Shadowing Practice: (Oxford RnD - Level 2) Your Body - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2 Your Body by Louise Spilsbury Read by Christopher Ragland Published and copyright Oxford University Press 2012
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Introduction Your body is amazing!
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It helps you to walk, work, and play.
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It helps you to eat, read, listen, and learn.
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It's important to protect your body.
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How does your body help you?
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How do you protect your body?
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Discover Now read and discover more about your body.
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Chapter 1 Your Skin and Hair You have skin everywhere on your body.
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Your skin helps you to touch things.
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It helps you to know when things are hot or cold.
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Skin stops dirt getting into your body.
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It stops water getting into your body when it's rainy and when you swim.
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Hair grows out of your skin.
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Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're cold.
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This stops your body getting too cold.
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Your skin makes sweat when you're hot.
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This stops your body getting too hot.
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Protect your body.
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Wash every day so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair.
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Chapter 2 Your Bones There are bones under your skin.
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These bones make your skeleton.
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Your skeleton helps you to stand up.
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There are joints in your skeleton, too.
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Bones meet at joints.
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Elbows and knees are joints.
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Joints help you to move.
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Knee joints help you to jump and kick.
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A baby has small bones.
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Bones grow and they make you big and tall.
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Discover Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old.
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Then there are 206 bones in your body.
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Protect your bones When you ride a skateboard,
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wear pads to protect your bones and joints.
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Wear a helmet to protect your head, too.
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Chapter 3 Your Muscles What helps your bones and joints to walk,
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run, dance, and jump?
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Muscles Muscles pull your bones to move your body.
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Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle.
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Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat.
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Discover There are more than 600 muscles in your body.
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Running, swimming, dancing, and riding a bicycle are types of exercise.
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Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and joints strong.
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Your heart is a type of muscle.
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Exercise makes your heart strong, too.
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Protect your body. Do exercise every day.
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What is your favorite type of exercise?
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Chapter 4 Your Eyes and Ears Your eyes help you to see the world around you.
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They open and close many times every day.
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This is called blinking.
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When your eyes blink, they wash dirt out of your eyes.
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At night, your eyes close so you can sleep.
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Discover!
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Eyes blink about 15 times every minute.
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Your ears help you to listen to music.
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They help you to listen for cars in the street.
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Your ears can hear things when you sleep, too.
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Protect your eyes and ears.
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On sunny days, wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.
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Don't listen to very loud music.
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It's bad for your ears.
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Chapter 5 Your nose and mouth.
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You breathe through your nose and mouth.
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Your nose and mouth take air into your body.
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You breathe about 15 times every minute.
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Discover!
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After exercise, people breathe fast.
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They can breathe 40 times every minute.
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Your nose helps you to smell things.
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Your mouth helps you to talk and eat.
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Your teeth bite food so you can eat it.
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Your body uses food to live and grow.
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Protect your teeth Brush your teeth after breakfast and after dinner,
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and don't eat lots of candy.
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Chapter 6.
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Your Brain.
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Do you know how you read these words?
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Your brain tells you what your eyes see.
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Your brain tells you what you see, hear, and touch.
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It tells your muscles when to move.
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It helps you to write,
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speak, draw, and do puzzles.
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Your brain is amazing.
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Your brain works all day and at night when you sleep.
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At night, it makes you breathe and it makes your heart work.
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At night, your brain helps you to remember things that you learn in the day.
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Protect your brain.
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Wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle.
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Chapter 7 Getting Sick Do you get sick?
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Germs are things that can make you sick.
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Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat.
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Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too.
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Some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin.
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Wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers.
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Wash your hands when it's time to eat,
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after you go to the toilet,
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after you touch animals, and after you play outside.
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Stop germs.
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There are germs in a sneeze.
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Catch sneezes in a tissue.
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Then throw the tissue in a wastebasket.
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Chapter 8.
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Protect Your Body Eat food that's good for you.
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Good food helps your bones to grow.
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It makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick.
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There's lots of water in your body.
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You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat.
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Drink water every day to protect your body.
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Go to the doctor when you get sick and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day.
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It's good to do exercise and it makes you happy.
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It's good to sleep when you are tired too.
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It's important to protect your body.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “(Oxford RnD - Level 2) Your Body”. Las palabras que más se repiten: bones, protect, muscle, skin, eyes. Este vídeo tiene 112 frases y 883 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:12. El hablante habla despacio, unas 72 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bone sustantivo/boʊn/hueso
muscle sustantivo/ˈmʌs.əl/músculo
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
breathe verbo/bɹiːð/respirar
ear sustantivo/ˈɪə̯/oído, oreja
dirt sustantivo/dɝt/tierra
sweat verbo/swɛt/sudar, transpirar
bicycle sustantivo/ˈbaɪsɪk(ə)l/bicicleta, bici
skeleton sustantivo/ˈskɛlətən/esqueleto, osamenta
blink verbo/ˈblɪŋk/parpadear, pestañear
finger sustantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/dedo, alambres
knee sustantivo/ni/rodilla, hinojo
tissue sustantivo/ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/tejido
swim verbo/swɪm/nadar
helmet sustantivo/ˈhɛlmɪt/casco, yelmo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
stand up verbolevantarse, ponerse de pie

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • It's important to protect your body.
  • How does your body help you?
  • How do you protect your body?
  • What is your favorite type of exercise?
  • Do you know how you read these words?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

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

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweat /swɛt/, skeleton /ˈskɛlətən/, swim /swɪm/, sneeze /sniːz/, skateboard /ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: puzzle /ˈpʌzəl/, sneeze /sniːz/

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 bone, muscle, discover.

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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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