Shadowing Practice: Tate McRae - Housewife (Official Video) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Okay, okay Yeah, what ain't my paradise?
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It's tap points and flashing lights
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Truth is, it's more like a gold's a cash A nice guy and a life lived right
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There's just some things that they don't tell you, tell you And all the dreams they try to sell you,
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sell you The price of fame can take you to your knees
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And when it does, wanna run away with me I just wanna make a lot of money, be my own housewife
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You, you, you, you, you could be the one I'm calling honey
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Be my sex on the side
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You, you, you, you, you, you Hakers of open stars, and lights of precious cars
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Life imitating life I, I, I, I, I just wanna make a lot of money
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Be my own half -white
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Drive fast, take me out of here Louie's out the window and the three with no enemy
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Life's great when you disappear Rockies took the girl, but the city took the gold on me
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This industry will try to kill you, kill you But not before they try to bill you,
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bill you They try to take away you wild and free
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And when they do wanna run away with me I just wanna make a lot of money, be my own housewife
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Do -do -do -do -do -do, could be the one I'm calling honey
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Be my sex on the side
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Do -do -do -do -do, acres of open stars Headlights of precious cars
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Life imitating art I, I, I, I I just wanna make a lot of money
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Be my own housewife Be my, be my Be my
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Go into my garden, pick the money off the tree I don't pay for nothing, baby, people pay me
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And you right beside me, it's just the icing on the tree
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And I don't need you, I want you, and that's my favorite thing
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Go into my garden, pick the money off the tree I don't take nobody, baby, people take me
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And you right beside me, it's just the icing on the tree
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And I don't need you, I want you, and that's my favorite thing I just wanna make a lot of money,
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be my own housewife
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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If you could be the one I'm calling honey, be my sex on the side
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Be my, be my
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Tate McRae - Housewife”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: honey, calling, sex, housewife, tree. This video has 37 sentences and 499 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:21. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| beside | /bɪˈsaɪd/ | Next to; at the side of. |
| flash verb | /flæʃ/ | To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| fame noun | /feɪm/ | One's reputation. |
| knee noun | /ni/ | In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. |
| paradise noun | /ˈpæɹədaɪs/ | The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. |
| disappear verb | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | To vanish. |
| acre noun | /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ | An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86… |
| housewife noun | /ˈhaʊs.waɪf/ | A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid]… |
| imitate verb | /ˈɪmɪteɪt/ | To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of. |
| tree noun | /tɹiː/ | A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches. |
| ice noun | /aɪs/ | Water in frozen (solid) form. |
| sell verb | /sɛl/ | To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. |
| garden noun | /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ | An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. |
| nobody noun | /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/ | A person dismissed as unimportant. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| run away with verb | To leave secretly with another person, often with the intention of getting married or of living together against the wishes of the family. | |
| take away verb | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | To remove something and put it in a different place. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 23 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, wanna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: flash /flæʃ/, cash /ˈkæʃ/
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 honey, beside, flash.
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.