Shadowing Practice: New HIGH SCHOOL Morning Routine - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I have a five-step morning routine, so let me show you.

First, I start off with skincare.

I've got a cleanser, moisturizer, sunscreen, and a serum spray.

So let's start off by washing my face.

Come on, let's go, let's go.

I'm going to start off by washing my face with Kindly Clean from Sincerely Yours.

I love this cleanser so much because it's, like, so gentle.

So I'm going to use two pumps of it.

Normally, I put a hair tie in my hair, but I kind of forgot about that part.

A little too late now.

But this is so hydrating, and my skin feels so soft after.

I don't really want to go to school today.

My hair is going to get wet.

Oh, I just sipped that water.

That was nasty.

Oh my gosh, guys.

I forgot a towel and I'm pretty sure that I just got an eyelash in my eyes.

My eye is burning really bad right now.

This one works.

I got so many eyelashes in my eye, guys.

Ew, I see it.

It's out.

Okay, guys.

Now my skin is super moist.

Let's go finish the rest of my skincare.

This lighting sucks.

But that's better.

Okay guys now on step two This Sierra Mist Guys I literally take this with me everywhere.

I have one in my school bag one in my purse It's refreshing and it's just perfect.

So next step is moisturizer so soft

And she's like two pumps guys I'm gonna put my sunscreen on

but while I'm putting it on I'm gonna tell you a story.

Yesterday Yesterday, I was in the car with my mom.

We went to get a smoothie at a smoothie place, and we were driving home.

I was in the car about to take a right turn.

It was a kind of right turn where you have to wait for the light to turn green.

I was waiting for the light to turn green, and my two dogs, Lou and Boomer, were in the backseat, and then my mom sees this older lady walking on the street,

and she was like, oh, I should go ask her if she needs a car ride home.

And I was like, Mom.

Huh?

So I was like, sure, okay.

So she takes Boomer.

The light turned green and my mom took Boomer outside the car.

But Moo is my really big dog.

And he got up in the front seat and I couldn't see anything.

Like anything.

And he was fully blocking my right window.

And I was like completely blindly driving.

I was so scared.

So then I made another right into the parking lot again.

Then he put his foot into my mom's smoothie because he didn't need to but he did.

And then her orange smoothie splattered everywhere, all over my dad's car, all on my white pants and my white hoodie, and I was really mad.

I still love him.

All right, guys, now on to makeup.

I have three costumes for Halloween.

The first one is for this Friday, and I'm gonna be mermaids with one of my best friends.

And then on the next Friday, on actually Halloween day, I'm gonna be Curious George with my best friend, like the same girl.

Are you gonna be George or the yellow hat guy?

No, I wanted to be Curious George so bad, but my friend really wanted to be Curious George, so I'm gonna be the yellow hat man, I guess.

But I really wanted to be Curious George.

The Saturday after that Friday, I was gonna be Aurora, which is Sleeping Beauty, with the same friend and another friend, and they were gonna be Belle and Cinderella or something,

but I'm not doing that anymore because all the Halloween costumes aren't gonna arrive in time, so I'm gonna be uni babies with my friends.

And yeah, we have really cute costumes, and I'm really excited.

I was using the Hourglass Concealer, but do you see how gross this looks?

Look at that.

I need to clean that.

I swear I clean this concealer every day.

It's so annoying.

Now, I'm gonna go ahead and add brow gel.

This is the benefit one.

This one's pretty good.

My gray mouth was so bad, because I did terrible on a test, But then I retook it and then I did well on it.

So now my grade math is good.

My grade in Spanish is really good.

Really?

Yes.

Last I talked to you was...

I have a 93 in Spanish.

What?

I know.

Oh, I got a 1 out of 20 on one of my tests in Spanish.

And guys, I'm using the Makeup by Mario bronzer right now.

It's really good.

Now, I'm going to use the Makeup by Mario blush.

I really like Makeup by Mario.

Guys, I think Makeup by Mario is so cool.

And that would be really cool meeting him in the future.

Okay, now I'm going to use the Kostas powder.

and normally I don't really do any makeup for school, but today I felt really inspired.

It's so hot in here.

I'll scan you down.

It's not working, I don't know.

Also guys, I forgot to mention, my skin has been, like, always gets really dry in the fall and this moisturizer has been perfect.

Like, my skin is not dry at all right now, which I'm so happy about, because I remember last fall, my skin was super dry.

And a lot of people don't know this, but the sun can still damage your skin even in the winter

So that's why I've been wearing the sunscreen from sincerely yours, and I've gone sunburned in a long time I'm not gonna have grandma skin.

I was the queen Mary So scary That kind of thing, but they kept on scaring me, but then when I sat down they stopped scaring me Say I have

so many clips of you freaking out any scared or what do you mean?

Oh my god!

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I've been a lot better.

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Like, I went to the haunted house with Fran, remember?

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And I wasn't scared.

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At the haunted house of Fran, I'm going to play everything.

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I wasn't scared.

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Oh my god!

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You were terrified.

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I wasn't.

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You were.

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I say, I literally have so many clips of you running in fear.

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I'm back!

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No, I wasn't.

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Okay.

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That was just because.

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Right, you just like felt like running and screaming.

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No, that's fair, I get it.

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You guys have seen us go to the Queen Mary before, but it was so much scarier this time because it was actually haunted, like with scare actors and stuff.

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And they didn't stop scaring me.

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What do you want?

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Ah!

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Oh my God!

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What the hell?

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Go!

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Go!

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It's a race that go!

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I don't like horror movies anymore.

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What?

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Well, I don't really watch too many things except for Outer Ricks, because JJ is so hot.

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Sorry, I had to say it.

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Now I'm gonna use the makeup by Mario lip gloss.

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I got this lip gloss kind of recently.

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I don't know, I just found it on like the floor of my house.

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That's my ticket.

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You wanna go to any school dances or anything?

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Okay, the Ho-Go music low-key was good this year.

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Like, Ho-Go was kind of fun this year.

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My school does not care.

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They play like all the like good songs.

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So now that my makeup is all done, I don't really do that much makeup for school because who am I trying to impress at school, you know?

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But anyways, now I've gotta pick out my outfit

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And normally to bed I just wear like a tank top and sweats because I get kind of hot when I sleep.

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So I just wear a tank top.

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And then for school, normally I wear like a baggy hoodie and baggy sweats, but sometimes I pull out jeans and that's like a crazy day,

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but that is not today.

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All right guys, that was easy.

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You're gonna wear what you wore to sleep.

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Yeah, just a different one.

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That's what you wore to sleep. So?

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Okay.

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Is that, like are you judging me?

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That's a choice, but...

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Well, you're a choice.

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Sorry, I don't wear jorts.

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The jorts are cool, okay?

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Okay, yeah, yeah.

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Anyways, guys, I got my tank top and sweat, so I'm gonna go change.

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Whoa!

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No way!

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Okay, three, two, one.

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Was that the smack bow?

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Yeah.

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Oh, okay.

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Well, was that, like, cool, or...?

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No, that was good, yeah.

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Yeah?

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Okay, I'm gonna go change.

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Okay, I'm gonna hold here, wait.

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Alright, you do that your time whoa no way all right guys

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so this is what I would wear like every day a tank top

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and sweats and then I would always bring a hoodie

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because it's freezing at my school

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and it's gonna be freezing anyway cuz I gotta go outside and walk me yeah let's go walk me come on

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now no come in my little cow come on baby good

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boy you know what oh baby going to okay guys i do this every morning

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and i'm so happy that there are no dogs here

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because walking them with dogs is not good whenever moo is with boomer he barks super loud

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if he sees a dog like

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if he's not with boomer he's fine you know all right guys both of them went to the bathroom

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so now we can head back home

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and go to school step four is all done i finished

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walking the dogs now i gotta go to my final step before school

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which is i get breakfast but normally i just go to Starbucks so let's go.

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When I go to Starbucks I get pink drink, it's grande, light ice, no strawberry fruit inclusions,

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vanilla sweet cold foam, and three scoops of vanilla. Being bad.

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What? And a cake bomb.

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That's the largest order.

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No, it's good.

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Okay, well go order it.

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Embarrassing.

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Why?

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Because I'm being filmed, bro.

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Fine, I'll be back here.

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No, Nao come with me.

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Normally I act like I'm ordering it for my friend, like I'm like reading it, so like they don't like it.

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Now I please have a grande pink drink with light ice and three scoops of vanilla bean powder and vanilla cold film.

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This is our first time ordering on our own, so we wanted to document the moment.

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That one's embarrassing.

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I hate you.

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That's embarrassing.

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Thank you.

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You want this taller?

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All right, guys, that was step five.

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Now I gotta go to school, bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “New HIGH SCHOOL Morning Routine”. This video has 202 sentences and 1798 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:15. The speaker talks fast, about 195 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
scare verb	/skɛɚ/	To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
smoothie noun	/ˈsmuːði/	A smooth-talking person.
vanilla noun	/vəˈnɪl.ə/	Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in…
sweat verb	/swɛt/	To emit sweat.
embarrass verb	/ɪmˈbæɹəs/	To disrupt someone's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely.
moisturizer noun		Something that causes moisture or a condition of wetness; something that makes things moist.
sunscreen noun		A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.
haunt verb	/hɔnt/	To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
costume noun	/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/	A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
baggy adjective	/ˈbæɡi/	Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
cleanser noun		Someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.
concealer noun		Something that, or someone who, conceals.
eyelash noun	/ˈaɪlæʃ/	One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.
gloss noun	/ɡlɔs/	A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the…
jorts noun		jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length)

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
start off verb		To begin.
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
pick out verb		To remove by picking.
pull out verb		To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
sit down verb		To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Come on, let's go, let's go.
I don't really want to go to school today.
Let's go finish the rest of my skincare.
You wanna go to any school dances or anything?
Is that, like are you judging me?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been · I've gone · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was actually haunted · being filmed
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	were driving · was waiting · was using
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	my best · the largest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 78 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: eyelash /ˈaɪlæʃ/, blush /ˈblʌʃ/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, inclusion /ɪnˈkluːʒən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like scare, smoothie, vanilla.

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.

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