Shadowing Practice: Stay in Touch - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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If you have ever heard people saying goodbye in American English, you probably have heard this.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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People who don't see each other often like to find ways to stay in touch.
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But what does that mean?
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It was great to see you at the class reunion.
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Now make sure to stay in touch.
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I want to talk to you before our next reunion.
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I will.
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I'll stay in touch and I'll call you sometime next week.
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Staying in touch or keeping in touch says that you want to communicate with someone.
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It means you want to keep in contact, maybe by phone or email, even though you don't see that person often.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Thank you.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Stay in Touch”. This video has 15 sentences and 138 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:55. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
reunion noun/ɹiːˈjuːnjən/The process or act of reuniting.
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
communicate verb/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
sometime adverb/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
email noun/ˈiˌmeɪl/A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet…
touch verb/tʌt͡ʃ/To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
contact noun/ˈkɑntækt/The act of touching physically; being in close association.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylemhave ever heard
İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgiPeople who don
“will” ile gelecek will + fiil — bir karar, söz ya da tahminI'll stay

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like reunion, goodbye, communicate.

Gölgeleme Tekniği Nedir?

Gölgeleme, başlangıçta profesyonel tercüman eğitimi için geliştirilen ve çok dilli Dr. Alexander Arguelles tarafından popüler hale getirilen, bilim destekli bir dil öğrenme tekniğidir. Yöntem basit ama güçlüdür: ana dili İngilizce olan bir sesi dinler ve hemen yüksek sesle tekrar edersiniz — konuşmacıyı 1-2 saniye gecikmeyle takip eden bir gölge gibi. Pasif dinleme veya dilbilgisi alıştırmalarının aksine, gölgeleme beyninizi ve ağız kaslarınızı gerçek konuşma kalıplarını eşzamanlı olarak işlemeye ve yeniden üretmeye zorlar. Araştırmalar, telaffuz doğruluğu, tonlama, ritim, bağlı konuşma, dinleme anlama ve konuşma akıcılığını önemli ölçüde geliştirdiğini göstermektedir — bu da onu IELTS Konuşma hazırlığı ve gerçek dünya İngilizce iletişimi için en etkili yöntemlerden biri yapar.

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