Shadowing Practice: I Survived Alone In The Amazon Rainforest for 4 Days - Learn English Speaking with Video

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For the next 72 hours, I'm going to be living here in the Amazon rainforest.

This video is not fake.

I'm literally getting dropped off and left on my own for four days and three nights.

Having to survive in a jungle which doesn't want to bear.

What the fuck?

This was the scariest and toughest three days of my life.

I am so hungry.

And it probably makes you wonder.

why on earth joe are you doing this well i believe

that the best way to conquer a fear is to challenge it face on and i'm a pussy

when it comes to creatures i'm awful like even the sea i've always been way too afraid to go in

because i just don't know what's down there i'm gonna be completely honest with you i'm really scared of you

so to face these fears i'm heading to the one place on earth

that truly frightens me the place

that has the most dangerous creatures on the planet i'm traveling over 50 hours you get off the plane

and you just walk straight out onto the street through harsh terrain to get deep into the amazon rainforest

i can't believe i'm doing this this place is like my worst nightmare

i paid this local to drop me off and pick me up in exactly 72 hours from this same spot

well i'm uh i'm well

and truly alone now stuck here until he comes back i made my way through the forest to try

and find a place to set up camp looks like a giant wasp nest stay away from

that you really don't know what's watching you in this forest

which is a very unsettling feeling okay this way i think

i'm going to set up the camp it doesn't look like much yet

but that's better you see there are four trees the idea

is to essentially build a roof from one tree to the other build a bed underneath that roof

and a fire underneath yes this is a full -on survival

video i only have access to my machete a spare top a cup a knife some basic fishing equipment

and a splint and steel oh

and of course some camera equipment the rain is crazy here so the roof is so important let's get materials

now another problem with the amazon is it's incredibly hot and humid and it just makes everything 10 times harder

this is f*ing tiring I was going at this for hours macheting taking to camp dropping off over and over again

that takes it out of you it is flipping humid here

i think i've got the materials now let's build this thing

i first put two wire sticks against two trees and then a stick it should should hold my weight now

mission success i then did the exact same thing on the other side of the tree

and then i added tons of long sticks to make the base of the roof

boom we've got a foundation for the roof now i need

to chuck loads of leaves on top to stop rain coming through it

and literally just as i was finishing up the roof

it has just started absolutely chucking it down i don't feel a drop of water on me right now

so the roof is a success i've made sure

that the roof is tilted so

when the heavy rainfall comes in it just flows right off

now sitting on the floor like this is incredibly stupid of me

because this is exactly where the vast majority of these venomous creatures live including the bullet ants

which has been recorded to have the most painful sting on the planet

so that's why i needed to build a bed badly

but honestly the rainforest takes it out of you i was

knackered i had to get it done by tonight ah fuck man just there ow ow

that really stings luckily whatever stung me it didn't last too long

so i knew it wasn't life -threatening now for the bed i used bamboo sticks

because they're quite flexible but i had no idea

if they'd hold my weight okay moment of truth it holds I had a fully functioning bed

which raised me off the ground oh

so there's less chance of creatures crawling all over me in the night still a very high chance

but less now that took a lot longer than you probably think like seven eight hours

so I'm gonna chill have a quick break then i need

to sort out a fire now as i was resting the

sun in the amazon went down i have been for the

last hour just getting an abundance of firewood the issue we're

facing is it rained earlier all of the wood is wet

so i don't know

if it's gonna like start a fire these mosquitoes man they're everywhere that's why this fire is incredibly important

but just as i started making the fire look what i've

just spotted literally right by where i'm setting up the fire

as a kid and my mom

and dad can vouch for me on this scorpions were my

biggest fear oh he's crawling into my wood now i waited for the scorpion to go

and got to making the fire

come on burn for me but the wood being wet made this really difficult watch

when i put sticks on how much it smokes and how much the flame disappears like the fire just wasn't catching

these sticks are incredibly wet which is the problem

but i needed this fire to stop the mosquitoes to boil water

so i could drink to cook food if i catch it

and me surviving relied on this but after a lot of patience

and building the size of the sticks up mission success listen to this noise

that whistling sound is the water in the wood we've made

it work just now i needed to keep the fire going

so i collected loads more firewood

and then i collected some river water boiled it up to remove the deadly parasites

and finally had my first drink since getting here

this was the first point where i genuinely just felt good

like i'd created my own base in bed with a fire

i had water i could drink for the first time i could just chill out for a bit

but this is the amazon

hell holy look at this look at this can you see

that a little friend had joined my base oh my fucking god there it is

that is massive there is a massive snake crawling on the

roof of my base right now what the fuck what the fuck this is a snake striking

and trying to bite me

and it was a very close call slightly concerned

because he's just lingering at the top of the tree like

when i go to sleep tonight is he just going to come down bite me and i'm dead i'll be For real, after that, I was pretty shook up.

It's been a knackering day.

Look at how sweaty my t -shirt is.

Oh, that feels nice.

I am just an absolute dirty, sweaty state right now.

I'm so tempted to go bathe in that river.

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But then the other nine tenths of me is saying, fuck that.

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I have no idea what is lurking under there.

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But yeah, I'm gonna try and get some sleep.

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So with that said, I will hopefully, if I don't get killed, see you all tomorrow.

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that isn't sound effects what the fuck is that

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it was incredibly difficult to sleep I mean it was

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so humid I just kept hearing rustling in the bushes

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and every hour I had to wake up to make sure the fire didn't go out

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but I did manage to get a few hours

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good morning people it's bright

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and early i didn't get the greatest sleep last night i've

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got about four hours in total right now i'm gonna collect some more firewood get some water

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and then i need to think about food because i didn't eat anything yesterday

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these palm trees produce something called heart of palm that little part in the middle is the food food.

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Now these are basically just carb sticks.

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It's not the greatest.

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But I'm not in a five star restaurant, I'm in the Amazon.

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And calories are calories.

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These are the next pieces of food.

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You break inside them, there's some small worms or grubs as they're known, which technically you can eat.

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Fucking hell.

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Oh my god, this is f*ing disgusting.

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But you know what it actually tasted all right tastes like butter to be fair now the most important food

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and what's really gonna get me through is the fish in

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that river so using a piece of wood

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that I burnt to make more flexible

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and then attaching my fishing line to it created a little fishing rod the grub

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that i ate earlier i was going to use as bait and with that said let's catch me some fish

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i went at this for hours sitting here for like four

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or five hours now really makes me appreciate my fish

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and chip shop jokes aside i really needed to catch something come on give me

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it's getting nothing absolutely nothing i am

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so hungry right now i wanted it for a bit longer

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but had no luck today's not been good words can't explain

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how hungry i am right now don't think i've ever felt this skinny before in my life

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so hungry in fact i tried to fish even more in the pitch black.

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Look at this guy.

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I don't know if that's poisonous.

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Might be poisonous.

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These mosquitoes bro.

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But again had no luck with fishing so I headed back to camp.

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The mosquitoes here are hell on earth.

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Like no matter where you walk there's millions of them.

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I'm starving.

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I'm bitten everywhere.

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I'm dirty.

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Get me out of this place.

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Honestly.

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I really want to quit.

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I really do.

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I'm just gonna have to firm it and try and get some sleep.

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I hear steps.

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What could that be?

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We've got jaguars out there, we've got humans, we've got anacondas, rattlesnakes.

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That's to name 1 % of what's out there.

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Fuck, this ain't gonna be a good night of sleep.

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The hunger is bad, like I am starving.

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So I've woken up bright and early, I'm just gonna go on with fishing.

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See if maybe because it's earlier, there might be more fish out, I don't know.

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I'm trying anything at this point.

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I had to get food today.

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come on come on yes i've finally done it we've caught

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a piranha lads look at the teeth on this bird boy

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never thought i'd eat a piranha in my life especially one that i've caught myself look at that beautiful

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oh that tastes so good i absolutely devoured it

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that was amazing i then

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because i've had hardly any sleep the last two nights took a well -deserved nap

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and after in the spirit of facing my fears in this video i'm gonna bathe in here

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which i never thought i'd be doing this is known as

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the deadliest water on the planet where i literally caught a piranha along with

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that it has black caimans stingrays electric eels anacondas jaguars the wildlife in this water makes my skin crawl

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on this and what the fuck is down there you can hear how much i'm hyperventilating

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but remember i didn't even dare go in the sea before this

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that's me done that's me done hey look any effort is

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better than no effort i am a bit of a

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but i did face my fears that was pathetic i know

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but at least i went in look how bad the mosquito bites are all on me

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when i got back to camp i heard a noise above my shelter that is mental my camp is literally here

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there's the monkey

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the monkey kept looking over

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so it clearly spotted me i'm feeling good like for the

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first time since getting here i'm actually in a good mood

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i'll be honest this was the toughest thing i've ever done i hate

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so many parts of it the amazon rainforest is a Beautiful place like even on the way here.

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I was so close to calling it off But I'm so glad I pushed through it And we're done to go home.

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That was the toughest thing I've ever done.

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I've got like a 40 -hour journey home Morning, but when I get back, that's one.

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There's one place.

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I really want to go to

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we've got fish and chips really makes me appreciate it's exactly what i was craving when i was out there

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that is unreal unreal thank you guys for watching the video um what a crazy experience

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if you enjoyed please drop the video a like and

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if you want to support me uh youngla use my code if you want to get some clothes.

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They've just done their Naruto drop at Kojo.

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Thank you everyone.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Survived Alone In The Amazon Rainforest for 4 Days”. This video has 194 sentences and 2217 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:40. The speaker talks at a steady 141 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
incredibly adverb	/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/	In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
mosquito noun	/məsˈki.toʊ/	A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes…
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
bite verb	/baɪt/	To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
crawl verb	/kɹɔːl/	To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
collect verb	/ˈkɑlɪkt/	To gather together; amass.
sting verb	/ˈstɪŋ/	To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
humid adjective	/ˈhjuːmɪd/	Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
chip noun	/t͡ʃɪp/	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
palm noun	/pɑm/	The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand or other primate hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
snake noun	/sneɪk/	Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
chill verb	/tʃɪl/	To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
chuck verb	/t͡ʃʌk/	To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.
flexible adjective	/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/	Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
underneath adverb	/ˌʌndɚˈniθ/	Below; in a place beneath.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come down verb		To descend, fall down, collapse.
come through verb		To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
drop off verb		To fall asleep.
finish up verb		To complete the last details of a task.
get back verb		Return to where one came from.
get back to verb		Return to (an activity)

Sentences worth repeating

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

I'm so tempted to go bathe in that river.
I don't know if that's poisonous.
I'm trying anything at this point.
That was the toughest thing I've ever done.

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 always been · has just started · i've made
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is tilted · has been recorded · is known

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 94 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, tenth /tɛnθ/, bathe /beɪð/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, anaconda /ˌænəˈkɑndə/

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 incredibly, mosquito, hungry.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?