Shadowing Practice: The Present Perfect & the Present Perfect Countinuous - RISK 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Risky Behavior Guppies, like humans, take risks to impress.
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Imagine that your boat has sunk and you made it to a tiny island.
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You've been all over the island and you haven't seen any people.
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You've looked for food and found some berries and roots.
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In the distance, you've just noticed what might be a bigger island, possibly with more food and a better chance of survival.
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You've never swum so far, but the weather is good and you are a strong swimmer.
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Do you stay on the small island and hope for rescue, or do you swim toward a possibly better place?
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Willingness to take a risk has always been a simple way of dividing any group of people into two separate camps—
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those who are comfortable taking risks and those who try to avoid them.
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Whether in a life-threatening situation, like the island scenario, or in an everyday challenge, like making an expensive purchase,
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some are more comfortable with risk than others.
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But why is this the case?
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Why do we take risks?
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Why do some people take more risks than others?
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Looking for the origins of risk-taking behavior in humans is not easy.
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Because it is not possible to study the behavior of prehistoric people,
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some researchers have begun to study risk-taking and risk avoidance in animals to see
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if there may be any parallels with human behaviors.
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Lee Dugatkin of Louisville University,
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for example, has studied the risk-taking behavior known as predator inspection in small fish called guppies.
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This is when one or more fish break away from the main group to investigate possible predators.
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Think of it as guard duty.
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The risk is obvious.
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These fish are more likely to be eaten by the predator.
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The benefits are less clear,
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but Dugatkin and his colleagues concluded from their experiments that risk-taking behavior makes the fish more attractive to the opposite sex.
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There may be some similarity here with human research, which has demonstrated that teenagers are more likely to take risks
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when in a group of their peers than when they are alone.
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Research into animal behavior has already established some similarities in risk-taking behavior in animals and humans.
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Perhaps more research can further show that animals and humans behave similarly.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “The Present Perfect & the Present Perfect Countinuous - RISK 1”. Las palabras que más se repiten: risk, behavior, island, animal, fish. Este vídeo tiene 30 frases y 382 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:53. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 133 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
predator sustantivo/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/predador, depredador
similarity sustantivo/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/semejanza, similaridad
prehistoric adjetivo/ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/prehistórico
swimmer sustantivo/ˈswɪm.ɚ/nadador, nadadora
avoidance sustantivo/əˈvɔɪdəns/evitación
willingness sustantivo/ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/voluntariedad, alacridad
conclude verbo/kənˈkluːd/concluir
researcher sustantivo/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/investigador, investigadora
impress verbo/ɪmˈpɹɛs/impresionar
threaten verbo/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/conminar, amagar
risky adjetivo/ˈɹɪski/riesgoso, arriesgado
berry sustantivo/ˈbɛɹi/baya
colleague sustantivo/ˈkɒliːɡ/colega, compañero
behave verbo/bɪˈheɪv/portarse
teenager sustantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/adolescente, adolescentes

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas sunk · You've been · You've looked
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosathose who are · research, which has

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you've, haven't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: similarity /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: avoidance /əˈvɔɪdəns/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: prehistoric /ˌpɹiː.hɪsˈtoɹ.ɪk/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/

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 predator, similarity, prehistoric.

¿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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