Shadowing Practice: LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today is our third day in our 30 -day vocabulary challenge for 2021.
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One new video a day for the next 30 days.
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To help you learn and boost your vocabulary, we're learning 105 words.
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We're taking our words from the academic word list.
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So these are words you'll need to know if you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam,
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but also if you read or watch news in English, or have conversations with native speakers.
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These are intermediate words and they are useful.
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So, grab a friend, have them join the challenge with you, and let's do this.
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As always, if you like this video or you learned something new, please like and subscribe with notifications.
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It means a lot.
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We're on day three and we're learning four words today.
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I do have a download for you, a list of all the words with definitions and sample sentences,
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as well as quizzes to make sure you're really getting and remembering these words.
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You can get that download by following this link or the link in the video description.
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Today's words are significant, role, major, and period.
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And we're looking at the different ways these words are used in various situations.
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For each word, you'll get the definition, we'll cover the pronunciation, you'll get to see up close footage of the mouth saying this word,
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and we'll also have five examples from real life English.
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Our first word is significant.
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Significant.
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It's a four -syllable word with second syllable stress.
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Make sure those unstressed syllables are flatter, lower in pitch.
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Significant.
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Ficant.
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Significant.
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As an adjective, it means large enough to be noticed or have an effect.
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Very important.
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There's a significant difference between prices in the two stores.
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Let's again see this word up close and in slow motion.
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Significant.
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Significant.
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Significant.
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Significant.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
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The site is a work in progress, but it's significant progress.
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Significant progress.
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Not just a little bit of progress.
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Also not a whole, whole lot of progress, but enough to be noticed and have an effect.
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Significant progress.
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The site is a work in progress, but it's significant progress.
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Here's another example.
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And here, there are significant, quantifiable racial disparities that cannot be ignored significant,
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noticeable, enough to matter and have an effect.
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And here, there are significant, quantifiable racial disparities that cannot be ignored.
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Another example.
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The question is, will you find something that is scientifically significant?
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Scientifically significant.
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From a scientific perspective, enough to be noticed or have an effect.
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The question is, will you find something that is scientifically significant?
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Here's another example.
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It is a significant problem around the world.
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There's about one billion people.
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A significant problem.
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Maybe not a huge problem, but not a tiny problem either.
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Big enough to have an effect to be important.
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It is a significant problem around the world.
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There's about one billion people.
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Here's our last example.
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Shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to dedicate a significant amount of my life to solving climate change.
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A significant amount of my time.
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Not all of his time, but a significant amount, enough to make a difference in his schedule, enough to feel like he's really doing something.
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Shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to dedicate a significant amount of my life to solving climate change.
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Next the word roll.
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Roll.
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We have the R consonant, the O diphthong, and the dark L, roll.
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The dark L does affect that diphthong, it's not row, row, roll, but it's roll.
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More like a single sound, a little bit more lip rounding, the tongue pulls back a little bit more, roll.
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And then finally the dark sound where the tongue pushes down and back a bit more to make that dark sound,
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the tongue tip can stay down.
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Roll.
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Roll.
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Noun.
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A character played by an actor, or a part that someone or something has in a particular activity or situation.
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I had a minor role in the play.
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You played a role in my decision to move to New York.
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Let's look at this up close and in slow motion again.
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Roll.
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Roll.
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Roll.
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Roll.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
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I think everybody here recognizes the importance of a role model.
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A role model.
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This is a common use of role.
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A role model is someone you can look to as a model person in that role,
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an outstanding example, something that you might strive to be yourself, to imitate.
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A student who studies hard and gets good grades could be a good role model for another student who's struggling.
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I think everybody here recognizes the importance of a role model.
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Here's another example.
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Haley, what role would you play in a movie?
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A role in a movie is a part.
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I'm playing the role of the mother, or she has a lead role.
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That means she's one of the main characters.
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Haley, what role would you play in a movie?
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Another example.
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While the moon fulfills its role of lighting the night, it also serves key roles in the cycles of life.
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Its role in lighting the night.
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That's what it does at night.
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In that situation, when it's dark, the moon provides some light.
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While the moon fulfills its role of lighting the night, it also serves key roles in the cycles of life.
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Here's another example.
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Our role as the foundation will be to help facilitate an environmental education program.
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Our role.
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The part we play.
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What we need to do.
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What is expected of us.
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How to help facilitate this program.
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Our role as the foundation will be to help facilitate an environmental education program.
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Here's our last example.
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And also, importantly, what role does government have?
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What role does government have?
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What should it do in and for society?
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And also, importantly, what role does government have?
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Next, the word major.
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Major.
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It's an adjective, it means very important.
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A large number or amount, or very serious.
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researchers have announced a major advance in the treatment of cancer.
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As a noun it means, the main subject studied by a college or university student.
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He chose history as his major and French as his minor.
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Let's see this again up close and in slow motion.
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Major.
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Major.
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Major.
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Major.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
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I started out as a math major in college with an education minor.
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A math major.
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What she chose to study in college.
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Actually, I was a math major too.
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I majored in applied math and computer science and also music.
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I started out as a math major in college with an education minor.
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Here's another example.
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And we've learned that there are major differences in the ways that women and men experience disease.
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Major differences, that is big differences.
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And we've learned that there are major differences in the ways that women and men experience disease.
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Another example.
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The country lies along the Delta of three major European rivers.
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Three major European rivers, that is not minor rivers, not small rivers, but big rivers, important rivers.
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The country lies along the Delta of three major European rivers.
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Here's another example.
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This caused major delays in the development of the Falcon Heavy.
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Major delays.
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Big delays.
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They were way behind schedule.
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This caused major delays in the development of the Falcon Heavy.
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Here's our last example.
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This is not the last major outbreak we're ever going to see.
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Major outbreak.
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A huge outbreak with a lot of people getting sick.
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This is not the last major outbreak we're ever going to see.
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Our last word of this video is period.
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Period.
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It's a three -syllable word with first syllable stress.
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The I as in SIP vowel is affected by schwa R.
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It's not a pure IH, but it's a little bit more like E with the tongue being a little closer to the roof of the mouth.
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So it's not IH, peh, period, but it's P -E -P -E -R, period.
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As a noun, it means a length of time during which something happens.
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The period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is very busy.
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As an adjective, it means about a particular time in history.
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The actors wore period costumes from the 1800s.
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Let's see this word up close and in slow motion one more time.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
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It's also a time period that I particularly love.
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I love the music from the 40s.
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A time period.
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A set length of time.
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What's your favorite time period in history and why?
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It's also a time period that I particularly love.
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I love the music from the 40s.
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Here's another example.
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How long is the incubation period for COVID -19?
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Incubation period.
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The length of time.
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How many minutes, days, years, or weeks, for example.
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How long is the incubation period for COVID -19?
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Another example.
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Five percent of Russia was occupied, and often for a very brief period of time.
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A brief period.
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Not very long.
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Five percent of Russia was occupied, and often for a very brief period of time.
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Here's another example.
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They brought Nathan in, kept him in the warmer for about 30 days.
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It was a very scary period for all of us.
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We weren't sure if he was going to survive or not.
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A very scary period.
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Those 30 days, that length of time.
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They brought Nathan in, kept him in the warmer for about 30 days.
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It was a very scary period for all of us.
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We weren't sure if he was going to survive or not.
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Here's another example.
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Well, we've come to the end of our time
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and of course there is a lot of information we couldn't cover in such a relatively short period of time.
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A short period of time.
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Not enough to cover everything they could have said.
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Well, we've come to the end of our time
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and of course there is a lot of information we couldn't cover in such a relatively short period of time.
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Seeing their real -life examples can really help you understand how to use these words, can't it?
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I have a challenge for you now.
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Make up a sentence with one of these words and post it to social media.
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Tag me and use the hashtag Rachel's English 30 -day challenge.
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Don't be shy, you can do this.
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Our next video comes out tomorrow at 10 a .m.
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Philadelphia time.
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Come back to learn four more vocabulary words.
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In the meantime, keep your studies going with this video and check out my online courses at rachelsenglishacademy .com.
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You'll become a more confident English speaker.
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And please do remember to subscribe.
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I love being your English teacher.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: significant, word, role, example, period. This video has 210 sentences and 1838 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:05. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| delay noun | /dɪˈleɪ̯/ | A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. |
| outbreak noun | /ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/ | An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| facilitate verb | /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/ | To make easy or easier. |
| vocabulary noun | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning. |
| noun noun | /naʊn/ | A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea… |
| ignore verb | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. |
| shortly adverb | /ˈʃɔɹtli/ | In a short or brief time or manner; quickly. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| racial adjective | /ˈɹeɪʃəl/ | Of or relating to a race (or a people). |
| importantly adverb | /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/ | Used to mark a statement as having importance. |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| occupy verb | /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/ | To fill. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| start out verb | To emerge suddenly; to jump out. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| make up verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | To constitute, to compose. |
| pull back verb | To retreat. | |
| push down verb | To force downwards (literally or figuratively). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We're taking our words from the academic word list.
- The question is, will you find something that is scientifically significant?
- Haley, what role would you play in a movie?
- It's also a time period that I particularly love.
- What's your favorite time period in history and why?
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 | are used · be noticed · cannot be ignored |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have announced · we've learned · we've come |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 30 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, we'll, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, diphthong /ˈdɪpˌθɔŋ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, racial /ˈɹeɪʃəl/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/
- Long words — get the stress right: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, facilitate /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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 mathematics, delay, outbreak.
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.