Shadowing practice: Zyler Kiss, Pool Fun & Visitors

This clip is a two person conversation, Zoe Sugg being shown around Tyler Oakley's house, so it is exactly the kind of everyday english you get with friends, not a script. It runs at 232 words per minute, faster than 86 percent of the catalogue, and it is rated B2, so expect people talking over each other and moving on before a thought finishes.

What actually happens: a greeting at the door, a joke about orange juice coming in a carton, a walk through the kitchen and living room, a stack of unopened fan mail, teasing about which poster gets kissed the most, then a detour into how she broke her foot. Nothing is explained for a viewer, which is what makes it good english speaking practice for daily use.

A few lines are worth slowing down on before you try to speak them at full speed.

• "We're gonna go eat some lunch and then come back here and make out" from line 19 has the only reduced form in the whole clip, gonna instead of going to, and it is said fast, so listen for it collapsing into one beat rather than two words.
• "We rushed over here because where we're staying has literally zero internet" from line 12 is a run on British sentence with no pause before the reason clause, good practice for the flat, unstressed "because" that British speakers drop into without slowing down.
• "I do excuse the fact I have no makeup on" from line 11 is a British hedge, said quickly and lightly, the kind of self deprecating aside that carries more in its tone than in its words, useful for anyone trying to improve their english accent on casual asides rather than formal statements.

Work through the opening in order rather than jumping around, since each exchange sets up the next.

• Start at line 4, "I am here with my boyfriend Tyler Oakley and we're in Tyler's house", and repeat it until the stress lands on Tyler both times without you slowing down.
• Take the carton joke, lines 7 to 10, as one unit and shadow it as a call and response rather than four separate lines, since that is how it was actually said.
• Isolate line 19 on its own and repeat it five times, focused only on gonna, before moving on, since that is the one reduced form in this recording and it is worth getting right.
• Shadow lines 22 to 26, the crib and kitchen walkthrough, at full pace once, then again at half pace, and compare where you lost words the first time.
• Finish on lines 49 to 63, the poster teasing, since the back and forth there is the fastest stretch in the opening and the best test of whether the earlier lines actually stuck.