Shadowing Practice: Chapter 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Chapter 3 Tuesday on the Streets I meet Geoff in Richmond Park at 6.30 on Tuesday morning.
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A park is a good place to meet, away from watching eyes and listening ears.
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We walk up Sawyer's Hill.
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It's beautiful in the park in the early morning.
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There's not many people at that time.
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Maybe a walker with a dog or somebody running.
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It's quiet and green with lots of big trees.
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I love trees.
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Jeff Clayton is not interested in trees.
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Who is it? he says.
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Who's my cyber thief?
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Do you know yet?
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No, I say.
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I tell him about my day in his office.
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It's one of your three designers,
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I'm sure of it, but we need to catch them when they're doing it. But how, says Jeff.
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I'm going to put a Trojan on your office computer.
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When the designers turn on their laptops, the Trojan downloads.
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I can then watch everything on their laptops, on my laptop.
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But they know nothing about it.
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I can see them, but they can't see me.
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A Trojan, says Jeff, but they're dangerous.
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Are you sure about this?
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Where does this Trojan come from?
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How do you get it?
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A friend is writing it for me, I say.
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What friend? Who?
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Sorry, I can't tell you that, I say.
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Look, do you want to catch this thief or not?
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Trust me, We need to do this.
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Then, when the Trojan is in place, you upload your costings for the new quotation.
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What was it?
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Blanding's something?
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Blanding's house.
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A Chinese bank is moving into the building.
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They want everything new.
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Which Chinese bank is that?
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I ask.
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Oh, I can't tell you that, Jeff says and looks at me.
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I laugh, and after a minute, he laughs too.
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And then we wait and watch, I say.
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I use my motorbike when I want to move around London a lot.
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I look like a motorbike messenger taking letters and packets from A to B.
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The letters and packets never arrive, of course, but nobody knows that.
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They just see a person all in black on a motorbike and think, Oh, a messenger.
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Nobody sees your face.
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Nobody knows your name.
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Nobody remembers you.
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This is good.
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Harry, Ken and Anna are at work in the Clayton Electrics office, so I'm going to look at their homes.
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Sometimes you learn things from a person's home.
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Mary Bowman lives in a little house in a quiet street near Kew Gardens.
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It's a nice house with a nice little garden in a nice street.
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Lots of nice people in nice little houses.
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I ride up and down the street once or twice, but it tells me nothing.
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the same for Anna Lund.
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She lives in an apartment in a house in Barnes.
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There are four apartments in the house, but nobody is at home,
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so I can't ask any questions.
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I walk around the back of the house, but there is nothing to see.
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Ken Okobi lives on Richmond Hill.
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Big houses, big expensive houses, looking down over the River Thames.
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I stop the bike by his house and get out my iPad.
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I'm just a messenger checking an address.
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A car arrives and stops outside the house.
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An older man gets out and goes into the house, Ken's father.
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The car is dark blue, long and low.
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It's a Porsche.
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Only very, very rich people drive a Porsche.
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There are two small boys walking down the street carrying skateboards.
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They stop next me and stare at my motorbike. Is that a Yamaha?
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One of them says.
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Yes, I say.
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Do you like it?
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Yeah, it's cool, the boy says.
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What do you think of that car?
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I say, looking at the Porsche.
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I'd like one of those.
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That's a really cool car.
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That's Mr Okobi's Porsche, the other boy says.
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He lives in this house here.
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My dad knows him.
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He's got lots of money then, I say.
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He's an oil millionaire from Nigeria, my dad says.
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He's got three cars, no, four, says the boy.
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So Ken wears Gucci shoes because he has a rich daddy, not because he's a thief.
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An interesting person.
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He doesn't need to work with a rich family like that, but he does.
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I like that.
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The boys move on and I check my iPad for messages.
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There's a green light on the screen.
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Two emails.
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One from Layla, one from the weasel.
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The weasel's email has no message,
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just a file attachment, a file called garden4flowers.exe.
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It's the Trojan Horse Programme.
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At ten o'clock that evening, Jeff Clayton and I meet outside his office.
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Jeff opens the doors, puts the lights on, makes us a cup of coffee.
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I sit down at the main computer and get out a memory stick.
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What's on that stick? asks Jeff.
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The Trojan.
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My friend emailed it to me and I copied it onto this stick.
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I put the stick into the computer and start to upload the Trojan file.
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Jeff watches.
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He's very worried.
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Are you sure about this?
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He says.
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Trojans can do very bad things.
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Yes, they can, I say, but I'm not doing bad things.
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I'm just going to watch and catch your cyber thief, we hope.
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Is your Blanding's house quotation ready yet?
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Nearly, says Geoff.
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I'm going to finish the last bits tonight.
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OK.
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Tomorrow morning, upload the Blandings file into the quotations folder on the office computer in the usual way,
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and then tell the staff about it, but just quietly.
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It's just another quotation.
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Don't do or say anything different.
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Just be normal.
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I stand up and put my coat on.
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Nothing's going to happen before tomorrow night when they take their laptops home.
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Then you're on the night watch, Jeff says.
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And what do I do?
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Nothing, I say.
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Stay at home.
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Wait for my call.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Trojan, Jeff, nobody, boy, motorbike. This video has 129 sentences and 991 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:01. The speaker talks slowly, about 90 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| motorbike verb | /ˈmoʊtɚˌbaɪk/ | To ride a motorbike; to travel by motorbike. |
| quotation noun | /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/ | A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. |
| thief noun | /ˈθiːf/ | One who carries out a theft. |
| laptop noun | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | A laptop computer. |
| messenger noun | /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/ | One who brings messages. |
| upload verb | /ˈʌpˌloʊd/ | To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet. |
| packet noun | /ˈpæk.ɪt/ | A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel |
| cyber adjective | /ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/ | Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-. |
| skateboard noun | /ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/ | A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot. |
| trojan noun | /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/ | Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent. |
| weasel noun | /ˈwizəl/ | Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genera Mustela, Neogale, Poecilogale, and Lyncodon, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper… |
| costing noun | The estimation of the cost of a process or product. | |
| millionaire noun | /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/ | Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). |
| folder noun | /ˈfoʊldɚ/ | An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet. |
| attachment noun | /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
| move around verb | To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
| 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… |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Who's my cyber thief?
- Do you know yet?
- Are you sure about this?
- How do you get it?
- What do you think of that car?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to put · I'm going to look · I'm just going to watch |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | they're doing · is writing · is moving |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | need to catch · need to do · need to work |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: quotation /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/, shoe /ˈʃu/
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 motorbike, quotation, thief.
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.