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Over 11,000 kilometers of empty ocean lie between Amelia Earhart
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and her attempt to be the first person to fly around the world following the equator.
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She and her guide, Fred Noonan, take off from New Guinea and head for Howland Island,
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a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.
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It was the last time anyone would see her.
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After search efforts by the US Navy found nothing,
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they concluded that Earhart ran out of gas and crashed in the open ocean near Howland Island.
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They believe her plane is laying thousands of kilometers down on the ocean floor.
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While many accept this, there is no significant evidence to prove it.
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Some people have other ideas about what might have happened to Amelia Earhart.
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Some investigators imagine something very different taking place in the plane after Earhart's last radio message.
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One idea is that Earhart decided not to continue looking for Howland Island.
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With only several hours of gas left in her tanks, they believe she flew to another island,
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called Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro.
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As she approached, she landed on a reef and then went to the island.
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Earhart and Noonan waited for help to come, but with no water, died of thirst.
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Another idea is that Earhart changed her route, taking a completely different path to the Marshall Islands, a group of islands that,
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in 1937, were controlled by the Japanese.
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It may sound like a Hollywood movie, but the idea
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that Earhart was taken prisoner by the Japanese is supported by
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many people who claim to have seen the two captured American flyers.
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They believe that Earhart and Noonan both died while being held by the Japanese.
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But another idea is that Amelia Earhart's disappearance in 1937 was not an accident.
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Some believe she was actually an American spy.
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Earhart's mission?
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To pretend she was having problems with her plane so she would then have to fly to the Marshall Islands.
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Why?
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To give the US Navy a reason to search Japanese waters in the Pacific.
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Interestingly, just days after Earhart disappeared, the United States asked Japan if they could search the Marshall Islands.
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The Japanese said no. One of the strangest ideas about what happened to Earhart was
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that she survived the war
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and returned to the United States to live the life of a New Jersey housewife by the name of Irene Bolum.
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The mystery of Earhart's final flight has led to many different ideas of what really happened to the famous pilot.
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Will we ever really know what happened?
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It may be doubtful, but what is certain is people will continue to try to find answers.
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Before leaving on this adventure, Earhart had told her friends that this would be her last big flight.
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She also left the world with these words, Find me if you can.
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And we've been hunting for her ever since.

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Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 481 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:04. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 118 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
adventure sustantivo/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/aventura
mystery sustantivo/ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/misterio, arcano
capture verbo/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/capturar
pretend verbo/pɹəˈtɛnd/aparentar, hacer de
prisoner sustantivo/ˈpɹɪzənə/prisionero, preso
disappear verbo/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/desaparecer, desparecer
conclude verbo/kənˈkluːd/concluir
investigator sustantivo/ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/investigador, investigadora
reef sustantivo/ɹiːf/arrecife
disappearance sustantivo/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/desaparición
thirst sustantivo/θɝst/sed
interestingly adverbiointeresantemente
doubtful adjetivo/ˈdaʊtfəl/dudoso
equator sustantivo/ɪˈkweɪ.tɚ/ecuador, línea ecuatorial
housewife sustantivo/ˈhaʊs.waɪf/ama de casa, mujer de su casa

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, disappearance /dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/

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 adventure, mystery, capture.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere controlled · was taken · being held
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguromight have · may sound · may be
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónWill we ever really know · will continue

¿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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