Shadowing Practice: RAZ Level G Book #7 - My Day - Guided Reading - Read Aloud - Audiobook - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome back.
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This book is called My Day in the Level G.
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Morning is when the sun rises.
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The sun rises early in the morning.
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My day begins early in the morning when the sun rises.
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Rises means the sun comes up means go up or come up.
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Early means before other things, at the start of the day.
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Starts is the same as begins.
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I get up, wash my face, brush my hair, and get dressed.
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I eat my breakfast and drink my juice.
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Then I get ready for school.
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Get up means wake up and get out of bed.
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Get dressed means to put on clothes.
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Get ready is also the same as prepare.
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Noon is when the sun is high in the sky.
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It is lunchtime at school.
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It is bright and it is warm.
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I eat lunch and I play with my friends.
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Noon is the same as 12 o'clock, middle of the day.
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High in the sky means way up there.
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Bright means the sun is shining.
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Warm means it's not too cold, not too hot, it's nice.
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Afternoon is when the sun begins to go down.
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I come home from school and I eat a snack.
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I play with my friends.
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Starts, remember, is the same as begins.
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And a snack means eat a little bit,
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not lunch, not dinner, just a little snack.
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Here he is having an apple and some water.
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Evening is when the sun is lower in the sky.
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It is getting darker.
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I eat dinner with my family.
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Lower means it's going down.
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It's not high in the sky anymore.
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And darker means it's not bright or not light.
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After dinner, I like to watch television.
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I like to read my favorite books.
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Then I get ready for bed.
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Television is a long way to say TV.
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Favorite books are the books he likes the most.
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And get ready for bread means prepare to sleep like he is brushing his teeth.
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Night comes after the sun has set.
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The sky is dark.
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The moon and stars are out.
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I get into bed and dad reads me a story.
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Sunset means the sun goes down and the moon comes up.
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A story is in his book.
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Then I go to sleep in my bed.
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Teddy goes to sleep in my bed too.
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Teddy is the name of the teddy bear or a stuffed animal.
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Is the sound of sleeping.
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The end.
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See you guys next time.
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Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “RAZ Level G Book - My Day - Guided Reading - Read Aloud - Audiobook”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sun, sky, bed, eat, rises. This video has 54 sentences and 416 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:48. The speaker talks slowly, about 87 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
snack noun/snæk/A light meal.
brush noun/bɹʌʃ/An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
noon noun/nun/The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
juice noun/d͡ʒuːs/A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
shine verb/ʃaɪn/To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
sunset noun/ˈsʌnˌsɛt/The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
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…
lunchtime noun/ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/The time or hour at or around which lunch is normally eaten.
bright adjective/ˈbɹaɪ̯t/Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
lunch noun/lʌnt͡ʃ/A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
prepare verb/pɹɪˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
breakfast noun/ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
bread noun/brɛd/A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come up verbTo emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go down verbTo descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
get up verbTo move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
get out of verbTo leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go up verbTo move upwards.
wake up verb/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/To stop sleeping; to awake.

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like snack, brush, noon.

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