Shadowing Practice: RE3 Unit 8B - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 16, Reading 8B, Highway of Dreams

A new road that connects the Pacific with the Atlantic could bring riches and environmental ruin.

Marylou's Gueira remembers a trip she took in 2003 from the city of Cusco, high in the Peruvian Andes,

to her home in Puerto Maldonado, a city in the Amazon rainforest.

By plane, this 320 -kilometer journey would have taken only 37 minutes,

but Mary had traveled by truck along narrow mountain roads, across rushing rivers, and through dense jungle.

It took her three days to reach home.

During the long trip, she remembers thinking, I can't wait till they build that highway.

Almost ten years after that long journey, Mary's wish came true.

Bridging a Continent In early 2012, the Transoceanic Highway opened to public vehicles for the first time.

A dream of Peru's political leaders since the 1950s,

work on the vast network of roads and bridges began in 2006 and was completed in 2011.

Today, the East -West Passageway spans 2 ,600 kilometers.

From Peru's Pacific Ocean coastline, it continues across the Andes Mountains and through a large part of Peru's Amazon rainforest.

It then travels into Brazil, where it connects with a network of existing highways to the Atlantic.

The trans -oceanic highway has been celebrated as one of South America's greatest engineering feats,

and supporters say it will greatly improve people's lives.

Until recently, travel between the cities of Cusco and Puerto Maldonado in Peru took days by bus or truck,

as Mary's story illustrates, and drivers had to use narrow, partially unpaved mountain roads.

Now, the trip only takes a few hours and is much safer.

Improving people's lives

In addition to making travel faster and easier, supporters say the highway will be good for business.

There is enormous demand in North America and Asia for Brazilian and Peruvian products, including soybeans, beef, and gold.

A number of companies in Cusco and Puerto Maldonado also sell wood to different corners of the world.

Many of these companies transport their lumber to the Pacific, where it travels by ship to other countries.

Thanks to the highway, wood can now reach the Pacific in days.

In the past, it could take a week or more.

This lowers costs and allows the wood to reach customers sooner and in better condition.

In the long run, say many business owners, this will mean more profit.

The highway will also open up areas of the Peruvian Amazon that were not accessible just a few years ago.

This may increase activity in these areas and give people new places to live in and travel to.

This, in turn, could mean more jobs and money for Peruvians.

Environmental Challenges Despite the highway's many potential benefits, environmentalists are concerned.

The trans -oceanic passes directly through a large part of the Amazon rainforest in the state of Madre de Dios in Peru.

According to a Peruvian government study, the forested area in the western mountains of this state has the greatest biodiversity of any place on earth.

And until recently, large parts of the forest were in pristine condition.

As more people move into the region, environmentalists worry about the impact this will have on the Amazon's plants and animals,

many of which are found nowhere else.

Shortly after the highway opened, large numbers of people began coming into Puerto Maldonado from all over Peru and the world to mine gold.

There's a lot of money to be made in mining as well as in farming, says environmental photographer Gabby Salazar.

I think we're going to see a big increase in farming, she says.

Right across the border in Brazil, you see soybean farms all over the place.

Studies show that 95 % of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon occurs within 50 kilometers of a highway,

and environmentalists like Salazar are concerned that the same thing is happening in Peru.

It's having an impact on the environment, she explains.

It's having an impact on the people as well.

Faced with these risks, many Peruvians talk about the importance of being practical.

In rural Peru, a lot of people are living in poverty, so it's very difficult to say, don't build the highway, explains

Roger Mastalish, president of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research.

But every time you see a road like this going through, you soon see major changes.

Will these changes be mostly positive or negative?

Many Peruvians are hopeful, but only time will tell.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: highway, Peruvian, Amazon, Peru, travel. Este vídeo tiene 52 frases y 737 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:46. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 128 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
narrow adjetivo	/ˈnæɹəʊ/	estrecho, angosto
translation sustantivo	/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/	traducción, transmisión
connect verbo	/kəˈnɛkt/	conectar, empalmar
supporter sustantivo	/səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/	apoyador, apoyadora
vast adjetivo	/væst/	vasto, enorme
practical adjetivo	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	práctico
rush verbo	/ɹʌʃ/	correr, apurarse
occur verbo	/əˈkɜː/	ocurrir
shortly adverbio	/ˈʃɔɹtli/	pronto, en breve
poverty sustantivo	/ˈpɑːvɚti/	pobreza, pauperismo
nowhere adverbio	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	en ninguna parte, en ningún lugar
greatly adverbio	/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/	grandemente, enormemente
ruin sustantivo	/ˈɹuː.ɪn/	ruina
photographer sustantivo	/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/	fotógrafo, fotógrafa
enormous adjetivo	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	enorme, ingente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go through verbo	atravesar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

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

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, partially /ˈpɑɹʃəli/, oceanic /ˌəʊʃiˈænɪk/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, oceanic /ˌəʊʃiˈænɪk/, biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, deforestation /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vast /væst/, poverty /ˈpɑːvɚti/, biodiversity /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, riches /ɹɪt͡ʃɪz/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/

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 narrow, translation, connect.

¿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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