Shadowing Practice: 🍽️COOKING & FOOD🥘 Beginner English Listening Practice A1 / A2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Cooking is my favourite hobby.
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It is very fun to cook new recipes and try new food.
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My favourite food to cook is Italian food.
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I like to make pizza,
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lasagna and pasta because I love tomatoes and cheese.
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I also like British food.
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The typical British foods are fish and chips,
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the full English breakfast and the roast dinner.
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The full English breakfast includes toast,
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bacon, sausages, a fried egg,
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beans, fried tomatoes and mushrooms etc. It is delicious.
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When I was a child, my dad cooked for the family because he is a chef.
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His favourite dinner to cook is a vegetable curry because he likes spicy food.
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My brother is a chef too, so when we have a family dinner,
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my dad and my brother cook.
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My family likes eating healthy food every day, especially fruits and vegetables.
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We only eat unhealthy food like hamburgers,
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chips or hot dogs at the weekend.
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I also like to prepare special drinks for my friends.
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I can make lemonade or cocktails for them.
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My favourite fruits to use in the drinks are lemons,
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oranges, pineapples and limes.
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We normally drink these drinks before dinner and during the dinner we drink water, juice or wine.
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What do you normally drink?
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I also love preparing desserts.
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Desserts are the food that you have after your dinner.
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My favourite desserts to eat at a restaurant are cupcakes and carrot or chocolate cakes.
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When I am at home, if I am hungry after dinner, I normally have a dessert.
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At home, I always have some fruit, like some strawberries, some grapes,
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an orange, an apple or a banana.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “🍽️COOKING & FOOD🥘 Beginner English Listening Practice A1 / A2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dinner, drink, favourite, dessert, cook. This video has 32 sentences and 303 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:36. The speaker talks slowly, about 84 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 74% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| dessert noun | /dɪˈzɝt/ | The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| chef noun | /ʃɛf/ | The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. |
| 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… |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| 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. |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| recipe noun | /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ | Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. |
| bacon noun | /ˈbeɪ.kən/ | Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig. |
| lemon noun | /ˈlɛmən/ | A yellowish citrus fruit. |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| thumb noun | /ˈθʌm/ | The shortest and thickest digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: thumb /ˈθʌm/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
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 dessert, chip, chef.
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.