Shadowing Practice: Tiếng Anh giao tiếp: Lesson 4 - Grocery shopping - Learn English Speaking with Video

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28 sentences
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Grocery shopping.
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Aisle.
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Shopping cart.
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Basket.
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Produce section.
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Deli section.
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Meat and poultry section.
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Bakery.
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Dairy section.
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Pork.
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Beef.
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Chicken.
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Duck.
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Lamb.
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Veal.
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Bacon.
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Sausage Ham Minced beef Minced pork
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Pork ribs Chicken wings
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Chicken thigh Salmon Tuna Mackerel Catfish Fish fillet
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Shrimp Prawn Squid Cuttlefish octopus,
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crab, lobster, clam, oyster, mussel, scallop.
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We're out of grocery.
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I'm gonna go grocery shopping today.
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Do you need anything?
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Excuse me.
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Where's the produce section?
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Excuse me.
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Where's the dairy section?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Tiếng Anh giao tiếp: Lesson 4 - Grocery shopping”. This video has 28 sentences and 79 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:26.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
grocery noun/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
beef noun/bif/The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
dairy noun/ˈdɛə.ɹi/(also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
duck noun/dʌk/Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and…
bacon noun/ˈbeɪ.kən/Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
basket noun/ˈbæskɪt/A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
lamb noun/ˈlæm/A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
cart noun/kɑɹt/A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than…
sausage noun/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic…
shrimp noun/ʃɹɪmp/Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a…
crab noun/kɹæb/Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
thigh noun/θaɪ/The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
aisle noun/aɪ̯l/A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
bakery noun/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
lobster noun/ˈlɑb.stɚ/A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a…

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as gonna, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 grocery, beef, dairy.

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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