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Asia Catastrophe in Nepal After the flood

More disasters, fewer resources A week after it struck,

it was still hard to gauge the extent of the catastrophe that hit the Himalayas on August 26th.

But it is at least possible to be fairly precise about how it started.

At 8 .37am,

a collapsing glacier and ice rock avalanche crashed down and dammed the Lende River at the border between Nepal and Tibet.

Three minutes later, the dam breached, releasing a fury of water,

rock, mud and ice down the Botei Koshi and Trishuli rivers of Nepal's Rasuwa region.

Shibu Giri saw a wave raise an entire bridge.

Just before it tossed up his lorry, he darted for the forest.

After sleeping in a cave, he was lifted to safety by an army helicopter the next day.

Many were less lucky.

The flash floods swallowed some villages entirely.

A week later, more than 1 ,000 people were known to have died, and more than 4 ,000 were missing.

They included several hundred foreigners, among them busloads of Hindu pilgrims, en route to Kailash, a holy mountain in Tibet.

Some 80 bridges and 40 kilometers of road were wiped out.

The loss of 14 hydropower plants, some still under construction, knocked out 10 % of Nepal's power generation.

Nepal sits where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide, and the hot monsoon breeze meets the Himalayas' icy winds and shaky slopes.

That makes it one of the most disaster -prone places on earth.

Its region is heating faster than the rest of earth, its glaciers melting twice as quickly as they did in 2000.

So, in the years ahead, more glaciers will collapse, and more lakes are likely to burst their banks.

Nepal is among the world's poorest countries, and looks horribly ill -equipped to deal with the calamities this will bring.

Its Prime Minister, Belendra Shah, is a 36 -year -old former rapper, in post, for a mere six months, after Nepali youths burned down

Parliament a year ago, and kicked out their previous rulers.

His government will have to find as much as $5 billion to meet the costs of recovery,

at a time when the wealthier nations it would once have looked to for help are cutting their foreign aid budgets.

The United Nations Climate Fund lacks the money to honor even existing requests from poorer nations.

America has pledged $3 .6 million in assistance, less than 3 % of its contribution after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015.

Besides limiting immediate humanitarian relief efforts,

the shortage of funds scuppers plans to build back better by investing in climate -resilient roads, bridges, and villages.

Himalayan nations, meanwhile, are too stingy and suspicious of one another to manage their shared home in harmony.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya has more than 63 ,700 glaciers, but only 38 monitoring stations,

only seven of which meet global standards.

Pema Giamshou, who heads the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a research and policy initiative in Kathmandu,

the capital, says Nepal will have to rely on neighbours with greater resources to equip the region with better sensors

and monitors and real -time data sharing.

But China tends to treat hydrologic flow rates as a national security secret, risking leaving its neighbours downstream blindsided.

Perhaps no early warning system would have won Nepal the time to prepare for floods as sudden and ferocious as these.

But to survive the devastation wrought in the years to come by its region's mountains and waters,

it will need more funds and more cross -border transparency.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Video Project 3”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Nepal, glacier, nations, Himalaya, flood. Este vídeo tiene 40 frases y 577 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:05. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 141 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 72 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
glacier sustantivo	/ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/	glaciar, helero
flood sustantivo	/flʌd/	inundación, avenida
disaster sustantivo	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	desastre
resource sustantivo	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	recurso
monitor sustantivo	/ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/	monitor
collapse verbo	/kəˈlæps/	derrumbarse, desplomarse
neighbour sustantivo	/ˈneɪbɚ/	vecino, vecina
catastrophe sustantivo	/kəˈtæstɹəfi/	catástrofe
equip verbo	/ɪˈkwɪp/	equipar
meanwhile adverbio	/ˈmiːnwaɪl/	mientras tanto
extent sustantivo	/ɪkˈstɛnt/	extensión
flash verbo	/flæʃ/	destellar, flashear
sudden adjetivo	/ˈsʌd.ən/	repentino, súbito
initiative sustantivo	/ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/	iniciativa
knock verbo	/nɑk/	llamar a, golpear

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
burn down verbo	incendiar, arrasar
kick out verbo	echar, poner de patitas en la calle
wipe out verbo	aniquilar, exterminar

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	was lifted · were known · were wiped
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have looked · has pledged

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Los sonidos de “th”: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: glacier /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/, flash /flæʃ/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, humanitarian /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slope /sloʊp/, swallow /ˈswɑ.loʊ/, scupper /ˈskʌpɚ/, stingy /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, cave /keɪv/, avalanche /ˈævəlɑːnʃ/, devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: disaster /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, breeze /bɹiːz/, resilient /ɹɪˈzɪl.jənt/

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 glacier, flood, disaster.

¿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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