Shadowing Practice: My Work Routine #englishforbeginners #english#dailyroutineenglish - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 16 sentences and 143 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:52. The speaker talks at a natural 164 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 75% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

• desk /dɛsk/ (noun) — A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a…
• worker /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ (noun) — One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
• arrive /əˈɹaɪv/ (verb) — To reach; to get to a certain place.
• goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ — Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
• noon /nun/ (noun) — The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
• organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ (verb) — To arrange in working order.
• lunchroom /ˈlʌnt͡ʃˌɹum/ (noun) — A room designated as a place to eat lunch.
• workday (noun) — Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek.
• task /tæsk/ (noun) — A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
• lunch /lʌnt͡ʃ/ (noun) — A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
• email /ˈiˌmeɪl/ (noun) — A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet…
• schedule /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/ (noun) — A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to…
• chat /ˈt͡ʃæt/ (verb) — To be engaged in informal conversation.
• reply /ɹɪˈplaɪ/ (noun) — A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
• look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
• turn off (verb) — To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
• turn on (verb) — To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
• work at (verb) — To make a physical or mental effort to progress some specified task; to endeavor or struggle on an issue or project.
• work on (verb) — To apply mental or physical effort to (something) in order to shape, form, improve, investigate, solve it, 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. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like desk, worker, arrive.