Shadowing Practice: Day 18 - Nature & Outdoor Activities | 21days speaking challenge - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 9 sentences and 73 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:30. The speaker talks at a steady 144 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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

10 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• outdoor /aʊtˈdɔː/ (adjective) — Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
• grass /ɡɹɑːs/ (noun) — Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as…
• distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/ (noun) — Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
• activity /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ (noun) — The state or quality of being active; activeness.
• nature /ˈneɪ̯.t͡ʃəɹ/ (noun) — The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and…
• spend /spɪnd/ (verb) — To pay out (money).
• weekend /ˈwiˌkɛnd/ (noun) — The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
• tree /tɹiː/ (noun) — A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
• fresh /fɹɛʃ/ (adjective) — Newly produced or obtained; recent.
• hello /hɛˈloʊ/ — A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• run on (verb) — To continue without interruption
• talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like outdoor, grass, distress.

Grammar in this video

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