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Welcome back to our Cornwall adventure.

We are showing you all around Cornwall and teaching you some useful English along the way.

We have arrived in Penzance.

I have memories of coming to Cornwall and going crabbing

and it was so exhilarating to pull up the bucket

and see all these crabs and then obviously you let them go afterwards

so you catch the crabs in a bucket you go look at my crabs

and then you let them go again you release them well that's interesting over there that's pretty cool is

that a swimming pool

so this was built in the 1930s

but in 2020 they launched a geothermal pool so it's heated

so in the natural water in the salt water

but they heat it to 35 degrees that's nice that's nice

because I bet the water's cold right now but if it's heated that's lovely let's have a look

This is proper vintage.

This would have been the original turnstile from when it opened in 1930.

So you walk up, pay your fare, go through the turnstile, go for a dip.

i've noticed a lot of these in cornwall

and actually a lot of them across the uk they're actually everywhere

if you look close enough and what this is is

that there used to be a window here

but at some point i'm going to guess like 100

or 200 years ago the government to make more money introduced window tax

which is where they basically said

you have to pay more tax depending depending on how many windows you have in your house.

So a lot of people, in order to avoid the tax, boarded up their windows.

What do you reckon, Laura?

Do you reckon I'd be a good fisherman?

I think you'd be an excellent fisherman.

I don't know, I do get a bit seasick.

And you're a bit scared of the sea, so actually I think you'd be a terrible fisherman.

And I don't love fish.

that crab sandwich yet again hit the spot oh

it just hit the spot okay

we're going to go to saint michael's mount depending on what the tide is doing

sometimes you can take a boat there

and then we were going to take a boat today yeah we're going to take a boat

but the sea's a little bit choppy basically there's a there's a path

that you can walk to the mount to the castle but

when the tide is in obviously you can't walk on the path there is a little boat that transfers you but

yeah the sea is a little bit choppy today

so the boats aren't running

so we're gonna walk gonna walk to st michael's mount have a look around um

i've not been there before no we've always seen it

but we've never actually i've never walked across crossed over to to be on the little island

so yeah we're gonna go there

so let's go to saint michael's mount right let's cross over

to saint michael's mount look at how we're dressed the good old british summer time eh yeah

you can never rely on it because it's june it's currently the fourth of june look at us

So you can see we've got a lot of pebbles here.

A lot of beaches in the UK are pebble beaches, not gorgeous sandy beaches.

A lot of them are like this, but this beach kind of has both.

So we've got a pebble part and then we've got a sandy part over there,

but it's still not kind of golden sands that you'd get in the Caribbean,

but I think it's got its own charm to it there's something about wearing a hat

and a coat and your wellies

and walking like on the beach in the wind i don't know

it's got its own charm to it i associate

this beach with a day in the summer a few years ago where laura's dad

and her stepmom lived down here and they brought their dog down here and there were people windsurfing

up and down the coast

and the dog chased them he took off

he took off like a rocket like i just went i'm having them he took off like a bullet

and just ran

and laura's dad was like oh he'll come back why isn't

it coming back no sign of him coming back no sign

and there was no sign of him getting him back

so we legged it yeah down the beach we absolutely laid

it it's quite hard to leg

it in wellington boots as

well in wellies

the wind

is blowing up my nostrils and i can smell that sea air

so clearly i actually think it's quite big credit like clearing up my sinuses laura

it's absolutely mind -boggling because we're now

so exposed to the elements here you know we it just chucked

it down a second ago it's the wind is blustery uh i just can't imagine building such a thing

when did they build it uh i mean there's they i just read there there's evidence

that there has been a human settlement on this island dating back 3 000 years 3 000 years wow

but the the monastery i think was built kind of like 1100

or something wow i mean just imagine building that

and now you were saying that there are actual people oh yeah

so so there is actually a family that live in

that castle i can't imagine having a residence like

that that's insane that's honestly like imagine just like christmas day

and you just imagine

that like asking the family i'll want to come over for christmas

i would feel like i'm living in a disney movie yeah

absolutely like it can't feel like real life have they got like like have they got netflix in there honestly it's insane.

Do they have, like, yeah, I can't imagine they're having a TV.

Amazon.

Does Amazon deliver?

Like, they must do.

I can't decide whether or not the isolation would be a good thing or a bad thing, because obviously sometimes

the isolation might be great

because you can just hide away from the rest of the world

and just live on your own but then on the flip side, on the other side of the coin,

you are just really far away from everything and everywhere.

this is one of the coolest things

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i've ever seen in britain laura as you can see the tide is coming in

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so we better get our skates on get back to the coast before we uh end up underwater that was

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amazing so cool i'll do you know what yeah

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that was fantastic one of the coolest things one of the coolest places

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i've been in the uk definitely a very memorable birthday a very memorable birthday

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and i actually think this birthday is going to get even more memorable

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because we're about to head over to the minak theater

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which is i think without doubt the coolest theater in the

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country oh undoubtedly yeah what a place to be we're not going to the minak theater today

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because there's a performance on so we thought we could go

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and visit but the silver lining is tomorrow it's going to be better weather hopefully hopefully

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and we can come back to visit at 10 a .m

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so even though it's out of our way

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it's a bit of a detour we're going to come back just to show you

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because i think it's worth it

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so tomorrow morning we will go to the theatre do you know what you should do

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so we're gonna go have some food

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there's not a lot of choice of restaurants around

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we're kind of in the middle of nowhere there's quite a lot of cafes

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but they all close at about five

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so we found we think we found a good place on google maps

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so we're gonna go have some dinner check into the airbnb

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and then chill i think because we've done a lot of walking around in the wind and rain today.

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So we've just parked outside where our restaurant is and we've stumbled upon this hidden gem.

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This is beautiful but this place is not plastered all over the tourism guides or whatever, it's just kind of tucked away, hidden and it's beautiful.

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i love cornwall i'm stood here

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now i've clambered over these rocks to get here just to

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get a closer look of what's going on laura's quite risk of her

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so she hasn't come here but i think this is a very very special moment this is amazing

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We're in our Airbnb.

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And it's so cute.

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It's like a little studio.

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I think it used to be a garage.

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And I think they've converted this garage into this studio place.

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And it's cosy.

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And look at this view.

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What more can a person want?

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Have you had a very happy birthday?

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I've had an amazing birthday, to be honest.

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A very memorable one.

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I think a lot of birthdays, especially in kind of COVID times, they all kind of blur into one.

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But this one is very memorable.

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This one really stands out.

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So plan tomorrow.

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We're going to get up bright and early to go to the Minack to show you that theatre because it's amazing.

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And then we're going to St. Ives, which is my favourite place in Cornwall.

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It's iconic.

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We're going to show you

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St. Ives and have another lovely day.

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So we'll see you in the morning.

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So this is the Minak.

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It was built in 1931 and as you can see it's very impressive.

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I can just imagine

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if you are a director your mind must boggle at all of the possible things you could do in this theatre.

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You could have people up there, you could have people over there, you could use the backdrop.

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It's just it must be amazing seeing something like an opera here.

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I can't even imagine how beautiful it must be with the sun going down oh

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so cool romeo romeo wherefore art thou romeo we actually

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we have been to see one production here we came to see some comedy improv

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and it was very distracting because

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when we were watching we could see dolphins behind the actors

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which was i don't think you get

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that in any other theater to be honest yes it was made by this lady here Rowena Cade

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because she lived on a cliffside house

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and some local people wanted to put on a production of The Tempest

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and she said oh we'll make a theatre kind of in my house

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because then you can have the sea as the backdrop

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and then that was a really successful show and

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so she thought I should make a theatre with the sea as the backdrop.

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Yeah so when we came to see a show here it was glorious for the first hour

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and then suddenly you saw everyone reaching for their umbrellas

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and putting their hoods up because it started raining

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but it didn't last for too long probably about 10 minutes

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and then the sun shone again i think

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that this would probably be the best job for an actor possible

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when it's glorious sunshine and then probably one of the worst jobs ever

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if it's chucking it down i think yeah

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because then the novelty they probably go to

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so many just non -descript like bog standard theaters true i would take it

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if it was raining here

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and i was performing shakespeare here yeah i'd take it i'd feel

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so alive to the drama sometimes like imagine if you're performing hamlet

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and you're doing to be

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or not to be it's raining like it might add to the drama that's true

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that would be really special yeah like the weather is a

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character the weather is a another part of the set design yeah yeah yeah

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that was beautiful i love the minac highly recommend

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if you're ever here now we are heading to saint ives yeah everybody's favorite place in cornwall

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it's iconic it's beautiful everyone loves it some great shops

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i'm excited to have cornish pasties go to the beach

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i might have a rum a rum i might have a rum wow uh so

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if you want to see our trip to st ives make sure

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you watch the next part of our cornwall adventure thank you

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English Vlog - In My Favourite Place! 💚”. This video has 201 sentences and 2202 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:54. The speaker talks at a steady 148 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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
mount verb	/maʊnt/	To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
theater noun	/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/	A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
memorable adjective	/ˈmɛm.(ə)ɹə.bl̩/	Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
crab noun	/kɹæb/	Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
saint noun	/seɪnt/	A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
tide noun	/taɪd/	The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
backdrop noun	/ˈbæk.dɹɑp/	A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
adventure noun	/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/	A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
castle noun	/ˈkɑːsəl/	A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or…
insane adjective	/ɪnˈseɪn/	Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
garage noun	/ɡəˈɹɑʒ/	A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
sandy adjective	/ˈsændi/	Covered with sand.
chuck verb	/t͡ʃʌk/	To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come back verb		To return to a place.
take off verb		To remove.
blow up verb		To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
clear up verb	/klɪəˈɹʌp/	To clarify, to correct a misconception.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get back to verb		Return to (an activity)
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Do you reckon I'd be a good fisherman?
I think you'd be an excellent fisherman.
I don't know, I do get a bit seasick.
Have you had a very happy birthday?
I've had an amazing birthday, to be honest.

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 be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have arrived · i've noticed · i've not been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was built · is not plastered · was made
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the coolest · the best · the worst

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 78 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, we've, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, shine /ʃaɪn/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/
Long words — get the stress right: isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, undoubtedly /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/, monastery /ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/

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 mount, theater, memorable.

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?