Shadowing Practice: What Does Your PEE Say About You? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You produce between two - three pints of urine every day, but most of us still pay little attention to our liquid waste. So, what does your pee say about you? And could it be a clear indicator of your body's overall health?
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Before you pee, the kidneys filter water soluble waste by absorbing the nutrients it needs to keep, like sugar, back into your body, and getting rid of the things your body doesn’t want, like toxins. The liquid waste then flows to your bladder where it is stored until eventually being peed out.
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If your urine is brown, it could be from eating a lot of rhubarb, fava beans or aloe. It is also a side effect of some medications such as laxatives, muscle relaxants and antibiotics.
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More seriously it can be a sign of liver disorder or kidney disease.
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If you’re seeing purple, you may be suffering from a rare inherited disorder known as porphyria.
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Porphyrias cause your body to be deficient in the enzymes which produce heme, an essential part of red blood cells.
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Green urine? It could be from a new medication or vitamin. Some green food dyes don’t get absorbed by your body and can be excreted in your urine, so a green stream is not always something to be alarmed about, especially after St. Patrick's day.
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If your urine is blue, you likely have familial hypercalcemia, an inherited disorder found in children which is caused by excess calcium in the blood also known as blue diaper syndrome.
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Some medications have methylene blue in them which can cause urine to turn blue / green.
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If your urine is pink or red, there may be blood in the urine. This could be due to a variety of conditions from an enlarged prostate, bladder cancer or even chronic lead poisoning.
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But red urine can also be caused by different types of medications or from eating richly coloured foods like beets and blackberries. In fact beeturia is the technical term for peeing pink after eating too many beets.
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If your urine is orange, it could be from eating excessive amounts of food containing high levels of vitamin C or carotene such as carrots. It’s also caused by drugs, like a painkiller called Pyridium given to people with urinary tract infections which turns urine bright orange.
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Normally, urine should be a shade yellow, and it gets this yellow colour from the pigment of urobilin, which is a product of the breakdown of heme, an essential part of your blood.
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Depending on how much water you have in your body your urine will either be diluted or concentrated with urobilin. Honey coloured? It means your body has reabsorbed a lot of water to keep you hydrated so now there is a higher concentration of urobilin in your urine making your pee appear amber coloured. You need to drink water right now. Dark yellow, this is normal, but there is more urobilin so you will want to drink water soon. No colour at all means you have been drinking a lot of water. It could also mean you have consumed caffeine or alcohol which inhibits the ability for your body to reabsorb liquid in the kidney, meaning you pee out way more water.
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Transparent yellow, you’re normal and healthily hydrated.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “What Does Your PEE Say About You?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: urine, urobilin, pee, medication, yellow. Este vídeo tiene 15 frases y 548 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:54. El hablante habla rápido, unas 189 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 75 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 4 de sus 15 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| urine sustantivo | /ˈjʊɹɪn/ | orina, micción |
| urobilin sustantivo | urobilina | |
| medication sustantivo | /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/ | medicamento, medicación |
| kidney sustantivo | /ˈkɪdni/ | riñón |
| beet sustantivo | /biːt/ | remolacha, betabel |
| heme sustantivo | /hiːm/ | hemo |
| hydrate sustantivo | /haɪˈdɹeɪt/ | hidrato |
| porphyria sustantivo | /pɔː(ɹ)ˈfɪɹɪə/ | porfiria |
| inherit verbo | /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/ | heredar |
| bladder sustantivo | /ˈblædɚ/ | vejiga |
| absorb verbo | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | absorber |
| pee sustantivo | /ˈpiː/ | pis, pipí |
| vitamin sustantivo | /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ | vitamina, vitamínico |
| carotene sustantivo | /ˈkæɹ.əˌtin/ | caroteno |
| deficient adjetivo | /dɪˈfɪʃənt/ | deficiente |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | have been drinking |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is stored · can be excreted · is caused |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | children which is · them which can · urobilin, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has reabsorbed |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, doesn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, deficient /dɪˈfɪʃənt/, shade /ʃeɪd/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, urinary /ˈjʊɹɪˌnɛɹi/, antibiotic /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/, indicator /ˈɪn.dɪˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vitamin /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/, laxative /ˈlæk.sə.tɪv/, excessive /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: enzyme /ˈɛn.zaɪm/, poison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: heme /hiːm/, hydrate /haɪˈdɹeɪt/, inherit /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/, inhibit /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como urine, urobilin, medication.
¿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.