Shadowing Practice: Teri Hatcher interview on The One Show - September 7, 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Terry here is going to be taking over from Vanessa Williams in The Devil Wears Prada
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which has broken box office records since first opening in 2024.
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Yes, it follows aspiring journalist Andy as she gets a job at the fashion magazine Runway working for Miranda, one of the industry's most powerful figures.
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But before we talk about it, here's a taster of the smash hit show.
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A million girls would kill for this job. Do you read Runway?
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Not often.
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What if I don't want this life?
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Everybody wants to be us.
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That's all.
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It's such a fun show, and it's such the right time to be offering this kind of joy to an audience
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and vanessa um was my first phone call when i got the offer
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because we've been friends for decades from desperate housewives
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and before from the 90s from radio shack commercials that's actually where really oh yeah i'm very old um
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anyways i called her and i said what do you think
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and she said i've been talking to the producers about you for a year i'm
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so glad they offered it to you you should absolutely do it you'd have
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so much fun and my daughter had actually seen vanessa in it like a year ago
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and she doubled down on how great it was
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and how much fun i would have
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so the two of them easily convinced me to join the
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top of my musical list me too on the list of
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things to see i mean there's everything in this incredible outfits there's dancing there's singing
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but this isn't going to be the first time
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that you've performed in front of a crowd is it no
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um i most recently i did morticia adams in the adams family
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which was great
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and I kind of see a little through line from Morticia
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to Miranda they'd be friends friends they both have agency
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and confidence and you know far more control than I do personally
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and before that was quite a few decades ago
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but was an honor I played Sally Bowles in the Sam Mendes Rob Marshall version of cabaret
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and I did that I toured that in the US for seven months
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but i missed out on broadway
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because um i was exhausted needed a break well things happen
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for a reason now rehearsals haven't started yet have they
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but apparently watching the film is helping you especially the scene
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where miranda has a bit of a go at andy
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when she's in that blue jumper well i yeah i mean i'm actually not watching the film
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and not really seeing vanessa in it too much
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because i want to have space to like bring my own thing to it
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but that said the dialogue is very similar to the movie in in the musical yeah
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and i was recently in mexico city to see rosalia who by the way is fantastic
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if anyone hasn't seen her and my daughter was with me
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and we were in the car on the way to the concert yeah
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and my daughter said the word stuff i don't know what
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we were talking about maybe it was how much stuff should we buy in mexico i don't know
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but she said the word stuff and I just it ticked me off
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and I went oh stuff you know and I just went into
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that oh okay I see and I just went into the whole cerulean speech
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and she looked at me and she went mom
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when I come to visit you I think I'm going to have to see the play every night
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because that was amazing and Elton John sir Elton John I should say has done the music
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but this is not the first time
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but you've worked with him is it isn't
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that crazy yeah back in 2005 um he asked me to be in a music video
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that he did and there it is i mean i really it was surreal it was just insane
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that i was
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that elton john was actually playing an upright piano in this
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yard in a in this in a part of los angeles
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i it was it was it was crazy i would have
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felt a bit self -conscious i'll be honest what he did
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do for me i brought my childhood um yellow brick road album
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and i was so shy you know because it's elton john
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and i was like would you sign my album for me
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and he did
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and now i have it um oh there it is i
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have it framed um in my house uh it's sort of a wonderful piece of memorabilia very cool i mean
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so i can't believe i'm working with him again i'm
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so excited yeah and he's so lovely as well
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and i'm actually of course another show taken to the stage is dinner ladies you were just 24
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when you started that alongside victoria wood what was
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that like well it was mind -blowing at the time
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because victoria wood was the reason i wanted to be a
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performer yeah you know i was obsessed with her since you know i can remember
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so to get it was my first job at drama school
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so it was yeah it was an extraordinary time with all
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those extraordinary cast members you know you think you know julie walters celia rimway
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and read and then we had an episode where we had dora brian you know, Thora Heard and Eric Sykes, yeah, so I, yeah, sort of...
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know bucket list ticks yeah before we just started yeah yeah
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and we have to of course mention susan in desperate housewives okay
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and the scene where susan so brilliant gets locked out of a house naked uh was
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that really good fun to film because you say
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that was one of the standout ones for you yeah you
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know interestingly enough i'm doing this rewatch podcast that's streaming on hulu starting in november
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and i'm doing it with my daughter in real life emerson and my daughter on the show, Andrea Bowen, and we've been re -watching the show.
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It's my daughter's first time re -watching it.
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And so we just went through the first season, and we're just now halfway into the second season.
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And we were talking the other day about, what is your favorite scene you've seen so far?
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And collectively, she likes that scene the best.
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I like that scene the best.
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James Denton, who played Mike, likes that scene the best.
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It seems to have sort of lasted the test of time.
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It really, it was, I love the choreography of it it was it was really a dance between the steady cam operator
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and the wardrobe department
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that yeah figure out in the prop department figuring out how to cover the bits you don't want to see
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and um yeah it was a memorable moment yeah when we watched it earlier i remembered it instantly
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well you can see terry in the devil wears prada the musical at london's dominion theater from the 20th of October.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Teri Hatcher interview on The One Show - September 7, 2026”. This video has 97 sentences and 1197 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:21. The speaker talks fast, about 188 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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]… |
| tick noun | /tɪk/ | A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. |
| aspire verb | /əˈspaɪɚ/ | To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. |
| cabaret noun | /kæbəˈɹeɪ/ | Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe. |
| cerulean noun | /səˈɹuːli.ən/ | A greenish-blue color. |
| choreography noun | /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ | The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet. |
| memorabilia noun | /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/ | Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events. |
| obsess verb | /əbˈsɛs/ | To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. |
| rewatch verb | /ɹiːˈwɒtʃ/ | To watch again. |
| rosalia noun | A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a tone or semi-tone higher or lower | |
| standout noun | /ˈstændaʊt/ | An exceptional or noteworthy person or thing. |
| taster noun | /teɪstɚ/ | An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup or spoon. |
| surreal adjective | /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/ | Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous. |
| interestingly adverb | In an interesting way. | |
| dominion noun | /dəˈmɪnjən/ | Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 28 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: smash /smæʃ/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Long words — get the stress right: cerulean /səˈɹuːli.ən/, choreography /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/, memorabilia /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/
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 housewife, tick, aspire.
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.