Shadowing Practice: IELTS Listening Map with Answers and Script - Plan of the renovated factory complex - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.
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OK, so let's look at a plan of the factory complex and see how it's changed.
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You can see that the main entrance is at the top of the map.
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Ellerslie Road is on the left-hand side and the warehouse is at the bottom.
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OK, let's start with one of the new buildings.
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The conference centre, perhaps.
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If you look at the lower half of your plan, on the right, there are two long buildings that are parallel to each other.
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The conference centre is the one with a view of the river.
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Hopefully that's something visitors to the factory complex will appreciate, especially on a sunny day when it's clear outside.
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Now, what about the new office space?
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As you know, the offices used to be in that large building right alongside Ellerslie Road, and that could get a bit noisy at times.
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So what we've done is move the office space further away from the road, into the building that directly joins on to reception.
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This should mean employees can benefit from a quieter working environment, as well as the other improvements I mentioned earlier.
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We also decided to move the stores building, so it could be a lot closer to the warehouse.
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so now if you were going to enter the factory complex from the ellerslie road entrance
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stores would be the building immediately on your left the warehouse staff have already commented
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that having the stores here is much more convenient yes i'm sure it's going to save a lot of time
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finance was another building that had to be relocated they just didn't have enough space before.
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So you can see the main entrance on the plan, right?
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And below that is the roundabout.
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Then there's the road that goes from the roundabout directly to reception.
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Well, the finance building is about halfway along that road.
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On the plan, the factory is just above it.
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The cafe, just so you know, is in the same place as before.
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It's not ideally located for the factory workers that's true
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but it's not too far if you're heading down from reception
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or up from the warehouse
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but what we've done is try to make the environment a bit more pleasant
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so whereas before you look straight from the cafe onto the
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large car park now there's a line of trees separating them i think you'll agree
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that this was a good decision putting in the trees I mean.
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It was also necessary to relocate the IT department.
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Of course, for some of their work, they can do it remotely.
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But from time to time, the IT people do need to visit the different buildings around the factory complex.
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For that reason, we've given the IT department a more central location.
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It's that square building you see right in the centre of the plan, one of the closest buildings to the larger car park.
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Something I'd like to say about the car park actually
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 38 sentences and 505 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:35. The speaker talks at a steady 141 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| warehouse noun | /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/ | A facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products. |
| entrance noun | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | The action of entering, or going in. |
| reception noun | /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/ | The act of receiving. |
| alongside | /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/ | Side by side with. |
| worker noun | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. |
| parallel adjective | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ | Equally distant from one another at all points. |
| pleasant adjective | /ˈplɛz.ənt/ | Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. |
| convenient adjective | /kənˈviː.niənt/ | Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient. |
| sunny adjective | /ˈsʌni/ | Featuring a lot of sunshine. |
| halfway adverb | /ˌhæfˈweɪ/ | Half of the way between two points. |
| visitor noun | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. |
| locate verb | /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/ | To place; to set in a particular spot or position. |
| ideally adverb | /aɪˈdi.ə.li/ | In an ideal way; perfectly. |
| remotely adverb | /ɹɪˈmoʊtli/ | At a distance, far away. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as we've, didn't, I'd. 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 warehouse, entrance, reception.
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.