Shadowing Practice: Plant Structures | Science | 1st Grade | Kids Academy - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The sun is rising on a new day here in the forest.
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Look around at all the amazing plants.
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Each one has parts that work together to keep it alive and healthy.
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Let's take a closer look.
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Here is a raspberry bush with its long woody stems, green leaves, and even spiky thorns to protect it.
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Each part of this plant performs a special job to help it survive.
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These roots hold on tight to the soil, which keeps the plant standing up.
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The roots have another very important job.
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They soak up the water that falls into the ground.
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The roots also soak up nutrients from the soil, which helps the plant grow strong.
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Moving up from the roots, here is the stem of this plant.
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It works hard to carry all of the water and nutrients from the roots up to the rest of the plant.
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This plant has thorns on it.
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These keep animals from eating the delicious fruit the plant makes.
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We will get to the fruit later.
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The leaves soak up sunlight.
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This is the coolest part, so listen carefully.
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Plants can actually make their own food.
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That's right.
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They take sunlight and turn it into food for the plant through a process called photosynthesis.
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Gosh, plants are so amazing.
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These are the flowers on the plant.
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They attract creatures like bees and butterflies who will help to pollinate the plant.
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The flowers will develop into beautiful red berries.
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These berries have tiny seeds in them which will eventually end up back in the soil and grow into new raspberry plants.
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So there you have it, the parts of a plant, each one with its own special job.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 29 sentences and 313 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:12. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| soil noun | /sɔɪl/ | A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. |
| soak verb | /soʊk/ | To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| stem noun | /stɛm/ | The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. |
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| berry noun | /ˈbɛɹi/ | A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. |
| sunlight noun | /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ | All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth. |
| nutrient noun | /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/ | A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue. |
| carefully adverb | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | With care; attentively, circumspectly. |
| seed noun | /siːd/ | Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| bee noun | /ˈbiː/ | A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for… |
| scan verb | /skæn/ | To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thorn /θoɹn/, photosynthesis /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, photosynthesis /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/
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 soil, soak, flower.
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.