Shadowing Practice: Learn English with Zootopia - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's learn English with Zootopia!
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So Zootopia is a fantastic Disney animated movie and it actually features the voice and singing of Shakira.
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Zootopia is a unique place.
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It's a crazy, beautiful, diverse city where we celebrate our differences.
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He fared his teeth first!
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Excuse me?
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Down here?
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Hi!
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O.M.
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Goodness.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?!
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!
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Oh, uh, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little...
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It's a little...
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I am so sorry.
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Me, Benjamin Klawhauser.
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The guy everyone thinks is just a flabby donut-loving cop, stereotyping you.
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It's okay.
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Oh, you've actually got...
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There's a...
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In your neck, the...
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The...
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Oh, there you went, you little dickens!
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I should get to roll call.
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So, which way do I...
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Oh, bullpen's over there to the left.
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Great, thank you.
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Aw, that poor little buddy's gonna get you and alive.
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This phrase works as a pun due to its double meaning.
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First, to bare your teeth to someone means to show hostility towards that person, displaying a violent or threatening reaction.
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The origin of this phrase comes from the attitude of animals such as wolves
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or dogs when they are angry and ready to fight.
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As a wolf is saying it, it has a literal meaning, instead of the metaphorical one that it usually has, and for this reason, the phrase ends up being quite humorous.
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We will see many double entendres in this scene.
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Excuse me?
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Down here?
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Hi.
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O. M.
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Goodness.
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OMG is a common abbreviation for, oh my god.
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Natives tend to soften words related to religion, such as God or Jesus, and for this reason, you might hear this phrase with the word goodness instead of God.
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As you can see here, this phrase is used when someone is surprised or excited about something.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?!
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To hire means to employ.
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I was hired by the first company I applied to.
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Which of these is the opposite of hire?
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!
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Gotta is a common contraction that replaces the sentence have to.
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Let's listen again to the way that Benjamin says this.
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!
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Ooh, ah!
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In this sentence, we can find a common example of connected speech.
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This is the way that natives link their words together.
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Here we have what we call an American T, which makes the T morph into a soft D.
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This happens when you have a T sound between two vowel sounds.
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For example, you would hear it with instances such as butter, getting, better.
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So, instead of saying gotta, Benjamin says I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you!
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that you need to know in order to understand fast speaking natives.
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You probably didn't know but a bunny can call another bunny cute but when other animals do it, it's a little...
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Oh!
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This line is interesting because it is an example of how even though this movie is made for kids, it includes very complex subjects such as discrimination and injustice.
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This is a reference to how some words that are discriminatory
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or sexist are okay for people to say if they belong to a certain group, race, gender, etc. In fact,
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they can even be used in a way of empowerment.
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But when used by people outside of that group, it is considered offensive.
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This is a humorous way to comment on a complex topic, because the word cute is very innocent and harmless.
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However, Judy points out that for bunnies the word cute is offensive when another animal uses it to describe them.
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The adjective flabby refers to a part of someone's body that is soft and fat.
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Exercise helps to flatten a flabby stomach.
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A stereotype is a preconceived notion, especially about a group of people.
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It is important to mention that most of them are based on prejudice, so you should be wary about them.
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Notice that here Benjamin used it as a verb.
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Not crazy looking Rosa have a dollar
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and I taught you nothing about Stereotyping I'm beginning to feel like you're our biggest project sweetie enough.
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We're gonna find this wicked witch
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Stealer one I'll get that big pile of gold and you can have a nice pile of bananas, right?
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Bananas Oh, I see because I'm a monkey.
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I must love bananas, right?
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That is a vicious Stereotype you like bananas. Of course.
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I love bananas.
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I'm a monkey.
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Don't be ridiculous.
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I just don't like you saying it
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Benjamin's saying that people only think of him as a fat cop that loves eating donuts.
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As he suffers due to other people's prejudice of him, he should not be doing the same with Judy.
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If something is folded, it means that part of it covers the other.
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You could fold a newspaper or a napkin, for example.
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Judy's referring to the fold of Benjamin's neck where he has somehow forgotten a donut.
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Who you went you little Dickens?
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This phrase might result confusing if you're not familiar with the expression you little Dickens.
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Dickens is an emphasizinger used to show surprise or annoyance.
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Benjamin is using it in a playful way, saying it to the donut because he couldn't find it before.
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Let's look at a more negative example.
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You little dickens, give me back my wallet!
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We would probably usually use this expression when talking to or about children.
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Note that we can also say little devil, but it would be slightly stronger, similar to the difference between oh my goodness or oh my god.
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I should get to roll call, so which way do I?
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Oh bullpens over there to the left.
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Great, thank you!
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When someone reads aloud the names of people on a list to check whether or not they are present, that person is doing a roll call.
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Bullpen is actually a funny word to use in Zootopia because it is literally an enclosure for bulls, as seen here.
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However, when referring to some sort of office, it is a room with an open floor plan, that is, without walls to divide the desks.
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This is common, for example, in police stations and newsrooms.
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Here's another example from a police series called Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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Bottles.
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Boil.
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Bowl pen.
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What are you...
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Bottles.
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Boil.
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Bowl pen.
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Bowling.
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Behold, Brooklyn buddies.
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Boil, bowl pen, bottle bowling.
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Beautiful.
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Be brave, bro. Be brave.
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Bowl!
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Damn!
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Boo-yah!
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Aww, that poor little bunny's gonna get eaten alive.
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The phrase, to be eaten alive, is commonly used to say that someone will be completely defeated by someone who is much stronger.
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Example, he was afraid that Thomas would be eaten alive by the criminals in jail.
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As Benjamin sees Judy as a sweet little bunny, he thinks that she won't be able to succeed serving in Zootopia's police office.
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Again, the humor in this phrase refers to that in the animal world, they could literally be eaten alive.
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So again, there was a pun intended.
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You ready to make the world a better place?
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Ahem.
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Attend it!
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Alright, alright.
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Everybody sit.
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I've got three items on the docket.
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First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Francine.
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Happy birthday.
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Oh yeah!
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Oh, cool.
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Number two, there are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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Finally, we have 14 missing mammal cases, all predators from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter.
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And City Hall is right up my tail to find them.
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This is priority number one.
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Assignments?
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Officers Grisoli, Fangmire, Delgado, your teams take missing mammals from the rainforest district.
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Officers McHorn, Ritevitz, Wolford, your teams take Sahara Square.
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Officers Higgins, Snarlok, Trunkabee, Tundra Town.
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And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.
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Parking duty.
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Dismissed.
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Parking duty?
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A cheap?
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Chief Balgo?
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Sir, you said there were 14 missing mammal cases. So?
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So I can handle one.
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You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.
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Didn't forget.
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Just don't care.
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Sir, I'm not just some token bunny.
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Well, then writing 100 tickets a day should be easy.
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100 tickets.
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I'm not going to write 100 tickets.
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I'm going to write 200 tickets before noon.
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Hey!
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Opps or hops?
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Did you notice the main character's name?
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She is a bunny and her name is Judy Hopps.
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Now this is funny because the action we associate with bunnies is that they hop.
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What do you think is another way to say hop?
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That's right, a hop is a small jump.
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You ready to make the world a better place?
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When speaking informally, it is very common for natives to remove the auxiliary verb are in questions.
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Instead of saying, are you ready to make the world a better place?
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She simply said, you ready to make the world a better place?
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You ready to make the world a better place?
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And we also do this with other auxiliary verbs.
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Do you think?
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You think?
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Is he coming?
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He coming?
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Have you seen it?
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You seen it?
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This is an American military term that means attention.
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An item is one thing that's usually in a group or a list.
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A docket is a list of all the things that need to be discussed.
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This is a bit of a formal word, but here it is appropriate as it is being used by the police chief.
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As we can see here, Chief Bogo is saying that he has three things that he considers important to be mentioned during the roll call.
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First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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To acknowledge means to accept, admit, or recognize something.
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I've got news for you mom, I'm not visiting dad in jail anymore.
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No, I've had it, I really have.
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You know, I'm down there every single day, I'm trying to do what I can to get this company back on track and he barely even acknowledges me.
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That is disgusting, talk to your father.
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Once again, we have a funny use of a figurative expression.
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When someone says, we need to talk about the elephant in the room, the elephant in the room refers to something uncomfortable and awkward that everyone in the room is thinking about,
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but is avoiding speaking about.
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However, here the elephant in the room is quite literally an elephant.
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By the way, did you notice how he said this?
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Here we can see some connected speech, how natives cut and link their words together.
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How would you say this?
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In school, you were probably taught to say it like, elephant in the room.
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But listen to how he said it.
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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He didn't say elephant in, he said elephant in.
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Often when we have the letters NT together, natives drop the T sound.
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For example, internet, internet, international, international.
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I can't eat that, I can't eat that.
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And that's exactly what Chief Bogo did here.
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Now listen again and repeat.
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Here are a couple more examples from the TV series Friends.
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That was amazing!
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I can't even send back soup!
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No, no, it's a real thing.
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Anyone can get ordained on the internet and perform, like, weddings and stuff.
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You guys are gonna come and visit me, right?
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Yes!
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You know in six months the statute of limitations runs out and I can travel internationally again.
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Francine, happy birthday.
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Hi!
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Oh yeah!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Number two!
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There are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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A recruit is a new member of an organization.
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This term is usually used to refer to the military organization, referring to a recently enlisted soldier.
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But you might hear it used for a club or group.
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Example, the Fraternity House has 15 new recruits a semester.
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As the police is a hierarchical organization, similar to the military, there are many words and expressions that are shared.
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Attend hut, dismissed, recruits, etc. If you introduce someone, you formally present that person to a group.
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Chief Bogo should introduce new recruits to their colleagues, but he doesn't want to do it.
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By this attitude, we can see that he doesn't show much interest in doing his job, and this contrasts with Judy's enthusiasm.
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Any animal in which the female feed their cubs with milk from her own body is classified as a mammal.
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Humans, dogs, and dolphins are just a few examples of mammals.
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Police deal with different cases on a daily basis.
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That is a particular problem that needs to be solved.
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What are you trying to tell us?
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Is this some kind of a clue?
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Canalizatia!
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Trump?
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Better.
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We have no idea what this is.
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I think it's a cookie.
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No, it's a pizza.
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It's a cookie pizza!
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Another case solved!
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No, detectives, we...
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I'm putting myself on this case.
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Alright, Captain!
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Looks like New York's finest.
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Just got a whole lot.
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Let's go!
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Alright.
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That's the sound of the police!
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other animals.
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For example, lions, wolves, and foxes are all predators.
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The animals they hunt are prey.
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Teensy means very small.
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Example, the movie was a teensy bit boring.
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What's another way to say teensy?
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Trick question, all three of these have the same meaning.
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And City Hall is right up my tail to find them.
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This is priority number one
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This phrase is quite funny because it refers to the expression up my butt
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As the chief is a buffalo He has a tail
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and for this reason the expression has been changed as well as to avoid vulgarity as it is a children's movie
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Chief Bogo is saying that the City Hall is urging him intensely to find them
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so they'll have to give maximum importance to those cases before any other.
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Assignments?
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An assignment is a piece of work that is given to someone.
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I'm going to give you a little homework assignment.
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I want you and your kids to have a family playdate.
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Maybe if the four of you can get along, you can set a better example for your children.
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I think that's a wonderful idea, Pam.
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Fine.
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The chief will give every member of the police their task to do.
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Judy got
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the assignment of parking duty.
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That means that she'll be responsible for things related to this activity such as fines
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This seems like a boring task to do
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and she doesn't want to be in charge of this particular
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duty as we can see here She'd prefer to solve one of the cases of the missing mammals
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Dismissed means to let someone leave for example
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if your professor says class dismissed This means that all the students are free to go.
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If you say that you can handle something, you mean that you can deal with it, even if it's a difficult situation.
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down?
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I don't think you're the guy you used to be.
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So you're saying that if I can deal with you, then I can handle any other little girl.
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Let's take a look at how Judy said this.
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Judy did something that native speakers do all the time, and that is reducing the verb can.
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When we do this, rather than saying a long a sound, we reduce it to a short I sound.
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So I can handle one.
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Let's see a few more examples of this.
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I can be an astronaut.
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Today I can hunt for tax exemptions.
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I'm gonna be an actuary.
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And I can make the world a better place.
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I am going to be...
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A police officer!
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You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.
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Didn't forget, just don't care.
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If you are top of your class, you are the best student out of all the other students at your same level.
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That is, you have the best marks or grades in your various subjects or tests.
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She's top of her class in math.
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So out of all the graduates of her police academy,
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Judy did the best on the various exams and physical tests.
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Hey, do you love Disney movies?
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Well, they are fantastic for your English, and that's why we have a playlist with a ton of different lessons featuring different Disney movies.
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You can check that out after you finish this lesson by clicking up here.
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In this case, a token is a person who is considered as a representative of a minority
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and that has been hired primarily to prevent an employer for being accused of discrimination.
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By saying this, Judy means that she is qualified and can actually do her job, and that she's there to be a police officer like all the others.
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Down here?
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Hi.
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O.M.
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Goodness.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?!
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!
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Oh, uh, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little...
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I am so sorry.
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Me, Benjamin Klawhauser.
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The guy everyone thinks is just a flabby donut-loving cop, stereotyping you.
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It's okay.
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Oh, you've actually got there's a in your neck the phone You went you little dickens
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I should get to roll call so Which way do I oh bullpens over there to the left great.
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Thank you.
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Oh Aww, that poor little buddy's gonna get eaten alive.
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Hey, Officer Hopps.
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You ready to make the world a better place?
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Ahem.
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Attendant!
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Alright, alright.
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Everybody sit.
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I've got three items on the docket.
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First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Francine.
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Happy birthday.
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Number two.
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There are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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I don't care.
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Finally, we have 14 missing mammal cases.
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All predators from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter.
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And City Hall is right up my tail to find them.
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This is priority number one.
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Assignments?
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Officers Grisoli, Fangmire, Delgado, your teams take missing mammals from the rainforest district.
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Officers McHorn, Ridovitz, Wolford, your teams take Sahara Square.
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Officers Higgins, Snarlow, Trunkabee, Tundra Town.
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And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.
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Parking duty.
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Dismissed.
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Parking duty?
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A chief?
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Chief Bogo?
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Sir, you said there were 14 missing mammal cases. So?
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So I can handle one.
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You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.
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Didn't forget.
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Just don't care.
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Sir, I'm not just some token bunny.
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Well then writing a hundred tickets a day should be easy.
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A hundred tickets.
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I'm not going to write a hundred tickets.
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I'm going to write two hundred tickets.
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Before noon.
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So I hope you've had a lot of fun learning some real-life English with me today with Zootopia.
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Keep it going, you can check out another one of our lessons right over here.
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And now it's time to go beyond the classroom and live your English!
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Learn English with Zootopia”. Las palabras que más se repiten: example, bunny, elephant. Este vídeo tiene 388 frases y 3485 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 27:54. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 125 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| bunny sustantivo | /ˈbʌni/ | conejita |
| elephant sustantivo | /ˈɛlɪfənt/ | elefante |
| acknowledge verbo | /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/ | reconocer |
| mammal sustantivo | /ˈmæməl/ | mamífero |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| recruit verbo | /ɹɪˈkɹut/ | reclutar |
| assignment sustantivo | /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ | asignación |
| stereotype sustantivo | /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ | estereotipo, tópico |
| dismiss verbo | /dɪsˈmɪs/ | despedir, echar |
| banana sustantivo | /bəˈnænə/ | banana, banano |
| goodness sustantivo | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | bondad |
| doughnut sustantivo | /ˈdəʊnʌt/ | dona, rosquilla |
| flabby adjetivo | /ˈflæb.i/ | fofo, lacio |
| bullpen sustantivo | toril | |
| predator sustantivo | /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/ | predador, depredador |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| get along verbo | llevarse bien con, avenirse |
| point out verbo | señalar, apuntar |
| run out verbo | agotar, quedarse sin |
| sign up verbo | inscribir, alistar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You ready to make the world a better place?
- Did you notice the main character's name?
- How would you say this?
- What are you waiting for?
- What are you trying to tell us?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to show · used to say · used to refer |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is hit · was hired · is made |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been changed · has been hired |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | someone who is · person who is |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 79 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: discrimination /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/, abbreviation /əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, auxiliary /ɔɡˈzɪl.(jə).ɹi/, discrimination /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/, abbreviation /əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/, actuary /ˈæktʃuˌɛɹi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, sweetie /ˈswi.ti/, statute /ˈstæt͡ʃuːt/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: verb /vɝb/, abbreviation /əˌbɹi.viˈeɪ.ʃn̩/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, figurative /ˈfɪɡəɹətɪv/, preconceived /ˌpɹiːkənˈsiːvd/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, dickens /ˈdɪkɪnz/, auxiliary /ɔɡˈzɪl.(jə).ɹi/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, newsroom /ˈnjuːzɹuːm/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como bunny, elephant, acknowledge.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.