Shadowing Practice: Most Aussie guys ever foil robbery despite a 'busted plugger' - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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Righto folks, are you ready for the story of the year?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It's Friday night and you're out with your mate.
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Yep.
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When you see a robbery unfolding right in front of you.
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So, what do you do?
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Well, this is what our next guest did.
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Oh, f* me.
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I've got a f*ing case.
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I've got my neck f*.
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You'll f.
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Oi, James, let's f* me.
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Nah.
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Let's go to the survey.
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Wait, call the cops!
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Call the cops!
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Triple zero, quick!
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Yep, yep, yep.
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Call the cops!
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Yeah, we're talking Aussie legends right there.
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Shirtless and shoeless mates, James Ross Munro and Kane Wiblin,
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snapped into gear, filming their heroic antics as they stopped an alleged getaway car and chased the culprits down the street.
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And we are thrilled to say that James and Kane join us.
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Now good morning to you boys.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Round of Aussie applause.
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So James, let's start with you because we love the video, but take us back to what was happening leading up to that moment.
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Well, we'd been down at Options Tavern at a Stubbies
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and Singlets party and got dropped off by a mate up the road and started to walk down the survey,
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get some noodles and went to jump over a side on the way and slipped over and busted my plugger.
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That's so astray.
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You busted a plugger.
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So you've got a busted plugger.
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A single in shorts part.
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What are you seeing that's happening at the servo?
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Pretty concerned about my blowout I had and looked up and yeah, looked up
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and saw a white I saw a white Commodore pull up two blokes with shirts around their faces
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and sort of thought something was a bit sus so better go and check it out.
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And what did you see next?
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Grabbed the keys out of the ignition while they were inside the Oportos and yeah, it just unfolded from there.
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There was no plan, it was just go with it and set it up.
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Hey brother, you had your shirt off at the time too, which means that you were in full in front of that.
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Was there a time that it occurred to you that your life might be in great peril?
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When I first jumped in the car I sort of took a step back thinking, oh shit has this blake got a knife?
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Yeah.
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And then I saw he had his hands empty
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and he was just trying to cover his face so I jumped back in and yeah, just went from there.
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You look like you got reasonable guns, you've been working out in the gym, you look reasonable buddy.
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I don't go to the gym.
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I've been to the gym in years.
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The only gym I go to is Gym Beam.
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That's about it.
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James, it's Silby here.
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I've got to ask, I understand you're married.
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What did your wife make of all this when you got home and told her what had happened?
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I'm not actually married as yet.
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That was my manager that hacked my Facebook when I was getting married.
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But, yeah, she was more concerned that I broke the brand new pair of pluggers that she bought me on Thursday night.
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Yeah, of course.
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So did you actually get to see these guys when they came out?
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What was their reaction?
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Only just briefly.
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Yeah, only briefly.
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Briefly, just got to see sort of just the top half of their faces and saw the passengers.
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I got a good look at him.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, so, yeah, they got away pretty quickly.
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Once they realised their keys were gone, they weren't hanging around for very long.
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No. They were gone.
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Hey, Cain, obviously you're the sense in this great duo.
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You're like the Robin to the Batman.
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The Robin, yeah.
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Yeah.
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He is short and fast.
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I was the one thinking about getting stabbed.
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Because you were filming so they would go for you first.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
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But you kept filming manfully and you've already received close to 2 million views on YouTube.
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How does it feel to be this famous?
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We only put it up there just to get a couple of laughs initially.
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It's just unreal that it's just gone.
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He's just blown out of control.
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Yeah, it's been shed everywhere around.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Hey, James, have you managed to get yourself a new pair of pluggers?
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Yeah.
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Mate, I've got the team, Muddangers fishing team.
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They're gonna sort me out with my son.
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And what was that name of the fishing team?
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Unit closing, helping me out.
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The who?
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The Team Mootdangers.
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Look them up on Facebook and give them a like.
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You had to ask.
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You had to ask.
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I thought that was what he said, and I thought we'll just let it go through to the keeper.
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You're the reason I came back from holidays.
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It doesn't get any better.
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I know folks that's our show for the year it doesn't
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get better than this hey James where do you work I mean there's been
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so much Australia in this segment we just need to know where do you work
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I work a hint of laying mowers down in the rain oh of course you do you're going to be busy
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oh wow the castle three very funny James
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and Kane you are our absolute Aussie superheroes we celebrate you for all we do Oh,
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yeah, that's just had to be done sort out the right from wrong
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We celebrate thanks thanks Crime shirtless just doesn't get me better.
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I just don't know how we can continue Got their noodles in the end Brought to you by heavy honors.
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All right.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Most Aussie guys ever foil robbery despite a 'busted plugger'”. Las palabras que más se repiten: James, plugger, gym, mate. Este vídeo tiene 109 frases y 965 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:02. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 160 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bust verbo/bʌst/reventar, partir
briefly adverbio/ˈbɹiːfli/concisamente, brevemente
noodle sustantivo/ˈnu.dəl/fideo, tallarín
unfold verbo/ʌnˈfoʊld/desplegar, explayar
folk sustantivo/foʊk/pueblo, gente
allege verbo/əˈlɛd͡ʒ/alegar
astray adverbio/əˈstɹeɪ/perdido, extraviado
blowout sustantivo/ˈbloʊaʊt/blow out (blouaut), reventón
culprit sustantivo/ˈkʌlpɹɪt/culpable, nocente
shoeless adjetivodescalzo
getaway sustantivoescapatoria
bloke sustantivo/bloʊk/tío, tipo
unreal adjetivo/ʌnˈɹi.əl/irreal
ignition sustantivo/ɪɡˈnɪʃən/ignición
thrill verbo/θɹɪl/emocionar, excitar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
look up verbo/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/mejorar
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz
drop off verbodormirse, caer
get away verboalejarse
sort out verbodiscernir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Righto folks, are you ready for the story of the year?
  • Let's go to the survey.
  • What are you seeing that's happening at the servo?
  • I don't go to the gym.
  • I've been to the gym in years.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've been · you've already received
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceare thrilled · be done
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas happening · was just trying · was getting
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohad to ask · need to know · had to be

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I've, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shirtless /ˈʃɝtləs/, ignition /ɪɡˈnɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stab /stæb/, snap /snæp/, slip /ˈslɪp/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: heroic /hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, hint /hɪnt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como bust, briefly, noodle.

¿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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