SHADOWING a STORY for FLUENCY Repeat After Me

are you ready for a fluency story we're  going to work on your English speaking  

skills your fluency your enunciation your  pronunciation your intonation all that good  

stuff all right we will use repeat after  me and then we will do shadowing to finish  

the story all right let's jump into it I want  you to repeat after me two times each little  

piece and then at the end shadowing here  we go one once upon a time in a beautiful

Forest once upon a time in a beautiful

Forest a group of frogs lived in a large

pond a group of frogs lived in a large

pond one day they decided to  travel one day they decided to

travel through the woods through the woods  all of a sudden all of a sudden two of the  

frogs fell into a pit a pit is a hole in  the ground two of the frogs fell into a

pit the other companion frogs the other  friends the companions the other companion

frogs gathered around the pit  gathered around the pit and saw  

how deep it was and saw how deep it  was after seeing the depth of the pit

the depth depth depth depth how deep  it is after seeing the depth of the

pit they lost all hope they lost all hope  for their fallen friends for their fallen

friends they started yelling they started  yelling yelling yelling it's too deep it's  

too deep you can't make it out you can't make  it out however the two frogs ignored ignored  

they didn't pay attention to the two frogs  ignored the discouraging shouts from above

the discouraging shouts from

above discouraging they take your courage away the  

discouraging shouts from above  and tried to jump out of the pit

anyway anyway regardless and they  tried to jump out of the pit anyway

they tried hard to get out they tried hard to  get out but the other frogs kept telling them  

but the other frogs kept telling them to give  up on their efforts to give up on their efforts  

you're wasting your energy you're wasting your  energy you can't make it out you can't make it out  

one of the frogs one of the frogs listened to the  discouraging shouts listened to the discouraging

shouts from the others and eventually  gave up and eventually gave up

one of the frogs listened to the discouraging  shouts from the others and eventually gave

up the other frog however the other  frog however displayed an unwavering

determination displayed an unwavering  unwavering steady firm not changing  

unwavering determination a strong purpose  displayed an unwavering determination

go he continued to exert all his

strength exert is to apply  to use he tried he continued  

to use all his strength exert all his strength

strength in his attempts to  jump out in his attempts to jump

out the chorus of frogs persisted in their

discouragement the chorus the group The the  group is speaking together in one voice the  

chorus of frogs persisted persevered  continued They carried on in their

discouragement all right I'm going to say it  

again here it goes the chorus  of frogs persisted in their

discouragement urging him to cease his

efforts urging is to encourage to advise  to tell him urging him to cease his

efforts save your energy save your energy  

perhaps it will rain perhaps it  will rain and fill the pit with

water and fill the pit with water oh  then he can escape right you can't do it  

it you can't jump you can't do it stop just wait  for a stroke of luck just wait for a stroke of

luck what's a stroke of luck that's just sudden  you get lucky you wait for something good to  

happen something good happens Suddenly  It's A Stroke of Luck oh wow A Stroke of

Luck maybe then then you will survive maybe then  you will survive suddenly he found a bump on the

wall suddenly he found a bump on the

wall that he used to jump higher than

ever that he used to jump higher than ever

and he got out of the pit and he got out of the

pit the other frogs were so

surprised and asked him the other frogs were so  surprised and asked him and asked him asked okay  

this is this is sometimes difficult to say  asked him now if you say it if you pronoun  

if you say it in a clear pronunciation it  would sound like this ask ask ask however  

when you say it fast you don't really that  doesn't that sound doesn't come out but you  

start to form it inside your mouth ask him  ask him you start to form it in your mouth  

but you don't fully say it asked  him asked him asked him and asked

him did you hear what we were

saying I left out even didn't I did you even hear  what we were saying did you even hear what we were

saying Okay so this implies  why didn't you do what we  

said why didn't you do what we said we  said stop did you even hear what we were

saying but the Frog was unable to hear them  clearly but the Frog was unable to hear them

clearly because he was deaf because he was deaf  he was lacking the power to hear hearing impaired

death he couldn't hear them but he could see

them he couldn't hear them but he could  see them cheering him on cheering him on  

go go go go cheering and encouraging him  to try harder and encouraging him to try

harder you can do it you're getting

stronger you're almost there  you're almost there you can  

do it you're getting stronger you're almost

there is what he thought they were

saying is that that is what he thought they were

saying so he made his best effort so he made his  best effort and finally succeeded and finally  

succeeded the Frog mistakenly believed  that the Frog mistakenly believed that

the Cries From Above the shouts the Cries From  Above were cheers of encouragement were cheers of

encouragement he mistakenly  believed they were cheering  

him on he thought that they were cheers  of encouragement this belief motivated  

him this belief motivated him to keep trying  until he succeeded to keep trying until he

succeeded it demonstrates the power it the  story this story demonstrates the power that  

our beliefs have our beliefs have have power to  shape our reality to shape to form to create our

reality if we believe we are capable capable if  

we believe that we have the ability  to do something if we believe we are

capable we act with confidence we act with  

confidence and can overcome  challenges and can overcome

challenges if we doubt our abilities if we  doubt our abilities we might fail even if we are

capable even if we can do it even  if we we are capable we might

fail let's choose to ignore not pay attention  to Let's choose to ignore the negative voices  

around us the negative voices around  us find the strength to push through

challenges find the strength to push through

challenges and Achieve what  might seem impossible to

others and Achieve what might seem impossible to

others yeah yeah yeah great message awesome  now we are going to do that story non-stop  

smooth clear without stopping we're going to  Shadow it try to say it with me together with  

me here we go you ready once upon a time in a  beautiful Forest a group of frogs lived in a  

large pond one day they decided to travel  through the woods all of a sudden two of  

the frogs fell into a pit the other companion  frogs gathered around the pit and saw how deep  

it was after seeing the depth of the pit they  lost all hope for their fallen friends they  

started yelling it's too deep you can't make it  out however the two frogs ignored the discouraging  

shouts from above and tried to jump out of the  pit anyway they tried hard to get out but the  

other frogs kept telling them to give up on  their efforts you're wasting your energy you  

can't make it out one of the frogs listened to the  discouraging shouts from the others and eventually  

gave up the other frog however displayed  an unwavering determination he continued  

to exert all his strength in his attempts to to  jump out the chorus of frogs persisted in their  

discouragement urging him to cease his efforts  save your energy perhaps it will rain and fill  

the pit with water you can't do it stop just wait  for a stroke of luck maybe then you will survive  

suddenly he found a bump on the wall that he  used to jump higher than ever and he got out  

of the pit the other frogs were so surprised  and asked him did you even hear what we were  

saying but the Frog was unable to hear them  clearly because he was deaf he couldn't hear  

them but he could see them cheering him on and  encouraging him to try harder you can do it you're  

getting stronger you're almost there is what  he thought they were saying so he made his best  

effort and finally succeeded the Frog mistakenly  believed that the Cries From Above were cheers of

encouragement this belief motivated him to  keep trying until he succeeded it demonstrates  

the power that our beliefs have to shape our  reality if we believe we are capable we act  

with confidence and can overcome challenges if we  doubt our abilities we might fail even if we are  

capable let's choose to ignore the the negative  voices around us find the strength to push through  

challenges and Achieve what might seem impossible  to others yeah yeah yeah good message I love  

it boom good workout guys way to go keep moving  forward keep practicing one little step at a time  

and we will reach fluency one of these days on our  10,000 step journey to fluency today was step 30  

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