Shadowing Practice: Learn English while I go to a coffee shop ☕️ - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Good morning everybody!
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Good morning everybody!
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I am staying at a beautiful villa and today we are going to learn English using the world around us.
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So what's the plan?
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Well the plan is I'm going to go to a coffee shop right now.
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I have my rucksack or my backpack on my back.
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I'm ready, we're going to go do some work.
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After that I'm gonna come back here to this villa and show you guys around this beautiful place.
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There is a gorgeous pool and it's actually right by the beach so we'll see that later.
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I'm excited.
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Let's go on the walk and of course learn loads of English.
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Look this is a hedge and the hedge is running parallel to the alleyway.
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I am walking down an alleyway or a lane or a path.
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Down here is a narrow alley.
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Narrow.
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So my right is a yellow building.
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Up there is a balcony where people can stand and look out.
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Today the sky is very cloudy.
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You can say cloudy or overcast.
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Here we have some beautiful red flowers coming from this tree.
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The flowers are sprouting from the tree.
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There is a man riding past on a yellow motorbike.
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Let's keep going.
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This is a cart.
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There are wheels on the cart and lots of different things.
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This is a box.
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This looks like an old gas hob or a cooker.
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This is a ladder.
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Hello!
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And that motorbike is pulling the cart.
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The man is putting cushions on the motorbike.
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This is an entrance to that yellow villa or building.
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To my right here, there is art on the wall.
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And we call this a mural.
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What does this art mean?
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Always ask questions.
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Above my head there are trees.
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So this tree here with the spiky leaves is called a palm tree.
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And the one next to it with the long leaves is called a banana tree,
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which gives us bananas.
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Lovely.
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Down here we have a motorbike.
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there is a white helmet on the motorbike.
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This is the license plate.
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These are the tires, the rubber parts,
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and inside are the rims.
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This is the engine of the motorbike.
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These are the handlebars, and this,
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hello, is the wing mirror.
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One more thing about the motorbike or the scooter,
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this is the brake and you pull the brake which stops the bike.
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These are the headlights which help you to see when it's dark.
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Right now it's not dark,
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it is actually very cloudy.
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When it's cloudy like this it's common for us to say it's overcast.
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The weather today is overcast.
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It's.. the sun is actually peeking through the clouds over there,
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so hopefully, fingers crossed, it's going to be sunny later
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when we get back to the villa so I can take a dip in the pool.
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Lovely.
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Before I mentioned street art, this is called graffiti.
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Graffiti is when somebody writes letters on the wall in this style.
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This is graffiti.
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There is a motorbike.
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That motorbike just passed me and to my left here are some posters.
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The posters are stuck on the wall.
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Somebody came and stuck them to the wall.
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The posters are advertising, live music.
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Different types of musicians perhaps playing in this area.
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I love music so maybe I'll go see. Who knows.
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There is a car coming down the narrow alley.
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Xin chào.
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And he just looked at me funny so maybe I shouldn't have filmed him but you can't please everybody.
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All right let's keep going.
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That is a grab driver, very common in Vietnam.
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The grab drivers deliver your food to you or deliver other things to you.
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A delivery driver we say in the UK.
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Now I'm on the main road.
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So this is the main road behind me and there is traffic going past me.
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There's a boy on a pushbike and then there are people on a motorbike.
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On the side of the road here we have the pavement.
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This is the pavement or sidewalk as they say in US and this is the road.
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So I'm gonna continue to walk along the road but first, best spa.
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That is a spa where you get a massage.
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Somebody rubs your back your head,
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your hands, your feet and it helps you to relax.
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I like to get massages because I work a lot
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so it's nice for somebody to rub me to feel relaxed, feel relieved.
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Again there is another motorbike which is towing a cart.
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The cart is attached to the back of the motorbike and the motorbike would tow that cart.
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Hey, here we have a little dog.
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All right, she's not interested in me.
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I've arrived at a little shop,
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tapois, which I think is just like a mini mart
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or we can also say convenience store or in the UK we actually say a corner shop,
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which is like a small shop that sells confectionery items,
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crisps, chocolates and other stuff.
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These are called crisps.
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Crisps.
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And this is a packet of crisps.
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This is my wallet.
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I'm opening my wallet and taking out my card.
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I won't show you that because it's secret.
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So I have my debit card.
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I'm inserting my card into the slot.
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This is the slot.
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This light is...
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No, it's not flashing anymore.
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Okay, what does it say on the screen?
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There is my name, Jay Gudo.
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I want to choose English, please.
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Continue.
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Okay, it says, please enter your PIN.
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Your PIN is your unique code.
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And this is the keypad where I enter my PIN.
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I'm not going to tell you what it is because that is secret.
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This is where my cache is coming out.
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Taking my card.
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My cash is coming out.
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These are bank notes and we call them cash.
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So cash is physical money.
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Got my cash.
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I am sweating.
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I'm very hot.
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Hello.
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Always waving to people.
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Okay, I'm walking under the shade of the tree now.
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So it's kind of dark because I'm in the shade,
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which is nice, it's cool in the shade.
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Now I'm in the sun again and it's bright and it's very hot and sweaty.
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But I'm grateful because the sun has come out and I love the sun.
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Anyway, I can see the cafe.
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It's right here.
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I'm here.
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I have arrived.
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So I'm gonna go inside and meet my girlfriend Chang.
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I'll introduce you.
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Bikini bottom, like SpongeBob's home.
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Okay, I'm walking through the entrance and into the cafe.
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Where is Chang?
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She's not there.
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There she is.
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Okay, this is my lovely girlfriend, Chang.
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Say hello.
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All right, now she sat at one table and we need to move the tables together.
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So we'll do that now.
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It's not as heavy as I thought.
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There we go.
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I just pushed the tables together.
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I moved them together.
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So I can sit next to her.
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Right, now I need a menu.
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I found a menu.
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Look at that.
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Put you on the table.
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What do we have here?
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This is a box with napkins inside.
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Tissue paper.
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This is a pot with a fork and a knife.
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We call those cutlery.
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This is a bottle of tomato sauce or ketchup.
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My drink has just arrived.
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So this is the menu where I order the food.
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And I'll open it up.
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Inside you can see all the different types of food.
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Chang, can you hold that?
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So, okay, Chang is holding it down so the menu doesn't fall.
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Inside here we have the breakfast menu.
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I turn the page.
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There are some burgers here.
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And usually at the back of the menu there are cocktails,
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cheeky, beer, and the drinks.
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Juice, tea, smoothies, wine, and more drinks.
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But I would like some food.
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So I open the front,
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and I think I want avocado is life.
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The fan is blowing my hair.
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My hair is blowing in the wind.
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The music is quite loud,
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so I hope you can hear me.
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This is a glass.
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In the glass, I have some juice.
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And this is a straw.
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I sip from the straw.
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I just sipped my juice.
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It tastes delicious.
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It's a very hot day,
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so this juice is really refreshing.
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It's cooling me down.
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It's making me feel good.
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And that fan is also cooling me down.
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As you can see, look at that forehead vein.
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Whoa.
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There's some new vocabulary for you.
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A vein.
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That vein is really prominent in my forehead.
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You can see it very clearly because it's hot.
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All right.
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I'm just waiting for the food.
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And after the food, I'm going to do a little bit of work.
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And then we're going to head back to the villa to see the pool and chill out.
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I think the food is coming.
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Come on.
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Thank you.
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The food has arrived.
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These are poached eggs.
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The poached eggs are on avocado,
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smashed avocado, which we call guacamole.
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And that is on some sourdough toast, toasted bread.
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This is a wedge of lime.
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We have some pickled onions and some diced tomato and onion,
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which we call pico de gallo.
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Delicious.
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I'm going to dig into this now.
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I'm going to begin eating.
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So I'll see you guys on the other side of a full belly belly.
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Well, I just finished my breakfast.
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My plate is empty.
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I wolfed it down.
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I ate it very fast.
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And now I'm feeling pleasantly full.
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I'm not stuffed.
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I'm pleasantly full.
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I'm nicely full.
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So, I think it's time for me to get out my laptop and do some work for the morning.
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This is my big fat backpack or rucksack.
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Remember the word from earlier.
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And these are the zips or this is the zip.
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I'm unzipping my rucksack
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and in this compartment at the back you can see my laptop
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so I'm taking out my laptop
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and I shall put my bag over there I have my
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beautiful Apple Mac laptop I'm opening I'm using my laptop and this is the trackpad.
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This is the keyboard where I type.
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My laptop recognizes my fingerprint so I use my fingerprint to unlock the laptop.
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This is the screen and this is the webcam at the top.
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Two thousand years later.
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We have just left the cafe.
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Bikini Bottom.
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SpongeBob's home.
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And now we are walking home.
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Chang and I are walking back to the villa.
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The weather now is bright and sunny.
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It's a glorious day, as we say in England.
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And the sky is blue.
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There is barely a cloud in the sky.
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It's very hot.
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Very hot.
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We can say boiling.
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It's absolutely boiling.
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So thankfully, it's a very short walk back to the villa.
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I am walking on the road.
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Chang is walking on the pavement.
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We are walking next to each other.
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She's on the pavement.
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I'm on the road.
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The shade.
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I love the shade.
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so good ah god damn the sun again what was i saying about being grateful for the sun
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i'll take it back look at this guys there is a
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statue of a golf ball playing golf this is a golf
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club this is a golf ball the golf ball is wearing a blue cap and he is smiling
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He's got some shoes on, some trainers or sneakers.
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This is a mini golf course and actually later,
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I think today or tomorrow,
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we are going to play mini golf which should be very fun.
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Here you can see people playing mini golf.
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So we're walking down this alleyway again,
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down this lane or path.
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Here is the wall that we passed earlier with the graffiti on once more.
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The wall art or street art.
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That is an owl who looks like he's perhaps taking drugs.
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A chicken.
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Nice.
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Look at these beautiful red flowers.
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These are called hibiscus flowers and the outside of a flower is called the petal and this petal is very delicate.
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The inside is called the starman.
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And look at that sky,
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there is a beautiful blue sky.
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The type of blue is cerulean blue and there,
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once again, is a banana leaf.
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The motorbike is zooming past.
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Well, we have arrived back at the villa and I'm ready to take a dip in the pool.
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Walking through the reception, there is a swimming pool and I'm hot so I'm going to take a dip.
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First, let's get changed.
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We have arrived at our room.
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Let's look inside.
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Wow look at this beautiful white sheets on the bed surrounded by nature
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and now let's close that curtain I'm going to get changed
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so I can go in the pool I'm in my swimming trunks and now I'm gonna go cool off in the pool.
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It's a very hot day so I'm gonna go take a dip
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and in the next video I'm gonna show you guys all around the villa and learn loads more English.
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Thank you for watching, much love, peace.
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Context & Background
The speaker in this video shares a unique opportunity to practice English while engaging in a simple yet relatable activity: visiting a coffee shop. Set against the backdrop of a beautiful villa, the speaker provides viewers with real-world vocabulary and phrases used in everyday situations. The journey includes observations of the environment, showcasing various elements like alleyways, buildings, and nature. This immersive experience not only helps learners acquire language skills but also encourages them to observe and describe their surroundings, creating a dynamic learning atmosphere.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "I am walking down an alleyway." - A basic yet effective way to describe your movement.
- "There are beautiful red flowers coming from this tree." - Useful for discussing nature and surroundings.
- "This is a cart." - Learning vocabulary related to objects you see daily.
- "Always ask questions." - Encouraging curiosity, an essential aspect of language learning.
- "Hello!" - A friendly greeting that opens conversations.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To make the most of this video and effectively improve your English speaking practice, follow this structured shadowing technique:
- Watch and Listen: Begin by watching the video without attempting to speak. Focus on how the speaker articulates words and phrases, noting the intonation and emotion in their voice.
- Pause and Repeat: Use the shadowing app or video pause feature to repeat sentences immediately after the speaker. This mimics the natural flow of conversation and helps solidify vocabulary in your mind.
- Break it Down: When encountering challenging sentences, break them into smaller parts. Practice each segment slowly, ensuring correct pronunciation before combining them.
- Practice in Context: Try to use the phrases you learn in your daily life. Describe your surroundings or experiences in English, just as the speaker did during the coffee shop visit.
- Engage and Reflect: After viewing, consider writing about your experiences in English. Describe a recent outing, using new vocabulary. Reflection enhances retention and improves English pronunciation.
By incorporating these steps into your practice routine, you can effectively utilize the video's content, making your learning journey both enjoyable and rewarding. Remember, practicing with real contexts, like visiting a café or observing your environment, can significantly enhance your fluency and confidence in speaking English.
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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