Shadowing Practice: STORYTELLING - Learn English Speaking with Video

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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
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His father John was a glove maker.
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His mother Mary was a farmer's daughter.
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He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers.
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William probably studied Latin, Greek and history and left school when he was 14 or 15.
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Three years later he married Anne Hathaway.
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They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet.
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Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England.
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London's first theatre opened in 1576.
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Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too.
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In 1593, the plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands of people and theatres were closed.
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During this time, William started to write poems instead of plays.
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His short poems are called Sonnets.
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Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe.
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It opened in 1599.
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It was round and had space for 3,000 people.
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At The Globe, some people stood in front of the stage and others had seats.
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The audience shouted, clapped, booed and laughed while they watched plays.
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Musicians created special noises to make the plays more exciting and they had a cannon to make big bangs.
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No women acted in Shakespeare's time, men and boys played all the parts.
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Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings like A Midsummer A Knight's Dream.
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He wrote tragedies which had sad endings, like Romeo and Juliet.
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His history plays are about kings and queens like Henry V.
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Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, maybe more.
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He loved language and invented new words and expressions that we still use today.
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William became rich and famous.
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He had houses in London and in Stratford.
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He died when he was 52, on April 23, 1616.
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His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years ago, and they are still popular today.
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People all over the world love his work because he wrote wonderful stories about very interesting people.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “STORYTELLING”. Las palabras que más se repiten: plays, Shakespeare, William, wrote, Stratford. Este vídeo tiene 31 frases y 318 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:52. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 111 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 13 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
poem sustantivo/ˈpoʊ.əm/poema, poesía
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/emocionar
clap verbo/klæp/dar palmas, palmear
invent verbo/ɪnˈvɛnt/inventar
glove sustantivo/ɡlʌv/guante, maniquete (fingerless)
plague sustantivo/plɛɡ/plaga, peste
boo/buː/bu, uuh
musician sustantivo/mjuˈzɪʃən/músico, música
shout verbo/ʃaʊt/gritar, desgañitarse
tragedy sustantivo/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/tragedia
sometime adverbio/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/al rato, algún día
maker sustantivo/ˈmeɪk.ɚ/hacedor, fabricante
bang sustantivo/ˈbæŋ/estallido, estruendo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, glove /ɡlʌv/

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 poem, excite, clap.

¿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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