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A1 English Listening Practice - Soccer

English shadowing practice · 86 sentences · 4:42 long · 548 words

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “A1 English Listening Practice - Soccer” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 86 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 120 words per minute, a moderate pace, with an average of 6.4 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. 0:05 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 soccer this is a really
9. 0:24 popular topic because many people love
10. 0:27 soccer soccer is the most popular sport
11. 0:30 in the world it's the most important
12. 0:33 sport in the world let's talk first
13. 0:36 about the rules of soccer
14. 0:38 the objective of the game is to score
15. 0:41 more goals than the other team if your
16. 0:44 team scores more goals than the other
17. 0:47 team your team wins and the other team
18. 0:51 loses but it's not easy to score goals
19. 0:55 it's hard each team has defenders who
20. 0:59 try to stop you from scoring goals
21. 1:02 midfielders are the players that play in
22. 1:06 the middle of the field they have to run
23. 1:09 a lot
24. 1:10 I never liked being a midfielder because
25. 1:14 I can't run a lot the players that
26. 1:17 usually score goals are called forwards
27. 1:20 being a forward is fun because scoring
28. 1:24 goals is fun also each team has a
29. 1:28 goalkeeper the goalkeeper can use his
30. 1:32 hands and his whole body to defend the
31. 1:35 goal in total each team has 11 players
32. 1:39 on the field now let's talk about
33. 1:42 soccers popularity in most countries
34. 1:46 soccer is the biggest sport most cities
35. 1:50 have a local soccer team and the people
36. 1:53 support their city's team there are also
37. 1:56 national teams every four years national
38. 2:01 teams compete for the World Cup during
39. 2:04 this time everyone supports their kind
40. 2:08 trees team some nations are very good
41. 2:11 like Germany France and Brazil other
42. 2:15 nations are not so good the US doesn't
43. 2:19 have a very good team because soccer is
44. 2:22 not very popular in the u.s. most
45. 2:26 Americans prefer other sports like
46. 2:29 American football basketball and
47. 2:32 baseball
48. 2:33 many children play soccer in the US but
49. 2:37 not many people enjoy watching soccer I
50. 2:40 played soccer when I was a child and it
51. 2:44 was fun for me I liked being a forward
52. 2:48 because I wanted to score goals I don't
53. 2:52 play soccer now though ok lastly let's
54. 2:56 talk about soccer leagues around the
55. 2:59 world most countries have a domestic
56. 3:02 soccer league with local teams some
57. 3:06 famous soccer leagues include the
58. 3:08 English Premier League La Liga and Spain
59. 3:12 Bundesliga in Germany and sedia ah and
60. 3:15 Italy these leagues have some very good
61. 3:19 teams some of the best teams in the
62. 3:22 world include rau Madrid Barcelona
63. 3:26 Liverpool Bayern Munich and Juventus in
64. 3:30 the past I really liked watching
65. 3:33 Cristiano Ronaldo
66. 3:35 play I watched him play for rounded rid
67. 3:38 Juventus and Portugal my favourite
68. 3:42 matches are the Champions League matches
69. 3:45 the Champions League is the highest
70. 3:48 competition for European teams every
71. 3:52 year in the Champions League the best
72. 3:54 teams in the world play against each
73. 3:57 other it's always really exciting
74. 4:00 nowadays I'm not really interested in
75. 4:04 sports anymore but once in a while
76. 4:08 I like watching soccer alright that's
77. 4:11 all for today leave a comment and tell
78. 4:13 me
79. 4:14 who your favorite soccer team is and
80. 4:17 remember to subscribe to the channel
81. 4:19 click on the bell and follow us on
82. 4:22 Instagram for more English tips and
83. 4:25 lessons I'll see you next time
84. 4:29 [Music]
85. 4:37 [Applause]
86. 4:39 [Music]

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