Shadowing Practice: Business Partner B1. Unit 5. Video 5.1.1. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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These lunchtime diners in San Francisco are intrigued by a fully automated restaurant
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that looks more like a computer store with touch screen ordering and freshly made meals delivered in a box.
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Technology is allowing us to provide a product at an unprecedented speed.
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So the time-pressed consumer in the financial district really doesn't have the patience for the old ways of going out
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and buying food, interacting with somebody who might not hear your order correctly.
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We've addressed that by creating a process that is incredibly fast,
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incredibly precise, and ultimately gives the customer much more control about what they want for lunch.
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I had to try it for myself.
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Much like any other touch screen menu, it starts with the swipe of your credit card.
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You can customise the menu.
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The food here is all vegetarian.
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Once your order is placed, it's prepared at lightning speed by chefs working behind the scenes. So here it is.
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That was less than two minutes.
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The food has been delivered.
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It says here, clap twice.
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The door opens.
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And here's lunch with my name on it, my balsamic beet salad.
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Looks good.
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Usually we only have half an hour, 45 minutes for lunch, so it's nice to be able to come out during actual lunch hour
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and get a quick healthy lunch.
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This is the first time I've seen anything this automated and this high quality coming out of a machine.
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I've seen, you know, they have similar things in Amsterdam, but the quality of the food isn't half as good.
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I think that we're moving away from social interaction
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and this is just completely facilitating that we didn't have to talk to anyone to get food made for us, which I don't necessarily think is the best thing,
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but it's certainly, I think, the direction where we're all going.
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We've just taken the model and figured out how to interact with the customer differently.
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It's a completely different way of assisting the customer in making the choices that are best for them.
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Other restaurant chains have embraced touch screen technology to replace humans.
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It's a trend in the business, fewer stuff and a more automated approach to ordering food.
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doing is changing the way that the workforce is contributing to the preparation of food.
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So instead of having a cashier or five cashiers, we've created other opportunities for those workers,
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both in terms of being involved in the technology that's supporting the restaurant, having opportunities to interact with customers in a different and more personal way.
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And in the process, not dissimilar to any innovation where technology comes in, changes the ball We believe that other jobs and other types of jobs will be created.
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It just won't be minimum wage traditional restaurant jobs.
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A lot of what we do is bring our clients out
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here to be inspired by sort of either new technologies or new services, new platforms.
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And so we had heard about ETSA and so we wanted to drop by and kind of experience it ourselves.
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But in Japan you have similar restaurants to this, don't you?
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Yeah, there's a lot of vending machine type restaurants.
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So meaning like you would order your food via vending machine
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and you get a ticket and and you hand the ticket over and you get your meal automatically, but nothing as sort of designed, I think, as this.
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And so I think that's why we wanted to experience the sort of, there's so many different magical moments that are just kind of really fun.
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And so once they introduce the app and you can order it and just go pick up your food, I think that's really going to disrupt the current food business today.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Business Partner B1. Unit 5. Video 5.1.1”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: restaurant, lunch, customer, technology, automated. This video has 43 sentences and 626 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:31. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| automate verb | /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/ | To replace or enhance human labor with machines. |
| interact verb | /ɪn.təˈɹækt/ | To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone). |
| vend noun | /vɛnd/ | The act of vending or selling; a sale. |
| cashier noun | /kaˈʃɪə/ | One who works at a till or receives payments. |
| menu noun | /ˈmɛn.juː/ | The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. |
| balsamic adjective | /ˌbɔːlˈsæmɪk/ | Producing balsam. |
| customize verb | /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/ | To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications. |
| dissimilar adjective | /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/ | Not similar; unalike; different. |
| intrigue noun | /ˈɪntɹiːɡ/ | A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. |
| lunchtime noun | /ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/ | The time or hour at or around which lunch is normally eaten. |
| clap verb | /klæp/ | To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. |
| swipe verb | /swaɪp/ | To grab or bat quickly. |
| disrupt verb | /dɪsˈɹʌpt/ | To throw into confusion or disorder. |
| freshly adverb | /ˈfɹɛʃli/ | Recently, newly. |
| vegetarian noun | /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ | A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
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 | We've addressed · has been delivered · I've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are intrigued · is placed · has been delivered |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is allowing · we're moving · is changing |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will be · won't be |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as we've, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: cashier /kaˈʃɪə/, freshly /ˈfɹɛʃli/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, chef /ʃɛf/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: dissimilar /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/, vegetarian /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, unprecedented /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/, facilitate /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
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 automate, interact, vend.
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.