Shadowing Practice: All Day (Live At The 2015 BRIT Awards) (Explicit) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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All day All day All day All day I know you
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niggas bald All day How much time you spent in the mall All day
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How many rips did you got on call All day How many can you come?
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All day, all day Take you to get this fly All day, all day How long you been high All day,
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all day You already know that I'm straight from the shaft All day, all day South, south, south,
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south All day, all day Piché nigga, chop for the winning is just made I'm so hard, man it's just crazy Yeah, yeah, yeah, get your money,
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let's get A figure, money to keep the peace, but I'm just saying Say nigga just from the fair car
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and that's this like Try to hop in those kids in
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the 10th grade Got a middle finger longer than the tip But my nigga, uh, I don't let them play with me I don't let them touch me the kind of way Uh,
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y'all better watch what you say to me People still getting popped on the day to day Yo, I still got the 100 with a small face Nigga, my man, you can rock so I'm an off-lady You a fake dance meal like the home state Nigga,
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if you run into me, better at off-lady But your, uh, you a real slobby, wowie Drop a round, listen to the shot, eh If you wait with us, you an our way You an out of use,
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you be on Broadway Come a douche in the Broadway The girl got an air, but my Broadway, nigga Late for the class in the hallway Nigga get a drop out of that song way,
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nigga, ass always Ayy, all day,
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all day, all day I took a young sweeper and I reached into my urge Gave him what I had left,
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that moment I dispersed All day, that moment I dispersed All day,
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all day, how long y'all play is ball All day, all day, how much time y'all spent in the mall All day,
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all day, how it take you to get this fly All day, all day, take a pin your high, how long do you high All day,
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all day, piss all hell no for my niggas that die All day, all day And I keep a bad chick on the past at the side All day,
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all day And you already know that I'm straight for the shine All day, all day Down, down, down, down All day, all day I could do this all day,
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boy About to turn it big time Any day, yeah, ain't in the streets, boy And you ever really been a trial So many rhyme, what I'm late, boy You know I still go wild
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I'm like a light skinned slave boy We in a motherfuckin' house Right now
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Lickin' real suss right now I swear I been on this fight like I'm up right now, stupid niggas didn't pay for a dump right now Shout out
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to Debbie tellin' me the stuff right now I been lookin' at the gram, I been lookin' at the grary's like That's suss right now 24,
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7, 3, 65 days, everybody gettin' paid People lookin' at me like I'm worth both two days Screaming yay yay, take it easy 20 D's on the yee's,
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a's up for evac People do the mongpin' and ain't done shit Only way we can sum it up time,
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bitch Hey Hey Hands up Hands up!
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Hands up!
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Watch your dance!
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Hey!
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Hey!
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Hey!
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I took a young sweet breath
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And I reached full to my earth Gazing what I had left At
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that moment I these burgers At that moment I these burgers AY!
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AY!
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S-T L-O C-T L-O...
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Ok, the girl...
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Here I go...
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Now we wait, ya...
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Ok, wuh....
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Stay loud Stay loud You're skeptical Thank you On date

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “All Day (Live At The 2015 BRIT Awards)”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: nigga, boy, moment, lookin, Broadway. This video has 41 sentences and 660 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:11. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
disperse verb/dɪˈspɝs/To scatter in different directions.
sus adjective/sʌs/Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
burger noun/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/A hamburger.
mall noun/mɔːl/A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
douche noun/duːʃ/Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
slobby adjectiveSlobbish.
sweeper noun/ˈswipɚ/One who sweeps; one whose occupation is sweeping.
tellin noun/ˈtɛlɪn/A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus.
rhyme noun/ɹaɪm/Rhyming verse (poetic form).
skeptical adjective/ˈskɛptɪkəl/Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
hallway noun/ˈhɔlˌweɪ/A corridor in a building that connects rooms.
evacuation noun/ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
gram noun/ˈɡɹæm/A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
chop verb/t͡ʃɑp/To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
bald adjective/bɔːld/Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
hands up/hæn(d)ˈzʌp/Put your hands up (if you wish to participate).

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, ain't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: douche /duːʃ/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, shaft /ˈʃɑːft/, shine /ʃaɪn/

How to practise with this video

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

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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