Shadowing Practice: Navigate A2 Elementary Coursebook Video (Reports 1-12) Unit 9 🙂 #Navigate A2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is La Cucina, an authentic Italian restaurant in Oxford, England.
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Italian cuisine is popular all over the world, but one dish is especially well known.
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Pizza.
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Its simple recipe and basic ingredients mean that many countries now have their own pizza style.
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American pizza, for example, is very popular, especially Chicago's deep pan style.
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But the original pizza comes from Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
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La Cucina's chefs are very serious about pizza and they make each one to a traditional recipe.
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To make the dough, they use wheat flour, yeast and water and season with some salt.
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They don't use any other ingredients and they certainly don't use any additives.
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When the dough is ready, they make the sauce.
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They chop onion and fry it in olive oil.
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Then they add good quality Italian tomatoes and some salt.
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When the sauce has cooled, they carefully put some on the base.
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Then they add the mozzarella, a cheese from southern Italy.
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Then the pizza is ready to go into the hot pizza oven.
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It stays there for about 10 minutes until the base is golden brown.
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A few basil leaves on top and there you are, the perfect pizza.
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This is the traditional pizza margarita, the original pizza.
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But La Cucina sells many different kinds.
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There's pizza romana, with olives and artichokes, pizza al funghi, with mushroom and garlic,
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and pizza al levadure, with peppers, onions, aubergine and courgette.
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They even do a your choice.
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Customers can choose how many toppings and how much cheese they want.
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Finally when the pizza is finished, they serve it with.. nothing.
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Pizza is so good they always eat it solo.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Navigate A2 Elementary Coursebook Video (Reports 1-12) Unit 9 🙂 A2”. This video has 25 sentences and 279 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:12. The speaker talks slowly, about 87 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 76% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| recipe noun | /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ | Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. |
| olive noun | /ˈɑ.lɪv/ | A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. |
| onion noun | /ˈʌn.jən/ | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| dough noun | /doʊ/ | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| carefully adverb | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | With care; attentively, circumspectly. |
| chef noun | /ʃɛf/ | The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. |
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| pepper noun | /ˈpɛp.ə/ | A plant of the family Piperaceae. |
| oven noun | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | A chamber used for baking or heating. |
| authentic adjective | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | Of the same origin as claimed; genuine. |
| wheat noun | /ˈwiːt/ | Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. |
| flour noun | /ˈflaʊ.ə/ | Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and… |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, dish /dɪʃ/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, aubergine /ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒin/, courgette /kʊɚˈʒɛt/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, margarita /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/, mozzarella /mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/
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 pizza, recipe, olive.
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.