Shadowing Practice: Circle, Square, Triangle: Is That a Cookie? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Good morning, class!
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Good morning, Professor Hoot!
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Today, let's learn shapes!
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Look! What shape is this?
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It's a circle!
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I know! It's a cookie!
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A cookie? No, Benny. It's a circle.
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Okay. What shape is this?
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It's a square!
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It's a sandwich! Yum!
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Benny, you're so funny!
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And what shape is this?
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It's a triangle!
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Pizza! It's pizza!
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Oh, Benny! Are you hungry?
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Yes. I'm very, very hungry.
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Then it's snack time!
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A circle, a square, and a triangle!
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A cookie, a sandwich, and pizza!
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Thank you, Professor Hoot!
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Yum! I love shapes!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Circle, Square, Triangle: Is That a Cookie?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: shape, Benny, cookie, pizza, circle. This video has 21 sentences and 93 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:01. The speaker talks slowly, about 92 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 5 of its 21 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

9 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
pizza noun/ˈpi.tsə/A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
cookie noun/ˈkʊki/A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
hungry adjective/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
sandwich noun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
triangle noun/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/A polygon with three sides and three angles.
snack noun/snæk/A light meal.
circle noun/ˈsɜɹkəl/A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
shape noun/ˈʃeɪ̯p/The status or condition of something
square noun/skwɛə/A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, cookie, hungry.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →