Shadowing Practice: IELTS Cambridge 8 test 1 section 2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Section 2 You will hear the education officer of a dinosaur
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museum giving information to some teachers who are planning a school visit.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
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Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teachers' meeting to talk about the Dinosaur Museum
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and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students there.
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Well, let me give you some of the basic information first.
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In regard to opening hours, we're open every day of the week from 9am to 8pm, except on Mondays, when we close at 1.30pm.
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And in fact, the only day in the year when we're closed is on the 25th of December.
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You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that we're open.
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If you bring a school group to the museum, when you arrive, we ask you to remain with your group in the car park.
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One or more of the tour guides will welcome you there and brief you about what the tour will be about.
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We do this there because our entrance is quite small
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and we really haven't got much room for briefing groups in the exhibition area.
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As far as the amount of time you'll need goes, if you bring a school group, you should plan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit.
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This allows 15 minutes to get on and off the coach, 45 minutes for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities.
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If you're going to have lunch at the museum, you will of course have to allow more time.
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There are two cafes in the museum with seating for 80 people.
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If you want to eat there, you'll need to reserve some seating as they can get quite crowded at lunchtime.
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Then outside the museum at the back there are tables
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and students can bring their own lunch and eat it there in the open air.
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
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Now Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.
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When the students come into the museum foyer, we ask them to check in their backpacks with their books,
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lunchboxes, etc. at the cloakroom before they enter the museum proper.
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I'm afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visits, so this is a strict rule.
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Also, some of the exhibits are fragile and we don't want them to be accidentally knocked.
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But we do provide school students with handouts with questions and quizzes on them.
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There's so much that students can learn in the museum and it's fun for them to have something to do.
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Of course, they'll need to bring something to write with for these.
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We do allow students to take photographs.
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For students who are doing projects, it's useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see that they can add to their reports.
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And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into the museum or drinks of any kind.
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There are also a few things that students can do after the tour.
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In the theatreette, on the ground floor, there are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs which they can see at any time.
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We used to have an activity room with more interactive things like making models of dinosaurs, and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaur eggs.
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But unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in the roof, so that's closed at the moment.
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But we do have an IT centre where students have access to CD-ROMs with a range of dinosaur games.
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These games are a lot of fun, but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitat,
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survived threats, that kind of thing.
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And I think that's all I have to tell you.
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Please feel free to ask any questions if you would like to know anything else.
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That is the end of Section 2.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Now turn to section 3.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Cambridge 8 test 1 section 2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: museum, students, dinosaur, tour, questions. This video has 45 sentences and 700 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:57. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dinosaur noun | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. |
| cloakroom noun | /ˈkləʊkɹʊm/ | A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club. |
| handout noun | /ˈhændˌaʊt/ | An act of handing out something. |
| lunchbox noun | /ˈlʌntʃˌbɒks/ | A container for transporting meals, especially lunch. |
| lunchtime noun | /ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/ | The time or hour at or around which lunch is normally eaten. |
| backpack noun | /ˈbæk.pæk/ | A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when… |
| quiz noun | /kwɪz/ | A competition in the answering of questions. |
| fragile adjective | /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/ | Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material. |
| habitat noun | /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ | Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. |
| interactive adjective | /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/ | Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or… |
| cafe noun | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. |
| screening noun | /ˈskɹiːnɪŋ/ | Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door"). |
| exhibit verb | /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ | To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be accidentally knocked · was damaged |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | teachers who are · students who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, you'll, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 dinosaur, cloakroom, handout.
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.