Shadowing Practice: We eat flowers - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Reading for Vocabulary, Level A Lesson 1
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Word List Vegetable Vegetable Vegetables are good for your health.
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Flower, flower.
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Flowers are very beautiful.
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Leaf, leaf.
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Tree leaves change color in the fall.
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Root, root.
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The plant has short roots.
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Stem, stem Tall plants have long stems Seed,
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seed These seeds will grow into flowers Carrot,
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carrot Rabbits like carrots Eat,
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eat The boy is eating a hamburger.
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Potato Potato I cooked potatoes with my mother.
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Lettuce Lettuce My father grows lettuce in the garden.
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Pea Pea All the peas in a pod look the same.
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Smell.
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Smell.
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This flower smells nice.
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Lesson 1.
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We eat flowers.
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Do you like to eat plants?
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The plant parts we eat are vegetables.
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Plants have many different parts.
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We use all these parts for food.
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Do you like to eat carrots?
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Carrots are vegetables.
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They come from carrot plants.
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The part we eat is the root.
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Roots grow down in the dirt.
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Many people like to eat potatoes.
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They are a very tasty vegetable.
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Potatoes are stems that we eat.
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Stems help hold a plant up.
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We eat the leaves of some plants.
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Leaves are flat and green.
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Do you like to eat lettuce?
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Lettuce is the leaf of a lettuce plant.
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Peas are vegetables too.
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They are the seeds of the pea plant.
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We do not eat all of the pea plant.
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We eat the seeds.
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Seeds grow into plants.
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Do you like to look at flowers?
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All flowers make seeds.
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Flowers are pretty and smell nice.
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Some flowers taste good too.
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The top parts of broccoli are flowers.
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That means we eat flowers.

About This Lesson

You're practicing English with "We eat flowers" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

Focus on sounding like the speaker — not just repeating words. With 15–30 minutes of daily practice, you'll build real-world speaking confidence.

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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