Shadowing Practice: Look Book 3 - 3 - School Trip 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 15 sentences and 142 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:47. The speaker talks slowly, about 80 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

11 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• swim /swɪm/ (verb) — To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
• reindeer /ˈɹeɪndɪɹ/ (noun) — Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
• migrate /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/ (verb) — To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
• snowy /ˈsnoʊi/ (adjective) — Marked by snow; characterized by snow.
• milk /mɪlk/ (verb) — To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
• snow /snoʊ̯/ (noun) — The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation…
• meat /mit/ (noun) — The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
• forest /ˈfɔɹəst/ (noun) — A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
• reach /ɹiːt͡ʃ/ (verb) — To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• winter /ˈwɪntə/ (noun) — Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months…
• boat /bəʊ̯t/ (noun) — A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• live in (verb) — To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)

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 swim, reindeer, migrate.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video: