Shadowing Practice: Irregular Verbs Song Part 2 by The Teacher İhsan - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Learning verbs is easy, come and sing with me Say it loud,
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say it proud, English is the key Move your hands,
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stamp your feet, feel the energy Irregular verbs are fun, just repeat after me When I say no,
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you say new No, no, no, no When I say learn, you say learned Learn, learned, learned, learned When I say lure,
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you say left Leave left, leave left When I say let, you say let Let, let, let, let When I say lie,
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you say lay Lie, lay, lie, lay When I say lose, you say lost Lose, lost, lose, lost When I say make,
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you say made Made, make, made, made When I say mean, you say meant Mean, mean When I say meet,
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you say met Me met Me met When I say pay, you say paid Paid, paid Paid, paid Whenever I say put,
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you say put Put, put, put, put When I say read, you say red Read red Read red When I say ride,
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you say road Ride Road, ride road When I say ring, you say ring Ring, ring Ring, ring When I say run,
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you say ran Run, ran, run, ran When I say say, you say said Say, say, say, said When I say see,
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you say saw Seesaw, seesaw When I say sell, you say sold Sell, sold, sell, sold When I say send,
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you say sent Send, send, send, send Learning verbs is easy, come and sing with me Say it loud,
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say it proud, English is the key When I say sleep, you say slept Seep, slept, seek, slept When I say speak,
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you say spoke Speak, spoke, speak, spoke When I say spell, you say spell Spell, spell, spell, spell When I say Stan,
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you say stood When I say steal, you say stole When I say swim,
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you say swam When I say take, you say took When I say teach,
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you say taught When I say tell, you say told When I say throw,
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you say throw, throw, throw, throw, throw When I say wake, you say woke Wake, woke, wake, woke When I say wear,
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you say war, wear, war, wear, war When I say win, you say won Win, won, win, won When I say write,
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you say wrote Write, wrote,
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write, wrote Now you know the verbs from A to Z Yesterday to today,
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and the past to be Keep on learning,
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keep the rhythm free English grows stronger when you repeat with me

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Irregular Verbs Song Part 2 by The Teacher İhsan”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: spell, ring, throw, send, paid. This video has 24 sentences and 422 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:20. The speaker talks at a steady 127 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
spell noun/spɛl/Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
verb noun/vɝb/A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
steal verb/stiːl/To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
swim verb/swɪm/To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
stamp noun/stæmp/An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
rhythm noun/ˈɹɪð.əm/The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
lure noun/lʊə/Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
seesaw noun/ˈsi.sɔ/A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
teach verb/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/To pass on knowledge to.
sing verb/ˈsɪŋ/To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
loud adjective/ˈlaʊ̯d/Of great intensity.
repeat verb/ɹɪˈpiːt/To do or say again (and again).
seek verb/ˈsiːk/To try to find; to look for; to search for.
stronger adjective/stɹɔŋɡɚ/Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does not entail the former.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spell, verb, steal.

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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