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Page 56.
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Before you read.
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Exercise A.
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Vocabulary.
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Adjectives of severity.
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Read and listen.
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Now listen again and repeat.
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Mild Moderate Severe Deadly
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Catastrophic Page 56 Reading Read and listen.
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Earthquakes Earthquakes are among the deadliest natural disasters, causing the largest numbers of casualties,
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the highest death tolls, and the greatest destruction.
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In 1556, in China, the deadliest earthquake in history killed 830,000 people.
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But many other earthquakes have caused the deaths of more than 100,000 people, and it is not unusual even in modern times for an
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earthquake death toll to reach 20,000 to 30,000 people with hundreds of thousands left homeless and with countless injured.
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The floodwaters of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, which killed over 200,000 people, were caused by a catastrophic earthquake.
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There are four factors that affect the casualty rate and economic impact of earthquakes.
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magnitude, location, quality of construction of buildings, and timing.
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Magnitude.
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The magnitude, or strength, of an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale,
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ranging from 1 to 10 with 10 being the greatest earthquakes over 6 on the Richter scale are often deadly
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and those over 8 are generally catastrophic causing terrible damage
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location a severe earthquake
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that is located far from population centers does not cause the same damage as a less severe one
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that occurs in the middle of a city.
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As an example, in 1960, the strongest earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 magnitude on the Richter scale,
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struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean coastline, destroying buildings, killing over 2,000,
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and injuring another 3,000 in regional cities near the coast.
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If this quake had struck a city directly, it would have been catastrophic, and hundreds of thousands might have been killed.
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Similarly, in Alaska in 1964, a magnitude 9.2 quake hit an area with few people,
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and the death toll was 117.
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Quality of Construction
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Modern building construction techniques can lessen the death toll
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and economic impact of a moderate earthquake that would otherwise cause severe destruction of older-style buildings.
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In 2010, a terrible earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, caused the destruction of a tremendous number of the city's buildings, mostly due to poor construction.
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In contrast, an even stronger earthquake later that year in Chile caused less destruction because of that country's use of earthquake-resistant construction.
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Timing Finally, the time of occurrence of an earthquake can affect the number of deaths and casualties.
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Earthquakes that occur in the night, when people are indoors, usually cause a greater death toll than ones that occur when people are outdoors.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Top Notch 3: Unit 5: Lesson 3: Describe natural disasters”. Las palabras que más se repiten: earthquake, magnitude, toll, construction, catastrophic. Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 407 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:53. El hablante habla despacio, unas 105 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 76 % 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
earthquake sustantivo/ˈɝθkweɪk/terremoto
magnitude sustantivo/ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/magnitud
catastrophic adjetivo/ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/catastrófico
casualty sustantivo/ˈkæʒu.əlti/baja
injure verbo/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/lastimar, lisiar
deadly adjetivo/ˈdɛdli/exicial
adjective sustantivo/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/adjetivo
lessen verbo/ˈlɛsən/menoscabar, disminuir
coastline sustantivolínea costera
tsunami sustantivo/(t)suːˈnɑːmi/tsunami, maremoto
indoors adverbio/ɪnˈdɔɹz/dentro
severity sustantivo/səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/severidad
occurrence sustantivo/əˈkɜɹ.əns/acontecimiento, ocurrencia
vocabulary sustantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulario
locate verbo/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/ubicar, colocar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, severity /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, severity /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: indoors /ɪnˈdɔɹz/, resistant /ɹəˈzɪstənt/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: injure /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/

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 earthquake, magnitude, catastrophic.

¿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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