Shadowing practice: Don't Use These 50 American Words in the UK | Easy English 62

This clip is built for british english pronunciation practice, not for following a plot. Easy English's host runs through fifty American English words and gives the British equivalent for each, one pair at a time, in an interview style segment where different speakers deliver the words. At an A2 level and a pace of 130 words per minute, it moves faster than most beginner clips in the catalogue, but every line is short: a single word or a short phrase, never a long run to keep in your head.

There is no plot to follow, just contrast: apartment against flat, candy against sweets, elevator against lift. That makes it useful english shadowing for beginners who still find full sentences too much to hold in their head. You get a clean word, a short pause, then its counterpart, so you can check your own pronunciation against a native speaker before the next pair arrives.

Most of this clip is single words, but two full sentences carry real rhythm to copy. Everywhere else the job is just catching a short vowel sound before the next pair arrives.

• "Recently, somebody commented that some of the phrases in our videos are made specifically for British English learners." This is the longest sentence in the clip, with the stress falling on commented and specifically, a good line for practising sentence stress before you move into the quick fire pairs.
• "As you can see, there aren't any similarities in any of these words." The contraction aren't and the repeated phrase any of these sit close together, useful for everyday english rhythm rather than reading each word on its own.
• "Apartment." followed by "Word is flat." is a full pair delivered as two separate one word lines. Repeat each pair back to back and compare your own vowel sound in flat against the host's.

Work the clip in the order it plays rather than jumping around. It is one continuous quick fire list, so each pair sets up the next, and going through them in order keeps the pace honest.

• Start at line 1, "Hello, welcome to Easy English." Shadow the greeting on its own first to match the host's opening pace before the word list begins.
• At line 2, the sentence about somebody commented, split it after learners the first time through, then say the whole line once the two halves feel steady.
• From line 7 through line 30, work each pair twice: once for the American word, once for the British word, matching the short pause between them.
• At line 60, "As you can see, there aren't any similarities in any of these words." slows the pace back down. Use it as a checkpoint before the next 25 words.
• Once you can keep pace through lines 1 to 60, this is solid english speaking practice for daily use, since the words themselves, flat, chemist, dustbin, nappy, are ones you would actually reach for talking with a British speaker.