Shadowing Practice: A Rainy Saturday: What Shall We Do? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Good morning! Are you ready for the park?
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Almost! I made sandwiches for our picnic.
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Great! And I bought strawberries yesterday.
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Wait... can you hear that?
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Oh no. Is that rain?
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Yes. Look, it's raining really hard.
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But the weather app said sunny!
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Oh... no park and no picnic today.
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Don't worry. We can do something inside.
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Like what? I don't want to clean the house!
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Ha! No cleaning, I promise.
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What about the cinema? There's a new film.
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Hmm... tickets are more expensive on Saturdays.
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Okay. Shall we play a board game?
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Board games are boring! You always win.
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That's true. I'm better than you.
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Wait! I have a better idea!
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Let's have our picnic here, on the floor!
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A picnic in the living room? Really?
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Yes! We have the food and the blanket.
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And we can watch a film, too!
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This is so much fun!
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And there are no ants on my sandwich!
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Ha! It's better than the park.
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Hey, look outside! The rain stopped!
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Oh, wow! It's so sunny now!
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Shall we go for a walk in the park?
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Yes! Let's go. Bring the strawberries!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “A Rainy Saturday: What Shall We Do?”. This video has 28 sentences and 188 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:36. The speaker talks at a steady 117 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 9 of its 28 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| picnic noun | /ˈpɪknɪk/ | An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink. |
| sandwich noun | /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ | A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food. |
| sunny adjective | /ˈsʌni/ | Featuring a lot of sunshine. |
| strawberry noun | /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ | The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. |
| cinema noun | /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ | A movie theatre, a movie house. |
| blanket noun | /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/ | A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| ant noun | /ænt/ | Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. |
| ticket noun | /ˈtɪk.ɪt/ | A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc. |
| rain noun | /ˈɹeɪn/ | Condensed water falling from a cloud. |
| clean adjective | /kliːn/ | Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled. |
| floor noun | /flɔː/ | The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. |
| yesterday noun | /ˈjɛstɹdeɪ/ | The day immediately before today; one day ago. |
| weather noun | /ˈwɛðɚ/ | The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. |
| worry verb | /ˈwʌ.ɹi/ | To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you ready for the park?
- I don't want to clean the house!
- Shall we play a board game?
- Let's have our picnic here, on the floor!
- Shall we go for a walk in the park?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm. 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 picnic, sandwich, sunny.
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.