Shadowing Practice: Matilda Learns To Control Her Powers | Matilda - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Baby face, I'm starved.
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Hi, Harry. Who are you?
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What is this, a hot tub party?
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Get the hell out of here.
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I slave all day I come home, you're entertaining a couple of surfer dude bodybuilders.
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They're cops, Dad.
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You interested in timeshare?
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Get out.
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You don't let me talk to people!
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I am in a cage, Harry.
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I need to talk to somebody besides us stupid kids.
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Oh, yeah?
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Well, a man is entitled to come home
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and find dinner on the table without having to wade through a convention of male strippers!
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Dad?
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What do you want?
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Yell at me, okay?
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Shut up and leave us alone!
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Yell at me again!
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Yell at you?
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I'll come in there and pound your miserable high!
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What do I have to do to gain respect around here?
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I'm gonna give you a tan like you never heard in your life!
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My word is my law!
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You're the worst law!
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No kid likes being yelled at, but it was precisely Harry's ranting and raving that gave Matilda the key to her power.
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To unlock that power, all she had to do was practice.
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You're a little cheap.
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You're a Walmart.
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It's time you started acting like one.
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I'm smart, you're dumb.
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I'm big, you're a little.
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I think there's something wrong to break up.
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I'm right, you're wrong.
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And there's nothing you can do about it.
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You're a worm word.
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It's time you started acting like one.
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It's time you started acting like one.
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I'm going
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to go to the next episode.
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Lovey-dovey, lovey-one Comes out on my knees
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Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Tell you a story
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Half a long time ago Little,
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bitty, pretty one I'm out of watching you grow up That was one of my personal favorites, played especially for all you little bitty pre-runs.
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Moving and grooving on this sunny afternoon.
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Playing music to make you smile, so you'd better not touch that...
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Shouldn't we have a search warrant to do this?
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Nah, this guy's dirty.
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Once we show this tape in court, Wilmot's goose is cooked.
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I'm sure that box is full of stolen car parts.
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You've been taping all week.
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How about letting me handle that camera for a while?
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You know how to use it?
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You know about the zoom and the white balance?
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You know how to adjust the eyepiece?
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I can handle it.
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Besides, it's my turn.
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Yeah.
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Your turn to drop it.
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I won't drop it.
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Come on.
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You two men are gonna be in a lot of trouble very soon.
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It's the female minor.
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Aren't you supposed to be in school, young lady?
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I really hope you have a search warrant.
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According to a constitutional law book I read in the library, if you don't have one, you can lose your job or even go to federal prison.
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It's your father who's going to federal prison.
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And you know where you'll end up?
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In a federal orphanage.
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If you cooperate, we'll make sure it's a nice orphanage.
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The kind with food.
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Teeny-weeny cockroaches.
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What do you say?
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There's another crime in the making.
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Your car is about to run a stop sign.
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So she bought a little time for her dad to come to his senses.
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But now Matilda had bigger fish to fry.
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Much bigger.
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Hey, stiff-fish.
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Where are you going?
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Out.
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Hey, Dipface, how about Carrie?
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Matilda Learns To Control Her Powers”. Las palabras que más se repiten: yell, acting, dad, federal. Este vídeo tiene 83 frases y 598 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:41. El hablante habla despacio, unas 105 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 19 de sus 83 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
yell verbo/jɛl/gritar, vociferar
orphanage sustantivo/ˈɔː(ɹ)fənɪd͡ʒ/orfanato, casa cuna
warrant sustantivo/ˈwɔɹənt/garantía
bodybuilder sustantivo/ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dəɹ/culturista, fisicoculturista
eyepiece sustantivoocular
stripper sustantivo/stɹɪpɚ/separador, decapante
surfer sustantivo/ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)/surfista, surfero
starve verbo/stɑɹv/morir de hambre
rave verbo/ɹeɪv/desvariar, delirar
rant verbo/ɹænt/despotricar
groove sustantivo/ɡɹuv/ranura, acanaladura
worm sustantivo/wɝm/gusano, lombriz
cooperate verbo/kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/cooperar
zoom verbo/zuːm/zumbar
entertain verbo/ˌɛntəˈteɪn/divertir, entretener

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
break up verboseparar, cisionar
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
get out verbosalir
grow up verbocrecer
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/cállate la boca, cállate

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Shouldn't we have a search warrant to do this?
  • You know how to use it?
  • You know about the zoom and the white balance?
  • You know how to adjust the eyepiece?
  • Aren't you supposed to be in school, young lady?

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 haceis entitled · being yelled · is cooked
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingstarted acting
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónI'll come · won't drop · you'll end
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesarioneed to talk · having to wade · have to do

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 29 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: bodybuilder /ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dəɹ/, cooperate /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stripper /stɹɪpɚ/, starve /stɑɹv/, stiff /stɪf/, slave /sleɪv/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: lovey /ˈlʌvi/, starve /stɑɹv/, rave /ɹeɪv/, groove /ɡɹuv/, slave /sleɪv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: zoom /zuːm/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

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 yell, orphanage, warrant.

¿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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