Shadowing Practice: Emma bullied the boys on the set (full video!) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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How are you guys?
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You are both very, very good.
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Hermione, you little whippersnapper, you want the footstool? Do you?
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Yeah, I think you do watch.
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See?
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You think there's only magic in your movie.
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There's magic right here on the show.
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I'm very, very impressed.
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Thank you very, very much.
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Now, how old are you, honey?
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I'm 11.
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You're 11, and you?
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13. 13.
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And is this your first film, either of you?
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Yeah, definitely for me.
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Your first one?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You as well?
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Yeah, I've just been doing, like, school plays and stuff.
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Oh, yeah, so you had never been on the big screen?
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No. No, so how'd you get the part?
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You first, Robert, how'd you get the part?
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Well, I was watching news round one day, and at the time I was, like, the biggest Harry Potter fan, and I loved the books.
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So I was watching the newsroom and they said that they knew I'd audition.
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They said, do you want to send in some information about yourself, a photograph?
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So I sent one in and waited weeks and weeks to reply.
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But nothing happened.
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So I went on the newsroom website and some of the kids had been sending in videotapes of themselves, reading a bit of the books.
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And I really wanted to be in this film.
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So I made this videotape.
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First I dressed up as my drama teacher, who was a girl, so it was kind of scary.
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So you dressed up as a woman?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then what?
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Then I made this rap song of how much I wanted to be in the film.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, then I made this speech thing up for Ron
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and sent it in to the casting agency and she phoned me up and said, would you like a audition?
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And it was just so cool.
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And you, so you got it.
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So your advice to young kids who want to act, dress up as a woman and send it a tape.
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Yeah, Rupert.
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Now, what did your family think?
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You're the oldest of five kids?
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Yeah.
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What did your, what did your parents think?
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Oh, they were just really excited.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They, they were all big fan of the books as well, so.
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That must have been thrilling because you had never done anything and they said, you're the guy.
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Yeah.
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How about you, honey?
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How did you get cast in this?
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Oh, my boring, my story is so boring.
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Um, my school put me forward for an audition.
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Um, they kind of, a couple of auditioners, went around the country to all the different schools and said, do you have an audition?
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I reckon there was about 16 of us altogether from 10 to 12.
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And literally, we just did it in our school gym, nothing fancy.
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It was exactly like a drama lesson.
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That was it?
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Yeah.
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And had you done plays in school and stuff?
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Yeah, I've done loads of school plays.
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It was pathetic.
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It's not pathetic.
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That's how you start.
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Exactly.
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You know, I was Blender the Good Witch in second grade.
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Look at me now.
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You know, Jambrenna got to be Dorothy, and I'm still upset about it.
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1972. Now, listen, you're very similar to your character I read in some of the interviews.
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Is that true?
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You're like, look at the voice, nodding.
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Because Hermione's sort of a smart, kind of a, I don't want to say loudmouth, because you're only 11.
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But I want to say articulate for both.
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sort of young lady?
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Um, I enjoy school.
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Yes.
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But I'm not obsessed with school.
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That's kind of the difference between us.
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Yeah.
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Are you good at school?
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You get good grades?
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Um, I'm kind of averagey.
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Yeah?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You bullied the boys on the set, I heard.
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We didn't say that.
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We did not say that. Is this true?
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They die afterwards, by the way.
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Um.
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Maybe a little.
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Yeah.
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Like pranks?
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Like what did you do?
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Were you just tricks or...?
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Um, pretty good pranks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Any fun ones you could tell us?
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Did you like hide their stuff or...?
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Um, no. It's a really fantastic one but it was actually very funny at the time.
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Um, Ethna, who is our hair lady, has...it's like a printout machine and it comes...
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She's got so much equipment that she needs to like name stuff.
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So, um, it comes out as a sticker.
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I tugged out about 20 of these, pull my hair for 150 kick me um punch me
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and kind of stuck them on people's backs and oh that's good that's good
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that's good and they they they didn't notice for like 20 minutes which was really funny
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people pick you yeah there you go on one movie i
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did you know the costume lady was really mad at at me, so she sewed all my uniforms in the baseball thing, all the hands closed.
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So she was so mad, I put on my outfit to get in, and I had no arms.
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And they were all just laughing and pointing.
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Went back to my trailer, they took everything out of my trailer.
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Because I was like you.
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I used to trip, pinch, pull.
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You know, you get bored, Emma, right?
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You get bored, you have to do something.
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This is my excuse.
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Now, Rupert, do you think I would been a good mom for you?
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Because, you know, I called Chris Columbus and begged.
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Yeah.
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I begged.
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Did you know this?
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I called him up.
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I said, Chris, I'll do it for free.
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I'll do anything.
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I have to be Ron and Ginny's mother.
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He said, you can't.
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You're not British.
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And I said, I can do Day Madden.
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No, he didn't care.
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But, you know, after seeing the movie, I think it works well that everybody's there.
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Authenticity, don't you think?
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Yeah.
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And Julie, she's an amazing, educating Rita.
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Can't beat that.
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Well, all three of you are brilliant in this movie you
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should be very proud of yourselves you're gonna have to deal
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with autographs the rest of your lives i hope you're all right with that yeah yeah all right
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Emma bullied the boys on the set”. This video has 142 sentences and 1033 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:16. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 39 of its 142 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| audition noun | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| newsroom noun | /ˈnjuːzɹuːm/ | The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed. |
| videotape noun | A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting. | |
| prank noun | /pɹæŋk/ | A practical joke or mischievous trick. |
| pathetic adjective | /pəˈθɛtɪk/ | Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos. |
| trailer noun | /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/ | Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing. |
| auditioner noun | A person who conducts an audition. | |
| autograph noun | /ˈɔtəɡɹæf/ | A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person. |
| footstool noun | /ˈfʊtˌstuːl/ | A low stool for supporting the feet while seated. |
| obsess verb | /əbˈsɛs/ | To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. |
| printout noun | /ˈpɹɪntˌaʊt/ | Something printed on paper, usually a copy generated by a printer (machine). |
| whippersnapper noun | /ˈʍɪpəɹˌsnæpəɹ/ | A young and cheeky or presumptuous person; often with a connotation of ignorance via inexperience. |
| articulate verb | /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ | To make clear or effective. |
| authenticity noun | /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/ | The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original, of having the same origin (or attribution, commitment, intention, etc.) as claimed. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dress up verb | To put on special or fancy clothes. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Hermione, you little whippersnapper, you want the footstool?
- No, so how'd you get the part?
- You're the oldest of five kids?
- What did your, what did your parents think?
- How did you get cast in this?
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 | kids who want · minutes which was |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was watching |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the biggest · the oldest |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | needs to like · have to do · have to be |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 29 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, thrill /θɹɪl/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
- Long words — get the stress right: whippersnapper /ˈʍɪpəɹˌsnæpəɹ/, articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like audition, bore, newsroom.
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.