Shadowing Practice: Kitchen Vocabulary with Mum | Comprehensible Input in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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a few weeks ago i was recording a video and i said
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that i was going to teach you some kitchen vocabulary
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but i don't want to do it on my own
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so you might add my mum hello and welcome to my kitchen
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and in today's video we're going to learn lots of vocabulary around the kitchen
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and ask each other a few little questions at the same time so mum are you ready i am
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so as you can see this is our kitchen now let's explain it bit by bit piece by piece
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so this is the induction hob
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and underneath here is the extractor fan it's very noisy
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so it's not on obviously these are oven gloves
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and i'm putting them on here we can see not one
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but two ovens and you use oven gloves to open an oven door
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and grab a baking tray for example that way you don't get burnt
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because it can be hot be careful
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but mum why do you have two ovens well
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because I like to entertain a lot sometimes it's just casual
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but I like a lot of family and friends
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and one oven wasn't enough I was just juggling things in
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and out so when we had the kitchen redone we went for two this is a toaster
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and this is a bread bin to keep your bread fresh
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so this is a wooden chopping board with a bread knife and this is to make toasted sandwiches
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mmm toasted sandwiches sounds delicious embarrassingly i do have a reputation for liking things to be very neat
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and allotted so everything is labeled okay so we have the colander
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so this is a colander and this is kind of like a colander as well
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but i tend to use it on top of a pan to steam my vegetables that's a poaching eggs
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which i'm notoriously bad at but hey so yes how exciting my pots
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and pans now i'm holding two frying pans we've got a big one
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that we don't seem to use a lot
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because it looks brand new then we've got this smaller one
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which we must use quite a lot because it's a bit scruffy
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and it's got scratches on the end
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but yeah these are non -stick frying pans in this cupboard we have some plates a couple of bowls
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and some kitchen roll
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and in this cupboard we have the glasses we have glasses just for drinking like water
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and fruit juice and we have the wine glasses you might think
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that two ovens is more than enough but we also have a microwave which you can open and heat up your food.
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I'm going to close it now and here we have the thing that is all the rage.
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Everybody is obsessed with air fryers
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so we have an air fryer as well to fry food without actually using a lot of oil
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so it's kind of healthy.
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My mum likes to have a place for everything so here we have some pulses pasta rice all sorts and here
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we've got even more stuff so this is a potato masher to make mashed potato
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which we love with some gravy and this is a stick blender
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if we're making things like soups this is a kettle
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and in here we have some tea bags next up we have the dishwasher
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and it's empty and it is spotless it's immaculate it's
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so clean when you have dirty dishes you load the dishwasher
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and when they're clean you unload the dishwasher all of that using dishwasher tablets and look even these are labelled.
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So if I'm actually washing up, we have the sinks.
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I like to use a washing up bowl.
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There's the tap, the dish drainer and a nice eco -friendly scourer.
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This is the worktop, a quartz worktop and now I'm opening a drawer.
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Look what's here we have spoons forks and knives
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and here we have some scissors this is an ice cream
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scoop here we have a garlic crusher this is a can opener
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here we have a corkscrew and a bottle opener these are tongs
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and finally this is a serving spoon my mum does cook quite a lot
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and i think she's a really good cook that's why here we have even more pans
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and look they're shiny so clean so you can see my reflection
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when cooking don't forget to season your food here we have salt
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and pepper mills and liquid gold olive oil extra virgin olive oil
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and this is the coffee corner there you have some coffee beans
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and this grinds the coffee beans and here you have the coffee machine.
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My dad's in charge of that and he honestly is a coffee connoisseur.
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He's an expert and his espresso is to die for.
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But if he's not around or if he's not up yet then this is the simple, easy and maybe quicker option.
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I've shown you a little bit of the food bread pasta
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but where's the fresh stuff in the fruit bowl we have some bananas
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but here we have the integrated fridge
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and the integrated freezer we've got some milk almond milk orange juice we've got some hummus butter soup soup,
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cherry tomatoes, pesto, eggs, pasta, ham, carrots, a little bit of everything.
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And in the freezer, what have we got here?
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Ooh, some ice cream.
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Very nice.
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And we have some frozen bread rolls or BAPs, we sometimes called them.
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So you might think, I don't have a washing machine, but actually in here, the utility room,
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we have a washing machine and behind here we have a tumble dryer.
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Now you're looking at a wine rack with some red wine and I believe there's a bit of champagne here and Prosecco.
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so this is the dining table and the chairs
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and this little one is my grandson so
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if you're to eat out it's worth saying please can we book a high chair
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and you can keep them in there and they're safe
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so there you have pretty much every detail of my mum and dad's kitchen but
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mum has it always been like this um it used to actually be separate
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and we have the wall knocked down i just found that
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because i had a lot of people gathered around the table
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and we were all sitting a bit like this and squeezing in
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so i just wanted it to just be more spacious more
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comfortable for everybody i do i just i just like to get family around
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so that's me perfect well mum thanks for your help
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and everybody thanks for watching hopefully you found it useful if so leave a thumbs up.
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And yeah, we'll be back very, very soon.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Kitchen Vocabulary with Mum”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: mum, oven, kitchen, pan, bread. This video has 92 sentences and 1139 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:21. The speaker talks at a steady 136 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 78% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| oven noun | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | A chamber used for baking or heating. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| pan noun | /pæn/ | A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. |
| soup noun | /sup/ | Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food… |
| pasta noun | /ˈpɑ.stə/ | Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| label noun | /ˈleɪ.bəl/ | A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| sandwich noun | /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ | A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| olive noun | /ˈɑ.lɪv/ | A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. |
| bean noun | /ˈbi(ː)n/ | Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. |
| toast noun | /toʊst/ | Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wash up verb | To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal. |
| heat up verb | To heat, to cause to become hotter. |
| knock down verb | To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is labeled · are labelled |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might add · might think |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was recording · was just juggling |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | i'm putting · i'm holding · we're making |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: wash /wɑʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, utility /juːˈtɪlɪti/, embarrassingly /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/, immaculate /ɪˈmæk.jʊ.lət/
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 oven, wash, pan.
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.