Shadowing Practice: Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 8 pt. 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, it's time for Learning Curve again.
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That's right.
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Simon?
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Wow, and I'm just in time, Kate.
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My tube station was closed.
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I took a taxi.
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I was lucky that the driver had a sat-nav.
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It's a good thing to have when the roads are very busy.
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It told us to drive here a different way.
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It only took 15 minutes and cost about 14 pounds.
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A sat-nav?
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Oh, you mean a GPS.
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Yes, it can tell you exactly where the traffic is.
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And that brings us to today's topic, inventions.
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What inventions do you think are important?
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So, tell us more about the sat-nav or GPS and the person who invented it, Simon.
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In the UK we call it sat-nav.
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That's satellite navigation.
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In the US it's It's called GPS.
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Its full name is Global Positioning System.
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You call it by both names, but it's a very easy and modern way to help drivers find faster,
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better ways to get from place to place and avoid traffic.
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The inventor of this popular system was Roger Easton, the father of the GPS.
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In 1943, Easton worked in the United States at a research center in Washington, DC.
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In the early 1960s, Easton studied objects moving around the earth in the sky.
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He thought
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that a good way to find the position of moving objects
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here on Earth was to put clocks on a system of satellites in the sky.
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It cost about $100 million to build the first GPS.
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That's about £76 million.
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On February 22nd, 1978, the first GPS satellite,
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called Navstar, went to space.
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We can now use the system Roger Easton invented to travel easily from A to B.
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It's a very popular machine.
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It helped the taxi driver find the roads and helped me to arrive on time today.
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Are you enjoying that coffee, Kate?
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Oh yeah, I love a cup of coffee in the morning.
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And I love a cup of tea.
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And I can thank Melita Benz from Germany for her invention.
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Her special filter helps me make a cup of coffee at home.
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Melita Benz was born on January 31st, 1873, more than 140 years ago.
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In the early 20th century, people made their coffee by putting it in a little bag and then putting that little bag in hot water.
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But it didn't taste very good.
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Melita Benz invented a way to pour water through a special piece of paper to make coffee.
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It was delicious.
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She started her own company and gave it her first name.
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Melita is a company that is now over 100 years old.
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I usually spend two to three pounds, three to four dollars, when I buy a coffee at a cafe.
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I can save money by making coffee at home with this invention.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 8 pt. 1”. Las palabras que más se repiten: coffee, Gps, Easton, Melita, nav. Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 462 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:38. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 127 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
invention sustantivo/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/invención, invento
satellite sustantivo/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/satélite
invent verbo/ɪnˈvɛnt/inventar
taxi sustantivo/ˈtæksi/taxi, taxímetro
topic sustantivo/ˈtɑpɪk/tema, tópico
clock sustantivo/klɑk/cuentakilómetros
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/llegar, arribar
tube sustantivo/tuːb/tubo, chisguete
delicious adjetivo/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/delicioso, sabroso
filter sustantivo/ˈfɪltɚ/filtro
pour verbo/poɹ/escanciar, echar
navigation sustantivo/nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/navegación, náutica
inventor sustantivo/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/inventor, inventora
café sustantivo/ˌkæˈfeɪ/café, cafetería

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
move around verbomovilizarse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, inventor /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/

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 invention, satellite, invent.

¿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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