Shadowing Practice: Red and Blue Make Purple! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, Lily! Let's paint the fence!
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Yes, please! I've got red paint!
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And I've got blue paint!
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Look, Ben! Red, red, red!
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Blue, blue, blue! I like blue.
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Red is my favourite colour!
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Oh! What colour is it now?
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Look! Red and blue make purple!
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Purple! Wow, I love purple!
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Oh no! Mochi! Stop!
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Look! Purple paws on the fence!
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Biscuit, no! Not you too!
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Big paws and small paws!
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And Mochi is purple now!
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It's a purple paw fence! I love it!
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Me too! Bye-bye!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Red and Blue Make Purple!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: purple, blue, paw, fence, paint. This video has 16 sentences and 87 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:51. The speaker talks slowly, about 103 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
purple noun/ˈpɝ.pl̩/A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
fence noun/fɛns/A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
paw noun/pɔ/The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
biscuit noun/ˈbɪs.kɪt/A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
paint verb/peɪnt/To apply paint to.
colour nounCommonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
hello/hɛˈloʊ/A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

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 purple, fence, paw.

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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