Shadowing Practice: (Oxford RnD - Level 1) Eyes - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1.
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Eyes.
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By Rob Sved.
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Read by Christopher Ragland.
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Published and copyrighted, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Introduction People and animals see with their eyes.
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You have two eyes.
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Some animals have many eyes.
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Eyes can be little or big, and they can be many colors.
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What animals have these eyes?
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What color are your eyes?
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Discover!
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Now, read and discover more about eyes.
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Chapter 1 Animal Eyes What do animals do with their eyes?
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They look for food.
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The duck looks for food in water.
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The gecko has big eyes.
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It can see well at night.
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It looks for insects to eat.
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Eyes help to protect animals from other animals.
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The crab has two eyes on top of its body.
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It can see big animals and then it can run away.
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Chapter 2 Parts of an Eye Let's look at an eye.
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It has many parts.
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This is an elephant's eye.
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The eyelid and the eyelashes protect the eyeball.
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There are tears in the eye, too.
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The eyelid opens and closes, and the tears clean the eye.
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The pupil lets light into the eye.
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This helps people and animals to see.
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When there's lots of light, the pupil is little.
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When there's no light, the pupil is big.
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Discover!
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People have tears to clean their eyes.
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People cry tears when they are sad, too.
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Chapter 3 Eyes at the Front People and many animals have two eyes at the front of their head.
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This helps them to see things far away.
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The hawk can fly fast, and it can see very well, too.
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This helps it to hunt little animals to eat.
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The monkey has eyes at the front of its head.
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It can jump from tree to tree, and it doesn't fall.
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Discover!
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Owls have eyes at the front of their head.
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Some owls can move their head around and see behind.
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Chapter 4.
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Eyes at the Sides Many animals have eyes at the sides of their head.
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They can see in front and behind.
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The frog has eyes at the sides of its head.
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It can look for insects to eat.
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The hammerhead shark has a long, flat head.
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It has eyes at the sides of its head.
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When it swims, it can see all around.
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The stalk-eyed fly can see all around, too.
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It has eyes on two long stalks.
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Discover!
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The chameleon sees all around very well.
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One eye moves up and the other eye moves down.
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Chapter 5.
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In Water The seal lives on land and in water.
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It has big, round eyes.
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It can see very well in water.
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It hunts fish to eat.
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The flatfish has two eyes on one side of its body.
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It can lie at the bottom of the ocean and look up.
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Discover!
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Fish live in water, and they don't have eyelids.
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They don't close their eyes.
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Chapter 6 in the dark.
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At night, some animals sleep.
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Many other animals look for food.
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The lemur looks for fruit and little animals to eat.
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It has big eyes with big pupils.
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It can see very well in the dark.
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It's very dark at the bottom of the ocean.
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The flashlight fish has lights under its eyes.
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This helps it to look for little fish to eat.
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In the dark, cats and dogs have bright eyes.
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They can see very well.
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Look at this cat.
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What color are its eyes?
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Chapter 7.
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Many Eyes Some animals have many eyes.
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Many spiders have six or eight eyes.
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The scallop can have more than fifty little eyes.
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How many of the eyes can you see here?
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Some insects have very many eyes.
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Look at this dragonfly.
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Each eye is thousands of little eyes together.
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Chapter 8.
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Protect Your Eyes It's important for animals to protect their eyes.
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In the desert, there's a lot of sand.
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The camel has long eyelashes, so the sand doesn't go in its eyes.
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The meerkat lives in the desert, too.
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It's sunny and windy there.
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Its eyelids clean the sand from its eyes.
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The meerkat has black fur around its eyes.
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This protects its eyes when it's sunny.
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People wear sunglasses when it's very sunny.
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This protects their eyes.
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Eyes are important.
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Remember to protect them.
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you Thank
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you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A1 se basa en el vídeo “(Oxford RnD - Level 1) Eyes”. Las palabras que más se repiten: eye, Animal, chapter, discover, protect. Este vídeo tiene 104 frases y 709 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:53. El hablante habla despacio, unas 72 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
tear verbo/tɛɹ/rasgar, desgarrar
pupil sustantivo/ˈpjuːpəl/alumno, alumna
sand sustantivo/sænd/arena
sunny adjetivo/ˈsʌni/asoleado, soleado
insect sustantivo/ˈɪn.sɛkt/insecto
desert sustantivo/ˈdɛz.ɚt/desierto
owl sustantivo/aʊ(ə)l/búho, lechuza
seal sustantivo/siːl/sello
spider sustantivo/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/araña
copyright sustantivo/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/derechos de autor, derecho de autor
duck sustantivo/dʌk/pato, ánade
swim verbo/swɪm/nadar
monkey sustantivo/ˈmʌŋki/mono, chango
hawk sustantivo/ˈhɔːk/azor, gavilán

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
look up verbo/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/mejorar
run away verbohuir

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como doesn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: eyelash /ˈaɪlæʃ/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, flatfish /ˈflætfɪʃ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como discover, tear, pupil.

¿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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