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Unit 6.
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Review.
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Unit 6.
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A. Test yourself.
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Listen to words from the table.
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When you hear a word, write the number of its vowel sound.
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1. Bat.
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2. Lead.
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3. Beat.
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4. Lid 5.
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Dane 6.
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Seal 7.
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Lad 8.
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den 9 bit 10 lead
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11 den 12 sell
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Unit 6.
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B. Vocabulary.
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Step 2.
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Listen.
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Repeat the words and check your answers.
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1. E.
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Need.
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Seat.
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Feel.
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2. I Chicken.
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Think.
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Sit.
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3. E.
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Lemon.
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Ready.
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Lettuce.
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4. A.
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Great.
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Rain.
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Steak.
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5. A.
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Thanks.
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Salad.
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Back.
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Blanket.
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Unit 6.
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C. Dialogue.
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Dinner on the grass.
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Step 1.
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Cover the dialogue and listen.
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Do you need help with dinner?
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No, thanks.
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Everything's ready.
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Great.
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Are we having chicken?
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No, I made steak.
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Any vegetables?
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Yes, lettuce and tomato salad.
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Did you pick up some bread at the bakery?
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Yes.
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And lemon cheesecake.
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Lemon cheesecake.
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That sounds interesting.
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I tasted it.
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It's delicious.
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Let's eat in the backyard, okay?
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Good idea.
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It's really pretty this evening.
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Can you get plates and napkins?
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Okay.
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I'll be back in a minute.
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Should we sit on this seat?
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Let's sit on this blanket on the grass.
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Mmm.
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It smells delicious.
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I can't wait to eat.
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Uh -oh.
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Did you feel that?
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I think it's beginning to rain.
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It figures.
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Can you help me bring everything back in?
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Unit 6.
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D. Syllables and Stress.
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Listen.
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How many syllables does each word have?
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Write the number of syllables in the space.
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Then underline the stressed syllable.
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1. Everything.
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2. Evening.
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3. Salad.
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4. Minute.
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5. Beginning 6.
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Vegetables 7.
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Tomato 8.
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Cheesecake 9.
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Delicious
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Pronunciation Pairs CD Unit 6 reviews”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: unit, syllable, listen, word, cheesecake. This video has 91 sentences and 237 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:06. Only 73% 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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| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| lemon noun | /ˈlɛmən/ | A yellowish citrus fruit. |
| 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… |
| dialogue noun | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. |
| blanket noun | /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/ | A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting. |
| steak noun | /steɪk/ | Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. |
| 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… |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| lettuce noun | /ˈlɛt.ɪs/ | An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves. |
| seal noun | /siːl/ | A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. |
| backyard noun | /bækˈjɑːd/ | A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. |
| bakery noun | /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ | A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold. |
| syllable noun | /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ | A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants. |
| cheesecake noun | /ˈt͡ʃizˌkeɪk/ | A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
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| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you need help with dinner?
- Did you pick up some bread at the bakery?
- Can you get plates and napkins?
- Should we sit on this seat?
- Can you help me bring everything back in?
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 delicious, salad, lemon.
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.