Shadowing Practice: Single Stories 67 | Crayons | Little Fox Level 2 - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 14 sentences and 102 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:33. The speaker talks slowly, about 66 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 64% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

14 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• sixth /sɪksθ/ (adjective) — The ordinal form of the number six.
• purple /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ (noun) — A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
• seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/ (adjective) — The ordinal form of the number seven.
• eighth /eɪtθ/ (adjective) — The ordinal form of the number eight.
• banana /bəˈnænə/ (noun) — An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
• peach /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ (noun) — Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
• grape /ɡɹeɪp/ (noun) — A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the…
• crayon /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɑn/ (noun) — A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
• blueberry /ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/ (noun) — An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
• chestnut /ˈt͡ʃɛs(t)ˌnʌt/ (noun) — An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from…
• orange /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/ (noun) — An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
• yellow /ˈjɛloʊ/ (adjective) — Of a yellow hue.
• fruit /fɹut/ (noun) — A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
• pink /ˈpɪŋk/ (noun) — A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• look at (verb) — To observe or watch.

Pronunciation to watch

• The “th” sounds: sixth /sɪksθ/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, eighth /eɪtθ/

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 sixth, purple, seventh.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video: