Shadowing Practice: Thanksgiving at home vlog - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Good morning everyone.
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So it is Thanksgiving morning.
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It's gonna be cool this year because Christine is going to be my co -chef.
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All right, so we're gonna start getting ready and we're gonna head over to the kitchen and begin Thanksgiving cooking.
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All right, so we are making banana bread first.
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This is the best year recipe
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which I think in my humble opinion it is the best banana bread recipe and you start off with old bananas, right?
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Like overly ripened.
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Let's go.
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Old roast bananas.
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How long are they roasted for?
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Until they start bubbling.
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All right.
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I chopped a lot of onions, but you can't go wrong with too much onions.
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Now that the onions are chopped, it's time for the mushrooms, the baby bellas.
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Whoa, they look like eggplants.
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Wow.
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Oh, yeah.
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It is definitely bubbling.
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It smells divine.
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All right, so we're mashing up the roasted bananas, and it smells so good.
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It's insane.
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And this is going to go into the banana bread batter.
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So we got the cranberry.
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They look like tiny little apples.
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They're so cute.
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Oh My gosh, they look like and you're just gonna add that in here
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All right, we love it wing it
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So, a little secret I do for the green bean casserole is I add a touch of premium soy sauce.
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Just a little bit.
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I don't really measure.
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I just go with how I feel.
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That's enough.
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And then it just gives it a really nice, robust flavor.
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Thank you.
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Let's go.
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we got the best parts of the turkey here
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and we got some of the seasoning ready we got some rosemary some thyme lemon from the garden freshly plucked
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and the banana bread is browning
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and looking just delish it's juicy see massage butter under the skin of the turkey and
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that is the hack for juicy non -dry turkey she's like fairy dusting
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it right now all right
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it's time for the bird to go in
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We'll see you in a few.
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Get all toasty.
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Alrighty, I'm going to check in on the mushrooms, the green bean casserole.
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So notice how brown this looks.
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That's from the soy sauce
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and I add a little bit of better than bouillon to give it
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that extra flavor so that the onions and the garlic and all the seasoning, it soaks into the mushroom.
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This is when you can add the milk.
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So I'm just going to add a little at a time
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so I'm going to add a little bit of flour to thicken it
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so it's nice and gravy like
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so once it gets to this creamy consistency kind of looks like a nice thick soup this is
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when I like to fold in the green beans so I'm just going to put in a little at a time.
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Nice.
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So we got gizzards here.
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What we're going to do is just throw them in the instapot
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and let it pressure cook so it's tenderized and it saves us like an hour.
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We have a whole ass bakery shop here.
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Two cups of chicken stock.
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We're this right all right okay
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so let's throw some herbs in there should we do like thyme
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and some rosemary okay perfect and then salt and pepper all right nice
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and then let's do some pepper we're gonna do 30 minutes
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what are we doing ginger sauce for the sweet potatoes sweet potato sauce
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So this is going to be the chicken
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gravy and the gizzards there are going to go into the stuffing she's still grating
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that that's been like I feel like you've been doing
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that for like 30 minutes I swear we have here the turkey gravy
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and I'm going to work on the beef gravy that's the plan
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and I'm gonna throw this in the stuffing too so we're going in with this baby
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So the steak is done.
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Chicken is done.
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These two are going to go into the stuffing and all the drippings went into here.
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So I'm currently working on the gravy.
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The Velveeta.
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Just a little Velveeta.
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They give it that extra badness.
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Beautiful.
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Mom's helping out.
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Thanks mom.
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I love you.
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This looks amazing.
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All right, I'm gonna turn this bit off because that is nice and crispy.
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Ooh, it's cheesy.
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All right, so here it is.
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We're finished.
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We have the gravy.
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We have chicken gravy and turkey gravy, and we have all the wonderful best parts of the turkey here.
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Got some yams, cornbread with cranberry sauce, and we have like these everyone just eats the rest of these the green bean casserole
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so I made four of them and then we have mac and cheese here and
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then we have stuffing oh yeah and this I'm not a fan of that but I don't know and banana bread
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Afternoon on a train I only took it because it started to rain
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Afternoon in the fall
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This weather always makes me think about it all
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Thanksgiving at home vlog”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: banana, gravy, add, bread, turkey. This video has 102 sentences and 835 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:01. The speaker talks slowly, about 83 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| banana noun | /bəˈnænə/ | An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. |
| bean noun | /ˈbi(ː)n/ | Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. |
| onion noun | /ˈʌn.jən/ | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| roast verb | /ɹoʊst/ | To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. |
| mushroom noun | /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/ | Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). |
| recipe noun | /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ | Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. |
| bubble noun | /ˈbʌbəl/ | A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid, commonly a soapy liquid. |
| pepper noun | /ˈpɛp.ə/ | A plant of the family Piperaceae. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| lemon noun | /ˈlɛmən/ | A yellowish citrus fruit. |
| flavor noun | /ˈfleɪvə/ | The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. |
| chop verb | /t͡ʃɑp/ | To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. |
| juicy adjective | /ˈd͡ʒuːsi/ | Having lots of juice. |
| rosemary noun | /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛəɹi/ | A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis), that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and… |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| check in on verb | To pay a visit in order to monitor the health, security or safety of (someone or something). |
| go in with verb | To commit to something with; to partner with. |
| help out verb | To provide assistance. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- And you're just going to add that in here?
- I'll see you in a few.
- Should we do, like, thyme and some rosemary?
- How do we doing?
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 best |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start getting · start bubbling |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna be · gonna start · is going to go |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are making · is definitely bubbling · we're mashing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 23 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, thicken /ˈθɪkən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, chef /ʃɛf/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, freshly /ˈfɹɛʃli/
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 banana, bean, onion.
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.