Shadowing Practice: Let's go to the Rainforest - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Section 2 This is a rain forest.
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The weather here is hot all year.
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It is always wet.
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It rains every day.
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It feels hot and sticky.
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Let's go to the rainforest.
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First, you fly in an airplane.
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Then you ride in a truck.
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Then you go in a boat.
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Finally, you walk.
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in the rainforest grow very tall.
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The tops of the trees can reach the clouds.
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The trees live a long time.
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They can live a thousand years.
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Many birds and animals live in the rainforest.
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Sometimes you cannot see them because it is dark under the trees.
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But you can often hear them.
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What are these strange-looking animals?
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They are a family of lemurs.
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Lemurs come out at night, and they use their big eyes to look for fruit.
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How many lemurs can you see?
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Tree frogs are very small.
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This tree frog lives in a flower.
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Tree frogs are bright and colorful.
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This frog has big eyes and a big mouth.
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The rainforest is home to millions of ants.
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They are always very busy.
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Although they are small, they are very strong when they work together as a group.
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Insects, insects.
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They are everywhere.
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There are more insects in the rainforest than any other animal.
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They come in all shapes, colors, and sizes.
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Each insect is different, but they all have six legs.
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This big cat is a jaguar.
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It's the king of the rainforest.
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It hunts through the trees, using its ears, eyes, and nose to find an animal to eat.
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It's strong and fast, and very dangerous.
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It's nighttime in the rainforest.
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The moon is shining.
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What's that?
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It's a bat.
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Bats sleep in the day and fly around at night.
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The rainforest is very important to all of us.
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It cleans the air and is home to many animals and plants.
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If we protect the rainforest, we can help save the world.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Let's go to the Rainforest”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: rainforest, tree, animal, insect, frog. This video has 45 sentences and 319 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:49. The speaker talks slowly, about 83 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 84% 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

13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
insect noun/ˈɪn.sɛkt/An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
cloud noun/ˈklaʊ̯d/A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
ear noun/ˈɪə̯/The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
shine verb/ʃaɪn/To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
airplane noun/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
ant noun/ænt/Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
colorful adjective/ˈkʌl.əɹ.fl̩/Possessing prominent and varied colors.
sticky adjective/ˈstɪki/Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
jaguar noun/ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
rainforest noun/ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
lemur noun/ˈliːmə(ɹ)/Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
nighttime noun/ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
work together verbTo be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like insect, cloud, ear.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →