Shadowing Practice: Learn Basic English For Beginners - First Day At School! (Comprehensible Input) A2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's look at this picture.
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This boy here is wearing a red backpack.
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He's got a red backpack on his back.
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a red backpack, and he is holding his mother's hand.
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So, this is his mother or his mum.
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So Let's say it's his mum and he is holding his mum's hand here.
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And there are other children as well.
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This girl is holding her parents hand.
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This girl is on a scooter.
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with her mother, and they are both wearing helmets.
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There are also many children on the bus as well.
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A lot of children on the bus.
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This is because it is the first day of school today.
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Today is the first day of school.
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Now the boy with the red backpack on he meets his new teacher.
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So this is going to be his teacher.
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I think this is probably an Indian woman.
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if I had to guess, probably an Indian woman.
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And this is going to be his teacher now.
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But the boy is quite shy.
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So it's a shy boy and he is holding on to his mother's dress.
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See, his mother is wearing a white dress here, and he is holding on with his hands.
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He is holding on to his mother's dress here, his mother's white dress, because he is shy and he is scared on his first day.
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And so he goes with his new teacher into the school
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and the parents the parents are here and they are waving see they are waving goodbye waving goodbye to their children.
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So this woman is waving goodbye This woman is waving goodbye as well, and this child is waving back.
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This is her mother.
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She is waving, and her daughter is waving back.
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She's waving back.
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This poor child is crying.
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He is crying his eyes out.
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Yes, this boy is crying his eyes out.
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He is very very upset that he is leaving his parents.
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So he is crying his eyes out because he's leaving his parents.
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When the boy goes into the school, he does not know what to do.
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He is new.
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So he does not know what to do.
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But the good thing is this girl helps him out.
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So she helps him out and she shows him what he needs to do.
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So she takes his red backpack And she hangs it up for him.
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So she hangs up his red backpack for him here.
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So she hangs it up on one of these hooks.
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See there's a hook here and there's a hook here as well
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and the hooks are here so that you can hang up your backpack.
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She takes his hand.
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She takes his hand and brings him to this tree, and then she climbs the tree.
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So she is climbing the tree here.
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You can see she's climbing the tree.
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The boy follows after her.
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So he follows after her.
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and tries to climb the tree as well.
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As he is climbing the tree, he gets halfway up.
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the tree.
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He gets halfway up, but then he gets stuck.
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See now he is stuck here.
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He does not know what to do because he is stuck and he's scared now, very scared.
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And he starts crying his eyes out because he is so scared.
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So he started to cry his eyes out.
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and he is thinking about his mother, he is thinking about his mum.
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But it's not so bad because there is another boy here and the other boy comes to play.
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with him And you can see the other boy is showing him how to do it.
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And the boy is hanging off the tree.
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See?
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This boy here, he is hanging down.
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Hanging down off the tree here.
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Good for him.
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And then they start chatting.
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They are chatting away, chatting away about different things like bugs.
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and lizards this looks this is a lizard and this is a bug
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fly I think looks like a fly and they are chatting away and so now he has a new friend and
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So they have made friends now.
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OK, the boy has made a friend.
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Then the teacher She hits this.
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This is called a gong.
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She bangs the gong here.
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And that shows that it is time for class to begin it's time for the class to begin
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and all the
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children here all the children are lined up
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so they are lined up they are in a line here all the children are lined up
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and now each child each child will go into the classroom
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one by one okay they will go one by one this girl will go in
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and then this boy will go in and then this girl will go in
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and then this boy will go in and they will go into the classroom one by one.
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They will not all go at the same time.
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No, they will go into the classroom one by one in the class they are having a lot of fun.
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They are having fun and they are talking about the weather.
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Yes, they are talking about rain.
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So the teacher is talking about rain.
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And she is raising her arms.
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into the air.
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So she raises her arms into the air here, and there she is talking about rain.
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And all, most of the children, not all of them, Not all of them, but most of them are copying her.
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They are also raising their arms.
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into the air.
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Most of them are doing this, but not all of them.
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Because this girl is not copying the teacher.
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This girl is not copying the teacher.
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And this boy here is also not copying the teacher.
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And also this boy is not copying the teacher.
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but most of them are also raising their arms in the air and copying the teacher.
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This girl is playing with some blocks.
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See there are one, two, three, four blocks here.
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And she is playing with the blocks.
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And this boy is hitting a drum.
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So this is a little drum.
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Little drum and he is hitting.
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He is hitting the drum.
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This boy is just shouting about buses for some reason.
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He is shouting about a bus.
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Next, the children can paint.
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So it's time to do some painting.
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Most of the children are painting.
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So this girl is painting This girl is painting, this girl is painting.
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Most of them are painting.
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This boy is not really painting.
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This boy is daydreaming.
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He's daydreaming.
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So he is thinking about something else thinking about something else completely.
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So he's not painting anymore.
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He is daydreaming.
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now this girl here she is showing the teacher
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what she has painted So she is showing this teacher what she has painted.
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Doing that, And a lot of the children have paint on their bodies.
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This girl has some red paint on her left arm.
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These two children, this boy and this girl, they both have paint on their face.
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So they have paint on their faces.
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these children And now before they eat lunch they need to wash their hands.
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See?
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They are all going to wash their hands here in the sink.
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So they're going to wash their hands in the sink here.
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And they're going to wash their hands one by one.
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right?
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They're going to wash them one by one.
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This boy will wash them, then this girl will wash them, and then this boy will wash his hands,
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and they will all wash their hands one by one before They eat lunch.
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So this is lunch and the teacher is giving each child Some green, something green and something orange.
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Maybe some vegetables.
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I think it is vegetables.
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I'm not sure what this food is.
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The food does not look very nice,
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but each child will get some food and all of the children All of the children are sitting cross -legged.
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Look at this.
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Look at the way they are sitting.
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This boy is sitting cross -legged.
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See?
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That is how he's sitting.
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This girl is also sitting cross -legged.
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And this girl is sitting cross -legged.
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And this girl is also sitting cross -legged.
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And the boy.
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is sitting cross -legged as well.
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So most of the children, maybe not this girl and maybe not this boy or girl They are not sitting cross -legged,
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but most of the children are sitting cross -legged.
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Now it is time for the children to have some fun, to play, and all the children are doing different things.
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This boy is looking out of the window here.
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This boy is playing with a block.
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I think this boy is pretending that the block is a car.
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I think he is pretending this little block is actually a car.
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pretending it's a cough.
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This girl here is crying her eyes out.
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I think she is crying her eyes out because this girl stole something.
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I think this girl stole this little doll here.
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So there's a doll.
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She is holding a doll in her hands.
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And I think that this girl wants the doll back because I think This girl stole it from her.
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She stole it from her.
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And that's why she is crying her eyes out, because she stole it from her.
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And all the children are playing and having fun.
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Then it is time for a puppet show.
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See, the teacher is holding a puppet.
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on each hand.
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So there's a puppet on her right hand.
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And there's a puppet on her left hand.
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So it is time for the puppet show.
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This is the puppet show and that most of the children are very interested.
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They are paying attention.
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But most of the children are paying attention.
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to the show, to the puppet show, most of them.
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He's paying attention.
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He's paying attention.
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He's paying attention.
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Most of them are paying attention, except...
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except this one boy over here.
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This boy is not paying attention.
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He is sleeping.
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This boy is sleeping.
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This boy is fast asleep.
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He is fast asleep.
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So he's not paying attention to the puppet show because he's fast asleep.
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And if you look down here, Most of the children are enjoying, most of them are enjoying the puppet show.
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But the boy in the back is sleeping on the floor.
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Now he is lying down on the floor now.
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So he's lying down fast asleep, but all the other children are enjoying the puppet show.
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Then now it is time for everybody to leave the school.
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So all of the children get ready to leave.
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They are all getting their bags.
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So the bags that were hanging on the hooks here.
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Here's a hook, there's another hook.
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Each bag was hanging on a hook and they all have to get their bags and get their things.
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because it's time to go home.
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It is home time now.
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It's home time.
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Now they can leave the school and go home.
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These two children are having an argument and they are both trying to take the same bag.
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Both of these children are trying to take the same bag here and they are both a bit Angry.
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- Thank you.
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But most of the children are putting on their shoes.
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This boy is putting on his shoes.
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and they are getting ready to leave the school.
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And it's home time and now all the children can see their parents again.
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So all the children are running off, running off to see their parents.
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The parents are waiting just behind the wall.
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So there's a wall here and all the parents are waiting just behind it.
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See there's also a gate.
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There's a black gate here and this woman is waiting just behind the gate.
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waiting just behind the gate and this man is waiting just behind the wall here.
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Another boy can go and see his parents and he is so excited to see his dad
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his dad is there and so he runs off He runs over to his dad.
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So he runs over and then he hugs him.
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He hugs the dad's legs, actually.
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gives him his legs a big hug.
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Bye.
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So the dad carries his son on top of his shoulders.
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He carries him on top of his shoulders and the boy falls asleep very quickly.
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So the boy is already fast asleep.
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on top of his shoulders.
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Thank you for watching this video and I will see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 227 sentences and 2099 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:39. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- puppet /ˈpʌpɪt/ (noun) — Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
- hook /hʊk/ (noun) — A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- backpack /ˈbæk.pæk/ (noun) — A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when…
- asleep /əˈsliːp/ (adjective) — In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
- steal /stiːl/ (verb) — To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (verb) — To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
- gate /ˈɡeɪ̯t/ (noun) — A doorlike structure outside a house.
- goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ — Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
- drum /ˈdɹʌm/ (noun) — A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- scare /skɛɚ/ (verb) — To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
- doll /dɑl/ (noun) — A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
- pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/ (verb) — To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- classroom /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/ (noun) — A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
- shoe /ˈʃu/ (noun) — A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
- sink /ˈsɪŋk/ (verb) — To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- go in (verb) — To become obscured by clouds.
- go into (verb) — To get involved in; to investigate or explore.
- talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
- line up /laɪnˈʌp/ (verb) — To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- play with (verb) — To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance.
- hang on /ˌhæŋ ˈɒn/ (verb) — To wait a moment.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, shout /ʃaʊt/
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 puppet, hook, backpack.
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 stuck · is called · are lined |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have made · has made · has painted |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were hanging · was hanging |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | starts crying · start chatting |
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.