Shadowing Practice: Slow English Conversation - Our Weekend & Summer Plans ☀️ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everyone and welcome to English Cozy Chat.
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Today I am here with my friend Kieran and we are going to have an easy English conversation.
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We hope you enjoy!
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Hi!
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Hi!
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What is your name?
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My name is Kieran.
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What is your name?
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My name is Maria.
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So nice to meet you, Maria.
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It's so nice to meet you too.
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What did you do last weekend?
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Last weekend, I had lots of things to do.
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I went to the grocery store and I bought lots of food.
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Then I cooked dinner for my family
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and the next day i went to the beach oh what beach did you go to
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i have a beach very close to my house so nice did you swim yes i swam in the ocean
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so nice yeah it was really nice
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but the water was a little bit cold oof yeah
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but sometimes i like cold water it feels really good on really hot days to swim in cold water yeah
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So what did you do last weekend?
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Last weekend, I went to a recital for my daughter's school.
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And then we had friends over for dinner, which was really nice.
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The next day, we had to go to the doctor because my daughter hurt her wrist.
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Ouch.
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It was unfortunate.
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But now she's okay.
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Good.
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I'm glad to hear that.
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What did you eat at the dinner with your friends?
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We had grilled fish and vegetables and bread.
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And afterwards we had cake.
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Yum. So yummy.
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I love all of those things.
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Do you have any plans for the summer?
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I do.
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This summer, I'm going to go camping with my family.
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So much fun.
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We have a big camping tent and we are going to sleep in it for two weeks.
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Are you going to be driving somewhere far or close?
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We are going to somewhere which is about one hour away so it's not too far.
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That's nice.
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Yeah but But I'm a little worried because I think it's going to be very hot where we're camping.
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And I think it's going to get really hot in the tent. So we shall see.
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Maybe you could buy a fan to put inside of the tent.
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That's a good idea.
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Good idea.
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And what will you do over the summer?
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This summer, I'm going to take an airplane to another country and visit my friends and family.
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Nice.
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Is it a long plane ride?
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Yes, it is very long.
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It is 11 hours long.
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Wow.
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Not fun with two little kids.
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Do you like to watch movies on the airplane?
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I love to watch movies on the airplane and read a book and listen to a story.
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So hopefully me and my two kids can do all of those things.
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Yeah.
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I really love to watch movies on the airplane and to sleep.
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I always really sleep well on airplanes.
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I think you're one of very few people.
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Really?
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I always like going to sleep like right as the airplane takes off.
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Oh no. It's the best.
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Like I sleep so well in that moment.
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I need to know your secret because it's very hard for me to sleep.
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Really?
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I can sleep.
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I sleep a lot on airplanes.
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It sounds like you're going to have a very fun summer.
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I think I will, too.
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And other than that, I will just really try to relax and spend lots of time at home.
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And I'm going to try to really take a break from lots of things that I am focused on throughout the year.
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because I think it's important to just take a break sometimes and relax.
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It is very important to relax.
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Yeah.
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I agree.
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So we will see if I'm able to do that.
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We will see.
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Yeah.
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What will you do when you're on vacation with your friends and family?
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Well, my friends and family live in a place that's tropical.
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So we will swim in the ocean.
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We will relax on the deck or outside.
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We'll see the stars at nighttime and make meals together,
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maybe visit a new place together and just spend a lot of time talking and relaxing together.
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That's great.
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When I go home to my family,
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I also like to just spend lots of time talking and relaxing.
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And sometimes it feels good to not do much and to have no plan and to just be.
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Exactly.
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Because now it feels like we always have plans and And especially if you live far from family,
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it's nice to have no plans and to relax and to talk in person and not on the phone.
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It's just a really good feeling.
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Summer, I think, is a time to reset.
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Yeah.
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And really just take some space with whatever you're going through
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and take a break and just enjoy nature and being together
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and get ready for the next start of the school year or work work.
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Yeah.
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Because if we never take breaks, we never recharge, right?
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You never like feel like you're ready for the next chapter.
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Exactly.
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So we'll see how the summer goes.
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I think it sounds like we're both going to have a really great summer.
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I think so too.
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It was really nice meeting you, Maria.
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It was so nice meeting you too. Have a great summer.
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You too.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Slow English Conversation - Our Weekend & Summer Plans ☀️”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: summer, sleep, airplane, relax, weekend. This video has 112 sentences and 903 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:35. The speaker talks slowly, about 105 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| airplane noun | /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ | A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| tent noun | /tɛnt/ | A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| afterwards adverb | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | At a later or succeeding time; after that; |
| deck noun | /ˈdɛk/ | Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. |
| vacation noun | /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. |
| tropical adjective | /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/ | Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south. |
| unfortunate adjective | /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/ | Not favored by fortune. |
| grocery noun | /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. |
| wrist noun | /ɹɪst/ | The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| grill noun | /ɡɹɪl/ | A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and… |
| reset verb | /ɹiːˈsɛt/ | To set back to the initial state. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| do over verb | /ˈduˌoʊvɚ/ | To cover with; to smear or spread on to. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| take off verb | To remove. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What is your name?
- It's so nice to meet you too.
- What did you do last weekend?
- Do you have any plans for the summer?
- Do you like to watch movies on the airplane?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | dinner, which was · somewhere which is |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | are going to have · I'm going to go · Are you going to be |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will you do · will just really try · will see |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | we're camping · you're going |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 relax, airplane, swim.
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.