Shadowing Practice: Why do we celebrate April Fool's Day? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, it's Dog.
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Today we have a question about April Fool's Day from someone named Mira.
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Let's give her a call now.
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Hi, Dog.
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Hi, Mira.
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I have a question for you.
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Why do we celebrate April Fool's Day?
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That's a great question.
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April Fool's Day is always the day of the year you have to be a little careful.
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You never know, you might walk into a room and find out it's been filled with balloons.
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Or maybe you find your classroom has been covered in newspaper.
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April Fool's Day might be one of the strangest holidays there is.
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A holiday where people play pranks on each other.
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Little things that might annoy someone or make them laugh or sometimes just confuse people.
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Here's one of my favorite pranks.
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This teacher played a prank on his students by giving them the hardest spelling quiz ever.
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Alright, going through the list with the spelling.
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You're checking your own list.
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Here we go.
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The first word was Blorsky.
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I lost my Blorsky at a carnival.
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B-L-O-R-S-K-E-E The next word is speeku.
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Look, there's a speeku.
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S-P-E-E-K-U-Z-S-L-M-N.
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There's silent letters at the end of that one.
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But then he told them the truth.
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This is an April Fool's joke!
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I'm an April Fool's joke!
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I'm an April Fool's joke!
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Close enough.
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April Fool's.
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No one knows exactly why or when April Fool's Day started, but it's been going on a while.
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Every year for a long time now, newspapers tend to print at least one fake story or picture.
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Most people have fun trying to spot the one story or photo that's fake.
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But always, every April Fool's Day, there's someone who forgets what day of the year it is and they wind up getting tricked.
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Like maybe someone offers you a cookie, only for you to find out it's been filled with toothpaste.
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Yuck.
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Have you ever had someone play an April Fool's prank on you?
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Now'd be a good time to pause the video and discuss.
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Since lots of April Fool's pranks are about confusing or annoying people, not everyone loves getting pranks played on them.
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Like imagine you found your car covered in post-it notes.
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You might find the prank funny, but other people might be upset.
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It could really depend on how far the prank goes.
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For example, one year on April Fool's Day, a television station in Boston, USA, a place that has no volcanoes,
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aired a fake news story claiming that a nearby hill had started to erupt lava.
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It was meant as a joke, but a lot of people took it seriously.
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They panicked and they packed their cars up and left their homes.
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When they later found out that it wasn't true, the news station got in big trouble.
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Modern technology makes it harder and harder to know what's fake.
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Like, take these two photographs.
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You've got a photo of a lion and a photo of a child.
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But using a computer, it's actually fairly easy to take the child out of the photo and make it look like,
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see, there's a child reaching out and giving a lion a hug.
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And it's not just photos that someone can fake using modern technology.
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One year, the British television channel BBC aired this video.
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Can you spot what's wrong with it?
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It shows penguins flying, but this video is not real.
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Animators used computer software to draw penguins, then used special effects to make it seem like a real video.
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They did such a good job that some people saw this video and were actually fooled.
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They thought someone found penguins that could fly.
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Will you remember not to get fooled on April Fool's Day?
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Here's a tip.
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Just always remember what day it is.
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If it's the beginning of April and you hear or see something that seems a little unbelievable, maybe think twice.
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That's all for this week's question.
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Thanks, Mira, for asking it.
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Now, for the next episode, I reached into my question jar and licked three questions submitted to me that I'm thinking about answering.
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When this video is done playing, you'll get to vote on one.
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You can choose from, what makes food delicious?
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Why do different instruments make different sounds?
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Or, why do we have allergies?
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So submit your vote when the video is over.
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I want to hear from all of you watching.
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There are mysteries all around us.
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Stay curious and see you next week.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Why do we celebrate April Fool's Day?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: April, prank, fake, photo, joke. Este vídeo tiene 75 frases y 766 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:35. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 167 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| prank sustantivo | /pɹæŋk/ | travesura, broma |
| penguin sustantivo | /ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/ | pingüino |
| annoy verbo | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | enchilar, crispar |
| confuse verbo | /kənˈfjuːz/ | confundir, barahustar |
| spelling sustantivo | /ˈspɛl.ɪŋ/ | deletreo, espeleo |
| lion sustantivo | /ˈlaɪən/ | león |
| submit verbo | /səbˈmɪt/ | someterse [a]] |
| animator sustantivo | /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/ | animador, animadora |
| toothpaste sustantivo | /ˈtuθpeɪst/ | crema/pasta dental/dentaria/dentífrica, pasta de dientes |
| allergy sustantivo | /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/ | alergia |
| lava sustantivo | /ˈlɑvə/ | lava |
| volcano sustantivo | /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/ | volcán |
| lick verbo | /lɪk/ | lamer, lamber |
| quiz sustantivo | /kwɪz/ | prueba, cuestionario |
| carnival sustantivo | /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/ | carnestolendas, carnaval |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse | |
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| reach out verbo | tender la mano | |
| wind up verbo | /waɪnd ˈʌp/ | dar cuerda |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Let's give her a call now.
- Why do we celebrate April Fool's Day?
- Here's one of my favorite pranks.
- Can you spot what's wrong with it?
- You can choose from, what makes food delicious?
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 | been filled · has been covered · was meant |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | it's been filled · has been covered · Have you ever had |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | might walk · might be · might annoy |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo | the strangest · the hardest |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, now'd, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
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 prank, penguin, annoy.
¿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.