Shadowing Practice: 5-Day English Shadowing Challenge | Day 5: Review + Final Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.

This is day five of my five-day shadowing challenge, our final day together.

If this is your first lesson, make sure you start with day one so you can follow the full story from the beginning.

You'll find the complete five-day shadowing challenge playlist linked in the description below.

Over the past four days, we've worked through vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and conversation.

Now it's time for the final exam.

You'll shadow six short texts to finish our story.

To it be one, to it be two, and to at C1.

After each one, you'll answer two quick questions to check your understanding.

In this video, you'll shadow each passage once to test everything you've learnt.

And once you complete today's lesson, don't forget to access your day five consolidation course

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Let's get started with today's test.

Here's the first part of the story at B1, intermediate level.

First, shadow me.

Well, my trip's finally come to an end.

It's back to sitting behind a desk for eight hours without stopping from Monday.

I can truly say that it's been a real holiday and has taken me away from the stresses of London life.

I've had an absolute blast and I'm going to remember it for a long time to come.

Okay, question one.

Replace without stopping and real with words introduced during the challenge.

We should have straight and proper.

Sitting behind a desk for Ray Towers Straight and it's been a proper holiday.

Question two.

How do we usually pronounce been in fast speech?

Is it been with a long e as in C or been with a short i as in it?

We tend to say been with a short i.

It's been a proper holiday.

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Here's the second part at B1.

Shadow me as I read the text.

I'm going to be honest.

When I was younger, I wasn't too keen on holidays in the UK.

I always wanted to burn my skin pink on a Spanish beach

or eat bread and cheese in a little cottage in France.

But this trip's made me change my mind completely.

I have two questions for you now.

First, what is the informal contraction of going to?

And how is it pronounced say it out loud

gonna usually pronounced with two schwa's gonna well done if you got that

and for my next question i'd like you to create a

third conditional sentence to finish off the text use the verbs in brackets and add any words necessary.

If I, how incredible it was, I, sooner.

And your verbs in brackets are know and come.

Ready?

If I had known how incredible it was, I would have come sooner.

Do you remember how we can use contractions here with I had known and I would have come?

I'd known I'd have come with that lovely double contraction.

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Are you ready for B2?

Upper intermediate?

Start by shadowing me.

My days are always full in London.

I'm constantly rushing from one thing to another.

That kind of fast pace is normal to me now, but I'm going to make an effort to slow down.

Okay, I have two questions for you.

Number five, use a word from the challenge to complete all three sentences.

We're looking for one word in the same form.

My days are always in London.

My dad made me a lunch every day for school school and the plane leaves in three hours and you haven't yet.

It should be packed.

My days are packed.

They're full.

This is the meaning that we looked at in this challenge.

A packed lunch is a small meal you put in a box

or bag and take to eat later at school or work.

That might be a new phrase view.

And to pack, the verb means to put something into a bag or box like clothes and toiletries.

It's the past participle packed in the sentence.

Okay, question six.

Which sentence is a correct replacement for that kind of fast pace is normal to me now?

Is it, I am used to live a fast-paced life or I am used to living a fast-paced life.

It's the second one.

Remember, it's be used to plus noun or gerund, the ing form of the verb.

And of course, it means something is normal for you.

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Here's the next part, shadow me.

I've come to realise that the more time I spend in nature, the more relaxed I feel.

Not exactly rocket science, eh?

I've also realised that making yourself look a bit silly in front of the locals is a surefire way to make friends.

Okay, question seven.

How do we tend to pronounce the definite article before consonant sounds.

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Is it the more time, the more relaxed or the more time, the more relaxed?

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Yep, we usually use the weak form before consonant sounds as in the more time, the.

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And question eight, replace making yourself look a bit silly with a similar phrase from the challenge.

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making a fool of yourself.

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Did you remember that one?

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Okay, we're moving on to C1, the advanced level.

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But we're flipping it around.

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Complete the sentences you'll read in the passage.

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Number nine, if there's a fly in the...

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It's that I've now set impossibly high standards for future trips.

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The answer is ointment.

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Did you remember that a fly in the ointment is a small problem spoiling something very pleasant?

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Okay, next sentence.

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I'd love to do to take a road trip all around Britain.

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I'm going to give you a clue.

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We need a cleft structure.

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What I'd love to do is to take a road trip all around Britain.

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Which information is highlighted there?

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The last part of the sentence, the thing they want to do.

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Okay, now the text is complete.

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Shadow me.

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I've well and truly caught the travel bug and I've got a bucket list as long as my arm.

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If there's a fly in the ointment, it's that I've now set impossibly high standards for future trips.

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What I'd love to do is to take a road trip all around Britain.

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But unfortunately, I don't have a spare six months.

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You're going to love it.

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All right, this is the final part of our story.

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Let's see how it wraps up.

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Shadow me now.

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So, realistically, I've set my sights on discovering the craggy Welsh coastline.

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I didn't find Nessie on this trip, but Wales has its own mythical creatures.

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Next stop, dragon country.

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All right, question 11.

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In the passage, you heard the words craggy and mythical.

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What synonyms for those words were introduced during this challenge?

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A synonym for craggy is rugged.

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Remember, rugged land is rough, uneven and wild.

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Craggy is similar, though we often use it specifically for rocky surfaces with steep cliffs.

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And for mythical, we had legendary.

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Mythical means from a story, a myth and completely made up.

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Legendary also means from a story, but it's often about real people like King Arthur, though legends do tend to be exaggerated.

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Finally, question 12, pronunciation.

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Which word in the phrase mythical creatures contains the long ee vowel sound?

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The answer is creatures.

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Mythical has two short I of vowel sounds.

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Okay, brilliant work on completing this test.

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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.

Shadowing Practice: 5-Day English Shadowing Challenge | Day 5: Review + Final Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

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