Shadowing Practice: Travel Problems with Past Simple and Past Continuous - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey, Johnny.
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How was your trip to Brazil?
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Did you have fun?
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Oh, hi, Shelley.
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Yeah, Brazil was great.
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I had so much fun.
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But the travel was anything but.
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Oh, what do you mean?
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Well, it was a long journey, to say the least.
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The way there was everything but smooth.
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I had to take two buses,
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a train, and two airplanes.
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I was so tired that when I finally got to my hotel in Brazil,
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I fell straight to sleep.
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Oh no!
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What happened?
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Well, first I had to get on a bus to get to the airport.
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I had bought a ticket for the bus the day before.
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But then I lost it.
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I looked everywhere for it.
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But I couldn't find it.
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It must have fell out of my pocket somewhere.
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So finally I had to buy a new one.
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Oh, that sounds frustrating.
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You mean they wouldn't just give you a new one when you showed them the receipt?
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I didn't have the receipt.
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I lost that too.
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It was a complete waste of money.
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Anyways, I got on the plane.
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Then we were stuck on the runway for about an hour.
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The movies were terrible.
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And the food on the plane was disgusting.
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I couldn't sleep.
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Because the guy that was sitting next to me was snoring the entire flight.
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I tried to use earplugs, but they didn't work.
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It was really stressful.
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Then, when we landed, I had to get on a train to another terminal for my next flight.
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Well, the layover was really short since the plane arrived later than scheduled,
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so I had to run as fast as I could.
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Oh, no. Did you have your ticket for the train?
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Yes, but the train was jam-packed.
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I couldn't find anywhere to sit down.
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How terrible.
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Yes.
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I was standing and walking so much.
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My feet were killing me.
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I couldn't sleep on the plane at all.
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The food was terrible.
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And I could barely keep my eyes open at that point.
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Did you get to sleep on your next plane?
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No, not at all.
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I was sitting next to a mother with her baby,
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and the baby cried the whole time.
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It sounds like a nightmare, Johnny.
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Did anything else happen?
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Well, when I finally arrived in Brazil,
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I had to take another bus to my hotel.
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Well, that should have been easy.
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Right, it should have been.
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Unfortunately, the bus arrived an hour late.
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I was completely exhausted.
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At least it's all over now.
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Yes, except I have to travel there again next month.
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Oh, no!

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Travel Problems with Past Simple and Past Continuous”. Las palabras que más se repiten: plane, Brazil, bus, train, sleep. Este vídeo tiene 64 frases y 438 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:59. El hablante habla despacio, unas 88 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
receipt sustantivo/ɹɪˈsiːt/recepción, recibimiento
earplug sustantivo/ˈɪəplʌɡ/tapón para los oídos, tapón auricular
frustrate verbo/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/frustrar
layover sustantivo/ˈleɪˌəʊvə(ɹ)/escala, parada en el camino
exhaust verbo/ɪɡˈzɔst/agotar
stressful adjetivo/ˈstɹɛsfəl/estresoso, estresante
runway sustantivo/ˈɹʌnweɪ/pasarela
airplane sustantivo/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/avión, aeroplano
nightmare sustantivo/ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/pesadilla, mal sueño
disgusting adjetivo/dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/asqueroso, repulsivo
terminal sustantivo/ˈtɚmɪnəl/terminal

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
sit down verbosentarse

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Did you have fun?
  • I didn't have the receipt.
  • I tried to use earplugs, but they didn't work.
  • Did you have your ticket for the train?
  • Did you get to sleep on your next plane?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas disgusting · was sitting · was standing
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould have
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohad to take · had to get · had to buy

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, didn't, wouldn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/

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 receipt, earplug, frustrate.

¿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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