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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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Dominoes is an old game.
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Domino effect.
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So is this what happens after you play Dominoes for too long?
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So I'm going to China next month.
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How was your trip there?
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Difficult.
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I missed my flight in Los Angeles, which made me miss my connecting flight in Hong Kong, which made me miss my train in Shanghai.
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Wow, that is quite the domino effect.
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It was an international domino effect.
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Dominoes is a game, but people also use the tiles in this way.
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They knock the first tile over, which knocks over the second, then the third, and so on.
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So a domino effect is when one event causes a series of other things to happen.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “English in a Minute: Domino Effect”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: domino, effect, Dominoes. This video has 14 sentences and 128 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:56. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 8 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| knock verb | /nɑk/ | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. |
| tile noun | /ˈtaɪ.əl/ | A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| domino noun | /ˈdɑməˌnoʊ/ | A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. |
| flight noun | /ˈflaɪ̯t/ | The act of flying; the ability to fly. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| 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. |
| trip noun | /tɹɪp/ | A journey; an excursion or jaunt. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| knock over verb | To bump or strike something in such a way as to tip it. |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like knock, tile, connect.
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Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.