good at what you do
Skilled at your work or activity.
“Wow, you're good at what you do, right?”
Shadowing lesson · Making People Feel Good in Conversation
Making People Feel Good in Conversation — English shadowing practice
Practise talking about the effect you want your words to have on another person, from building confidence to helping someone feel accepted.
Level: B1 · Intermediate 24 lines 1 minute of speech 206 words a minute About 6 minutes
Original video
B1 · 2-minute practice That's What Master Communicators Do
Model leadsYour echo follows
ReadyLine 1 of 24
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I think our job if you want to really be a master communicator is you are gifting good chemicals.
Listen until the video pauses. Repeat the sentence during the four-second practice window; the next line then starts automatically.
Is this clip right for you?
The clip supplies short supportive lines for helping another person feel confident and comfortable being themselves.
- The clip supplies short supportive lines for helping another person feel confident and comfortable being themselves.
- It also models how to explain the emotional effect you want a conversation to have on someone else.
- A vivid expression is immediately clarified inside the same sentence, making its intended meaning recoverable from context.
- 24 complete, word-timed practice lines.
Speaking speed
- Level
- B1 placement is vocabulary-led; 8.1% of caption tokens were marked above the dominant B1 vocabulary level.
- Speed
- 206 words a minute across the prepared speech.
- Longest line
- 22 words in 5.8 seconds.
Where it gets hard
Like, I think one of the reasons why people often verbal vomit on me, like they tell me everything about their lives.
Wow, you're good at what you do, right?
Phrases worth keeping
Useful English from this exact clip. Hear each phrase in context, then make one sentence of your own.
You got this.
A supportive message expressing confidence that someone can handle something.
“You got this.”
be yourself
Act naturally rather than hiding who you are.
“You can be yourself with me.”
verbal vomit on me
In this clip, tell someone everything about your life.
“Like, I think one of the reasons why people often verbal vomit on me, like they tell me everything about their lives.”
Sounds to notice
Copy the rhythm, strong beats, and linking used in this clip.
Grammar you can reuse
Patterns the speaker uses naturally, ready for your own sentence.
Express the emotional state you hope another person experiences.
Check what the speaker means
Answer from the clip before revealing the evidence-grounded explanation.
What kind of effect does the speaker want conversations to have on other people?
Show answer
The speaker wants people to feel capable, accepted and able to be themselves. The examples describe feeling capable and being free to be yourself, and the speaker explicitly says they want people to feel accepted as they are.
What does "verbal vomit on me" mean in this clip?
Show answer
People tell the speaker everything about their lives. The speaker immediately restates the idea after using the expression.
Make it yours
Answer these real situations out loud, then compare with one possible answer.
A colleague doubts themselves before taking on a difficult task. Give them confidence and tell them what you want them to feel.
You got this.good at what you doI want + person + to feel + complement
A new friend seems worried about being judged around you. Tell them they can relax and show their real personality.
be yourselfI want + person + to feel + complement
All 24 practice lines
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- 010:00I think our job if you want to really be a master communicator is you are gifting good chemicals.5.3s
- 020:05You know that phrase like lead people better than you found them.2.6s
- 030:07Yeah.0.6s
- 040:08I take that quite literally.1.4s
- 050:09I think master communicators are literally gifting beautiful chemicals to the other person.5.8s
- 060:15They're making people feel super full of dopamine.2.5s
- 070:18Dopamine is like very simplified excitement, motivation, energy.4.6s
- 080:22They're gifting testosterone.1.7s
- 090:24You feel capable.0.8s
- 100:25You feel smart.0.7s
- 110:26Wow, you're good at what you do, right?1.6s
- 120:27And you leave feeling like like I'm so good.1.9s
- 130:29This is for men and women.1.2s
- 140:30You're gifting serotonin, calm, belonging.3.8s
- 150:34You got this.1.0s
- 160:35You can be yourself with me.1.6s
- 170:37I give you permission to be yourself.1.6s
- 180:38I love you for who you are.1.4s
- 190:40Like, I think one of the reasons why people often verbal vomit on me, like they tell me everything about their lives.5.2s
- 200:45I think it's because I'm I'm like trying to gift them serotonin.3.3s
- 210:48I want them to feel like they can be absolutely themselves and I accept them for exactly who they are.5.0s
- 220:53So, serotonin, dopamine, and testosterone.2.1s
- 230:55If we can gift those out, I call it like the chemical cocktail.2.9s
- 240:58Like that's the cocktail I want to give to everyone in my conversation.2.7s
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Lesson notes: Teaching notes were generated from the saved captions and passed exact caption-evidence validation.