Shadowing Practice: Look Level 4 Unit 3 Video 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I'm Iwara.
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I'm AJ.
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I'm Marlin.
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What was the last celebration or festival you went to?
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I went to the fireworks festival in Nagaoka. When is this festival?
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It's in August every year.
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A lot of people go to see the fireworks.
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I went with my family. Did you like it?
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Yes, the fireworks were amazing.
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The sky was full of different colours.
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It was very bright and noisy.
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And we ate delicious food too.
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What's your favourite festival in your country?
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The Sandsations Festival.
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It's in July in Washington.
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What kind of festival is it?
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It's a sand sculpting festival.
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There are lots of festivals like this in the US.
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Artists make beautiful sculptures on the beach.
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They use sand and water.
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You can watch them while they make their sculptures.
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When they're finished, you can walk around them and take photos.
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Some of the sculptures are huge!
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When did you go there?
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I went there last summer with my parents.
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It was great.
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Is there a popular festival in Mexico?
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Yes, there are many.
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In Oaxaca, there's a festival called Que La Queza.
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It's in July and it lasts a week.
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From Monday to Monday, I went there two years ago.
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What did you see?
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I saw people wearing colorful costumes.
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People played music too and danced on the stage.
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And in the streets, it was a lot of fun.
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And there was lots of food too.
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Mole, chocolate, quesadillas, yum.
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What does this festival celebrate?
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It celebrates the different cultures in Oaxaca.
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People want to show that they're different, but how they live together in peace.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Look Level 4 Unit 3 Video 4”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: festival, sculptures, fireworks. This video has 40 sentences and 269 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:18. The speaker talks at a steady 117 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 9 of its 40 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| sculpture noun | /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/ | A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting). |
| 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… |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| celebration noun | /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/ | The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament. |
| costume noun | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. |
| colours noun | Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern. | |
| colorful adjective | /ˈkʌl.əɹ.fl̩/ | Possessing prominent and varied colors. |
| noisy adjective | /ˈnɔɪzi/ | Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound |
| firework noun | /ˈfaɪɚˌwɚk/ | A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket… |
| quesadilla noun | /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdijə/ | A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted. |
| sculpt verb | /skʌlpt/ | To form by sculpture. |
| celebrate verb | /ˈsɛl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/ | To extol or honour in a solemn manner. |
| bright adjective | /ˈbɹaɪ̯t/ | Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant. |
| favourite adjective | /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ | Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.) |
| chocolate noun | /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/ | A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What was the last celebration or festival you went to?
- Did you like it?
- What's your favourite festival in your country?
- When did you go there?
- What did you see?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, quesadilla /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdijə/
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 sculpture, sand, delicious.
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.