Shadowing Practice: Streamline English Connections 16 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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A traffic survey.
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The city of Oxford has got a traffic problem.
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It's an old town and the streets are narrow.
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There are too many cars and not enough parking spaces in the city centre.
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The planning department wanted to change the traffic system, and so they conducted a traffic survey.
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They asked a lot of people these five questions.
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1. How old are you?
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2. Can you drive?
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3. How long have you been able to drive?
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4. Where do you live?
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5. How do you come to town?
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Here are some of the results.
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Mr. Brown's 58.
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He learned to drive when he was 18.
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He's been able to drive for 40 years.
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He lives in the country, 20 miles from Oxford.
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He always comes into town by car.
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Mary Mackintosh is twenty.
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She's had a lot of driving lessons.
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She's taken the driving test three times, but she hasn't been able to pass the test yet.
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She lives near the city centre, and she usually walks to work.
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Bob Brewer's 25.
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He's been able to drive for two years, but he hasn't got a car.
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He hasn't been able to save enough money.
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He lives in a village outside Oxford.
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He comes into Oxford by train.
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Mr and Mrs Wilson are both over 65.
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They've never been able to drive.
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They've never learned.
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They live in a suburb of Oxford, and they occasionally come into town by bus.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Streamline English Connections 16”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: drive, Oxford, traffic, town. This video has 31 sentences and 232 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:01. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow. 5 of its 31 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
lesson noun/ˈlɛs.ən/A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
marry verb/ˈmæɹi/To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
narrow adjective/ˈnæɹəʊ/Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
occasionally adverb/əˈkeɪʒənəli/On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
suburb noun/ˈsʌbɝb/A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery…
survey noun/ˈsɝˌveɪ/The act of surveying; a general view.
twenty noun/ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i]The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
conduct verb/ˈkɑndʌkt/To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
traffic noun/ˈtɹæfɪk/Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
miles noun/maɪlz/A great distance in space or time.
train noun/ˈtɹeɪn/The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
village noun/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • How old are you?
  • How long have you been able to drive?
  • Where do you live?
  • How do you come to town?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as hasn't, they've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, twenty /ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i]

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 lesson, marry, narrow.

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