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B2 English Listening Practice - Airplanes and Flying

English shadowing practice · 96 sentences · 3:17 long · 664 words

B2 English Listening Practice - Airplanes and Flying

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “B2 English Listening Practice - Airplanes and Flying” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 96 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 212 words per minute, a fast pace, with an average of 6.9 words per sentence. That makes it best for advanced learners; slow the playback down or loop each sentence at first.

How to practise with this video

  1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
  2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
  3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
  4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
  5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (English)

  1. hey everybody welcome to this b2 English
  2. listening practice video you can use
  3. this video to train your listening and
  4. comprehension as I speak you ready so
  5. today I'm gonna talk to you about
  6. airplanes and flying this is definitely
  7. a topic that a lot of people hate and
  8. that's understandable I think one of the
  9. most common fears that exists is IRA
  10. phobia or the fear of flying I can't
  11. even tell you how many people I know
  12. that have this fear to some degree let's
  13. talk a little more about the different
  14. aspects of flying first let's discuss
  15. the plane itself I've flown many dozens
  16. of times to many different destinations
  17. yet I'd say that I probably never been
  18. in a really comfortable plane before I
  19. think this is because almost all planes
  20. are just uncomfortable by nature they've
  21. got to cram all these passengers into a
  22. little space and of course the more
  23. passengers the more money so naturally
  24. there's not going to be a lot of space
  25. or comfort and of course if you're
  26. flying short distances you're probably
  27. not going to be in the big plane so the
  28. space is already gonna seem limited
  29. because of that the times that I've
  30. flown on long-haul flights I did notice
  31. that I had a little bit more legroom on
  32. those planes but I've also flown on some
  33. really small planes where I have to duck
  34. when I go down the aisle those planes
  35. are obviously the least comfortable to
  36. travel on alright now let's talk about
  37. some of the things you experience during
  38. the flight you've pretty much got three
  39. phases of the flight the takeoff
  40. the cruise phase in the land obviously
  41. the cruise phase takes up the vast
  42. majority of the flight time this is the
  43. actual flight so to say but the takeoff
  44. and the landing are the crucial phases
  45. of the flight because in the very very
  46. rare chance that something does go wrong
  47. it's usually in one of these two phases
  48. so if you're gonna get nervous about
  49. flying it should be about the takeoff
  50. and landing not about the cruise phase
  51. it's funny because so many people get
  52. freaked out during patches of turbulence
  53. when the plane is in the cruise phase if
  54. you've flown at least a few times in
  55. your life you've probably experienced
  56. this at some point the planes start
  57. shaking things get a little rocky and
  58. the plane might even freefall for a
  59. second or two when this happens you can
  60. look around and see people in complete
  61. anguish gripping their arm rests and
  62. closing their eyes but the funny thing
  63. is that turbulence is not something that
  64. anyone should be scared of
  65. it's 100% normal and plane
  66. specifically built to be able to
  67. withstand insane amounts of turbulence
  68. there's nothing really to be scared
  69. about so the next time you find yourself
  70. in a rough patch of turbulence just sit
  71. back and relax the takeoff and landing
  72. are the phases which entail much more
  73. risk especially the landing but all that
  74. said it's still really rare for
  75. something to go very wrong during these
  76. spaces flying is actually one of the
  77. safest if not the safest modes of
  78. traveling so don't worry all right now
  79. let's just talk a little bit about what
  80. you can do while you're flying there are
  81. some people that can sleep on planes
  82. without any problem and I'm not one of
  83. these people unfortunately I can only
  84. sleep on planes when I'm super tired
  85. which isn't the case normally I'm the
  86. type of person that likes to read on
  87. planes or if it's a long flight I might
  88. watch some movies I just try to keep my
  89. mind as occupied as possible or else the
  90. flight feels like an eternity okay
  91. that's all for today leave a comment and
  92. tell me whether or not you like flying
  93. I'll see you next time
  94. [Music]
  95. [Applause]
  96. [Music]

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