Shadowing Practice: Swiss Family Robinson - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Listening 34.
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Listen and read.
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Swiss Family Robinson The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wies.
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It's a very exciting story.
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The main characters are a mother and father, and their four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack and France.
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The family decides to travel to a new country to live They travel on a ship with lots of other people,
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but there is a big storm The ship sinks,
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but the family swims to an island There aren't any other people on the island,
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so the family is alone They take things from the ship, such as clothes and tools,
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to help them start a new life.
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The family has lots of adventures on the island, and they learn a lot of important lessons.
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They find out that the island has everything they need to survive.
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First, they use wood from the trees to build a house in a tree.
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When the weather is cold and wet, they move to a cave and make a home there.
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They grow vegetables and fruit from seeds, and they hunt animals for their meat.
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They use salt to keep their meat fresh for a long time, so they are never hungry.
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They cook food on a fire, and they use plants to make paper and clothes.
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They learn a lot about nature, and they enjoy their life on the island.
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One day, they have the chance to leave the island and go home to Switzerland.
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But they decide that the island is their home now.
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They are happy with their new life, and they don't want to leave.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Swiss Family Robinson”. This video has 21 sentences and 266 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:05. The speaker talks at a steady 127 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| adventure noun | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| seed noun | /siːd/ | Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. |
| sink verb | /ˈsɪŋk/ | To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| cave noun | /keɪv/ | A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. |
| 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… |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| meat noun | /mit/ | The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food. |
| storm noun | /stɔɹm/ | Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading… |
| cook verb | /kʊk/ | To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. |
| novel noun | /ˈnɑvəl/ | A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. |
| salt noun | /sɒlt/ | A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
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 cloth, lesson, adventure.
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.