Shadowing Practice: Thực hành Danh từ đếm được và không đếm được - Countable/Uncountable Nouns - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What's a typical day for you, Diana?
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Well, I get up at 7am.
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I feed the dog and have a bowl of cereal or an egg and a glass of fresh orange juice for breakfast.
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My school is near my house, so I walk to school every morning.
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I have a bag of chips for a morning snack and have a cheese sandwich, an apple and some milk for lunch.
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I like to play basketball with my friends at break time.
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Yay!
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I walk home, have a packet of biscuits or a few jam donuts for afternoon snack.
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Then I play with the dog for a while or I go for a bike ride.
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I play computer games for an hour or two before dinner.
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Then I have a shower and do my homework.
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I watch my favourite television show for an hour.
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Then I usually go to bed at about 9.30pm.
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What do you usually have for dinner?
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I usually have rice, salads and pasta with some kind of sauce and chicken.
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Sometimes I have some oven chips with chicken nuggets.
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Or maybe a frozen pizza once in a while.
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How about you?
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What's a typical day for you?
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I get up at 8am and have two slices of toast with jam and a cup of tea for breakfast.
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My mum drives me to school on her way to work.
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I eat some cookies and a packaged fruit drink for morning snack.
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Rice and vegetables, a little meat and a piece of fruit for lunch.
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Is the food expensive at the cafeteria?
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It's pretty cheap.
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It's three pounds for a lunch and you get a lot of food.
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I like to play card games with my friends at lunchtime.
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I catch the bus home, have a cereal bar and occasionally a can of soda for afternoon snack.
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Then I watch some television.
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I go rollerblading in the park for about an hour.
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I come back home and I do my homework.
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Then I have dinner with my family.
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My favourite meal is pasta with homemade meat sauce.
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lot of pasta.
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I love spaghetti and noodles.
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I go to bed at about 10.30pm.
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How much water do you drink each day?
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I drink about four or five glasses of water, but I also drink a lot of juice and tea.
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I drink plenty of fluids every day.
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And how much exercise do you do each day?
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I do anything from 20 minutes to 40 minutes, depending on how much time I have available.
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Do you eat many sweets?
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I try not to eat too many sweets.
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Too much sugar is bad for your health.
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I eat fruit every day.
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Do you eat any fruit?
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Yes, I eat much watermelon in the summer.
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Oh, me too!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Thực hành Danh từ đếm được và không đếm được - Countable/Uncountable Nouns”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eat, drink, snack, fruit, pasta. This video has 48 sentences and 463 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:34. The speaker talks at a steady 130 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 9 of its 48 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
snack noun/snæk/A light meal.
pasta noun/ˈpɑ.stə/Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
juice noun/d͡ʒuːs/A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
chip noun/t͡ʃɪp/A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
homework noun/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
cereal noun/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
meal noun/ˈmiːl/Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
package noun/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
pizza noun/ˈpi.tsə/A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
occasionally adverb/əˈkeɪʒənəli/On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
pound noun/ˈpaʊ̯nd/A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
fluid noun/ˈflu.ɪd/Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
depend verb/dɪˈpɛnd/To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
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…
sandwich noun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • What do you usually have for dinner?
  • What's a typical day for you?
  • How much water do you drink each day?
  • Do you eat many sweets?
  • Do you eat any fruit?

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, cafeteria /ˌkæ.fə.ˈtɪ(ə).ɹi.ə/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like snack, pasta, juice.

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.

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