🎙️Practice your American English pronunciation with this World Cup vocabulary shadowing exercise. Shadowing is one of the most effective methods for building natural rhythm, stress, and accent, and this episode uses real World Cup vocabulary to train your ear and your mouth at the same time.

Follow along with the text:

"The World Cup starts with the group stage. During the group stage, teams play against other teams in their group. The top teams advance to the knockout rounds. Teams that do not advance are eliminated."

Each sentence is modeled clearly with a neutral American accent at natural speed and then broken down so intermediate English learners can repeat, imitate, and shadow at their own pace. Vocabulary practiced in this episode includes group stage, knockout rounds, advance, and eliminated.

Perfect for B1–B2 En ...