Shadowing Practice: Tactics for Listening Third Edition Developing Unit 24 Travel - Learn English Speaking with Video

Listening 1 So, how was your trip to Maui, Emily?

Oh, pretty good, mostly.

Mostly?

Yeah, it started off okay.

I did all the usual things.

You know, I went snorkeling right off the shore next to my hotel.

The fish were beautiful.

I know, I love snorkeling.

Then I saw a hula dance.

You know, traditional Hawaiian dancing.

Sounds great.

Anyway, on my second day, I decided to rent a car.

I wanted to see some other sights on the island.

Were you on your own?

Uh-huh.

So first, I drove all the way up to the top of the volcano.

I stopped to take some photos on the way, and I got some great shots of the volcano.

The next day, I decided to drive all the way to Hana.

Hana?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's on the other side of the island.

There are some spectacular waterfalls on the way.

It's really beautiful, but it's a really long ride.

Unfortunately, when I was about halfway there, I had a slight accident.

Oh no, were you hurt?

No, but it was awful.

I had to leave the car and take a taxi all the way back to the hotel.

It cost me an arm and a leg.

Oh no, what a vacation.

Listening to One Hi, Mum.

This is Jill.

Just calling to say hello.

I'm having a wonderful time.

Last week, I met this really nice lady.

We are getting along so well.

She is a teacher here.

She loves it and says maybe I could teach here someday.

Anyway, what do you think?

I'll call back later.

Bye.

Two.

Hi, Mom.

Hi, Dad.

This is Sean.

I'm having a terrific time, but I'm not relaxing much.

The weather is great, so I'm always busy doing something.

Things are really expensive in Hawaii.

The hotel, the clothes, the food, everything.

and I'm completely out of money.

So can you send me some money as soon as possible?

Thanks.

Love you.

Bye.

3. Mom, this is John.

Listen, I'm gonna be back a day late.

Traffic to the airport this morning was terrible.

By the time I arrived, my plane had left.

I also lost my wallet in the rush.

It has all my credit cards in it, and the airline won't help me.

I'm not sure what to do.

I'll call you later.

Bye.

Four.

Oh, Bob, this is Rachel.

Sorry I missed your call last night.

I went out for dinner, and today I've got a terrible stomachache.

It must be something I ate.

Anyway, I'm going to see the doctor.

Don't worry.

I'm sure I'll be fine.

Talk to you soon.

5. Hi, Dad.

This is Mary calling from Paris.

Sorry I missed you.

I went on a bus tour this morning and dropped my camera somewhere.

I can't find it.

It has all of my photos of me and Julie on it, and even photos from home.

I don't know what to do about it.

Can you call me back as soon as you get this message?

6. Hi, Mom.

This is Meg calling.

Listen, I won't be home tomorrow night.

They changed my flight, and there's no flight tomorrow, so, uh, I'll be home on Friday.

Don't worry about me.

I'm excited because I can do a few more things here in Hong Kong.

See you soon.

Listening to One.

Hi, Mom.

This is Jill.

Just calling to say hello.

I'm having a wonderful time.

Last week, I met this really nice lady.

We are getting along so well.

She is a teacher here.

She loves it and says maybe I could teach here someday.

Anyway, what do you think?

I'll call back later.

Bye.

Two.

100

Hi, Mom.

101

Hi, Dad.

102

This is Sean.

103

I'm having a terrific time, but I'm not relaxing much.

104

The weather is great, so I'm always busy doing something.

105

Things are really expensive in Hawaii.

106

The hotel, the clothes, the food, everything.

107

And I'm completely out of money.

108

So can you send me some money as soon as possible?

109

Thanks.

110

Love you.

111

Bye.

112

3. Mom, this is John.

113

Listen, I'm gonna be back a day late.

114

Traffic to the airport this morning was terrible.

115

By the time I arrived, my plane had left.

116

I also lost my wallet in the rush.

117

It has all my credit cards in it, and the airline won't help me.

118

I'm not sure what to do.

119

I'll call you later.

120

Bye.

121

Four.

122

Oh, Bob, this is Rachel.

123

Sorry I missed your call last night.

124

I went out for dinner, and today I've got a terrible stomachache.

125

It must be something I ate.

126

Anyway, I'm going to see the doctor.

127

Don't worry.

128

I'm sure I'll be fine.

129

Talk to you soon.

130

Five.

131

Hi, Dad.

132

This is Mary calling from Paris.

133

Sorry I missed you.

134

I went on a bus tour this morning and dropped my camera somewhere.

135

I can't find it.

136

It has all of my photos of me and Julie on it, and even photos from home.

137

I don't know what to do about it.

138

Can you call me back as soon as you get this message?

139

Six.

140

Hi, Mom.

141

This is Meg calling.

142

Listen, I won't be home tomorrow night.

143

They changed my flight, and there's no flight tomorrow.

144

So, uh, I'll be home on Friday.

145

Don't worry about me.

146

I'm excited because I can do a few more things here in Hong Kong.

147

See you soon.

148

Listening 3 1.

149

I met this really nice family when I was in Korea last year.

150

I was in a restaurant, and I was having trouble understanding the menu.

151

The wife came over and asked me what I wanted to eat, and told me all about Korean food.

152

Then they asked me to join them at their table, and they paid for my dinner.

153

They also invited me to their house.

154

We became friends, and we keep in touch now by email.

155

They'll take me to a famous temple the next time I go back.

156

Isn't that fabulous?

157

I can't wait to see that temple.

158

Two.

159

Once when I was in Italy, I took a bus trip from Rome to Florence.

160

The bus was very crowded, and I had to stand most of the way.

161

I had a couple of small bags with me.

162

One was a backpack that had my wallet in it.

163

I kept it in front of me for the entire trip.

164

But when I got to Florence, I couldn't believe what had happened.

165

Someone had cut a hole in my backpack, put in their hand, and removed my wallet.

166

Then they took the money out and put the wallet back inside my backpack.

167

I never noticed a thing.

168

It really ruined my vacation because I couldn't pay to get into any museums.

169

So now I want to go back again next summer and see all the museums I missed.

170

Three.

171

Last summer, I flew from London to Casablanca in Morocco to do some research on the traditional music there.

172

Unfortunately, my bags didn't arrive with the flight.

173

I thought they would probably arrive on the next flight, but they didn't.

174

I had nothing to wear except the clothes I had on.

175

Luckily, the airline gave me some money to buy some extra clothes and things.

176

The bags didn't turn up till four days later.

177

I was really glad to get my bags back because I had a lot of important stuff inside them.

178

But I had to wait around until they turned up, so I didn't get a chance to listen to any of the traditional music.

179

That's why I want to get back there again sometime.

180

4. I was on vacation in Australia last summer when I got a terrible case of the flu.

181

I had to stay in bed for four days

182

and it was a week before I was feeling well enough to go out.

183

I have a cousin in Sydney who was really kind and spent a lot of time with me until I was better.

184

By then, I only had three days of sightseeing left before I had to leave.

185

I saw the Sydney Opera House and that was about it.

186

The most awful thing is I didn't have the chance to go scuba diving.

187

I want to go back and scuba dive there.

188

They have the best coral reefs in the world.

189

Listening 3 1.

190

I met this really nice family when I was in Korea last year.

191

I was in a restaurant, and I was having trouble understanding the menu.

192

The wife came over and asked me what I wanted to eat and told me all about Korean food.

193

Then they asked me to join them at their table and they paid for my dinner.

194

They also invited me to their house.

195

We became friends and we keep in touch now by email.

196

They'll take me to a famous temple the next time I go back.

197

Isn't that fabulous?

198

I can't wait to see that temple.

199

Two.

200

Once when I was in Italy, I took a bus trip from Rome to Florence.

201

The bus was very crowded, and I had to stand most of the way.

202

I had a couple of small bags with me.

203

One was a backpack that had my wallet in it.

204

I kept it in front of me for the entire trip.

205

But when I got to Florence, I couldn't believe what had happened.

206

Someone had cut a hole in my backpack, put in their hand, and removed my wallet.

207

Then they took the money out and put the wallet back inside my backpack.

208

I never noticed a thing.

209

It really ruined my vacation because I couldn't pay to get into any museums.

210

So now I want to go back again next summer and see all the museums I missed.

211

3. Last summer, I flew from London to Casablanca in Morocco to do some research on the traditional music there.

212

Unfortunately, my bags didn't arrive with the flight.

213

I thought they would probably arrive on the next flight, but they didn't.

214

I had nothing to wear except the clothes I had on.

215

Luckily, the airline gave me some money to buy some extra clothes and things.

216

The bags didn't turn up till four days later.

217

I was really glad to get my bags back because I had a lot of important stuff inside them.

218

But I had to wait around until they turned up, so I didn't get a chance to listen to any of the traditional music.

219

That's why I want to get back there again sometime.

220

4. I was on vacation in Australia last summer when I got a terrible case of the flu.

221

I had to stay in bed for four days

222

and it was a week before I was feeling well enough to go out.

223

I have a cousin in Sydney who was really kind and spent a lot of time with me until I was better.

224

By then, I only had three days of sightseeing left before I had to leave.

225

I saw the Sydney Opera House, and that was about it.

226

The most awful thing is I didn't have the chance to go scuba diving.

227

I want to go back and scuba dive there.

228

They have the best coral reefs in the world.

229

Pronunciation 1.

230

How was your trip?

231

It was great.

232

2. How was the food?

233

It was okay.

234

Dictation.

235

Hi, Jen.

236

How was your trip?

237

It was great.

238

I had a wonderful time.

239

How was the food?

240

It was good.

241

I ate a lot.

242

How was the weather there?

243

It was beautiful the whole time I was there.

244

So what was the best thing about your trip?

245

The beaches.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Tactics for Listening Third Edition Developing Unit 24 Travel”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: wallet, bags, flight, trip. This video has 245 sentences and 1951 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:31. The speaker talks at a steady 144 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wallet noun	/ˈwɑl.ət/	A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
backpack noun	/ˈbæk.pæk/	A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when…
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…
scuba noun	/ˈskuːbə/	An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure…
airline noun	/ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/	A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
dive verb	/daɪv/	To swim under water.
sightseeing noun		The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
snorkel noun		A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
stomachache noun	/ˈstʌməkˌeɪk/	A pain in the abdomen, often caused by indigestion, usually lower than the stomach and related to the intestines.
volcano noun	/vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/	A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically…
reef noun	/ɹiːf/	A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
coral noun	/ˈkɔɹəl/	Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony…
terrific adjective		Very strong or intense; excessive, tremendous.
luckily adverb	/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/	In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.
someday adverb		Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go back verb	To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
turn up verb	To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
come over verb	To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
get along verb	To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
get back verb	Return to where one came from.
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.
wait around verb	To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and…
start off verb	To begin.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Were you on your own?
I'm having a wonderful time.
Anyway, what do you think?
Listen, I'm gonna be back a day late.
I'm not sure what to do.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	The most awful · the best
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was having
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	I'll call · won't help · I'll be
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	had to leave · had to stand · had to wait

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 64 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, didn't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dictation /dɪkˈteɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/
Long words — get the stress right: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, spectacular /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/

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 wallet, backpack, cloth.

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.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?