Shadowing Practice: Head Tag in HTML | An HTML5 Head Element Tutorial - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello and welcome.

Hi, I'm Dave.

This tutorial is part of a beginners HTML series.

I'll be using the Chrome web browser, the Visual Studio Code editor, and the live server extension for Visual Studio Code to view the web page.

There are links to these tools, starter code files, and all resources in the description below.

Let's move on to what else might go inside of our head element.

And remember, everything inside of the head element is not seen on the web page.

And with that said, I've dragged the Visual Studio Code window to a little smaller size on the left

and Chrome to a little smaller size on the right.

But I'm just going to expand

Visual Studio Code for now

because anything we change inside of the head element will not be seen on the web page anyway.

So I'll click the expand button and we'll just see our code.

Now I had mentioned that we could store more metadata inside of the head element

And that is definitely some of what we see.

So let's add a couple of typical

Meta tags that have metadata that you would commonly see

The first being for the author of the page

So we'll say name the attribute name is equal to author

because that's what type of meta tag this will be

And then we'll have a content attribute

and this is where you can put your name I'll put my name for now since I'm the author of the page.

And then let's add another meta tag.

And let's give it a name as well.

And here we'll put a description.

This will describe the web page in a little bit more detail than possibly the title would.

So here we can put more of a sentence.

And once again, we need the content attribute to do that.

Let's say this page contains all the things I am learning how,

if I could spell how, to, and it looks like I'm extending the page.

So in Visual Studio Code, I'm going to press

Alt -Z in Windows to make sure the text continues to wrap

and then I'll say all the things I am or I am learning how to create as I learn HTML.

There we go.

Now after that of course you still need to close the meta tag

and control s to save and again I got the words to wrap.

Let's go to the view menu.

If you scroll all the way down you can see word wrap is alt z.

It may be something different if you're on Mac or Linux

so you might want to check the view menu under word wrap

if you want your words to wrap

and not just extend forever to the right here

now we've added more description about our page now this information could be picked up in a search engine

or some other service that wants to learn more about our web page however let's go ahead

and put something in the head where we will notice the change when we go back to the browser.

And that is to add what is called a fav icon.

And we can do that with a link element.

Let me use lowercase once again.

And inside of the link element, we'll have several attributes.

One is the REL, which stands for relate or relation.

How does this relate to the web page?

And here we're going to provide an icon.

After that, we need an href.

This refers back to HTML that stands for hypertext.

This is a hypertext reference.

So we're referencing a resource.

And here we're going to reference a file that I have now put inside of our folder that is called HTML5 .png.

And if I click the file explorer over here, you can see I've now added an image file that's a .png file,

HTML5 .png and you can download this image from the resources.

And you can see it's a small little icon for the HTML5 logo.

So I'll close that.

I'm going to click the file browser to have that disappear again.

So we see this.

Now we have one more attribute to add, and that is the type.

What type of resource is this?

And here we'll say image slash x dash icon.

And now we can save this and I'm going to go ahead and minimize the code window.

And now if we look at our web page in the browser, notice we have an icon up here.

My first web page now has our little fav icon beside the title.

And that's what we added here in the head by adding the fav icon with a link element.

Now we won't add any more here today, but this is the same area where we would link to CSS files

and even JavaScript files and other resources that we pull in from the web.

So the head is a very important part of the page, even though we don't see.

the content of the head inside the body of the page.

And I said we wouldn't link to anything else here today, but since we do have this default CSS to make our page a dark mode,

if you added this, and once again, this was optional, if you prefer the white page with dark text, you didn't need to add this,

and we had this style element here to hold the CSS in the head, but that's not usually where you would find it for a page.

So let's go ahead and do that.

I'll expand Visual Studio Code again, click the file explorer

and over here inside the file tree I want to create a new file

I'm going to call this main .css

and I have an empty css file all we need to do now is go back to the index

select the css

that we put here for the html in the body not the style tags just select the css

that's between the style tags I'm going to press ctrl x to cut

it out of the page go to the CSS file and control V to paste it into the CSS file.

Control S to save that file.

Now back in the HTML, I'm going to remove the style element, and I'm going to add another link.

And here for the rel, not ref, but rel, we have a style sheet.

Because we're adding a CSS style sheet, our href will now point to our CSS,

main .css specifically, and our type, which isn't actually required anymore.

But since we have it, let's go ahead and add text slash CSS.

But our browser should know what it is, even if we didn't add that at this point,

because that's really the only type of style sheet there is, is a CSS.

Now that we've made these changes, let's save the file.

And let's go ahead and click the button again to make our code shrink back down and look at our page.

We can reload just to make sure it has reloaded and everything looks the same.

That's because we are pulling in our code.

I'm going to go ahead and hide the file tree here.

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We are pulling in our CSS code using our link tag inside of the head element.

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Now, finally, I'm going to create an error on purpose by deleting the

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greater than symbol at the end of this link tag and saving the file with control S.

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Now, why would I create an error on purpose

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because we want to validate our file again

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and this will let us know that yes we've got the right file

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and we expect one error there you don't of course have to create an error on purpose

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but that's what i'm doing to make sure i'm selecting the correct file out of the correct lesson folder

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because i'm in lesson two now you might be working on the same file

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we started with there's the css file

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and the image file i'll select the index .html and check

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and i should have at least one if not more errors

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because of that yes that created several errors on the page just by leaving out

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that one closing greater than symbol for the link text now if i save again

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visual studio code formats our code correctly instead of trying to pull the closing

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head tag up here and i'm going to go ahead

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and reload or re -upload the file to check it so we choose index .html.

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Now I'll click check and document checking completed.

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No errors or warnings to show.

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So just by missing one little thing in our page, we could have a whole list of errors.

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So follow the prompts from Visual Studio Code.

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Notice how if I leave that out here in my theme, this turns red or pink.

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It doesn't look quite right.

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Visual Studio Code wants to format it differently if I save the file

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and it pulls that up here instead of putting the closing tag.

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There's several cues to show you that you have an error in the file.

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And so follow those prompts in Visual Studio Code.

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And then remember to always validate your page.

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And we always do that at validator .w3 .org.

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I'll get rid of everything at the end of that.

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And here you can pull it up.

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And then we choose file upload.

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Remember to keep striving for progress over perfection and a little progress every day will go a very long way.

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Please give this video a like if it's helped you and thank you for watching and subscribing.

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You're helping my channel grow.

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Have a great day and let's write more code together very soon.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Head Tag in HTML”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: file, page, code, css, html. This video has 135 sentences and 1645 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:26. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% 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

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
element noun	/ˈɛləmənt/	One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
icon noun	/ˈaɪ.kɑn/	An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
resource noun	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
browser noun	/ˈbɹaʊ.zəɹ/	One who or which browses.
attribute noun	/ˈæt.ɹɪˌbjut/	A characteristic or quality of a thing.
select verb	/sɪˈlɛkt/	To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
meta adjective	/ˈmɛtə/	Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
tag noun	/tæɡ/	A small label.
sheet noun	/ʃit/	A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
expand verb	/ɪkˈspænd/	To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
format noun	/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/	The layout of a publication or document.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
extend verb	/ɛkˈstɛnd/	To increase in extent.
symbol noun	/ˈsɪmbəl/	A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
back down verb		To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
leave out verb		To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Let's go to the view menu.
That's because we are pulling in our code.
You're helping my channel grow.

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	I've dragged · we've added · have now put
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is not seen · will not be seen · could be picked
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	might go · may be · might want
Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things	more detail than · greater than

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheet /ʃit/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, perfection /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, metadata /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/

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 element, icon, resource.

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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