Shadowing Practice: This Property Measurement Changes Everything | Architect Visit York Project Pt 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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That's a beautiful drawing.
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I can't believe you did it yourself, yeah?
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Yeah, mine is too as well.
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Hi Will, my name is James.
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First of all, Merry Christmas.
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And also I've just got a little bungalow in Woodthorpe in York.
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And me and my wife were looking to add an extension, do various bits and pieces internally.
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And it's just about inquiring about your services and when you're available
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to potentially come round for a site visit and what the process is, etc. Yeah, sure.
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I'm definitely interested in making the home moments to get the best of the person their needs.
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Currently not at work today but if you could drop me a line to hello @worldslacksign .com to review your budget requirements, come out and do a new consultation.
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Brilliant.
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Go through your ideas and then sort of give you a feed for my services.
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Awesome, brilliant.
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That sounds amazing.
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I'll do that.
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I've got your email actually, I'm from your website.
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Do I need to, I mean, do you have availability in January as well, obviously, because we're looking to just start?
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Yeah, I've got availability for the consultation which is free to go up off to, to go through that.
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And then I wouldn't be able to be in work until mid -February though.
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Right, okay, that's fine.
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We can have a chat, can't we, when you come round?
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Yeah, our architect, Will, is outside taking pictures.
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And Cookie doesn't like it.
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And Cookie's defending us.
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Because Will hasn't done anything to measure off, he's got no boundary.
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So he needs a laser to figure out.
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So if he hits it off that, he can get his measurement.
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But obviously there's nothing here exciting.
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So what are we basically doing?
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So, well, our architect is here taking full measurements of the house with finding out the structural walls,
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pretty much everything details for measurement purposes for our house so he can go away.
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draw it all up and we'll start the design phase which is exciting.
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You're not cold.
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I'm going to go to that that whole system I'm on the It's not, and you were right, it's not going to be an integral piece of architecture.
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It's more of a bolt on extension and a conservative tune that bumped up a little bit.
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So we decided not to go.
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Yeah, it doesn't look right.
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I think with this, where you're riding up Mason from Shripshire, where he was like, yeah,
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which is the next one.
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If I'm of his colon. So, yeah.
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Strange, you know that colon, yeah?
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Yeah.
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This is the extension, but it looks like the colon looks like the house or did they just match the bricks kinda?
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Yeah, they match the brick.
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Yeah, you've got...
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You've got to match up the bricks as close as possible, really.
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Well, if you find the old plans for it...
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Yeah, you can see by the roof that it was added.
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It was done very early.
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Such a strange construction.
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Look at this, like, little...
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end, like this door, you know?
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She probably had an idea to put like a garden, a coffee table or something.
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Yeah.
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A bit underused, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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Something that it was only built for, but then never used.
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I remember trying at the other side.
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Around the back.
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Yeah.
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I've never been through that gate. Have you?
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- Nope.
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I don't have a lot of - Oh, we got rid of them trees.
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Let me know it.
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Did you see them trees?
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They're quite UK.
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Last time we were here I think we had a load of trees here.
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Oh yeah yeah.
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I think you chop them down.
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I'm going to go ahead and get some more of the stuff I've been doing.
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Bye.
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Age metres, let's be honest, it's too much.
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Me and Will were just discussing that obviously, we could go the three metres internally and then build...
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The, what was it?
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300 mil?
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Approximately 300 million of your externals.
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for your installation and your comic wall and everything.
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That's beautiful drawing.
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I can't believe you did it yourself, yeah?
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In my list too as well.
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It's crazy.
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But obviously we won it.
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And then do you want to square it off?
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Ideally, we wanted to do that.
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You know? to put the side extension Yeah.
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So instead of like, the And then that ideally I'd like to be my...
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in the house it would have been a you know yeah kind of going by the last because this is just
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This is dead space.
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We would never use it.
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If the Silex engine finishes level with the Dissonville, then the lubric goes out.
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So let's say the Sardis Center was safe for the end for the disabilities there.
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But then we take this wall that way.
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She'd have like a bit of a stagger there.
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Yeah to keep you away from there yeah you could have
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a side bend on there uh you could for building units here like a small black um You thought,
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yeah, you know, I imagine my Spitzner hammer -clattery, really.
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is otherwise to extend that out you won't keep the gear
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but who's watching the triangle yeah whatever is if you if you have been digging that out it's gonna make it
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Isn't it?
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Ah, of course.
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I don't understand.
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Well think about it.
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Why do not think that?
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If we widen this, that gable doesn't look like that anymore.
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It looks like that.
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Which isn't what we wanted.
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What we're saying is do we just bring this out to keep that...
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And then this side becomes its own kind of maybe a side window next to it.
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uh -huh with a flat roof on that's what we're saying uh -huh
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and then you can have your big roof on something there here Yeah, we'll convince you, we'll see, yeah I like it.
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Yeah.
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So the roof lantern in that roof?
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In this flat bit.
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In this flat bit.
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And then in there, because that's all vaulted and open.
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You have your roof lights.
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on the slopes.
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And then your snug area with a nice roof lantern in this part with your media wall
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and your big L -shaped sofa or whatever you want to do.
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Will it be also a glass?
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Yeah, so this is all...
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Well, what we're trying to do is get that gable ending glass, which is glass by four.
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Uh -huh.
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This part would be...
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Would you run the.. the bifold across the front of it.
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You can take your off to do it. So glass?
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Yeah, old glass.
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Almost it.
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I mean, I'll do a couple of options, one with like the glass band, one with solid.
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What size?
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I'll do like a window instead or I don't know, something.
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Yeah.
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Also, drainage is on that side, so you don't want to put you...
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units on the side to rise.
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I mean, it's doable. Of course.
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Yeah, it's another thing to mention, there's rainages there.
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I know you wanted us to fill out that design, but we'll get it onto it if busy with this other project.
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What about access?
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We've thought about like a wooden, I know this is all details, but like a wooden stove in the corner, a wood stove, you like that?
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So that'd work perfectly.
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So it'd work straight out of the flat roof.
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Exactly.
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So you could have it out of the flat roof and you wouldn't need to take
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necessarily the bifold all the way to the end.
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Okay.
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Because you have your...
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your wood in your corner.
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I might not even want to move out of this house.
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It sounds really nice.
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Well, I like that what you just said.
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Because I never thought about, I thought about bringing the whole thing out.
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But then I didn't even think about that.
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Mm -hmm.
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Mm -hmm.
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It wouldn't look right.
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You're not going to get that.
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That's why I was saying to change the roof, because I was thinking that the triangle disshapes.
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But if we did that, we won't need to change the roof, would we?
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No. because we're putting a flat extension on, we're snugging a lantern on it.
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So it's its own little quirky little thing.
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That's the most practical option.
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You can put a picture if I'm like, but yeah.
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But that's been quite difficult.
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You see it's hitched at the moment because you see pictures.
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Yeah, Castle Gabor.
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Yeah.
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Make that work.
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Yeah.
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Can you get nice flat roof?
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I don't like, I don't like the cell.
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Yeah, I mean, quite a bad name.
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They have had there, but I suppose it's only a small percentage of the whole thing.
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Yeah, I know it's, yeah, so we just trust, uh, to do the fast one.
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Okay.
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So just put it on those wet system.
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All right.
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I could do a membrane.
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I mean, yeah, you often get a slice of Richmond roof, which is like the old 6070s, which leaks.
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Yeah.
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New systems.
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But when I say flat roof, it's got a picture for like one to two of the girls anyway.
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Yeah, of course.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Will it be...
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Will the water go from that flat roof?
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Yeah, that's what it says.
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It's got a picture.
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It's got a flat roof.
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And it will be glass, yeah, roof?
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No, there'll be a big glass skylight.
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Skylight.
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Skylight.
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So you're not even going to have much of a flat roof if you're going to have a nice thing in it.
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you came up with some good ideas and then you put a lot of effort into that.
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If you want any feedback, you put a lot of effort into that initial visit.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You even went up into the loft.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, I thought it was like, yeah, we had cool ideas between us all.
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Oh, well.
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I'm looking forward to it and cracking into it.
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Yeah, we are.
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We're excited, aren't we?
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Yeah.
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The only thing, the only worry that, not worry, but the only thing we have then, Access, yeah.
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How do we.. if we're extending this, we won't have to see it.
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Yeah, I was being honest.
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We don't do that.
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Yeah.
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Because we don't really want to start messing around with the garage.
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Uh -huh.
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Maybe access from there because there are, no. No. Oh, wait.
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It's not practical.
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We'd never walk around that side of the house.
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Oh, yeah, that's true.
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We'd always walk this.
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Maybe like a little boot area with dirty boots.
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That's 610 on the edge of the room inside because...
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Imagine...
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Scram that off here.
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Yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying.
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You're like stepping the extension part.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's perfect.
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We can't wait.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 229 sentences and 1819 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:05. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/ (noun) — The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- brick /ˈbɹɪk/ (noun) — A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/ (noun) — The act of measuring.
- lantern /ˈlæ̝ntɚn/ (noun) — A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
- colon /ˈkoʊ.lən/ (noun) — The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
- practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ (adjective) — Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/ (verb) — To increase in extent.
- wooden /ˈwʊdn̩/ (adjective) — Made of wood.
- boot /but/ (noun) — A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- availability /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ (noun) — The quality of being available.
- architect /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/ (noun) — A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/ (noun) — The act of consulting.
- triangle /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/ (noun) — A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- metre /ˈmiːtəɹ/ (noun) — The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in…
- ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/ (adverb) — In an ideal way; perfectly.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
- go through (verb) — To travel from one end of something to the other.
- bump up (verb) — To increase something suddenly.
- come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (verb) — To be discovered; to be revealed.
- come round (verb) — To change direction.
- come up with (verb) — To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
- figure out (verb) — To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- fill out /fɪl ˈaʊt/ (verb) — To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 76 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/, consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/
- Long words — get the stress right: availability /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/, internally /ɪnˈtɜːnəli/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
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 extension, brick, measurement.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been doing · have been digging |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if we did that, we won't need · if we're extending this, we won't have |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | consultation which is · phase which is · glass, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | hasn't done · I've never been · We've thought |
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.