Shadowing Practice: Your Skeletal System - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Music Take your left hand and gently squeeze your right wrist.
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What do you feel?
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The hard parts you feel when you squeeze your wrist are bones.
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Your bones help to support your body and give your body its shape you you you
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Your body is made up of different parts that work together as body systems.
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you All the bones in your body make up your skeletal system, also called your skeleton.
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you Your bones help to protect important parts inside your body.
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Your ribs, for example, protect your heart and lungs.
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you you you you you and your skull protects your brain.
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you you The skeletal system works with your other body systems to help your body move about and carry out life processes.
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For example, the skeletal system works together with your muscles that make up your muscular system which is essential for movement.
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Your muscles are attached to your bones, and when your muscles contract, they pull on your bones to create movement.
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you Thank you.
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This cooperation between muscles and bones is what allows you to walk, run, jump and perform everyday activities.
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Thank you you Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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you Thank you.
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Taking care of your bones is important for maintaining a healthy skeletal system.
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Eating a balanced diet rich in calcium and vitamin D, engaging in regular physical activity and avoiding injuries can help keep your bones strong and healthy.
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you you Foods rich in calcium include dairy products like milk,
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cheese and yoghurt, as well as leafy green vegetables like spinach and kale you
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Foods high in vitamin D include fish like salmon, cereals, you eggs.
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you Your skeletal system is a remarkable framework that supports, protects and enables your body to move.
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It works in harmony with other body systems to carry out life processes and keep you healthy and active.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Your Skeletal System”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bones, skeletal, muscles, protect, healthy. This video has 27 sentences and 319 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:50. The speaker talks at a steady 112 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| muscle noun | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. |
| vitamin noun | /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ | Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found… |
| wrist noun | /ɹɪst/ | The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. |
| squeeze verb | /skwiːz/ | To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once. |
| calcium noun | /ˈkælsi.əm/ | The chemical element (symbol Ca) with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as… |
| everyday adjective | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions. |
| 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… |
| engage verb | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. |
| cooperation noun | /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | The act of cooperating. |
| enable verb | /ɪˈneɪ.bəl/ | To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. |
| framework noun | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size. |
| remarkable adjective | /ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩/ | Worthy of remark; notable; interesting. |
| harmony noun | /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ | Agreement or accord. |
| lung noun | /ˈlʌŋ/ | A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| carry out verb | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | To hold while moving it out. |
| make up verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | To constitute, to compose. |
| work together verb | To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone. |
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 bone, muscle, vitamin.
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.