Shadowing Practice: 20 G1 My Bath - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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Hi, I'm Teacher Aaron from Can Can School.
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Welcome to my story time.
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Today our story is my bath.
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My bath.
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This is my duck.
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This is my boat.
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This is my soap.
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This is my fish.
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This is my ball.
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This is my frog.
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This is my mom.
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This is my bath.
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I'm teacher Erin from Can Can School.
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Thank you for reading a story with me today.
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I hope you have a wonderful day.
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I'll see you very soon.
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Take care.
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Bye for now.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “20 G1 My Bath”. This video has 18 sentences and 86 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:06. The speaker talks slowly, about 78 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
bath noun/bɑːθ/A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
duck noun/dʌk/Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and…
soap noun/soʊp/A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
teacher noun/ˈti.t͡ʃɚ/A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.
fish noun/ˈfɪʃ/A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
wonderful adjective/ˈwʌndəfl̩/Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
boat noun/bəʊ̯t/A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspellingI'll see

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 bath, duck, soap.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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