Shadowing Practice: MY CITY - ANNA - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 15 sentences and 138 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:07. The speaker talks at a steady 124 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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

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

• delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ (adjective) — Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
• lively /ˈlaɪv.li/ (adjective) — Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
• excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/ (verb) — To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
• favourite /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ (adjective) — Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
• famous /ˈfeɪ.məs/ (adjective) — Well known.
• spend /spɪnd/ (verb) — To pay out (money).
• beach /ˈbiːt͡ʃ/ (noun) — The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
• hello /hɛˈloʊ/ — A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• live in (verb) — To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)

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 delicious, lively, excite.