Shadowing Practice: Zootopia - Young Judy (Intro) - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 98 sentences and 607 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:48. The speaker talks at a steady 127 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% 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:

• predator /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/ (noun) — Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
• scare /skɛɚ/ (verb) — To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
• prey /pɹeɪ/ (noun) — That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
• bunny /ˈbʌni/ (noun) — A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
• carrot /ˈkæɹət/ (noun) — A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
• settle /ˈsɛtəl/ (verb) — To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
• heck /hɛk/ — Hell.
• killer /ˈkɪlɚ/ (noun) — One who or that which kills.
• soil /sɔɪl/ (noun) — A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• honey /ˈhʌni/ (noun) — A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
• hunter /ˈhʌntɚ/ (noun) — One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
• seed /siːd/ (noun) — Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
• biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/ (adjective) — Of or relating to biology.
• butt /bʌt/ (noun) — The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
• nope /noʊp/ — No.

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.)
• look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
• talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
• watch out — Used to warn someone of an imminent danger.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

• The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheep /ˈʃiːp/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, exemption /ɪɡˈzɛm(p).ʃən/
• Long words — get the stress right: biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, comparative /kəmˈpæɹətɪv/, actuary /ˈæktʃuˌɛɹi/, complacency /kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/, multitudinous /ˌməltəˈt(j)ud(ɪ)n̩əs/

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 predator, scare, prey.

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