Shadowing Practice: 🌍 Protecting the Environment | IELTS Speaking Part 2 | Model Answers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into IELTS speaking part two.
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Describe a person you know who is doing something to protect the environment.
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You should say who this person is, what this person is doing to protect the environment,
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how easy or difficult it is for him or her to do this,
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and explain how you feel about what this person is doing to protect the environment.
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Right, Rory, give us your story.
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Well, there are a lot of people like this that I know, but the one who stands out the most right now is probably David Attenborough,
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who is a famous documentarian and writer from the UK.
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When it comes to who exactly he is, aside from what I mentioned already, he's been a presenter of numerous programs on the BBC,
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and I think other channels actually, for decades now.
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Actually, I think he must be about 100 years old or something like that.
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I also suspect he's been honoured by a lot of people and organisations, including the Queen and the King.
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With regards to what he's been doing to protect the environment, well, he certainly uses his documentaries to draw attention to various endangered species,
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the habitats they live in.
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And that kind of awareness raising goes a long way towards encouraging people to look after the planet
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and the local flora and fauna more generally.
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I'm not 100 % sure, but I think he's also been speaking out at various climate change conferences
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and on panels to try and underscore the points being made in his documentaries.
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In terms of how difficult it is for him to do stuff like this, well, it's probably a mixed bag.
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I mean, on the one hand, people with platforms like that can very easily catch people's eyes and get attention for things.
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But on the other hand, he's a really old man.
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And regardless of how much money you have, age is very much a limiting factor.
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As for how I feel about what he's been getting up to to protect the environment,
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I suppose as someone who lives on the same planet and would like it to be in a reasonable condition.
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I'm happy someone is taking action to try and encourage others to make an effort.
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I just hope it's not stressing him and his family out too much.
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And what do your friends think of this person?
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We haven't really talked too much about him, to be honest.
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I suspect they probably respect him, though.
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He's a very well -respected figure in where I'm from anyway.
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So, dear listener, you should know a person who is doing something to protect the environment.
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So when we protect the environment, we collect rubbish.
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What do we do?
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Plant trees.
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We recycle.
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We recycle.
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Recycle, yeah.
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So this person could be your friend.
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It could be a famous person.
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Lots of famous people do something to protect the environment.
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Your family member, your neighbor, your colleague, or an imaginary person.
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So I know Bob.
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Bob recycles everything.
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Bob is my bestie.
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Yeah, so just imagine this person, but do it now to prepare for this thing.
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And we should say what exactly this person does.
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So the activities that this person does to protect the environment.
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Rory picked a famous person, David, I can't pronounce his surname.
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Yes, you can.
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David Attenborough.
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Attenborough.
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And he is 100 years old.
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Oh my God, I was right.
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He was born in 1926.
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Wow.
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So he's an English broadcaster, natural historian and a writer.
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And yeah, he has a lot of documentaries about nature.
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He worked for BBC, like programs about animals and plants.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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What a career.
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100 years old.
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I wonder if we'll be doing this when we're 100 years old.
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Yeah.
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And he's talking about our impact on the natural world.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, like he talks about our destruction of the environment.
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Super cheerful things.
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Yeah, like he takes part in different environmental projects.
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Right.
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Yeah, dear listener.
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So you can pick a famous person, but then research what this person does.
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Maybe like two, three activities.
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Just, again, like two minutes.
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You need to talk about it.
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Two minutes, so it should be very short, not the biography of this person.
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Right.
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You can say that there are a lot of people like this in my life, but the one who stands out is David...
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Or my friend...
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Who is a famous documentarian and writer, an English person who is 100 years old.
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A famous English person.
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Yeah.
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Because this person is alive, Rory uses Present Perfect.
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So he has been a presenter for numerous programs on the BBC.
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So he's been involved in different projects.
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But if you talk about a person who died, then he was.
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But if you talk about your friend, your neighbor, he's been ta -ta -ta.
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He has done ta -ta -ta.
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He has helped ta -ta -ta.
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He has donated money to charity to save trees yeah
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so he's been a presenter he has made many films he has worked for many organizations
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and what he's been doing to protect the environment here we can use present perfect continuous
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because he started helping the environment
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and he's going on he's helping yeah he's still helping
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so he has been doing this for a long time
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so he's been protecting the environment for a long time with documentaries to draw people's attention to environmental problems.
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And here we talk about endangered species, animals who are in danger.
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They're maybe going to go extinct.
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Yeah, endangered species and the habitats they live in.
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Habitats like where animals live in.
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He has been encouraging people to look after the planet.
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So, protect the environment, look after the planet, look after the local flora and fauna.
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So, flora, like plants and trees and fauna, animals, species.
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If you're not sure or if you don't remember, you can say, I'm not 100 % sure,
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but he has also been speaking about climate change during conferences.
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Yes, that's true, according to Wikipedia.
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But if we're not sure, we can say things like, I suspect and I'm not 100 % sure, but maybe.
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This person has been encouraging people to look after the planet.
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This person has been speaking about something at conferences.
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This is, this person has made different documentaries, different films.
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In terms of how difficult it is for him, it's a mixed bag.
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So, Rory, what's a mixed bag?
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Well, there are some positive things and some negative things.
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Or there are some easy things and some difficult things.
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So, if it's not just one way or the other way, it's a mixture of the two,
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it's a mixed bag a mixed bag a range of different things
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or people so a mixed bag of something
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so a mixed bag of people take this class take this course
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so all sorts of people
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and then you say like on the one hand it's quite easy
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because blah blah blah
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but on the other hand this man is pretty old well it might be quite tiring especially
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if you're 100 years old that's crazy yeah can you imagine wow
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And if something puts limits on you like that, it's called a limiting factor.
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Age can be a limiting factor, money can be a limiting factor.
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You can say this about any person.
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So perhaps money is a limiting factor.
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So this person may not have enough money to protect the environment.
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The final point is feelings.
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Usually during speaking part two, explain how you feel about this person, about this.
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So we start with, as for how I feel about what he's been doing, again, he's been doing, right?
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As for how I feel about his activities, as for how I feel about what he's been doing to protect the environment,
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I suppose, I think, da -da -da -da -da.
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How do I feel?
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I feel happy that he takes action, so he does something actively, so he takes action to encourage people,
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to make an effort, make an effort to do something to try it out, to protect the environment.
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So what are the feelings?
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I feel pleased, glad, maybe inspired.
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So I feel inspired.
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Believed that someone is doing something.
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Yeah, not me.
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Yeah, I feel motivated, inspired, happy, pleased.
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We can finish with, I hope.. it's not stressing him out much.
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So he might be stressed out because of such activities.
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So I hope it's not stressing him out too much.
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Oh, dear listener, what a topic.
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Yeah.
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I know, it's crazy.
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But do you have like famous people who are famous worldwide because they protect the environment?
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I think David Attenborough is famous worldwide, but I can't think of anybody else that's similar.
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Oh, Al Gore.
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Al Gore used to be quite famous for this.
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Google says DiCaprio.
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Does Leonardo DiCaprio talk about saving the environment from his private jet?
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Yeah.
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Well, okay.
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According to some website, it's DiCaprio.
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He is a dedicated environmentalist.
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Leonardo DiCaprio has used his global platform to defend wildlife and fight climate change.
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There we go, dear listener.
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Ask Google about his private jet.
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He has funded over 200 projects focused on wildlife conservation.
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So he kind of protects rare species.
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From his private jet.
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And his documentary, 2016, Before the Flood, is about climate change or something.
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Was it filmed from his private jet?
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No, no, no. Look, look, look.
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He has also delivered powerful speeches at the United Nations.
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There we go.
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Which he reached using his private jet.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, so I'm not going to sit here and say that he's doing good things to protect the environment.
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Okay, okay.
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Billie Eilish, that's another one.
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So if you don't dislike DiCaprio, so a leading young climate advocate.
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Advocate is like, she supports this.
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Billie Eilish.
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It's a she, right?
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Yes, it is.
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So Billie Eilish, 24 years old now.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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If you have no idea who Billie Eilish is, just Google Billie E -I -L -I -S -H.
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Yes.
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Also pronounced Eilish.
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Eilish.
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Oh, really?
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So Billie Eilish or Eilish is known for her eco -friendly concert tours.
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Again, eco -friendly concerts.
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Oh, she has water refill stations to reduce plastic waste.
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Wow, that's nice.
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No plastic during concerts.
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Good for her.
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Her tour, 2024 -2025, raised $11 million for climate and food.
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Not bad.
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So, yeah, there we go, dear listener.
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So, you can say, like, again, Google what Billie Eilish does.
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Again, two or three activities.
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Just, you know, one paragraph about this because you have two minutes.
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Or Leonardo DiCaprio.
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There we go or imaginary friend
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Bob who recycles, avoids plastic.
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Thank you very much for listening.
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We'll get back to you in our speaking part three, where we talk about, yes, the environment.
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Oh, and protecting the environment.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Describe a person you know who is doing something to protect the environment.
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You should say who this person is, what this person is doing to protect the environment,
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how easy or difficult it is for him or her to do this,
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and explain how you feel about what this person is doing to protect the environment.
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Well, there are a lot of people like this that I know, but the one who stands out the most right now is probably David Attenborough,
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who is a famous documentarian and writer from the UK.
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When it comes to who exactly he is, aside from what I mentioned already,
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he's been a presenter of numerous programs on the BBC and I think other channels actually for decades now.
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Actually, I think he must be about 100 years old or something like that.
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I also suspect he's been honoured by a lot of people and organisations, including the Queen and the King.
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As regards to what he's been doing to protect the environment
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Well, he certainly uses his documentaries to draw attention to various endangered species
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and the habitats they live in And
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that kind of awareness raising goes a long way towards encouraging people to look after the planet
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and the local flora and fauna more generally I'm not 100 % sure,
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but I think he's also been speaking out at various climate change conferences
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and on panels to try and underscore the points being made in his documentaries.
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In terms of how difficult it is for him to do stuff like this, well, it's probably a mixed bag.
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I mean, on the one hand, people with platforms like that can very easily catch people's eyes and get attention for things.
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But on the other hand, he's a really old man.
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And regardless of how much money you have, age is very much a limiting factor.
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As for how I feel about what he's been getting up to to protect the environment,
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I suppose as someone who lives on the same planet and would like it to be in a reasonable condition,
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I'm happy someone is taking action to try and encourage others to make an effort.
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I just hope it's not stressing him and his family out too much.
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And what do your friends think of this person?
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We haven't really talked too much about him, to be honest.
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I suspect they probably respect him, though he's a very well -respected figure in where I'm from anyway.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “🌍 Protecting the Environment”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: environment, protect, famous, Eilish. This video has 239 sentences and 2270 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:22. The speaker talks at a steady 148 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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 |
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| documentary noun | /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/ | A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner. |
| encourage verb | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. |
| listener noun | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. |
| habitat noun | /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ | Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live. |
| endangered adjective | /ɪnˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚd/ | in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct) |
| presenter noun | /pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/ | Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies. |
| flora noun | /ˈflɔː.ɹə/ | Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. |
| fauna noun | /ˈfɔːnə/ | Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, biological group, etc. |
| inspire verb | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by… |
| regardless adverb | /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/ | Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences. |
| awareness noun | /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ | The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. |
| organisation noun | /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/ | Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization. |
| wildlife noun | /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/ | undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild. |
| advocate noun | /ˈæd.və.kət/ | Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel. |
| regards noun | /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/ | A greeting to pass on to another person. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stand out verb | To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.). |
| get up to verb | To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
| stress out verb | To become stressed. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | he's been doing · he's also been speaking · he's been getting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | he's been · he's been honoured · haven't really talked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | one who stands · someone who lives · person who is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | been honoured · being made · was born |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, imaginary /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/, conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, continuous /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
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 documentary, encourage, listener.
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.