Shadowing Practice: CLASS 7 - COMMUNITY SERVICE (Practise shadowing boy's version) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My volunteer activities My name is Min, and I am a student in grade 7 at a secondary school in Hanoi.
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Last year, my teacher introduced our class to a community service club.
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Since then, I have taken part in many volunteer activities with my classmates and teachers.
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Our first activity was a school cleanup day.
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One Saturday morning, my classmates and I cleaned our classroom and the schoolyard.
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We picked up rubbish, collected plastic bottles, and put them into different bins for recycling.
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After that, we planted some trees and flowers in the school garden.
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We were very happy to see our school become cleaner and greener.
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A few weeks later, our class started a project called Books for Children.
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We collected old books, notebooks, pencils, and other useful things.
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Then, we donated them to children in a mountainous area.
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I was very happy because I knew that the books could help other children learn and enjoy reading.
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In the winter, we visited a nursing home in our neighborhood.
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We talked to elderly people, helped them clean up the rooms, and listened to their stories.
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An old woman told us about her childhood.
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Her story was interesting, and we enjoyed talking to her.
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A few months later, heavy rain caused a serious flood in some parts of Vietnam.
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We collected clothes, food and donated them to families in flooded areas.
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It was a simple and useful activity.
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During the summer, I tutored some younger children at a small community class near my home.
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I helped them do their maths exercises and learned some simple English words.
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I also took part in a recycling activity in my neighborhood.
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My friends and I collected old bottles, paper, and cardboard boxes.
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We cleaned them and put them in the right places for recycling.
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Looking back, I have taken part in many community activities.
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I cleaned my school, planted trees, recycled rubbish, donated books and clothes,
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visited elderly people, helped families after floods, and tutored younger children.
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They all taught me many valuable lessons.
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Now I understand that small actions can make a big difference.
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When we help other people, we make our community better and make ourselves happier.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “CLASS 7 - COMMUNITY SERVICE”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: collected, books, recycling, cleaned, donated. This video has 30 sentences and 365 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:05. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| collect verb | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | To gather together; amass. |
| flood noun | /flʌd/ | An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. |
| donate verb | /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/ | To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. |
| volunteer noun | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay. |
| elderly adjective | /ˈɛldɚli/ | old; having lived for relatively many years. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| rubbish noun | /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ | Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. |
| tutor noun | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| nurse noun | /nɝs/ | Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession. |
| introduce verb | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). |
| bin noun | /ˈbɪn/ | A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. |
| classroom noun | /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/ | A room, often in a school, where classes take place. |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. |
| look back verb | To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). |
| 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 | have taken |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | enjoy reading · enjoyed talking |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
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 collect, flood, donate.
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.