Shadowing Practice: Academy Stars 2 Unit 10 lesson 7 listening | Ruby English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Track 3.24 Unit 10 Lesson 7 Activities 1 and 2
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Hi Jenny.
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How was your weekend?
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It was amazing.
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We were at World Water Park.
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A water park?
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That sounds fantastic.
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Yes, it was.
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There are 17 slides and a huge wave pool.
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The slides were really tall.
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Some were a bit scary.
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But I really liked them.
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And the wave pool was great.
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And, you know, it isn't just a water park There's also an aquarium,
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a theme park and a skate park Really?
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Were you at the aquarium?
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Yes, we were We were at the aquarium on Saturday afternoon.
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We looked at fish and some green sea turtles.
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Oh, I love turtles.
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Yes, they were really cute.
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Then Then on Sunday morning we visited the theme park.
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There are 24 different rides there.
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Wow!
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I love theme parks.
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Were you on all of the 24 rides?
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No, not all of them.
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Some of them were really scary.
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In the afternoon, we were at the skate park.
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It was fun.
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Track 3.25 Unit 10 Lesson 7 Activity 3 How was your weekend?
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It was amazing.
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How was the aquarium?
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It was okay.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 33 sentences and 181 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:36. The speaker talks slowly, about 69 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 85% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| aquarium noun | /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/ | A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| slide noun | /ˈslaɪ̯d/ | An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. |
| turtle noun | /ˈtɝtl̩/ | Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. |
| skate noun | /skeɪt/ | A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. |
| theme noun | /θiːm/ | A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. |
| pool noun | /puːl/ | A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water. |
| wave verb | /weɪv/ | To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. |
| cute adjective | /kjuːt/ | Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair… |
| tall adjective | /tɔl/ | Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of… |
| 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. |
| ride verb | /ɹaɪd/ | To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. |
| afternoon noun | /ˌæf.tɚˈnun/ | The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm. |
| fish noun | /ˈfɪʃ/ | A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod. |
| fantastic adjective | /fænˈtæs.tɪk/ | Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier). |
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 aquarium, scary, slide.
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.