Shadowing Practice: The CUTEST Animals from The Wild Robot 🌀 4K - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Who are all of you?
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Go away!
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Where are your children?
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Except for him.
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This is what I get for taking a walk.
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Where's your mommy, little guy?
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The monster!
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You gotta die faster.
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Meningitis.
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Takes a while.
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What did you pick?
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Rabies.
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Spontaneous combustion.
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Nightshade salad.
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Sepsis.
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Hey!
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I picked sepsis!
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None of you are doing it right!
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We talked about this.
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Dead things don't have to explain why they're dead.
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Now we're gonna get killed for real.
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Sorry, Mom.
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Sorry.
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Uh, why aren't we killed yet?
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Good question.
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Nice knowing you, Mom.
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All right.
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It's okay.
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It's okay.
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Uh, hey?
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You in there?
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I'm Pigtail.
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Tall.
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Okay.
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Hello.
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This gosling is yours.
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Negative.
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That gosling stalks me, emits noise, and makes simple tasks more complicated or impossible.
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Yeah, they do that.
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Goslings in print on the first thing they see.
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Which would be you.
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Congratulations!
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As far as he's concerned, you're his mother now.
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I do not have the programming to be a mother.
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No one does.
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We just make it up.
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Without an assigned task, my next priority is to return to factory.
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Taking care of him is your task now.
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Task acquired.
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Return mode delayed.
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A Razum always completes its task.
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You're lucky you just have one.
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As a mother of seven...
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Six, babies.
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It's a full -time thing.
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But it's not all bad.
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Just mostly bad.
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Do you have any information on how to take care of this unit?
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They all need to eat, but yours needs to swim and fly.
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Oh, fly by fall?
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He's got to leave this island before winter, or...
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How do I put this delicately?
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Yeah, that.
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Eat, swim, fly by fall, or...
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Eeeeh!
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Patience is the key.
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It's okay, Mom!
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I'm alive!
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Oh, yay.
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Well, good luck.
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Goodbye!
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We like your new baby.
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Hope it doesn't die.
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Eat, swim, fly by fall.
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Eat.
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Up!
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Huh?
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Swim!
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I say keep your trash out of my pond.
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That's littering, not to mention murder.
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FLY!
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AHHHHH!
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Allow me to introduce myself.
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Think.
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Predator and local goose expert.
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Which I know you could use about now.
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You are the destroyer unit!
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It's okay.
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I won't eat him.
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Are you crazy?
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I might eat him!
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You said you would not.
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Do you believe everything you hear?
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Yes.
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Heh heh.
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Nnnn...noted.
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AHHHHH!
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Ow!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Oh!
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Ah!
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Woohoo!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Activating return transmitter.
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Three.
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Ready?
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Yes!
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Two...
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One!
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Ha!
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Ha!
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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Wait!
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Stop!
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No!
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
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Again!
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No one likes me? Nor me.
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But right now, we are their only chance.
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Funny how life works.
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Okay.
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Here. Can you find more?
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Mom?
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We're gonna be okay.
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What are you doing here?
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Jerk!
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Bummer!
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This one's dead! That is not funny.
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Madler!
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I'm fine!
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Don't give up.
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You don't look so good.
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It is everyone accounted for.
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Maybe one more.
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Oh, yeah!
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Oh, yeah!
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Help!
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Help!
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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What are you doing?
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Take it outside!
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Hey, those are Bright Bill's baby pictures.
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Put that down!
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What?
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What's that?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Knock it off!
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You think those grow on trees?
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Hey, no!
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Think only!
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Anyone see my lost fuzz balls?
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Smelly, noisy, throat dividing.
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We're all gonna die!
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What's he doing here?
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Oh, great.
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This'll help.
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Get out of here!
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I worked hard on this!
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Vink, what is happening?
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You put a bunch of predators in their food supply in one room. Who knew?
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That's my lunch!
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Vink.
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What?
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Help them.
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Quiet!
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The jerk wants to speak.
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Most of you hate me and I hate most of you.
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Everyone in here hates someone else.
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It's true.
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But here we are.
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And here's the deal.
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First one that walks out that door is dead.
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And if we can't keep it together in here, everyone's dead.
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We all got one chance to see next spring.
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Because of her.
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The Thing.
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The monster.
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Well, her name is Roz.
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And while you all ran from her and stole from her and made fun of her,
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all she's been trying to do is raise her kid the little one that no one gave a chance, including me.
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She's the one who got you out of the storm, built this place, and despite my suggestion that she let you all freeze,
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she risked everything to bring you here.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The CUTEST Animals from The Wild Robot 🌀 4K”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eat, task, fly, dead, swim. This video has 197 sentences and 756 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:36. The speaker talks slowly, about 79 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| predator noun | /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/ | Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food. |
| complicated adjective | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | Difficult or convoluted. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| priority noun | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | An item's relative importance. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| congratulations | /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ | Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation. |
| delay noun | /dɪˈleɪ̯/ | A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. |
| introduce verb | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). |
| goodbye | /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ | Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing. |
| throat noun | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | The front part of the neck. |
| suggestion noun | /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/ | Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for) |
| patience noun | /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ | The quality of being patient. |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. |
| walk out verb | To stage a walkout or strike. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Who are all of you?
- Where's your mommy, little guy?
- How do I put this delicately?
- Do you believe everything you hear?
- What are you doing here?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are doing · are you doing · is happening |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna get · gonna be · gonna die |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | won't eat · This'll help |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to explain · need to eat |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, nightshade /ˈnaɪt.ʃeɪd/
- Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, delicately /ˈdɛlɪkətli/
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 swim, whoa, predator.
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.