Shadowing Practice: Learn REAL English Vlog - Visit Cornwall with Me! 🇬🇧 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Where do British people go on holiday?
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Welcome to Cornwall.
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We're going to be showing you around and teaching you some very useful English along the way.
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Hello and welcome to Falmouth.
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We are going to show you a little bit around Falmouth.
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It's a really sweet little place by the sea
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and the sun has come out so
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while the sun is out we're going to make the most of it but we have brought an umbrella,
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because goodness knows, weather in this country can just flip.
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Spitting image, I think.
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Spitting image.
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A lot of people from the UK like to visit Cornwall.
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Cornwall is almost like a peninsula in the southwest of the country.
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It's very nautical.
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It has a strong maritime history.
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Everywhere you turn in Cornwall, I feel like there are cool pieces of maritime history.
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Like this is some part of a boat and they've fashioned it into a door.
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That's so cool.
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Like everywhere you turn, it's just like there's a cannon here.
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and i just want to know the history of
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that canon i love it i feel like i'm walking around pirates the caribbean like look at that
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i've got a question now go on how do you get to the boat like
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if your boat is yeah like if you own
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if you own one of those boats there yeah how do you get to it
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if you want to go on it i think you just have a little dinghy do you
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that you take to your main boat
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but then then what do you do with the dinghy
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you kind of strap strap it to your your main boat
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but then that's a faff
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you never see little diggies connected to boats one thing about cornwall
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it will probably be windy even on a glorious sunny day it'll probably be a bit blustery
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oh there's a sea shanty festival on a sea shanty festival a sea shanty is like a song
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that sailors used to sing like um what shall we do with the ronkins
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and they love them here because of the maritime history
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that would be amazing so we're in the princess pavilion in falmouth
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which is where my dad used to play with a brass band.
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Yeah, this takes me back.
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Yeah, it does take me back.
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Because my dad used to live around here.
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So we came to Cornwall a lot because it was free accommodation because we could come down and stay with my dad.
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We definitely made the most of that.
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Oh yeah.
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If you want to come here, you can actually fly here from London to Newquay Airport.
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I would probably recommend coming not in the summer holidays
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so basically maybe not in the months of July and August because so many people come here from across the UK.
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I'd say June.
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I'd say June or September.
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June or September, lovely month.
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Because it's still really sunny
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but hopefully there'll be less people here
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we're
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about to have our favorite food to have in Cornwall a crab sandwich crab fresh crab from the sea.
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I love being by the sea and going to somewhere and you know that they've caught this fish today, yesterday, probably this morning.
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It's light, it's fluffy, it's delicious, it's to die for.
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You've got to come here and try crab sandwiches.
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We've been out in the wind for quite a while now, so my hair is pretty windswept.
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I feel very windswept.
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So don't judge my hair for the rest of this video.
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I don't know what it's going to do, I don't know how it's going to look, but all part of the fun.
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This is Little Dennis Fort and it was built by the Tudors 500 years ago and it's the oldest building in Falmouth.
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And what a perfect place to perch and take in the beautiful scenery.
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Something about the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks and the waves lapping against the shore.
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It just, I don't know, it just calms you down.
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I'm pretty sure they used to prescribe going to the sea as medicine.
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So for lots of illnesses, before modern science caught up and we knew how to actually treat them,
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they would prescribe some time by the sea because they thought it was really healing.
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And I do still think being by the sea is healing obviously medicine's probably better
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but i do think that being by the sea can be quite healing i've heard actually
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that people are happier when they are by the sea
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because this is very interesting because we used to be fish
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because we've evolved from fish we're all sea creatures all animals are sea creatures originally you know
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so yeah i've heard that apparently people are happier by the sea because biologically we were fish
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i think we should go
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and check into the hotel now oh yeah yeah yeah
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that's true it's not much of a detour yeah it's not much of a detour
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so let's check into the hotel
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and then we're going to head to some lovely gardens beautiful gardens
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and then we're going to go to lizards point yeah
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which is the most southern point of the british mainland very exciting okay
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we've just checked in to our hotel hotel vara in truro the staff were
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so so nice they were so welcoming it looks
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so lovely downstairs they've got this lovely restaurant lovely bar lovely area to hang out with some board games and everything
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so i think we're going to have a very very nice time here
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it's in a really good location as well
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which is all you need for a hotel you need the location to be
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spot on
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and i love the location of this hotel this hotel is equidistant between two coasts between the north
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and south coasts
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so you want to be near the beach
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this is a really good hotel to be equidistant between two coasts right
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i'm going to give you a challenge lawyer okay i want you to go into the maze
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and i'm going to count to a minute
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and then i'm going to try
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and find you you're going to count to a minute all right
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so i've got to hide somewhere
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and then you've got to find me yeah um amazing let's
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see three two one go yeah he's definitely going to see me
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because i'm so tall
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so i peek out above the above the hedges i've gone in a dead end
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because um i don't think he'll think to go here but now i've got a crouch for about
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47 58 59 60 right let's go and see if we can find her now she could be absolutely anywhere
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in this maze did i just see her did i just see her over there in the distance okay
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busted got you i had to crouch down here for about 40 seconds my legs have gone numb
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now i'm very excited about this we are now gonna head to lizard point
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which is the most southern point of the whole of mainland britain
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i'm very excited have you been there before
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i've never been there before no i'm very excited i'm very excited
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i was saying to laura on the way here the drive
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was very very um narrow roads on the way here very very narrow just wide enough for one car um
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but i was saying it i have a got an eerie feeling down here
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it's quite eerie yeah it's quite strange it's very isolated like i've seen a lot of houses up there
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and i just
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if you live there it must it must be very almost scary i don't know like
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if something goes wrong so far away from yeah everything else
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and like and like you know like if you're watching the bbc news
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and they're talking about things
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that are happening in like london yeah that's miles away it feels like a different country oh wow this is
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so cool everywhere here really uses the most southerly thing for everything
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so this is Britain's most southerly cafe, up there was Britain's most southerly pub.
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Yeah, I do want to go to the most southerly pub, but I don't know if we have time.
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Berwyn, you're the most southerly man in the country right now.
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Fantastic.
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Do the most southerly dance.
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Laura, you're the most southerly girl in the country.
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So I want you to do the most southerly singing in the country.
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twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are now i want
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you to do the most southerly star jump it's easy to be deceived
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that this is just a coast it's just a place in the uk
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and yes the facts are that this is just a place by the sea
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but just knowing
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that this is the most southerly point of the mainland of
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great britain is just really really cool really cool wow i feel like we've seen a lot today
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that was so cool i loved that i loved being like
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so high up and having that vantage point to look down
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and see all the waves crashing so it was quite like a kind of a
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invigorating really you think yeah just to be kind of stood
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there wind on your face yeah
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it felt quite like you were on the end end of the world edge of the world
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you know what i mean
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and it's only our first day in cornwall we have three more days of adventures
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and things to show you
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so the next time you see us we will be having breakfast in our hotel
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because breakfast is included which is always great
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so we will see you at breakfast tomorrow morning welcome to breakfast um i'm just buttering my toast
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and today's plan is we are going to go to penzance
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if you've heard of the pirates of penzance it's a musical
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and there's a lot of pirate history there and we're going to go to Marizion, St. Michael's Mount.
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And then we're going to one of the most beautiful spots in Cornwall, I think.
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So stay tuned.
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So if you want to see more of our Cornwall adventure, make sure you watch part two of this series.
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Make sure to subscribe, go to our website, smashingenglish .com and click join if you want to become a member.
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Ta -ta!
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I'll see you soon.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn REAL English Vlog - Visit Cornwall with Me! 🇬🇧”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sea, southerly, cornwall, hotel, boat. This video has 153 sentences and 1756 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:30. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| heal verb | /ˈhiːl/ | To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. |
| maritime adjective | /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌtaɪm/ | Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.). |
| pirate noun | /ˈpaɪɹət/ | A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. |
| mainland noun | /ˈmeɪnlənd/ | The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula. |
| adventure noun | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. |
| narrow adjective | /ˈnæɹəʊ/ | Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. |
| sandwich noun | /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ | A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food. |
| sunny adjective | /ˈsʌni/ | Featuring a lot of sunshine. |
| cannon noun | /ˈkæn.ən/ | A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar… |
| spit verb | /spɪt/ | To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. |
| strap noun | /stɹæp/ | A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. |
| maze noun | /ˈmeɪz/ | A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through. |
| lizard noun | /ˈlɪzɚd/ | Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail… |
| illness noun | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| caught up verb | Involuntarily involved in a situation. | |
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| look down verb | To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards. | |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
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 sing · used to play · used to live |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has come · have brought · they've fashioned |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was built · be deceived · is included |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the oldest · the most southern · the most southerly |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: southwest /saʊθˈwɛst/, southerly /ˈsʌðəliː/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, peninsula /pəˈnɪn.sə.lə/, equidistant /ˌi.kwəˈdɪs.tənt/, invigorate /ɪnˈvɪɡəɹeɪt/
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 crab, heal, maritime.
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.