Shadowing Practice: What happens in different seasons? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What happens in spring?
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It's spring
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In spring snow and ice melt In spring nature wakes up Plants grow
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The grass is green.
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The leaves are green.
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Flowers bloom.
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The days are long.
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Beers wake up from hibernation.
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Butterflies fly.
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Ladybugs are all around.
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Bees collect pollen and nectar.
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Snails come out.
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Birds build nests.
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Eggs hatch Birds sing
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Insects come out Bunnies hop around.
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The weather gets warmer.
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Sometimes it's rainy.
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We see rain showers.
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We see colorful rainbows, sometimes it's sunny,
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sometimes it's partly cloudy.
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What happens in summer?
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It's summer.
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The sun shines so bright.
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In summer, it's very hot.
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Sometimes, boiling hot.
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The plants grow very quickly.
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Plants and trees give fruits like watermelons, strawberries, and mangoes.
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The leaves are green The grass is green
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The days are long The nights are short
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Usually, it's sunny.
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Sometimes we see tropical rains.
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Sometimes it's partly cloudy.
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What happens in fall?
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It's fall.
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In fall, leaves change color.
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The leaves are yellow, red and orange.
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Leaves fall down Pinecones fall down
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The days are short Bears eat more for winter
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Squirrels collect more food and store for winter The weather gets cool
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Sometimes it's rainy, sometimes it's sunny,
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sometimes it's windy, sometimes it's cloudy
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What happens in winter?
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It's winter. In winter, nature sleeps.
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The trees have no leaves.
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There are no flowers in winter.
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The days are short, bears hibernate,
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hedgehogs hibernate, Some birds migrate and fly,
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fly away The arctic fox changes its color The weather is cold
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Sometimes it's snowy Sometimes it's sunny
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Sometimes it's partly cloudy Sometimes there is frost
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “What happens in different seasons?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: leaves, winter, fall, cloudy, sunny. This video has 50 sentences and 266 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:26. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| sunny adjective | /ˈsʌni/ | Featuring a lot of sunshine. |
| cloudy adjective | /ˈklaʊ̯diː/ | Covered with or characterised by clouds. |
| partly adverb | /ˈpɑɹtli/ | In part, or to some degree, but not completely. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| grass noun | /ɡɹɑːs/ | Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as… |
| collect verb | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | To gather together; amass. |
| rainy adjective | /ˈɹeɪni/ | Pouring with rain; wet; showery |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| tropical adjective | /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/ | Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south. |
| shine verb | /ʃaɪn/ | To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| bee noun | /ˈbiː/ | A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for… |
| nest noun | /nɛst/ | A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. |
| melt verb | /mɛlt/ | To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. |
| frost noun | /fɹɔst/ | A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| fall down verb | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | To fall to the ground. To collapse. |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shine /ʃaɪn/, hibernation /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
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 leaf, sunny, cloudy.
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.