Shadowing Practice: Peep's Color Quest | Peep and the Big Wide World - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Peeps Color Quest!
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Fish Junior's Fish Museum used to be crowded with visitors.
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But now, the place is empty.
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The fish have seen it all.
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Oh, I need to find something new for my museum.
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Good morning.
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Hmm?
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How's everything down in Fishland?
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Quack, look out!
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Hmm?
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Quack!
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Huh?
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Quack?
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Are you okay?
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Where are you?
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I mean, where am I?
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Quack!
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You found something new for my museum!
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Huh?
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Everything looks strange!
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Oh yeah!
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Much better!
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Where did all the colors go?
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Huh?
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Hey Quack, you look like an old potato.
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Ha!
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These must be broken.
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Ducks are nothing like potatoes.
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I'll take them up and check them out, okay?
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Oh my!
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Would you look it!
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Peep!
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You won't believe it, Peep!
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The sky is pink, the grass is orange, and you...
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look really weird.
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What are you talking about?
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Peep looks just fine.
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Ah!
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What are you?
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Some kind of talking orange?
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Very funny.
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Peep, the fruit just talked again.
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Peep, where are you?
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He's right behind you.
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You're squishing him.
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Where did you get these?
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Those are duck glasses, okay?
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They're on loan from the museum.
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Whoa!
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It's amazing!
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Everything looks orangey.
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Can I have a turn?
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Sure, Peep.
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In a minute.
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Wow!
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The water is purple.
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And you look like an old potato.
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I am not a potato.
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I'm a duck.
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And these glasses are due back at the museum.
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Wait!
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What about me?
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I'm sorry, Peep.
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I meant to give you a turn.
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Oh well.
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Peep figured he'd get a turn with the glasses tomorrow.
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The idea of looking at an orangey world was so exciting, it took him forever to fall asleep.
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Anyway, when Peep got back to the pond, it was clear he was going to have to wait some more, because the fish were going wild.
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Ahhhhh...
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Ooh...
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Ooh...
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Ha-ha-ha!
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Ooh...
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Ooh...
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Hmm...
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You should see it, Peep.
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It warms the cockles of my...
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Whatever.
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The museum is mobbed.
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I wish I could see it.
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Swimming lessons, Peep.
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If you learn to swim, you could visit the glasses anytime.
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It's not fair, Quack.
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Peep has been waiting since yesterday for a turn.
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Hmm, you're right.
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Hey, I'll put in a word with the boss.
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I may be able to work something out for my little pal, Peep.
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This way, over here.
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Watch out for bird feet.
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Hup, two, three, four, hup, two, three, four.
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Where are you all going? To the picnic.
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Hup, two, three, four, hup, two, three, four.
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What's that?
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A picnic?
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It's an ant buffet.
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All you could eat.
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And takeout, too.
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This way, folks!
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Up, two, three, four, up!
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Do you want to go to the picnic?
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We might be waiting a long time for those glasses.
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Ah, okay.
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This is no way to hold a picnic!
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Everything's covered up!
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Not a crumb in sight!
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All right, light up!
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This way, to the dump!
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Hup, two, three, four!
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Hup, two, three, four!
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Hup, two, three, four!
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Hup, two, three, four!
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Two, three, four!
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I guess picnics aren't that interesting after all.
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Look, Chirp!
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Chirp!
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You're turning green!
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Interesting!
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There you are!
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Okay, it's all arranged.
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Sunset.
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At the pond.
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Top secret, don't tell the bird.
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What bird?
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Chirp!
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I mean, chirp!
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We can't let every bird know about the glasses, or there'll be a riot.
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I don't even care, Quack.
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Because look, this is just as good.
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Wow, everything is greenish.
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Even you, Quack!
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Not me!
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You!
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You look green!
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Boo!
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Ah!
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Oh no!
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Sorry, Quack!
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Oh my!
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Oh my!
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Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my.
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Ah, quack, quack, mmm, mmm.
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Hey, hey, hey!
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This is duck food, okay?
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You'll make yourself sick.
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Would you mind standing over there?
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I'm going to be very busy for the next few minutes, and I don't want you getting in the, you know...
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Potato chips!
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Over here!
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Go away!
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This is duck food!
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Duck food!
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Can't you hear?
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For ducks ducks, it's duck.. food.
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Oh well.
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It had been a day, or two, of interesting discoveries.
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Orangey sunglasses, greenish shadows, potato chips.
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Best of all, Quack remembered his promise to peep.
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Wow.
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OK.
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I wish I could go down there.
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Then I could look through those glasses every day.
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You know, Beep, if a duck can open a museum, then you can learn how to swim.
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Hmm.
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That's Sarah, me, and Isabella.
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We are making things with colored beads.
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It's so pretty.
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Thank you.
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Are you thirsty?
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Orange juice.
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Apple juice.
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Cranberry juice.
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Now we're having a drink.
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You know what's strange about my juice?
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When I look that way, it looks dark.
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When I look that way, it looks really light.
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Oh my gosh, that's weird.
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The cranberry juice is making a colored shadow.
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I'm assuming that the cranberry colored the light red and made it a little red light shadow thing.
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This has the same thing as that.
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It has a color shadow here, and now the orange juice doesn't have any color.
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It just has a shadow.
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I think the orange juice is really thick.
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Can't see through it, and I bet the light can't go through it either.
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We decided to make our own colored water with food coloring.
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The light is shining through these things, and it's getting on my finger, so it's turning it yellow.
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I'm going to put this and this together, and there's a green light shining right through since this is going into that,
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and then there's green light shining through there.
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Let's try to switch these around.
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When we switched them, it looked greener.
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Oopsies.
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Oh, no. See what happens when light goes through clear-colored things.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Peep's Color Quest”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: peep, quack, duck, hup, glasses. This video has 195 sentences and 954 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:16. The speaker talks slowly, about 93 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 30 of its 195 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| duck noun | /dʌk/ | Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and… |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| picnic noun | /ˈpɪknɪk/ | An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| shine verb | /ʃaɪn/ | To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| pond noun | /pɑnd/ | An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| discovery noun | /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/ | Something discovered. |
| grass noun | /ɡɹɑːs/ | Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as… |
| asleep adjective | /əˈsliːp/ | In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| cover up verb | To conceal or disguise. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| light up verb | To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten. |
| look out verb | To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. |
| look through verb | To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I mean, where am I?
- What are you talking about?
- Where did you get these?
- Can I have a turn?
- You know what's strange about my juice?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | must be broken · is mobbed |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | may be · might be |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are you talking · You're squishing · You're turning |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | I'll take · won't believe · I'll put |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 25 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shine /ʃaɪn/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, greenish /ˈɡɹiːnɪʃ/
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 duck, juice, potato.
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.