Shadowing Practice: 🟡 How Chocolate Is Made (A2 English Comprehensible Input Stories) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi everyone, I'm Courtney.
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Welcome to video number four in this series called How It's Made.
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In this series, I tell you how common objects are made.
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Today, I'm going to tell you how chocolate is made.
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The process to make chocolate has many steps.
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Let's look at each step together.
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Alright, let's find out how chocolate is made.
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Chocolate is a favorite food for many people.
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Chocolate can be sweet, dark, bitter, and creamy.
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The process to make chocolate is long.
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Chocolate starts with cacao trees.
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Cacao trees are trees that grow near the equator in warm places.
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The trees grow cacao pods.
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Inside each pod are cacao beans.
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These cacao beans are the start of chocolate.
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Workers collect the pods.
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They open the pods and remove the cacao beans.
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The beans are wet and white at first.
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They don't taste like chocolate yet.
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They must go through many steps.
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First, the beans are fermented.
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They sit in boxes for several days.
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The beans change flavor and color during this time.
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This part of the process is very important.
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Without fermentation, the beans will not taste like chocolate.
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Next, the beans dry in the sun.
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Workers spread them on the ground.
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The workers turn the beans every day.
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The beans must be completely dry.
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Dry beans last a long time.
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Then the beans go to a chocolate factory.
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The factory roasts the beans roasting the beans makes them
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smell like chocolate it also makes the chocolate flavor stronger after
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roasting the beans are cracked open inside each bean is a cacao nib the nibs are ground into a thick paste.
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This paste is called chocolate liqueur.
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Chocolate liqueur doesn't contain alcohol.
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It's just the name.
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Next, the factory mixes the chocolate liqueur with sugar.
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For milk chocolate, they also add milk powder.
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Machines mix and heat the chocolate.
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This makes the chocolate smooth.
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This process can take many hours.
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After mixing, the chocolate is tempered.
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Tempering chocolate is the process of heating and cooling the chocolate.
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This step makes a chocolate shiny and firm.
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It also helps the chocolate break cleanly.
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Tempered chocolate tastes better.
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Finally, the chocolate is poured into molds.
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These molds give the chocolate its shape.
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The chocolate cools and becomes solid.
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Workers wrap the chocolate bar in tinfoil or other types of wrappers.
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Then the chocolate is put into boxes
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and shipped all around the world now you can eat chocolate
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and now you know how chocolate is made thanks for watching i'm courtney have a nice day
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “🟡 How Chocolate Is Made”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: chocolate, bean, cacao, process, pod. This video has 57 sentences and 452 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:13. The speaker talks slowly, about 87 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 80% 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 |
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| bean noun | /ˈbi(ː)n/ | Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. |
| worker noun | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. |
| 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. |
| temper noun | /ˈtɛmpɚ/ | A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. |
| pod noun | /ˈpɑd/ | A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. |
| flavor noun | /ˈfleɪvə/ | The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. |
| pasta noun | /ˈpɑ.stə/ | Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. |
| mold noun | /moʊld/ | A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and… |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| crack noun | /kɹæk/ | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| smooth adjective | /smuːð/ | Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. |
| collect verb | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | To gather together; amass. |
| powder noun | /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ | The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. |
| bitter adjective | /ˈbɪ.tɚ/ | Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). |
| wrap verb | /ɹæp/ | To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, doesn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, smooth /smuːð/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bean, worker, roast.
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.