Shadowing Practice: The Teddy Bear | Artifacts Unpacked: The Animated Series - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What if you had to leave home forever?
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What would you take with you?
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Nine-year-old Hans lives with his parents in Vienna, Austria.
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It's 1938.
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The Nazis take over Austria and begin to target Jewish people with violence.
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They don't let Jews like Hans go to school and force families out of their homes.
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The Nazis also found ways to humiliate Jewish people in public, such as making them wash the streets.
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Conditions continue to get worse.
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Within a year, about half of the country's Jewish population flees.
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In 1940, Hans's family is still in Vienna, and they know their lives are likely in danger.
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Escaping is not easy.
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They need paperwork and permits, and have to stand in long lines at many different offices.
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Before they leave, they must pay an exit fee and hand over or sell almost all of their belongings.
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The Nazi party wants to steal all valuables and money to fund war and build their wealth.
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Hans keeps his favorite teddy bear.
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His mom tells him to hold onto it at all costs.
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When his family boards the train to finally leave Austria, Nazi officials try to take the stuffed animal away from Hans.
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He screams until they give the bear back.
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The family travels by land and sea for months and eventually makes it to New York.
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It is there that Hans's mother reveals a secret.
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She had sewn something into the back of the bear, jewelry they could sell.
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The Nazis would have taken the jewelry if they had found it.
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With his old friend by his side and his mom's smart thinking, Hans and his family start a new life in the United States.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The Teddy Bear”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Hans, Nazi, Austria, Jewish, bear. This video has 23 sentences and 282 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:54. The speaker talks at a steady 148 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| jewellery noun | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. |
| reveal verb | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| exit noun | /ˈɛɡzət/ | An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. |
| permit verb | /pɚˈmɪt/ | To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. |
| scream verb | /skɹiːm/ | To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek. |
| belonging noun | /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/ | The feeling that one belongs. |
| paperwork noun | /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk/ | Routine work involving written documents. |
| flee verb | /ˈfliː/ | To run away; to escape. |
| humiliate verb | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of. |
| sew verb | /soʊ/ | To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. |
| valuables noun | valuable items collectively. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hand over verb | To relinquish control or possession of something to someone. |
| take over verb | To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force. |
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 jewellery, reveal, steal.
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.