Shadowing Practice: Fruit 1+2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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All around the world there are different types of fruit.
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Some fruit is big and some fruit is little.
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Bananas, apples and oranges are types of fruit.
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Do you like to eat fruit?
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What is your favorite fruit?
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Discover!
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Now, read and discover more about fruit.
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Chapter 1.
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Where Fruit Grows Fruit grows on plants.
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Trees are a type of plant.
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Some types of fruit grow on big trees.
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Apples, oranges, peaches, and mangoes grow on big trees.
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Some mango trees are very tall.
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Some types of fruit grow on little plants.
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Some fruit plants grow on the ground.
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Strawberry plants grow on the ground.
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Some fruit plants are thin but they grow tall.
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Kiwi plants are tall and thin.
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Chapter 2 Different Fruit There are many different types of fruit.
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Fruit can be green, red,
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orange, yellow, white, purple, blue, or black.
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Fruit can be long or short, oval or round.
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What shapes can you see here?
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A jackfruit can be about one meter long.
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Different types of fruit grow in different places.
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Bananas and mangoes grow in hot, rainy places.
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Lemons and oranges grow in hot places.
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Apples and strawberries grow in cool places.
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What fruit grows where you live?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fruit, grow, plant, type, orange. This video has 29 sentences and 200 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:52. The speaker talks slowly, about 70 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 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
13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| mango noun | /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/ | Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees. |
| thin adjective | /ˈθɪn/ | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. |
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| banana noun | /bəˈnænə/ | An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. |
| strawberry noun | /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ | The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. |
| purple noun | /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ | A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. |
| lemon noun | /ˈlɛmən/ | A yellowish citrus fruit. |
| oval noun | /ˈoʊvəl/ | A two-dimensional one. |
| peach noun | /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ | Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. |
| metre noun | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in… |
| rainy adjective | /ˈɹeɪni/ | Pouring with rain; wet; showery |
| jackfruit noun | /ˈd͡ʒækˌfɹuːt/ | A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit. |
| kiwi noun | /ˈkiːwi/ | A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you like to eat fruit?
- What is your favorite fruit?
- What shapes can you see here?
- What fruit grows where you live?
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 mango, thin, discover.
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.