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The writing's on the wall.
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Well, in any event, we'll have to think of something to make the public think kindly towards administration because of the Europass.
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Quite.
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Europass?
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Europass.
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European Identity Card.
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Well, Bernard, surely you've informed the Minister...
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Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
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No, I was redrafting the redraft of the draft.
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Well, briefly, Minister, Brussels is about to decree
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that there should be a new European Identity Card to be carried by all citizens of the EEC.
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Now the Foreign Office is quite ready to go along with it as a quid pro quo
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for a deal over the butter mountain, the wine lake and the milk ocean.
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The lamb war and the cod stink.
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And quite obviously the Prime Minister wants you to introduce the legislation.
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Me?
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Yes, well it's well known that you're pro-Europe you see
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and it would simplify our administration enormously in the long run So it's a good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Not a good idea.
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Political suicide.
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Trying to make British people carry compulsory identification papers.
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They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
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Is this what we fought two world wars for Humphrey?
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Well Minister it's really little more than a sort of driving license.
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It's the last meal in my coffin that's what it is.
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You might get away with calling it Euro Club Express.
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Why do we have to introduce it?
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Can't the Foreign Office do it?
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Well in fact that was the Prime Minister's original suggestion
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that the Foreign Secretary thought that this was a Home Office matter
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and the Home Office took the view that it was essentially an administrative matter and the Prime Minister agreed.
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They're all playing pass the parcel.
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Can you blame them when you can hear it ticking?
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Well I'm afraid that the identity card bill is planned to be the last action of this department.
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Wonderful ammunition for the anti-Europeans.
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Yes, don't the Foreign Office realize what damage this will do to the European idea?
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Well, I'm sure they do.
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That's why they support it.
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Well, surely the Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?
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Yes and no. If you'll forgive the expression.
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The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really anti-Europe.
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The Civil Service was united in its desire to make sure that the common market didn't work.
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That's why we went into it.
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What are you talking about?
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Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years to create a disunited Europe.
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In that cause, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
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Divide and rule, you see.
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Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
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Ancient history, surely.
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Yes, and current policy.
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We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.
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We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work.
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Now that we're inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing.
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Set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch.
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The Foreign Office is terribly pleased.
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It's just like old times.
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Surely we're all committed to the European ideal.
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Really, Minister?
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If not, why are we pressing for an increase in the membership?
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Well, for the same reason.
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It's just like the United Nations, in fact.
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The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
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Appalling cynicism.
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Yes.
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We call it diplomacy, Minister.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Why the UK is in the EU”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Minister, foreign, Europe, European, French. Este vídeo tiene 68 frases y 618 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:29. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 178 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 13 de sus 68 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
appalling adjetivo/əˈpɔːlɪŋ/terrible, horrible
cynicism sustantivo/ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/cinismo
enormously adverbioenormemente
futile adjetivo/ˈfju.taɪl/fútil
impotent adjetivo/ˈɪm.pə.tənt/impotente
simplify verbo/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/simplificar
parcel sustantivo/ˈpɑɹsəl/paquete, encomienda
compulsory adjetivo/kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/compulsor, comisorio
diplomacy sustantivo/dɪˈpləʊməsi/diplomacia
tick sustantivo/tɪk/garrapata, rezno
coffin sustantivo/ˈkɔfɪn/ataúd, féretro
decree sustantivo/dɪˈkɹiː/decreto
terribly adverbio/ˈtɛɹ.ɪ.bli/rematadamente
ammunition sustantivo/ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/munición
stir verbo/stɝ/revolver, bullir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
get away with verboirse de rositas, salir impune / inulto (de)
go along with verboir junto con
stir up verbo/ˈstɜː.ɹʌp/levantar pasiones, soliviantar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
  • They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
  • Why do we have to introduce it?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?

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 informed · has had · have fought
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebe carried · is planned · was united

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/, diplomacy /dɪˈpləʊməsi/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

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 appalling, cynicism, enormously.

¿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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