Shadowing Practice: Everybody up 1 Unit 2 Art class Lesson 1 Art supplies - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 60 sentences and 153 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:13. The speaker talks slowly, about 47 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

• glue /ɡlu/ (noun) — A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
• yarn /jɑɹn/ (noun) — A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
• tape /teɪ̯p/ (noun) — Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
• chalk /t͡ʃɔk/ (noun) — A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
• paint /peɪnt/ (verb) — To apply paint to.
• circle /ˈsɜɹkəl/ (noun) — 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).
• teacher /ˈti.t͡ʃɚ/ (noun) — A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
• square /skwɛə/ (noun) — A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as isn't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 glue, yarn, tape.