Shadowing Practice: Avengers Moments We Didn’t Appreciate Enough - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If all we come at him with is a plucky attitude Dude, don't call us plucky We don't know what it means Alright,
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we're optimistic, yes Yes!
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Now this is gonna be a good story Yes!
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If you live to tell it You got heart kid, where you from?
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Queens
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Brooklyn There was one time when we were children
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and he transformed himself into a snake and he knows
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that i love snakes so i went to pick up the snake to admire it
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and he transformed back into himself and he was like yeah it's me
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and he stabbed me we were eight you promise me you
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won't die you speak we're only giving me a mild cardiac dysrhythmia
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that doesn't sound mild hello there out of the way dumber
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smaller group Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ooh, child, how things are gonna get easier.
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Ooh, child, things will get brighter.
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Listen to these words.
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Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier.
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He's an alt -right troll dipshit.
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Misdirection.
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One of the first things they teach you at online close -up magic university.
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I thought you'd be happy to see me.
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If we can do this, you know, go back in time, why don't we just find baby Thanos,
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you know, and First of all, that's horrible.
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It's Thanos.
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He's out of line, but he's right.
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Dude, how long have you been standing there?
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An hour.
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What?
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An hour?
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You're right in the back?
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Dick move, Banner.
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No, what are we, a team?
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No, no, no, we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos.
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We're a time bomb.
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And when I spun it really, really fast, it gave me the ability to fly.
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You rode a hammer.
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No, I didn't ride the hammer.
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The hammer, are you on your back?
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No, no, no, I used to spin it really fast, and it would pull me off the...
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Oh, my God.
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The hammer pulled you off.
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The ground.
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It would pull me off the ground.
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Stop.
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You're such a jerk.
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Yep, we'll talk about it over dinner.
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Good luck on your mission, Captain.
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Good luck on your project, doctor.
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Fucking hell.
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What the fuck?
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You can do it.
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You almost got it.
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They ask you how you are, you just have to say that you're fine.
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You're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand.
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You were kidding, right?
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I have no idea.
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We're talking about time travel here.
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Either it's all a joke or none of it is.
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We're good.
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your antenna what are they for their purpose yes cool and i have a bed
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you're not supposed to say that what happened your balls drop off
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this is not some cute technology like the iron man suit
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right this could change the texture of reality oh okay besides
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they're probably too busy dropping cities out of the sky one more word and i will feed you to my children
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i'm kidding we are vegetarians
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i like your plan except it sucks so let me do the plan and
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that way it might be really good god you think i
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can't hold my own we get through this i'll hold your own
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and you had to make it weird oh you gotta you're
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gonna have to take this into the shop who's speaking it's
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your conscience we don't talk a lot these days i heard
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that i wish i didn't hear that but i just heard i say
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that if you are about to go through a doorway that's too low your antenna will feel this
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and keep you from being decapitated right and
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if it's anything other than you specifically not being decapitated by a doorway i win they're not for feeling doorway Oh,
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this is so embarrassing.
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It's all about the dance -off to save the universe.
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What game's wrong?
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It's not a.. it's not a.. it's not...
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I can Footloose the movie?
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Exactly like Footloose.
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Uh -oh.
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Is it still the greatest movie in history?
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It never was.
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God damn!
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I'm looking for Korg.
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Who's asking?
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Oh, no, you're asking.
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Is this anyone else asking?
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Or was it just you?
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The Lord of Thunder sends his best.
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Woo!
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Yeah, baby!
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That's what I've been waiting for!
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That's what it's all about!
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He's convulsing!
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Get him there!
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Medic!
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Medic!
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Need you guys some help?
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i told you something didn't feel right i told you
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so is what i need to hear right now well i came back didn't i
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because there's an unspoken thing there is no unspoken thing yes
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there is did you You think you could stop the future with a heist?
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It was never just a heist!
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What?
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Ooh, child, things will get brighter.
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Bring it down hard!
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What's up, Jay?
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We're doing it together.
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What are you doing?
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Dance -off, bro.
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Me and you.
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Oh, I'm gonna come.
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Terrific.
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Oh!
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That on the carriage, it's filthy.
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Oh, they got bigger problems.
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time doesn't work
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that way changing the past doesn't change the future look we
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go back we get the stones before thanos gets them thanos
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doesn't have the stones problem solved bingo that's not how it works no i've mastered the ability of standing
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so incredibly still that i've become invisible to the eye watch go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep
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i'm gonna throw you out the goddamn window you need to
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step away why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam
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you know damn well why back off oh i'm starting to want you to make me
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every time i threw it would always come back to me sounds like you had a pretty special
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and intimate relationship with this hammer and
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that losing it was almost comparable to losing a loved them it's a nice way of putting it
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and i started thinking to myself man
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whatever you're new here not exactly you still have it for
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what i'm gonna do leave it in there i can't believe you had
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that in your purse it's not a purse it's a knapsack
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you have to bring this to the nova corps no no
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no no guys this this doesn't feel right what is this
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what's going on hold up that's scott yes it's scott yeah
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i guess yeah i feel a general unselfish love for just
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about everyone romantic sexual no no i don't for her no that is not
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okay i don't want peace i want problems always now dive
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through the keyhole scott you charge big you dive small then you emerge big man you are one pathetic loser
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great gorilla don't encourage this all right we're getting no help from flash gordon
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by the way that's a compliment don't forget i'm half human so that 50 percent of me that's stupid
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that's 100 you your math is blowing my mind
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that i am thor son of own as long as there is life in my breasts.
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I'm running out of things to say.
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Are you ready?
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Holy shit.
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Okay, tiny dude is big now.
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He's big now.
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The revolution has begun.
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Revolution?
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How did this happen?
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Then I...
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How?
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How?
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How?
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I don't know.
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what are you doing you could have killed us all uh
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thank you rocket we had it under control we did not what the hell are you talking about
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so take it back what are you doing What are you doing?
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I'm distracting you, you big turd blossom.
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Well, that's what I heard.
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Wait, but who?
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Who told you that?
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Star Trek.
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Terminator.
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Time Cop.
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Time After Time.
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Quantum Leap.
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Wrinkle in Time.
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Somewhere in Time.
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Hot Tub Time Machine.
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Basically any movie that deals with time travel.
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Die Hard?
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No, that's not what I mean.
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This is known.
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You're eating a Zarg nut.
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But my movement was so slow.
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Really, really, really, really But it's imperceptible I'm sure I'm at this.
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Hi, Drax.
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F*!
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I'm sorry.
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It was at this moment that he knew.
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He f*ed up.
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You just scared the devil out of me.
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I thought you were.
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I was dead.
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Why?
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Because I fell 200 feet?
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Who's the hot mess now?
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Still debatable?
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but the raccoon didn't have to climb the mountain technically he's
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not a raccoon yeah oh whatever he eats garbage just give it to rona
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so he can destroy the galaxy what are you some saint
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all of a sudden what has the galaxy ever done for
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you why would you want to save it why why why why why
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because i'm one of the idiots who lives in it of course hey champ how was school today Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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All right, get your jokes out now.
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Can you fix the suit?
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It's so cranky.
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You want a juice box and some string cheese?
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Do you really have that?
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I lied.
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My back.
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What is this?
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Hold on a second.
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Can I get a little space here?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Bring it back?
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I'm working on it.
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It's a baby.
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It's Scott.
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As a baby.
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He'll grow.
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Bring Scott back.
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She just told everyone your deepest darkest secret Dude, come on I think you're overreacting a little bit You must be so embarrassed
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I was in prison for three years I know how to punch Show me Terrible You wanna show me how to punch?
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Show me That's how you punch Why do you have him in the snow?
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It is the only thing keeping him from joining the ancestors
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We need to get him to my lab I can heal him there Take him, he'll be dead in seconds
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should we bow yeah he's a kid it seems like i'm always thanking you for something
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what are you doing we we don't do that here i'm about to beat this bitch up
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it's terribly well balanced well
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if there's too much weight you lose power on the swing class dismissed anybody on our side hiding any shocking
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and fantastic abilities they'd to disclose i'm open to suggestions hey
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let's do get help what get help no come on you
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love it i hate it it's great it works every time
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it's humiliating do you have a better plan no we're doing
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it how selfish of me let's do all the things that you want to do
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oh i've been waiting for this oh boy i've been waiting for this what's up
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whatever i need to do to get a damn ride home
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she tried to murder me i saved you you stupid fox
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he's not a fox i'm not a raboon either i'm a raccoon raccoon whatever it's okay
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well the 60s were fun but now i'm paying for it
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if you travel to the past that past becomes your future
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and your former present becomes the past which can't now be changed by your new future Exactly.
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So back to the future is a bunch of bullshit.
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We are not doing get help.
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Get help, please.
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My brother, he's dying.
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Get help.
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Help him.
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Classic.
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Still hate it.
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It's too many.
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No, not for me, it's not.
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What is reality?
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Hi.
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Company.
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Sorry, you can call ahead.
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this is an agent of some kind what probably tipping your
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way a little bit why don't you dress like this at
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home sport bra the whole deal you know i think i
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understand why you don't want to give up the suits no offense
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but you're a very earthly being okay we're talking about space magic
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and con seems very definitive don't you think yeah look i know
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that i'm way outside my my pay grade here of course all right okay i think you're right
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or we could give it to somebody who's not going to
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arrest us who's really nice for a whole lot of money
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i think it's a really good balance between both of your points of view you're despicable
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if i had asked you would you have come i guess we'll never know but i didn't know one thing
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what if i had you'd have never been caught emotional damn it somebody peed my pants
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oh thank god but i don't know if it was baby me or old me Or just me me time travel
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What I've seen this is an absolute win Stop the cow!
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Stop the cow right now!
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Stop the cow! Do me! Do me! Do me!
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I have never felt that sugar!
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Alright, Princess.
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Let's get back to work.
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Were you going for the hand?
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Heal him.
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God, I love this place Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys Romanoff, you and Banner better not be playing hide the zucchini Relax,
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shellhead Not all of us can fly We haven't met yet I'm Clint I don't care Whoa,
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Avengers Moments We Didn’t Appreciate Enough”. This video has 288 sentences and 2417 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:02. The speaker talks at a natural 151 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 44 of its 288 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| hammer noun | /ˈhæmɚ/ | A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. |
| punch noun | /pʌnt͡ʃ/ | A hit or strike with one's fist. |
| snake noun | /sneɪk/ | Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues. |
| doorway noun | /ˈdɔɹweɪ/ | The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room. |
| spin verb | /spɪn/ | To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. |
| galaxy noun | /ˈɡæl.ək.si/ | Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are… |
| dive verb | /daɪv/ | To swim under water. |
| heal verb | /ˈhiːl/ | To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. |
| mild adjective | /ˈmaɪld/ | Gentle and not easily angered |
| transform verb | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | To change greatly the appearance or form of. |
| purse noun | /pɚs/ | A small bag for carrying money. |
| antenna noun | /ænˈtɛn.ə/ | An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| back off verb | To move backwards away from something. | |
| call ahead verb | Synonym of phone ahead. | |
| close up verb | /kləʊzˈʌp/ | To close (remove a gap) completely or fully. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| drop off verb | To fall asleep. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Dude, how long have you been standing there?
- You're right in the back?
- No, what are we, a team?
- The hammer, are you on your back?
- Need you guys some help?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have you been standing · I've been waiting |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if i had asked you would you · if i had you'd have |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've mastered · i've become · has begun |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being decapitated · is known · be changed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 104 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, filthy /ˈfɪlθi/, earthly /ˈəːθli/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, flash /flæʃ/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, conscience /ˈkɑn.ʃəns/
- Long words — get the stress right: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, comparable /ˈkɒmpəɹəbəl/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like whoa, hammer, punch.
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Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.