Shadowing Practice: For Beginners| One Story A Day| Book 3 - 29 Tomato Plants - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Story 29 Tomato Plants In early spring,
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Uncle Ted planted a few tomato plants in his garden.
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A few weeks passed.
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The plants were still the same.
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Uncle Ted said to me, My tomato plants are not growing.
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For the last two weeks, they're just sitting there, waiting.
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Waiting, I asked.
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What are they waiting for?
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My uncle said, the sun, the heat.
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Keep growing, plants.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “For Beginners”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: plants, tomato, uncle, waiting. This video has 10 sentences and 65 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:41.
Key vocabulary in this video
8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| uncle noun | /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ | The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| plant noun | /plɑːnt/ | An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a… |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| spring noun | /ˈspɹɪŋ/ | An act of springing: a leap, a jump. |
| sit verb | /sɪt/ | To move oneself into such a position. |
| heat noun | /hit/ | Thermal energy. |
| garden noun | /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ | An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | Keep growing |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are not growing · they're just sitting |
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 uncle, tomato, plant.
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.