Shadowing Practice: Short Stories using Past Simple vs Past Continuous - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Two short stories.
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Never swim too far out to sea.
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Two days ago, I decided to walk to the beach, so I put on my headphones and left the house.
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I was walking happily and I was listening to my favourite music.
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It was a perfect day for the beach.
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The sun was shining and the birds were singing in the sky.
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But while I was walking down to the sea, I hit my foot on a big rock and then I fell over and hurt my knee.
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Some people came to help me and I thanked them for their help.
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Then I decided to swim and I took off my headphones and put them in my bag.
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And then I jumped into the water.
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The water was nice and cool.
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But while I was swimming happily, I saw a grey shark next to me.
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I thought he wanted to eat me.
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I screamed for help but no one heard me so I quickly started swimming back to the shore.
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When I finally reached the shore again I felt much better.
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I wasn't scared anymore.
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I was safe.
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After that I decided never to swim so far out ever again. Who ate my chicken?
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Last week, I decided to invite some friends to my house for dinner.
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I bought lots of delicious food, including some very tasty roast chicken.
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At about 5 o'clock, I started to cook the dinner.
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I was really very happy that day because I was cooking in the kitchen.
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The sun was shining and it was a hot afternoon
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so i opened the back door for some fresh air suddenly the telephone rang
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and i went to answer it but when i came back to the kitchen the roast chicken wasn't on the stove anymore
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i felt very upset where was my roast chicken i looked out of the window and saw that a big cat
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was sitting on my garden wall
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and it was eating my chicken the cat had a hungry
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look in its greedy little eyes i got very mad
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so i filled a pot with water
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and i went quietly outside the cat wasn't looking in my direction
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because it was eating the chicken
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so hungrily it didn't hear me coming outside i was walking slowly
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because i wanted to surprise the cat and empty the water over its head
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it was a mean idea but the chicken was very expensive and the cat took it from me I was walking quietly,
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but at the last moment the cat heard me and escaped.
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It ran away and I never saw it again after that.
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After this I learnt my lesson and I always kept my kitchen doors and windows closed.

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¿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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