Where are you? Beginner shadowing lesson
This clip is from Let's Learn English by VOA Learning English. Anna and her roommate Marsha visit a friend's house, and Anna names each room as she walks around. The pattern I am in the... comes back many times in a slow, clear voice, which makes it easy to shadow at beginner level.
- Beginner
- Audio
- 0:44
- 14 sentences
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The sentences
Today, my friend Marsha is at her friend's house.
I want to see this house.
Here we are.
It is a beautiful kitchen.
It is beautiful.
She says it is beautiful.
We cook in the kitchen.
We relax in the living room.
Marsha, let's go upstairs.
We sleep in the bedroom.
Anna, where are you?
Marsha, I am in the bathroom.
Marsha, I am in the kitchen.
I am in the bedroom.
Words and phrases
- friend's house
- the home of a friend
- Here we are
- we have arrived
- beautiful
- very nice to look at
- kitchen
- the room where you cook
- living room
- the room where you sit and relax
- upstairs
- on or to a higher floor
- bedroom
- the room where you sleep
- bathroom
- the room where you wash
How to practise this clip
Listen to how I am in the runs together, and how the stress falls on the room at the end: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom.
- Read the sentence and the words to know, then listen to it.
- Say it right after the speaker, slowly at first. The app waits until you finish.
- Play your try next to the speaker's, then say it again until it sounds the same.
Source
VOA Learning English (Voice of America), Let's Learn English, public domain