Shadowing Practice: Family & Friends 3 - Unit 10: In the park (Second Edition Full) - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creating lesson...
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Listening 92.
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Listen and point.
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Path.
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Grass.
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Flowers.
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Bin.
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Trees.
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Playground.
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fountain litter playground
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flowers bin grass
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litter fountain trees path
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Listen and repeat.
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Path Grass Flowers Bin Trees
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Playground Fountain Litter
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This is a beautiful park.
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Yes, it is.
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I love it here.
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Oh, look at the flowers.
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Holly, you mustn't pick the flowers.
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Oh, OK.
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Oh, look at the little trees.
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You mustn't walk on the grass here, Holly.
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You must walk on the path.
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Oh, OK.
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Holly, let's play with this ball.
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No, you mustn't play here.
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Well, let's go to the playground.
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We can play there.
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Catch the ball, Max.
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Oh, Max, you mustn't play in the fountain.
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Ha ha, very funny.
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Listening 94.
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Listen and sing.
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You must come to the park.
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Well you must come to the park, so we can have some fun.
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You must come to the park today and play games in the sun.
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But we must walk on the path, and we mustn't climb the trees.
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We must put litter in the bin, let's keep the park clean please.
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Well, we must be very good, and we mustn't pick the flowers.
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But we can have a lot of fun and play for hours and hours.
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Listening 95.
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Listen and point.
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Rain.
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Train.
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Monday tray case race
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Listen and repeat.
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rain train Monday tray
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case race Listening 96.
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Listen and chant.
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It's Monday today and I can play.
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Outside there's rain but I'm in with my trains.
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I open my case and the trains have a race.
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Listening 97 Listen and point.
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shout
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chase catch
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meet cross laugh meet
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laugh
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shout cross chase catch
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Listen and repeat.
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Shout.
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Chase.
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Catch.
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Meet.
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Cross.
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Laugh.
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Listening 98.
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Listen and read.
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One day, an old woman makes a gingerbread man.
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When it is ready, the old woman wants to eat him.
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But the gingerbread man laughs and shouts, Run, run, run if you can!
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You can't catch me!
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I'm the gingerbread man!" The old woman is angry.
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She chases him.
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The gingerbread man meets a cat.
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The cat wants to eat him, but he runs away.
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He runs to the river.
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He wants to cross the river, but he can't swim.
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There is a fox near the river.
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I can swim, says the fox.
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Sit on my head.
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The gingerbread man sits on the fox's head.
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The fox starts to swim.
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The water is deeper now, says the fox.
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You must sit on my nose.
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The gingerbread man sits on the fox's nose and the fox opens its mouth and eats him.
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Listening 99.
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Listen and write the numbers.
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Number 1.
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This is a big library.
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Yes, it is.
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Wow, look at all the books.
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Shh, Tom.
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You must be quiet in the library.
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Number two.
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I want to find a book about space.
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Come on.
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Tom, you're running.
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Yes, I know.
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Stop.
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You mustn't run in the library.
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Number three.
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What are you doing?
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I'm eating a sandwich.
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No, you mustn't eat in the library.
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Oh, but I'm hungry.
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Number four.
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What's that?
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It's my mobile phone.
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Oh, no. You can't use your mobile phone here.
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You must turn off your mobile phone in the library.
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OK, I'm turning it off.
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Number five.
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Can we go home now?
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No, we can't.
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Look, the books are on the table.
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I know.
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I'm not reading them now.
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Well, you must put the books on the shelf.
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Oh, OK.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Family & Friends 3 - Unit 10: In the park”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Listen, Listening, gingerbread, flowers, fox. This video has 119 sentences and 565 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:34. 85% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
chase verb/t͡ʃeɪs/To follow at speed.
grass noun/ɡɹɑːs/Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as…
shout verb/ʃaʊt/To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
fountain noun/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/A natural source of water; a spring.
playground noun/ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides).
litter noun/ˈlɪt.ɚ/Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
swim verb/swɪm/To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
tray noun/tɹeɪ/A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
hungry adjective/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
climb verb/ˈklaɪ̯m/To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
sandwich noun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
shelf noun/ʃɛlf/A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
chant verb/t͡ʃænt/To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
gingerbread verb/ˈd͡ʒɪn.d͡ʒɚˌbɹɛd/To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
run away verbTo flee by running.
turn off verbTo power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Holly, you mustn't pick the flowers.
  • Holly, let's play with this ball.
  • No, you mustn't play here.
  • Outside there's rain but I'm in with my trains.
  • Can we go home now?

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessarymustn't pick · mustn't walk · must walk
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowyou're running · I'm eating · I'm turning

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as mustn't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, shelf /ʃɛlf/

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 flower, chase, grass.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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