Shadowing English

we are going to use a true story and we're  going to do some shadowing we're going to  

work on our English speaking fluency and flow our  overall speaking skills let's jump right into the  

story here it is Craig Stapleton that's his name  Craig Stapleton go ahead and Echo me and practice  

the pronunciation Craig Stapleton and it's an  an experienced sky SK diver an an experienced  

that's kind of hard to say for me an experienced  sky diver an experienced skydiver he's a skydiver  

and he has lots of experience he is an experienced  skydiver with over 7,000 jumps wow he has jumped  

out of an airplane over 7,000 times so he's an  experienced skydiver with over 7,000 jumps under  

his belt under his belt that just means he has the  experience the experience he has experienced over  

7,000 jumps he has 7,000 jumps under his belt this  is a common expression he has lots of experience  

under his belt probably had the luckiest Escape  of his life so Craig probably had the luckiest  

Escape of his life all right I'm going to say  that nonstop go ahead and join me and Shadow me  

okay Craig Stapleton an experienced skydiver with  over 7,000 jumps under his belt probably had the  

luckiest Escape of his life again Craig Stapleton  an experienced skydiver with over 7,000 jumps  

under his belt probably had the luckiest Escape  of his life one more time Craig Stapleton an  

experienced skydiver with over 7,000 jumps under  his belt probably had the luckiest Escape of his  

life good job it happened one day when Craig and  his teammate Katy Hansen Katie Hansen attempted a  

challenging skydiving maneuver a challenging  skydiving maneuver with a large flag okay  

so they are a skydiving team because she is  his teammate and they are doing some kind of  

maneuver where they use a big L A large flag so  it happened one day when Craig and his teammate  

Katie Hansen attempted a challenging skydiving  maneuver with a large flag can you say it say it  

with me it happened one day when Craig and his  teammate Katie Hansen attempted a challenging  

skydiving maneuver with a large flag it happened  one day when Craig and his teammate Katie Hansen  

attempted a challenging skydiving maneuver with  a large flag everything started off smoothly but  

then Craig's parachute became Tangled causing  him to spiral out of control towards the ground  

ooh danger so everything started out smoothly  it was going well but then Craig's parachute  

Craig's parachute became Tangled got mixed up  C causing him to spiral Spiral is woo spiraling  

out of control towards the ground all right let's  say it ready everything started off smoothly but  

then Craig's parachute became Tangled causing him  to spiral out of control towards the ground again  

everything started off smoothly but then Craig's  parachute became Tangled causing him to spiral out  

of control towards the ground as he descended  descended means go down as he was going down  

as he descended as he descended he instructed  himself to stay as calm as possible stay calm  

stay as calm as possible roll with the impact so  roll with the impact means when when you hit the  

ground roll so roll with the impact and breathe  out when he hits the ground so that's what he's  

thinking to himself he's instructing himself  okay stay calm roll with the impact breathe  

out when you hit the ground all right let's say  this together ready as he descended he instructed  

himself to stay as calm as possible roll with the  impact and breathe out when he hits the ground  

again as he descended he instructed himself to  stay as calm as possible roll with the impact  

and breathe out when he hits the ground Craig  crashed into a Vineyard narrowly avoiding the  

sharp iron Stakes reporting each grape vine so  Craig crashed into a a grape vineyard maybe a  

wine vineyard so he narrowly avoided sharp metal  staks that were supporting each Great Vine he was  

lucky he narrowly avoided narrowly avoiding the  sharp iron Stakes supporting each grape vine oops  

Craig crashed into a Vineyard narrowly avoiding  the sharp iron Stakes supporting each grape vine  

Craig crashed into a Vineyard narrowly avoiding  the sharp iron Stakes supporting each grape vine  

Craig crashed into a Vineyard narrowly avoiding  the sharp iron Stakes supporting each grape vine  

instead he landed in soft freshly plowed soil  freshly plowed soil which softened his Landing so  

he landed in some soil some ground that had been  that had been brought up maybe a farmer used his  

tractor and plowed the soil so they made the soil  soft and he landed on that soil on that that Earth  

woo he survived that that's amazing instead he  landed in soft freshly plowed soil which softened  

his landing and I'm sorry I hit the button I  wanted to say it two more times okay instead  

he landed in soft freshly plowed soil which  softened his Landing instead he landed in soft  

freshly plowed soil which softened his Landing  despite the forceful impact boom forceful impact  

he miraculously oh that's hard to say miraculously  miraculously he miraculously he miraculously  

he [Applause] miraculously it was like a miracle  miraculously didn't suffer any broken bones  

he didn't suffer any broken  bones it was a miracle he

miraculously all right despite the forceful impact  he miraculously didn't suffer any broken bones  

despite the forceful impact he miraculously  didn't suffer any broken bones despite the  

forceful impact he miraculously didn't suffer any  broken bones remark remarkably remarkably he left  

the hospital within 4 hours without any major  injuries although he was heavily bruised and  

in [Music] pain remarkably he left the hospital  within 4 hours without any major injuries although  

he was heavily bruised and in pain remarkably  he left the hospital with in 4 hours without  

any major injuries although he was heavily bruised  and in pain remarkably he left the hospital within  

4 hours without any major injuries although he  was heavily bruised and in pain when his wife  

tried to embrace him he declined saying no hug  no hug I can't take it so his R his wife tried  

to embrace him but he said no don't do it don't  hug me don't hug me I can't take it I can't take  

it when his wife tried to embrace him he declined  saying no hug no hug I can't take it when his wife  

tried to embrace him he declined saying no hug  no hug I can't take it so some of you might be  

thinking what exactly does that mean I can't take  it I can't take it when you feel overwhelmed by  

something something to the point where you can't  continue then you can say I can't take it I I'm  

overwhelmed I can't take it all right let's look  at some example sentences with that the noise from  

the neighbors was so loud that I couldn't take it  and had to move to another room the noise from the  

neighbors was so loud that I couldn't take it  and had to move to another room the noise from  

the neighbors was so loud that I couldn't take  it and had to move to another room couldn't take  

it all right after hours of waiting for my wife  I just couldn't take it anymore and decided to

leave all right repeat after me and  after hours of waiting for my wife  

I just couldn't take it anymore and decided to

leave okay we got got a little away from our  shadowing story let's go back to the shadowing  

story all right we finished the story now  we're going to say it nonstop I'll try to  

say it smooth and clear you join me try to say  it with me shadow me here we go take a breath  

Craig Stapleton an experienced skydiver with  over 7,000 jumps under his belt probably had  

the luckiest Escape of his life life it happened  one day when Craig and his teammate Katie Hansen  

attempted a challenging skydiving maneuver with  a large flag everything started off smoothly but  

then Craig's parachute became Tangled causing  him to spiral out of control towards the ground  

as he descended he instructed himself to stay as  calm as possible roll with the impact and breathe  

out when he hits the ground Craig crashed into a  Vineyard narrowly avoiding the sharp iron Stakes  

supporting each grap Vine instead he landed  in soft freshly plowed soil which softened  

his Landing despite the forceful impact he  miraculously didn't suffer any broken bones

remarkably he left the hospital within 4  hours without any major injuries although  

he was heavily bruised and in pain when his  wife tried to embrace him he declined saying  

no hug no hug I can't take it boom we did it  good work out way to go guys way to practice  

speaking English exercise them English  speaking muscles a little bit every day  

and you'll get stronger and stronger one  step at a time all right if you want to  

get all the steps my goal is to go to 10,000  steps and I'll try to improve my teaching  

abilities a little bit a little bit along the way  englishcoachchad.com I'll see you in the next step