Shadowing Practice: Mike Rowe: Why The Skills Gap And Job Shortage Persists - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Looking for a job?
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Well, the U .S has plenty, but not enough people to fill them, apparently.
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According to the recent JOLTS survey, there were 6 .66 million open jobs in June.
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Industries like construction and manufacturing have a tough time finding skilled labor in this tight labor market.
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It's affecting the housing market, for example.
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Our next guest's charity recently donated $600 ,000 to individuals pursuing a skilled trade
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and he knows a thing or two about tough jobs.
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Of course, with us, our friend Mike Rowe, the host of Somebody's Gotta Do It.
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He's the head of Mike Rowe Works and former host of Dirty Jobs.
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Michael, always good to see you.
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Welcome back.
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Nice to be here.
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Thanks for having me.
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Why are we in a situation now where we have this disconnect?
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There are a lot of jobs out there.
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They're scrambling to find workers, but there are still people looking for jobs at this point.
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What's your take on that?
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Because the definition of a good job is completely within our purview to define.
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But we almost never do it in a way that's an accurate representation of the times that we're currently living in.
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So in my view, when I started Microworks, it was 2008 on Labor Day.
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There were 2 .3 million jobs, according to the feds, that existed at that point in time.
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Of those jobs, 75 % did not require a four -year degree.
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They required training.
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So even at the height of the recession, when the headline news was all about unemployment, everywhere I was going, I saw help wanted signs.
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So for me, the disconnect really began around the issue of PR.
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What does an aspirational good job look like in 2008?
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So today it's 2018.
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Ten years have gone by we have, as you say, 6 .6 million available jobs, proving perhaps that I've done more harm than good.
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I don't really have a pithy answer for you, but I can tell you this.
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Everything is politicized today, including the skills gap.
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The existence of 6 .6 million jobs is a very inconvenient truth for a lot of people who believe
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that opportunity is dead.
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And so what happens is when we try
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and talk about the existence of this much opportunity half the country will say well it's
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because the jobs are lousy or employers are greedy
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and don't pay enough and the other half will say it's
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because people are fundamentally lazy
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and don't want to work both missed the point the opportunities are real
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and they're there
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and I've done my best to reward them every year there's
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been a real societal push for everybody to get a college degree hasn't there I'm old
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when i was in high school i went to school in new hampshire big libertarian state
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and the guidance counselors would tell some kids don't go to
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college go to community college go learn how to fix a
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car go do this trade school go to a trade school i doubt
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that happens i don't know if it probably still happens in new hampshire
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but i doubt
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that happens in a lot of part of the country it
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doesn't you're right it's been those kind of jobs have been minimized
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and and they shouldn't be they're so crucial
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and satisfying you're talking about the part of our labor force that keeps the lights on, keeps the plumbing working.
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You know, we're talking about jobs, not classic manufacturing jobs, although they fall under that rubric.
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You're really talking about jobs that can't be outsourced.
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The opportunities that my foundation looks for goes beyond guidance counselors and beyond parents and beyond peer pressure.
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We're just trying to reward work ethic because I've always believed and still believe that it's still very much for sale.
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And if you find a kid who's willing to show up early stay late
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and actually learn a skill that's in demand then
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that opportunity simply there's never been a better time to be an ambitious well -trained plumber
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so you'll see for yourself
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if you need one call one see how long it takes to get and they're expensive they pay well
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so so mike where should
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that public relations campaign for the good job of 2018 where should
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that originate from should it be the private sector should it
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be the government i mean I don't want to politicize this either
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but somebody's got to start saying hey you know what take a look at these jobs
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and guys we might give you the training for it as well.
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Anybody who's got skin in the game.
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So obviously elected officials have a role to play in this
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and so does the private sector and so do parents and so do guidance counselors.
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There was a campaign I bet you remember this.
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Remember the Indian on the side of the road?
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Yep.
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Weeping right?
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That was a very, very effective, maybe the most effective PR campaign of all time.
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And it came out of Keep America Beautiful.
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Long before green was a thing, our country had a horrible littering problem.
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We just left our stuff behind everywhere.
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We needed a concerted effort to redefine our collective relationship with littering.
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The country now needs a concerted effort to redefine its collective relationship with the definition of a good job.
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and so there's not a there's not a glib answer it has to happen on a lot of different fronts
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but that campaign keep america beautiful 1953
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that was the result of a consortium there was federal money
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but coca -cola was involved big businesses were involved and concerned individuals
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and together they actually moved the needle the problem is it
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really took about 12 to 15 years before anything demonstrably happened
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right turning a tanker around exactly you're talking about perception
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so the short answer is everybody all the time for the next decade there I'm glad we solved
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that no problem happy to help
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 88 frases y 988 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:36. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 176 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| skill sustantivo | /skɪl/ | destreza, habilidad |
| counselor sustantivo | /ˈkaʊnsələ(ɹ)/ | consejero |
| reward sustantivo | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | recompensa |
| collective adjetivo | /kəˈlɛktɪv/ | colectivo |
| litter sustantivo | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | cama, lecho |
| charity sustantivo | /ˈtʃæɹɪti/ | entidad benéfica, organización caritativa |
| horrible adjetivo | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | horrible, horroroso |
| worker sustantivo | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | trabajador, obrero |
| solve verbo | /sɒlv/ | resolver, solucionar |
| representation sustantivo | /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/ | representación |
| define verbo | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | determinar, definir |
| relation sustantivo | /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ | relación |
| crucial adjetivo | /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/ | crucial |
| pursue verbo | /pɚˈsu/ | perseguir |
| lazy adjetivo | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | perezoso, flojo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| show up verbo | comparecer, personarse |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, pithy /ˈpɪθi/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, consortium /kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/, libertarian /ˌlɪbɚˈtɛə̯ɹi.ən/, politicize /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como skill, counselor, reward.
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 | have gone · I've done · have been minimized |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is politicized · have been minimized · can't be outsourced |
¿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.