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Hello Phil, how are you doing?

I'm good, I'm good and I'm looking forward to the weekend.

Me too, it's been a busy week and actually today we're talking about weekends.

We'll talk about what we usually do at the weekends.

So Phil, do you like weekends?

I love weekends.

It's just great.

You don't need to get up as early as you do during the week

and it's just a bit more relaxed that's nice i know who doesn't like weekends everyone needs some time off

and time not doing work um what do you usually do at the weekends usually as i say

i usually get up not very early certainly not as early

as during the week um my children go to play music at the weekends we have to make sure

that they have breakfast and maybe we take them there

or we pick them up but apart from that it's time it's time

when you don't have to do something specific

so maybe there's things to catch up on maybe clean the house

but it's less pressure yeah

you can kind of choose what you feel like doing um for me

it depends whether i've had a busy week

if i've had a busy week of work

and sometimes I have social plans every evening then at the weekends I prefer to just chill

and catch up on on my home things like cleaning but

if I've had quite a quiet week I like to be quite active

so I like to make plans with friends do some exercise

um yeah so it kind of depends but that's why weekends are good

because you can kind of choose what you do yeah

i always think it's nice to make the most of the weekend

when you can particularly especially you get up on a saturday or a sunday and it's really sunny and it's nice

you kind of want to do something though you go out for a walk

or visit somewhere new yeah that's true but

if it's raining my favorite thing um at the weekend is to yeah not set my alarm

Wake up still kind of early, go down, make a coffee,

bring it to bed, have a coffee in bed and either read or watch an episode of something,

a YouTube video, that's my favourite thing because you don't have to suddenly get up and go.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “07 weekends 01 SS1PCBNh”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: weekend, usually, busy. This video has 34 sentences and 405 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:29. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
alarm noun	/əˈlɑɹm/	A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
chill verb	/tʃɪl/	To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
sunny adjective	/ˈsʌni/	Featuring a lot of sunshine.
favourite adjective	/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/	Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
suddenly adverb	/ˈsʌd.ən.li/	Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
exercise noun	/ˈɛk.sə.saɪz/	Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
quiet adjective	/ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/	With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
breakfast noun	/ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/	The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
prefer verb	[pɹɪˈfɝ]	To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
weekend noun	/ˈwiˌkɛnd/	The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
clean adjective	/kliːn/	Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
choose verb	/t͡ʃuːz/	To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
catch verb	/kæt͡ʃ/	To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
look forward to verb		To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	it's been · i've had
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	are you doing · I'm looking · we're talking
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	need to get · have to make · have to do

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 12 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like depend, relax, alarm.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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