Shadowing Practice: Sound Fluent using Would for the Past! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everybody and welcome to the lesson.
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This is conversation one for wood for the past tense
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and it is titled growing up on a farm
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and you will hear someone talk about their previous life living on a farm
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and notice they use wood for the past tense.
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So that's when you talk about an action you did again
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and again and again you did the action often and it's very similar to used to.
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So let's go ahead and listen, and then we'll take a quiz and review the grammar.
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What was it like growing up on a farm?
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It was the best.
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I used to have so much fun.
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Really?
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What would you do?
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I would ride horses, play with my dog, tend to animals, and just have fun.
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Sounds fun.
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It was.
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Every day, I would get up early, and I would be outside all day.
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I wouldn't go inside until dark.
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Sounds like you had a great childhood.
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It was.
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Now let's go over the quiz.
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Question one, what was life like on the farm?
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A, fun or B, hard?
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And she said it was fun.
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okay question two what would she do on the farm a ride horses
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or b tend to crops and she said she would ride horses
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so you can tend to animals
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and tend to crops tend to means to take care of something
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so she didn't say crops she said she would tend to animals and question three what would she do every day?
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A, have fun.
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B, get in trouble.
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And the answer is she would have fun.
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It was so much fun.
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I actually based this conversation on my childhood.
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I grew up on a farm and that was exactly what it was like.
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It was a lot of fun.
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So now let's go ahead and look at the conversation and see how she uses would many times.
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So the man asks, what would you do? and she said, I would ride horses, play with my dog, tend to animals.
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So here would is referring to every verb phrase, right?
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She would play with her dog and she would also tend to animals.
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And later she says, I would get up early.
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I would be outside all day.
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I wouldn't go inside until dark.
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So would is used to talk about a past action that you did again and again,
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that you did regularly all the time in the past. And that is it.
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Thanks so much for participating.
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Now Now you can practice this in the next lesson, English VIP training.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Sound Fluent using Would for the Past!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: tend, farm, animals, horses, ride. This video has 47 sentences and 435 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:54. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow. 8 of its 47 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| crop noun | /kɹɑp/ | A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| tense noun | /tɛns/ | The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. |
| quiz noun | /kwɪz/ | A competition in the answering of questions. |
| refer verb | /ɹɪˈfɜː/ | To direct the attention of (someone toward something). |
| participate verb | /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ | To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). |
| phrase noun | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | A short written or spoken expression. |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| verb noun | /vɝb/ | A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. |
| tend verb | /ˈtɛnd/ | To look after (e.g. an ill person.) |
| childhood noun | /ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/ | The state of being a child. |
| regularly adverb | /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/ | With constant frequency or pattern. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as wouldn't, didn't, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, regularly /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/
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 crop, lesson, tense.
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.