Shadowing Practice: Phrasasl Verbs | in TWILIGHT - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Today we're learning phrasal verbs from Twilight.
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First you'll see a scene from the movie, then you'll see the same phrasal verb used in other movies and TV shows.
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Listen carefully and see if you can understand the meaning before I explain it.
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Sales lady picked up the bed stuff.
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Oh my gosh!
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You guys have to help me pick out the perfect outfit.
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Guess what I'm doing right this second?
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I'm picking out my wedding dress!
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Josh proposed!
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Pick out means choose.
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It took me an hour to pick out a birthday gift.
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I'm glad you're finally here.
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Charlie here hasn't shut up about it since you told him you were coming.
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Your Honor, shut up!
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I'm serious.
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I want you to shut up, Mr. Fallone.
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This is not going well for you, you hear me?
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Shut.
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Shut up.
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Shut up means stop talking.
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Will you please shut up?
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I can't concentrate with you talking all the time.
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Sorry, I needed a candidate for the feature.
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The feature's dead, Angela.
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Don't bring it up again.
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There's another issue and honestly it's the more serious one.
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I was reluctant to bring it up because...
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It's a little awkward.
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For me, I've been thinking, you know, why you don't enroll for LSAT now?
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Yeah, sorry, Ma, I haven't done it yet.
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I'd like that you bring it up as if you've never brought it up before.
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Bring up means mention a topic, He brought up politics during dinner.
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I guess we'll just run another editorial on teen drinking.
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You know, you can always go for eating disorders.
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And, um, you know, you should really go for a more natural look.
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All that heavy makeup just hides your beauty.
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I'm a dude.
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Why do women go for men like Charles?
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You mean rich, handsome, smart doctor types?
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Go for also means choose.
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When I buy clothes, I usually go for the cheapest option.
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They moved down here from Alaska like a few years ago.
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They kind of keep to themselves.
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He's a loner.
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He kind of keeps to himself a lot.
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Maddie's a great kid with a bright future, but she's quiet.
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Keeps to herself.
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Keep to yourself means avoid socializing, stay private.
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My neighbor keeps to himself.
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I just can't get over how grown up you are.
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And so gorgeous.
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Mr. Williams, is it possible to get over the death of a loved one in seven months?
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Well, he never got over the fact that Mary left him for me.
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get over means recover from stop worrying about It took me months to get over the breakup.
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Here is one more example of this phrasal verb from Twilight.
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I just need to know the truth.
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Can't you just thank me and get over it?
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Thank you. And now you're unhappy.
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No. I'm sorry, I'm just...
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I'm just trying to figure you out.
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It's been very difficult for me to read.
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I'm trying to figure you out.
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What's your real story?
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Figure out means understand.
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I can't figure out this math problem.
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Here is one more example of this phrasal verb from Twilight.
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Bella, we shouldn't be friends.
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You really should have figured that out a little earlier.
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I should probably call your mom.
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Probably just...
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...freaking out.
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Don't freak out.
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Look at your shoulder.
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So, what I'm thinking is, don't freak out, okay?
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I think we should switch places.
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"Freak out" means, become very upset or panicked.
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I freaked out when I lost my phone.
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What does that mean?
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It means if you're smart, you'd stay away from me.
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You make me sick.
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Stay away from me, stay away from my sister, or I'll have you fired.
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Aurora, please.
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Stay away from me.
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Stay away means.. not go near someone or something, avoid.
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Stay away from the edge.
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Why don't we just...
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hang out?
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Maybe it's possible that she, I don't know, hung out with some friends after work or got a drink or something.
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No, it is not possible.
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She never hangs out with friends.
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And this is the TV room where everyone hangs out.
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Hangout means spend time socially.
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I like hanging out with my friends.
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Can we get a new app?
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Yeah. Do me up, chicken.
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I didn't know who it was from.
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Anyway, don't be silly.
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Do me up.
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You're gonna be late.
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Doo -wop means tie button or zip an item of clothing.
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She did up her jacket.
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You should put your seatbelt on.
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You should put your seatbelt on.
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Oh, seat belts!
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Seat belts.
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Put on your seat belts before you drive.
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Put on your seat belts if you want to stay alive.
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Just put on the suit and the gloves and the mask, please.
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Put on means where it is cold outside you should put on a sweater.
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Um, I'm sorry I kept Bella from dinner.
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We just sort of ran into each other and got talking.
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When did you last see her?
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I can't remember.
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At the Tate Modern.
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My wife and I ran into her.
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But that was a long time ago.
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Was it other vampires that killed Waylon?
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Yeah.
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There were others out there.
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And we run into them from time to time.
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And then a week later, I got a chance to hear Rita Richards' theory firsthand.
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I ran into her in a local bar where she had been sitting alone drinking and was a little drunk and talkative.
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Run into someone means meet someone unexpectedly, I ran into an old friend yesterday.
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I think I should make sure Bella gets something to eat.
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She needed help, treatment.
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I made sure she had it.
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It's amazing us running into each other like this.
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Maybe not.
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I heard about this crazy girl coming through the academy.
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And when it turned out to be you, I just made sure that we would run into each other.
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Make sure means take special care to do something.
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For example, Make sure you lock the door when you go out.
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I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
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Then don't.
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Aurora, please.
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Stay away from me.
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You make me sick.
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Stay away from me, stay away from my sister, or I'll have you fired.
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Stay away means not go near someone or something, avoid.
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Stay away from the edge.
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I'll pick you up tomorrow.
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I'll pick you up Friday at 8 :00, and we'll eat.
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Would you like to go out with me?
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Uh.. why not?
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I'll, uh, pick you up after work.
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Pick somebody up means collect someone who is waiting for you.
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My mom will pick me up from school at 3 p .m.
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I ordered you the Spanish salad.
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I hope that's okay.
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You should order one for yourself next time.
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Cut back on the steak.
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My advice would be to not eat or drink anything after 8 o 'clock at night.
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Cut back on any alcoholic drinks, tobacco.
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Caffeine.
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Get some daily exercise.
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What's your diet like?
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Filking cookies?
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But I don't finish all the milk.
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Well then there is your problem.
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Just try to cut back on the sweets, okay?
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Cutback means reduce, decrease, or consume less of something.
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My doctor told me to cut back on salt and sugary drinks, It's okay.
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You wanna go join 'em.
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I'm just gonna turn in early anyway.
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Me too.
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I think I'm just going to turn in.
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I think I'll turn in now.
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Good night, Joe.
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Good night.
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Good night, Chris.
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Good night.
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Turn in means go to bed.
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I am really tired.
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I think I will turn in early.
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You'd like Jacksonville, baby.
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I'm really liking Forks.
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What?
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Forks is growing on me.
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Are you a vegetable lover yourself?
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They're.. growing on me.
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You a music guy, Teddy?
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I was never a music guy.
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But this song, this song's been grown on me.
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Has it grown on you?
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Grow on somebody means begin to like a person, thing, or place that you at first disliked or felt nothing about.
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When I first met him, I didn't like him.
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But after hanging out, he grew on me.
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Forks is growing on me.
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Could a guy have anything to do with that?
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Yeah.
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I questioned him, they questioned him, we searched his house, there's no evidence he had anything to do with it.
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Well, Your Worship, looks like you managed to keep me around for a little while longer.
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I had nothing to do with it.
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have something to do with means be related to connected with or relevant to a specific topic situation or person
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Does this noise have anything to do with the engine?
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I read his mind.
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My reaction to the field set him off.
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I just made this his most exciting game ever.
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I don't know what you said the other day, but it really set him off.
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I asked about Michael Chambers.
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Well, he went into the locker room and he broke a big mirror with a trash can.
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He works so hard, and when he works, he sometimes gets stressed.
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And when he's under a lot of pressure, he drinks a lot.
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And I think I Set him off.
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Set somebody off means provoke an intense or unexpected reaction.
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Alex and I ran into each other at the bar, When I brought up his girlfriend, it set him off because they had broken up six months ago.
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Did he hurt you?
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No. Break up with you or something?
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No, I...
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I broke up with him.
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We should break up.
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You don't like me.
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I don't like you!
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But I don't think we should break up.
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People don't break up with me.
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I'm breaking up with you!
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Break up with somebody means end a romantic relationship.
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I was very upset when he broke up with me.
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Here is one more example of this phrasal verb from Twilight.
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He wants you to break up with your boyfriend.
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You can sleep on it.
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He was polite and respectful and super smart.
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And I hired him.
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Is that right in the room?
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He told me to sleep on it and that we'd talk tomorrow, but I said...
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The job was his.
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Go home and talk about this with your lovely wife.
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Sleep on it.
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Then make your decision.
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Sleep on something means delay making a decision about something until the next day
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so that you have time to think about it.
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I'm not sure whether to accept the job offer yet, Can I sleep on it and let you know tomorrow?
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- You still feel like going in the morning?
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I'll take you to the airport.
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Why aren't you returning my calls?
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I just don't feel like talking.
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Come in.
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I thought I heard voices.
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I had to talk to somebody.
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I don't feel like going to sleep.
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"Feel like" means want to do something, be in the mood.
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I don't feel like doing my homework.
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Rosalie, Esme, could you put these on so the tracker will pick up...fellas sap...
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We've lost a lot of time.
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Get the dogs.
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See if they can pick up the scent.
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Pickup means detect.
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The radio picked up a strange signal, Oh, let me help you.
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Take it.
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Take it from here.
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Official business.
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We'll take it from here.
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Thank you.
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Gavin, for your safety, we're going to need you to wait outside until we finish this up.
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We'll take it from here.
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Yeah, we got it all under control.
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Take it from here means take control of a situation.
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I'm done for today.
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If the client calls, can you take it from here?
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Phrasasl Verbs”. Este vídeo tiene 260 frases y 1940 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:46. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
verb sustantivo/vɝb/verbo
aurora sustantivo/əˈɹɔɹ.ə/aurora
cutback sustantivo/ˈkʌtbæk/recorte, reducción
enroll verbo/ɪnˈɹəʊl/enrolar
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/emocionar
firsthand adjetivo/ˈfɜːstˌhænd/de primera mano
hangout sustantivogarito
provoke verbo/pɹəˈvəʊk/provocar
socialize verbo/ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/socializar, sociabilizarse
talkative adjetivo/ˈtɔ.kə.ɾɪv/hablador, conversador
tracker sustantivo/ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/rastreador, rastreadora
breakup sustantivo/ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/dischar, ruptura
caffeine sustantivo/ˈkæfiːn/cafeína
neighbour sustantivo/ˈneɪbɚ/vecino, vecina
unexpectedly adverbio/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/inesperadamente, inopinadamente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
get over verbosuperar, sobreponerse a
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/cállate la boca, cállate
pick up verbocoger, asir
break up verboseparar, cisionar
bring up verbolevantar, alzar
figure out verboaveriguar, captar
stay away verbono acercarse, mantenerse alejado
go out verbosalir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Guess what I'm doing right this second?
  • Will you please shut up?
  • You mean rich, handsome, smart doctor types?
  • Can't you just thank me and get over it?
  • Why aren't you returning my calls?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahasn't shut · haven't done · you've never brought
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebeen grown · be related
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould really go · shouldn't be · should have
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingstop talking · avoid socializing · stop worrying

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 76 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, editorial /ˌɛdɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweater /ˈswɛtɚ/, steak /steɪk/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: verb /vɝb/, provoke /pɹəˈvəʊk/, talkative /ˈtɔ.kə.ɾɪv/, glove /ɡlʌv/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: phrasal /ˈfɹeɪzəl/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como verb, aurora, cutback.

¿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.

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