Shadowing Practice: Practice English Conversation | Grocery Shopping - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Learn English with Emma.
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Conversation.
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Lily, would you like to come with me to the grocery store?
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We need to get some food.
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Thank you.
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Yes, I want to go.
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Great!
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We need milk, eggs, bread, some fruits and vegetables and chicken for dinner.
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Wow!
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This store is big!
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Okay, let's get the milk and eggs first.
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They are over here.
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There they are!
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Can I get the milk?
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Sure.
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Great job.
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Now, let's find the eggs.
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Be careful with the eggs.
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They're fragile.
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I will.
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Now, we need some fruits and vegetables.
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How about some apples?
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Yes, I like red apples.
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Good choice.
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We also need some carrots.
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Can you find them?
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Are those them?
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Yes, those are carrots.
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Bye.
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Hello, we'd like some chicken, please.
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Hello, how much chicken would you like? About two pounds, please.
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Okay, here you go.
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Here's your chicken.
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Thank you.
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Hi again.
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Did you find everything you needed?
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Yes, thank you.
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That will be $25 .5, please.
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Thank you.
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Have a nice day.
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You too.
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Quiz!
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What does Lily's mom want to buy in the grocery store?
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Toys and clothes.
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Food and drinks.
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Food and drinks is the correct answer.
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Where are the milk and eggs in the grocery store? In the bakery section. In the dairy section.
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They are in the dairy section.
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What does Lily say when she finds the carrots? Are those them?
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How much is this?
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Are those them is correct.
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What does a worker say when mom pays? Have a nice day.
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Thank you for helping me.
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Have a nice day is correct.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Practice English Conversation”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eggs, chicken, milk, store, carrots. This video has 55 sentences and 264 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:41. The speaker talks slowly, about 72 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 13 of its 55 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| grocery noun | /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. |
| carrot noun | /ˈkæɹət/ | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. |
| dairy noun | /ˈdɛə.ɹi/ | (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| worker noun | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. |
| pound noun | /ˈpaʊ̯nd/ | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. |
| toy noun | /tɔɪ/ | Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| fragile adjective | /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/ | Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material. |
| quiz noun | /kwɪz/ | A competition in the answering of questions. |
| bakery noun | /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ | A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Lily, would you like to come with me to the grocery store?
- Can I get the milk?
- Can you find them?
- Did you find everything you needed?
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 egg, grocery, carrot.
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.