Shadowing Practice: RE3 Unit 3B - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Track 6, Reading 3B, Tracking the Snow Leopard When a snow leopard stalks its prey among the mountain walls,
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it moves softly, slowly, explains Indian biologist Raghunandan Singh Chandawat, who has studied the animal for years.
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If it knocks a stone loose, it will reach out a foot to stop it from falling and making noise.
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One might be moving right now, perfectly silent, maybe close by. But where?
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Best known for its spotted coat and long, distinctive tail, the snow leopard is one of the world's most secretive animals.
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These elusive cats can only be found high in the remote, mountainous regions of Central Asia.
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For this reason, and because they hunt primarily at night, they are very rarely seen.
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Snow leopards have been officially protected since 1975, but enforcing this law has proven difficult.
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Many continue to be killed for their fur and body parts, which are worth a fortune on the black market.
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In recent years, though, conflict with local herders has also led to a number of snow leopard deaths.
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This is because the big cats kill the herders animals and drag the bodies away high up in the mountains to eat.
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As a result of these pressures the current snow leopard population is estimated at only 4,000 to 7,000
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and some fear that the actual number may already have dropped below 3,500.
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The only way to reverse this trend and bring these cats back from near extinction,
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say conservationists, is to make them more valuable alive than dead.
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A Fragile Relationship Because farming is difficult in Central Asia's cold,
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dry landscape, traditional cultures depend mostly on livestock, mainly sheep and goats, to survive in these mountainous regions.
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At night, when snow leopards hunt, herders' animals are in danger of snow leopard attacks.
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If a family loses even a few animals, it can push them into desperate poverty.
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The wolf comes and kills, eats, and goes somewhere else, said one herder.
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But snow leopards are always around.
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They have killed one or two animals many times.
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Everybody wanted to finish this leopard.
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To address this problem, local religious leaders have called for an end to snow leopard killings, saying that these wild animals have the right to exist peacefully.
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They've also tried to convince people that the leopards are quite rare, and thus it is important to protect them.
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The value of preservation Financial incentives are also helping to slow snow leopard killings.
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The organization Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust has established Himalayan Homestays, a program that sends visitors to herders' houses.
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For a clean room and bed, meals with the family, and an introduction to their culture, visitors pay about US$10 a night.
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If guests come once every two weeks through the tourist season, the herders will earn enough income to replace the animals lost to snow leopards.
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In addition, the organization helps herders build protective fences that keep out snow leopards.
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It also conducts environmental classes at village schools and trains the organization's members as nature guides, available for hire.
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In exchange, the herders agree not to kill snow leopards. In Mongolia,
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a project called Snow Leopard Enterprises helps herder communities earn extra money in exchange for their promise to protect the endangered cat.
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Women in Mongolian herder communities make a variety of products, yarn for making clothes, decorative floor rugs,
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and toys using the wool from their herds.
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SLE buys these items from herding families and sells them abroad.
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Herders must agree to protect the snow leopards and to encourage neighbors to do the same.
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The arrangement increases herders' incomes by 10 to 15 percent and elevates the status of the women.
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If no one in the community kills the protected animals over the course of a year,
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the program members are rewarded with a 20 percent bonus in addition to the money they've already made.
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An independent review in 2006 found no snow leopard killings in areas where SLE operates.
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Today, the organization continues to add more communities.
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Projects like the Homestays Program in India and SLE's business in Mongolia are doing well.
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Though they cover only a small part of the snow leopard's homeland, they make the leopards more valuable to more people each year.
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If these programs continue to do well, the snow leopard may just have a fighting chance.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Las palabras que más se repiten: leopard, snow, herder, animal, cat. Este vídeo tiene 45 frases y 711 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:31. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 129 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 78 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| leopard sustantivo | /ˈlɛp.ɚd/ | leopardo |
| herder sustantivo | /ˈhɝːdɚ/ | manadero |
| mountainous adjetivo | /ˈmaʊn.tɪ.nəs/ | montañoso |
| visitor sustantivo | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | visita |
| biologist sustantivo | /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/ | biólogo, bióloga |
| conservationist sustantivo | conservacionista | |
| elevate verbo | /ˈɛləveɪt/ | elevar, levantar |
| elusive adjetivo | /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/ | elusivo, huidizo |
| secretive adjetivo | /ˈsiːkɹɪtɪv/ | reservado, secretista |
| yarn sustantivo | /jɑɹn/ | hilaza, estambre |
| peacefully adverbio | /ˈpiːsfəli/ | pacíficamente |
| rug sustantivo | /ˈɹʌɡ/ | tapete, alfombra |
| extinction sustantivo | /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/ | extinción |
| softly adverbio | /ˈsɔftli/ | suavemente |
| decorative adjetivo | /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ | decorativo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| keep out verbo | no entrar, quedarse afuera |
| reach out verbo | tender la mano |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has studied · have been · has also led |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be found · be killed · is estimated |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: extinction /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/, preservation /ˌpɹɛz.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, preservation /ˌpɹɛz.əˈveɪ.ʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, elusive /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/, secretive /ˈsiːkɹɪtɪv/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, preservation /ˌpɹɛz.əˈveɪ.ʃən/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, endangered /ɪnˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚd/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como leopard, herder, mountainous.
¿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.