Shadowing Practice: Part 2: Using Photography to Inspire Young Learners - Learn English Speaking with Video

You know, I think photos can help inspire all kinds of emotions.

You know, they can be beautiful.

They can also help inspire wonder in people.

So this is a photo of a tiny chameleon from the island of Madagascar.

Do we have anybody from Madagascar here today?

That would be really neat.

This is a chameleon that is a fully grown adult.

So it's really, really small and I put it on a human finger so you can see just how tiny it is.

Amazingly, it's not even the smallest species in Madagascar.

The smallest one can actually fit on the head of a match.

Photos can also make us care about species and places that are really far away from our homes.

Like this photo of a Sulawesi crested black macaque from Indonesia.

And I saw earlier that we had somebody from Indonesia on this webinar, So that's wonderful to see.

Photos can also make us aware of environmental issues, like the overfishing of sharks and other big fish that are found in our oceans.

And this is an issue that's happening worldwide.

So it was really this understanding of the power of photographs that inspired me to apply to National Geographic

for a Young Explorers Grant to go to the country of Peru to photograph conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest.

I actually, I just got a great question.

Do I get scared?

Yeah, sometimes I get a little nervous when I'm out in the forest, but it's absolutely worth it every time.

But I really love being out there in the forest.

And in this case, I spent 10 months in the Amazon rainforest.

And I was photographing these conservation efforts from the high Andes Mountains,

seen here, all the way to the lowland Amazon rainforest.

To make photos like this one, I would have to get up at 4 o'clock a.m in the morning

and drag myself out of bed

and go into the dark forest in the middle of the night

and to climb a radio tower that was about 60 meters high

or 180 feet high so I could be above the canopy at dawn.

But I wanted to do those things to really show how beautiful these landscapes are and to make people care about them.

And Peru is full of adventures.

In this case, we had to trek for a couple of hours through the forest.

We crossed rivers 11 times, and then we camped in the forest for 10 days in Peru.

I was working with these park rangers who were monitoring wildlife, but we went out there so that we could really show some of the animals that were living in this forest.

I got to photograph some pretty cool critters like mustache monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon on,

scarlet macaws soaring above the canopy, and even some smaller creatures,

because I really love to not just show the big charismatic animals, but the more rare creatures, the ones that are overlooked.

So like monkey frogs, these really cute little frogs that are found in the understory and are a little bit camouflaged.

And I'm telling you about Peru because it was a really great learning experience for me.

Of course, it was an adventure, but more than that, it was a learning experience because I got to work with students.

As part of my project in Peru, I was able to give presentations and photo workshops to students in schools.

And these are some of those students out bird watching in one of the forests.

And as I shared my photos of wildlife with these students, like the mustache monkey or the scarlet macaw,

what I realized is that these students had almost never heard of these animals.

They actually knew more about elephants and giraffes

in faraway Africa than they did about the incredible animals that are found essentially in their backyards.

And that was a very important moment for me as a photographer,

because I really realized that we have to connect kids with nature in the places where they live.

Kids are not going to care about protecting wildlife if they don't even know that these species exist.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Part 2: Using Photography to Inspire Young Learners”. Las palabras que más se repiten: photo, forest, Peru, students, Amazon. Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 698 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:32. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 154 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
photograph sustantivo	/ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/	fotografía, toma fotográfica
rainforest sustantivo	/ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/	bosque tropical, bosque hidrofítico
inspire verbo	/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	inspirar, infundir
monkey sustantivo	/ˈmʌŋki/	mono, chango
wildlife sustantivo	/ˈwaɪldlaɪf/	fauna, vida silvestre
chameleon sustantivo	/kəˈmi.li.ən/	camaleón
macaw sustantivo	/məˈkɑ/	guacamaya, guacamayo
moustache sustantivo	/ˈmʌstæʃ/	bigote, mostacho
canopy sustantivo	/ˈkæ.nə.pi/	dosel, palio
scarlet sustantivo	/ˈskɑɹlɪt/	escarlata
charismatic adjetivo	/ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/	carismático
critter sustantivo	/ˈkɹɪtɚ/	bichito, críter
faraway adjetivo	/ˈfɑɹəweɪ/	alejado, distante
giraffe sustantivo	/d͡ʒəˈɹæf/	jirafa
lowland sustantivo		tierra baja

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go out verbo	salir

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	are found · are overlooked
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	was photographing · was working
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo	the smallest
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario	have to get · had to trek · have to connect

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: moustache /ˈmʌstæʃ/, camouflage /ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: chameleon /kəˈmi.li.ən/, charismatic /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/, understory /ˈʌndɚˌstoɹi/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scarlet /ˈskɑɹlɪt/, scare /skɛɚ/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: charismatic /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: giraffe /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/, ranger /ˈɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒɚ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

¿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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