Shadowing Practice: DICTATION 3 UNIT 2 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Unit 2.
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Elephants are amazing.
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Elephants are interesting.
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They are intelligent.
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They also have a great memory.
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You should always be kind to elephants.
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They remember everything.
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A woman from India told me a story.
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When she was a little girl, she knew of an evil elephant keeper.
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He often hit his elephant.
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He was very mean and cruel to the elephant.
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Then the evil keeper sold the elephant.
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The new keeper was a very kind man.
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Many years later, the evil keeper met the elephant again.
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The elephant remembered the evil man.
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He picked up a stone with his trunk and threw it at the evil man.
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The elephant still knew the man, even after so many years.
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Elephants help each other, too.
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Elephants use a special sound.
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The sound is so low that people cannot hear it.
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This sound travels really far.
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Groups of elephants can communicate with each other, even if they are far apart.
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This is very useful because it helps the elephants to find water and food.
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The elephants cooperate to help each other.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 25 sentences and 180 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:28. The speaker talks at a steady 123 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 81% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
elephant noun/ˈɛlɪfənt/A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
keeper noun/ˈkiː.pɚ/One who keeps (retains) something.
intelligent adjective/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
communicate verb/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
cruel adjective/ˈkɹuːəl/Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
trunk noun/tɹʌŋk/The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
cooperate verb/kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
evil adjective/ˈiːvəl/Intending to harm; malevolent.
travel verb/ˈtɹævəl/To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
sell verb/sɛl/To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
unit noun/ˈjuː.nɪt/Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
throw verb/θɹoʊ/To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
memory noun/ˈmɛm.ə.ɹi/The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
stone noun/stoʊ̯n/A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
apart/əˈpɑɹt/Excluded from consideration.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
pick up verbTo lift; to grasp and raise.

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, cooperate /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/

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 elephant, keeper, intelligent.

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.

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