Shadowing Practice: Uncountable Nouns - Learn English Grammar Easily (Comprehensible Input) 学习英语语法 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are some books in this picture.
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There are some books.
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How many?
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How many books are there in this picture?
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Well, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight books.
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There are eight books in this picture.
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In this glass there is some milk, right?
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There is some milk in this glass.
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How much milk is there?
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How much milk is there in this glass?
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I'm not sure.
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Maybe there is 100 milliliters of milk.
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I don't know.
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I don't know how much milk there is.
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There is also some water.
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There is some water in this glass.
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How much water is there in this glass?
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Again, I don't know.
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I don't know how much water there is.
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All I know is that there is some water in the glass.
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How many windows, how many windows are there in this picture?
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There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 40.
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I think there are around 14 windows in this picture.
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That is how many windows there are in this picture.
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here we have many rices no sorry sorry not many rices
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no i mean we have some rice there is some rice
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in the bowl here there is some rice in this bowl
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there are many grains of rice you can see there are lots
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and lots and lots and lots of grains of rice in the bowl loads
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so many so many grains of rice
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but I will just say there is some rice in this
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bowl in this little bowl there is some sugar there is
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some sugar in this bowl how much how much sugar is
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there in this bowl I'm not sure maybe there is 200 grams of sugar in in this bowl.
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I don't know how much sugar there is.
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Next to the bowl there are many sugar cubes here.
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There are many sugar cubes here.
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How many?
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How many sugar cubes do we have here?
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There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
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So there are 11 sugar cubes in this picture.
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That is how many sugar cubes there are here.
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In this picture, how many chairs do we have?
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There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, I don't know.
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There are around 15 chairs in this picture
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that is how many chairs there are there are also a
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lot of plants there are a lot of plants in this picture
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and there are lots lots of tables as well in this
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picture we we can see a butter no sorry not a
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butter i mean some butter there is some butter here that's what i mean
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so there is some butter here
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and it is inside a thing I don't know what to call this there is some butter inside
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and there is a lid there is a lid here you can take off the lid
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and there is some butter inside here we have many pieces of cheese
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so there are many pieces of cheese here how many how
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many pieces of cheese can we see well there are one
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two three four five six seven eight nine i think i
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think there are nine cheeses here no sorry not nine cheeses
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there are nine pieces of cheese that's what i mean there
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are nine pieces of cheese here in in this picture in this picture we can see some, we can see a few,
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we can see a few cups of coffee in this picture, just a few.
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How many, how many cups of coffee can we see in this picture?
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There are one, two, three.
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There are three cups of coffee.
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Inside this cup here, there is some coffee.
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There is some coffee inside the cup right there's some coffee in this cup there's some coffee in this cup
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and there's some coffee in the third cup as well how
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much how much coffee is in this cup i don't know
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how much coffee maybe 200 milliliters maybe two maybe there is 200 milliliters of coffee maybe
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that is how much there is in this picture we can see here there is some paper
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so there is some paper here but i want to know how many pieces of paper are there here?
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Because you can see there is more than one.
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How many pieces of paper are there?
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Or how many sheets?
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How many sheets of paper do we have here?
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I can see one, two.
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Maybe there are more underneath, three
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and four maybe maybe there are around four pieces of paper here around four sheets of paper we cannot see underneath
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here we can see there are there is some toothpaste here so some toothpaste is on top of the toothbrush
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so there is some toothpaste here this woman has a lot
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of shampoo in her hair she has wow you know
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so much she has
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so much shampoo in in her hair how much how much
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shampoo does does she have in her hair i don't know but but
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but she definitely has a lot of shampoo in her hair
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in this picture we can see many cups of paint see
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there are many different cups of paint i wonder how many
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how many cups of paint are there i don't know maybe
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one two three four five maybe six seven eight nine maybe
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ten eleven we cannot see exactly how many there are inside this cup there is some green paint in here.
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There is some green paint in this cup, there's some yellow paint in this cup, there's some purple paint in this cup,
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there's some red paint in this cup, and there's some blue paint in this cup.
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So there are many cups of paint of different colours in this picture.
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these examples are a bit more difficult
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because it is not really obvious why these words are uncountable
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but they are these these nouns are uncountable
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so let's take a look this woman here she has a lot of work to do she has
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so much work so much look at this people are giving her things she has so much work to do.
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How much work does she have?
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How much work does she have to do?
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I'm not sure, but she has a lot.
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In this picture we can see there are many traffics here,
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no sorry no no not many traffics no there is a
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lot of traffic there is a lot of traffic in this picture in this city we can see there is
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so much traffic.
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How much traffic is there here?
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I don't know I mean there is a lot there is
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a lot of traffic here in this picture in this picture
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we can see some furniture yeah we can see some furniture
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there are two armchairs there is a sofa there are there is a table here there is a shelf
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so in this living room there is a lot of furniture There's quite a lot of furniture in this living room.
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In this picture, we can see some money.
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We can see some money.
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There is some money in this wallet.
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How much money is here?
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Well, I can see 100,
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150, 170, 180, 185, 186 so there is one there are 186 dollars in this wallet
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so there is a lot of money here
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there is a lot of money in in this uh in
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this wallet here there we can see an information desk
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so this is an information desk you can go to the
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information desk to get some information you can get some information from from the information desk
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so if you need some information about anything
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go to the information desk and they will provide you with some useful information
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that you need finally this woman here is giving some advice to this woman she is giving this girl some advice
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right some advice she is giving her many advices no sorry
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not many advices that's not right not many advice it's she
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is giving her many pieces of advice okay this this woman
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is giving this girl many pieces of advice she is giving
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her some advice to this to this girl thank you for watching this video on uncountable and countable nouns.
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I will see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Uncountable Nouns - Learn English Grammar Easily (Comprehensible Input) 学习英语语法”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: picture, cup, coffee, paint, sugar. This video has 131 sentences and 1355 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:31. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| desk noun | /dɛsk/ | A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a… |
| cube noun | /kjub/ | A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. |
| furniture noun | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. |
| shampoo noun | /ʃæmˈpuː/ | A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs. |
| sheet noun | /ʃit/ | A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. |
| grain noun | /ɡɹeɪn/ | The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice. |
| wallet noun | /ˈwɑl.ət/ | A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. |
| underneath adverb | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | Below; in a place beneath. |
| noun noun | /naʊn/ | A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea… |
| purple noun | /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ | A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. |
| colours noun | Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern. | |
| eleven noun | /əˈlɛv.ən/ | A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. |
| shelf noun | /ʃɛlf/ | A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects. |
| sofa noun | /ˈsoʊ̯fə/ | An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| take off verb | To remove. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I don't know how much milk there is.
- I don't know how much water there is.
- How many sugar cubes do we have here?
- In this picture, how many chairs do we have?
- How many sheets of paper do we have 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 giving · is giving |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will just say · will provide · will see |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, toothpaste /ˈtuθpeɪst/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, sheet /ʃit/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
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 butter, desk, cube.
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.