Shadowing Practice: ielts listening map | cambridge 18 listening test 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Now listen and answer questions 17 to 20.
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Now, let me just tell you a bit about what you can see in the sculpture park.
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If you look at your map, you'll see the visitor centre where we are now at the bottom, just by the entrance.
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Since we only have an hour, you might not be able to get right around the park, but you can choose to visit some of the highlights.
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You might like to take a look at the Joe Tremaine sculptures, which are displayed on this side of the upper lake,
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just behind the education centre and near the bridge.
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They're really impressive, but please remember not to let your children climb on them.
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One of our most popular exhibitions is the Giorgio Catalucci bird sculptures.
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They're just across the bridge on the north side of the lower lake.
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I love the way they're scattered around in the long grass beside the lake, looking as if they're just about to take to their wings.
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You could also go to the garden gallery.
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It's on this side of the upper lake.
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From the visitor centre, you go to the education centre, then keep on along the path and you'll see it on your right.
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There's an exhibition of animal carvings there, which is well worth a look.
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We also have the Longhouse.
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That's quite a walk.
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From here, you go to the bridge and then turn left on the other side.
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Soon you'll see a winding pathway going up towards the northern boundary of the park.
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Go up there and you'll find it at the top.
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They have some abstract metal sculptures that are well worth seeing if you have time.
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OK, well, now...
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20.
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Pause the recording for 30 seconds.
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Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.
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Now, if you'd like to look at your map, we'll begin our tour.
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The site is a bit like a circle, with the railway going round the edge.
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You can see where we are now by the entrance, and we're going to start by walking to the high street.
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We'll go to the crossroads in the middle of the map, and go straight on, making our way between two buildings on either side of the path.
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The larger one is an exhibition centre, but it's not open today, unfortunately.
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The other building is offices.
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The path leads directly to the High Street building, which is at the opposite side of the site to the entrance.
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Here you're free to wander around and take a ride up and down on a tram.
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We'll then take the path which follows the railway line and crosses it to the farm.
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If you wish, you can have tea in the farmhouse, and there'll be time to look at the animals and the machinery.
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Then we cross the railway line again and visit our special attraction, which is the coal mine.
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It's just in front of us, here at the entrance.
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We'll return to the crossroads and walk through a small wooded area to the manor house.
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This is one of the original buildings on the site and belonged to a wealthy farmer.
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You can look round the house and gardens
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and talk to our guides who can tell you what it was like to live there.
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We will then follow a path which goes past the pond and will take us to the railway station
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which is situated between the path and the railway line.
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Finally, we'll take the steam train back around the site,
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passing alongside the high street and the coal mine back to the entrance.
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So, if you'd like to follow me...
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Now listen and answer questions 14 to 20.
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OK, so this slide shows a map of the central area of Granford with the High Street in the middle
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and School Road on the right.
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Now, we already have a set of traffic lights in the High Street at the junction with Station Road, but we're planning to have another set at the other end
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at the school road junction to regulate the flow of traffic along the high street.
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We've decided we definitely need a pedestrian crossing.
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We considered putting this on school road just outside the school
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but in the end we decided that could lead to a lot of traffic congestion
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so we decided to locate it on the high street crossing the road in front of the supermarket.
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That's a very busy area, so it should help things there.
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We're proposing some changes to parking.
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At present, parking isn't allowed on the High Street outside the library, but we are going to change that and allow parking there,
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but not at the other end of the High Street near School Road.
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There will be a new No Parking sign on School Road just by the entrance to the school, forbidding parking for 25 metres.
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This should improve visibility for drivers and pedestrians
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especially on the bend just to the north of the school
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As far as disabled drivers are concerned at present they have parking outside the supermarket
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but lorries also use those spaces
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so we've got two new disabled parking spaces on the side road up towards the bank
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It's not ideal but probably better than the present arrangement We also plan to widen the pavement on School Road.
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We think we can manage to get an extra half metre on the bend just before you get to the school, on the same side of the road.
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Finally, we've introduced new restrictions on loading and unloading for the supermarket, so lorries will only be allowed to stop there before 8am.
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That's the supermarket on School Road.
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We kept to the existing arrangements with the High Street supermarket.
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OK, so that's...
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Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.
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Right.
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Now, if you'd like to gather a little closer to the window, I'll point out the various buildings.
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We're at the highest point of the stadium here in the rooftop cafe, on the opposite side to the main entrance doors.
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On our left, you can see two buildings just beyond the end of the stadium.
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The closest one is the business centre, used for meetings and conferences and so on,
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which which provides a good source of revenue for the upkeep of the sports facilities.
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And next to the business centre, the bigger building is the hotel, which is rented from us by an independent company.
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As you see, they are served by the perimeter road, which runs round three quarters of the site.
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Now, coming round to the front of the building, immediately in front of the entrance,
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that circular open space at the end of the road is the transport hub.
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From here there are buses and a monorail link to the free car park, about 10 minutes from here, but you can't see that.
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There's also a large secure cycle park, oh and disabled parking of course.
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People find it's very convenient and it keeps the site virtually car free.
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OK, now if you look as far as you can over to the right,
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beyond the buildings, you can see our outdoor pitches, which I mentioned earlier.
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Between the pitches and the entrance is a little kind of pedestrian plaza.
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Are you with me?
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No, I'm not.
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OK, with the cinema in the building furthest away from us, next to the pitches.
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Then there's the 10-pin bowling between the cinema and the road.
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Near the far end of the perimeter road and between the mini roundabout and the pitches,
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there's our fitness centre with all kinds of equipment and a small pool and changing rooms for teams using the pitches.
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Then, joined onto the stadium, next to the entrance, is a range of small shops,
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which all specialise in sports equipment, clothes, shoes.
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They sell toys and so on as well.
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All that sort of thing.
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They seem to be doing well.
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As you see, the service road goes right round, but we keep the traffic and the pedestrians well apart.
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So it's all very relaxed round the plaza, popular with families.
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And just in front of the bowling is our lovely restaurant.
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You can see it from here.
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It's that building on the plaza between us and the bowling.
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It's open all day and in the evenings.
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There's quite a queue there at weekends, I'm pleased to say.
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So now you've got the layout we can go and have a closer look at everything
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “ielts listening map”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: road, entrance, parking, centre, path. This video has 106 sentences and 1430 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:03. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| supermarket noun | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing. |
| pedestrian noun | /pəˈdɛstɹiən/ | A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle. |
| sculpture noun | /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/ | A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting). |
| disable verb | /dɪsˈeɪbəl/ | To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling. |
| plaza noun | /ˈplɑːzə/ | A town's public square. |
| crossroads noun | A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads. | |
| lorry noun | /ˈlɔɹi/ | A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck |
| perimeter noun | /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/ | The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object. |
| metre noun | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in… |
| junction noun | /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ | The act of joining, or the state of being joined. |
| visitor noun | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. |
| bend verb | /bɛnd/ | To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. |
| cinema noun | /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ | A movie theatre, a movie house. |
| farmhouse noun | /ˈfɑːmhaus/ | A farmer's residence. |
| furthest adjective | /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/ | Most distant in time, space or degree. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
| go past verb | To elapse. (said of time) |
| go round verb | To physically swirl or rotate. |
| look round verb | To inspect a building or area. |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
| walk through verb | To explain (something) to (someone), step by step. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We've decided we definitely need a pedestrian crossing.
- We're proposing some changes to parking.
- Are you with me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you look at your map, you'll see |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are displayed · is situated · isn't allowed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | sculptures, which are · there, which is · building, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've decided · we've introduced |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 31 contractions and reduced forms, such as we'll, they're, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: furthest /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/, pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: junction /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/, machinery /məˈʃiːnəɹi/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, perimeter /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/, visibility /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, machinery /məˈʃiːnəɹi/
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 supermarket, pedestrian, sculpture.
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.