Shadowing Practice: 56. Making A Pizza - Grade K [Heinman] - Enghlish For Kids - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 51 sentences and 252 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:00. The speaker talks slowly, about 84 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 75% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| oven noun | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | A chamber used for baking or heating. |
| dough noun | /doʊ/ | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. |
| yummy adjective | /ˈjʌm.i/ | Delicious. |
| pepperoni noun | /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/ | A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper. |
| cheese noun | /t͡ʃiz/ | A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. |
| circle noun | /ˈsɜɹkəl/ | A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). |
| soft adjective | /sɔft/ | Easily giving way under pressure. |
| meat noun | /mit/ | The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food. |
| teacher noun | /ˈti.t͡ʃɚ/ | A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| color noun | /ˈkʌl.ə/ | The spectral composition of visible light. |
| wonderful adjective | /ˈwʌndəfl̩/ | Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. |
| square noun | /skwɛə/ | A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll. 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.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, oven, dough.
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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