Shadowing Practice: Lesson 22-1- Next Summer - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 46 sentences and 406 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:19. The speaker talks at a steady 122 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

• vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (noun) — An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
• amelia (noun) — The congenital absence of one or more limbs.
• hike /haɪk/ (noun) — A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
• amusement /əˈmjuzmənt/ (noun) — Entertainment.
• introduce /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ (verb) — To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
• cotton /ˈkɑt.n̩/ (noun) — A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
• candy /ˈkæn.di/ (noun) — Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
• ton /tʌn/ (noun) — The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
• autumn /ˈɔtəm/ (noun) — Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as…
• outdoor /aʊtˈdɔː/ (adjective) — Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
• assignment /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ (noun) — The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
• roller /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ (noun) — Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
• coaster /ˈkoʊ̯s.tɚ/ (noun) — A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
• rollercoaster /ˈɹoʊlɚˌkoʊstɚ/ (noun) — An amusement ride consisting of a train on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verb) — To continue in extent.
• talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
• work together (verb) — To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as we'll, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like vacation, amelia, hike.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון: