Shadowing Practice: Learn English Fast & Easy at a Grocery Store - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Ow!
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Ow!
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Oh my god!
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Ow!
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These potato chips come in a bag.
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Cockroaches or any unwanted.. any...
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Oh, kid.
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Today we're visiting the mega market.
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It's a supermarket here in Da Nang.
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They have everything from household cleaning products to fruits, vegetables, and everything in between.
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Let's head over to the shopping cart corral, grab a shopping cart, head on in, and we can explore together what makes this place unique.
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Follow me.
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This is a shopping cart.
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It rolls around on wheels.
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You push the shopping cart in the aisles of the store.
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While you're shopping, you place the items inside of the shopping cart.
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So this is the shopping cart.
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This, what I'm walking down right now is called an aisle.
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An aisle of a grocery store.
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This supermarket has so many aisles that
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if you're shopping here with your kids you'd have to keep your eyes on them at all times
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because you could easily lose your kids in the store.
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It's so big and there are so many aisles.
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This right here is called a barcode.
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A barcode.
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So when you take this item to purchase it at the checkout stand, the cashier will take this product and the barcode and scan it
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and then the price will come up and you'll know how much it costs and you can pay for it.
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So this is a barcode.
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Ow!
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Ow!
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Oh my god!
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Ow!
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This is a durian.
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I would say it's kind of a controversial fruit here in Southeast Asia.
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Either people love it or they hate it usually because of the smell.
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The smell is very very intense.
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It's banned in a lot of hotel rooms.
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If you're caught eating one of these in your hotel room, the hotel will give you a fine for eating them.
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It's green in color.
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It's very sharp to touch.
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In fact, it's quite painful right now to touch.
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Personally, I haven't even tried durian, but just the smell of it alone makes me want to put it down right now.
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So I'm going to do that.
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Plus, I'm in pain.
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Ow!
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These are the aisles where you're going to find most of your personal hygiene products, such as body wash so that you can clean yourself in the shower.
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This is deodorant so that your armpits don't stink.
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Shaving cream.
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You put the shaving cream on your face before you use a razor.
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With the razor you shave your face.
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Toothbrush for brushing your teeth.
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Shampoo for washing your hair.
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Shampoo.
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Face cream.
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Face cream, you put it on your face to moisturize your face after you take a shower.
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Face cream.
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This is mouthwash so that you don't have bad breath.
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This is the household cleaning products aisle.
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It's where you're going to find a lot of your cleaning products.
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Things like this is toilet bowl cleaner.
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It's to clean the inside of your toilet bowl.
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It comes in a plastic container and the color of the packaging is purple.
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This is glass cleaner.
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It's for cleaning glass surfaces such as a window or a mirror.
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It comes in a spray bottle because you press this little lever here
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and that's how you get the liquid to come out.
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So this is glass cleaner.
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This is an essential to have its insect killer.
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It's a poison.
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It comes in an aerosol container.
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You press a button and the poison comes out from the aerosol can
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and it will kill very quickly I might add any cockroaches
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or any unwanted.. it'll kill.. it'll kill any unwanted insects or bugs right after you spray them with this poison.
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That fucking kid.
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This is the snacks and candy aisle.
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It's where you're going to find most of your snacks, candy, chocolates, crackers.
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Come take a look.
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These are potato chips.
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They're my favorite snack.
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I usually eat these while I'm watching a movie or watching Netflix or something.
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And these potato chips come in a cylinder container because the shape of the packaging is a cylinder.
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It's a cylinder.
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These potato chips are in a bag.
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potato chips these are crackers
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and these crackers come in a box you eat crackers with cheese on top
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or some sort of spreadable dip
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that sort of thing these are crackers this is the condiments
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aisle it's the aisle where you're gonna find most of the condiments things like jam
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and honey hot drinks powdered drinks this is jam it comes in a jar a glass jar you can hear
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that as glass.
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You usually spread it on top of toast in the morning.
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When I was a kid I used to eat the jam without any toast
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and my mom she used to get really mad at me for it.
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Something else that's often spread on top of toast is peanut butter.
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Sometimes you put peanut butter and jam on top of toast
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or in between two slices of bread and you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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This This peanut butter comes in a plastic container.
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This is a box of breakfast cereal.
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You usually put the cereal into a bowl
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and then pour milk on top of it and then eat it with a spoon.
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It's more common for little kids to eat this than adults.
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This is cereal.
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This is oatmeal.
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It's similar to cereal, but it's more for adults.
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Cereal is more for kids, whereas adults in the morning would most likely eat oatmeal before they would consider eating cereal.
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So this is oatmeal.
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This is the bottled water section.
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It's where you buy all your purified water from, and It comes in many different sizes.
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You can get small bottles of water that come in a package of six.
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You can buy one bottle of water, a larger size, that's 1.5 liters in a plastic bottle.
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This water is a five liter bottle of water, so much bigger.
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This is the soft drink section.
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Usually soft drinks come in cans when they're in a smaller format.
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if they're in a bottle, the bottle will be plastic.
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But if the amount of soda is in a smaller format, it'll come in a can.
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There's 24 cans to this case.
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This section is where you're going to find juice.
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And most juices are made of fruit.
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Fruit juice.
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And the packaging that the fruit juice comes in is a carton.
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We call this a carton of juice.
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So this is the carton.
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This is the canned food aisle.
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It's where you're gonna find pre-packaged food that comes in a tin can.
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For instance, this is tuna fish inside of a tin can.
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You'll also find fruit that comes inside of a jar.
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This is a jar of fruit.
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These are peaches.
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In this section, you're gonna find most of your spices.
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The spices usually come in a little glass jar.
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Sometimes they come in a plastic container.
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This is tomato sauce.
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I usually use it as a base for when I'm making a bolognese sauce.
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So this is tomato sauce.
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This is something that's very common in Vietnam.
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Hot sauce.
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Very spicy.
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And local people add it to everything that they eat.
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I'm only able to tolerate a little bit of hot sauce.
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In this aisle, you're going to find most of your oils oils for cooking.
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This is a bottle of olive oil.
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We call it a bottle of olive oil because it comes in a glass bottle.
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And this is extra virgin olive oil.
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It's really good, high quality olive oil.
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It's the one that I buy whenever I come here.
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Olive oil.
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This right here is salad dressing.
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They have all different types of flavors and the salad dressing comes usually in a plastic container.
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So this is salad dressing.
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This is a tub of mayonnaise.
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It's in a plastic tub.
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It's in a squeezable tub container.
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So you squeeze the tub and then the mayonnaise comes out of the bottom.
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This is one of my favorite sections, the beer and wine section.
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Sometimes beer comes in a pack of 24, 24 cans.
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And sometimes, whoa.
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And sometimes you can get it in a pack of six.
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This is a single can of beer, just a single tin can of beer.
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Sometimes beer comes in a glass bottle.
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This is the wine aisle, also one of my favorites.
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Here you'll find every different type of wine that you could imagine.
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This is a bottle of wine, of red wine that I might buy tonight actually.
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Now we're at the bakery section.
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This is where you're going to find things like bread.
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For instance, a loaf of bread.
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This is white bread, whereas this bread is whole wheat bread.
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These are tarts.
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This is a baguette of bread.
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A baguette of bread.
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This is the frozen food section.
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There's all different types of frozen food in here.
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You'll find things like frozen mussels, frozen scallops, scallops.
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You can even find frozen snails here in Vietnam.
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frozen snails you can even find frozen octopus this is frozen
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octopus this is shrimp frozen shrimp this is salmon frozen
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salmon these are all different types of cheese this cheese comes in slices
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so it's already sliced for you to use like in sandwiches or in hamburgers.
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This is a package of Parmesan cheese.
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Usually you sprinkle it on top of spaghetti or other types of pasta.
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This is cream cheese and it's spreadable.
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You can spread the cheese on bread or on crackers.
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So this is cream cheese.
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This is where you're gonna find your eggs.
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The The eggs come in what's called a plastic container.
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This plastic container of eggs has a quantity of 10.
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10 eggs.
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And these eggs, they come from a chicken.
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And these eggs are brown in color.
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Whereas these eggs are white in color.
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I hope that you found this video helpful on your English learning journey.
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hit the like button below and consider subscribing if you already haven't. And
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if you have not seen my video of the local market tour where I describe all sorts of different fruits and vegetables, the link is in the end screen.
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Thanks again for watching and see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 193 sentences and 1714 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:53. The speaker talks at a steady 144 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| aisle noun | /aɪ̯l/ | A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. |
| freeze verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. |
| container noun | /kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/ | An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported. |
| 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… |
| package noun | /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ | Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. |
| cart noun | /kɑɹt/ | A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than… |
| cereal noun | /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ | A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| 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. |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| toast noun | /toʊst/ | Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). |
| peanut noun | /ˈpiˌnʌt/ | A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America. |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 40 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, wash /wɑʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, deodorant /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/
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 aisle, freeze, container.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to eat · used to get |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called · are made · is frozen |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't even tried · have not seen |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might add · might buy |
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.