Shadowing Practice: Practice English at Home 🏠 (with natural conversation + SUBTITLES) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Greenland.

Greenland is close to us.

Greenland is close to us?

Um, kind of.

Today we're going to learn all about apartment English or house English,

home English, English vocabulary words that you would use around your house, around your apartment.

You can follow along with today's video and repeat after me to practice speaking, to practice the vocabulary that we talk about.

I've also created a guide for you, a PDF guide for you that you can download

and use to help you remember all of the things that I talk about in this video.

You can get that from the link down below

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So this is actually the perfect time for me to make this video because one,

we just had friends stay with us for one week and so my apartment is very messy

so I'm going to be cleaning it along with you.

You can join me while I clean my apartment today, and we can learn some important vocabulary words related to cleaning.

And also, this is a good time to make this video because we're about to move.

We're going to be moving very soon to a new place, a new home.

So I thought to myself, why not show you the process?

Some cleaning, packing, all that good stuff that's a little bit messy.

I'm not going to show you a perfect home because I have a young child at home.

My house is almost never clean.

So you will see, excuse me, you will see the reality of what a normal apartment home

looks like living with a small child compared to a lot of other North Americans who have a family, who have children.

Our home is very small.

We live in a small one-bedroom apartment in the city downtown.

Let me know what your living arrangement is, especially if you have kids.

Do you live in a big house?

Do you live in a big apartment, a small apartment?

Let me know in the comments down below.

All right, let's get started.

someone's here i'll unlock the door

and open up the door these are

the hooks where we hang our keys here's our front closet and inside our front closet it.

We have jackets, sweaters, beach toys,

hangers for hanging up our jackets and sweaters.

My son's rain jackets because it rains a lot in the city.

Down at the bottom, it's extremely messy right now,

but we have a shoe rack where we keep all of our shoes.

Over here we have some equipment, so my son's bike seat which attaches to my husband's bike and a few other odds and ends here.

Hmm, and what's up here on the shelf?

We have some bike helmets and some of my son's toys.

This is a terrarium that he likes to put insects in from the park.

Slow beetles like apples.

They do?

Slow ones but those ones are fast so they don't like apples.

Oh what do fast beetles like?

They like seeds, sticks, and Oh, just those.

Just those?

Okay.

So what is this roly-poly doing?

He's laying down, but now he's crawling up.

Oh, was he playing dead?

Pretending to be dead?

No. Yeah, he was pretending, but now he crawls.

Yeah, I think they do that when they're scared, but he seems okay.

We have some boxes here.

Storage boxes, which contain scarves and hats and other winter items

and then some other outdoor equipment and toys up at the top there.

So let's close the closet doors.

Oops, something is sticking out.

Ah, a rain jacket.

That's better.

And let's continue.

This is a giant world map that we hung on the wall for my son

because he's really interested in learning some of the countries of the world.

What's this one called?

I don't know.

Greenland.

Greenland is close to us.

Um, kinda.

Where were you born?

At lots of places.

A lot of places?

Yeah.

You were born here in Vancouver.

And at Turkey, too.

You've been to Turkey.

Yeah, you've been to Turkey.

We traveled to Turkey when you were a baby.

I just hopped out.

It looks like he made the dinosaur go to India.

And got a little shark in the water here.

Like every parent, I have my son's artwork on the wall.

More art that you've probably seen in some of my other YouTube videos.

And down this tiny hallway here, we've got, I don't know what you would call this thing.

A local artist made this out of wood this triangular mini shelf

and really it's just where we keep our sunglasses

and some of our random cards that we share my my husband

and I such as our laundry card for doing laundry in

our apartment building tour guide extraordinaire oops I almost tripped over something on the floor here as I'm cleaning.

We have an inflatable mattress because we went on a little trip this past weekend and we needed an extra bed.

So that's an inflatable mattress and then underneath it is a cooler

which we used to keep our food cool on our road trip.

In here we've got our bathroom.

Hello.

Shower curtain.

bathtub hello bathtub a drawing a painting maybe I'm not sure a painting

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or a drawing of one of our favorite places beautiful mountain

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around here on the floor we have a step stool for my son

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so that he can reach the sink to brush his teeth

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and wash his hands and we also have his bath toys down there

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So he plays with all of those things when he takes baths.

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I'm actually not sure

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if I need to show you a lot of the details of the bathroom

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because I have another YouTube video on this channel all about bathroom vocabulary.

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Bathroom vocabulary.

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I can't speak.

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So if you want to see, to learn bathroom vocabulary in detail, go check out that video as well.

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Here we've got some lotions and powders, towels hanging up, a hand towel here to dry your hands,

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our toothbrushes in a cup, and here is some hand soap to wash our hands.

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I'm turning on the faucet, I'm turning on the cold water and turning it off, and now I'm turning on the hot water and turning it off.

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Here's our toothpaste and my son's toothpaste for kids.

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This is some air freshener, Febreze air freshener for stinky bathroom situations.

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And this is a medicine cabinet.

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You may have seen me do this in one of my other videos.

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We have this little portable washing machine that we hook up to our shower

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and this just allows us to do laundry in our apartment instead of going downstairs in our apartment building.

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Here's our dirty laundry hamper.

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I'm gonna take the dirty laundry and yeah there's a lot of it.

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I'm gonna put that into the laundry machine and take some laundry detergent or laundry soap.

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Cheers!

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And I'll pour that into the laundry machine and get our laundry started.

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Like I said, we just had some guests visiting us and

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so a project that I have to do today is strip the beds, strip the sheets from the beds,

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the pillowcases, and wash all of that stuff.

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You can see here our big pile of sheets and pillowcases that I need to wash.

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This is our hallway closet, so I'll open this up.

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And in here we have our recycling bins on the bottom.

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We also have a lot of our cleaning supplies in this closet, so you'll see our vacuum cleaner hanging on the wall here,

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charging our broom for sweeping, and all sorts of odds and ends at the top of the closet here.

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I'll close this closet.

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Then turning to the left, we have our kitchen.

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It's a small kitchen, so it gets messy pretty quickly.

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Here are our dirty dishes that I need to wash.

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And to the right here, our drying rack.

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Let's see what my son's up to.

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So we've kind of made a mess over here, but that's okay, because look what we made.

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This cool cardboard airplane.

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Wow.

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Dory, do you want to show what it does?

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Yeah.

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What does it do?

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What did we make?

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It lands, it flies, and they make a lot of different kinds.

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Yeah.

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What are all these things that we made here?

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A steering wheel?

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Yeah.

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What are these?

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What did we make?

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Make an airplane!

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An airplane!

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Yeah.

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And it has a map.

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And it has a compass.

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Buttons.

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Yeah, buttons.

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A radar.

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So if we see another airplane, we can get out of the way.

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Okay.

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And then what are these things?

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These are wings.

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Those are the wings?

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Cool.

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This is wings too.

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Okay.

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Awesome.

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I put airplanes on the airplane.

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You put airplanes on your airplanes?

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Yeah, look.

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These are airplanes.

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Oh yeah, cool.

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Airplane stamps.

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Nice.

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And how did we make this?

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Did we use tape?

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Yep.

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Big tape. And cardboard?

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Yeah, cardboard cardboard box and tape.

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I love what you've done with this.

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It looks beautiful.

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I think maybe I'm too big.

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I don't think I'll fit in this airplane.

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What do you think?

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I can't.

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I know.

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I won't try.

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I won't try to get in.

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You're right.

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I'd probably break your airplane.

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It's just for kids, right?

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A gigantic monster will break our house.

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Are we going to move soon?

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Yeah.

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Where are we going to move?

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Into a bigger house?

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Bigger apartment?

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Look.

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Oh, you got some stamp on your finger.

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What happened to this finger?

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You have a boo-boo?

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Why do you have a boo-boo?

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I cut.

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You cut it?

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I cut.

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Some people cut his eyes.

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Yeah, sometimes people cut their eyes.

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Ouch.

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Like this.

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Mm-hmm.

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Ow.

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Mm-hmm.

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Cut it with scissors in his eyes.

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With scissors in their eyes?

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Yeah, that's why we can never, never run when we're holding scissors, right?

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Never run with scissors.

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and cut our legs.

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Yeah.

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Never.

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Never run with scissors.

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We just walk.

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Yeah.

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Walk with scissors.

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Walk.

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Yeah.

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But I think we can't jump with scissors either.

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Yeah, no jumping while we're holding scissors.

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Yeah, good.

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And no turning.

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Yeah, no turning.

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No spinning with scissors.

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And no jumping, no going on the stairs.

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Yeah, just walking and standing when we're holding scissors, right?

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Okay, so I'm going to vacuum our house now and then probably mop the floors after this.

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After having three little kids in our house, so my son plus my friend's two kids, the floor is like pretty sticky,

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so I'm probably going to clean the floors after this.

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I stumbled upon a little pile of rocks.

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This is something that always happens in my house.

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My son seems to collect rocks everywhere he goes.

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And now I'm going to finish cleaning the kitchen, putting away some recycling, and mostly just putting the dishes away.

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And now the laundry is done, so I'm hanging it up to dry on the drying racks.

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Hopefully it won't take too long to dry.

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and now I'm running around trying to tidy up the living room

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because there are toys everywhere as usual

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and then I actually needed to take a little break from cleaning

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because my son's auntie came over to visit us

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so she's here playing with my son

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and we're just going to take a little bit of a break from cleaning for today.

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There are a lot of things that I have not had a chance to tell you about yet today, such as our packing and our moving,

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and also getting ready for my son's birthday party.

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So I'm going to share all of that with you in my next video.

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If you'd like to watch more real life natural English, watch this video next, and I will see you very, very soon.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Practice English at Home 🏠”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: airplane, apartment, laundry, scissors, cleaning. This video has 254 sentences and 2029 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:15. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 40 of its 254 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
airplane noun	/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/	A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
laundry noun	/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/	A laundering; a washing.
scissors noun	/ˈsɪzəz/	A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when…
closet noun	/ˈklɑzɪt/	A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
toy noun	/tɔɪ/	Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
cardboard noun	/ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/	A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
messy adjective	/ˈmɛsi/	In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
jacket noun	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
rack noun	/ɹæk/	A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
bathtub noun	/ˈbæθtʌb/	A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).
freshener noun	/ˈfɹɛ.ʃə.nər/	Something that freshens
inflatable adjective	/ɪnˈfleɪtəbəl/	Able to be inflated or blown up.
pillowcase noun	/ˈpɪloʊˌkeɪs/	A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.
recycle verb	/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/	To break down and reuse component materials.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
hang up verb	To put up to hang.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
get out of verb	To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
lay down verb	To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
open up verb	To open.
put away verb	To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
run around verb	To be very busy doing many different things.
stick out verb	To protrude.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Greenland is close to us?
Do you live in a big house?
Dory, do you want to show what it does?
What are all these things that we made here?
You put airplanes on your airplanes?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've also created · You've been · you've probably seen
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be added · were born
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form	practice speaking · finish cleaning
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming	we're going to learn · I'm going to be · We're going to be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 57 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: bathtub /ˈbæθtʌb/, toothpaste /ˈtuθpeɪst/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: freshener /ˈfɹɛ.ʃə.nər/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, dish /dɪʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, lotion /ˈloʊʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, inflatable /ɪnˈfleɪtəbəl/, extraordinaire /ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/, terrarium /təˈɹɛɹ.i.əm/, triangular /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/

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 airplane, laundry, scissors.

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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Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

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