Shadowing Practice: Sound Fluent using Would for the Past! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello everybody and welcome to the lesson.
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This is conversation one for wood for the past tense
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and it is titled growing up on a farm
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and you will hear someone talk about their previous life living on a farm
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and notice they use wood for the past tense.
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So that's when you talk about an action you did again
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and again and again you did the action often and it's very similar to used to.
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So let's go ahead and listen, and then we'll take a quiz and review the grammar.
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What was it like growing up on a farm?
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It was the best.
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I used to have so much fun.
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Really?
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What would you do?
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I would ride horses, play with my dog, tend to animals, and just have fun.
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Sounds fun.
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It was.
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Every day, I would get up early, and I would be outside all day.
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I wouldn't go inside until dark.
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Sounds like you had a great childhood.
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It was.
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Now let's go over the quiz.
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Question one, what was life like on the farm?
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A, fun or B, hard?
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And she said it was fun.
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okay question two what would she do on the farm a ride horses
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or b tend to crops and she said she would ride horses
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so you can tend to animals
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and tend to crops tend to means to take care of something
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so she didn't say crops she said she would tend to animals and question three what would she do every day?
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A, have fun.
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B, get in trouble.
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And the answer is she would have fun.
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It was so much fun.
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I actually based this conversation on my childhood.
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I grew up on a farm and that was exactly what it was like.
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It was a lot of fun.
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So now let's go ahead and look at the conversation and see how she uses would many times.
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So the man asks, what would you do? and she said, I would ride horses, play with my dog, tend to animals.
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So here would is referring to every verb phrase, right?
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She would play with her dog and she would also tend to animals.
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And later she says, I would get up early.
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I would be outside all day.
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I wouldn't go inside until dark.
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So would is used to talk about a past action that you did again and again,
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that you did regularly all the time in the past. And that is it.
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Thanks so much for participating.
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Now Now you can practice this in the next lesson, English VIP training.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Sound Fluent using Would for the Past!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: tend, farm, animals, horses, ride. Este vídeo tiene 47 frases y 435 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:54. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 150 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 8 de sus 47 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
crop sustantivo/kɹɑp/cultivo
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
tense sustantivo/tɛns/tiempo
quiz sustantivo/kwɪz/prueba, cuestionario
refer verbo/ɹɪˈfɜː/referir, remitir
participate verbo/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/participar
phrase sustantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/frase
grammar sustantivo/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/gramática
verb sustantivo/vɝb/verbo
tend verbo/ˈtɛnd/cuidar de, ver por
childhood sustantivo/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/niñez, puericia
regularly adverbio/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/regularmente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
get up verbolevantarse
go ahead verbo/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/venga, adelante
go over verbosentar, pasar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como wouldn't, didn't, we'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, regularly /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: quiz /kwɪz/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como crop, lesson, tense.

¿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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