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right the number bods do not be fooled by their job descriptions they are absolutely mad all of them especially
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that one he's mental not literally obviously that wouldn't work last place you'd want something like that is in
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accounts this is the recycling bin obviously we get through a lot of paper
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We make a lot.
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Sell it.
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Yeah.
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Doesn't grow on trees.
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You know, it's pulp.
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Mr Davis, can I just call you Max?
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Something just come up.
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Two minutes.
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Thanks very much.
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Bye.
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What are you doing?
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Gareth, what are you doing?
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I'm just pushing the stuff off my desk.
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I can't concentrate.
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It wasn't my desk.
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It was.
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It's all overlapping.
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It's all coming over the edge here.
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All right?
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One word, two syllables.
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Demarcation, all right?
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David Brent, I presume.
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Let's just do that to cheer these lot up, all right?
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Send them out to get the plants.
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The girls can make them a little bit happier.
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Because they can sometimes get a little bit.
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All right, let's run out of batteries.
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Do you want to get some batteries for Billy Bigmouth?
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Take out our petty cash.
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Can't put a price on comedy.
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Er...
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You're a twat, Gareth.
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You're a twat and a knob end.
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I'm still not listening, so it's not offending me, sir.
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Right, OK, so you won't hear this.
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You're the cock, you're the cock, you're the cock.
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You're the cock.
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Yeah, look, this is the sort of work we're doing.
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Cartoons.
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Does my bum look big in these?
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It's not sexist, that's the bloke saying it. At last. So...
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All for that.
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All for that in the workplace.
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Well, it's a scraper first, isn't it?
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You've met Tim, haven't you?
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Oh, careful.
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Watch this one.
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Gareth Keenan in the area.
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You're looking new to him.
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Good to see you.
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Gareth Keenan, assistant regional manager.
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Assistant to the regional manager.
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Gareth's my right -hand man.
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Immediately beneath me.
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Oh, that's an actor said to official.
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No, he's not.
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I'm not.
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Do you know about your car and your kung -fu and everything?
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Yeah, I got a TR3.
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Bought it for 1 ,200.
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Done it up.
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Now it's worth three grand.
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Profit on that.
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Just started.
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New engine.
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Just a wreck.
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I've got some for himself.
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Oh, what is that car?
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Right, that is it.
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Slow down.
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You move too fast.
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Solomon's here.
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All part of the job.
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What's going on?
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Put my staper inside a jelly again.
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That's the third time he's done it.
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It wasn't even funny the first time.
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Why has he done that?
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Told him once that I don't like jelly.
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I don't trust the way it moves.
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Yeah, you showed him a weakness.
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He pounced.
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You should know about that.
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Oh, what is it?
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It's my stapler.
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Well, don't do that.
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Well, eat it out.
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There's people starving the world, which I hate.
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So.. and it's a waste.
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So.. how do you know it's yours?
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Cos it's got my name on it in Tippex.
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Yeah, don't eat it now. In chemicals.
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Right, you can be my witness.
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Give him an official warning.
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How do you know it was me?
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It's always you.
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Can't you discipline him?
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Oh, kinky!
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No, the thing about practical jokes is you've got to know when to stop as well as start,
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and now's the time to stop putting Gareth's personal possessions in jelly, all right?
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Gareth, it's only a trifling matter.
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Here we go.
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We're always like this.
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I think you should put him in custody.
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He's gonna fit in here.
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We're like Vic and Bob, aren't we?
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And one extra one.
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Oh, God!
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Yeah, I'm more worried, really, about damage to company property, that's all.
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Try it.
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I was just trying to think about the desserts to do.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “why is tim jellyifying gareth's prized possessions”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Gareth, cock, jelly. Este vídeo tiene 115 frases y 639 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:58. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 161 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 20 de sus 115 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
whoa/woʊ/so, cho
cock sustantivo/kɑk/ave macho
jelly sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒɛli/jalea, jaletina
desk sustantivo/dɛsk/escritorio, pupitre
practical adjetivo/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/práctico
possession sustantivo/pəˈzɛʃn̩/posesión
beneath/bɪˈniːθ/bajo de, abajo de
discipline sustantivo/ˈdɪsəplɪn/disciplina
custody sustantivo/ˈkʌstədiː/custodia, patria potestad
weakness sustantivo/ˈwik.nɪs/debilidad, flaqueza
cartoon sustantivo/kɑɹˈtun/viñeta
concentrate verbo/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/concentrar
workplace sustantivo/ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/lugar de trabajo, curro
wreck sustantivo/ˈɹɛk/cacharro, trasto
dessert sustantivo/dɪˈzɝt/dulce, postre

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come up verbosalir a relucir
get through verbo/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/aguantar, salir adelante
slow down verbodesacelerar, decelerar
take out verbosacar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Gareth, what are you doing?
  • Let's just do that to cheer these lot up, all right?
  • Does my bum look big in these?
  • How do you know it was me?
  • Can't you discipline him?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraYou've met · has he done
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould know · should put
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasare you doing · I'm just pushing · I'm still not listening

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 34 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, demarcation /ˌdɛm.ɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: starve /stɑɹv/, scraper /ˈskɹeɪpɚ/, stapler /ˈsteɪplɚ/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overlap /ˌəʊvəˈlæp/, starve /stɑɹv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, dessert /dɪˈzɝt/, presume /pɹɪˈz(j)um/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como whoa, cock, jelly.

¿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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