Shadowing Practice: Real-Life English at the Mall 🛍️🍿 Comprehensible Input - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I also thought this room can be more silly when I ask questions.
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Did you get the end-up for free at home during the game?
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All free for free!
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Get to the end-up, because if you're at the end-up, please give us a gift.
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Why won't you listen?
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I love you.
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G&M Would you like to watch at home a little bit?
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The first word is escalator.
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I'm going up the escalator.
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We're in the mall and obviously there's a car inside here because, you know, it's good to drive around the mall.
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This is a big yellow car.
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This is the bonnet, the front part of the car which you can lift up.
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These are the wing mirrors, the wing mirrors or the side mirrors which you check.
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Okay.
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This is the door handle.
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In the UK we call this the boot, the boot, the back of the car.
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This is the side door and the wing mirror.
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This is a red car.
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One wheel, two wheels.
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This is the license plate.
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These are flip-flops.
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Funny word.
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Flip-flops.
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They're shiny.
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They're glittery.
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Glittery?
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Flip-flop.
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These are all trainers.
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And they are displayed in the shop window.
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They are displayed on shelves.
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Wooden shelves.
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Hello.
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We have a baby in a pus chair or a buggy.
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The floor is checkered or checked.
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So in the mall there are lots of designer shops, designer brands.
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Designer brands are usually a bit more expensive.
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In the UK we have something called a high street.
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The high street is the main street in a town with all the general shops on, like...
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H and M.
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This is the shop entrance or the shop front.
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Let's go inside.
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These are mannequins.
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I'm here in H&M looking for a shirt.
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Not this one.
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Tonight I've got a friend's birthday dinner, so I want a new piece of clothing.
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Ooh, this is lovely.
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I think it's perfect for me.
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I wonder what Chang thinks?
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Chang, what do you think of this?
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Ooh, this is nice.
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Oh no!
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This is a pink hoodie.
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Show the hoodie.
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This is the zip.
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I'm unzipping the hoodie.
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Here are the accessories.
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These are rings.
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They go on your finger.
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A necklace that goes around your neck.
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Down here we have a pair of sunglasses.
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These go on your face and protect your eyes from the sun.
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These are caps.
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They go on your head.
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This is a beanie.
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We call it a beanie hat.
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I know, I probably don't look very good.
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I don't suit hats.
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Anyway, this is for the purpose of English.
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This is a bucket hat.
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What do you reckon?
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It's called a bucket hat because it's...
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Excuse my messy hair.
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It's shaped like a bucket.
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There you go.
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And again, here is the beanie. For winter. Or autumn.
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Ooh, pink.
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Hmm.
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Nah.
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Blue.
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Yes.
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Hello!
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We are in the changing rooms.
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This is a mirror.
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This is a rail where you hang up your clothes.
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Over here we have the hooks.
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The hooks.
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I'm hanging up the clothes on the hook.
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This is a number four and it means I have four items of clothing,
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four pieces of clothing.
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On my back you can see a rucksack or a backpack.
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Now let's get changed into these clothes.
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You cover your eyes.
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First piece, a cream polo shirt.
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8 out of 10, might get it.
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Got four more items of clothing to try on, so see you in a bit.
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Next item of clothing.
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We've got some very large buttons on this one.
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Massive buttons.
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Not keen on this one, I'm not keen.
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I don't like it too much.
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I'm not a big fan.
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Next one.
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We're ready?
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I feel like I could be on a yacht somewhere with this on.
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I like the whites.
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I'm wearing a white linen shirt.
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The material is linen.
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It's relaxed.
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It doesn't suit these trousers.
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I think I need to wear some darker trousers.
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But overall, I'm going to say 7.5 out of 10.
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Next one.
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New shirt, polo shirt, quite tight on my arms and here it's a bit short, see my hairy belly.
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Don't like it.
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Nah, see you in a bit.
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I got my clothes, two shirts, now let's go buy them.
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Come on, Shank.
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So this is normally where people queue.
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Oops, I'm walking into it.
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But there's no queue right now.
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Hello.
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Do you have membership in Vietnam?
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Yes, I do, I believe.
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Yeah.
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You have membership?
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Yeah.
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Are you living here?
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Yes, I'm living here.
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Can I know your phone number?
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Yes.
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0-1-2-1-2-1.
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Heh. Do you need paperback?
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Yes, please.
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One pack is 3,500.
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That's fine.
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OK.
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This is the checkout counter.
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Please check.
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Yeah, that's fine.
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Perfect.
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Thank you.
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Inserting the card.
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Yeah, no worries.
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I'm entering my PIN number.
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Okay.
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Please keep your receipt and check if you want to return in 30 days in Ghana.
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Perfect.
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Thank you.
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Can I take it?
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Thank you.
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Okay, thank you.
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My receipt.
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My brown paper bag.
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Let's go.
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Next time for all you ladies out there, I'll teach some women's clothes next time.
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Sequins.
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Nice.
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Chang's attracted to shiny things.
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Alright.
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Got my goods.
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Two shirts in my brown paper bag.
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Now let's continue shopping.
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Capybara.
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Oh, teddy bears.
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These are soft toys.
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Soft toys.
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Wacky glasses.
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Put it down.
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Put it up.
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Yeah, I prefer that.
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This is a bucket and spade.
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A shop is full of shelves.
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On these shelves we have glasses and vases.
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Or if you're American, a vase.
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A vase or a vase is what you put flowers inside.
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Ooh, what's that?
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This is a gift box.
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She's opening the box.
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My gift to you.
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What's inside?
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Oh, so sweet.
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A shoelace.
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It's just what I've always wanted.
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I think I'm going to cry.
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A photo frame.
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You can hang this on your wall.
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And then put the picture inside the frame.
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This is a photo frame or just a frame frame down here.
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Hey-up.
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Hello.
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I just said hey-up.
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Hey-up is a slang term for hello.
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In Yorkshire we say hey-up.
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It's very colourful in this store.
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Oh, so nice.
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Okay, Chang just brushed my hair.
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She brushed it.
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My Barbie hair.
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This is not a brush.
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This is a comb.
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A comb, yeah.
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A comb has teeth.
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These are teeth, individual teeth.
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You can hear them?
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Teeth.
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This is a comb.
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This is a brush.
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And these, you'd call them bristles, are metal.
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These are the teeth of a comb.
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Just like the teeth in our mouths.
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Teeth.
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Visual on the word comb, it's spelt komb, but we pronounce it comb, comb.
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This is not a hairbrush, but it works.
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Speaking of brushes, this is a useful word.
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This is a dustpan and brush, causing a riot in here.
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Dust pan and brush.
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I'm using the dust pan and brush to sweep up the crumbs.
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A broom has thick bristles.
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Thanks for all these good questions, Chang.
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This is a sweeping brush.
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A broom tends to have thicker bristles.
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These are the bristles.
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They're wobbling.
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This is a mop and you can use it as a verb.
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You can use it to mop the floor and mopping the floor and pretending to mop the floor.
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You've got some dog balls, some tennis balls, pet toy tennis,
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some backpacks or rucksacks as we say commonly.
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What have you found here, Chang?
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A bath sponge.
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What do you use it for?
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You use that for washing yourself in the shower or the bath, and it makes a lot of foam with the soap.
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It's called a bath sponge. To infinity and beyond.
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Thanks shopping for jewelry.
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Jewelry.
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What about these?
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These ones?
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Yeah I quite like them.
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Yeah they're nice actually.
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Again guys this This is jewellery, we say jewellery, jewellery.
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These are tweezers, tweezers, and you pluck your eyebrows with the tweezers.
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You've got these hair bubbles, a bobble, that's a fun word.
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This one is, this hair bubble is furry, furry.
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This one is made of silk.
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This one is made of lace.
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Alright, in the basket.
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These are cushions.
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A cushion, a red cushion, and it has tassels on.
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This is a tassel on the corner of the cushion.
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That's going to go down there.
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Next to the cushions we have bath mats or shower mats a floor mat of a panda.
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Nice.
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Chang's turning left.
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I'm turning left.
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Turning left again.
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Oh, she's seen something.
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No surprise there.
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What's she got?
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A book.
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Nice.
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Now you're talking my language.
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She's got a notebook.
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That's quite nice, actually.
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Can I see the front cover?
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Okay, notebook in the basket.
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Yes.
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This is a travel pillow or a neck pillow that goes around your neck when you travel on a plane.
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Supposedly making you more comfortable.
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Here we have some pans, frying pans.
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These are stainless steel.
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This is a non-stick pan.
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This is an oven glove.
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Hello.
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Chang is wearing an oven glove.
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It looks like a shark.
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The shop assistant is bagging up the items,
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putting them in the plastic bag.
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I'm going to synchronise my feet with yours.
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Let's go up the elevator.
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Escalator, not the elevator.
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The elevator is the one that goes up like that.
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Can I grab the camera and get some funny shot?
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Right, come up now.
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Hello.
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So, you chose the Thai restaurant and it was obviously my choice.
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Could I have one Pad Thai?
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Pad Thai, scallops.
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Scallops, please.
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Could I have one Tom Yum soup?
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Spicy.
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Spicy, okay?
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No spicy.
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Olive.
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Less spicy.
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And two coconuts, please please yes also could i have
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where's the okra uh one green okra this one okra please that's all yeah of course
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thank you how to order politely in english Come on.
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Hey, you got it. So sweet.
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I can't believe nature made this.
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You do want to tell us.
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Oh, they're right.
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All you Thai people watching.
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Whatever that is.
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Chopsticks.
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I just got my pad thai.
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which is noodles with tofu, eggs, carrots, bean sprouts.
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I've got some scallops on the side, some spring onions.
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Looks delicious.
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I'm going to eat it.
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Can you close it?
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Yeah.
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Jang is ladling the Tom Yum soup into the bowl.
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The big spoon is a ladle, the small one is just a spoon.
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Good.
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This is okra. Or okra.
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Don't know the correct pronunciation.
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Even British people make mistakes.
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Mistakes are fine.
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How we learn.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Now I need a wee. Where is the toilet?
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Oh, that reminds me.
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If you want to ask for the toilet, you can say, Where's the toilet?
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Or where are the toilets?
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Chang, do you want to ask me?
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Where's that toilet?
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It's over there.
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Just go straight and then turn left.
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Go straight, then turn left.
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Slang for toilet in British is the loo.
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I'm off to the loo.
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That means I'm going to the toilet.
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See you in a bit.
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Alright, let's get our tickets.
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Thank you.
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Thanks so much.
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OK, the ticket is coming out of the machine.
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Got the tickets for the cinema.
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We're going to watch it in...
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20 minutes.
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It's a Studio Ghibli.
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Miyazaki Ayo.
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This is the director of this film.
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And the film is called The Wind Rises.
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This is the wind rising.
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There are two people standing with a white umbrella.
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The woman is painting on a canvas, and this is an easel.
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This whole thing is called a poster, a film poster.
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This is a pumpkin.
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Scary.
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The pumpkin is wearing a witch's hat.
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The ticket box.
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Up here is a large TV screen on a brick wall.
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To my left we have a billboard, which is like a large advert for something.
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In this case it's a film.
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Down here we have the film poster.
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This is advertising the film.
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Over here to my left there are some massage chairs and arcade machines.
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These are the claw machines.
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This is a claw.
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The claw drops down and picks up a soft toy.
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Very good.
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Mmm.
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Popcorn.
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Alright, we're going to order some popcorn, some drinks.
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I need to have a look at the menu.
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They're the popcorn machines.
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Do you want a water?
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You want a Milo?
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Okay, I'll get a Milo too.
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Two Milo's.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Can I have two Milo's?
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Milo?
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Yes, Milo.
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Yeah, two Milo's, please.
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One water.
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Yes.
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And one caramel popcorn, please.
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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If you're ever in England, we love to say, can I have or could I have?
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Then whatever you want, and the magic word, please.
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You tap your card.
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Okay.
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Thank you, man.
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What's the note?
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Cold or not cold?
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Let's say not cold.
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Thank you.
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Oh, look at that.
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I didn't know they were going to be this big.
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I've got two milos, which is like a chocolate milk.
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Thank you. So good.
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I've heard Milo at the CGV is very good so I'm yet to try.
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I'll give you a taste test soon.
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Well, come on.
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Thank you.
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Get these.
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Get my bucket of popcorn.
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We've got caramel popcorn and cheese popcorn, which in the UK is a sin.
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Cheese popcorn.
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We have salted popcorn or sweet popcorn.
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Or a mix.
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I've never actually tried a cheese popcorn to be fair so this is my first time trying it.
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Honestly, go on.
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I need to get a straw.
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BRB which means be right back.
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Guess who's back, back, back, once again.
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Jay is back, back, back, tell your friends.
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Popping the straw in.
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Here's for you Chang, the Milo.
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Alright, taste test.
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Give it a shake.
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It's good.
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It's very refreshing.
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Slightly sweet, slightly watery, but good. But good.
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Seven out of ten.
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Caramel popcorn.
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I know I like this.
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Yeah, it's good.
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It's standard flavour.
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Cheese popcorn.
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Not sure about this one.
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A bit weird.
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A bit of a sniff.
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It's alright.
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Not bad.
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It's stale.
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5 out of 10.
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Caramel gets an 8 out of 10.
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My favourite flavour of popcorn is salty and sweet.
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Mixed together.
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Caught up in the moment when I spend every second with you With you Yeah
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All I do is think about you This year Something big Is coming to theaters
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All right Let's go It was the dangerous part of the scene We're here.
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We're here.
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This is a funnel-top movie.
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So just want to square back.
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Destiny is squeezing white bones.
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Do you feel it?
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I'm laughing.
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But don't let me slow you down.
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This is us.
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In the sweet box.
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This is cool.
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Never been here before.
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Let's do that again.
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Sweet box.
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Right, we're in the cinema, we're eating our popcorn.
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The film's about to start.
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I should turn my camera off.
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Thank you for watching.
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Make sure to go check out the Sprout YouTube channel.
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Loads more videos on there.
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A lot more fun.
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Oh, one question before you finish.
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What is your favourite movie?
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That is the final word of the day.
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It's a question for you.
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What's your favourite film ever?
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Put it in the comments.
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I'd love to watch it.
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I'm a big film nerd myself, so let me know.
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Have a lovely day.
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Much love.
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Bye-bye.
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Why This Mall Video Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice
The video’s focus on real-life mall scenarios makes it ideal for building practical speaking skills. Unlike scripted lessons, the dialogue feels natural—filled with casual questions, observations, and everyday interactions. This "comprehensible input" mirrors how native speakers actually communicate, making it easier to absorb pronunciation, intonation, and common phrases. For learners aiming to improve English pronunciation or prepare for IELTS speaking practice, this type of content bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-world use.
Breaking Down Natural Speech: Key Phrases
Let’s look at a few lines that showcase authentic English:
- "I wonder what Chang thinks? Chang, what do you think of this?" This casual check-in uses a common structure ("I wonder what [someone] thinks") followed by a direct question. The pause and tone sound natural, avoiding rigid formality—exactly how you’d ask a friend for feedback.
- "These are displayed in the shop window. They are displayed on shelves." Repeating "displayed" with different prepositions ("in," "on") reinforces vocabulary in context. Native speakers often repeat words to clarify, making this a great example of how to explain details smoothly.
- "Tonight I've got a friend's birthday dinner, so I want a new piece of clothing." The contraction "I've got" and the phrase "a piece of clothing" are everyday terms. This sentence flows naturally, linking a plan ("birthday dinner") to a need ("new clothing")—a structure you’ll use often in conversations.
A Simple Practice Routine Using the Shadowing Technique
To make the most of this video, try a repeat-and-record loop with the shadowing technique (or "shadowspeak"). Here’s how: 1. Watch a 5-second clip, pausing after each line. 2. Repeat the line aloud, mimicking the speaker’s tone, speed, and stress. Focus on copying how they emphasize words like "lovely" or "perfect." 3. Record yourself, then compare it to the original. Notice differences in pronunciation (e.g., "escalator" or "flip-flops") and adjust. 4. Gradually increase the clip length to 10–15 seconds as you get comfortable. This routine trains your mouth to form natural sounds and helps you internalize conversational rhythm—critical for IELTS speaking practice and real-life interactions. Learning English with videos like this, paired with shadowing, turns passive watching into active skill-building.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are displayed · is checkered · is made |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've always wanted · have you found · I've heard |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | billboard, which is · milos, which is · BRB which means |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm going · I'm unzipping · I'm hanging |
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.