Shadowing Practice: Hope Or Wish The One Question That Tells You Which To Use - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 14 sentences and 103 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:52. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 92% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

9 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (verb) — To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
• untrue /ʌnˈtɹuː/ (adjective) — False; not true.
• smile /ˈsmaɪl/ (verb) — To have (a smile) on one's face.
• height /haɪt/ (noun) — The distance from the base to the top of something.
• tall /tɔl/ (adjective) — Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of…
• quick /kwɪk/ (adjective) — Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
• choose /t͡ʃuːz/ (verb) — To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
• shut /ʃʌt/ (verb) — To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
• slightly /ˈslaɪtli/ (adverb) — Slenderly; delicately.

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 compare, untrue, smile.

Grammar in this video

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