Shadowing Practice: CLASS 7: UNIT 1 - My hobbies (for girl). Shadowing - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My hobbies.
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Hello.
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My name is Lan, and I am a student at a secondary school in Hanoi.
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My favorite hobby is cooking.
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I love cooking with my mother because it is relaxing and enjoyable.
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We often cook dinner together after school.
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My favorite dishes are fried rice, chicken, and vegetable.
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Sometimes we bake cookies or small cakes at the weekend.
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I also enjoy riding my bike.
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I usually ride to school with my best friend every morning.
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On Sunday mornings, we sometimes ride our bikes in the park.
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Cycling is fun, and it is good for our health.
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Another hobby of mine is taking photos.
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I like taking pictures of flowers, trees, birds, and beautiful places.
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I often share my photos with my family and friends.
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I don't like spending too much time playing computer games.
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I prefer doing outdoor activities because they help me stay healthy and happy.
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I think hobbies are very important.
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They help me relax after studying, learn new skills, and spend more time with my family and friends.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 19 sentences and 174 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:15. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 81% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| outdoor adjective | /aʊtˈdɔː/ | Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| cookie noun | /ˈkʊki/ | A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| bake verb | /beɪk/ | To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). |
| enjoyable adjective | /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/ | Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| cook verb | /kʊk/ | To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. |
| favourite adjective | /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ | Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.) |
| bike noun | /baɪk/ | Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle. |
| bird noun | /ˈbɜːd/ | An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of… |
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 | are fried |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | love cooking · enjoy riding |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is cooking · is taking |
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 hobby, relax, flower.
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.