A1 Imitation Lesson | English Speaking Practice

in this video we're going to practice speaking with the imitation technique it is one of the most effective ways that can improve your accent and fix your pronunciation problems as a result you will be able to speak English more clearly and confidently this technique teaches you to listen to the sounds and the patterns of English and then trains you to produce the same sounds yourself through repetition and controlled practice we will explain each step so that you know exactly what you need to do this imitation lesson is designed for a one learners there are three

steps step one is to listen and read you're just going to get familiar with the story and get comfortable with my tone of voice step two is to listen and repeat you'll listen to what I say and then I'll pause so that you can repeat you need to copy me exactly as you hear me you can repeat this step until the words are coming out of your mouth automatically it's okay to practice several times on step two before you move to step three and step three is to Shadow you'll be listening to me and repeating

after me simultaneously this is the best way to develop a really natural Rhythm as you speak in English in today's imitation lesson you're going to listen to Jessica Michael and Rachel saying what they have on their table or desk let's get started step one listen and read my name's Jessica and I'm an English teacher I have a really big desk in my room I have lots of things on the desk I have a computer and a printer pens and pencils a photo of my children an English dictionary and a big yellow lamp my desk is

very clean I'm Michael and I'm a student I have a table in my room it isn't a very big table but I have a lot of things on it and it isn't very clean I have my laptop I also have a big box of tissues lots of English magazines and the keys to my little blue car my name's Rachel my desk is small at the moment it's clean on my desk I have my computer a small red lamp a black file a phone a pair of scissors and an old calendar step two listen and repeat

my name's Jessica and I'm an English teacher I have a really big desk in my room I have lots of things on the desk I have a computer and a printer pens and pencils photo of my children an English dictionary and a big yellow lamp my desk is very clean I'm Michael and I'm a student I have a table in my room it isn't a very big table but I have a lot of things on it and it isn't very clean I have my laptop I also have a big box of tissues lots of English

magazines and the keys to my little blue car my name's Rachel my desk is small at the moment it's clean on my desk I have my computer a small red lamp a black file a phone a pair of scissors and an old calendar step 3 shadowing shadowing means hearing the sounds and speaking at the same time let's start my name's Jessica and I'm an English teacher I have a really big desk in my room I have lots of things on the desk I have a computer and a printer pens and pencils a photo of my

children an English dictionary and a big yellow lamp my desk is very clean I'm Michael and I'm a student I have a table in my room it isn't a very big table but I have a lot of things on it and it isn't very clean I have my laptop I also have a big box of tissues lots of English magazines and the keys to my little blue car my name's Rachel my desk is small at the moment it's clean on my desk I have my computer a small red lamp a black file a phone a

pair of scissors and an old calendar congratulations on making it through the end of the lesson if you enjoyed this lesson let me know in the comments below we'll upload more imitation lessons like this for other levels very soon so if you're new here make sure to subscribe and stay tuned see you in the upcoming videos