Shadowing Practice: (Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I love singing, and I love books, so I'm very happy.
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My weekends are very exciting,
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but I enjoy my weekdays, too.
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I'm lucky.
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I live near the bookstore,
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and I don't start work until 10 a.m.
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Every morning I get up at 8,
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make breakfast, and watch the news on TV.
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Then I walk to work.
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I'm very busy all day.
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I help people find the books they want.
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At lunchtime, I get a sandwich from the deli,
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and I often go to the gym.
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I usually finish work at 5.30 p.m.,
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but on Tuesday and Thursday evenings,
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I work very late, until 10.30.
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I never cook after work.
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I'm too tired.
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I sometimes like going to the little restaurant near my apartment.
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Saturday mornings, I go shopping and clean my apartment.
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I don't eat dinner on Saturday and Sunday evenings because I'm too excited.
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I like singing, but I'm always nervous before the show.
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Lisa Parsons is 32 years old and lives in Manhattan.
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From Monday to Friday, she works at a bookstore in New York.
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Sometimes she stays at work until 10.30 at night,
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but Lisa doesn't relax on weekends.
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On weekends, she has another job.
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She is a singer.
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On Saturday afternoons, she practices with her band,
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and on Saturday and Sunday nights,
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she goes to nightclubs and sings.
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She has no free time,
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but she loves her life.
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I come from a small town in Minnesota.
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But I live in Hollywood now, and it's very different.
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In my hometown, people are very friendly.
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They walk down the street,
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and they speak to you.
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They say, Hi there, and How are you?
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Here in Hollywood, people don't walk.
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They drive everywhere.
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I live in this big house on Santa Monica,
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and sometimes I don't see anyone all day.
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Pamela is a doctor.
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She's Canadian, but now she lives in a small town near Nairobi,
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Kenya, in East Africa.
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She isn't an ordinary doctor.
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She's a flying doctor.
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Every day from 8 a.m to 10 a.m.,
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she speaks to people on her radio.
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Then she flies to help them.
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She works 16 hours a day nonstop,
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but she loves her job.
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She isn't married.
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She has no free time.
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Ishtvan is a music professor.
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He comes from Budapest in Hungary,
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but now he lives in the United States.
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He works four days a week at the University of Texas, Austin.
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He speaks three languages, Hungarian, English, and German.
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He's married to an American and has a daughter.
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He likes playing tennis in his free time.
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I do the same things every day.
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I wake up at 7,
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but I stay in bed until 7.15.
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Then I get up and have a shower.
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That really wakes me up.
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I get dressed and then I have breakfast,
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some toast and a cup of coffee.
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I leave the house at 8.30 and walk to the bus stop.
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I go to work by bus.
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I start work at about nine and I finish work at five or six.
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In the evening, I have dinner and watch television or play on the computer.
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I am usually in bed by eleven.
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I live with my mother and my father and my two brothers.
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They are called Owen and David.
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Owen is 20 and he's at university.
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David is 16 and he's at school, like me.
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I have two grandmothers and one grandfather.
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My other grandfather is dead.
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I have one uncle and one aunt.
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My aunt Janet is my mother's sister.
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They have two daughters.
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Rosa is ten and Gemma is fourteen, like me.
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They are my cousins.
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Mike is standing at the top of the stairs.
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He is reading something.
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Then he falls down the stairs.
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His leg hurts a lot.
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He tells his wife Judy that his leg is killing him.
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Judy gets ice for him,
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and then she takes him to the hospital.
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The doctor says that Mike's leg is broken.
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Mike isn't happy because he has to stay put.
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He can't go to work for a few days.
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A woman is coming home late from work because she missed her train.
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She has a cell phone,
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so she calls her husband and tells him she is late
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He will pick up the kids and have a chicken dinner ready when she gets home
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The wife thinks her husband is lucky because he works at home and he can take naps when he gets sleepy
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He says that he does the laundry and the dishes because he is home.
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I'm a carpenter.
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I work eight hours a day from Monday to Friday.
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I get up around 6 a.m and I work from 7 a.m until 3 p.m.
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I get home pretty early, about 4 p.m.
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I go to bed at 10.
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Well, I'm an accountant.
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It's a regular 9 to 5 office job,
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so I get up at 7 a.m and get home around 6 p.m.
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That's okay, though, because I like to go out at night.
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I go to bed around midnight on weekdays.
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Well, my hours are a bit different.
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I'm a nurse.
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I start work at 11 at night.
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I work until 7 a.m.
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I get home at 8 and go to bed at about 8.30,
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and I sleep until 4 p.m.
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Oh, you know, I have dinner, watch TV, see friends.
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It's a great schedule for me.
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Tom has to wake up early to go to the airport.
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But when his roommate wakes him up,
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he doesn't want to get up.
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The room is very cold and dark,
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and he wants to go back to sleep.
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Tom gets up, but he doesn't have time to take a shower.
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He gets dressed quickly and goes to the airport.
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He's lucky because he doesn't miss his plane.
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Alice and Peter go away for the weekend.
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They go to the beach.
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It is winter, so they can't go swimming.
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But they take walks on the beach,
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and they get plenty of fresh air.
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On Friday night, they go dancing,
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and on Sunday, they go ice skating.
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They have a good time and are very happy.
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The Internet Can you imagine a day before the Internet?
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Its history.
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The Internet started in the 1960s.
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The United States Department of Defense started it because they wanted a computer network to help the American military.
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In the 1970s, scientists worked on it and learned how to send messages between computers.
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Then, in the 1980s, telephone companies made it possible to communicate on the computer network in many more countries.
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International Computer Language was born,
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and the Internet went worldwide.
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These days.
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Now, of course, you can email,
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listen to music, and shop online.
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You can Google for information about anything and everything,
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or just put on your Google glasses.
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You can book a hotel,
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a vacation, or movie tickets.
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You can read a book.
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You can pay your bills.
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You can watch your favorite TV program.
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You can play chess with a partner in China.
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You can chat with your friends and share photos.
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You can.
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The list is endless.
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Canada through the seasons The weather is very different in this large country,
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so there's something to do for everyone in every season.
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Spring can arrive in February in Victoria on the west coast.
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In other parts of Canada,
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it gets warm in early April,
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and spring weather continues until June.
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In British Columbia, you can kayak,
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camp, or take a train trip through the Rocky Mountains.
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Summer brings warm to hot weather from May to September.
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This is a great time to fish in one of Canada's many lakes.
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Kayak among whales in Churchill,
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Manitoba, or have some Wild West fun at the Calgary Stampede.
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Fall brings cool temperatures in September and October.
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It's a good time of year to see the fall leaves in eastern Canada,
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enjoy hiking, visit museums, or go to the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Snow begins to fall in November and temperatures drop.
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Days are short in winter,
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but you can ski, go to an ice festival,
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or see the northern lights.
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In parts of British Columbia,
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the snow doesn't stay long and you can golf all year.
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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 Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English”. Las palabras que más se repiten: computer, bed, walk. Este vídeo tiene 178 frases y 1356 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:18. El hablante habla despacio, unas 102 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 83 % 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| kayak sustantivo | /ˈkaɪˌæk/ | kayak, kayac |
| microgram sustantivo | /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/ | microgramo |
| weekday sustantivo | /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/ | día de entre semana, día de entresemana |
| stairs sustantivo | /ˈstɛɹz/ | escalera, gradas |
| aunt sustantivo | /ɑːnt/ | tía |
| grandfather sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/ | abuelo |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | emocionar |
| nightclub sustantivo | /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/ | club nocturno, discoteca |
| sleepy adjetivo | /ˈsliːpi/ | tener sueño, cansado |
| skate sustantivo | /skeɪt/ | patín |
| accountant sustantivo | /əˈkaʊn.tənt/ | contador, contadora |
| roommate sustantivo | /ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/ | compañero de cuarto |
| carpenter sustantivo | /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ | carpintero, carpintera |
| nap sustantivo | /næp/ | siesta, camarón |
| hometown sustantivo | /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/ | patria chica |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| get up verbo | levantarse | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | are called · is broken · was born |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing | love singing · enjoy hiking |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | is standing · is reading · is killing |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | has to stay · has to wake |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 23 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, doesn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, sleepy /ˈsliːpi/, skate /skeɪt/, swim /swɪm/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hometown /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/, hike /haɪk/
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 kayak, microgram, weekday.
¿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.