Shadowing Practice: Daily Routine in English | 10 Real Interviews with English Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, please tell us about your daily routine.

Um, my daily routine, I usually get up pretty late because I go to sleep pretty late.

So maybe like 10, 11 ish on a good, like I try to get up earlier, like nine.

I will brush my teeth, maybe read through some vocabulary in the morning because actually that's

when you remember stuff the best and you know do my skincare routine all of that.

Then I usually make a bowl of oatmeal.

I love oatmeal that's like my little my favorite breakfast to have in the morning

and then really depends on the day what kind of schedule I have.

Usually if I don't have a songwriting session scheduled

or like a shoot or something I might just go to my studio

and then I go write some fun songs

or like work on some other stuff whatever I need to get done

and I usually get home pretty late I might eat out somewhere close to my studio

or wherever I am um I don't eat dinner much I

kind of eat like lunch dinner together in like a big meal

and then i get home yeah depends on literally what i'm doing

that day but usually later

and then i will still you know check my phone do whatever

if i have some free time relax get some stuff done

and go to sleep usually like 2 3 4 a.m

or like later depends yeah but i usually don't really have much of a routine in a day.

I feel like I'm very, like, spontaneous.

Like, whatever happens just happens.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you for sharing.

Hello, Nadia.

Hello, Robin.

This is a quick video about daily routines.

Please tell us about your daily routine using common English expressions?

Okay, I wake up at 7 a.m.

I try to get dressed as fast as I can so

that I can make a nice cup of coffee and relax before going to work.

I get to work at around 8 30 where I'm an English teacher until about 4 30 in the afternoon.

After work, I'll try have some coffee with friends and then I like to go to the gym.

I get home at around 7

p.m in the evening and then I make myself a nice dinner and also just relax a bit.

After that I'll take a nice warm shower, make sure my teeth are brushed and I try to be in bed by 10 p.m.

That sounds like an interesting day.

Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome.

What's your daily routine?

What time do you wake up?

Most of the days change, but sometimes I wake up at 7,

sometimes I wake up at 5.

What do you do after you wake up?

Just watch TV.

Do you eat breakfast?

No. No?

Okay.

I eat breakfast, but my, first my mom has to wake up.

What time does your mom wake up?

8.30.

Okay.

And then after your mom wakes up, what does, what happens?

I just get dressed and wash my teeth and eat breakfast and watch TV again.

And you watch TV all day?

No. What do you do all day?

Hopefully watch TV and touch slime.

You go to school?

Yeah.

Well, when do you go to school?

8.30.

Okay.

And what time do you come home from school?

I don't know.

What time do you usually have dinner?

Seven.

All right.

And then what do you do after dinner?

Watch TV.

And then what time do you go to bed?

Eight.

Eight o'clock?

Okay.

Thank you for sharing about your daily routine.

Okay.

Hello, please tell us about your daily routine.

So my daily routine changes every day, but generally I wake up around 8am.

I usually drink tea in the mornings to help me relax, and then I go to the gym and work out.

I don't really eat breakfast, so I skip that.

After the gym, I usually come back home and prepare for my daily schedule.

Then I eat lunch by myself, sometimes salads or chicken meal preps that I have.

After that, I usually record videos for my Instagram or I have certain modeling work that I do.

Then I come home and usually have dinner with my husband around 7pm.

After we have dinner, then we watch TV together or read or relax.

And then I go to sleep around midnight.

Thank you for telling us about your daily routine.

Hello, I'm going to ask you about your daily routine.

Please tell us about your daily routine.

I usually wake up around 7 a.m and I have some green tea to get some energy.

Around 10 a.m.

I start work, but I'm working from home, so I just set up my desk.

And then around 1 p.m.

I have lunch.

I make lunch at home and eat it in my kitchen.

At 1.30 p.m.

I go back to work until 6 p.m.

And then at 6 p.m.

I finish work and I try to do an outside activity like maybe go to the gym

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or go for a walk or get groceries.

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And then after a few hours, I usually relax by looking at my phone, maybe watch YouTube, Instagram, something fun like that.

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And then around 11 p.m.

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I go to bed for the night and then the next day I do it all again.

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So that's my schedule.

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Thank you very much for sharing.

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Thanks.

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Bye-bye.

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Hello.

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Please tell us about your daily routine.

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Okay.

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Let's see.

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So I start my day off by waking up, of course.

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Thank God.

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And so I wake up at around 7, get ready, brush my teeth,

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wash up, leave the house around 7.30, get to work around 8,

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log into my computer, set up my work for the day, you know, what animations do I have to do.

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have my lunch, my first meal of the day at around 12.

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I would eat something keto sometimes.

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If I'm not really having a great day and I want a break,

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then I would snack on something like chips or something non-keto basically.

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Let's see.

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I would finish up whatever animations I was doing that day.

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Finish work at around 4 or 5.

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Start commuting.

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arrive home at around six, relax for a bit, maybe snack.

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Let's see and then I would wash up again,

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relax, watch some Netflix, a little bit of K-dramas, a little bit of American dramas, European dramas, whatever I was in the mood.

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Usually I like to watch Friends to de-stress and then probably to pick up a book and read until I fall asleep,

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which is usually around 10 or 11 in the evening.

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And that's it.

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Thank you for sharing.

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Thank you.

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Hello, please tell us about your daily routine.

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Hi, so my daily routine would be that I wake up in the morning, I go take a shower,

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brush my days then I get ready for university I go

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to university I take the train I go to school

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and attend my classes then in between my classes

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when I have some break time I either go

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and get a meal that's usually lunch otherwise maybe some research

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if I have homework to do etc then afterwards I I just continue my lectures and then I go home.

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I commute so that can take up to an hour to go home.

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And once I'm home, I'll prepare dinner.

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I have my dinner and then either going for a walk if the weather is nice

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or I would just go straight to sleep, maybe.

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Okay, thank you very much for sharing.

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Hello, please tell us about your daily routine.

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Sure.

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So I wake up at 7 and then I have breakfast right away.

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And then shower, I just prepare myself and then I go to work, which is modeling or acting.

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And then I have lunch, maybe around one and then I continue working

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and often I'm done pretty late so I have a late dinner with friends

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or alone at home and then what do I do I watch movies

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or YouTube or I study Korean

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and I just apply for new jobs like new modeling gigs

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and then I go to bed around like 12 yeah okay thank you for sharing welcome Sorry,

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too much lies.

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Too much what?

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Lies.

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Oh, that's fine.

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Are you comfortable with what you said?

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Yeah, that's fine.

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Okay.

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Hello, Sean.

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Can you tell us about your daily routine?

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Yes.

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I wake up at 6.30 and then I eat breakfast.

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Then I take a shower.

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Sometimes I don't.

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And then I watch TV for like 30 minutes or like an hour.

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And then I go to school.

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And then I come home sometimes before my after school classes or go to places with my friends.

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And then after that, I come home and then I watch TV.

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it.

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And then I go to sleep at 7 p.m.

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Okay, thank you for sharing.

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Before we go, I want to know, why do you go to sleep so early?

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Because my mom makes me.

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Do you want to go to sleep at 7 p.m.?

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No. No. Okay.

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Again, thanks for sharing, Sean.

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Okay.

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Bye.

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Hello, Laura.

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Please tell us about your daily routine.

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Okay.

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Well, usually I wake up about 7 o'clock and then I take a shower, put on my makeup, get dressed.

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Then I wake up my kids, make coffee, and we have breakfast at about 8 o'clock.

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Then it's time for them to go to school.

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School starts at 9.

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After I drop them at school, I come home and I try to exercise, clean the house, and plan meals.

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School ends at two o'clock, so I pick them up and I take them to their after-school activities.

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When those are done, we come home and relax and I make dinner.

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We have it at about seven o'clock.

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Then I read the kids a book.

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They go to bed at about eight o'clock and I relax until my bedtime at 10 o'clock.

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Okay, thank you for sharing about your day.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Daily Routine in English”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: routine, daily, usually, wake, dinner. This video has 194 sentences and 1683 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:33. The speaker talks at a steady 124 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
brush noun	/bɹʌʃ/	An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
keto noun	/ˈkitoʊ/	The carbonyl group of a ketone.
oatmeal noun	/ˈoʊtmil/	Meal made from rolled or round oats.
commute verb	/kəˈmjuːt/	To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash…
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
animation noun	/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/	The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
skincare noun	/ˈskɪn.kɛɹ/	The care and treatment of the skin, especially of the face.
songwriting noun		The work of a songwriter.
bedtime noun	/ˈbɛdtaɪm/	The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
groceries noun	/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/	Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
spontaneous adjective	/spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/	Self-directed; happening or acting without external cause or instigation; proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or momentary impulse.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
prep noun	/pɹɛp/	Preparation.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
wash up verb		To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
come back verb		To return to a place.
finish up verb		To complete the last details of a task.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What's your daily routine?
What time do you wake up?
What do you do after you wake up?
What time does your mom wake up?
What do you do all day?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	might just go · might eat
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	will brush · will still you · I'll try
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	i'm doing · I'm working · I'm not really having
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	need to get · has to wake · have to do

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

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 relax, brush, depend.

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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.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?