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Shadowing practice: Phrasal verbs | English Class 1 | Learn English | Daily Use Phrasal verbs |

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  1. Talk in.0:03
  2. Talk in.0:05
  3. Tuck in your shot.0:07
  4. Don't forget to tuck in your shot before going to the interview.0:10
  5. Put on.0:19
  6. Put on.0:21
  7. I need to put on my jacket before going outside.0:22
  8. She put on her favorite dress for the party.0:28
  9. Zip up.0:35
  10. Zip up.0:38
  11. He forgot to zip up his pants.0:40
  12. Please remember to zip up your jacket before you go.0:45
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  1. Button up.0:53
  2. Button up.0:55
  3. Button up your shot.0:57
  4. Don't forget to button up your shot before going to the meeting.1:01
  5. Roll up.1:10
  6. Roll up.1:12
  7. Roll up your sleeves.1:14
  8. Roll up your sleeves before you start working.1:16
  9. Kick off.1:25
  10. Kick off.1:28
  11. She kicked off her shoes and relaxed on the couch.1:31
  12. Tack off.1:40
  13. Tack off.1:43
  14. Please remember to zip up your jacket before going to the meeting.1:45
  15. Please take off your shoes.1:46
  16. I take off my coat when I come inside.1:50
  17. Tie.1:58
  18. Tie.2:00
  19. Tie your shoelaces.2:02
  20. He is tying his shoelaces.2:06
  21. He is tying his shoelaces.2:09
  22. Tie his shoelaces.2:12
  23. Try on.2:15
  24. Try on.2:17
  25. We will try on the dress before we buy it.2:19
  26. Try on the shoes to see if they fit.2:24
  27. Dress up.2:32
  28. Dress up.2:34
  29. We like to dress up.2:38
  30. We like to dress up when we go out to it.2:40
  31. You do not need to dress up for dinner.2:46
  32. Wrap up.2:54
  33. Wrap up.2:56
  34. Wrap up well.2:57
  35. It's go outside.2:59

A calm, A2 level drill built for english speaking practice

This clip is a phrasal verb lesson, not a scene from a show or a conversation between two people. A single instructor with a mixed accent works through ten everyday phrasal verbs: tuck in, put on, zip up, button up, roll up, kick off, take off, tie, try on and wrap up. Each one is said twice, then paired with two example sentences, so the same forty seven lines double as english speaking practice before you ever open the app.

The pace sits at 137 words per minute, slower than most of the catalogue, and the level is marked A2. That combination is what makes this a fair pick for english shadowing for beginners: nothing rushes past you, and every phrase repeats once before the clip moves on, so your mouth gets two tries at each shape before the next verb starts.

The language in this clip: phrasal verbs said twice, then used

The pace and the flat, even delivery make this a clean way to hear how to pronounce english words one phrasal verb at a time, before trying them at natural speed elsewhere. Three lines show what to listen for.

  • "Don't forget to tuck in your shot before going to the interview." Copy the line as it is actually said and notice the stress sits on "tuck in", not on the noun that follows it.
  • "Please remember to zip up your jacket before you go." Two tight beats, "zip up" then "your jacket", said as one breath group rather than four separate words.
  • "She kicked off her shoes and relaxed on the couch." A past tense phrasal verb: "kicked off" stays one stressed unit even with the ed ending attached to the particle.
  • "We like to dress up when we go out to it." The same verb drilled earlier in the clip, now sitting inside a full sentence, a check that you can carry it past the bare form.

How to shadow this line by line, an order for A2 learners

Work through the clip in the order it was recorded, ten verbs, roughly four lines each, rather than jumping to whichever ones sound easy.

  • Start at line 3, "Tuck in your shot," and say the bare verb alone before adding line 4, the full sentence. That short to long pattern repeats for the whole clip.
  • Do the same through "Zip up" at lines 9 to 12 and "Button up" at lines 13 to 16, saying the bare verb twice before either example sentence.
  • Slow down on "She kicked off her shoes and relaxed on the couch." at line 23 and "He is tying his shoelaces." at lines 32 and 33. Both push a stressed particle against a suffix, and that pairing is worth extra passes if you want to improve english speaking with past tense phrasal verbs.
  • Finish at "Wrap up well." on line 46, then say all ten bare verbs back to back from memory, tuck in, put on, zip up, button up, roll up, kick off, take off, tie, try on, dress up, wrap up, to check the stress stayed on the particle and not the verb.
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