Shadowing Practice: To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM - Learn English Speaking with Video

If you look up an image of the Earth and Moon, you're gonna get a picture where they're quite close together.

Something like that.

But in reality, the Earth and Moon are about,

About that far apart, that is the Earth and the Moon to scale.

Taking the same concept but for the solar system, every single picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale.

If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic and you won't be able to see them.

There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there.

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.

Welcome to Black Rock Desert.

This is Alex.

I'm Wiley.

He's going to be behind the camera.

I'm going to be probably making a lot of mistakes on camera.

We have 36 hours to measure the distances, trace out the orbits, and set up a time -lapse shot from up on top of a nearby mountain.

To create a scale model with an earth only as big as this marble,

you need seven miles of empty space so that's why we're here why did you guys come I don't have a job

at this scale the Sun is a meter and a half so about about that big around

So we are driving right now to Mercury, and we've arrived.

Venus is the same size as Earth.

I have the world in my pocket somewhere. And Earth.

And this is Mars, got a couple of robots rolling around on that one.

Once the time lapse is ready, we'll drive each orbit with a light.

Hopefully you'll be able to tell just how big they really are.

Onward to the outer planets,

Jupiter, Saturn,

that tiny light out there is our sun just over a mile away.

The sun is way, way out there now. So this is it.

This is the edge of the solar system.

So right now it's about 7 a .m.

We just woke up right before the sun's about to rise.

We are on Earth's orbit.

Wiley is over there holding our sun.

Cue the dramatic sunrise music.

So if we've made our model correctly,

your perspective from where Earth is on the model will match your perspective from standing on the real Earth.

So if you look back at the sun, you will see that the model sun and the real sun are the exact same size.

And that's how you can tell that the proportions are correct.

There are 24 people in the entire history of the human species,

billions of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes.

Following the breakfast, the astronauts went to the soup room where they donned their spacesuits.

This is man's attempt to get to the moon.

Zero.

We have liftoff.

Liftoff at 751.

In Earth orbit, the horizon is just slightly curved.

When you head on out to the moon, that horizon slowly curves around and upon itself, and all of a sudden, you're looking at something that is very strange, but it is very, very familiar.

Oh, my God, look at that picture over there.

Wow, that's pretty.

You can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb.

everything that you have ever known, all behind your thumb.

Not any bigger than that, way up there.

It's really beautiful.

You can cry.

That's what I really wanted to try and capture.

We are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.

When you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering.

Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 57 frases y 626 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:36. El hablante habla despacio, unas 95 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
orbit sustantivo	/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/	órbita
thumb sustantivo	/ˈθʌm/	pulgar, pólice
curve sustantivo	/kɚv/	curva
horizon sustantivo	/həˈɹaɪ.zən/	horizonte
marble sustantivo	/ˈmɑɹ.bəl/	mármol, alioj (disused)
pocket sustantivo	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	bolsillo, bolsa
capture verbo	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	capturar
dramatic adjetivo	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	dramático
sudden adjetivo	/ˈsʌd.ən/	repentino, súbito
arrive verbo	/əˈɹaɪv/	llegar, arribar
encounter verbo	/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/	encontrar, encontrarse
robot sustantivo	/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/	robot
correctly adverbio	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	correctamente
trace sustantivo	/tɹeɪs/	calcar
soup sustantivo	/sup/	sopa, caldo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
look up verbo	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	mejorar
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	despertarse, recordar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we've, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	we've arrived · we've made · have actually seen
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción	won't be · we'll drive · you'll be
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir	gonna get · He's going to be · I'm going to be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días	are driving · you're looking

¿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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