Shadowing Practice: SpeakOut Elementary BBC Interviews. Unit 7. Holidays - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I love
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hot weather, so when I go on holiday, I like to travel to hot countries.
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Last year I went to Greece, which was beautiful.
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How about you?
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What kind of holidays do you like?
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I like adventure holidays, but then I like going on holidays where there's loads of famous landmarks.
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I like relaxing beach holidays.
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I like different kinds of holidays.
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I like city breaks, like going to London.
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I also like beach holidays, though.
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I like activity holidays where we swim or cycle or do boat trips or skiing, walking, that kind of thing.
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Activity holidays, really.
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I really like beach holidays.
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I love to go on beach holidays.
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We like relaxing holidays.
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No, we like all sorts of holidays.
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Relaxing ones and city breaks especially.
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Where did you go on your last holiday?
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My last holiday was to the Cook Islands and I had a fantastic time.
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I just sat on the beach and did not very much, read a couple of books and went kayaking and did some other water sports.
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The last holiday I went on was to Bali in Asia.
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We went to St Lucia last year, where we had a relaxing holiday on the beach, reading our books and swimming.
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We've got two young children so last holiday we went to Disneyland in Paris.
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Last year I went to Australia with my mom and a friend
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and that was pretty much a beach holiday
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but we were there for two and a half weeks and it was very good, very warm.
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We went to New York, five ladies and it was the most wonderful place,
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wonderful theatres, wonderful nightlife and safe.
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My last holiday I went to Rome, we saw the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps and one night there was live opera there.
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Our last holiday was a city holiday and we went to New York and had a great time just before Christmas.
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We did lots of shopping and looking at all the sites.
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And once we'd had three days in New York, we then went to stay with friends in Maine in New England.
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On my last holiday, I went to France, to southern France, to see some friends of mine who live there.
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Last holiday, I went to Mauritius, and it was good.
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It was relaxing.
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It was a beach holiday.
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The food was fantastic, great seafood.
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The people were lovely.
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They have really good food there.
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Amazing ice cream.
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I thoroughly enjoyed every minute.
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Very relaxing, lovely weather.
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It was a great place.
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The boys really enjoyed it.
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It was fantastic.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “SpeakOut Elementary BBC Interviews. Unit 7. Holidays”. Las palabras que más se repiten: holiday, beach, relaxing, fantastic, wonderful. Este vídeo tiene 45 frases y 434 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:02. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 143 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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

14 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
relax verbo/ɹɪˈlæks/relajar, aflojar
swim verbo/swɪm/nadar
adventure sustantivo/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/aventura
opera sustantivo/ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/ópera
ski sustantivo/skiː/esquí
thoroughly adverbio/ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/cabalmente, a cabalidad
landmark sustantivo/ˈlændmɑːk/hito, punto referencial
seafood sustantivo/ˈsiːfuːd/marisco
kayak sustantivo/ˈkaɪˌæk/kayak, kayac
nightlife sustantivo/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/vida nocturna
holiday sustantivo/ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/festividad, fiesta
cream sustantivo/kɹiːm/nata, crema
cycle sustantivo/ˈsaɪ.kəl/ciclo
load sustantivo/loʊd/carga, lastre

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swim /swɪm/, ski /skiː/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como relax, swim, adventure.

¿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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