Shadowing Practice: Zodiac: Zodiac suspect (HD CLIP) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I told all this to the other officer.
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Which other officer? From Vallejo.
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Do you remember his name?
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No, but it was right after the murder at the lake.
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And what did you tell this officer?
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I told him that I'd gone to Salt Point that weekend to skin dive, that I was alone, but I met a couple there.
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I have their names at home if you want.
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That would be great, Arthur.
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Lee.
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What?
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Lee.
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Nobody calls me Arthur.
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Also, that day when I came home, my neighbor saw me.
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It was around 4, but I forgot to tell the other officer that.
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Neighbor's name?
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Bill White.
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He died a week or so afterwards.
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Heart attack, so I didn't think to call to follow up.
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The knives I had in my car with the blot on them, That blood came from a chicken that I killed for dinner.
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What?
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I had knives in my car that weekend.
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Maybe Bill saw them and called the other officer on me.
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Well, we'll be checking in on that.
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Let me ask you something else.
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Were you ever in Southern California at any time in 1966?
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Is this about the Riverside killing?
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Yes.
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Well, I guess I was there around that time.
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I used to go down there a lot.
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I like the auto races.
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Foreman says that you're ambidextrous?
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No, that's untrue.
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You can't write with both hands.
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My teachers tried to make me when I was a kid, but I couldn't.
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I'm left -handed.
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He also said that you made statements about killing school children. That is horrible.
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That is a horrible thing to say.
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So you aren't angry about being fired from Valley Springs for touching your students?
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I'm not the Zodiac.
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And if I was, I certainly wouldn't tell you.
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Ah, that's a nice watch.
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Thank you.
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May I see it? May I see it?
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Where'd you get it?
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It's a Christmas gift from my mother two years ago.
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That's very sweet.
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So tell me something, Arthur.
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You don't remember anyone you might have had a conversation with regarding the Zodiac?
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Maybe Ted Kidder or Phil Tucker at Vallejo Recreation.
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But I couldn't be positive.
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I used to work through one.
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The most dangerous game.
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What?
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Well, The Most Dangerous Game.
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That's why you're here, isn't it?
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It was my favorite book in high school.
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It's about this man who waits for people to get shipwrecked on this island.
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Because he was tired of hunting animals, he hunted the people for the challenge.
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And man is the most dangerous animal of all?
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That's the whole point of the story.
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Great book.
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Or at least that's what I told Phil.
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There you go.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Zodiac: Zodiac suspect”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: officer, Arthur, dangerous. This video has 63 sentences and 452 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:47. The speaker talks at a steady 119 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 17 of its 63 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
horrible adjective/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
knife noun/ˈnaɪ̯f/A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
afterwards adverb/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/At a later or succeeding time; after that;
dive verb/daɪv/To swim under water.
automobile noun/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and…
neighbour noun/ˈneɪbɚ/A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or…
foreman noun/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mən/The leader of a work crew.
ambidextrous adjective/ˌæm.bɪˈdɛk.stɹəs/Having equal or comparable ability in both hands; in particular, able to write well with both hands.
blot noun/blɑt/A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
shipwreck noun/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
untrue adjective/ʌnˈtɹuː/False; not true.
hunt verb/hʌnt/To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
regarding/ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/Concerning, respecting.
angry adjective/ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/Displaying or feeling anger.
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
check in on verbTo pay a visit in order to monitor the health, security or safety of (someone or something).
follow up verbTo take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.
go down verbTo descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
work through verbTo get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Do you remember his name?
  • Foreman says that you're ambidextrous?
  • You can't write with both hands.
  • Where'd you get it?
  • That's why you're here, isn't it?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as couldn't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, ambidextrous /ˌæm.bɪˈdɛk.stɹəs/

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 horrible, knife, afterwards.

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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