Shadowing Practice: INSTANT REACTION 🚨 Big Papi, A-Rod & Jeter react to Dodgers winning back-to-back World Series - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Dodgers winning back to back hasn't happened too many times in history.
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You did it.
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You know how hard it is what they just did so hard.
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I mean this this team right here to Los Angeles Dodgers just when you think they're down and out.
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Look we'll be honest we're in the back figured out OK who we're going to interview with Toronto
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and which way is the story going to go.
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What questions are we going to ask.
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And then bam they fight back.
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You know that's a heart of a champion right there.
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It is not easy to win back to back championships.
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You've got to have a lot of things go your way.
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You've got to get some breaks, but you also make your own breaks.
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And these guys never gave up.
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They deserve all the credit in the world.
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They are the best team that we've seen in baseball for a long, long time.
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Absolutely.
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I had the opportunity to be a world champ three times,
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and guys repeating, I can't call it, it's almost impossible, Kevin.
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I mean, you know you've got new players coming in, players, old players coming out.
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somewhere else free you gotta deal with free agents you gotta
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deal with injuries you have to deal with traveling with all the situation
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that play against you that's why i'm repeating it's so difficult
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and then on top of it everybody knowing
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that you were the world champ the year before played their
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best game against you that's why you have to give
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so much credit to these dodgers for repeating back -to -back the word champ.
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And Mark Walter, the owner, asked me up on the stage, he said, when did you think we were winning this game?
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I said, when it ended.
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I mean, that's the truth, right?
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That is the truth.
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That being said, just so tough for these Blue Jays, who are, gosh, they were fun to watch this postseason, and they had so many chances.
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A great year, just tough to end the way it did.
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Again, it's absolutely heartbroken for the Blue Jays.
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I mean, they had an incredible year from top to bottom, and they did it all.
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They did it in a beautiful, classy way great managers been this is 2008
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they pitched well they defended well they ran the bases they
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showed guts they never gave up first time they lose two
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in a row in a long time it's it's you know
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you don't feel like you can have two championships yeah just
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from top to bottom they've done a wonderful job they have nothing at all to put their heads down
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and they'll be back and hopefully we'll be seeing them in years to come it's
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so tough I've been on
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that side of it seventh game of the World Series we
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were three outs away from winning our fourth in a row
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and we lost just when we thought we were going to win everyone in
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that dugout and that clubhouse thought they were going to win a champion today today
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and the Dodgers held on to what they thought was theirs man it is tough
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no matter how you look at it
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and you'll never forget it you would never cap you can make an argument fellas
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that they outplayed the Dodgers in every facet pitching hitting base running this
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and the world champions show you that they can win a championship with their B -game with Yamamoto.
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Oh my God, Yamamoto.
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That was a performance for the ages.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “INSTANT REACTION 🚨 Big Papi, A-Rod & Jeter react to Dodgers winning back-to-back World Series”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dodgers, tough, repeating, champ, championship. This video has 53 sentences and 599 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:00. The speaker talks fast, about 200 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| champ verb | /t͡ʃæmp/ | To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently. |
| pitch noun | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. |
| defend verb | /dɪˈfɪnd/ | To ward off attacks against (something or someone). |
| seventh adjective | /ˈsɛvənθ/ | The ordinal form of the number seven. |
| theirs | /ðɛɚz/ | That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun. |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. |
| guts noun | /ɡʌts/ | The entrails or contents of the abdomen. |
| classy adjective | /ˈklɑːsi/ | Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable. |
| dodger noun | /ˈdɑ.d͡ʒɚ/ | Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving). |
| clubhouse noun | /ˈklʌbˌhaʊs/ | Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities. |
| dugout noun | /ˈdʌɡaʊt/ | A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. |
| facet noun | /ˈfæs.ɪt/ | Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem. |
| fella noun | /fɛ.lə/ | Used as a general intensifier; a pfella. |
| heartbroken adjective | Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance. | |
| outplay verb | /aʊtˈpleɪ/ | To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| fight back verb | /faɪt bæk/ | To defend oneself by fighting. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as you've, gotta, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like champ, pitch, defend.
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.