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The life cycle of a frog starts with eggs laid in water.
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Within a few days they hatch into tadpoles.
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Tadpoles swim, breathe with gills and feed on plants.
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Over time they grow legs and lose their tails.
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This is the froglet stage.
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Finally, they mature into adult frogs, ready to lay eggs and start the cycle all over again.
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Simple yet amazing.
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From egg to frog, nature's transformation takes only a few weeks.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Frog Life Cycle”. This video has 8 sentences and 74 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:40.

Key vocabulary in this video

13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
egg noun/ɛɡ/An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
tail noun/ˈteɪ̯l/An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.
mature adjective/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
breathe verb/bɹiːð/To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
swim verb/swɪm/To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
transformation noun/ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
hatch verb/hæt͡ʃ/To emerge from an egg.
gill noun/ɡɪl/A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
tadpole noun/ˈtædpoʊl/A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
cycle noun/ˈsaɪ.kəl/An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
feed verb/fiːd/To give (someone or something) food to eat.
leg noun/ˈlɛɡ/A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
lay verb/leɪ/To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

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 egg, tail, mature.

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