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There are many ways to tell a story, and in simplest terms, a story is a sequence of events, or narrative, which unfolds through time.
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It begins, something happens, and it ends.
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Some stories, no matter how they're told, have a special quality.
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You've probably felt this.
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Some stories grab you emotionally, engage your mind, and pull you in.
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Now let's hear from our artists what stories pulled them in.
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These little stop-motion specials on at Christmas.
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And I remember seeing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the first time.
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And I knew the song.
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That's one thing.
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but then to see it illustrated and play out in the city, the island of lost toys, how all these things were not what people expected or not of the norm.
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And I remember being very, very affected by the injustice, and that really touched me as a kid.
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In the case of The Little Mermaid, I remember it was the first animated movie I had ever seen that took me somewhere else.
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And I remember just being so transfixed with the idea of going under the ocean and swimming and living a whole kind of other life.
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A movie I saw called The Killing Fields.
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It was a war movie and there's this whole section of this movie where the protagonist has to escape from bad guys and it goes silent for like 30 minutes.
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It felt like 20, 30 minutes.
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And it's just so arresting to see this character trying to survive that I was just riveted And when he finally finds his friend at the end, I just remember, yeah, breaking down.
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It felt incredibly emotional.
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The Lion King.
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And I remember I was five years old and watching Mufasa fall to his death.
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And I was so traumatized that I had to leave the theater.
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It hadn't hit me before.
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But when I saw Simba nudging Mufasa's body and he wasn't moving, and Simba was telling him to wake up, but his dad wasn't waking up and he just lay there and that stayed with me for a really long time.
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It traumatized me a little bit, but I think I grew a little bit after watching it too.
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Imagine your cast away on an island.
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You can pick three of your favorite movies to bring with you.
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What would they be?
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In the next exercise, you'll have a chance to think about what you would bring and why these particular stories made such an impression on you.
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You'll reference these three stories in the exercises throughout the next six lessons, so take the time to find your favorites.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Video 2: Your favourite stories”. Las palabras que más se repiten: stories, movie, felt. Este vídeo tiene 30 frases y 439 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:59. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 147 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| silent adjetivo | /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ | silencioso, callar |
| narrative sustantivo | /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/ | narrativa |
| incredibly adverbio | /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/ | increíblemente |
| engage verbo | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | embebecer, embelesar |
| impression sustantivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | impresión, sensación |
| sequence sustantivo | /ˈsiː.kwəns/ | secuencia |
| theater sustantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| toy sustantivo | /tɔɪ/ | juguete |
| swim verbo | /swɪm/ | nadar |
| emotionally adverbio | /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ | emocionalmente |
| norm sustantivo | /nɔːm/ | norma |
| injustice sustantivo | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/ | injusticia |
| illustrate verbo | /ˈɪl.əˌstɹeɪt/ | ilustrar |
| protagonist sustantivo | /pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/ | protagonista |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
| break down verbo | descomponerse, averiarse | |
| go under verbo | hundirse, irse a pique |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como wasn't, you'll, hadn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, protagonist /pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, rivet /ˈɹɪvət/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, injustice /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/, nudge /nʌd͡ʒ/
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 lesson, silent, narrative.
¿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.