Shadowing Practice: Pinkalicious & Peterrific FULL EPISODE | Pink Lemonade | PBS KIDS - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Pink is the fun of twirling around And scooting and honking the happiest sound Or climbing on blocks to the moon up above Pink is a feeling of joy and love Pink is imagining what we can be A dancer A robot A pirate at sea Pink is a giggle that wiggles your toes Pink is a sparkle that glows and glows It's a pinkatastic feeling In a pinkamazing way It's a pinkatastic feeling On a pinkaperfect day Anything can happen as we play the day away It's a Pinkalicious feeling Peterrific you might say Pinkalicious and Peterrific Pinkalicious pink, pink hooray! Pink, pink hooray!
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PINKALICIOUS: "Pink lemonade." PINKALICIOUS: "Pink lemonade." PINKALICIOUS : Peter and I love looking at all the pinkamazing things in the Pinkville Toy Store window.
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Oooh, Daddy!
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Look at that paint set.
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It's got so many colors.
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I could paint anything in the world.
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I'm going to save up to get it.
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That's a great idea, Pinkalicious.
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Daddy, look!
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It's a remote control blimp!
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That would be so much fun to play with!
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I really, really want it!
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Why don't you see if you've saved enough money in your piggy bank?
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I'm sure I have enough.
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But Peter, you know you always spend your allowance right away.
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I might have enough...
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I don't have enough.
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That's not even a coin, it's a piece of candy.
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I was saving it.
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Hey Peter, maybe we can find some way to make enough money so you can buy your blimp and I can buy my paints.
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Yes! Hey kiddos!
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Snack and lemonade delivery.
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Lemonade!
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Yes! Wow, somebody's thirsty.
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Actually, you just gave me a pinkatastic idea, Daddy.
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We can have a lemonade stand to make money for the toys we saw at the store.
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Yeah! But first, let's eat that snack.
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I'm hungry. Thanks, Daddy.
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Now we just wait for the customers to roll in.
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Or roll by.
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Lemonade! Lemonade here!
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Lemonade! We'll never make enough money to get those toys if people don't come buy our lemonade.
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We just need to think of a way to get people to notice our lemonade stand.
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What would get your attention, Peter?
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Something big.
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Like a dinosaur!
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But...
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about lemonade, though.
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A dinosaur drinking lemonade!
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I like that idea.
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But I don't know where we'd get a dinosaur.
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How about we make some big, colorful signs?
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That works, too.
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PINKALICIOUS: These posters will really get people's attention!
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They're so colorific!
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Nice dinosaur.
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Nice lemon-person.
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That's it, Peter!
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A lemon-person is just what we need to get people to notice us.
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Everyone will want to come meet him and taste our lemonade.
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But where are we going to get a lemon-person?
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Being a lemon-person is itchy.
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It was your idea, you know.
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It was? It's a pinkaperfect lemonade stand.
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We've got lemonade, catchy signs, and you-- our lemon-person.
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What are you supposed to be?
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I'm a lemon-person.
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Want to buy some lemonade?
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Mmm-hmm. I guess I'll try a glass.
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Yes! First sale!
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Yuck! Too lemon-ish.
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It's lemonade.
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Well, it's too sour.
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I only like sweet drinks.
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But good luck.
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So much for being able to buy my blimp.
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I thought our lemonade was just the right amount of sour.
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Different people like different tastes.
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So if we want lots of different people to come to our lemonade stand, we should make lots of different flavors!
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And you promise to clean up when you're done, right?
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We promise.
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We already have pink lemonade, but let's add strawberries to make it extra pinkerrific Pinkade.
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Pinkamagine all the flavors we can make...
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And every flavor's a different color!
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Now let's get creative.
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Let's make Purpleade with grape juice, oh, and Greenade with lime and kale.
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Blueberry juice and blueberries for Blueade, and cranberry and cherry juice for Redade.
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PINKALICIOUS: Oranges for Orangeade...
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and all together, they make-- A big mess?
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Rainbowade!
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Yeah, and a big mess.
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We better clean up before we go out.
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Now people will know it's a Rainbowade stand.
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It's beautiful!
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And catchy.
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Somebody's coming!
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Look at all these gorgeous colors.
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It's our invention, Mrs. Plum-- Rainbowade.
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Every color is a different flavor.
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How creative.
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I'll try the one with...
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are those floating things blueberries?
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Yup! One Blueade coming right up.
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Ah, yum! A treat for the eyes and the taste buds.
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Blimp and paint set, here we come!
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Maybe there'll be a lunch rush.
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Any minute now.
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This is going great!
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We haven't sold any more Rainbowade, Peter, you just keep drinking it.
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I know.
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But it's really good.
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But not good enough to get the blimp.
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Not unless a lot more people walk by.
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Then we need to get people's attention all over the neighborhood.
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If they know how delicious Rainbowade is, maybe they'll come to us.
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We could go around with free samples, but that would get messy.
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We could make signs to put up, but that would take all afternoon.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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If you're thinking you want ice cream, then yes.
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No.
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I'm thinking we should get people's attention like the ice cream truck.
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With music.
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Okay, but also, let's do my idea.
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We need a catchy jingle.
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I don't have any jingle bells.
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But I have my kazoo.
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No, Peter.
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A jingle is a catchy little song.
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Oh! Yeah. So let's make up a jingle to tell everyone about our stand.
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Okay. But how do we start?
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Well, what's special about Rainbowade?
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When you sip it, you're like, "Yum, rainbowy!" Yeah!
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How about, "Sip the rainbow?" And we should tell people where to come if they want to try it.
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Our house, right?
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Right! Now we just need to sing it for everyone in the neighborhood.
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PINKALICIOUS AND PETER: Sip the rainbow right away! Come to the Pinkertons' house today! I've never sipped a rainbow before.
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Sounds yummy!
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Sip the rainbow right away Come to the Pinkertons' house today! Sounds delicious, huh, Rusty?
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And I am pretty thirsty.
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Sip the rainbow right away Come to the Pinkertons' house today! Sip the rainbow right away Come to the Pinkertons' house today! That's catchy!
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I wonder how you drink a rainbow?
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Come to the Pinkertons' house today! Don't mind if I do.
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ALL: Sip the rainbow right away Come to the Pinkertons' house today! We did it!
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Our jingle really worked.
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Look at all these customers, Peter.
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We might even be able to get my blimp and your paint set after all.
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Welcome to the Rainbowade stand!
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How can we help you?
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I'd like to sip the rainbow, please.
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Which color of the rainbow would you like to taste?
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Please pass the Greenade, Peter.
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I can't. I'm serious, we're out.
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Did you say you're out?
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We're running out of all the colors of the rainbow.
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Let's go to the kitchen and make more.
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But we can't leave with this long line of customers.
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I can help you make more.
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Me too. DADDY: Wow!
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When you kids said you were having a lemonade stand, you meant it.
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Can I do anything to help?
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Yes, please.
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If you can all make more Rainbowade, that would be pinkatastic.
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Uh, wait, what are the recipes?
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For orangeade, put in all the fruits and juices that are orange.
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For Greenade, use everything green, for Purpleade, everything purple, for...
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I think I can figure out the rest.
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Just in time.
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Thank you so much!
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Thanks, Jasmine. Thank you, Jasmine.
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Thanks, Rafael. Thanks, Rafael.
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Bye! Bye! Mmm!
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This Rainbowade is really good.
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Thanks for coming! Enjoy!
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That was really fun.
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Until it got really crazy.
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But then everybody helped, and it got fun again.
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And you know what else?
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We made more than enough money for your remote control blimp!
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And your paints?
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Yes! Hey, I was thinking, since today was so fun, maybe we can use my blimp and your paints to do it again tomorrow.
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Sure! But what do paints and a blimp have to do with a lemonade stand?
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You'll see.
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PINKALICIOUS: Now the whole world will know about Rainbowade!
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Hmmm... maybe we better make more.
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KIDS: That's artelicious!
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GIRL 1 : We were at the playground yesterday, and we noticed there was so much garbage and litter around.
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And we didn't like it.
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GIRL 2: We got the idea of making posters from Pinkalicious and Peter, I got the arts and crafts supplies from my house.
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So this will get people's attention to help us clean up the park.
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We need help. Oh, that's perfect.
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We need help, we can't do it by ourself.
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So I'm going to get real garbage and stick it on there.
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These are the pictures that show people that we can't throw garbage on the floor, because it hurts nature.
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The park should be a nice place to visit, not a dirty place to visit.
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We should come up with a song.
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If you'll have a trash in your hand Throw it in the trash can. BOY: What rhymes with "litter"?
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Uh, glitter.
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ALL: You will glitter if you don't litter.
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ALL : If you have garbage in your hand, throw it in the trash can.
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You will glitter if you don't litter.
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Glitter, glitter, don't litter.
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GIRL 3: What are guys doing?
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GIRL 1: We're trying to get...
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We sang a song, and we gave everybody gloves, bags, and tongs.
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And we got people to clean up.
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ALL: It worked!
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Yeah, high five, everybody!
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GIRL 1 : It makes me feel good, because then I know that the environment will stay healthy.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Pinkalicious & Peterrific FULL EPISODE”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lemonade, Pinkalicious, pink, rainbow, Peter. This video has 198 sentences and 1589 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:28. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 78% 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

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
lemon noun/ˈlɛmən/A yellowish citrus fruit.
litter noun/ˈlɪt.ɚ/Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
glitter verb/ˈɡlɪtəɹ/To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
juice noun/d͡ʒuːs/A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
garbage noun/ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/Food waste material of any kind.
dinosaur noun/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
trash noun/tɹæʃ/Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
flavor noun/ˈfleɪvə/The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
remote adjective/ɹəˈməʊt̞/At a distance; disconnected.
delicious adjective/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
toy noun/tɔɪ/Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
poster noun/ˈpoʊstɚ/A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
glow verb/ɡloʊ/To emit heat and light without a flame.
snack noun/snæk/A light meal.
sour adjective/ˈsaʊ.ə/Tasting of acidity.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
clean up verbTo make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
come up with verbTo manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
figure out verbTo come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go out verbTo leave, especially a building.
make up verb/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/To constitute, to compose.
put up verbTo place in a high location.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • How about we make some big, colorful signs?
  • What are you supposed to be?
  • Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
  • I wonder how you drink a rainbow?
  • Did you say you're out?

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowyou've saved · haven't sold · I've never sipped
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good ideashould make · should get · should tell
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the pastwas saving · were having · was thinking
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certainmight say · might have · might even be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 43 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/

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 lemon, litter, glitter.

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