Shadowing Practice: Daily Routines | Adverbs of Frequency & Time - Learn English Speaking with Video
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daily routines maria sanchez is a sales representative for a big company she wakes up every morning at 6 30
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and takes a shower at seven o'clock she has breakfast with her husband.
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They usually eat eggs and drink coffee.
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Maria goes to work at 745 and starts work at 830.
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She usually has meetings with her customers all morning and is very busy.
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At 12 o'clock, she has her lunch.
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Sometimes she eats in her office and sometimes she eats at a cafe.
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At 5 o'clock, Maria goes home.
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She walks home if the weather is nice.
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If the weather is bad, she catches the bus.
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At 8 o'clock, she has dinner with her husband, and then they watch TV together.
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They like to watch funny shows on TV.
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At 11 o'clock, Maria often goes to bed.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Daily Routines”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: maria, eat, goes. This video has 13 sentences and 130 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:17. The speaker talks slowly, about 101 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| routine noun | /ɹuˈtin/ | A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. |
| café noun | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the… |
| lunch noun | /lʌnt͡ʃ/ | A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. |
| breakfast noun | /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/ | The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. |
| customer noun | /ˈkʌs.tə.mə/ | A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so. |
| representative noun | /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈzɛnt(ət)ɪv/ | Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body. |
| shower noun | /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/ | A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation. |
| husband noun | /ˈhʌzbənd/ | A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. |
| weather noun | /ˈwɛðɚ/ | The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. |
| drink verb | /ˈdɹɪŋk/ | To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. |
| catch verb | /kæt͡ʃ/ | To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). |
| coffee noun | /ˈkɑfi/ | A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water. |
| dinner noun | /ˈdɪnɚ/ | The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. |
| wake verb | /ˈweɪ̯k/ | (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
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 egg, routine, café.
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.