Shadowing Practice: IELTS English Podcast - Speaking Topic: Weather - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good day everyone, I am your IELTS tutor Jack and welcome back to another episode of the IELTS Plus English podcast.

It's the end of another winter, the weather is warming up, we're getting more blue sky,

it's starting to feel like we can go to the park and maybe have a picnic,

all those things that we do in spring. is weather.

Now you may or may not know, I have mentioned it in a podcast before I think, I really like the weather.

I'm really interested in the weather.

I was really interested from a very young age and my dream job was to be a meteorologist.

That's one of today's keywords, meteorologist, which means someone who studies the weather and the atmosphere in order to predict future weather.

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Now do remember, you have to go to the website and there's a free content section at the top.

That's what you need to click on.

There's the IELTS Plus podcast.

Everything is available there from episode one to today, which is episode 39.

So please make the most of that.

And yeah, so weather, super interested in it still.

I know I'm not a meteorologist, but I just still have that interest in, you know, typhoons, wind, rain,

heavy rain, floods, all these different things.

It's quite fascinating to me.

So, I guess let's get into our 39th topic.

Next episode is the last one of the season.

Can you believe it?

So let's do some part ones to warm me up.

What is the weather like in your country?

Well, I come from England and the weather in England can be quite dull.

I think a lot of people find it on the whole, quite dull.

But I think it's not as bad as people around the world think.

It's actually, there are a lot of sunny days.

You can go to the park and have a picnic and it does get quite hot in summer.

So on the whole, I think British weather is changeable.

Fickle, we could even say, but there are a lot of dull days.

- Good, okay, wow, I'm using two or three vocabulary already.

So check out the list.

Next question, do you experience extreme weather in your country?

Thank you.

We are starting to experience extreme weather more and more in the UK.

In the past, I don't feel like there was so many events.

There were sort of one -off events.

There was a hurricane and there were some floods and things like that and some droughts.

But nowadays it feels like every year there's some kind of big storm, some people die, you know, there are some bigger weather events.

Excellent, well, part two.

So today's part two is describe your favorite weather.

So two minutes on the clock starting now.

I'd like to tell you about sunny weather.

When I was young, I was a golfer.

I played a lot of golf.

So sunny weather, calm sunny days with a blue sky was a real blessing.

It made golf much easier and more enjoyable.

Outside of golf, I just loved sunny weather.

I loved going to the beach.

I loved having a picnic at the park.

I loved hiking in sunny weather.

There was such a number of activities I could do if it were sunny and clear.

Bots when it was windy

and rainy it was quite restrictive you know you couldn't really go outside

and there wasn't many indoor things to do so When I think back to my childhood in England,

right up until 21 years old, sunny weather was a real blessing and made me feel so good.

So let me tell you a little more about sunny days.

So in England, we don't really have any issues with pollution.

So when it's a sunny day, the The sky is very, very clear and it's a wonderful blue colour.

Now, it's quite a rare occasion to have that kind of day in England.

It's not a not every day kind of thing.

And but it's more likely in summer.

The thing that I always tell my students is those images you get of sort of every day raining

and windy in England.

is normally the winter or kind of early spring.

That's when we get that nasty weather.

For me personally, these days are so wonderful because they are quite rare.

So you're more familiar with rainy or windy, cloudy.

So when you get this bright day, You can do all the things you want to do.

Oh, wow.

I guess I really like this kind of weather because I had so much more to say.

But that was good.

That was fairly well structured.

I was quite happy with that.

Nothing I would change.

So we'll go straight on to part three.

Has the weather changed much in your country since you were young?

Thank you.

Well, it's a bit difficult for me to say because I haven't been in the UK much over the past 12 years,

but I will try my best.

When I was young, I feel like there weren't that many sunny days,

and particularly the summer wasn't that hot.

But the winters definitely got very cold.

I clearly remember as a child, We would normally get a few snowy days in winter, and it really did get cold.

We even had some white Christmases.

Nowadays, however, definitely those days are gone.

We seem to get very hot summers, sometimes really prolonged periods of very hot or sweltering weather.

And in the winter, it just doesn't get that cold.

Snow is very rare.

So, yeah, I think there have been some changes.

mainly related to temperature.

Excellent.

Part three, second question.

Do you think weather affects people's mood or behaviour?

I think it absolutely affects people's mood and behavior.

I think that when we have a prolonged period of cold weather, particularly overcast weather where we can't see the sun,

people start to feel a bit down.

It does have that effect.

Whereas a wonderful bright day like today, people just feel a bit more cheerful.

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And especially when you wake up and it's quite nice and warm, it's not too cold in the morning.

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I think people tend to feel a bit better.

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Now for me personally, I'm definitely difficult things for me in England was sometimes in winter,

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waking up every single day and it's

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rainy and windy outside so that was a really hard thing to wake up to every day.

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Good, okay, final question.

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Why do people live in places with extreme weather?

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This is a really tricky question.

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I'm not sure.

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I don't know really, because when I think about these places that come to my mind,

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for example, North Russia, which is freezing cold,

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you know, you look down towards these places that experience lots of...

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strong winds, typhoons, hurricanes.

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There's a lot of places that experience extreme weather.

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And I think really, why do people live in places like that?

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It's not, they don't really have a choice either.

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they don't have the money to move somewhere more desirable, or that's where they were born and they grew up in, so that's what they're familiar with.

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So I don't think people ever choose to do that.

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I don't think there's some opportunity,

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but we kind of have to deal with the hand that we're dealt for most of us.

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So yeah, I think that's why they live in these places.

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Excellent.

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That was quite a tricky question actually, that last one.

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Because honestly, I don't know.

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So if you get those kind of questions in IELTS, you just have to speculate.

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You just have to guess.

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And you can be very honest with the examiner.

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You can say, I don't really know to be honest.

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But after that, you must speculate.

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You must make some kind of guess why.

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Good.

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Okay.

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Well, another topic that I really liked.

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The final topic of the season, which will be next week, is urbanization.

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So that's you.

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Remember, this whole thing has been alphabetical order.

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So we started with animals and we finished with urbanization, you.

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There's no other topics after that.

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But as I said, I may come back for a few bonus episodes.

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So actually, yeah, if you have any requests for topics I haven't covered,

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to do some bonus episodes for you.

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So that's everything I have for you today.

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Thank you so much if you made it to here and of course please hit that like button, subscribe and become part of the IELTS Plus community.

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Have a wonderful week, study very hard and I'll see you next Wednesday for our final topic.

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Bye -bye.

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This video helps you build two key speaking skills for IELTS: using descriptive vocabulary to talk about weather (like "fickle," "dull," and "changeable") and structuring part one and part two responses clearly. You’ll also learn how to naturally weave personal stories into answers, a trick that makes your speaking sound more engaging. Plus, it’s a great chance to practice learn english with youtube content, as the conversational tone mirrors real test scenarios.

Listen For These Sounds

Pay attention to connected speech in phrases like "a lot of" (reduced to "alotta") and "I don’t feel like" (where "don’t" links smoothly to "feel"). You’ll also hear reductions in "it’s starting to" (sounds like "it’s startin’ to") and "there are" (shortened to "there’re"). These small sound changes are key to understanding native speakers—and using them will make your own speech flow better. Try using a shadowing app to replay these parts and catch the subtleties.

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To mirror the speaker’s rhythm, focus on stressing key words in descriptions. For example, in "British weather is changeable," the stress on "changeable" emphasizes the main point. Notice how the speaker pauses slightly before important details, like "I was really interested from a very young age"—this pause builds anticipation. The shadowing technique works perfectly here: repeat the speaker’s lines immediately after, copying their pace and stress. Tools like shadowspeaks or shadowspeak can help you practice this by letting you record and compare your version. Remember, it’s not just about the words—it’s about how you deliver them to sound natural and confident.

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Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have mentioned · haven't been · have been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	meteorologist, which means · today, which is · Russia, which is

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.

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