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Good morning!
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This is Teddy.
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I'm Miranda.
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Do you want to come spend the day with me?
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So one of my favorite things to have first thing in the morning is hot water with lemons.
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It's a really great way to kind of kickstart your digestion.
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It's full of Vitamin C.
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Cheers! After I've made my hot water and lemon I'll then make a smoothie and these are some of my favorite ingredients to include.
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Almond milk.
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Fresh papaya.
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Spinach. Blueberries and raspberries.
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Almond butter.
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It's a great source of protein.
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And then last but not least.
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I add my little Kora Organics skin food supplements.
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So this contains noni.
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It contains acai.
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Blueberry. Matcha green tea.
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I used to drink it as a liquid but this is so much easier.
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It's nutritious and delicious.
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Delicious. This is one of Flynn's favorite things to have for breakfast.
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I like it 'cause they're healthy for him and he likes it 'cause they're really yummy.
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It contains a free range egg.
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Oatmeal and a little banana.
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Put them all in a blender.
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Now just turn this on.
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Add a little coconut oil.
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Make little mini pancakes.
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I'm just going to let the dog out for a second.
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Who let the dogs out!
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Who who who.
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Go ahead out.
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Sometimes I use two of these to get underneath there.
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So as you can see super quick and easy to make.
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And I'll add a couple of little raspberries.
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A little coconut nectar.
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It's important to do exercise that you really enjoy.
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For me, I really enjoy yoga.
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Just doing a few stretches and yoga poses, really helps me feel really energized and grounded and ready for the day.
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So for lunch I'm going to have salmon.
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with a little crushed garlic turmeric and fresh lemon with a side salad of sprouts and arugula cucumber, purple cauliflower, and avocado.
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And then I make a simple salad dressing with olive oil, lemon a little apple cider vinegar and a little sea salt.
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No matter how busy I am, I really try to take a moment and just really be present wiht eating and really enjoy my food.
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Hello? You know, I work all over the world and I do have an office at Kora Organics but it's nice when I get to have those days where I work from home because I get to to cook for myself and cook for the family.
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I know they really enjoy that and so do I.
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So one of my favorite meals to cook is my slow roast chicken.
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I add, onion, garlic, fresh lemon, turmeric, rosemary.
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I put it in the oven, it cooks for 7 hours.
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and then I have that with sweet potato mash.
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I just leave the skin on and you just pop them in to steam.
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So this is one of my favorite salads, it's super simple.
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We have cabbage here with baby spinach parsley, a little cilantro finely chopped cucumber, olives halloumi cheese, sunflower seeds pine nuts and celery.
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Bon appetit!
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Thank you so much for joining me today.
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I really hope you enjoy my recipes.
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Now you'd better get going 'cause I have to have dinner with my family.
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Go on. Get!
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Go on! Bye!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Everything Miranda Kerr Eats in a Day”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lemon, favorite, enjoy, cook, add. This video has 58 sentences and 543 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:27. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 73% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
lemon noun/ˈlɛmən/A yellowish citrus fruit.
salad noun/ˈsæl.əd/A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often…
cucumber noun/ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
spinach noun/ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
turmeric noun/ˈtɝ.mɚ.ɪk/An Indian plant (Curcuma longa), with aromatic rhizomes, part of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
almond noun/ˈɑ(l).mənd/The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
coconut noun/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
garlic noun/ˈɡɑɹlɪk/A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
olive noun/ˈɑ.lɪv/A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
yoga noun/ˈjoʊ.ɡə/Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system…
arugula noun/əˈɹuɡələ/Eruca spp., especially Eruca sativa (syn. Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa)
avocado noun/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
blender noun/ˈblɛn.dɚ/A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.
blueberry noun/ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
cauliflower noun/ˈkɔl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see comingI'm just going to let · I'm going to have
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionI'll then make · I'll add

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: nutritious /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/, mash /mæʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: arugula /əˈɹuɡələ/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, cauliflower /ˈkɔl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like lemon, salad, cucumber.

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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