Shadowing Practice: Bridge Kids - Smokin Butts - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What are you trying to trying to look at there?
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Oh, well I'm actually trying to relight these old cigarettes.
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Yeah, I forgot my lighter at home, so I figured I'd use this magnifying glass instead.
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Oh yeah, like a laser.
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Yeah, I want to put these in my filter so I can smoke them like Hunter S.
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Thompson would.
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Yeah, that's.. well, uh...
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Like, you know, you could just go in there and buy some.
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Well, normally I would just go in and buy some, but I left behind my fake...
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This is what I call my fake ID.
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Oh, you call it your fake?
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Um, I mean, normally I don't even, like, smoke these things.
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I prefer to dip.
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I like to do, like, chewing tobacco.
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Oh, yeah, that's cool.
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I like to, you know, spit it.
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Yeah.
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Have you tried the patches?
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Oh, yeah, patches.
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I'll do those, too.
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They give you, like, a different kind of high.
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Yeah, they taste horrible.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Hey, what the fuck, bro?
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What are you doing?
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What is that shit?
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What are you lighting fucking worms on fire, bro?
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What is that shit?
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No, these are, I'm trying to light cigarettes.
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Yeah they don't even look anything like worms
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yo yo look he got he got a fucking pipe
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he got a damn telescope he's sherlock holmes dog he's dressed
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up like sherlock holmes more like sherlock like sherlock homo oh
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that's crazy well actually he's dressed like thompson thomas thomas the damn tank engine more like cause a train wreck
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because you're ugly.
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That doesn't even make any sense.
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Ugly as hell, bro.
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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.
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Alright, check it.
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So, check this shit out.
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Yeah, hit it, man.
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What the?
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What was that?
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Yep, yep.
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It smells kind of good.
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Yeah, I just pulled your card.
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You ain't even know what it is.
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Oh, man.
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This is central air conditioning flavored gummy worm tobacco.
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It smells terrible yeah yeah terrible i think
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you're smelling your armpits bro once
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you just get out of gym class with all those uh
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it's summertime there's not even we don't even
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we're not even in school right now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no i you in summer school though
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because you're stupid dude
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i bet you don't even go to school all right all right yo yo zip it
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because me and my bro me
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and my man's here we gonna go get a magazine with the little pretty ladies and you know i'm
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Oh, yo, bro.
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I bet he don't even know what a boobie look like.
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Bro, the only boobie this kid's seen is the bird on Wikipedia.
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Oh, yo.
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Be chill, man.
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Come on.
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Say I don't know what a boob is.
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Of course I know what boobs are.
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In fact, I call them breasts because I'm an adult.
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I got an A -plus in health class honors.
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I know everything there is to know about mammary glands, areolas, the G -spot, Taurus.
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And you know why?
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Because I'm not ugly.
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I'm very handsome and I talk to girls about these things all the time.
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Meanwhile, they don't know anything about girls.
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They probably have never had a single date in their life.
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Because they dress stupid.
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They don't know the right size shirt to wear.
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Yeah, they are pretty big.
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Oh, whoa, crap.
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How did that get there?
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I could get water or I could try to stomp it out.
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No, no, no, no, that's not gonna work.
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My feet are pretty big, I don't know.
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The most efficient way to put out a fire is you have to suffocate it.
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You have to deny it any oxygen.
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Oh, here, look.
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What are you doing?
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I don't know, I was pouring crumbs on it, you know?
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No, okay, here.
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I'm just gonna use this.
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There.
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That did it.
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Oh, cool.
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All right, let's get out of here.
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You wanna play an emulation of GoldenEye64 on my computer?
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There's 64 GoldenEyes?
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why they always hating on a player trying to get a people's mag yo
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i know you know it's the nut tax
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open that shit up yeah yeah yeah yeah all right all right damn bro damn oh
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oh nice man damn she fine as hell what is
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that the bitch from uh who is that pamela anderson christina aguilera is
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that christina ablegate that's
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that girl that's singing the hip don't lie song you know
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i mean i think oh they didn't know they don't know
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they don't man i wish i wish i could see just a little bit closer
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because i feel like if i
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if i could zoom this in i could just see her butt crack dude wait what about
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that over there oh shit left
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that magnifying glass yo yo poindexter left his fucking glasses yo
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let's get up in this all right shit oh fuck yeah bro
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now we can really see yeah yeah man damn man wait wait bring
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it here bring it here man all right yeah yeah yeah yeah oh look at
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that dude oh bro yo god I can almost smell that shit man whoa what the hell man drop that shit
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Shit stomp that out stomp that out.
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I can't I can't man.
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What oh fuck bro.
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Oh shit.
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Yo, what the hell look turn around
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Holy shit, bro, bro.
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We're gonna die.
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What we gonna what we gonna do?
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Oh
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Michael Sarah was working with the fucking pigs that God
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This looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
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because we need a little controversy because it feels so empty without me
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I'll blow it in your face you don't actually have to blow it yeah I know
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Bridge Kids - Smokin Butts”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bro, damn, sherlock, hell. This video has 125 sentences and 969 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:33. The speaker talks at a natural 175 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ugly adjective | /ˈʌɡli/ | Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. |
| worm noun | /wɝm/ | A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. |
| patch noun | /pæt͡ʃ/ | A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a… |
| tobacco noun | /təˈbækoʊ/ | Any plant of the genus Nicotiana. |
| cigarette noun | /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/ | A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| meanwhile adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| efficient adjective | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. |
| crack noun | /kɹæk/ | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| breast noun | /bɹɛst/ | Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. |
| deny verb | /dəˈnaɪ/ | To disallow or reject. |
| butt noun | /bʌt/ | Body; self. |
| filter noun | /ˈfɪltɚ/ | A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from… |
| controversy noun | /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/ | A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. |
| leave behind verb | To abandon. |
| put out verb | To blind (eyes). |
| turn around verb | To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are you trying to trying to look at there?
- Have you tried the patches?
- What are you doing?
- No, these are, I'm trying to light cigarettes.
- What we gonna what we gonna do?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | Have you tried · have never had |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was pouring · was working |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are you trying · I'm actually trying · are you doing |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna go · gonna work · gonna use |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 41 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, emulation /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, homosexual /ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/, areola /əˈɹi.ə.lə/, emulation /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like ugly, worm, patch.
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.