Shadowing Practice: [Audio] Basic IELTS Listening - 77 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Exercise 10.
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Our Body Systems.
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Now listen to the talk about our body systems.
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As you listen, write down the missing information in the notes below.
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Our body is a wonderful machine.
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It has more parts and can do more types of work than any machine in the world.
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That is why we say that man is the supreme living thing in this world.
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Well, now let's have a look at our body systems.
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I'm going to go through them quickly, and then we will have a look at them in detail.
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Our bodies are made up of several parts.
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The head, neck, trunk, arms, and legs.
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These parts are held together by a framework called the skeleton.
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The skeleton is made up of bones, and it gives the body its shape and form.
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Bones not only support our bodies but also help to protect important organs.
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The skull protects the brain.
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The ribs protect the lungs and heart.
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The hips protect part of the food canal.
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The spine protects the spinal cord.
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There are different types of bones in our bodies.
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The main support of the body is the backbone or spine.
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It is made up of a long row of small bones joined to one another.
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It is found only in the neck and trunk.
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The bones of our body are hard, hard, white, and strong.
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When a bone breaks, new cells begin to grow at the broken ends.
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More and more new cells are formed until finally the broken ends meet and join together.
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To find out if a bone is broken, the doctor uses an x-ray machine.
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This machine can photograph the inside of the body.
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The photographs it takes are called x-ray photographs.
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The ribs can be seen clearly from it.
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There are more than 600 muscles in your body.
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They make up the flesh that lies between the skin and the skeleton.
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Muscles can contract and relax.
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Their contraction and relaxation cause body movements.
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They also push food through the body and make the blood circulate.
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Now let's see the nervous system.
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It is made up of three parts, the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves.
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All parts of the body are connected to the brain by nerves.
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Nerves act like telegraph wires.
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They carry messages from the different parts of the body to the brain.
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Then the brain decides on what to do, and it sends messages back to the appropriate parts of the body.
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This system controls all muscle movement, and also controls your senses.
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So, the nervous system is very important, because without it, we will not be able to feel,
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smell, taste, hear, and see.
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The brain is the most important part of the nervous system.
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It controls the movements of the body and sends out instructions to all parts of the body.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “[Audio] Basic IELTS Listening - 77”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bone, brain, protect, machine, skeleton. This video has 45 sentences and 474 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:10. The speaker talks at a steady 114 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
skeleton noun/ˈskɛlətən/The system that provides support to an organism, where in vertebrates it is internal and consists of bones and cartilage, and external in some other animals.
nerve noun/nɝv/A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
photograph noun/ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
rib noun/ɹɪb/Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
spinal adjective/spaɪ.nəl/Of or relating to the spine.
spine noun/spaɪn/A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and…
cord noun/ˈkoɹd/A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
trunk noun/tɹʌŋk/The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
circulate verb/ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪt/To move in circles or through a circuit.
contraction noun/kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
backbone noun/ˈbækˌboʊn/The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
relaxation noun/rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
telegraph noun/ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf/Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
lung noun/ˈlʌŋ/A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
organ noun/ˈɔːɡən/The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
hold together verbTo cause to stay together.
make up verb/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/To constitute, to compose.
send out verbTo issue, dispatch or transmit.
write down verbTo produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itare made · are held · is made
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionwill have · will not be

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/, relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like skeleton, nerve, photograph.

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 technique: read the full step-by-step guide →