Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: listening important people by British Council
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A. She lives next door and she's always been really important in my life.
A. Bà ấy sống nhà bên cạnh và luôn là một người rất quan trọng trong cuộc đời tôi.
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When we were little and my mum was working, she used to look after us.
Khi chúng tôi còn nhỏ và mẹ tôi đi làm, bà ấy thường là người chăm sóc chúng tôi.
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She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
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It was like listening to fairy stories.
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Life was so different when she was a child.
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In her kitchen, she used to keep a special dish with sweets for us.
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and she was always baking cakes and pies now she doesn't bake
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so much she started eating more healthily in her old age salads and vegetables and things it's funny how she's changed
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she also goes to this special gym class for old people it's amazing
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i don't see her so often now but she's always the same person however much her lifestyle changes
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He's four years older than me and that seemed like a huge amount when we were children.
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When we were at the same school we never talked to each other during school hours, but now we're older it's a lot better,
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although I'll always be the little one, and that's annoying sometimes.
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He's taken me to rock concerts that I wouldn't have gone to otherwise, and when he was at uni I went to stay with him sometimes
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that was really cool it was great to see what the real student life was like
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when I was still at school now that he's working he's really busy
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but we still hang out sometimes we go to football matches together
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because we both support our home team it's always good to see him.
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C. We've known each other since we were five, and we've always got on really well.
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Well, apart from that time when we fell out because we both liked the same boy, but he went off with Heather Jenkins,
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so we made friends again quite quickly.
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We both liked the same kind of music and going dancing at the weekend, and when we were younger,
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we went out on our bikes together at school we're good at different things i'm good at languages
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and laura's good at maths that's good though it means that we can help each other with our homework
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next year i'm probably going to study in london and she's going to manchester but i'm sure our
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His family moved in just a few houses down from us when I was about ten,
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and I still remember how excited I felt when I found out there was another boy on the street.
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I'd been the only boy, you see.
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The others were all girls.
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We were good friends from the beginning because we were into the same things, computers and football mostly.
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But we had quite a few of the same hobbies for a while.
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I remember making lots of models of aeroplanes one year.
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Another year we took up fishing.
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We had all the equipment and everything, and we'd spend ages down by the river.
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I never go fishing now.
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His family moved away a couple of years ago.
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We're still friends on Facebook, but we don't really have much contact.
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E. I can remember all the details of when we met.
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I was wearing a red dress and I just had my hair cut.
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I can even remember what music was playing the first time I saw him.
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I knew he was special from the beginning and I was right.
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We've been together ever since.
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Well, it's only been 18 months and some people say that isn't very long, but it seems like ages to me.
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We've got such similar personalities and so much in common.
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I'm sure we'll stay together forever.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “listening important people by British Council”. This video has 46 sentences and 618 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:25. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bake verb | /beɪk/ | To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). |
| lifestyle noun | /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ | A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| pie noun | /paɪ/ | A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie"… |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| homework noun | /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/ | Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class. |
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| aeroplane noun | /ˈɛə̯.ɹə.pleɪ̯n/ | Synonym of airplane. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. |
| annoy verb | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. |
| healthily adverb | In a healthy manner. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fall out verb | To come out of something by falling. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| move away verb | To go away from a place, especially when permanently changing one's residence. |
| stay together verb | To remain loyal in times of stress or difficulty; to avoid separation despite pressure to do so. |
| take up verb | To pick up. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
- I'd been the only boy, you see.
- We've been together ever since.
- I'm sure we'll stay together forever.
Ngữ pháp trong video
Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:
| Cấu trúc | Trong video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + động từ — thói quen hoặc tình trạng trong quá khứ nay không còn | used to look · used to keep |
| Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại | she's always been · We've known · We've been |
| Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn was/were + -ing — việc đang diễn ra tại một thời điểm trong quá khứ | was working · was always baking · was wearing |
| Tương lai với “will” will + động từ — quyết định, lời hứa hoặc dự đoán | I'll always be · we'll stay |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 21 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we've, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 bake, lifestyle, dish.
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.