Shadowing Practice: Global success 5 - HK1 - Unit 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Tennis Baseball Giraffe
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Behind Japan England July.
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Chicken pho.
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Favorite.
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What's your favorite food?
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My favorite food is sandwich.
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What's your favourite sport?
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My favourite sport is table tennis.
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What's your favourite colour?
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My favourite colour is pink.
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What's your favourite animal?
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My favourite animal is a dolphin.
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Hello everyone.
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Hi all.
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Let me tell you a little bit about myself Let me tell you a little bit about myself
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I'm a big fan of baseball It's really fun Introduce.
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Let me introduce myself.
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My full name is Lê Mãi Lân.
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You can call me Lân.
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I love pets.
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My favourite subject is math.
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My favourite food is fish and chips.
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Her favourite colour is pink.
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I live in a big city.
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I have two kittens in my house.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Global success 5 - HK1 - Unit 1”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: favourite, colour, favorite. This video has 25 sentences and 132 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:49. 4 of its 25 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
introduce verb/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
tennis noun/ˈtɛnɪs/A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
pet noun/pɛt/An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
chip noun/t͡ʃɪp/A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
mathematics noun/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
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.
dolphin noun/ˈdɑlf.ɪn/A carnivorous cetacean, typically with a beak-like snout, famed for their intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
kitten noun/ˈkɪtən̩/A young rabbit, rat, hedgehog, squirrel, fox, beaver, badger, etc.
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
colour nounCommonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
baseball noun/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run…
pink noun/ˈpɪŋk/A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • What's your favorite food?
  • What's your favourite sport?
  • What's your favourite colour?
  • What's your favourite animal?

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 introduce, tennis, pet.

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.

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