Shadowing Practice: A Summer Weekend in Cornwall, UK - Learn English Speaking with Video

It is so hot in the UK today.

I think it's it's 24 degrees right here.

I am going to go to the beach.

I do have work I have to do today but honestly the weather is too nice.

It's too nice So I'm going to make the most of it and yeah, get out there and enjoy.

First, I need to really quickly pack my bag for the beach.

This is my beach bag.

I'm just going to bring a couple of things.

So I'm going to bring my sun cream.

I'm going to bring my sun cream and also a book, I think.

Oh my God.

Oh, fuck.

Look, it's a wasp.

Oh my god.

Oh god, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going.

I'm back.

I had to disappear for a minute.

That was too much.

I hate wasps.

I hate bees.

And actually, in my bedroom yesterday, a hornet came in.

There was like a hornet that came into my bedroom.

You know what those are?

Like fucking big wasps.

Horrible.

What I was trying to say is I'm going to bring my Kindle because I like reading on my Kindle,

especially when I'm reading in my second language because I can check the meaning of the words a bit easier.

So I'm going to bring my Kindle as well.

I'm in a bit of a rush because the beach I want to visit is only there at low tide.

So when the sea is far away from the beach, I can explain the tides a bit more later

but right now we've got to go we have to go

there's not very much sand on the beach normally this beach is really sandy

but there's not loads of sand which is weird

but I'm still going to head down and um and chill for a little bit, read my book.

Gonna head down these steps onto the beach.

While I'm here I am going to be reading A Court of Thorns and Roses which is like a fantasy romance book.

I'm reading it in Spanish because that's the language that I'm loving.

Also today

when i was about to leave the house remember the bee the wasp

that was in my room i think that was like foreshadowing

because as soon as i stopped filming a hornet came in like a massive hornet the same hornet as yesterday

and i don't know why it's like continuously trying to be in my bedroom

but i hate it i'm gonna stay down here until lunchtime so lunchtime is about one o'clock

um at that point the tide is going to come in we have tides here in cornwall

so we have low tide and high tide some beaches have this some beaches don't

but what that means is at various times of the day the sea will be far out

so there will be lots of beach

and at other times of the day the tide will come in

and there will not be a lot of beach

so down here today high tide where the beach is smaller

high tide is at about 2 pm this is a tidal beach

so right now there is beach or rocks

but later later there won't be so i'm going to enjoy it

while there's still beach i think before the tide comes in

i am going to go for a quick swim a quick dip in the sea

I am now leaving the beach.

The beach is just by me.

I am going to go and meet my sister who is going to a different beach.

There's so many beaches nearby where we live.

So I'm going to head over there I was planning on working I think probably

that can wait I haven't seen her in ages I I

did go as well for a proper swim I put down my camera

and uh yeah like went in I did not get my hair wet

but it was so nice there's so many beautiful places here look

look at this hotel and this this is the view

that the hotel has and you can see over there is a small harbour as well

but you can see the difference in the beach right

because the tide has come in there is less beach

so basically if if you do come to Cornwall you need to be careful

not to get stuck on

the rocks basically

I just

got back from the beach with my sister.

It was so nice, but now I'm going to get ready

because I have to teach a class at half four and it's now 20 to four.

I just went downstairs to film me making a coffee before my class,

which starts in 20 minutes.

I've got an iced caramel latte, obviously.

Or maybe not obviously, maybe you don't know me, but I always drink an iced latte.

I was filming me make it, and then I realized that everything was in slow motion. So that's cool.

That's cool that I can't use that clip.

My plan now is I have one class today, just one class with one of my regular students who is super cool.

He's the best.

And then I'm probably going to sit in this office and edit this video that I'm working on right now.

I sometimes think, I don't know if you get this, but warm weather makes me feel quite sleepy.

I go to the beach and then I'm so tired like I'm

so tired right now and it's four o'clock in the afternoon

so I'm gonna have a coffee and hope

that helps me get some energy

and um yeah just do do some work good morning I am here with Wilson Wilson is a bit worried

because it's another really really gorgeous sunny day.

So we have the doors open in the house

and they keep slamming shut and he doesn't like the noise so he's a bit nervous.

This morning I have woken up and I've been working on a video.

It's this one, my floor day video.

I don't know if that's up, you'll see it.

I've not had a coffee yet

so have to edit the video today that's kind of my my main job

and I also have a couple hours of classes to teach just like two two hours or so

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and Wilson is here

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we are now going to plant up one of these pots in the garden we being myself

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and Wilson who hopefully will sit with me

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while I do this we have a few different flowers

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which we are going to put in here

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and um this is a a trowel the first thing we're going to do is we are going to put

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this flower

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which is cosmos cosmos in the middle you can see here the roots on it as well okay

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and what we do is we dig a little hole not too deep

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and then just put it in the middle and cover it.

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What are these other ones?

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Calibra, Calibra Choa.

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Calibra Choa.

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We then have some other flowers to put around the outside as well.

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So I'm going to squidge the pot,

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squidge it like this, and then plant this one as well, just like this.

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I don't think I really need the trowel, to be honest.

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this one is like a foliage plant it's called goldilocks

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which i don't know if you know

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that child kind of like children's story it's um it's about like a girl who goes into a house with

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bears in it's common in the uk i don't know

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if you know the story she's called goldilocks because her locks are golden locks being being hair How the hell?

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There we go.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna put this one just here.

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Wilson is back helping me.

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And then we've just got two more.

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So there's this flower here, which is scented.

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So this one has a stronger smell.

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It's called Easter bonnet, which if you watched my spring video, you will have seen some Easter bonnets.

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a type of hat worn, type of hat worn in Easter time,

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like children make these kind of special Easter hats.

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Again, I squidge the pot to take it out and then cover it back over.

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And the last one is this purple petunia, which is going to go right here at the front.

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so again I squidge squidge the pot and there we go

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and everything is is planted the final the final look on the pot

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and this will grow um over by the table outside it's

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cute looks super cute not too bad of a way to spend my lunch hour

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it's a little bit later in the day um I have not filmed very much today

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because I feel a bit nervous well not nervous mostly really excited

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because this is how many subscribers I am on right now 99,933.

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Oh, it's just killing me.

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I want it to hit 100,000. So bad.

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So I keep, I keep watching it and not focusing on my work, which is not good.

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Me and Wilson just went for a walk and I was gonna film that and then I completely forgot my camera.

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I just feel, I feel a bit distracted today.

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I think I'm excited probably you can tell he he had

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a good walk I think now I I'm going to try

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and edit a video and not watch the counter too much

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but we'll see we will see if that works or not

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but um I'll check back in when I'm about to hit 100,000 subscribers it's gone up to

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it's now 35 99 935 just

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65 more people to

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go can you see oh my

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god yeah i can see it oh my god shut up Look at that.

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Shut up!

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 155 zinnen en 1648 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:46. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 120 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

flower /ˈfloʊɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bloem. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual…
bedroom /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — slaapkamer. A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
edit /ˈɛdɪt/ (werkwoord) — bewerken, wijzigen. To change a text, or a document.
sand /sænd/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — zand, zavel. Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in…
swim /swɪm/ (werkwoord) — zwemmen. To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
cosmos /ˈkɑzməs/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — kosmos, heelal. The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.
rush /ɹʌʃ/ (werkwoord) — afraffelen. To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — verschrikkelijk. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
pot /pɑt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — pot. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
gorgeous /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — bloedmooi, prachtig. Sumptuously dressed.
purple /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — paars, purper. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
sandy /ˈsændi/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — zanderig. Covered with sand.
bee /ˈbiː/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bij, honingbij. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for…
disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ (werkwoord) — verdwijnen, verzwinden. To vanish.
sunny /ˈsʌni/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — zonnig. Featuring a lot of sunshine.

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

shut up /ʃʌt ʌp/ — hou je kop, kop dicht. Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)…
wake up /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ (werkwoord) — wakker worden, ontwaken. To stop sleeping; to awake.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 56 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, foreshadow /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als flower, bedroom, edit.

Grammatica in deze video

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

Structuur	In de video
Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg	if that's up, you'll see
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	sand which is · Roses which is · students who is
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	haven't seen · has come · have woken
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	is scented · is planted

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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Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Grammatica in deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?