Shadowing Practice: READING EXPLORER FOUNDATIONS UNIT 8 8A A PENGUIN’S YEAR - Learn English Speaking with Video

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8. A Penguin's Year Our emperor penguins are the largest penguins on earth.
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Each adult is over a metre tall and can weigh up to 40 kilograms.
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B. For many months each year, emperors live near the sea in large groups.
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However, the weather gets colder in May and ice covers large areas of ocean.
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Each group moves many kilometres from the water.
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There, each mother penguin lays just a single egg.
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Then all the hungry mothers walk back to the ocean to find food.
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The father penguins put their eggs on top of their feet.
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They cover the eggs with a special piece of skin called the brood pouch, sharing the work.
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See, for two months, the father penguins protect the eggs and keep them warm.
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They do this through some of the coldest weather conditions on Earth.
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By July, it is winter in Antarctica.
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Most other animals leave for warmer places, but the father penguins stay.
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D by August, each mother penguin returns just in time to see her baby hatch.
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The chick is then moved to her brood pouch.
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This can be difficult.
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If the chick falls, it can freeze quickly.
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The penguin parents must be very careful.
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Once the chick has been moved, the father penguin can go back to the ocean to find food.
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New life.
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E. Over the next few months, penguin parents take turns, three going to the ocean for food.
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They each make the trip several times, bringing back food for the chick.
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The chick is always hungry and grows rapidly.
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Into the water F.
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By December, winter is ending.
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The chick can now live on its own.
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Soon it enters the water for the first time.
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It will swim and eat until next April and then return.
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After a few more years, it too will start its own family.

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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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