Shadowing Practice: Robert Downey Junior Babysitting Tom Holland For 5 Minutes Straight - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Before we begin with this video, here's a quick question for you.
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Hey guys and welcome to Filmonger, your number one source for all things films and movies.
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And in today's video, we're going to look at Robert Downey Jr. babysitting Tom Holland.
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Hey, what's up T-Ho?
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I'm just about to start hosting the venture into cures.
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It's kind of a big deal, you know, we're on this mission here to help cure EB.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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That's really cool.
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I actually know all about it.
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Really?
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Well, yeah.
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Epidermolysis bullosa, it's a single gene mutation, group of rare diseases that cause fragile blistering skin.
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What's all that gray stuff in your hair?
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It's just gray hair.
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Oh, it's okay.
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It's red white.
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Anyway, Dr. Strange was there when I got back, right?
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Can you give us this big briefing?
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On how to...
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What are you doing?
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Hey, right there!
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spider-man no way home star tom holland revealed his on-screen
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and off-screen mentor robert arney jr gifted him the helmet he
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wore in the first iron man movie tom revealed receiving the gift
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when robert was shooting for a film in london sort about a month ago you did
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and what do you What do you think?
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You know, you know when you revise for an exam and you feel like you crushed it, but the longer you wait for the results, the more you think you kind of ruined it.
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He's British, by the way.
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He's ruined it.
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He's a test or a test or something.
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Thank God you brought your translator.
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Exactly, yeah.
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Thanks, boss.
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It was a tough day.
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All access.
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Oh, I'd give that a minute, bud.
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Woo!
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But yeah, so walking into the screening, I was like, this is gonna be awful, I'm gonna hate it, and leaving, I was over the moon.
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You were?
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Great.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I it.
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Okay, so you're not overly critical of yourself and your performance and all that stuff.
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No, I loved it.
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Robert, you have not seen it yet?
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I have personally yet to see it.
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When can I, uh...
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You will see it when I'm ready for you to see it.
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Just take a minute.
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The new blood, get used to it.
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When we were shooting Iron Man in 2007, he gets shrapnel in his heart,
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and then Yin Sen puts a metallic tokamak reactor in his chest to keep the shrapnel out of his heart.
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I mean, it's beyond metaphoric, you know, it's literally the physicalization of it.
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And I think that's why Stan Lee and the whole just Marvel lexicon is so, you know, it's, you know,
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at the heart of it.
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These are all, you know, they're just these archetypes of kind of broken people.
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Appearing on the YouTube show Hot Once, Tom spoke about Robert and the gift he received from him.
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My favorite souvenir was actually given to me well it wasn't
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given to me it was given to my little brother Paddy
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when Black Panther was coming out Robert Downey Jr. was making Dr. Doolittle in London
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and he was staying down at the road from where I live
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and he invited us to screening of Black Panther at his house
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and Paddy comes running into the room
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and he's holding the original Iron Man helmet and Robert Downey Jr. had given it to him as a gift he recalled.
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the master now.
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Our proms are very different though.
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In what way?
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Well they serve booze at the prom.
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They do?
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Yeah.
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Yeah because you're 18.
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Alright guys that's it for today's video
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and the answer to the question I asked you all at the beginning of the video is April 4th 1965.
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If you got this answer right then you are a true RDJ fan.
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Alright guys we'll see you around next time with another brand new video till then keep watching the manga
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Robert Downey Junior Babysitting Tom Holland For 5 Minutes Straight”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: robert, tom, Downey, Marvel, iron. This video has 80 sentences and 709 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:28. The speaker talks at a natural 159 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| shrapnel noun | /ˈʃɹæpnəl/ | Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine. |
| prom noun | /pɹɑm/ | A promenade concert. |
| helmet noun | /ˈhɛlmɪt/ | A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour. |
| archetype noun | /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪp/ | An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned. |
| babysit verb | /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ | To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money. |
| blister noun | /ˈblɪstɚ/ | A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical… |
| bullosa adjective | Bullous; involving large blisters. | |
| epidermolysis noun | A connective tissue disease. | |
| lexicon noun | /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɑn/ | The vocabulary of a language. |
| metaphoric adjective | Synonym of metaphorical. | |
| physicalization noun | The act, process, or result of physicalizing | |
| revise verb | /ɹɪˈvaɪz/ | To review, alter and amend, especially of written material. |
| souvenir noun | /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/ | An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location. |
| tokamak noun | /ˈtoʊkəmæk/ | A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research in which plasma is magnetically confined. |
| mango noun | /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/ | Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come on in verb | Synonym of come in (“to enter”). | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What's all that gray stuff in your hair?
- Can you give us this big briefing?
- What are you doing?
- Robert, you have not seen it yet?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shrapnel /ˈʃɹæpnəl/, mutation /mjuˈteɪʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shrapnel, prom, helmet.
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.