Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: Restaurant Serves Gordon An Omelette… That ISN’T An Omelette?! | Kitchen Nightmares

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How long gone Chef Gordon's table?
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Table seven.
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Table seven is not up here.
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First of all, shut up.
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Hold on, hold on.
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Keep clear on the table.
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Terrence!
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I said be quiet.
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They wanted this medium, Mike.
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Thank you, lady.
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Uh, Terrence, have they lost my order?
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It's kind of.
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And so is Christmas.
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You got some salmon omelets down, Mike?
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Doing everything.
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That ain't what I ask you.
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I don't understand all this x-ray shit.
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That was a yes or no question.
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Boss lady, stop talking to me like I'm a little girl, okay?
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Please.
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Don't tell me what the fuck I need to not say.
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You suck.
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Aaron!
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That's not his.
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Oh, uh, Chef Phil.
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This is Chef.
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I don't know.
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That ain't my table.
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You said that was his table.
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I better get on the mimosas in a minute.
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Well, I'm so sick of this .
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Ah, yes.
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Thank you.
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What is that?
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A jerk chicken omelet.
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Does she do it with yolks?
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No. No. It's an egg white in a carton.
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I can't always see.
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Excellent, mate.
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Egg white.
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Jesus Christ.
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How's it taste?
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That's a very strange texture.
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Why does it sound hard?
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I've never eaten it, so I'm not sure.
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The chicken's dry.
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OK.
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Thanks, darling.
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No problem.
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Thank you.
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He didn't like it.
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It was a strange texture.
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The chicken's hard.
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We don't want it here right now.
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He's just trying to get the food out.
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That's what I just told Terrence.
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We don't want it here.
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Y'all just worry about getting y'all tickets out here right.
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Don't worry about what he talking about.
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Kamis, get the fucking lamb chops and shut the fuck up.
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Damn.
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Right.
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Calm your ass down.
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There's a lot of screaming.
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Oh.
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Lamb chop omelette.
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Lamb.
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Lamb.
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Lamb chop.
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Is that an omelette now?
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It is called the lamb chop omelette.
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It is not an omelette, though.
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It's called an omelette, but it's not an omelette.
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That looks very weird.
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There's no color on the lamb.
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It's called an omelette.
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Oh, is that mine as well?
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Yes.
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It said it was drizzled with demi-glaze.
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Is there any demi-glaze on there?
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I can ask.
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I can do it if you wish.
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Yeah, you're all right.
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What the is that?
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The waffle has no color.
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It's like granddad's old sofa.
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Mm.
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There's no crispiness on that waffle.
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Oh, my goodness.
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CJ!
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Shit.
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Does that look dry to you?
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No. Oh, is that the demi-glass?
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Ah, they forgot it.
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This is the $40 lamb chopped demi-glas and fried eggs.
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Put this together. That tastes f*ing weird.
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Chef wouldn't know what good food tastes like, because he live in England.
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They don't do...
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I'm not gonna stop it.
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I'm not gonna stop it.
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I'm just eating though they came out your mouth.
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I'm gonna lunch.
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I'm gonna lunch.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Restaurant Serves Gordon An Omelette… That ISN’T An Omelette?!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lamb, omelette, table, demi, chop. This video has 103 sentences and 481 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:49. The speaker talks at a natural 171 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
omelette noun/ˈɒmlɪt/A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs…
lamb noun/ˈlæm/A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
chop verb/t͡ʃɑp/To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
demi nounA bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters of fluid, half the volume of a standard bottle; a split.
glaze noun/ɡleɪz/The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
waffle noun/ˈwɑf.əl/A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
texture noun/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
carton noun/ˈkɑɹtn̩/An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
crispiness nounThe state of being crispy
drizzle noun/ˈdɹɪzəl/Light rain.
mimosa noun/mɪˈmoʊ.sə/A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small…
sofa noun/ˈsoʊ̯fə/An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
fry verb/fɹaɪ/To cook (something) in hot fat.
salmon noun/ˈsæmən/One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers…
darling noun/ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come out verb/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/To be discovered; to be revealed.
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)…

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • That ain't what I ask you.
  • I've never eaten it, so I'm not sure.
  • We don't want it here right now.
  • We don't want it here.
  • Does that look dry to you?

Ngữ pháp trong video

Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:

Cấu trúcTrong video
Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làmis called · was drizzled
Tương lai với “going to” be going to + động từ — dự định hoặc điều sắp xảy ra thấy rõgonna stop · gonna lunch

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. 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 omelette, lamb, chop.

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.

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