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Um, but anyway, I think we're now.

Recently, it has been raining.

This is our room.

And they're popping, so obviously...

Hi, and welcome to another vlog for English learners.

Today, we are on Vancouver Island um we're here on vacation actually

but we have just woken up in this hotel

and it's about half nine in the morning

so the plan is to get a coffee

and we're going to be hiking quite a bit today

and going to see some waterfalls anyway this car park is pretty boring

so let's go we will get started on the drive and first stop is to get some coffee.

We just arrived at this really really cute little farm called Little Qualicum Cheese Works

so the plan is to grab a coffee and see the animals

and then carry on down the road but it's so cute it's

It's so cute here.

A rainbow, a huge rainbow.

A palm cat!

Meow!

Oh, baby cows!

Hello!

They're a little bit younger these ones are like so young look look look Javier they're so like curious

They're like teeth like are not strong at all so

if you like you can let them look

you can let it nibble oh you can let it nibble on you

and it's fine why do they do that

because they're like suckling oh sorry you don't mind it when it's just my you're very friendly oh ow

the farm here uses all of their own milk in their coffee

so obviously i had to get an iced caramel latte salted caramel cheers oh my god that's

so good try it with caramel taste it i'm drinking ice cream

we also bought a few more things um i got this hot pepper jelly golf island gourmet hot pepper jelly

because i thought this would be good with cheese

which is obviously what they kind of specialize in here

so we bought this small cheese sample box with a few different cheeses we'll try this later

and finally as a gift for my brother for Christmas so

if my brother is watching I don't know why you would be watching

because you speak English but if my brother is watching don't look

but I bought some maple syrup like this fancy maple syrup for my brother he he loves cooking

so this is for my brother for Christmas

so we just arrived at little qualicum falls

and we're in this forest it's amazing

and look here are the steps behind me today we are going to tofino

which is a little village on the west coast of vancouver island

and we started in parksville which is on the east

so right now we're driving all the way across

and we have a few stops um along the way like we've found interesting things to go

and have a look at as we drive we're now going to go and see the waterfalls

and the path here in the forest is uh amazing

you can see it behind me it's very very cool anyway

so we're gonna head to the waterfall now i think

you can see it through the trees there is the waterfall so we're going to continue down this path here

there's a there's a little sign i can show you right now we are going to go

and see this waterfall here and then later we'll go up to the upper waterfall as well oh my god

wow the waterfall here is amazing i'm gonna show you but look at this

the water is so loud so i don't know

if you can hear me recently it has been raining a lot

there has been a lot a lot a lot of rain the river is really really strong look at the current

so the current is like the flow right the flow of water it's amazing

so there are more waterfalls up this path

so we're gonna head there now we need to go this way I think through the forest

this is the upper falls I don't know if you can hear me

but it is amazing the water is so powerful so there's one waterfall here and one here

that is incredible we are now going back to the car

and we have another waterfall to go and see called hole in the wall

but we're walking back over this super cute little bridge so

we are now at well like a ghost we're now at the second waterfall location

which is called hole in the wall

and it's this way you can see the sign with the ribbons

it's not really like a proper path it does look like twilight we definitely went the wrong way

so we came down this there were there were two paths basically

and we went left and I think we probably should have gone right

because this is right let me show you I think this was that this is the proper path

We're now here by the hole in the wall it's crazy cool you can see it's literally like a waterfall

coming from this big this big circle you can climb along these trees like a like a bridge

Javier did it but I'm not brave enough

so we have two plans now right next to where we are there is a candy

and ice cream shop I think it's called Coombs candy shop

and creamery so we're gonna go and check

that out we're also going to have lunch

and we're either going to go to a supermarket

and like buy lunch or we will go to like a diner but now we need to go back up

This is a very, very, very steep hill.

I'm going to put my put my camera away.

We're now here at a drive -in.

In the UK we have drive -throughs

which is like where you drive like past the restaurant to get food

but a drive in you literally park the the waitress came over to us

and took our order in the car

and then yeah we'll get our food in a in a moment

and I think they even give us a like a little tray we've ordered two veggie burgers spicy fries

and onion rings and i have a pepsi

so we're just waiting for it now and um i'm excited it's super cute

onion rings look so good maybe we could put everything on the dash

holy shit they're really good i'm sorry but

if you like good food

you have to live like in a small place like the best food is not in the city literally

that is peng i'm gonna show the camera

and then i'm gonna we just finished lunch um it was

so good it was

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so good especially the onion rings were amazing we are now going to drive to tofino

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which is where we're staying for the next couple of nights i think it's like an hour away

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or maybe an hour and a half

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so we're gonna start the drive

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we have

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just checked in to our hotel literally look it's amazing

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and um i wanted to show you because it's

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so beautiful we are staying at the duffin cove hotel and it's right by the sea i can show you here

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isn't that amazing anyway but we can go inside

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and i can give you like a bit of a room tour so let's go

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this is our room you can see Javier's feet on the balcony this is the this is the bed

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and it has this amazing wooden roof like a wooden um not roof a wooden ceiling it's

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so beautiful there's a big tv right here

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and then this small like little coffee area

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and somewhere to hang your clothes

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so these are clothes hangers like a clothes hanger this is

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so cute this comes with but it's um it's not complimentary

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so it's not like free it stays here they then have this little coffee machine this is

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so cute with a couple little coffee pods so

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that will be nice for the morning coffee some sugar

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I guess this is sweetener then down below we have a couple different glasses

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and some mugs then a little fridge

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which is empty there's nothing in there they then have a tiny little safe down here.

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And I'll show you the bathroom.

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This is me.

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So it has these really pretty lights hanging down from the ceiling.

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Here's the toilet, these little towels.

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That's cute.

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When you have two sinks like this side by side, we call them his and hers.

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His and hers sinks

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with lotion and soap just to the side we have this amazing shower it does have a window

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but you can't see out of it which is I guess for privacy

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and then you get body wash conditioner

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and shampoo here as well anyway I think the the best part about this hotel

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and the reason why I chose it is because of the view

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so this hotel is right next to the sea

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so let me show you the balcony so you head out of the balcony doors and that is the view

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and you can see the island over here it's just gorgeous

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it has been it's been quite rainy here these last few days

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and now as you can see it's so beautiful and so sunny.

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So the plan is we are going to go into the village

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and we're going to explore Tofino a little bit

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and we're going to try and watch the sunset from somewhere and grab some dinner.

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um we have not decided which restaurant we will go to yet

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and we might get a drink as well I don't know everything is still up for grabs

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so we'll probably head into town to do

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that we we do have some things planned for tomorrow already we're going to do some hiking

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and probably check out another town which is nearby I'm not going to be filming

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that in this vlog um it's going to be all up on my school probably

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so it will be like a school exclusive video so

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if you liked this and you would like more content like this please check out my online school Evie's English Club.

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I will link it down in the description

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but I have loads of videos over there

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and I add new videos every single week there are live events

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I upload extra podcast episodes extra vlogs we also have some more structured classes

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so I teach grammar classes over there I have like an intermediate to advanced grammar series

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so if that is something that is interesting to you please go

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and check that out as well

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but anyway I think for now I'm maybe going to sit down chill try

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and think of some plans for this evening

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and um i'll keep you updated but i just think this is pretty amazing

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we just went to a bar and got a drink

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and now we're sat out on our balcony it's so dark

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so you can't see anything but you can hear the sea we ordered a pizza oh

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that looks so good we ordered a pizza to share

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and we're gonna just sit outside and eat the pizza

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and try the cheese that we bought

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and honestly i think this is the end of the video for today

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if you would like to see what we do tomorrow please check out my school

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but other than that thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “learn English on vacation with me”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: waterfall, amazing, cute, coffee, drive. This video has 169 sentences and 1959 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:00. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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
waterfall noun	/ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/	A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
balcony noun	/ˈbælkəni/	An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
wooden adjective	/ˈwʊdn̩/	Made of wood.
cloth noun	/klɒθ/	A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes…
onion noun	/ˈʌn.jən/	A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
arrive verb	/əˈɹaɪv/	To reach; to get to a certain place.
candy noun	/ˈkæn.di/	Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
sink verb	/ˈsɪŋk/	To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
ceiling noun	/ˈsilɪŋ/	The overhead closure of a room.
grammar noun	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
pepper noun	/ˈpɛp.ə/	A plant of the family Piperaceae.
hike noun	/haɪk/	A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
maple noun	/ˈmeɪpl̩/	Any member of any species of genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate, five-lobed leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood
jelly noun	/ˈd͡ʒɛli/	A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come down verb	To descend, fall down, collapse.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
sit down verb	To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
think through verb	To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.

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	has been raining
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have just woken · we've found · has been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	parksville which is · town which is
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the best

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 67 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: wash /wɑʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, conditioner /kənˈdɪʃənə/
Long words — get the stress right: intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, conditioner /kənˈdɪʃənə/

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 waterfall, balcony, pizza.

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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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

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How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?