Shadowing Practice: Learn English via Listening Beginner Level | Lesson 25 | House - Learn English Speaking with Video
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House.
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A house is divided into different rooms.
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In my house there is a living room.
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There is a couch, two chairs, a coffee table and a television set in the living room.
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In the kitchen, there is a stove and a refrigerator.
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There is also a sink and a dishwasher in the kitchen.
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There is a kitchen table and chairs.
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We eat most of our meals at the kitchen table.
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We have a dining room.
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There is a dining table and chairs in there.
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There is a washroom or bathroom.
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There is a toilet, sink and bathtub in the bathroom.
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There is also a shower in the bathroom.
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We have three bedrooms.
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The bedrooms are upstairs.
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My brother's room, my room, and my parents' room all have beds in them.
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We also have dressers in our rooms.
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There are closets in all of the bedrooms.
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We keep our clothes in the closets.
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There is a basement in our house.
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We store things in the basement.
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There is a laundry room in the basement.
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There is a washing machine and a dryer in the laundry room.
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This is where we wash and dry our clothes.
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There is a garage attached to the house.
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We keep the car in the garage.
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You drive up the driveway and into the garage.
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We also have a front yard and a backyard.
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There is a vegetable garden in the backyard.
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There are some flowers and a tree planted in the front yard.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English via Listening Beginner Level”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: kitchen, table, bedrooms, chairs, basement. This video has 30 sentences and 248 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:44. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 74% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bedroom noun | /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ | A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping. |
| garage noun | /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/ | A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. |
| basement noun | /ˈbeɪsmənt/ | A floor of a building below ground level. |
| sink verb | /ˈsɪŋk/ | To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| laundry noun | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | A laundering; a washing. |
| 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… |
| backyard noun | /bækˈjɑːd/ | A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| toilet verb | /ˈtɔɪ.lət/ | To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet. |
| couch noun | /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/ | An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa. |
| divide verb | /dɪˈvaɪd/ | To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drive up verb | To cause or force a price, quantity, rate, etc. to increase. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, bathtub /ˈbæθtʌb/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, wash /wɑʃ/, dishwasher /ˈdɪʃˌwɑʃɚ/, washroom /ˈwɒʃrʊm/
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 bedroom, garage, basement.
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.