Shadowing Practice: GRWM: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (junior year) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl.

I mean, I get up, I brush my teeth, and I pick out my school clothes.

good morning everyone it's kennedy and welcome back to my channel today is thursday august 12th

and it's currently 10 30 a.m right now

and today is my first day of my junior year of

high school oh my god how the frick am i a

junior i feel like summer just started literally yesterday how is

today first day of my junior year already how am i

not a freshman right now what is going on anyways before i get the comments asking why i'm waking up

so late i do school online

and i don't have a class today till 12 o'clock so

that is why i'm waking up this late okay i do school online

but yeah today's my first day of my junior year i'm really really i don't know it's just

so surreal because i feel like i was just a freshman yesterday

and the fact

that i'm a junior i'm gonna be a senior next

oh i just can't i

can't i can't

I'm going to go

to the next video so so

okay

so now i am fully awake my goal was to not

have to touch my hair with the freaking flyer for for another like four to six weeks

because my hair lasts very good when I like take care of it

and stuff and like I don't have to like straighten it all the time.

It has been less than 24 hours

and I already have to straighten my hair again because I try to wrap my hair and be productive.

Look at all these creases and then like up here, it's like, what is going on?

Like I tried to be productive and you know, was like, let me just wrap my hair up so I can come out looking nice and flawless in the morning.

Absolutely the frick not.

I did not come out looking nice

and flawless okay it has like freaking 10 creases in it

so i'm gonna have to flat iron it

but i'm gonna do it very very lightly

because i'm not gonna get any heat damage i'm gonna move

you guys over a little bit i don't like this ankle i am

so tired right now i went to sleep at like 5

a.m i was planning on waking up at around 8 o'clock to film

because it takes me a very long time to film videos

so i was like let me wake up at 8 o'clock

so i have time before my class at 12 girl i

went to sleep at 5 a.m i think i might need to drink an alani

that might might help me i don't know what it is

but sometimes things with like caffeine and stuff either make me very tired

or they make me very energetic and hyper and i'm crazy

so we're gonna try oh my god i

forgot to brush my teeth okay now it's time to do my makeup fix my hair

and you know so on so while i do

that i'm going to have a little chit chat with you guys

because why not

so i am a junior in high school now what the

actual like oh my gosh i know i keep saying it

but honestly it's just still like really really crazy to me

that i'm now a junior in freaking high school like i'm

like an upperclassman like i'm gonna graduate in the next like

two-ish years i graduate in class 27 obviously i graduate very

very soon like to me at least like you know like two-ish years

but it's like so crazy that i'm gonna be done high school soon

and i feel like i just started my high school journey you know

so it's just very like surreal that i'm gonna be a senior next year

and life gets serious after

that you guys very serious right now it's just you know giggles

and whatever and yeah

but it's serious after senior year i'm just like really excited

to see what life has to offer me once high school

is over i'm just really excited to see where i am after high school like i have

so many dreams aspirations and everything

so i just can't wait to see what the future holds after high school okay

but little school update so i picked my classes like i think in april of this year

and this year i'm taking english three algebra two chemistry spanish two art history

and then i totally forgot what my classes for history i don't remember

that i picked those classes out in april you guys i don't even know

if that list was accurate i haven't even checked my school account since may 26

so i don't remember anything really but i swear like

when you just go online i feel like things just fall to the back burner sometimes

when it comes to school at least for me i used to love school honestly

but now it's just like nah because i did traditional school up until fifth grade

and then i was like a fifth grade covid baby

so i didn't go my whole middle school years

and then i went back freshman year if you guys remember

that for about like a month or

so wasn't feeling it i don't know i think it's

because schools here are very different i live in florida now

but before i lived like up north and stuff

and schools are very very different i just wasn't feeling it

to be honest i'm just like i just feel like online school is like best for me

and everything and i feel like online school is not for everyone definitely

and a lot of people say that online school was like very hard for them

when covet was going on but

that online school was totally different than what i do like you i mean

if you need like hands-on like help

and stuff then online school is not for you

because these teachers like you barely see them you barely talk to them it's very very you know off

and on i have like six maybe not even live lessons a month

so it's not you don't really talk to your teachers as much

so it's like

if you need like hands-on learning don't do online school at

all i feel like this feels like i'm in like college like

if you want to be like very free

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when it comes to like academics and everything then definitely do online school

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if you're like a social butterfly don't do school online you

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have to be like around people all the time don't do

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online school i honestly love it better than traditional school

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because i have my own hours i can do school whenever

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i want i can not do school for like three days without any repercussions or anything

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so i just think it's a beautiful thing i love online

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school this is like a whole freaking online school ad right

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now i'm just really excited to see what this year has to offer i always love like new school years

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because i just feel like it's like a total fresh start

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it kind of gives you like the same feeling as like

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when the new year comes around i just realized this is

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literally my second to last high school get ready with me

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and then i'm done as of right now i don't plan

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on attending college i just i never saw myself well

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when i was younger my dream school was to go to brown

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that dream died after covet

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because i was just like not in school it just died

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honestly i just don't see myself going to college as of right now college is definitely not for everybody

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and it's i don't think it's for me to be honest

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and if you're planning on not going to college

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and you think it's a bad thing you think people are

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going to have something to say about it it's your life you know no one can decide anything for you and

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if you don't want to go to college you don't want

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to go to college it's just definitely not for everyone and

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that is totally okay so i'm gonna finish my makeup really quick and i'll be back

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so okay the makeup is done i just did a super cute

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and natural look today and now it's time to work on this hair

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because yeah let's plug in our flat iron i actually love my makeup today it looks

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so like just you know natural and you can see okay

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so like this side right here like the top part good

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but like the ends of it very creasy and then this side up here the top is like bent this Okay,

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I'm gonna put my scarf on for like 15 minutes

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and I'm going to finish this solani because it's just been sitting here

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and i think the toothpaste is has finally one way

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okay now it's time to put on our outfit do i need to put on

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that outfit no

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but i like to make every first day of school for

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like an actual first day of school even though it's way

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different than like a traditional first day of school i also have to run errands later

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so might as well just get trust now

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so for my outfit today i have something very very simple

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but also very cute we have this button up blue

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and white stripe culture top

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and then for pants we're going to do like these white low-rise jeans

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and then we'll accessorize after so this is me before with my pajamas on and then

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I got my friend You're the man's in peace I need your song

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okay so it's currently 12 10 i'm like 10 minutes late

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but it's not that serious it's just like a welcome call type thing

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that i do have to go but like it's not

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that serious you know okay let's go to this welcome meeting oh okay just finished it's currently 1 p.m now so

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that meeting was about like an hour long i don't have

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any schoolwork to do it's just kind of like the course like introductions

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or whatever so i don't really have any schoolwork to do i just have to mark them as complete

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and that's pretty much it i don't have to like read anything

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or do an assignment or anything

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that pretty much sums up my school day literally an hour of school

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and i'm done like that is totally insane

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but it's just the first day it'll get more time consuming as the school year goes on but

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that is the end of today's video hope you guys enjoyed

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getting ready with me for my first day of my junior

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year i hope you all have a great school year

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and i hope you all have a great first day of school

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and i hope the school year goes great for all of us i really hope everyone has a great

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and amazing school year so yeah

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that is the end of today's video don't forget to like comment

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and subscribe and i'll see you guys in the next one bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “GRWM: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL”. This video has 166 sentences and 1924 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:46. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
freshman noun	/ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/	a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines)…
outfit noun	/ˈaʊtfɪt/	A set of clothing (with accessories).
covet verb	/ˈkʌvɪt/	To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
crease noun	/kɹiːs/	A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
schoolwork noun	/ˈskulˌwɝk/	Work done for school, including both in class and as homework.
straighten verb	/ˈstɹeɪtn̩/	To cause to become straight.
surreal adjective	/səˈɹiː(.ə)l/	Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
flawless adjective	/ˈflɔləs/	Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
productive adjective	/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/	Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
brush noun	/bɹʌʃ/	An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
accessorize verb	/əkˈsɛsəɹaɪz/	To furnish with accessories.
aspiration noun	/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/	The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and…
creasy adjective	/ˈkɹisi/	Full of creases.
errand noun	/ˈɛɹənd/	A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
come around verb	/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/	To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
pick out verb		To remove by picking.
sum up verb		To produce a total by adding.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been · haven't even checked
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was planning · was going
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	might need · might might
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming	gonna be · I'm going to go · gonna have

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 79 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: toothpaste /ˈtuθpeɪst/, cloth /klɒθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: freshman /ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/, repercussion /ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: accessorize /əkˈsɛsəɹaɪz/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/, repercussion /ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/

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 freshman, outfit, covet.

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