Shadowing Practice: Places Vocabulary in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Welcome to Kids Pages.
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Improve your vocabulary and learn new English words.
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Places.
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School.
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Children come to school to learn.
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Bank.
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A bank looks after people's money and lends money to people.
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Court A place where trials and other legal cases happen
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Fire station Where fire engines are kept and where firefighters work
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Police station Is the local office of the police
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Hospital A place where people who are ill are taken care of by doctors and nurses Dentists,
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where a dentist treats people's teeth.
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Pharmacy, a shop in which medicines are prepared and sold.
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Church, a place for religious activities.
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Bazaar, a group of small shops and people selling things.
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Cinema, a place where people come to watch films.
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Gym, where you can go to exercise and keep fit.
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bakery a place where you can buy bread
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and cakes grocery a store where you can buy food
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and small items for the house florist shop a place where you can buy flowers
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and plants supermarket a place where you can buy food
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and other goods that you need shopping mall a place where you can find lots of stores
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and restaurants fast -food restaurant where food is served very quickly restaurant
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a place where meals are prepared
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and served to customers parking lot a place where you can leave your car for a period of time.
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Office.
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The building where people work.
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Stadium.
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A place where sports are played.
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Bus station.
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A place where buses stop to let passengers get on and off.
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Train station, where trains stop to let passengers on and off.
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Subway station, the place where subways stop to let passengers on and off.
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Gas station, a place where fuel is sold for road vehicles.
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Hotel A building where you pay to stay in a room
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Airport A place where planes arrive and leave
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Factory A building where large amounts of goods are made using machines
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Museum A building where objects of historical, scientific, or artistic interest are kept.
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Theater A place where people can watch a performance.
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Park A place with grass and trees where people can walk and children can play.
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Playground A place where children can play in.
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Amusement park, a place with entertaining activities.
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Zoo, a place in which wild animals are kept, so that people can go and look at them.
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Farm, where farmers grow crops or keep animals.
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swimming pool a pool filled with water for people to swim in
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library a place where you can find a collection of books that you can read or borrow.
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Hairdressers, a place where you can get a haircut.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Places Vocabulary in English”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: station, passengers, restaurant, shop, kept. This video has 48 sentences and 440 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:44. The speaker talks slowly, about 77 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| passenger noun | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| subway noun | /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/ | An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| nurse noun | /nɝs/ | Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession. |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
| 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… |
| theater noun | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on. |
| mall noun | /mɔːl/ | A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. |
| artistic adjective | /ɑɹˈtɪs.tɪk/ | Having or revealing creative skill. |
| cinema noun | /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ | A movie theatre, a movie house. |
| crop noun | /kɹɑp/ | A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. |
| farmer noun | /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ | A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm. |
| grocery noun | /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, firefighter /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/
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 passenger, swim, subway.
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.