Shadowing Practice: Learn ENGLISH Naturally While Making A HUGE Sandwich! (Comprehensible Input) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oh bro I'm so hungry.

Dude if you're so hungry why don't we make a sandwich?

Wait that's a great idea.

Today we're making a sandwich.

I hope you guys are ready for this because this is going to be the world's biggest sandwich.

Okay first we have to go to the fridge.

This is the refrigerator that's the full name for it but everyone actually just calls it the fridge.

Most of the stuff that we need for the sandwich is in this drawer.

We need meat.

This is slices.

Someone sliced it up.

It's slices of turkey meat.

So we need this.

This is slices of cheddar cheese.

There's lots and lots of different slices of cheese in here.

So next we need this.

Now we also need pepperoni.

This is pepperoni and a lot of people put this on pizza.

It's very popular on pizza and it's also very popular to my dog.

I don't know that dogs should actually have pepperoni.

Okay this is everything that we need from the drawer so I'm going to slide it closed.

These little brackets on the side they allow it to slide in and out so I'm just going to slide this closed.

I'm going to open the doors now so that we can grab some more ingredients.

Now we're gonna need to open up this drawer which has shredded carrots.

You guys have probably never put shredded carrots on your sandwich.

You're missing out.

This stuff, so good.

All right and in this drawer the most important ingredient to a sandwich.

Bread.

This is gluten -free bread.

As you guys already know me and my brother Maddox cannot have gluten.

We cannot have wheat.

So this is gluten -free bread.

And you may be asking, why is it in the fridge?

I don't know.

On this shelf, we also have chicken.

This is fully cooked chicken.

It was grilled.

So it was cooked on a grill.

And we actually have a grill outside.

This right here is a grill.

So that chicken was cooked on a grill like this.

On these shelves we have condiments.

Condiments are things like mustard, ketchup, and relish and things like that.

So we need some Dijon mustard.

This is like mustard but it's a little bit different.

It's a little bit more like tangy and spicy.

It's a lot better than regular mustard and it's very good for sandwiches.

And that is everything that we need to make our sandwich

so now I can close this door okay now before we touch the food

and before we handle it our hands are dirty

so we have to make sure we wash our hands

so I'm gonna go over here to the sink but Jeff Jeff what are you doing at the sink hey

Jeff could you could you move so I can wash my hands

jeff i i really gotta wash my hands dude can you

move why are you why are you not saying anything why are you just standing

there dude oh okay i'm gonna give you to the count of three

and if you don't move you're gonna get it jeff okay dude i'm gonna count i'm counting one two three

sorry about that guys okay so now I can wash my hands

so I'm gonna turn the sink on

and you always got to wet your hands first give it some good scrubs

and then get a pump of soap this this soap bottle can pump and it can also pump really really fast.

Always make sure that you have a whole lot of soap.

My hands are getting sudsy.

These are suds.

So I'm scrubbing my hands super good making sure

that I get all the cracks and crevices of my hands and washing and rinsing all the soap off.

Okay now I got to dry my hands off

so I'm going over here to the towel and I'm just gonna dry my hands.

R .I .P.

Jeff.

We will remember you.

All right, here are all of the ingredients that we have.

Pepperoni, shredded carrots, sliced cheese, Sliced turkey

grilled chicken Dijon mustard bread Maddox wait what okay now we have to go into this cabinet

because this is where all of our plates are and I'm gonna grab

all right we're ready to make the sandwich we got our plate here

and first I've got to add some bread a slice of bread

so I'm gonna open this bag up

and this is called I have no idea no one ever

says the name of this thing no one cares about these

and everyone throws them away all right

so I'm going to take a slice of bread

and put it here on the plate next I'm going to grab a slice of cheese from this package of cheese

this cheese is the most crumbly cheese ever

and it's all falling apart as I'm trying to pull it out

and it's also sticking together

so it's like super stuck okay I'm actually gonna use two slices of cheese one two next pepperoni

So I'm going to take some of this pepperoni and add one,

two, three, four slices of pepperoni.

And look at this.

This is a perfect pattern.

They're equally spaced.

This is exactly how it should be.

Okay, now I'm going to grab the turkey.

This is slices of turkey breast, so it has lots of protein.

So we're going to add some protein.

And I'm going to grab a slice.

It smells kind of sus.

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You guys might know what sus means, but it's slang, and it basically means suspicious.

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It's short for suspicious, and a lot of people just use it

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when something's kind of sketchy or weird so this smells kind of sus

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but we're using it anyways so I'm gonna put it on here

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and then next we need the shredded carrots okay so I'm gonna add these in

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perfect and then these are always so hard to open this is the grilled chicken

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and it's always super super hard to open

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and it always makes a super loud pop like that

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so I'm gonna add a few pieces of this chicken here onto the sandwich

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and now the Dijon mustard to finish it off always got to shake

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it up to make sure everything mixes around pretty well

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and I'm just gonna add this on top I'm squirting it out this is called squirting it out

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and it's not squirting out very evenly

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if you look there's like a giant glob right here

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and just like yeah it didn't work very well

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but we got it okay our sandwich is made

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now we just have to finish it off with this the top piece of bread

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and our sandwich is done and ready to enjoy wait that's not a sandwich

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What do you mean?

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That's tiny.

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Bruh.

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Okay, Jaden clearly has no idea how to make a sandwich, so I'm taking over.

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We need to take this sandwich to the moon.

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Okay, we need a big layer of meat.

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No, this meat is all torn up now.

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Alright, slap it on there.

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We need lots of pepperoni.

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Jaden said it had to be organized.

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no way we just need this all over this mmm oh yeah pepperoni it's

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so good chicken drop some of this on here carrots let's

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go with some more cheese more cheese Dijon mustard oh yeah now of course we need bread but as you can see

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that is still not a sandwich

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so we're going with more turkey let's just finish the bag

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now it's empty more pepperoni all right

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now we need more chicken let's just do a few more pieces on there

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and lastly end it with cheese and a slice of bread that that right there is a sandwich

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Your sandwich, sir.

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oh thank you wait does this have pickles no no

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I can assure you sir this does not have any pickles what I only eat sandwiches with pickles I'm

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so sorry sir we we will get you pickles as fast as possible good

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I'm hungry well you heard him he said he wants pickles

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so now we have to go to the store to get some it's really wet out

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because earlier there was a whole bunch of rain you can see the road is still wet

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and we actually had a tornado warning which means

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that they were saying that there could be a tornado tornadoes are

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when there's a whole bunch of wind circling around and around

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and it forms this giant basically thing of wind

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that destroys everything in its path and they say

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that there still could be a tornado so we've got to be careful wait Maddox Maddox what is that tornado

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today we are not taking the Miata we're taking the red car the Dodge Stealth

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Now we're going to pull up to Harris Teeter, which is a local grocery store that's about five minutes away from our house.

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If you want to fit in with Americans, use the words pull up.

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It's like slang for any time you're going to say you're going to go somewhere, like I'm going to the store,

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I'm going to pull up to the store, and you'll fit right in.

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So we're pulling up to Harris Teeter.

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I pull up up a loop guys

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we're going a little too slow since we have the pop -up headlights up

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it's time to put them down oh yeah

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speedy now the pop -up headlights were causing the car to be not very aerodynamic

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so that's a big word and basically what it means is

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that if something is aerodynamic it's very smooth

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and not a lot of wind gets trapped on it

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so it can it can glide very easily

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and it can it can go faster than something that catches wind

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and catches stuff at the front like the pop -up headlights do so when they're down it's a lot sleeker

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and it catches less wind on the front so

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when they're down it becomes more aerodynamic

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now we just got to the parking lot at Harris Teeter at the grocery store

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and we have to find a spot to park

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it's pretty busy right now there's a lot of cars

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we've found a spot with a manual car like this this is a manual transmission

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you always have to pull the emergency brake to make sure

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that the car stays put

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so I'm gonna stop the car

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we're good to go time to get those pickles all right we just pulled up to the store Paris Teeter

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and I'd like to shout out to a rash chapeau he's been asking for me to come back

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and I really appreciate the support and I couldn't do it without the fans

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so thank you okay it's time to go in and get these pickles not many people know about this, but this is the secret entrance.

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Maddox?

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I hope he takes the secret entrance.

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Maddox, where are you?

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I guess I'll just wait here for him.

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Wait, what?

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How did he do that?

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Well, Well, I guess I gotta find him.

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Whoa, okay.

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This is the snack section.

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Jaden's definitely not here.

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They have popcorn, though.

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Potato chips?

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This is called popcorn.

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You like popcorn, but it's just chips.

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Anyway, that's not what we're here for.

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Wait.

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Alcohol?

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Alcohol?

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I definitely can't be here.

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There's no Jaden here, and I'm not 21.

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What?

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Cat food?

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I don't even have a cat.

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Definitely not the right place.

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Jaden's nowhere to be found.

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No!

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It exploded.

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It exploded.

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Looks like we're also buying Octane Booster.

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Over here they have dog toys though.

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They have a parrot.

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tiger it looks like.

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They have some pretty good toys, although definitely not Jaden.

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Wait, Jaden?

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There you are.

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Dude, I accidentally spilled this bottle.

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I was trying to flip it and I accidentally spilled it and it cracked and broke.

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And now this stuff is all over me and it got all over the ground so I've been wiping it up.

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Dude that's crazy.

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I've been looking all over for you.

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Yeah dude and this thing was $10.

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$9 .79.

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So it looks like we're not just buying pickles today.

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We're also buying octane booster.

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Do you think that's good on a sandwich?

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No.

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This stuff makes your car faster so you put it in your gas

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and it'll make your car faster so i guess we can buy it

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and try it out and see what it does maybe

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if we put some on the sandwich it'll make you run faster maybe now

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that we're finally back together we can go

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and get those pickles i don't know where these things are

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so we're gonna have to look bro someone left this open

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oh wait no the door is broken i thought it was a sliding door

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and i was going to slide it to close it

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but the door is broken no one left it open someone pulled the door off it's just gone

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we have not seen them yet but i think we went to the wrong section

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because we ended up in the frozen aisle this is called an aisle

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so each one of these like lines of

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when there's food on either side or some sort of thing on either side

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and a space in the middle to walk this is called an aisle right now we're in this aisle

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and now we're in this aisle here they have all kinds of like school supplies

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so they have paper for notes just for like writing notes

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they have tape for like tape is like this really like sticky thing

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that like you use to put two things together so

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if wanted to connect these

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and put them together I would put a piece of tape right here

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and they would be stuck together but there's no pickles here

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so now we got to go to the next aisle we made it to another aisle

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but this aisle does not have what we're looking for either it has sports drinks like Gatorade

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and Powerade these are super popular here it has stuff over here like soda this is like natural soda

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which is kind of becoming a trend it's kind of of popular right now

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but this once again does not have pickles

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so we're gonna have to keep going let's go to the next aisle yes

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we finally made it to the pickle section now we just gotta go home

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and complete the sandwich but first we have to go back to get the octane booster

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that i accidentally broke okay here's our broken octane booster that we accidentally have to buy it's spilled again

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i'm back to cleaning dude this thing spills so easily it's

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so greasy all right we're at a self -checkout

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so there's no cashier here you just check out by yourself

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so i'm going to scan the pickles and scan this thing

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that we accidentally have to buy okay $14

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and 61 cents pay now okay now I'm gonna pay using a card

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you can just tap it on the machine and now it works

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and it printed our seat we're good to go okay now we're going to try out our octane booster.

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I've got to pull this little tab here.

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This little tab opens the gas cap.

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So I pulled that tab and now our gas cap is open.

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So I'm just going to open this door and twist the cap off.

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And now we're ready to pour it in.

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Roy, it's the pickles.

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You're not supposed to do that.

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Oh, that would have been bad.

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Okay, this is the correct stuff.

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it's dripping on me okay now it's time it says to pour the entire thing in what no

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dude oh that's so annoying it just dripped all over the car

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Now I'm gonna have to clean this car later, but it's all gonna be worth it in the end.

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This car is gonna be fast

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We're good to go.

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It's only dripping a little bit

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It's gonna be so fast and by the way

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Octane is gas so octane booster boost means like it could be like fast

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or like booster means like it makes something better and

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so octane booster it boosts your octane

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so our gas is going to be like super explosive now

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and now this car is going to be like super super super fast let's test it out

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so jaden actually had to go back into the store to

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use their bathroom to wash his hands since he spilled

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that octane booster all over himself in the car

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you can see there's like this like streaks like the color

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is different from here to here over here is darker

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because the octane booster came down

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and just dripped down as soon as he gets back take the pickles

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and go back i'm back time to see what this thing can do

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that is a common expression

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that people will say here time to see what this thing can do

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when you're about to see the performance

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or how well something is about to do so now

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that we have the octane booster

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it's time to see what this thing can do all right guys time to see what this thing can do

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it's so fast guys always spill octane booster in Harris Teeter so that

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You'll have to buy it so that you can put it in your car so that your car will be super fast

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Got some of it in my lungs

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Now that we have our pickles I can satisfy this man at our restaurant

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It's been four hours this better be good here you are sir, and I can assure you

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It is worth the wait

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Just how I like it

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Mmm Amazing my compliments to the chef

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Of course, sir.

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Thank you guys so much for watching

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and I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed I can't believe we already have so many subscribers,

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and thank you to everyone who has commented.

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Click this.

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I'm sure you're going to enjoy it, and now I've got to just finish this thing.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn ENGLISH Naturally While Making A HUGE Sandwich!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sandwich, pickle, octane, booster, slice. This video has 311 sentences and 3091 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:15. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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
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.
slice noun	/slaɪs/	That which is thin and broad.
booster noun	/ˈbustɚ/	Something that boosts.
aisle noun	/aɪ̯l/	A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
grill noun	/ɡɹɪl/	A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and…
mustard noun	/ˈmʌstəɹd/	A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear…
spill verb	/spɪl/	To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
slide noun	/ˈslaɪ̯d/	An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
accidentally adverb	/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/	In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
tornado noun	/tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/	A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
carrot noun	/ˈkæɹət/	A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
soap noun	/soʊp/	A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
drawer noun	/dɹɔɹ/	An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
drip verb	/ˈdɹɪp/	To fall one drop at a time.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
pop up verb	To come up with a "pop" sound.
stick together verb	To physically combine or join together by adhesion.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come back verb	To return to a place.
come down verb	To descend, fall down, collapse.
fall apart verb	To disintegrate, to break into pieces.
get back verb	Return to where one came from.
go back verb	To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Dude if you're so hungry why don't we make a sandwich?
Today we're making a sandwich.
I don't know that dogs should actually have pepperoni.
What do you mean?
Do you think that's good on a sandwich?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	he's been asking · I've been wiping · I've been looking
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is fully cooked · was grilled · was cooked
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has shredded · have probably never put · we've found
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	drawer which has · warning which means · Teeter, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 125 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, wash /wɑʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Long words — get the stress right: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, pepperoni /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/, aerodynamic /ˌɛəɹəʊdaɪˈnæmɪk/

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 sandwich, slice, booster.

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.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?