Shadowing Practice: Listening Practice Through Dictation 2 - 12 - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 18 sentences and 175 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:20. The speaker talks at a steady 131 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 71% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

• greedy /ˈɡɹiːdi/ (adjective) — Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
• seed /siːd/ (noun) — Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
• chase /t͡ʃeɪs/ (verb) — To follow at speed.
• poison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ (noun) — A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
• steal /stiːl/ (verb) — To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
• asleep /əˈsliːp/ (adjective) — In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
• grain /ɡɹeɪn/ (noun) — The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
• sleepy /ˈsliːpi/ (adjective) — Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
• monster /ˈmɑnstɚ/ (noun) — A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.
• bird /ˈbɜːd/ (noun) — An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of…
• angry /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ (adjective) — Displaying or feeling anger.
• forest /ˈfɔɹəst/ (noun) — A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
• plant /plɑːnt/ (noun) — An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a…
• magic /ˈmæd͡ʒɪk/ (noun) — The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order…
• stick /stɪk/ (noun) — A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• hide behind (verb) — To use someone or something as a shield in order to avoid taking responsibility for something; to avoid attention by using someone or something as a shield.

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 greedy, seed, chase.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

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