Shadowing Practice: Learning about Turtles. Fun Facts about Turtles for Kids ✨ 🐢 #forkids #learningforkids #learning - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi little explorers!
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My name is Baby Turtle.
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I am very small.
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But I have a very big story to tell you.
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I live near the ocean, and today, I want to tell you how my life began.
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Before I could swim, before I could see the sun, I was inside a tiny egg.
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My mommy came to the beach at night.
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The sand was warm.
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The moon was shining.
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She made a little hole in the sand and laid her eggs very carefully.
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Then she covered us with sand to keep us safe.
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Did you know?
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The sand keeps us warm and protected, and the warmth of the sand helps us grow.
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And we waited, and waited, and waited.
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One day, crack!
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My egg opened.
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I used my tiny flippers to push, and push, and push.
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All my brothers and sisters came out too.
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We were very small and very brave.
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Our shells were already with us.
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A turtle cannot leave its shell, It is part of our body.
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Just like your bones are part of you.
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The beach was big.
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The ocean was far.
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But we knew where to go.
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We followed the light of the moon shining on the water and the sound of the waves.
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That is how baby turtles find the ocean.
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Step by step, flap by flap, and finally, splash.
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We were in the ocean.
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Now I swim every day.
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I use my flippers like wings.
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I eat yummy sea plants and sometimes tiny jellyfish.
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By eating sea plants and jellyfish, turtles help keep the ocean healthy.
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Even if I live in the ocean, I still breathe air, just like you.
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So I swim up to the surface to take a big breath.
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The ocean is my home.
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I have many cousins.
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Some live in warm oceans, some live very far away.
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Green turtles love sea grass.
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Loggerhead turtles have strong heads.
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Leatherback turtles are very, very big.
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My cousins live all around the world, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.
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We are one big turtle family.
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One day, When I grow up big and strong, I will swim very, very far, across the ocean.
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Some turtles swim thousands of kilometers, But guess what?
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I will come back.
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I will return to the same beach where I was born.
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At night, under the moon, I will lay my eggs in the warm sand.
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Just like my mommy did.
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Because turtles always remember their first home.
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Did you know?
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Some turtles can live more than 100 years.
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The sand decides if a baby turtle is a boy or a girl.
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Warm sand makes girls Cool sand makes boys.
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Turtles have been on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs.
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We are very old, and very wise animals.
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Thank you for listening to my story, little explorers.
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The ocean is full of wonders, and every little animal has a big adventure.
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See you soon, and don't forget, the ocean is our home.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Learning about Turtles. Fun Facts about Turtles for Kids ✨ 🐢”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ocean, turtle, sand, swim, warm. This video has 60 sentences and 502 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:37. The speaker talks at a steady 139 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| turtle noun | /ˈtɝtl̩/ | Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. |
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| 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… |
| cousin noun | /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ | Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a… |
| shell noun | /ʃɛl/ | The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. |
| breathe verb | /bɹiːð/ | To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. |
| shine verb | /ʃaɪn/ | To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| explorer noun | /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/ | One who explores something |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| adventure noun | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. |
| carefully adverb | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | With care; attentively, circumspectly. |
| crack noun | /kɹæk/ | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| grass noun | /ɡɹɑːs/ | Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as… |
| brave adjective | /bɹeɪv/ | Strong in the face of fear; courageous. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, leatherback /ˈlɛ.ðɚ.bæk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shell /ʃɛl/, shine /ʃaɪn/, splash /splæʃ/, jellyfish /ˈd͡ʒɛliˌfɪʃ/
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 turtle, sand, swim.
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.