Shadowing practice: Real English® 12 Subtitled - What's the weather like? CC Double

This clip is a short street interview from Real English, filmed at A2 level and paced at 180 words per minute. Different people on the street answer the same question, "What's the weather like today?", one after another, so you hear the same American accent pattern repeated across many short answers instead of one long monologue.

That repetition is what makes this useful for english speaking practice. The vocabulary stays small, the sentences are short, and there are 90 lines to work through, each one a different way of describing the same sky. It suits english shadowing for beginners because no single line asks you to hold more than a few words in your mouth at once, and the accent barely changes from speaker to speaker.

The interviewer's question never changes, so the interest is in how each answer varies. One person keeps it flat: "It's cloudy and damp." Another stacks several details into a single breath: "Okay, well it's really overcast and cloudy and it's a bit crisp and a little windy out." A third answers with a pair of near opposites: "It's not too cold and it's not too warm."

• "It's cloudy and damp." Two plain adjectives, said with almost no rise at the end. Good for practising a flat American statement with no emotion attached.
• "Okay, well it's really overcast and cloudy and it's a bit crisp and a little windy out." A run of small qualifiers, really, a bit, a little, stacked one after another. Say it slowly first and notice how each hedge softens the one before it.
• "It's not too cold and it's not too warm." The matched negatives carry the stress, not too, not too, a shape worth copying if you want to speak english fluently about anything that has two sides.
• "Sunny, mild, not too hot, not too cold." No verb at all, just four words dropped one after another. Native speakers answer this question the way they'd think it, in fragments, not full sentences.

Work through the clip in the order the interview actually runs, not by jumping to the lines that look interesting.

• Start with line 2, "What's the weather like today?" Say the question on its own a few times before touching any answer, since it repeats through most of the clip and sets the rhythm for everything after it.
• Shadow line 3, "It's cloudy and damp.", until the two adjectives land cleanly, then move to line 6, "It's brisk.", the same flat pattern with a single word.
• Take line 16, "Okay, well it's really overcast and cloudy and it's a bit crisp and a little windy out.", apart piece by piece. Say "overcast and cloudy" alone, then add "a bit crisp", then the full line at speed.
• Put line 29, "It's not too cold and it's not too warm.", next to line 32, "Sunny, mild, not too hot, not too cold." Same idea, two different shapes, useful for daily english conversation practice about weather in your own words.
• The interview repeats itself from line 46 onward with the same questions and mostly the same answers. Use that second pass as a check: if a line still trips you the first time through, it should not by the second.