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Gary the Dreamer by Gary Soto Illustrated by Elizabeth Gomez I was born in April,
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a month when it rains and rains.
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Maybe this is why when I was three years old, I liked to open my mouth and taste rain.
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Also, April is when flowers bloom, bees arrive out of nowhere.
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I lived in a small white house.
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My dog's name was Blackie.
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My cat's name was Boots.
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I had a canary just bigger than a big person's thumb.
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But my bird flew away when the little door of its cage was left open.
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So sorry, little canary, but I think it was me who left it open.
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I remember my high chair.
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I remember watching my parents and older brother at the dinner table.
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When I got a little bigger, I got to sit with them.
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Most mornings I ate oatmeal sprinkled with brown sugar.
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The sugar was like rocket energy.
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I blasted out of the house, ready to play.
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I played tag with the neighbor kids.
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I played hide-and-seek.
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I played catch with oranges.
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In our backyard we had an orange tree.
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We also had plum, lemon, and apple trees.
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Lucky me!
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Anytime I was hungry for a snack, I just went outside and picked a fruit.
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I didn't have many toys.
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My army men were pinto beans and pebbles.
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I played with them in the dirt.
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I got dirty from playing hard.
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It seemed like a giant pepper shaker had sprinkled me with dust.
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My favorite fruit was watermelon.
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After I ate a slice of watermelon, I ended up with seeds in my mouth.
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These seeds were my ammo to spit at my older brother.
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He would spit some back at me.
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It was sort of like a fun war.
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The seeds flew all over the place.
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In kindergarten, I learned my colors.
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I learned to tie my shoes and to be nice.
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I liked to sing, too.
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My brother said he could hear me from the next classroom.
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I made my first friend, Daryl.
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I made another friend, Jose.
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At recess, we went on the slide.
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It was like a big shiny spoon and slippery.
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Then we went on the swings.
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It was scary but fun going high and jumping out.
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Then we went on the monkey bars.
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If I fell, I never got hurt.
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In first grade, I practiced writing the alphabet.
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The letters were big and blocky.
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I wrote my name, G-A-R-Y.
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Some days my nice teacher would have to tell me, Gary, sit still.
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I wiggled a lot in my chair.
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I dreamed a lot.
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I was busy looking at the floor or my hands or out the window.
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Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
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I couldn't pronounce some words.
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I couldn't say sandwich.
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I would say Sammy.
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I knew that 2 plus 2 was 4.
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But what was 5 plus 7?
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I counted out my answer on my fingers, sticky from the peanut butter and jam, inside my Sammy.
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In second grade, we collected money to help children in Africa.
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They didn't have anything to eat.
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I collected pennies, lots of pennies.
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I noticed that the pennies were the same as me.
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You see, I was naturally brown, and even browner from running in the sun.
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I felt like I was giving poor Africa a piece of me.
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My classmates got taller, but I seemed to stay the same size.
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I still liked playing at recess.
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I liked dodgeball, kickball, and foursquare.
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I would tumble when I played soccer.
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I was quick.
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I admire people who are quick and who play fair.
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By third grade, I was a good reader.
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I loved picture books.
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The pages were bright and colorful as toucans, those tropical birds with long beaks.
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Every week I went to the public library.
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I checked out mountains of books.
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I was still a dreamer.
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Sometimes I watched ants going in and out of their holes, or I would watch water racing in the curb.
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The river of water carried matchsticks, leaves, gum wrappers, and those poor little ants.
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I rescued some of those ants.
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I put them carefully on my finger and set them on the cement curb.
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They lay for a while like weak little shadows.
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Then they woke up and staggered away.
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It was fun in third grade.
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I still stayed small, like those ants, I guess.
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I was scared of math, poor me.
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But reading was what I really liked.
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I read on the couch, I read in bed with carrot sticks, like pencils in my hands.
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I liked to read in my favorite tree.
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Once when Boots came by, I tossed a piece of bark at him.
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He looked around and meowed.
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I giggled.
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I tossed another piece of bark at him.
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This time Boots saw me and climbed up the tree.
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We sat on a fat limb, the two of us.
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I read him a story about a bird.
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He licked his paws.
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The engine inside him began to purr.
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I guess Boots liked reading too.
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On weekends, my family went to Chinatown.
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We bought groceries there at the Mexican store.
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I remember mariachis roving the street.
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Their sombreros were huge.
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You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.
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Their trumpets blared, the guitars strummed, their violins seemed to weep.
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The guitarrant thumped deeply.
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One time, I saw a dog dance to the mariachi music.
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The dog went back and forth, back and forth, like he was doing the cha-cha.
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Every night I took a bubble bath in our deep tub.
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The water roared from the faucet as I climbed in.
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The bubbles rose like mountains.
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No, like really pretty clouds.
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I scooped up the bubbles and patted them onto my face.
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I pretended that I had a beard.
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I placed some of the bubbles on my head.
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Oh, a sombrero.
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I was a dreamer.
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I was sometimes in another world.
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In bed, I covered myself with two blankets.
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I thought about the day before I fell asleep, so tired.
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My legs kicked.
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As I dreamed I was running for a touchdown, and the whole school was watching me.
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Gary Soto grew up to be an author.
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He dreamed up ideas for more than 40 books for children and grown-ups.
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He shares his Mexican-American culture through his poems and stories.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “McGraw Hill.Wonders 3.Gary The Dreamer”. Las palabras que más se repiten: liked, tree, played, ants, bubble. Este vídeo tiene 127 frases y 1065 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:08. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 131 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 71 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| bubble sustantivo | /ˈbʌbəl/ | burbuja, pompa |
| ant sustantivo | /ænt/ | hormiga, huasho |
| seed sustantivo | /siːd/ | semilla, simiente |
| penny sustantivo | /ˈpɛni/ | penique |
| finger sustantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dedo, alambres |
| collect verbo | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | juntar, recoger |
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | escalar, subir |
| toss verbo | /tɔs/ | lanzar, arrojar |
| bark sustantivo | /bɑɹk/ | corteza |
| spit verbo | /spɪt/ | escupir |
| curb sustantivo | /kɝb/ | bordillo, sardinel |
| guitar sustantivo | /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/ | guitarra, jarana |
| naturally adverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente, a natura |
| rescue verbo | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | rescatar, socorrer |
| soccer sustantivo | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | fútbol, futbol |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I didn't have many toys.
- Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
- I couldn't pronounce some words.
- You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was born · was left |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was giving · was doing · was running |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, thump /θʌmp/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shaker /ˈʃeɪkɚ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/, mariachi /ˌmɑɹ.iˈɑ.t͡ʃi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spit /spɪt/, scary /ˈskɛə.ɹi/, swing /ˈswɪŋ/, slide /ˈslaɪ̯d/, scare /skɛɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, rove /ɹoʊv/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: cage /keɪd͡ʒ/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, dodgeball /ˈdɒd͡ʒˌbɔl/
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 bubble, ant, seed.
¿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.