Shadowing Practice: English in a Minute: Happy as a Clam - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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Clams are a kind of shellfish that live in sand or mud.
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They are also apparently very happy creatures.
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Happy as a clam.
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So how was your holiday weekend, Anna?
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Jonathan, it was great.
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I spent three whole days alone reading children's books.
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I was happy as a clam.
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Wow, okay.
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Do you still look happy as a clam just talking about it?
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To be happy as a clam means to be very joyful.
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This idiom is a short form of an earlier expression, happy as a clam at high water.
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During high tide, clams are safe from predators digging them up.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “English in a Minute: Happy as a Clam”. This video has 13 sentences and 108 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:53. The speaker talks at a steady 122 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 2 of its 13 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| dig verb | /dɪɡ/ | To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More… |
| tide noun | /taɪd/ | The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun. |
| predator noun | /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/ | Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food. |
| clam noun | /klæm/ | A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams… |
| idiom noun | /ˈɪdiəm/ | A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. |
| joyful adjective | /ˈd͡ʒɔɪfl̩/ | Feeling or causing joy. |
| shellfish noun | /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/ | A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible. |
| holiday noun | /ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/ | A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed. |
| expression noun | /əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ | The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| earlier adverb | /ˈɝliɚ/ | previously; before now; sooner |
| weekend noun | /ˈwiˌkɛnd/ | The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday. |
| apparently adverb | /əˈpæɹəntli/ | Seemingly; in appearance. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shellfish /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/, expression /əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like sand, dig, tide.
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