Shadowing Practice: Students Discuss their Hobbies and Interests - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I like painting, I like going to sea art galleries.
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The gym, body building, football.
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I do kayaking in the society at uni.
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I love football and hobbies and interests, just hanging out in Kingston, going out and having a laugh with my mates.
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Architecture and travelling around the world, seeing different places with old and new architecture.
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I enjoy shopping, eating, dancing and singing and acting as well.
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Probably socialising and trying to get away from worries and stress and stuff like that.
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Celebrating after a hard day's work with a pint in the pub with your mates is the best thing really.
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I love boxing, go to the gym, gird out, being social.
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I mainly outdoor sports like snowboarding, mountain biking, skateboarding, that sort of stuff.
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Being outdoors, being with my mates, the thrill, the adventure.
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Play basketball regularly, go to the gym and I'm in a band playing guitar.
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Just sort of writing music and you get like a real kick out of it
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and it's a real feel-good factor you get from it.
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I do like reading and poetry and like those poetry clubs, they're really interesting.
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I love writing so anything I can put on paper or listen to creative stuff is really interesting.
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Hobbies, I like football, I like seeing friends, just relaxing, chilling out.
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Gaining my energy back.
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I think everyone likes relaxing, don't they?
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It's about getting the time to do it.
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I do fine art at uni, so a lot of it involves looking into ceramic techniques and stuff like that, which I try and do in my spare time.
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So I'm trying to source like a pottery wheel.
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So, yeah, ceramics, I guess.
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I'm a semi-professional footballer.
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I play for Hoddiston Town Football Club, playing defence there.
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I'm a massive follower of hip-hop, music.
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I don't listen to any other music apart from hip-hop.
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And hobbies, just going on the internet, Facebook, Twitter, I like chatting to friends, following celebrities around Twitter.
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I'm a very theatrical person, so anything to do with creative arts basically and shopping.

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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.