Shadowing Practice: Why rules are important? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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This is a story about a day with no rules.
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Hi, this is Ryan and he hates rules.
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Every morning, Ryan has to wake up early to go to school.
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In school, Ryan have to follow so many rules like listening and keeping quiet while the teacher is teaching.
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At home, Ryan have more rules to follow.
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No TV till you eat your dinner and finish your homework, Ryan, his mummy said.
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I wish we could live in a world with no rules, Ryan thought to himself.
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Suddenly, Ryan is back in school.
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Wait, what?
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Where am I?
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Where's everyone?
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Ryan's friends came into the classroom talking and laughing so loudly.
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Hi guys, why are you guys late?
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Where is Miss Annie?
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Ryan asked.
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Today is a no-rules day.
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Miss Annie don't feel like teaching, so she went home, Bella replied.
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Wait, no-rules day?
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Which means I can do whatever I want.
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Yay, I'm going home to play.
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Ryan jumped for joy.
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Ryan rushed home feeling all excited.
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Mommy, I'm home.
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What's for lunch?
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I'm hungry, he shouted.
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Ryan noticed that the house was in a mess.
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Oh, sorry honey, it's no rules day and I don't feel like cooking or cleaning today.
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His mummy replied.
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Hmm, oh well, this means I can eat all the chocolates I want and watch TV while eating, he thought.
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After eating, he got another great idea.
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I can go to the park to ride my new bicycle because I can do whatever I want.
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While riding down the street, he noticed that there was chaos everywhere.
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People are shouting and fighting fire on the street and no one to put it out.
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Trash everywhere.
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At the park, he saw his friends playing and Derek came up to him.
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I like your new bicycle.
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I want to have it.
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Derek snatched Ryan's bicycle.
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Hey, that's my new bicycle.
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My dad just bought for me.
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Ryan shouted angrily, I can do and have whatever I want because it's no rules day.
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Derek smirked.
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Ryan soon realised that when there are no rules, people can do whatever they want.
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This means Policemen, Firefighters and even Cleaners don't have to work to keep the world clean,
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safe and peaceful.
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There will be no teachers to teach kids from what is right and wrong.
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He has to live in a dirty and messy house because no one wants to clean it up.
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Ryan wished he didn't wish for the world to have no rules.
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Ryan, are you listening?
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Suddenly, he heard Miss Annie's voice in the background.
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Wait, what?
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I was dreaming.
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What a relief!
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Mommy, are you home? he shouted.
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Then he heard his mommy's voice and came from the kitchen.
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Ryan, are you back?
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Are you hungry?
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Ryan is glad that everything is back to normal.
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Now he knows why rules are important.
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Do you think rules are important?

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 60 frases y 485 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:36. El hablante habla despacio, unas 87 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 85 % 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:

  • shout /ʃaʊt/ (verbo) — gritar, desgañitarse. To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
  • bicycle /ˈbaɪsɪk(ə)l/ (sustantivo) — bicicleta, bici. A vehicle that has two primary wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s…
  • hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (adjetivo) — hambriento, tener hambre. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
  • mummy /ˈmʌm.i/ (sustantivo) — momia, chullpa. An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American…
  • rush /ɹʌʃ/ (verbo) — correr, apurarse. To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
  • trash /tɹæʃ/ (sustantivo) — basura, tlazol. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  • honey /ˈhʌni/ (sustantivo) — miel. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
  • chaos /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ (sustantivo) — caos. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
  • classroom /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/ (sustantivo) — aula, sala de clases. A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
  • homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/ (sustantivo) — deberes, tarea. Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
  • messy /ˈmɛsi/ (adjetivo) — desordenado, desprolijo. In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
  • loudly /ˈlaʊdli/ (adverbio) — en voz alta, ruidosamente. In a loud manner; at a high volume.
  • snatch /snæt͡ʃ/ (verbo) — agarrar, arrebatar. To grasp and remove quickly.
  • angrily /ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/ (adverbio) — furiosamente, con ira. In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.
  • smirk /smɝk/ (sustantivo) — sonrisita, mueca. An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • come from (verbo) — ser de. To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
  • wake up /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ (verbo) — despertarse, recordar. To stop sleeping; to awake.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shout /ʃaʊt/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, trash /tɹæʃ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como shout, bicycle, hungry.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohas to wake · have to follow · have to work
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis teaching · I'm going · are shouting

¿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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