Shadowing Practice: Wild Kratts - Tornadoes and Thorns: A Prairie Adventure - Learn English Speaking with Video

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# Go Wild Wild Wild Rats!

# Home, home of the very...

Hey, so what animal do we want to check out today then?

Well, let's start with an animal that has prairie in its name.

I like it!

Like a...

Prairie dog!

Not a dog at all, really, but a cute, big ol' ground squirrel.

Oh yeah?

That's a good one!

Or.. the prairie chicken.

I love birds that can dance, and it can really put on a show.

Hey, if you want to bust a move with a cool bird, check out a prairie falcon.

This fast -flying relative of the peregrine falcon actually hunts prairie chickens.

Well, nobody's a better hunter than the Crafty and Wily Prairie Wolf, aka Coyote.

What about Prairie Rattlesnake?

They eat a lot of prairie dogs and prairie voles.

Is there a prairie monkey?

A prairie chicken!

This prairie chick is looking really nervous something's bothering him

This might be it we're heading straight for some kind of meteorological event.

It could be a thunderstorm a blizzard or a twister Jimmy take it off autopilot and get us out of here Whoa!

- Oop!

- Twisters occur over hot and flat lands, a common phenomenon of the prairie habitat.

The Tortuga's taken a beating.

- Whoa!

We have no choice, everybody!

- No!

Don't even think it!

- But we have to!

- The Twister has the Tortuga in its clutches.

- Abandoned turtle!

- To the garage!

- Look out!

It's too large to escape the grip of the Twister, but I think we can each take smaller, lighter, high -powered individual flying devices to get out.

Let's go!

Let's speed up on the outside!

I'm right behind you, bro!

Whoa!

Ride out with maximum power!

How are we ever going to find each other?

Oh Oh, no one in sight.

All right, then.

First step of emergency wildcrap protocol would dictate that I make contact.

Calling all creatures!

Ah, not working.

This must be because of interference or damage to the Tortuga's central communication system.

Hmm, I'll have to override it with the emergency transponder.

to send an emergency message issuing a meeting point.

Calling all wildcats!

Let's join up with a prairie animal!

That gives me an idea!

Find a prairie rattlesnake at its sunning spot, where this cool creature would be warming up after the storm!

Let's all meet up there!

Aww...

Let's get out of here!

Timmy!

Easy, Jay -Z.

Those bison have you really nervous, huh?

Bison?

No!

I'm talking about the buffalo bush!

You wouldn't believe what I saw!

Freaky!

Like mystery freaky!

Freaky?

Mystery?

Oh, this I gotta hear?

Was it a creature? Or what?

Sorry to interrupt your little chit -chat, but we gotta go!

Now!

Come on, Jimmy, to the cockpit!

We gotta see this!

Let's get out there, quick! And lift!

Wait!

We're too late!

Yup!

We're surrounded.

Ooh...

Lifting off now would cause a stampede, and we can't do that.

We're stuck!

Gotta wait 'til they pass through, guys!

Chris?

Martin?

Hey!

Where'd they go?

Whoa!

Jimmy was right!

This is weird.

Who did that?

Hung all those insects up like that?

I don't know, but we've got another creature mystery on our hands, bro!

A weasel?

Gotta be some kind of predator.

Only one way to find out.

Huh?

A stakeout!

Oh, ho, ho.

We'll get mini -sized.

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So whoever it is won't even see us spying on them.

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Miniaturized!

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All right.

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The mystery of the Prairie Thornbush has begun.

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-Woo -hoo!

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Oh!

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Okay, all is quiet right now.

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Hmm.

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Just a cute little grey birdie at the top of that bush.

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Ooh, check it out!

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A prairie kingsnake basking down below!

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Whoa!

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You got the snake!

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What?

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That little songbird thinks he's an eagle or something.

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I know!

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He just has little stick legs, not talons.

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The little masked gray songbird!

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Mystery solved!

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Martin!

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Those gray songbirds, they're the ones doing the thorning!

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Uh, Chris?

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I've been thorned.

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Look, I don't know why they're doing this, but I've almost got an idea on these birds.

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Aha!

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It's a loggerhead Shrike!

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Wait a second.

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That female Shrike is checking out all the things he caught.

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He just proved to her that he's good at catching things.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Wild Kratts - Tornadoes and Thorns: A Prairie Adventure”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: prairie, mystery, twister, creature. This video has 290 sentences and 900 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:27. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 76% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
prairie noun	/ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/	An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
mystery noun	/ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/	Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
gray adjective	/ɡɹeɪ/	Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
snake noun	/sneɪk/	Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
falcon noun	/ˈfælkən/	Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
grey adjective	/ɡɹeɪ/	Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
relative noun	/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/	Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
occur verb	/əˈkɜː/	To happen or take place.
mini adjective	/ˈmɪn.i/	Miniature, tiny, small.
solve verb	/sɒlv/	To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
whoever	/huˈɛvɚ/	Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
bother verb	/ˈbɑðɚ/	To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
hunter noun	/ˈhʌntɚ/	One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
mask noun	/mæsk/	A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
garage noun	/ɡəˈɹɑʒ/	A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
get out verb		To leave or escape.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
lift off verb		Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
look out verb		To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
pass through verb		To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
warm up verb	/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/	To become warmer.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Hey, so what animal do we want to check out today then?
Let's speed up on the outside!
I'm right behind you, bro!
How are we ever going to find each other?
Let's join up with a prairie animal!

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has begun · I've been thorned
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is won · I've been thorned
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	is looking · we're heading · I'm talking
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	I'll have · We'll get · won't even see

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 27 contractions and reduced forms, such as gotta, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, thorn /θoɹn/, thunderstorm /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/
Long words — get the stress right: phenomenon /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/, interference /ˌɪntəɹˈfɪɹɪns/, autopilot /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/, meteorological /ˌmitiəɹəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/

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 prairie, mystery, gray.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?