Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Part 1: Films, Jokes and Being Bored - Learn English Speaking with Video

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1
Good morning. Could you tell me your full name, please?
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Good morning! My name is Mariana Souza.
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Thank you. Let's talk about films.
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How often do you watch films?
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Quite often, maybe two or three times a week.
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My flatmate and I have a movie night every Friday!
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Do you prefer watching films at home or at the cinema?
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At the cinema, definitely, for big action films.
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The huge screen and the sound make everything more exciting!
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But for a quiet comedy, the sofa is perfect.
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What kind of films did you like as a child?
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Cartoons, especially anything with talking animals.
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Now let's talk about jokes.
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Are you good at telling jokes?
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Honestly, no! I always forget the ending.
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But my friends laugh anyway, probably at me.
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Who is the funniest person you know?
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My grandfather. He has a joke for every situation.
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Do you ever get bored?
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Yes, mostly when I'm waiting for a bus!
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Waiting in long queues drives me crazy too.
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What do you do when you feel bored?
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I usually listen to music or call a friend.
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Sometimes I just go for a walk and clear my head.
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Is being bored sometimes a good thing?
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Yes, I think so. Boredom makes you creative.
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Some of my best ideas came from boring afternoons!
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Thank you. That's the end of Part One.

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IELTS Speaking

Episode 16 of 67

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Part 1: Films, Jokes and Being Bored”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: films, bored, joke. This video has 28 sentences and 225 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:30. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 9 of its 28 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
bore verb/boɹ/To inspire boredom in somebody.
cinema noun/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/A movie theatre, a movie house.
grandfather noun/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/A father of someone's parent.
cartoon noun/kɑɹˈtun/A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
sofa noun/ˈsoʊ̯fə/An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
queue noun/kju/A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is…
excite verb/ɪkˈsaɪt/To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
flatmate noun/ˈflætmeɪt/A person with whom one shares a flat.
joke noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/An amusing story.
laugh verb/læf/To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…
quiet adjective/ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
creative adjective/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
prefer verb[pɹɪˈfɝ]To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
comedy noun/ˈkɑmədi/a light, amusing play with a happy ending

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Could you tell me your full name, please?
  • How often do you watch films?
  • Are you good at telling jokes?
  • Who is the funniest person you know?
  • Do you ever get bored?

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 bore, cinema, grandfather.

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