Shadowing Practice: Pixar in a Box: Story Structure - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, I'm Kristen Lester, a story artist here at Pixar.
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Today we're going to talk about story structure, the way we organize and tell our stories.
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But before we begin, Have you guys heard the joke about the mushroom that goes to the discotheque?
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A mushroom walks into a discotheque and he walks up to a lady and he asks her to dance.
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She says, "Ugh, gross, no, you're a mushroom !" So he walks up to another lady and asks her to dance.
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Meh, I'm not interested.
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Lady after lady after lady.
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Rejected, rejected, rejected.
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Nobody wants to dance with him.
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Finally, the mushroom walks over to the bartender and he's so confused.
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He says, "I don't get it.
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Why does nobody want to dance with me?
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I mean, I'm a fun guy." See, this joke has a structure.
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It's got an opening, a buildup in the middle, and an ending, which is, you know, the punchline.
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That structure is a big part of what makes it funny.
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Structure is the answer to the question, what do you want the audience to know and when?
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If you get the order wrong, it can be a real problem.
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Check it out.
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Hey, can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's this fun guy and...
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shoot!
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I messed up the opening!
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Okay...
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Can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's a mushroom who walks into a discotheque, and then there's a bartender there.
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Ah, darn it!
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I messed up the middle!
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Hey, hey, hey, can I tell you a joke?
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Alright, so there's a mushroom who walks into a discotheque and there's a bunch of ladies on the dance floor.
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He asks them to dance and they say yes!
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Dang!
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Without conflict, joke over!
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Ugh!
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See?
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Structure is important.
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Just as structure is a big part of telling a funny joke, it's also essential to making a movie that has the emotional impact you want on your audience.
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Shhh!
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This is a great example!
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"Nemo !" In earlier versions of Finding Nemo, the structure of the story was very different than the final film.
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The director wanted to interweave scenes of Nemo's parents' lives before they had kids as flashbacks throughout the whole movie.
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So you would see them meet, fall in love, and eventually move into their house at the drop -off in little scenes throughout the film.
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"Oh honey, it's..." "It's beautiful !" The main story of Marlin
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and Nemo and their journey was pretty much exactly the way it is now.
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But with the flashback structure, it wasn't until the end of the film that you would find out that Marlin's wife Coral, Coral, look out! and all of her eggs were killed by a barracuda.
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When they showed the movie with this structure, They had one big problem.
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The audiences, well, they didn't like Marlon.
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Looking at their story structure, the team realized that in this version of the film, the audience didn't find out why Marlon was acting this way towards his son until the movie was almost over.
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So, they decided to re -edit the movie and remove almost all of the flashbacks, leaving only the scenes where Coral and Marlon's home is attacked by the Barracuda,
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killing Coral and all of her eggs, except for Nemo.
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They moved these scenes to the beginning of the movie.
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This change in the story structure changed the audience feelings about Marlin a lot.
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They knew right from the beginning how much Marlin had lost and how brave it was for him to go after Nemo.
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and they loved him for it.
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In the case of Finding Nemo, finding the problem was a matter of rearranging the story structure.
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Of course, all our movies are different, and their story structure challenges are too.
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In this lesson, we'll look at the many different ways we think about story structure here at Pixar, and you'll get to try out for yourself different approaches to structuring your story.
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Hmm, I wonder if I told the mushroom jokes and flashbacks.
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It'd be funnier.
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Probably not.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Pixar in a Box: Story Structure”. Las palabras que más se repiten: structure, joke, mushroom, movie, Nemo. Este vídeo tiene 59 frases y 682 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:53. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 176 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| egg sustantivo | /ɛɡ/ | huevo, aguautle |
| bartender sustantivo | /ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/ | bartender, barténder |
| confused adjetivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confundido |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| honey sustantivo | /ˈhʌni/ | miel |
| brave adjetivo | /bɹeɪv/ | bravo |
| edit verbo | /ˈɛdɪt/ | editar |
| organize verbo | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | organizar |
| darn verbo | /dɑɹn/ | zurcir, surcir |
| flashback sustantivo | /ˈflæʃ.bæk/ | flashback, escena retrospectiva |
| barracuda sustantivo | /ˌbæɹəˈkuːdə/ | barracuda |
| buildup sustantivo | /ˈbɪldʌp/ | prolegómeno, preámbulo |
| interweave verbo | /ˌɪntəɹˈwiv/ | entretejer, entrelazar |
| rearrange verbo | /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/ | reacomodar, reacotejar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse |
| mess up verbo | desbarajustar, desbarahustar |
| look out verbo | mirar a, dar a |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- He says, "I don't get it.
- Why does nobody want to dance with me?
- Hey, can I tell you a joke?
- Can I tell you a joke?
- Hey, hey, hey, can I tell you a joke?
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 12 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, flashback /ˈflæʃ.bæk/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: brave /bɹeɪv/, interweave /ˌɪntəɹˈwiv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
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 egg, bartender, confused.
¿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.