
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
196 oraciones
The Most Incredible Cave Rescues Ever
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B12
138 oraciones
4 Strangest Humans in the World
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B22
141 oraciones
Korn Bassist Fieldy on the Christian Life
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
676 oraciones
David Goggins Puts Israel Adesanya Through A BRUTAL Training Session | FULL WORKOUT
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B11
349 oraciones
She Died After She Isolated Herself and Went To the 6th Dimension in Transformational NDE
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B23
88 oraciones
What Jon Bernthal Learned His 3rd Day Living in Russia
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
172 oraciones
They HATED Me in MARSOC Assessment & Selection… But THIS Saved Me
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Man Kills Rattlesnake, Drinks Own Urine While Lost During Hike”. Las palabras que más se repiten: heard, mountain, Mark. Este vídeo tiene 106 frases y 902 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:05. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 148 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| hike sustantivo | /haɪk/ | caminata |
| exhaust verbo | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | agotar |
| overly adverbio | demasiadamente, excesivamente | |
| wilderness sustantivo | /ˈwɪldɚnəs/ | descampado, jungla |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | asustar, atemorizar |
| dehydrate verbo | /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/ | deshidratar |
| dehydration sustantivo | /dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/ | deshidratación |
| holler verbo | /ˈhɑlɚ/ | gritar, vociferar |
| huddle verbo | /ˈhʌdəl/ | amontonarse, arracimarse |
| miraculous adjetivo | /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/ | milagroso |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | apabullar, arrollar |
| rattle sustantivo | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | sonajero, sonaja |
| rattlesnake sustantivo | /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/ | serpiente de cascabel, cascabel |
| reunite verbo | /ˌɹiːjuːˈnaɪt/ | reunir, rejuntar |
| riverbed sustantivo | /ˈɹɪv.ɚˌbɛd/ | cauce, lecho |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come around verbo | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | entrar en razón |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir | |
| get out verbo | salir | |
| go over verbo | sentar, pasar | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I just didn't feel that it was my time.
- You know, my time's not up.
- I've spent many nights out.
- You've got to be able to think straight.
- I mean, I'm totally exhausted.
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 | I've been · I've spent · They've never even laid |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was dehydrated · be found · was taken |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was looking · was dealing |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | I'll be · will never do · won't be |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 36 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: dehydration /dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/, shiver /ˈʃɪvɚ/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, dash /ˈdæʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: dehydration /dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/, miraculous /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scare /skɛɚ/, stressful /ˈstɹɛsfəl/, sweat /swɛt/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, riverbed /ˈɹɪv.ɚˌbɛd/, shiver /ˈʃɪvɚ/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hike /haɪk/, dehydrate /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/, dehydration /dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/, holler /ˈhɑlɚ/, huddle /ˈhʌdəl/
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 hike, exhaust, overly.
¿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.