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B2 English Listening Practice - U.S. Geography

English shadowing practice · 115 sentences · 4:13 long · 796 words

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This page turns the YouTube video “B2 English Listening Practice - U.S. Geography” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 115 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 198 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. 0:00 hey everybody welcome to this b2 English
2. 0:03 listening practice video you can use
3. 0:05 this video to train your listening and
4. 0:07 comprehension as I speak you ready
5. 0:10 so today I'm gonna talk about the
6. 0:12 geography of the US I'm by no means an
7. 0:15 expert on geography so don't quote me on
8. 0:17 any of this I'm gonna try to talk in
9. 0:19 general about a few of the regions of
10. 0:21 the United States with the little
11. 0:23 knowledge that I do have and of course I
12. 0:25 haven't been to most of the country so I
13. 0:27 won't be able to tell you a whole lot
14. 0:28 about some of the places anyway I'll
15. 0:30 skip over what I don't know so let's
16. 0:33 start with my region the Southwest of
17. 0:35 course I'm biased because I'm from here
18. 0:38 but in my opinion this is the coolest
19. 0:40 region in terms of geography I'm sure
20. 0:42 very few others would agree with me
21. 0:44 though because it's mostly desert here
22. 0:46 in San Diego my hometown the terrain
23. 0:48 could be classified as kind of a coastal
24. 0:50 desert san diego's on the coast so it's
25. 0:53 coastal and I don't think it's actually
26. 0:55 considered part of the desert but it has
27. 0:57 that type of weather it doesn't rain too
28. 1:00 often San Diego has a lot of hills and
29. 1:02 valleys and this helps the temperature
30. 1:04 stay in a good range it doesn't get that
31. 1:07 hot but a lot of other parts of the
32. 1:09 Southwest are definitely considered to
33. 1:11 be desert terrain
34. 1:12 you've got the Sonoran Desert the Mojave
35. 1:14 Desert and the Chihuahuan Desert that
36. 1:16 stretch across parts of California
37. 1:18 Arizona New Mexico and Texas now the
38. 1:21 reason I say that the geography of the
39. 1:23 Southwest is my favorite is that I've
40. 1:25 always found the American desert
41. 1:27 landscape to be really beautiful
42. 1:28 hauntingly beautiful sure there are a
43. 1:31 lot of stretches of the Southwest that
44. 1:33 are just plain and ugly but there are a
45. 1:34 ton of places where you can see
46. 1:36 naturally beautiful desert terrain
47. 1:38 alright so now let's talk about the
48. 1:40 Pacific Northwest I lived in this region
49. 1:42 for a couple of years when I was in
50. 1:44 college I lived in Oregon which is one
51. 1:47 of the states in this region along with
52. 1:48 Washington Idaho and maybe parts of
53. 1:51 Montana in Northern California this
54. 1:54 region is also super beautiful with its
55. 1:56 expanses of lush coniferous forests and
56. 1:59 snowy mountains this would probably be
57. 2:01 considered as the most Foresti region of
58. 2:03 the country it's definitely worth the
59. 2:05 trip out there if you have the time then
60. 2:08 you've got the Great Plains in the
61. 2:09 middle of the country which includes
62. 2:11 North and South Dakota
63. 2:13 Aska Kansas Oklahoma and parts of other
64. 2:15 states too there are a lot of flat lands
65. 2:18 here and so this is tornado country then
66. 2:21 you've got the Midwest which includes
67. 2:22 places like Iowa Missouri Illinois and
68. 2:25 about five to ten other states depending
69. 2:28 on who you ask this region can have some
70. 2:30 pretty harsh weather in the winter with
71. 2:32 a lot of snow I've never been to the
72. 2:34 Midwest but there are plenty of places
73. 2:35 there that I'd love to go to next you've
74. 2:38 got the south the south of the u.s.
75. 2:41 includes a lot of states probably
76. 2:43 somewhere between 10 and 14 depending on
77. 2:45 who you ask
78. 2:46 I've been to Florida before but this
79. 2:48 state isn't always associated with this
80. 2:50 elf but it is the south of course the
81. 2:53 weather there is hot and humid and of
82. 2:55 course Florida is famous for its beaches
83. 2:56 as well as the Everglades which is a
84. 2:58 huge area of tropical wetlands there are
85. 3:01 a lot of cool animals there I probably
86. 3:04 don't need to say much more about
87. 3:05 Florida the rest of the southern states
88. 3:07 are kind of foreign to me but I really
89. 3:09 want to take a road trip through there
90. 3:10 at some point
91. 3:11 but yeah you've got all kinds of terrain
92. 3:13 in the south then you've got the
93. 3:15 Northeast which includes some of the
94. 3:17 most famous places like New York and
95. 3:19 Boston this region is also known for
96. 3:21 having some pretty harsh weather in the
97. 3:23 winter just ask someone from there and
98. 3:25 they'll tell you they've also got some
99. 3:27 beautiful forests up there where you can
100. 3:29 watch the leaves change color in the
101. 3:31 fall lastly you've got Hawaii in Alaska
102. 3:34 Hawaii of course is a beautiful tropical
103. 3:36 island with incredible beaches and lush
104. 3:38 forests Alaska is the coldest state of
105. 3:41 course but I hear it also has nice
106. 3:43 summers I hope I can make it up there at
107. 3:45 some point to see some of the incredible
108. 3:47 mountains forests and glaciers they've
109. 3:49 got there ok that's all for today leave
110. 3:52 a comment and tell me which region of
111. 3:54 the US you'd like to travel to I'll see
112. 3:57 you next video
113. 3:59 [Music]
114. 4:07 [Applause]
115. 4:10 [Music]

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