Shadowing Practice: Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear | BBC - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Here we go.
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Reliant robin.
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Oh, no. I've crashed it.
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I've crashed it almost immediately.
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I mean, literally, 20 feet.
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I can't get out, obviously.
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I'm completely stuck.
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Luckily, people in the north of England are friendly and keen to help out.
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Excuse me.
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Boop, boop, boop.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, heavens, look who it is.
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It's Phil Oakey.
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Do you think you could push me back on my wheels?
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Yeah, certainly.
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Thanks very much.
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No way back, sir.
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You're.. thank you so much.
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Thank you very much, Phil Oakey, out of the human league.
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Pleasure.
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I suppose, as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth putting Robin Reliance back on their wheels,
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when he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktails.
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Help!
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Again, help!
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Where's Martin Frye?
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Out of ABC when you need him.
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That's a useful feature.
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In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine.
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With 32 brake horsepower on tap, 0 -50 took 22 seconds.
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0 -60 wasn't really possible.
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In 1975, though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine.
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This improved the acceleration enormously, but the consequences were catastrophic.
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The big engine increased the top speed, too.
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It would now do 85, and that was catastrophic as well.
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Oh, not again!
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Oh, no. I'm 50 years old.
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I'm on the side on a street in Sheffield.
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Oh, is that the sound of somebody?
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Hello?
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Hello.
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Peter Stringfellow.
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Were you just walking by, or...?
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Oh, nearly.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow, out of lap dancing clubs.
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My pleasure.
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Really, I can't thank you enough.
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To try and understand why the robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts.
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How do you drive a Reliant?
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Straight lanes.
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You don't go round roundabouts.
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You get to it and you see where you're coming off and you go straight across.
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Right.
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Try to avoid the middle.
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Right.
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps.
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Cement?
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps balance.
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Why do you think Reliant owners have big toolboxes? To weigh it down.
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I was going to say, your teeth.
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Did you lose these in a Reliant accident?
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You did, didn't you?
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Why do you think, everybody, Reliance was so popular at North?
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A lot of miners used them.
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Yeah, but why?
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Because they were more expensive than minis.
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No, because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence.
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So to get out of weather in winter, when it were absolutely siling it down, they bought a Reliant.
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So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?
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Some of them, but other ones, also in winter, with them being light, you'll get your normal car stuck in snow or whatever.
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These just simply glide over the top of it.
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Until you get to a corner.
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Well, as long as you live somewhere with a straight line to a pit.
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Soon, I was back on my perilous journey.
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In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s again.
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Because I grew up not far from here, so did James May for that matter.
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But now we're a lad round here.
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Whole rich people, them's as good a food.
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It's all wheels on the car.
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They all had larders, lardy -dars, we called them.
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You didn't want to hit one of them, I'd tell you that for no. They were built like tanks.
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One of the best ways to protect your robin was to lavish it with an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky and Hutch homage.
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The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully.
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But this didn't always work.
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It really is a wonder how anyone in the north survived the 1970s.
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Of course, a lot didn't.
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In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573 ,000.
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Since then, it's dropped to just 513 ,000.
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Some of the lost 60 ,000 moved down south, of course, but many, many,
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many more were wiped out by their three -wheelers.
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Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundai's instead.
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And this means the local TV news channel has to think of things other than reliant crashes to put in its bulletins.
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OK, to Braithwell in South Yorkshire now and a blooming mystery that's baffling its green -fingered residents.
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Harry is there for us.
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Harry, what's going on?
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Welcome here to beautiful Braithwell.
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You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour.
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And I have to say, there's been a real area of controversy here because...
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Oh, well, that's been big.
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My God!
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Are you all right, sir?
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Are you all right?
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Yeah, I'm getting used to it now, thanks.
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Oh, all right.
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Thanks very much.
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If you could just plop me back on the wheels.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Luke North.
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Pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 111 frases y 823 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:29. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 110 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.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| robin sustantivo | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | petirrojo |
| cement sustantivo | /səˈmɛnt/ | cemento |
| miner sustantivo | /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ | minero |
| passenger sustantivo | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | pasajero, pasajera |
| sack sustantivo | /sæk/ | saco, costal |
| catastrophic adjetivo | /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/ | catastrófico |
| finger sustantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dedo, alambres |
| rescue verbo | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | rescatar, socorrer |
| carefully adverbio | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | cuidadosamente |
| mystery sustantivo | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | misterio, arcano |
| resident sustantivo | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | residente, habitante |
| mask sustantivo | /mæsk/ | máscara, mascarilla |
| controversy sustantivo | /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/ | controversia, polémica |
| spray sustantivo | /spɹeɪ/ | spray, aerosol |
| keen adjetivo | /kin/ | entusiasta, ardoroso |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get out verbo | salir |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| grow up verbo | crecer |
| wipe out verbo | aniquilar, exterminar |
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 | I've crashed |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were built · were wiped |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I'm, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, kaleidoscope /kəˈlaɪ.dəˌskoʊp/
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 robin, cement, miner.
¿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.