Shadowing Practice: Learn Everyday English While Making a Simple, Healthy Breakfast - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello you guys, welcome back to another video.
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Today I'm filming from our kitchen slash living room area.
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As you can see there is a couch and there's also a dining table and today we're making breakfast together.
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I'm going to take you along with me
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while I'm cooking a simple breakfast for myself and teach you some nice English vocabulary words.
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Okay so first I'm going to show you around our kitchen area.
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This here is the countertop.
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It's pretty spacious I would say.
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I use it for preparing meals and as you can see the ingredients for breakfast are ready.
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And here we have our kettle our coffee maker this little shelf with some salt
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and pepper and coffee olive oil and some other stuff in here
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and paper towels of course
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and this one is my little helper i absolutely love
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it i use it all the time i even bake in this air fryer
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because we do not have an oven in this apartment
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and it wasn't an option to install one
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so yeah i use it almost every day here
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we have a stove top it's an electric stove i hope
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you can see guys up here there is a ventilation hood and some cabinets.
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That's pretty much it.
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On to the breakfast.
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Okay, it's actually lunchtime here, half past 12 and I normally do not have breakfast.
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I skip breakfast on purpose just because I'm not hungry
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and I also have a lot of things to do in the morning.
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I have my classes, I do my workouts so it is technically lunchtime but I'm still having breakfast.
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Today we're making an omelet and some salad.
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Nothing fancy, nothing extraordinary but it is filling and nutritious.
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Filling is food that makes you feel full,
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you're not hungry after eating it and nutritious means that it has some good nutrients like I don't know fiber,
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what else, what else, fiber,
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protein, some other minerals, just all the good stuff that helps your body function properly.
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We're going to start with the salad
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and I'm going to move you a little closer to the countertop so you can see what I'm doing here.
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Okay, that's good.
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This is the salad that I eat almost, not almost, every single day.
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Arugula salad.
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And you guys have to know one thing about me.
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I am a total freak when it comes to healthy eating, healthy food.
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So if you tell me that something is good for me, good for my health, i'm gonna eat it even
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if it tastes like plastic anyway fortunately arugula tastes pretty good
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so i have my bowl here
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and in this bowl as you can see there are some seeds pumpkin seeds sesame seeds both black
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and white i usually pre -soak them for about an hour
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or so and they're nice and soft already
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so i'm putting the arugula into the ball okay you guys you have to cut me some slack i am
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so sorry this is the first time i'm filming in the kitchen
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so i haven't figured out um where to put my camera
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and it's a disaster i apologize for that anyway here i have my cutting board,
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half a tomato and some red onions.
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I am eating alone today because my husband is at work.
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That's why I don't need a lot of the ingredients.
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Half a tomato will do.
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So now I'm going to slice the tomato and chop the onions.
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There you go.
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So I'm slicing this tomato half and chop the onions.
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Okay, now we're adding it into the bowl.
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The salad is almost ready.
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As you can see, it's very simple.
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Not a lot of ingredients.
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Thank you.
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Now for the dressing.
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What is dressing, you guys?
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It is a special sauce we make for salads.
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And I'm making the simplest dressing of all time.
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Olive oil, mustard, lemon juice, and some salt and pepper.
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That's it.
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And yeah, I'm not mixing it in a separate bowl.
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I'm just pouring everything directly into this bowl with the salad because why would I waste another dish, right?
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Here goes some olive oil, lemon juice.
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I'm sorry guys, it's not very aesthetic.
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Mustard, salt, and pepper.
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Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that once the salad is ready,
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the dressing and everything, I sprinkle it with some ground flaxseed.
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This is my jar with flaxseed and I've noticed that it has significantly improved my digestion.
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So not a single breakfast goes by without me having some flaxseed.
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All right the salad is ready.
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It looks delicious.
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So I'm just gonna put it aside and we'll make the eggs.
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Now for the eggs, I usually eat only one egg because every time I make two, it feels like a little too much for me.
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So I'm just gonna crack one egg into the bowl.
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There we go.
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Then I'm adding a little bit of milk, not too much, just a splash.
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as i said just a splash well normally i opt for coconut milk
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because i just love how eggs and broccoli
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and coconut milk taste together it's my go -to recipe
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but unfortunately i went grocery shopping yesterday and they were out of coconut milk
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so i'm using regular milk today now let's mix it all together.
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I do have a whisk but I'm using a fork because it's perfectly fine too.
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Also I don't particularly enjoy doing the dishes
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and since we don't have a dishwasher in this apartment I don't want to waste extra utensils and then wash them.
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Now I already boiled some broccoli.
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Here's a little piece.
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I'm just going to cut it and add it to our mixture.
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Okay, the broccoli is in.
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Oh, and I need to turn on the stove now.
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Now let's pour this mixture into the pan.
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pour in this mixture into the pan
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and i put two cheese slices on top of the omelet cover it with the lid and wait
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while we're waiting for the omelet i'm going to cut an avocado where's my knife
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now it's pretty soft i just hope it's not overripe
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ta -da perfection i'm using a spoon to scoop out the flesh of the avocado
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oh there we go looking good
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let's check on our omelet oh i think it's almost ready oh no i hope i didn't burn it
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oh yes i burned the omelet a little bit
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but you can't see it all you can see is
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that it looks pretty doesn't it bread
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i forgot about the bread one slice of bread voila the breakfast is ready as i mentioned it's not fancy
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but i think it looks nice and quite appetizing so i'm just gonna make some coffee and that will be it.
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Bon appetit to me!
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Thank you guys so much for joining me for breakfast today.
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Let me know in the comments what you like to eat for breakfast.
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And if you enjoyed this video, give it a like and follow for more videos like this one.
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Now, I'm really starving.
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I'm going to start eating and you guys have a great day.
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See you next time.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn Everyday English While Making a Simple, Healthy Breakfast”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: breakfast, salad, bowl, omelet, egg. This video has 116 sentences and 1205 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:53. The speaker talks at a steady 122 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| slice noun | /slaɪs/ | That which is thin and broad. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| seed noun | /siːd/ | Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. |
| mixture noun | /ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/ | The act of mixing. |
| pepper noun | /ˈpɛp.ə/ | A plant of the family Piperaceae. |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| olive noun | /ˈɑ.lɪv/ | A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. |
| onion noun | /ˈʌn.jən/ | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| coconut noun | /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ | A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| stove noun | /stoʊv/ | A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. |
| broccoli noun | /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/ | A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's pretty spacious I would say.
- Today we're making an omelet and some salad.
- As you can see, it's very simple.
- What is dressing, you guys?
- I'm sorry guys, it's not very aesthetic.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't figured · I've noticed |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm filming · we're making · I'm cooking |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to take · I'm going to show · We're going to start |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will do · we'll make · will be |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, splash /splæʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, flesh /flɛʃ/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/
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 salad, slice, tomato.
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.