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- Money.
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It's everywhere.
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But what happens when your bills get old and need to be replaced by new ones?
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That means old cash needs to be destroyed.
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A lot of cash.
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This is not, however, the story of money growing on trees, but of trees, growing out of money.
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Well, more like vegetables.
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- We are here at the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, and this is where we shred millions of dollars.
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My name is Dean Wortha, I'm the lead business analyst for cash services here at the New Orleans Fed.
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We are the nation's bank.
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Our job is to make sure that we have a supply of currency.
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Also part of that is to ensure that we remove unfit, old dirty currency from circulation.
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So here on average, we shred about six million dollars in dirty money every day.
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This could be for any number of reasons.
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It could be because the note has rips in it, holes in it, tears in it.
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It could have tape on it, it could have graffiti written all over it.
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We don't want that note going back into circulation.
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If it has any sort of those qualities, it will be shredded.
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What we used to do is take all of these currency shreds and they would just wind up as waste, going to a landfill.
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Now, through a lot of work and effort, we finally figured out a way where we can take these shreds and ultimately recycle them.
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- So all that green leaves the Fed and heads to a compost facility where it turns into something quite useful.
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- What you're looking at right now is 24 million dollars.
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But the soil that is creates will be priceless.
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My name is Johnathan Christian.
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We turn cash into soil.
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It is definitely one of our secret ingredients.
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It's little in content, but it's huge in what it provides.
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Currency that's deemed unfit is brought to our facility at Wooden Materials.
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From there we go through a simple composting process where we convert that into a healthy soil.
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Our compost is used primarily by urban farmers in the greater New Orleans area.
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- One of these farmers is Simond Menasche.
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- And this is a million dollar farm.
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We are making fresh, local food accessible in New Orleans.
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We've grown veggies, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers.
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The vegetables we grow here are made out of composted cash.
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It is very fulfilling to be growing, using a material that would otherwise go to waste.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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- And that's the story of how we grow tomatoes out of cash.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 436 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:51. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 153 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
- currency /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/ (sustantivo) — moneda, divisa. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- soil /sɔɪl/ (sustantivo) — suelo, tierra. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (sustantivo) — granjero, granjera. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/ (sustantivo) — circulación. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ (sustantivo) — verdura, legumbre. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
- tomato /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ (sustantivo) — tomate, jitomate. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
- unfit /ʌnˈfɪt/ (adjetivo) — impropio, inapropiado. Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/ (adverbio) — primariamente. Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
- trash /tɹæʃ/ (sustantivo) — basura, tlazol. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- tear /tɛɹ/ (verbo) — rasgar, desgarrar. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- rip /ɹɪp/ (verbo) — rasgar, desgarrar. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- leaf /lif/ (sustantivo) — hoja, foja (desus.). The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ (adjetivo) — accesible, asequible. Easy of access or approach.
- treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/ (sustantivo) — tesoro. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- pepper /ˈpɛp.ə/ (sustantivo) — pimentero. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
- figure out (verbo) — averiguar, captar. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- go through (verbo) — atravesar. To travel from one end of something to the other.
- grow on (verbo) — gustar cada vez más, apegarse. To become more likeable to someone.
- look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
- turn into (verbo) — convertirse en, devenir en. To become.
- wind up /waɪnd ˈʌp/ (verbo) — dar cuerda. To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, shred /ʃɹɛd/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
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 currency, soil, farmer.
¿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.