Shadowing Practice: G7 U5 Des - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Food and drink.
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This picture shows a family at a Vietnamese restaurant.
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There are four people in the family, the father, the mother, a boy and a girl.
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A waiter is standing near the table and taking their order.
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The family are looking at the menu and talking about food and drinks.
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There are a lot of dishes on the table.
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I can see rice, roast chicken, fried vegetables, fried tofu, spring rolls, pork, and a bowl of soup.
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There are also many drinks, such as orange juice, lemonade, mineral water, and glasses of water.
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On the serving trolley, there are some apples, eggs, cheese, milk, sugar, water, and green fruit.
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The restaurant looks clean, warm, and comfortable.
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Everyone looks happy and excited about the meal.
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I think the fried vegetables are the healthiest dish, because vegetables have a lot of vitamins and are good for our health.
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If I were at this restaurant, I would order rice, fried tofu, spring rolls, and orange juice because they look delicious.
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I like this picture because it shows a happy family meal at a Vietnamese restaurant.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fried, restaurant, vegetables, drink. This video has 14 sentences and 184 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:03. The speaker talks at a natural 176 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| 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… |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| menu noun | /ˈmɛn.juː/ | The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. |
| soup noun | /sup/ | Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food… |
| mineral noun | /ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/ | Any naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic… |
| vitamin noun | /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ | Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found… |
| roast verb | /ɹoʊst/ | To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. |
| waiter noun | /ˈweɪ̯təː/ | A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. |
| tofu noun | /ˈtoʊfu/ | A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk. |
| trolley noun | A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the healthiest |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is standing · are looking |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like fry, vegetable, meal.
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.