Shadowing Practice: READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 7A THE TRUTH ABOUT DINOSAURS - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 7.
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Are the truth about dinosaurs?
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Dinosaurs are fascinating, but half-truths and myths about them are common.
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For years, scientists thought dinosaurs were just giant reptiles.
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Some dinosaurs were huge.
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But many were about the size of modern-day birds or dogs.
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Were dinosaurs warm or cold-blooded?
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Paleontologists are still not sure.
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But they now believe a few dinosaurs were intelligent.
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Some smaller ones, like the 2-metre Truadon, had fairly large brains.
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A paleontologist is a scientist who studies plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
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Was T-Rex a powerful predator?
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B. While some scientists think Tyrannosaurus rex was a powerful predator, others think the opposite is true.
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For example, in the movies, T-Rex is often a fast-moving giant.
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In reality, though, this dinosaur could not run fast.
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It was too large to move very quickly, so it probably moved about as fast as an elephant.
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T-Rex also had very small arms and probably wasn't a powerful hunter.
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It may have been a scavenger instead eating dead animals.
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Could dinosaurs fly?
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See, some reptiles known as pterosaurs were able to fly, but even though they looked like them, these were not dinosaurs.
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Pterosaurs such as Tupukswara could probably fly up to 16,000 kilometres non-stop.
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Scientists believed pterosaurs were actually very heavy, so they probably could not take off from the ground like birds.
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Instead, they first had to drop or throw themselves from trees in order to fly, much like bats.
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Are all dinosaurs extinct?
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D-dinosaurs completely disappeared about 66 million years ago.
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Scientists think they died out because of a global climate change.
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The Earth's temperature became too cold for them to survive.
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Now you can only see dinosaurs in museums.
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However, scientists believe that modern-day birds are, in fact, dinosaurs' descendants.
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If this is true, then dinosaurs' relatives are still walking and flying among us.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 7A THE TRUTH ABOUT DINOSAURS”. Las palabras que más se repiten: dinosaur, scientist, rex, fly, pterosaurs. Este vídeo tiene 30 frases y 316 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:17. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 139 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 5 de sus 30 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
dinosaur sustantivo/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/dinosaurio
scientist sustantivo/ˈsaɪəntəst/científico, científica
pterosaur sustantivo/ˈtɛɹəˌsɔɹ/pterosaurio
paleontologist sustantivopaleontólogo, paleontóloga
reptile sustantivo/ˈɹɛp.taɪl/reptil
predator sustantivo/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/predador, depredador
descendant sustantivo/dɪˈsɛndənt/descendiente
fascinate verbo/ˈfæsɪneɪt/fascinar
kilometre sustantivo/kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/kilómetro, quilómetro
scavenger sustantivo/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/reciclador, reciclador de base
extinct adjetivo/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/extinto
metre sustantivo/ˈmiːtəɹ/metro
myth sustantivo/mɪθ/mito
elephant sustantivo/ˈɛlɪfənt/elefante
disappear verbo/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/desaparecer, desparecer

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
die out verboextinguirse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: scavenger /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

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 dinosaur, scientist, pterosaur.

¿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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