Shadowing Practice: Does Your Family Tree Outgrow Earth? 🤯 - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 8 sentences and 129 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:49. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 92% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ (noun) — Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a…
• marry /ˈmæɹi/ (verb) — To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
• distant /ˈdɪstənt/ (adjective) — Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
• ancestor /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ (noun) — One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
• grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/ (noun) — The parent of someone's parent.
• tree /tɹiː/ (noun) — A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
• grow /ˈɡɹəʊ/ (verb) — To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
• generation /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/ (noun) — The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• go back (verb) — To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
• go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
• have over (verb) — To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.
• show up (verb) — To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cousin, marry, distant.

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