Shadowing Practice: DISCOVER 1 - OXFORD READ & DISCOVERY - LEVEL 1 - AT THE BEACH - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 At the Beach by Rachel Bladen Read by Christopher Ragland Published and Copyright,
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Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Introduction At the beach, the ocean meets the land.
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Many amazing plants and animals live there.
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What can you see at the beach?
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What animals live there?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about the beach.
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Chapter 1 the beach.
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Every day the ocean goes up the beach at high tide.
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and it goes down the beach, at low tide.
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The ocean moves with the wind, too.
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The wind makes waves.
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The ocean.. is salt water.
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It's big and strong.
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The ocean can break rocks and shells into pieces.
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The pieces of rock and shell hit the water and other rocks.
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Then, They get very little.
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This is how the ocean makes rocks and shells into sand.
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Chapter 2 sand, and rocks.
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What can you see in the sand and on the rocks at the beach?
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At low tide, the telon shell hides under the sand.
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It hides there because other animals like to eat it.
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It gets food and water with one of its siphons.
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The green flat periwinkle hides in green seaweed.
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Can you see it here?
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The barnacle...
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lives on rocks.
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Its shell grows onto the rocks, so it doesn't move when there are waves.
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Discover!
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Some barnacles grow on whales.
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Chapter 3 in rock pools.
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At low tide, the ocean moves down the beach.
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Then.. you can find rock pools.
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Let's look in a rock pool.
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Here's a crab.
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It gets food with its big, strong claws.
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It eats barnacles.
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Starfish.
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and other little animals.
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It eats plants, too.
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Discover!
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The starfish can put its stomach out of its mouth.
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Then...
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It can eat this big clam.
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Yes.
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Crabs eat starfish, and starfish eat.
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Eat clams.
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This is the first one.
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is called a food chain.
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Chapter 4 near the beach.
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Many fish and other little animals live in the water near the beach.
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There's lots of food for them there.
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The prawn, Eat seaweed and little animals.
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Discover!
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The prawn has 20 legs.
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It walks with ten legs.
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and it swims with ten legs.
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The seahorse eats very little fish.
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It eats very, very little animals and plants called plankton, too.
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See how this seahorse hides in the seaweed.
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In this green seaweed, the seahorse is green.
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But in yellow seaweed, It's yellow.
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Chapter 5 In the ocean.
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You can see some amazing animals in the ocean.
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Here's a seal.
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The seal lives in the ocean and on land.
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When it swims in the ocean, it puts its head out of the water to get air.
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The dolphin jumps out of the water.
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and little fish are scared.
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They swim away.
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and then the dolphin can catch them.
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The dolphin gets air with a blowhole on its head.
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On sunny days, the basking shark swims at the top of the ocean.
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It can eat lots of plankton there.
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Plankton.. is its favorite food.
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Chapter 6 In the air.
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Many birds live near the beach.
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There's lots of food for them there.
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The puffin?
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lives on cliffs.
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When it's hungry, it flies down and swims under the ocean.
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Then, It catches its favorite fish.
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The pelican can catch lots of fish in its big bill.
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It opens its bill, and the water goes out.
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Then, It can eat the fish.
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Discover!
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A pelican can get 11 liters of water in its bill.
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Yeah.
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Oyster catchers don't eat oysters.
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They eat mussels.
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They open the shells with their bill.
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Chapter 7 At the Coast.
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At the coast near the beach, there are cliffs.
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Some waves hit hills on the coast and pieces of land break into the ocean.
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This makes cliffs.
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Thank you.
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Sometimes there are holes in the cliffs.
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The ocean hits the holes and makes caves.
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The ocean can make arches and stacks, too.
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At the coast, the sand moves in the wind.
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Then the sand makes hills called sand dunes.
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Discover!
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Sand dunes can move 100 meters in a year.
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Chapter 8 fun at the beach.
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You can do many things at the beach.
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You can kite surf, and the wind moves you on the ocean.
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You can snorkel, too.
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Then you can see amazing fish in the water.
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The ocean is big and strong.
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Don't go away from the people you know.
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Look for flags.
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They tell you where and when you can swim.
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Have fun at the beach.
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But remember the ocean plants and animals.
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Keep the beach clean for plants, animals, and other people.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “DISCOVER 1 - OXFORD READ & DISCOVERY - LEVEL 1 - AT THE BEACH”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ocean, beach, eat, rock, animals. This video has 117 sentences and 754 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:34. The speaker talks slowly, about 79 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| shell noun | /ʃɛl/ | The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| cliff noun | /klɪf/ | A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face. |
| tide noun | /taɪd/ | The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun. |
| dolphin noun | /ˈdɑlf.ɪn/ | A carnivorous cetacean, typically with a beak-like snout, famed for their intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans. |
| seal noun | /siːl/ | A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. |
| crab noun | /kɹæb/ | Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. |
| oyster noun | /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/ | Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in… |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| stomach noun | /ˈstʌmək/ | An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. |
| cave noun | /keɪv/ | A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. |
| meter noun | /ˈmitəɹ/ | A device that measures things. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
| move down verb | To demote |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What can you see at the beach?
- Can you see it here?
- Let's look in a rock pool.
- Don't go away from the people you know.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shell /ʃɛl/, starfish /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
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 sand, discover, shell.
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.