Shadowing Practice: CAE TEST30 PART2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You'll hear a woman called Harriet O 'Neill talking about a holiday tour of South Africa.
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For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at part two.
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Thank you.
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I was really lucky last year to have the opportunity to visit South Africa.
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It was absolutely the holiday of a lifetime.
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I went with my husband.
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He had some relatives who emigrated there recently, an uncle and some cousins.
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So we spent a bit of time with them, which was good.
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Oddly enough, my grandfather was actually born in Johannesburg, but he'd left before he was ten years old.
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Still, that's always made me feel I have a connection with the country, and I've always wanted to go there.
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The main impetus for our visit, however, was that our son's mad on sport, and his school had organised a tour,
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so the boys in the first and second teams could play some rugby matches there.
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Quite a few of us parents decided to go out there at the same time to watch them play,
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which was quite scary as the South African boys all seemed so much bigger than ours.
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But anyway, they all survived with no broken bones and we managed to have a really exciting holiday too.
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Although we were following the same route as the school tour, we travelled independently.
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The school used a travel agent called Rainbow Tours and they were able to make arrangements for us too.
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We considered organising our trip through another company called Safari Holidays, but didn't use them in the end,
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though they also had some very good deals.
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It was an amazing country.
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As soon as I got off the plane after a overnight flight, I was impressed by the light there.
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It was just so clear, quite different from what we have here.
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It was beautifully warm too, of course, but we'd been expecting that.
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One of the best things we did was spend a weekend at a safari park.
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That was just brilliant.
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It was such a privilege to see so many beautiful animals in their natural habitat.
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Black and white rhinos, giraffes, elephants, aardvark.
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I loved seeing lions sleeping in the bush.
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Best of all for me were the cheetahs, which we saw when we went on a night drive.
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My husband's favourites were the hippos.
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We saw interesting animals elsewhere as well as at the safari park.
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We hired a car to get around, and we caught sight of lots of zebras and ostriches as we were driving along the east coast.
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One day we broke our journey at a crocodile farm and learnt so much about them.
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We went in January and it was a little hot for comfort at times.
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I'm told the best time to go is April.
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It's cooler then, at night particularly, and so you've got more energy for sightseeing.
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It's still plenty warm enough to lie on the beach in the daytime, if that's your thing.
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We felt so relaxed during the trip.
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I was taken aback when we got home to discover how exhausted I was.
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I suppose we'd just done so much over a short time.
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Anyway, we soon recovered, and I hope we'll visit again someday.
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Now you'll hear part two again.
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I was really lucky last year to have the opportunity to visit South Africa.
45
It was absolutely the holiday of a lifetime.
46
I went with my husband.
47
He has some relatives who emigrated there recently, an uncle and some cousins.
48
So we spent a bit of time with them, which was good.
49
Oddly enough, my grandfather was actually born in Johannesburg, but he'd left before he was ten years old.
50
Still, that's always made me feel I have a connection with the country, and I've always wanted to go there.
51
The main impetus for our visit, however, was that our son's mad on sport, and his school had organised a tour,
52
so the boys in the first and second teams could play some rugby matches there.
53
Quite a few of us parents decided to go out there at the same time to watch them play,
54
which was quite scary, as the South African boys all seemed so much bigger than ours.
55
But anyway, they all survived with no broken bones, and we managed to have a really exciting holiday too.
56
Although we were following the same route as the school tour, we travelled independently.
57
The school used a travel agent called Rainbow Tours and they were able to make arrangements for us too.
58
We considered organising our trip through another company called Safari Holidays but didn't use them in the end,
59
though they also had some very good deals.
60
It was an amazing country.
61
As soon as I got off the plane after a overnight flight, I was impressed by the light there.
62
It was just so clear, quite different from what we have here.
63
It was beautifully warm too, of course, but we'd been expecting that.
64
One of the best things we did was spend a weekend at a safari park.
65
That was just brilliant.
66
It was such a privilege to see so many beautiful animals in their natural habitat.
67
Black and white rhinos, giraffes, elephants, aardvark.
68
I loved seeing lions sleeping in the bush.
69
Best of all for me were the cheetahs, which we saw when we went on a night drive.
70
My husband's favourites were the hippos.
71
We saw interesting animals elsewhere as well as at the safari park.
72
We hired a car to get around
73
and we caught sight of lots of zebras and ostriches as we were driving along the east coast.
74
One day we broke our journey at a crocodile farm and learnt so much about them.
75
We went in January and it was a little hot for comfort at times.
76
I'm told the best time to go is April.
77
It's cooler then, at night particularly, and so you've got more energy for sightseeing.
78
It's still plenty warm enough to lie on the beach in the daytime, if that's your thing.
79
We felt so relaxed during the trip.
80
I was taken aback when we got home to discover how exhausted I was.
81
I suppose we'd just done so much over a short time.
82
Anyway, we soon recovered, and I hope we'll visit again someday.
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That's the end of part two.
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Now turn to part three.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “CAE TEST30 PART2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: holiday, tour, safari, visit, warm. This video has 84 sentences and 1070 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:59. The speaker talks at a steady 134 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| safari noun | /səˈfɑːɹ.i/ | A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or to hunt wild animals in their own environment. |
| aardvark noun | /ˈɑɹd.vɑɹk/ | The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing mammal Orycteropus afer, of the order Tubulidentata and somewhat resembling a pig. Common in some parts of sub-Saharan… |
| aback adverb | /əˈbæk/ | By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage) |
| cheetah noun | /ˈt͡ʃiːtə/ | A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native… |
| crocodile noun | /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/ | Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the… |
| emigrate verb | /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/ | To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere. |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| giraffe noun | /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/ | A ruminant in the genus Giraffa of the African savannah with long legs, a highly elongated neck, yellow fur patterned with dark spots typically in the form of… |
| impetus noun | /ˈɪm.pə.təs/ | Anything that impels; a stimulating factor. |
| organising noun | The act or process by which something is organised. | |
| ostrich noun | /ˈɔs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/ | A large flightless bird of the order Struthioniformes. |
| sightseeing noun | The activity of going out looking at things; tourism. | |
| zebra noun | /ˈzɛb.ɹə/ | Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. |
| oddly adverb | /ˈɑdli/ | In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually. |
| rhino noun | /ˈɹaɪ.noʊ/ | A rhinoceros. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get around verb | To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path. |
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was actually born · was impressed · was taken |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've always wanted |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | them, which was |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as we'd, didn't, he'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, independently /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/
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 safari, aardvark, aback.
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.