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A1 English Listening Practice - Homes

English shadowing practice · 81 sentences · 4:31 long · 534 words

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “A1 English Listening Practice - Homes” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 81 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 122 words per minute, a moderate pace, with an average of 6.6 words per sentence. That makes it suitable for intermediate learners who want natural, everyday speech.

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 a one
2. 0:02 English listening practice video you can
3. 0:06 use this video to practice your
4. 0:07 listening and comprehension as I speak
5. 0:10 before we start remember to subscribe to
6. 0:13 the channel click on the bell and follow
7. 0:16 us on Instagram you ready so today I'm
8. 0:20 gonna talk about homes this is an
9. 0:23 important topic because we talk about
10. 0:26 our homes a lot let's talk about the
11. 0:30 different types of homes some people
12. 0:33 live in the houses some people live in
13. 0:36 apartments and other people live in
14. 0:39 other types of homes houses and
15. 0:43 apartments are the most common types of
16. 0:45 homes in big cities people often live in
17. 0:49 apartments apartments are very common in
18. 0:53 big cities they're usually smaller and
19. 0:57 cheaper than houses some apartments are
20. 1:01 in really tall buildings these buildings
21. 1:04 can have 20 or 30 floors sometimes I
22. 1:08 don't want to live on the 30th floor I
23. 1:11 prefer living on the 1st or 2nd floor if
24. 1:15 you live outside the city you probably
25. 1:19 live in a house not an apartment people
26. 1:22 that live in the countryside usually
27. 1:25 live in houses these houses are usually
28. 1:29 bigger than apartments they also have
29. 1:32 backyards a backyard is the place behind
30. 1:36 your house where you can have grass
31. 1:39 trees gardens or a pool when I was a kid
32. 1:44 I loved playing in my backyard it was
33. 1:48 fun to play outside everyday most
34. 1:51 apartments don't have backyards
35. 1:54 they usually have balconies instead ok
36. 1:58 now let's talk about the price of houses
37. 2:01 and apartments in the u.s. houses and
38. 2:05 apartments can be really expensive
39. 2:08 if you live in a big city in my home
40. 2:11 state of California houses and
41. 2:14 apartments cost a lot of money the
42. 2:17 average price of a house in California
43. 2:20 is all six hundred thousand dollars
44. 2:24 crazy huh it's also really expensive to
45. 2:28 rent an apartment in California in the
46. 2:31 US people usually rent apartments but in
47. 2:35 some other countries people often buy
48. 2:38 apartments when I was younger I shared
49. 2:42 an apartment with other roommates it's
50. 2:46 common to have roommates in the u.s.
51. 2:49 sometimes you have good roommates and
52. 2:51 sometimes you have bad roommates have
53. 2:55 you ever had roommates before okay now
54. 2:58 let's talk about other types of homes
55. 3:01 some people live in condos which are
56. 3:04 similar to apartments single condos are
57. 3:08 part of a bigger building or complex
58. 3:11 just like apartments but in the u.s.
59. 3:15 many people buy condos but they don't
60. 3:19 buy a partner one more type of home that
61. 3:22 exists in the u.s. is the townhouse
62. 3:26 townhouses are similar to normal houses
63. 3:29 but they're often smaller and cheaper
64. 3:32 also they're usually part of a community
65. 3:36 of townhouses so there are several
66. 3:40 different types of homes that people can
67. 3:43 buy or rent some people prefer houses
68. 3:47 some people prefer apartments and other
69. 3:50 people prefer condos or townhouses I
70. 3:53 think I prefer houses I hope I can buy a
71. 3:58 house in the future all right that's all
72. 4:01 for today leave a comment and tell me
73. 4:03 what type of home you live in and
74. 4:06 remember to subscribe to the channel
75. 4:08 click on the bell and follow us on
76. 4:11 Instagram
77. 4:12 for more English tips and lessons I'll
78. 4:14 see you next time
79. 4:18 [Music]
80. 4:26 [Applause]
81. 4:28 [Music]

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