Shadowing Practice: July 8, 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Lesson 2 Word List Tickle.
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She tickled her son's feet.
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Cling.
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The boy likes to cling to trees.
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Wrestle.
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They wrestled for the gold medal.
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Intelligent.
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He is an intelligent kid.
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furry.
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People in cold climates wear furry animal skins.
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Belly.
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There is a baby in her belly.
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Twig.
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I gathered some twigs for the campfire.
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emotion.
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He could not hide his emotion.
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Chimpanzee.
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The chimpanzee has no tail.
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Careful!
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She was careful when watching the insects.
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Stomachache Suddenly, I had a bad stomach ache.
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hug The two sisters hugged each other.
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Laugh.
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The man could not stop laughing.
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Rab.
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He rubbed the window with the towel.
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Not.
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The nut is hard to crack.
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Yummy!
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There are many yummy candies.
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Lesson 2 Smart as a Chim Guess what animal I'm thinking of.
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This animal likes to laugh and tickle its friends.
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It also uses tools to find food.
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When this animal is sick, it takes medicine to feel better.
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No, I'm not thinking of people.
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I'm thinking of a chimpanzee.
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How can chimpanzees do all of these things?
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They can because they're intelligent animals.
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Chimpanzees like to eat ants but their arms are too big to reach inside the ant's nest.
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So, what they do is find thin sticks or twigs.
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Chimpanzees put the twig inside the nest.
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Ants cling to it.
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When the chimpanzee pulls the stick out, there are many yummy ants to eat.
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Chimpanzees like to eat nuts too.
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But opening a nut is not easy.
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How do they do it?
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They use rocks.
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They hit the nut with a rock until it cracks open.
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Chimpanzees are careful when they crack nuts.
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They try not to hit the nut too hard.
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Just like us, chimpanzees get sick sometimes.
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In the forest, there are plants that have medicine inside.
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Chimpanzees eat these plants when they have a stomachache.
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They feel better right away.
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How do chimpanzees know which plants have medicine in them?
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We're not sure.
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But because of chimpanzees, now we use these plants to make medicine too.
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Chimpanzees show a lot of emotions like we do.
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They hug each other, wrestle for fun, and even laugh.
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Sometimes they even rub each other's bellies.
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Chimpanzees can be very silly.
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Maybe these furry animals aren't so different from us after all.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “July 8, 2026”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: chimpanzee, nut, animal, twig, plants. This video has 62 sentences and 381 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:11. The speaker talks slowly, about 91 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 74% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| crack noun | /kɹæk/ | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| intelligent adjective | /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ | Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| belly noun | /ˈbɛli/ | The abdomen (especially a fat one). |
| ant noun | /ænt/ | Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females. |
| furry noun | /ˈfɜɹ.i/ | Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character). |
| yummy adjective | /ˈjʌm.i/ | Delicious. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| nest noun | /nɛst/ | A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. |
| thin adjective | /ˈθɪn/ | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. |
| stomach noun | /ˈstʌmək/ | An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. |
| medal noun | /ˈmɛdəl/ | A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. |
| silly adjective | /ˈsɪl.i/ | Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance. |
| tail noun | /ˈteɪ̯l/ | An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something. |
| candy noun | /ˈkæn.di/ | Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stick out verb | To protrude. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 6 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, aren't, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
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 crack, intelligent, emotion.
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.