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There are many organs in the human body.
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Each organ carries out key functions required for our bodies to work properly.
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Brain The brain is protected by the skull.
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The brain has many different parts.
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Each part is responsible for performing different functions.
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The brain sends messages to the rest of the body using the spinal cord to control these different functions.
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For example, breathing, Thinking hearing,
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sight, etc. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body.
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It takes in deoxygenated blood and pumps out oxygenated blood.
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Lungs.
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Lungs take up a lot of space in the chest.
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They allow you to inhale and exhale.
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Inhaling consists of you breathing in fresh air filled with oxygen Exhaling consists of you breathing out carbon dioxide.
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liver The liver carries out many important functions.
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including cleaning the blood, storing energy in the form of a sugar called glycogen,
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and producing an important digestive liquid called bile.
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kidneys The kidneys carry out the important job of filtering waste out of the blood.
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This waste is combined with water to be released as urine via the bladder.
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The body needs at least one kidney to survive.
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Stomach The stomach stores food you have eaten.
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It mixes and breaks down this food into small pieces So, it can be transferred to the small intestine as a liquidy mixture.
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Intestines.
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The intestines are long, coiled tubes.
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There is a small intestine and a large intestine.
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Food leaving the stomach enters the small intestine, where it breaks down the food mixture even more.
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Nutrients are also absorbed back into the body.
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Any materials that can't be digested travel to the large intestine.
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The large intestine absorbs water and salts from the mixture and removes the solid waste products.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 29 sentences and 296 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:36. The speaker talks at a steady 114 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 74% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
stomach noun/ˈstʌmək/An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
breathe verb/bɹiːð/To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
mixture noun/ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/The act of mixing.
kidney noun/ˈkɪdni/An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
pump noun/pʌmp/A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
organ noun/ˈɔːɡən/The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
lung noun/ˈlʌŋ/A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
consist noun/kənˈsɪst/A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
absorb verb/æbˈsɔɹb/To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in…
muscle noun/ˈmʌs.əl/A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
liquid noun/ˈlɪk.wɪd/A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those…
tube noun/tuːb/Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
filter noun/ˈfɪltɚ/A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from…
oxygen noun/ˈɑksɪd͡ʒən/The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas. Sometimes called elemental…
combine verb/kəmˈbaɪn/To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
carry out verb/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/To hold while moving it out.
break down verbTo stop functioning.
take up verbTo pick up.

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: deoxygenate /diˈɒksɪdʒɪneɪt/, oxygenate /ˈɒksɪdʒəneɪt/

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 stomach, breathe, mixture.

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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