Shadowing Practice: New Exploring 1 - UNIT 1: The Sun and the Earth - Learn English Speaking with Video

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For hundreds of years, people thought that the sun moved around the earth.
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This was only natural because when we see the sun rise in the morning and set in the evening,
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we can only think that the sun is moving around us.
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But one man did not agree with this idea.
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He said that if the sun is moving around the earth, we cannot explain the movements of Venus.
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This man finally concluded that the sun does not move around the earth, but the earth moves around the sun.
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This man's name is Copernicus.
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At first, people thought Copernicus was crazy.
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They said he was a liar and that he must be killed.
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And so, Copernicus was burned to death for saying that the earth moved around the sun.
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Later, though, people learned that Copernicus was in fact telling the truth.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “New Exploring 1 - UNIT 1: The Sun and the Earth”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sun, earth, Copernicus. This video has 11 sentences and 142 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:48. The speaker talks at a natural 176 words per minute, close to everyday conversation.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
liar noun/ˈlaɪ.ɚ/Someone who tells a lie; especially, a person who frequently lies.
conclude verb/kənˈkluːd/To end; to come to an end.
burn verb/bɝn/To cause to be consumed by fire.
agree verb/əˈɡɹi/To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
movement noun/ˈmuːv.mənt/Physical motion between points in space.
explain verb/ɪkˈspleɪn/To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
rise verb/ɹaɪz/To move upwards.
hundred noun/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
move around verbTo relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.

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 hacemust be killed · was burned
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis moving

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like liar, conclude, burn.

¿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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