Shadowing Practice: National Geographic Reading Explorer 1 Unit 9 Snake Catchers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Skip Snow and Mike Rochford are snake catchers.
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They work in Florida, in the Everglades National Park.
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They're looking for Burmese pythons.
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Burmese pythons are not a native species here.
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But over the past decade,
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these snakes have grown in numbers in the Everglades and are now eating too many of the native birds,
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small mammals, and even large reptiles.
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Because the pythons are harming the local wildlife,
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Skip and Mike's team are doing their best to catch and remove this invasive species.
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They are also studying how the pythons live and move around the swamps.
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The team puts tiny, harmless tracking devices into several pythons.
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Then they release the snakes back into the wild, far away from where they were caught.
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Burmese pythons can grow up to They are 7 meters long and weigh up to 90 kilograms.
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And they are very good swimmers.
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Minutes after the pythons are released, the team looks for them.
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The team uses an antenna to search for signals from the tracking devices.
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But they can't locate the snakes, so the team uses a plane to help them in their search.
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The Everglades National Park covers an area of 1.5 million acres.
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The team's plane has a more powerful antenna, and Mike is hoping it will pick up signals from the snakes.
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After much searching, a signal appears.
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The tracking devices show that the snakes have traveled over 56 kilometers back to the place where they were first caught.
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This tells the team that it will not be easy to get rid of the pythons.
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These creatures have made the Everglades their home.
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But Skip and Mike are not giving up.
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They will continue to catch and remove the pythons.
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It is important they do this, so that they can protect the many other animals that live in the Florida Everglades.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “National Geographic Reading Explorer 1 Unit 9 Snake Catchers”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pythons, snake, Everglades, Burmese, Skip. Este vídeo tiene 26 frases y 303 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:54. El hablante habla despacio, unas 104 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 81 % 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 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| snake sustantivo | /sneɪk/ | serpiente, culebra |
| antenna sustantivo | /ænˈtɛn.ə/ | antena |
| kilogram sustantivo | /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/ | kilogramo, quilogramo |
| mammal sustantivo | /ˈmæməl/ | mamífero |
| reptile sustantivo | /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/ | reptil |
| catcher sustantivo | /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/ | colector |
| invasive adjetivo | /ɪnˈveɪsɪv/ | invasivo |
| harmless adjetivo | /ˈhɑɹmləs/ | inocuo, inofensivo |
| swamp sustantivo | /ˈswɑmp/ | embalsadero, pantano |
| acre sustantivo | /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ | acre |
| locate verbo | /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/ | ubicar, colocar |
| weigh verbo | /weɪ/ | pesar |
| meter sustantivo | /ˈmitəɹ/ | medidor, contador |
| wildlife sustantivo | /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/ | fauna, vida silvestre |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| give up verbo | rendirse, entregar |
| move around verbo | movilizarse |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
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 grown · have traveled · have made |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were caught · are released |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | They're looking · are now eating · are harming |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | will pick · will not be · will continue |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: snake /sneɪk/, swamp /ˈswɑmp/
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 snake, antenna, kilogram.
¿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.