Shadowing Practice: Easy Beginner English Course Lesson 2, Part 1: Countries: Where Are You From? | Comprehensible Input - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, everyone.
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My name is Christian.
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Hi, everybody.
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My name is Luke.
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Hey, Luke.
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How are you doing?
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I'm good.
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How are you, Christian?
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I'm doing good, too.
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And, oh, Luke, what day is it today?
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Today, it is Saturday.
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Saturday.
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It is Saturday.
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Let me draw a week here.
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So here is the week or one week.
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How many days are in a week?
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Seven.
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There are seven days in a week.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven there are seven days of the week yeah let
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me how do i fit all seven days here you gotta
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make them smaller they're too big they're too big yeah they're too big
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so there's one day two days three days four days five days six days
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and seven days seven days and the days of the week are
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monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday
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and sunday yeah what day is it today
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saturday yeah today is saturday
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and it is saturday what what day of the month is it What day of the month is it?
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It is the 17th.
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Yeah, so it's Saturday the 17th, and what month is it?
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What month is it?
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It is September.
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Yeah, it is September.
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So we could right up here September so it is September
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and which month which month is September it's the ninth month yeah September is the the ninth month
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so September is the ninth month and what oh what What year is it?
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What year is it?
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It's 2022.
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Yeah, it is 2022.
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I'll write it down here.
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The year is 2022, and the month is the ninth month,
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September, and the day is the 17th of September.
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So it is September the 17th, September the 17th, 2022.
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Is that right?
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Yes, that's correct.
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What was, so if today is the 17th, what was yesterday?
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So today is the 17th.
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Yesterday was September the 16th.
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Is that right?
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Yes, the 16th.
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So yesterday was the 16th.
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Today is the 17th.
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And tomorrow would be
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the 18th the 18th yes tomorrow is the 18th tomorrow is sunday september the 18th
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so today is what what day of the week is it today today is saturday saturday yeah today is
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saturday i'll write it this way for short saturday so that's that's short for saturday
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uh september except short for september right gotta keep it short
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yeah i keep it short there's it's very not much room
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on here right yeah it's a small board yeah saturday september 17th
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and the year is 2022 yes yeah
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so we can we can write the date many ways we
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can write the date this way with numbers we can write the date this way with the words
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and numbers right yeah we can write the
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date in many different ways yeah and so today is saturday september 17th 2022 and
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oh what what time is it what time is it time is it it is Here in America,
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it is 6 .33 in Colorado, in America, 6 .33.
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Yeah, so it is 6 .33 p .m.
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where you are.
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Yes, at night.
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Yeah.
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At night, 6 .33 p .m.
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Yeah.
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And here in Ontario, in Canada,
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it is 8 .33 p .m.
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So you are two hours ahead of me.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I am two hours ahead of you.
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So here in Ontario, so this is Canada,
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in Ontario, Canada, I am two hours ahead of you.
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Here it is 8 .33, or now it's 8 .34,
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and where you are, it is 6 .34.
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Yeah, two hours behind me.
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So there it is 634 p .m.
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Yes.
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Oh, here's here's the United States.
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That's where I live.
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Yeah.
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You are in the state of Colorado, right?
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Yes.
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Colorado.
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Colorado there.
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So, yeah, you are two hours behind me.
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So I am in here, Ontario, Canada.
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Yes, Ontario up there.
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And then I'm down in Colorado.
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I'm below you down here.
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Yeah.
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And again, Luke, what country are you in?
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What country is this?
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What country are you in?
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I live in the United States of America.
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yeah this is the united states of america is that right yes
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that is the united states of america and you are above me in
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which country i am north of the united states of america
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or of this part of the united states of america i am canadian so i live in canada
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oh okay you live in canada yeah
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so we are in are we are we in the same
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country are we in the same country no we're in different
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countries yeah we are in different countries you are in the
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united states of america yes i am in canada yes correct so these are two different countries.
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But they are next to each other, right?
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They're very close.
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Yes.
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We share a border.
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This is the border between Canada and the United States of America.
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Yes.
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Canada is on top of America.
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Canada is on top of America.
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Yeah, Canada is on top or to the north, we could say to the north.
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Yep, to the north.
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United, the United States is to the south.
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To the south, yes.
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So north, south.
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And oh, what about, how about our students?
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What, how many students do we have with us?
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How many, How many students?
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Let me see.
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We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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We have seven students.
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Yeah, we have seven students.
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Let me, let's see.
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I'll draw seven circles for seven students let's let me fix this one okay
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so we have one two three four five six seven students right
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yes we have seven students one two three four five six seven seven students
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and who are our students who are the students luke
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you mean their names their names what are the students names uh there's lucas lucas okay i'll write lucas here
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and oh is lucas a man or a woman lucas is a man yeah okay there is lucas
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And who's the next student?
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What is her name?
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Cindy, yes.
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It is a woman, Cindy.
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Cindy.
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So, I'll write Cindy's name.
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There's Cindy's name.
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And here is Cindy.
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And who is the next student?
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Laura, also a woman.
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Laura.
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Okay.
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Here is Laura.
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And there's her name, Laura.
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And Laura is a woman.
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yes laura is a woman yeah
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and who is the next student mike mike yes mike is
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not a woman yeah mike is a man right he's a man yeah mike there's okay there's mike
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and who is the next student Mohammed.
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Hey, there's Mohammed's name.
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And Mohammed is also a man, right?
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Yes, Mohammed is a man.
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Yeah, there's Mohammed.
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And who else is a student?
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What is this student's name, the next student?
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the next student's name is albert albert albert and is albert a man or a woman
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albert is a man albert is not a woman
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okay here is i'm trying to write his name there let me write his name there okay
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so albert albert and Albert is a man, you said, right?
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Yes, Albert is a man.
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Okay, there's Albert and we have one more student.
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Who is the last student here?
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Yeah, the last student is named Maria.
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Maria.
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Okay, Maria.
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Maria.
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Okay, here is Maria.
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And is Maria a woman or a man?
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Maria is not a man.
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Maria is a woman.
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Okay, there is Maria.
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And how many female students do we have?
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How many women?
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We have Cindy, one, Laura, two, Maria, three.
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So we have three female students, three students that are women.
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Yeah, we have three female students, Cindy, Laura, and Maria.
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So three students who are women.
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And how many students are men? we have one two three four students
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that are men yeah
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so we have four students who are men we have lucas uh mike mohammed
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and albert so four male students four students who are men yes
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and all together in all how many students do we have one two three four five six seven
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so i'm counting like a chinese person seven seven okay seven
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oh yes albert is albert is chinese right albert is chinese
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so he knows how to count like this oh i see
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yeah there's different ways to count there's uh i would count
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like this in in canada in canada in the united states
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we usually count like one two three four five kind of like
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that right yeah we use two hands yeah two hands not
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just one hand two hands yeah we right we use both
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hands to count to count to ten one two three four
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five six seven i have to put this down put the marker down six seven eight nine ten yes yes so
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here we have seven students seven students yes seven seven we have seven students
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and so we we are not students right no you and i are teachers right we are teachers
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so i will write let's see we are two teachers right yes
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and we are men we are male teachers yes you are a man
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and i am also a man so my name is whoops
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trying to write my name here uh it's hard to hold this up and write
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there so my name my name is christian and what is your name
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my name is luke right luke spelled l u k e right correct right so we are the teachers so
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there are two of us two of us yeah two teachers and how many students
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seven yeah one two three four five six seven seven students
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so all together how many people are we how many people
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are we all together we are nine people yeah nine people all together seven plus two equals nine
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and what let's see
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oh right right
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so countries right we were talking about countries for example let's learn where our students are from
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and where we are from yeah
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so first of all we are from um where am i
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from you do you remember you are from australia
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right australia well australia australia is all the way down here very far is
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that where you're from is
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that where you live down under i i don't live in
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australia i'm i'm not i'm not i'm not australian i'm not
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from australia oh let's see let me let me
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guess again are you from um england england england
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is over here i i am not from england you're not
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from england no i'm not from england you know what they say third time's a charm
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so let me try it one more time um are you from canada canada yes
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i am from canada there is okay there is a map of canada And so I am from Canada.
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And Luke, where are you from?
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Me?
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Yeah, where are you from?
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Yeah, I am from the United States of America.
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All right.
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Or if you want to make it short, you can just put USA.
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Yeah, I'm trying to write short here.
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It's getting hard to write here so i'm writing canada i am from canada
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and you are from the united states of america usa yeah usa so i'll write for short i've written usa
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that's where i'm from again
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and where is the usa is this is this the usa
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yes yes the usa that's where i'm from that's where i live
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and here's here's a map of the usa the united states of america
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and how about oh how about our students
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so i am canadian i am from canada
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and luke you are american right yes i'm america i'm american
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i'm american i'm from the united states of america yeah and
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so you are from the united states of america the usa we're short
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and how about uh lucas where where is lucas from lucas is from brazil brazil
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let me okay let me find brazil um brazil is is brazil this country yes that's brazil yeah
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so here's north america
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so we we are in north america right yeah north america yeah there's the united states of america there's canada
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so that's in north america this is south america so south here in Brazil.
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And Lucas is from Brazil, right?
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Yes.
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Lucas is from Brazil.
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Lucas is Brazilian.
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Lucas is Brazilian.
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So I'll write Brazil.
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Okay.
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So Lucas is from Brazil.
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How about Cindy?
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Where is Cindy from?
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uh cindy is from south korea south korea
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so cindy is from let me get this map
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so here's the map of the world
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and where is south korea is in asia right yes south korea is in asia is this let me
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um let's see south korea is this south korea here oh
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i'm trying to let me have let me point closer there is
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that south korea yes that's south korea yeah so there's south korea
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and so cindy is from south korea i'm just writing that down south korea
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okay there so cindy is from south korea how about laura is laura from south korea
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laura is not from south korea where is laura is from peru peru
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and where is peru is which
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which continent is peru in uh peru is in south america
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so not where you and i are from north america peru is in south america yeah
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so south america is this peru yes i think so
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that might be no chile's below that yes that's peru okay yeah
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so there's peru that's true it's by brazil so brazil is here.
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Peru is here.
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And so I'll write down Peru.
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I'll write Laura is from Peru.
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Okay.
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So Laura is from Peru, right?
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Yes.
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Yes, that's Peru.
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Oh, good.
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Yeah, there's Peru.
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Peru.
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Yeah, right by the water yeah the water yeah right right
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peru is right by this ocean the the pacific ocean right yes yeah
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so here's the pacific uh the over here is the pacific
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ocean over here is the pacific ocean this is the what
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ocean is this the atlantic ocean atlantic yeah there's the atlantic ocean
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but peru peru is by the pacific ocean right yes correct yeah
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and then um how about mike where is mike from mike is from south korea south korea okay
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so mike i'll just write this down south korea uh okay
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so south korea mike is from south korea
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and where is south korea on the map is this
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so there is asia this is asia here is japan here is china
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and here is south korea right yes that's south korea yeah okay
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so like that's where mike's from yeah
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so cindy is from south korea mike is also from south
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korea yes mike is from south korea too yeah mike is
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from south korea too how about muhammad where is muhammad from
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muhammad is not from south korea muhammad is from egypt egypt and which
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which continent is egypt in egypt is not in north america
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egypt is not in south america egypt is not in asia
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egypt is in africa in the middle in africa right right so
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is it oh is that is it this country yes that's egypt yeah
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so yeah so there's egypt and muhammad is from Egypt.
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So I will write Egypt.
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Whoops.
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Egypt.
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Okay.
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Muhammad is from there.
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Egypt.
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Muhammad is from Egypt.
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He is Egyptian, right?
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Yes.
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Muhammad is Egyptian.
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Yeah.
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And then Albert.
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How about Albert?
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Albert is from China.
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Right.
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Oh, right.
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We mentioned albert before we said uh yeah when we were counting yeah albert albert is chinese so there is
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china is that china yes that's china that's where albert's from yeah so albert is from china
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and finally so let me write china albert is from china okay so albert is from china and maria where is Finally,
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Maria, where is Maria from?
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Where is Maria from?
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Maria is from Mexico.
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Mexico, yeah.
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And where is Mexico?
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Mexico is not in South America.
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Mexico is in North America, like you and me.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You are from North America.
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I'm from the United States of America in North America and Maria is in North America, in Mexico.
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In Mexico, right, right.
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So here, well here, and this is Mexico, right?
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Yes, that's Mexico.
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Yeah, it's right.
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It has a border with the United States.
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Is that right?
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Yes, it's below the United States.
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Yeah, so actually on this map, here we can see the United States of America, North of the United States is Canada.
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And south of the United States is Mexico, right?
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Yeah, Mexico.
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So Canada has a border with the United States, this border.
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Mexico has a border with the United States, this border here.
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So Maria, Maria is from Mexico, right?
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Yes, Maria is from Mexico.
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Okay, Maria is from Mexico.
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And so there's Maria.
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Maria is from Mexico.
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And wow, so there are many different countries here.
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Are these students from the same country?
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No, they're not from the same country.
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They're from different countries.
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Yeah.
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Are they all from different countries?
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No, they're not all from different countries.
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We have two students who are from the same country.
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Yeah, we have two students from the same country which two students are from the the same country
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uh cindy and mike cindy and mike yes cindy and mike are both from the same country
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and which country are cindy and mike both from they're both from south korea south korea right And South Korea is,
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in Asia, it is, am I pointing to it?
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Is that South Korea?
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Yes, that's South Korea.
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Yeah, so Cindy and Mike are both from South Korea.
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So they are from the same country, but other than Cindy and Mike, everyone is from different countries, right?
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Yes.
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Other than Cindy and Mike, they're all from different countries.
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Yeah, so we have many different countries.
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These students are from six countries, right?
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Six different countries.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Six different countries.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 381 sentences and 3010 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:23. The speaker talks slowly, about 106 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| luke adjective | /l(j)uːk/ | lukewarm |
| ninth adjective | /naɪnθ/ | The ordinal form of the number nine. |
| continent noun | /ˈkɑntɪnənt/ | One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and… |
| spell noun | /spɛl/ | Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. |
| charm noun | /t͡ʃɑɹm/ | An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). |
| marker noun | /ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/ | A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen. |
| microgram noun | /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/ | An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁶ grams. Symbol: μg A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram, or 0.000 001 grams. |
| whoop noun | /wuːp/ | A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. |
| comprehensible adjective | /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ | Able to be comprehended. |
| brazil noun | /bɹəˈzɪl/ | The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood… |
| pacific adjective | /pəˈsɪfɪk/ | Calm, peaceful. |
| equal adjective | /ˈiːkwəl/ | The same in one or more respects. |
| circle noun | /ˈsɜɹkəl/ | A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| live down verb | To live so as to subdue or refute. |
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 luke, ninth, continent.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | students who are |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've written · have let |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were talking · were counting |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | I'll write · I'll draw · will write |
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.