Shadowing Practice: Our New No-Nonsense Safety Video | Emirates - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello and welcome on board your Emirates flight today.

This is your no nonsense safety video.

We do not have dancers breaking into song, characters from movies or celebrities trying to be funny I’m afraid.

But at Emirates, safety always comes first.

So it's important that we take you through some safety features before take-off.

And then you all can get back to our award-winning entertainment system.

So, here we go.

Please make sure you have placed all your bags up here in the overhead locker.

Or if you have smaller bags, you can place them here in front of you.

In First Class, there are stowage areas inside your suite.

And if you have a laptop it needs to be turned off.

Then put it in the overhead locker.

For take-off, you need to put away your table, TV and foot rest, open your window blinds, and all seats need to be completely upright.

Also, we recommend you keep your shoes on for take-off and landing.

Please fasten your seatbelt whenever the sign is on.

You can tighten the seatbelt by pulling the strap and lift the top like this to unfasten it.

We recommend that you keep your seatbelt fastened whenever you're in your seat.

And if you're sleeping with a blanket fasten the seatbelt over the top, so we don't have to disturb you.

For departure, please keep your devices on flight mode or switch them off until we are in the air.

Should you drop your device please do not rush to find it.

We will be more than happy to help.

And this could avoid moving the seats which could damage your phone.

Everyone knows that it's now illegal to smoke on board.

But just for clarity, this also includes electronic smoking devices.

And in case you didn't know, all the lavatories have smoke detectors.

If there's a change in cabin pressure, oxygen masks will appear from above you.

Pull the mask towards you like this to start the flow of oxygen.

Put the mask over your mouth and nose, adjust the strap and breathe normally and always put your own mask on first before you help anyone else.

In the unlikely event of an emergency, when cabin crew tell you to brace, lean forward against the seat in front of you like this.

And like this if you’re holding an infant.

Or lean forward with your arms tucked under your legs, like this.

There are life jackets under or to the side of your seat.

Remove the life jacket and pull it over your head.

Bring the tape around your waist and fasten at the front.

Pull firmly to make sure it's secure.

Only inflate your life jacket at the door when you're leaving the aircraft.

To inflate it, pull the two red toggles sharply downwards.

You can also inflate or top up the life jacket by blowing into the mouthpiece.

There's a light and whistle on your life jacket to attract attention.

Cabin crew will give out life jackets or life cots for infants.

Take a moment to find the emergency exit nearest to your seat.

Look back as it may be behind you.

There are 16 emergency exits on this Airbus A380.

Ten on the main deck and six on the upper deck.

If we need to evacuate, leave all your bags behind and follow the lights on the floor to your nearest exit.

Take off high heeled shoes before you use the safety slides.

Thank you for your attention.

And if you need a reminder of any of the safety steps, you can check the safety card in your seat pocket or ask us at any time.

We're now going to make the final preparations for departure.

So sit back, relax and enjoy your Emirates flight.

Our colleagues will be with you once we are airborne to ensure you receive our Fly Better experience.

Thank you for flying Emirates.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Our New No-Nonsense Safety Video”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: seat, jacket, safety, seatbelt, Emirates. This video has 52 sentences and 661 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:47. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
jacket noun	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
fasten verb	/ˈfæsn̩/	To attach or connect in a secure manner.
mask noun	/mæsk/	A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
inflate verb	/ɪnˈfleɪt/	To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
cabin noun	/ˈkæbɪn/	A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those…
strap noun	/stɹæp/	A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
overhead noun	/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/	The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
locker noun	/ˈlɑ.kɚ/	A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work…
lean verb	/ˈliːn/	To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
departure noun	/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/	The act of departing or something that has departed.
shoe noun	/ˈʃu/	A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
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…
downwards adverb	/ˈdaʊnwɚdz/	Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
lavatory noun	/ˈlæv.ə.t(ɔ)ɹ.i/	A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly
mouthpiece noun	/ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/	The part of a telephone that is held close to the mouth.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
take off verb	To remove.
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
give out verb	To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
look back verb	To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight).
put away verb	To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
sit back verb	To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
turn off verb	To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, didn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: mouthpiece /ˈmaʊθˌpiːs/, breathe /bɹiːð/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, sharply /ˈʃɑɹpli/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: lavatory /ˈlæv.ə.t(ɔ)ɹ.i/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

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 jacket, fasten, mask.

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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