Shadowing Practice: Learn English while I explore Singapore | B1-B2 level - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello.
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I've just arrived at Singapore airport and I'm heading to meet my friend Jared.
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you might remember Jarrod on the last episode.
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We're gonna travel around Singapore, explore, and if you like learning English and watching travel content, then you're in the right place.
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Now to get my suitcase.
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So I am waiting for my suitcase and this is a conveyor belt.
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The conveyor belt is moving around and taking people's suitcases.
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What time is it?
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Hmm.
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- Yeah.
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Suitcase time.
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Smart.
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Taxi stand.
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This is a sign for the taxis.
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A taxi stand is a place where you wait for your taxi.
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And now in Singapore, they use Grab taxi, just like in Vietnam.
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I'm gonna Finds.
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The taxi stand.
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and all of my grab.
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- The
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taxi is here.
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I'm putting my suitcase in the car boot.
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Thank you.
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There he is.
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Hello mate.
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Thank you man.
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Well hello guys, look who we have here.
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Hello!
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It's Jarrod.
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For some context for those who don't know, Jarrod and I have been friends for 26 years now.
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Since we were 4 years old.
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And yeah, what a ride.
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Many ups and downs.
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Mostly ups.
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Yeah, a few downs.
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We've been having a catch -up, which is the next word.
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A catch -up is when you haven't seen somebody in a long time, and you have a conversation, and see what's been going on in their lives.
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Now the plan is to go get some food, because I've been flying for a while, I'm hungry so we're gonna go to a Hawker Center.
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We have arrived Maxwell food center.
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Let's go.
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Okay, and we call this a stall.
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There are two people in red cooking some food.
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All right, let's find a seat.
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We found a table and yeah, about to toast to good friends in Singapore.
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Cheers.
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Where are they?
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Yeah, they're somewhere around here.
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It's good.
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That is good.
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Cheers, man.
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So we are in a Hawker Centre and in this Hawker Centre there are lots of different stalls.
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A stall is like a small shop that sells different types of food.
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Oh, the beeper is beeping.
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Are you going to go get that?
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I'll go get that.
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Alright, see you soon.
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Jared's going to come back with some food so I'll see you in 3, 2, 1.
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Chopsticks and dumplings.
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This is a carrot cake.
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Carrot cake is not normal carrot cake.
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No, carrot cake for us would be a sweet baked good.
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I'm really into this.
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Yeah.
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Okay, there's a good word.
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If you really like something, you're into it.
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Say, I'm into it.
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I'm into this.
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I really like it.
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- I'm selling it.
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This is an escalator and we are going down the escalator.
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Hello YouTube.
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Hello YouTube.
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I love YouTube.
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We're on our way to the...
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where are we going, Jarrod?
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Gardens by the Bay.
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Anyway, we're going on the metro now.
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On the metro.
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You can also call it an underground or a subway.
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What do they call it in London?
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The Underground.
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London Underground Cheers.
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- Thank you.
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Is this us?
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- Scissors.
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- Okay.
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Me and Jared are having a conversation on the metro.
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On the left there is a mother with a pushchair.
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In the middle, there is a muscular man with a vest
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and on the right there is a guy looking at my camera.
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I'm tapping my card and walking through the barriers.
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Bye.
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all right we've arrived at the Gardens by the Bay these are spectacular
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and we're right here in time for a light show up there you have giant structures with plants crawling up them
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and there is a bridge with a neon blue lights.
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underneath it and very soon there's going to be a light show.
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It's nice and cool as well.
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It's a breeze.
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That's a good word for you guys.
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A breeze.
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a light wind It's called a breeze.
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Ah, and that breeze is nice.
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So we need to go Find his seats.
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and Get ready to watch this light show.
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So in this environment you can see giant structures that look like trees.
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And the lights are flashing in time with the music.
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There are lots of people gathered around and we call this 'crown'.
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This area is crowded.
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Woo!
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Everyone is clapping or applauding the spectacular light show.
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Now we're going to go to the top of MBS which is A large building up there.
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and we're navigating our way through crowd busy crowds.
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You can say it's very hectic.
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It's very busy here.
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Bye.
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Okay, now we're in the MBS, Marina Bay Sands Hotel, and this is massive.
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This is just one of the pillars, there's three of these.
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three of these.
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Holy moly.
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We just arrived on the rooftop and check this view out.
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Madness.
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We are on the 57th floor.
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Let's get a cocktail.
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This is called the bar.
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We are looking at the menu and now Jared is talking to the bartender.
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Alright, cheers Jared.
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Cheers amigo.
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And cheers to you behind the screen.
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I'll see you tomorrow in day two.
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Music Good morning guys.
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I'm standing on Jared's balcony and enjoying My morning...
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Cooper.
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A cuppa is a cup of tea and it's a very British thing to drink on a morning.
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And the plan for today is to take a walk, we're gonna get some breakfast, and then we're gonna go to the botanical gardens,
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and Jared's gonna Show me more of Singapore.
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So, I'm excited for the day ahead.
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I'm going to try film as much as I can and Bring you guys along, teach us some English and have fun.
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One word.
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Well, two words, actually.
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The first one is I'm here on a balcony.
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and a balcony is the outside part of the house that looks out onto the view.
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And over there, this is a construction site You can see two cranes.
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towering above.
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And a construction site is where they are building a new building.
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We are walking to have breakfast and on the streets.
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You can see A stop sign.
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for cars to stop.
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Over there is some wall art, or we can say a mural.
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This is called a crossroads.
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- The house on here.
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Don't call.
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A paw print. From a dog.
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Good job.
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And that with two fat cats.
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Jared is wearing green shirts with an Orange back.
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Look at this tree, guys.
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Wow, what do you think of that, Jarrod?
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- I'm mad.
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- Yeah, these trees are really cool.
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Their branches and their limbs stretch out like veins in the human body.
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or like roots in the ground create a really interesting pattern.
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Thank you.
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Very cool.
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I love the trees here.
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Feels like Jungle Book.
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- We're waiting in a queue to eat breakfast at Yacoon Kaya Toast,
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a super famous Singapore place for kaya toast, butter and soft boiled eggs.
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And Jared is bringing me here for the first time.
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I'm excited because I'm trying a classic local Singaporean breakfast and I'm curious if it tastes as good as everyone says.
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The steam from the boiling eggs is rising The numbers in red tell you when your order is ready.
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Ours is coming now.
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Jared is arriving with the coffees.
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Best time of the day.
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Lovely.
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Jared's got a hot coffee.
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I've got iced coffee.
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Cheers.
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- Oh.
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Good.
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The man with the food.
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This is...
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Toast?
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toasted bread and some wet and runny eggs.
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Good word, runny.
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They are wet and running.
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Derrick is pouring the soy sauce on the eggs.
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Can you put it on mine too?
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you Thanks.
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Nice one.
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Alright, let's dig in.
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Jared is breaking.
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Breaking it in half and good word, good verb, dipping it.
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I am dipping the egg and look at that
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that is an egg yolk excellent so this is really good and you have these like thin crispy toasts
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with butter and cayo spread inside.
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It's like honey sweeping.
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And you dip it in the eggs.
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You dip it in the yolk, in the runny eggs.
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and It's sweet, it's salty, it's really good.
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Unique breakfast.
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We have just finished breakfast.
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Four bellies.
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And now we're going to go to the botanical gardens.
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Let's go.
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Can we go up here?
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All right, up to you, sir.
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Mm.
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And we're going to take the Metruar.
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the metro.
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Look.
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- Look at that, a chessboard in the metro station.
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So now we get an iJuice, which is a orange juice in a vending machine.
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Freshly squeezed.
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Orange juice.
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And we go to quench.
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our thirst.
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To quench your thirst is to go from thirsty to not thirsty.
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There we go, coming out of the metro.
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Jared's putting on his sunglasses.
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It's a bit bright.
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Let's go see some gardens.
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Huh.
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Right guys, we are on a quest, a mission to find the monitor lizard.
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which is like a Komodo dragon but without the poisonous tongue.
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And apparently there are monitor lizards here.
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I hope so.
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You'll find them by hook or by crook.
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Let's go find them.
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Alright, first spot of the wildlife.
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We have a rooster.
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On the floor.
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So we are in the botanical gardens.
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and "rotany" is the word for the study of plants.
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And in here we are surrounded by foliage. or greenery.
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and we're looking for the orchids.
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An orchid is a type of plant.
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this type of plant.
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This...
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Isn't.. orchid And this is a fountain.
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There is a man watering the plants.
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Of course the most attractive thing in the Botanical Gardens is a traffic cone and a hose pipe.
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Yes.
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Look how beautiful this is.
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And Jared just said a good word there.
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What did you say Jared?
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Stunning!
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Stunning can describe a beautiful view nice scenery, or a fit person.
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I just said a fit person.
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If someone is fit, in British slang, it means they are attractive.
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A man or a woman can be fit.
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Different to physically fit.
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They might be using a sentence such as: - Ah.
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He's well fit.
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She's well fit.
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fit equals attractive.
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Hot.
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So we are wandering.
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which means we're walking gently, casually, With no real aim.
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of any destination.
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- A good spot.
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- Right guys?
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in this little pond here We have some turtles.
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You can just See them on the left hand side there.
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It's a you can see the turtle shell.
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And everyone gets this wrong, even natives.
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But a tortoise is the one that walks on land, a tortoise, and a turtle is the one that swims in the water.
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Tortoise walks on land, Turtle swims in the water.
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Me and Jared have just been devising a way for you to remember a tortoise on land
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and we came up with a tortoise likes to walk us and a turtle is like Squirtle if you've seen Pokemon.
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Squirtle swims in the water.
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- It's not very good, is it?
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But a tortoise likes to walk us.
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- It's one way.
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- So we are here in the botanical gardens.
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Looking.
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The beautiful scenery The grass, the trees, the pond, the water, the birds, the frogs, the butterflies and the dragonflies.
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And it's really rather beautiful.
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So right now, Jared is looking at the map to find out where we are.
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Did you find out?
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This way.
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This way?
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Come with me.
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So we're walking along this path and there are butterflies but it's hard to capture them because Hey!
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They keep flying everywhere.
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Alright guys, we are in the foliage garden.
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Foliage is the term for plant leaves and collectively.
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Lots of leaves.
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That looks like something from Jurassic Park.
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Look at these trees, they look ancient.
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mad that that's well older than us.
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There at least.
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10 years old.
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We are in a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Cool.
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- - Yeah.
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Jared doing his wood pigeon.
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That's good.
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These plants to our left are called ferns.
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A palm leaf.
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Look at the roots on this tree.
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instead of growing into the ground they are kind of sprawled out like a spider's legs.
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Very cool.
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And look at this tree.
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The roots are growing down from the trunk.
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is the trunk and the roots are growing down into the ground.
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This is a beautiful world, guys.
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Not planable.
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Plethora.
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Platera means there are lots of something.
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They are abundant.
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Trying to give the people the slang term of a plethora?
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Clothes.
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So you can see the turtle guys, I remember.
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The turtle is the one that swims in the water.
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Tortoise likes to walk us.
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An on the turtle is a hard shell.
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The same shell that you find on an egg.
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or a snail.
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Oh.
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It's quite hot, sweating, it's humid, the air is wet.
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This is a lake. or a big pond.
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So the weather is very hot and when it's hot and wet together we say it's humid.
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but There is a breeze and that breeze is really nice.
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A breeze is a light wind.
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and that's refreshing.
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Look at these guys.
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These are giants.
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Lily Pants And people have thrown coins onto the lily pads.
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Nice, make a wish.
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- I already have.
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- What do you wish for?
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- For you to fall in.
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- Good.
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This is really cool.
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So here is a giant pond with lily pads on.
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and that is a stage
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you
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you you you Wow, there's a garden here.
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Good work here guys, trickling.
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The water is trickling down the stream.
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I have some more orchids.
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and Look at this.
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This...
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green stuff on the rocks.
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It's called "Moss".
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This is moss.
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Two good words guys.
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This is spongy.
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The texture is soft like a sponge cake.
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These leaves are spiky.
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They are sharp and pointy.
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Spongey and spiky.
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These orchids are beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Right guys, we just found a monitor lizard.
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Check this out.
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We did it guys, we found the monitor lizard.
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Look at how it crawls.
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It's got a forked tongue.
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The monitor wizard is crawling.
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across the grass.
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He's sticking his tongue out and I think that's to sense his environment.
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Okay.
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- Good.
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We just left the botanical gardens and chilled out, had a rest.
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Now we're going to head out for some drinks and some food.
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We are crossing the road and there are people passing on our left.
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So we have just arrived at the famous Raffles.
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And these houses are very fancy.
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That's the next word, fancy.
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This is a large hotel and the front of the building is lit up with warm light.
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This is a courtyard with a fountain in the background.
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Bye.
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Jared is dishing up the food.
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We have some sweet breads, which is noodles with stir -fried Seafood?
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Some side salad.
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Sweet chili sauce, vegetable spring rolls. And...
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The beef.
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Rondang, which is kind of curry.
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How's it taste?
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I love that.
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- Yeah, it's probably doable.
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Dinner was bloody lovely.
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Now we're walking through a tunnel.
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There are red lights on either side of the tunnel, and funky artwork painted on the walls.
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Right now we're heading to an arcade bar.
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We are in an arcade bar, and I am drinking a pint.
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Cheers!
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The neon lights are flashing on the ceiling.
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This is the bar, where the bartenders make your drinks.
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This is called a joystick.
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And this is a coin slot where you insert your coins into.
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The buttons are flashing.
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It's time to play.
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This game is called Master Sniper.
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A sniper rifle is a gun that can shoot bullets from a long range.
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Or shoot Jared from a short range.
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This is a basketball game.
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You throw the basketballs into the hoop.
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Now we're playing darts.
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I am throwing the dart at the dartboard.
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I'm taking the darts out of the dartboard and handing them to Jarrod.
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It's his turn.
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We want a fish!
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The night has been a success.
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We are here at the famous Merlion in Singapore, which is a combination of a lion and a fish together.
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Which leads me onto the final word of the day, which is a hybrid.
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A hybrid is a combination of two things.
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Thank you for watching.
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Your Go-To Phrases from the Conversation
- "I'm heading to meet my friend" – A simple way to explain your plans.
- "This is a conveyor belt" – Useful for describing objects in new places.
- "We're gonna go to a Hawker Center" – Casual phrasing for suggesting activities (note: "gonna" is common in spoken English).
- "We've been having a catch-up" – A natural term for reconnecting with someone you haven't seen in a while.
- "Toast to good friends" – A friendly way to celebrate moments with others.
These phrases are easy to reuse—try saying them out loud, then mix them into your own sentences. For extra practice, use a shadowing site to mimic the speaker’s tone and speed.
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The video helps you tackle rhythm and intonation—two areas where B1-B2 learners often struggle. Notice how the speaker pauses slightly before key words (like "suitcase" or "catch-up") to emphasize them. This makes speech sound more natural. Another tip: practice "shadow speak" by repeating the dialogue immediately after the speaker, focusing on matching their pace. Many learners rush through phrases, but this video shows how to slow down for clarity. Whether you use shadowspeak or shadowspeaks techniques, the goal is to make your speech flow like a native’s. Start with short clips, then build up to longer segments—you’ll be surprised how quickly your fluency improves!
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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.