Shadowing Practice: How to Make Pasta | Jamie & Buddy Oliver - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So me and my best mate here, buddy, we're making some pasta,
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sheets of pasta and the joy of cooking is being able to take two primary ingredients like flour,
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just a little flour and some moisture, it could be water or in this case we're making a beautiful egg pasta
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which is silky and gorgeous and what's amazing is for one person how many eggs do we need Buds?
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One.
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And how much flour?
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A hundred grams.
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So a hundred grams of flour, one egg.
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Making pasta is child's play, it really is.
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Flour and eggs.
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So bring the dough together, it's super simple, use your fork as much as possible because it stops your hands getting sticky, doesn't it Buds?
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Yeah.
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And then once you feel that it's not too sticky anymore,
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then you get a little helper to come and grab this dough and he can start to knead it.
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So just knead it my friend and we're moving it around in the flour
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and what we want to create is a non -sticky pliable elastic dough
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and from that we can make loads of different pasta.
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So look Look at my buddy here doing a fine job, he's been pushing out that dough, stretching it, making it elastic.
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It doesn't really matter how you do it as long as you pull it around,
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move it around and keep adding a little bit of flour so it's a non -sticky, sort of bendy, soft dough.
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Right, it's a great job mate.
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Now we let that rest for just five or ten minutes and look here's some we made earlier.
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Really really cool now from that then you can press this out
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and we can make some beautiful sheets okay
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so now we're at the sheet stage here
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which is the really fun stage so me and buddy are going to share this roll
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i'm just going to feed the pasta through
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so what's cool is every time we put it through what happens buds it gets longer longer
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and longer and thinner and thinner buds grab that my friend what do you love most about making pasta?
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You can make it into different shapes and you can play with it.
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Yeah absolutely and it is fun and it should be fun
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so from this sheet of pasta of course we can cut it into like lasagna sheets
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or we can roll it up with fillings and make it into cannelloni
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and it's so silky and so thin and so delicate it takes pasta to the next level.
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Now we can also shape things by hand making little fafali little butterfly shapes remember those ones.
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Actually what we can do is make quite uniform ones as well.
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So check this out, we'll take little slivers of pasta like this.
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Buddy you can take charge of this bit and what's amazing is you know you can make the pasta sheets so rustic.
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So buddy we're going to load this in
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and as it comes out the other end
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you get these beautiful beautiful little slivers of what we would call tagliolini or some people call it fettuccine.
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Nice and look at that, so delicate, just a little nest of gorgeousness and then
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if we take it out and put it in this one then we have tagliatelle.
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So in we go with the tagliatelle, slightly thicker and of course every shape of pasta holds the sauce in a different way.
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So we have tagliatelle,
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we have the tagliolini and then of course from this sheet we could have our lasagna sheet like that,
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which is very very beautiful.
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We could roll it up with some filling and make like a little cannelloni like that.
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What we can do is get a little cutter like this
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and if I just cut this in half with a little crinkly cutter,
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take a little bit and we're gonna take this like that and we're gonna just pinch it like that.
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Oh that's how you do it.
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There you go, look perfect little for filing.
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So there you go that is some homemade pasta with a little help from a top boy.
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We can do this can't we buds?
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Yeah.
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I mean there's so many shapes you can do and it's
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It's really good fun.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Make Pasta”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pasta, sheet, flour, buds, dough. This video has 58 sentences and 722 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:19. The speaker talks at a natural 168 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| sheet noun | /ʃit/ | A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. |
| flour noun | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and… |
| buddy | /ˈbʌdi/ | A person far removed from the conversation. |
| bud noun | /bʌd/ | A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. |
| dough noun | /doʊ/ | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. |
| sticky adjective | /ˈstɪki/ | Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. |
| thin adjective | /ˈθɪn/ | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| delicate adjective | /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kət/ | Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. |
| gram noun | /ˈɡɹæm/ | A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g. |
| cutter noun | /ˈkʌtɚ/ | A person or device that cuts (in various senses). |
| elastic adjective | /ə-/ | Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released. |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| gorgeous adjective | /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/ | Sumptuously dressed. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| push out verb | To force (someone) to leave a group. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | we're making · is being · we're moving |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | are going to share · i'm just going to feed · we're going to load |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, doesn't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, thick /θɪk/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, tagliatelle /ˌtæljəˈtɛli/, tagliolini /ˌtæljəˈliːni/, fettuccine /ˌfɛtəˈtʃiːni/
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 pasta, sheet, flour.
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.