Shadowing Practice: Русский как иностранный для детей: база. Отрывок вебинара для преподавателей РКИ - Learn English Speaking with Video

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But you need to know the system of coordinates of your students.
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Where are they in the process of this teaching?
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Why do we need to know?
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Because, look, second step.
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We need to remove the maximum all the problems of this construction.
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And leave only one, with which we will work.
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How do we do it?
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We think, like, I go to school.
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If you have a class, you can imagine what they know and what they don't know in ideal.
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And we here look, if we look at the system of coordinates of my own learning and the structure of the 2A,
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3rd, then in context of this process of teaching, what students know and what they don't know.
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They know the name of the students, we have a I, it they know and understand.
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They know the meaning of the word school, the lexica.
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What are the difficulties?
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There is a word not only V, but also NA in this meaning.
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I am on the stadium, on the phone, on the остановment.
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And this is, кстати, all the words they already know.
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But the word NA is used as a word for the meaning of hobby, which we also already passed to this moment.
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They also can't come out of the course.
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Например, я иду на танцы, я иду на математику, я иду на баскетбол.
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И еще одна сложность – это слово «дом».
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Естественно, наша сложность любимая.
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Тоже слово «исключение».
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Я иду домой.
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What do we do with these excursions?
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We don't take them on the exam.
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If you have children and you feel that they can't understand, they don't increase their level of stress,
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that you say it, then you can briefly mention that V sometimes is N.
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I do not recommend it.
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If you don't have a word on the exam, where you need to say, If you want to say,
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in the stadium, you will be able to do it and say, in the stadium the next one is the first rule.
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In the new structure, which we train.
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So in the construction of the предложation of the school, we chose one of the challenges.
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It's the main direction of the movement.
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All the rest we either remove, or freeze.
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What is important to say here is that the l词, look, we need to...
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This structure is not so thick as it seems to be trained.
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We need to know that children have a certain level of language.
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We must be convinced that they are ready to train this topic.
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This means that they will know all these words and other words words.
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There was a museum, a cafe, a park, a library, a кино, there was a hospital, like this, an office, I believe.
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There was a second step, look, four steps will be.
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Second step, we, first, analyze all elements, how the language, so the grammatical, second, determine where we are, what students already know, what not,
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And from what they don't know, we should leave only one thing that we will train today.
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If we don't understand the structure of these elements and leave them many problems,
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or if they don't know what is, or they don't know the word, or they don't know the word, then it will be too much problems.
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And it's clear that as a snowstorm, this is a topic that they can't be able to do it.
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And here are children who just didn't manage the information with the new information and forgot everything.
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All right.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Русский как иностранный для детей: база. Отрывок вебинара для преподавателей РКИ”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: word, structure, step, students, stadium. This video has 44 sentences and 557 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:13. The speaker talks at a steady 132 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 91% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
topic noun/ˈtɑpɪk/A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
element noun/ˈɛləmənt/One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
examination noun/ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/The act of examining.
coordinate verb/koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/To place in the same order or rank.
thick adjective/θɪk/Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
ideal adjective/aɪˈdi(ə)l/Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
difficulty noun/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
convince verb/kənˈvɪns/To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
briefly adverb/ˈbɹiːfli/In a brief manner, summarily.
freeze verb/ˈfɹiːz/Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
distress noun/dɪˈstɹɛs/Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
hobby noun/ˈhɑ.bi/An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
analyze verb/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/To subject to analysis.
café noun/ˌkæˈfeɪ/A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the…
excursion noun/ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Why do we need to know?
  • How do we do it?
  • What do we do with these excursions?
  • We don't take them on the exam.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, can't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, excursion /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, coordinate /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, grammatical /ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like topic, element, examination.

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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