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B1 English Listening Practice - The Beach

English shadowing practice · 94 sentences · 3:32 long · 680 words

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “B1 English Listening Practice - The Beach” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 94 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 202 words per minute, a fast pace, with an average of 7.2 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 b1 English
2. 0:02 listening practice video you can use
3. 0:05 this video to train your listening and
4. 0:07 comprehension as I speak so today I'm
5. 0:10 gonna talk about the beach this is a
6. 0:12 subject that most people like because
7. 0:14 most people like the beach but I would
8. 0:16 say that I'm actually in that small
9. 0:18 minority of people that don't really
10. 0:19 love the beach
11. 0:20 I'd say that I sometimes like going to
12. 0:22 the beach but honestly I prefer other
13. 0:24 types of terrain but I'll get back to
14. 0:26 that later let's talk about all the cool
15. 0:29 beach activities that you can do first
16. 0:31 of all there are a ton of cool sports
17. 0:33 that can be played in the sand like
18. 0:35 volleyball soccer football etc I've got
19. 0:39 to say that even though I'm not all that
20. 0:40 crazy about the beach beach volleyball
21. 0:42 is one of the sports that I love the
22. 0:44 most
23. 0:45 there's just something about moving and
24. 0:47 diving around in the sand that I really
25. 0:49 like and I'm fairly tall so I have the
26. 0:51 advantage of being able to spike the
27. 0:53 ball over the net which is pretty fun
28. 0:55 soccer and football can also be fun to
29. 0:58 play on the beach but for me I think I
30. 1:00 prefer to play those sports on normal
31. 1:02 grass it's just easier to move around
32. 1:04 it's flat and you can play on a bigger
33. 1:07 field so besides sports of course one of
34. 1:09 the other things that people do on the
35. 1:11 sand is sunbathe now this is something
36. 1:13 that I could never do in a million years
37. 1:15 because I burned super easily if you put
38. 1:18 me out in the Sun for a few hours I'd
39. 1:20 come back looking like a ripe tomato no
40. 1:22 joke I'm sure some of you might say
41. 1:24 something similar some of us get a nice
42. 1:26 tan when we're out in the Sun and some
43. 1:28 of us burn badly I remember one of my
44. 1:31 all-time worst sunburns was when I went
45. 1:33 on a pretty long bike ride wearing a
46. 1:35 sleeveless shirt it was kind of cloudy
47. 1:37 outside so I didn't think I needed
48. 1:39 sunscreen and boy was I wrong
49. 1:42 my arms were peeling for a long time
50. 1:44 after that day okay so back to the beach
51. 1:47 let's talk about some of the different
52. 1:49 water activities now growing up I did
53. 1:51 some boogie boarding which I actually
54. 1:53 find pretty fun it just doesn't look as
55. 1:55 cool as surfing if you've never been
56. 1:57 boogie boarding before it's when you
57. 1:59 have a rectangular board and you lie
58. 2:01 down on it and when a big wave comes it
59. 2:04 pushes you into the shore it's pretty
60. 2:06 fun I've actually been thinking about
61. 2:08 learning to surf recently because I've
62. 2:10 had a few different students who are
63. 2:11 surfers and they
64. 2:12 talk to me about it and made it sound
65. 2:14 pretty cool so maybe I might try it but
66. 2:17 I don't think I'd be that good at it
67. 2:18 besides surfing and boogie-boarding
68. 2:20 there are also some other more exotic
69. 2:22 looking activities like kite surfing and
70. 2:25 windsurfing and some boat activities
71. 2:28 like jet skiing or sailing I have been
72. 2:31 sailing before but on the bay not in the
73. 2:33 ocean sailing is something that would be
74. 2:35 cool to get into but it takes a lot of
75. 2:37 practice training and dedication and so
76. 2:40 I don't think I'll ever go that route
77. 2:42 alright so I mentioned earlier that I'm
78. 2:44 not a big beach guy and that's mainly
79. 2:46 for two reasons the first is the Sun I
80. 2:49 burn easily and the second is that if I
81. 2:51 have free time I prefer to go to other
82. 2:53 places like the mountain the forest the
83. 2:56 countryside even the desert so it's not
84. 2:59 that I don't like the beach I just like
85. 3:01 other nature places better but despite
86. 3:03 that fact I've lived close to the beach
87. 3:06 for most of my life and I know I'm lucky
88. 3:08 for that alright so that's all for today
89. 3:10 leave a comment and tell me some of the
90. 3:12 things that you like doing at the beach
91. 3:14 I'll see you next video
92. 3:18 [Music]
93. 3:26 [Applause]
94. 3:28 [Music]

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