Shadowing Practice: Clearly Diane's telling the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth... Or is she? ๐Ÿ‘€ - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creating lesson...
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Every time I lose a tooth, I put it in a pot.
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This is that pot.
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Right, Lee's teeth.
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Now, I'm confused because my children are watching this.
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Why didn't the tooth fairy take them?
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Well, they did some.
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Cos if you was to put that under your pillow, you'd get about 700 quid.
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Are there teeth in there now?
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Yes.
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So why did you decide to start just collecting them?
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Something to do, innit?
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So can I come and get it?
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You can go and get it if you want to, yes.
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All right.
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You lost weight, you look great. As rehearsed, well done.
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Thank you.
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Can I take the lid?
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Yeah.
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I feel like a very grumpy fairy.
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Has it quite under your pillow, love?
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Oh, my God!
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Oh, wow!
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Wow.
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That's huge!
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That's a big one.
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That's a cat's tooth.
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It's more like a fang.
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This one's quite decayed.
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Yeah, they're not healthy -looking, see...
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No. ..she's from Bolton.
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LAUGHTER Can you talk us through them, Diane?
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Do you remember which one comes from where?
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Erm, well, they all came from my mouth.
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LAUGHTER I appreciate that, but in which parts of the mouth?
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Can you explain this one?
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Cos that is just...
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That's like a dinosaur, too.
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It's very long and sharp.
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Well, you know that it's not just the top of your teeth that you can see they go down into your gums.
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Oh, yeah, I went to school
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This isn't true who's
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If I find out the producer of this show has pulled
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out his children's teeth for the sake of this show I will generally say well done mate
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You can probably buy children's teeth online I'm fine.
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What do you think, Rory?
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Is she telling the truth?
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I think she has to be telling the truth, because she doesn't strike me as a person warped and deranged enough to collect other people's teeth.
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No, I don't think...
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I don't...
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No, no. Fair enough to explain how this show works.
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If she's not telling the truth, it means that this is as new to her as it is to us.
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It doesn't mean I'm lying because they're not mighty It's true it's true It's true okay true you're saying it's true yeah,
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okay, I am truth or lie.
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It's actually

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You're practicing English with "Clearly Diane's telling the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth... Or is she? ๐Ÿ‘€" using the Shadowing technique โ€” a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

Focus on sounding like the speaker โ€” not just repeating words. With 15โ€“30 minutes of daily practice, you'll build real-world speaking confidence.

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 โ€” like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1โ€“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 โ€” making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.