Shadowing Practice: CAE TEST6 PART3 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Part 3.
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You'll hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone.
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For questions 15 to 20, choose the answer A, B, C or D, which fits best according to what you hear.
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You now have one minute to look at Part 3.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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1990s which brought them fame and high living.
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Then they lost it all and some years later bought a derelict house
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which they renovated and now together they've created a garden.
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They join me in the studio today.
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You do seem to do most things in partnership like the jewellery business but using Jed's name.
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Why is that?
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Helena?
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Well this is a bit of a bone of contention actually.
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We have a friend in PR who said you have a great name Jed Stone.
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People would pay a fortune for such a good name
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but sadly at the time it never crossed my mind
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that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do and
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that does get to me sometimes
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but there again I'm very bad at putting myself forward people see Jed as a figurehead
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which is fine actually because I don't enjoy being recognized
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or get any thrill out of that whereas Jed loves it is
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that right Jed obviously I'd love to say no I don't
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but but yeah I do even as a child I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street
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and have people know who you were.
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Ironically, that's the worst of it now.
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It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something, but I suppose I do like being a public figure.
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It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.
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It doesn't stop me doing anything, but it does modify how I do it.
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But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on The Travel Show.
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That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.
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Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.
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I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.
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It was ironic really because Jed adores travelling whilst I hate it.
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The timing was critical though.
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I mean, we were living in this derelict house.
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We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows
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and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to be there when it was done.
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So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering
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but I felt I had no choice because apart from anything else it would provide us with a reasonable income.
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So what about this jewel garden?
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Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?
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Not at all.
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In fact, we were provoked into action.
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I was giving a lecture on gardening
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and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants looked like
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but these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.
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So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.
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It came straight out of my imagination.
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It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.
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Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up, saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.
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And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.
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Don't come now.
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To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.
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And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.
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That was our incentive.
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And why did you call it a jewel garden?
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Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.
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Well, I like to work on projects.
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And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.
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And design is all about reduction.
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Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?
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Yeah, but for me, it was also partly a metaphor.
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It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.
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We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.
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There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.
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um seem to waste not to take that bit of our lives
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and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture to take the bad experience
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and use it in a creative way jed and helena thank you for telling us about it today
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now you'll hear the recording again Jed Stone's best known now for his talents as a garden designer,
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but he and his wife Helena ran a highly successful jewelry business in the 1990s, which brought them fame and high living.
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Then they lost it all, and some years later bought a derelict house, which they renovated, and now together they've created a garden.
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They join me in the studio today.
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You do seem to do most things in partnership, like the jewelry business, but using Jed's name.
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Why is that?
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Helena?
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Well, this is a bit of a bone of contention, actually.
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We have a friend in PR who said, you have a great name, Jed Stone.
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People would pay a fortune for such a good name.
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But sadly, at the time, it never crossed my mind that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do.
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And that does get to me sometimes.
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But there again, I'm very bad at putting myself forward.
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People see Jed as a figurehead, which is fine, actually, because I don't enjoy being recognised or get any thrill out of that.
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Whereas Jed loves it.
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Is that right, Jed?
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Obviously, I'd love to say no, I don't.
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But yeah, I do.
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Even as a child, I thought it must be marvellous to walk down a street and have people know who you were.
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Ironically, that's the worst of it now.
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It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something.
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But I suppose I do like being a public figure.
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It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate.
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It doesn't stop me doing anything, But it does modify how I do it.
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But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on the travel show.
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That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world.
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Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job.
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I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine.
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It was ironic, really, because Jed adores travelling, whilst I hate it.
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The timing was critical, though.
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I mean, we were living in this derelict house.
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We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows, and we could hardly afford to get the job finished.
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And I wanted to be there when it was done.
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So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it would provide us with a reasonable income.
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So what about this jewel garden?
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Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house?
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Not at all.
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In fact, we were provoked into action.
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I was giving a lecture on gardening, and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants look like.
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But these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing.
110
So I started to make it all up, describing this jewel garden with magical colours.
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It came straight out of my imagination.
112
It hadn't been a long -term plan or anything.
113
Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, we must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.
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And I heard myself replying, fine, but come when the colours are good.
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Don't come now.
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To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came.
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And actually, we did 90 % of the work that summer.
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That was our incentive.
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And why did you call it a jewel garden?
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Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word jewel in your house at all.
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Well, I like to work on projects.
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And if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours, then that starts to limit you.
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And design is all about reduction.
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Really, it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed?
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Yeah, but for me it was also partly a metaphor.
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It's making something worthwhile out of a failure.
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We did spend years doing the jewellery, and it wasn't all disastrous.
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There were good things about it too, and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them.
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It seemed to waste not to take that bit of our lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture, to take the bad experience and use it in a creative way.
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Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today.
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That's the end of Part 3.
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Now turn to Part 4.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “CAE TEST6 PART3”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: jed, garden, jewel, helena, colours. This video has 132 sentences and 1576 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:40. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% 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 |
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| jewel noun | /ˈd͡ʒuːəl/ | A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. |
| jewellery noun | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. |
| colours noun | Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern. | |
| partnership noun | /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/ | The state of being associated with a partner. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. |
| disaster noun | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent… |
| reduction noun | /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/ | The act, process, or result of reducing. |
| journalist noun | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly. |
| whilst adverb | /waɪlst/ | Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile. |
| knock verb | /nɑk/ | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. |
| fame noun | /feɪm/ | One's reputation. |
| fortune noun | /ˈfɔːtjuːn/ | Destiny, especially favorable. |
| partly adverb | /ˈpɑɹtli/ | In part, or to some degree, but not completely. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | they've created · I've done · have gone |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being recognized · was done · were provoked |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 42 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'd, hadn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, thrill /θɹɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
- Long words — get the stress right: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/
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 jewel, jewellery, colours.
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.