Shadowing practice: Trump's Concert Turns Into Total Disaster, He Brags About Health Exam & Spencer Pratt's Mayoral Ads

This clip is Jimmy Kimmel opening his show with a run of quick jokes about the calendar turning to June before he pivots into a bit about Donald Trump. It sits at B2, and the delivery moves at 183 words per minute, faster than 48% of the catalogue, so the lines arrive close together with almost no pause between setup and punchline.

That speed is exactly what makes it worth practising out loud rather than just reading. A host talking to a studio audience uses the rhythm of American accent training in its purest form: stressed words punched hard, filler words swallowed, sentences that trail into a laugh instead of a full stop. If you can keep pace with this line by line, slower monologues get noticeably easier.

Three lines in this opening carry most of the interesting speech to copy. Each one rewards a different kind of listening, from a swallowed reduction to a joke that runs past where you expect it to stop.

• "and you're not gonna believe this" is the clearest reduction in the whole opening. gonna replaces going to and gets almost no stress, so the line speeds up right where a reader would expect it to slow down for the reveal.
• "Can y 'all believe it's already June?" is said with rising, almost mocking energy, repeated across several near identical lines before it. Say it exactly as written, contraction and all, and match the climbing pitch on believe.
• "Just speaking of blowing minds Donald Trump's is shot." has no comma where you would put one when speaking, which is the giveaway that Kimmel runs it as a single breath group straight into the next sentence rather than pausing after minds.

Treat this as english speaking practice you build line by line, not a clip you play once and move on from. The repeated "how it" filler section is a natural on ramp because it is short and identical each time.

• Start on line 11, "and you're not gonna believe this", and repeat it until the gonna comes out unstressed and fast, not as two full words.
• Move to the run of "Can y 'all believe it's already June?" lines and shadow this run of jokes back to back so the rising pitch on believe becomes automatic, not something you add afterward.
• Take line 36, "Just speaking of blowing minds Donald Trump's is shot," on its own and say it as one breath group with no pause after minds, the way Kimmel does.
• Loop those three lines together as a short english shadowing practice set before you attempt the full 135 line clip, since matching a B2 host at this pace is easier once the specific reductions are already in your mouth.