Shadowing Practice: Harry Potter Bloopers That Made Filming Impossible 😂 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We enter completely our own world.
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You know, it's completely our own world.
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And we like to swim in the deepest waters.
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They had put a fart machine into my sleeping bag.
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This whole echo.
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And Michael Gambon had actually been pressing it during the take I found out.
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10 years, 8 movies, thousands of hours on set with the same people.
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You don't come out of that without losing it completely at the worst possible moments.
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This is what happens when the cameras keep rolling.
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Rupert Grint was a lot of things on set.
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Professional was not always one of them.
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The man had a gift, not for acting, for ruining perfectly good takes at the exact wrong moment.
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The thing is, it was never even about anything.
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No joke, no prank, just Rupert being Rupert.
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And once he started, everyone went down with him.
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Emma Watson had her own version of the problem.
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She was word perfect, every single line, even the ones that weren't hers.
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Flamel must have known someone was after the stone.
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So he gave it to a friend he could trust.
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Dumbledore.
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A stone that may skull stops you from dying.
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A stone that may skull stops you from dying.
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If all Snape wants is the sorcerer's stone.
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Maybe he really wants that house cup.
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Hermione Granger knows all the answers.
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Completely in character.
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Absolutely not the point.
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Speaking of Emma, there's a moment off camera that you've probably never seen.
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They're mid-conversation, no script, no director watching, and then something happens that Daniel simply cannot recover from.
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Even the boy who lived has his kryptonite.
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Now, the Harry Potter set had its share of rivalries, on screen at least.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton, Harry and Draco, were never meant to be friends.
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Off camera, though?
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You made no other way.
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I didn't know I was going to get a shot.
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I love this one.
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You missed it totally.
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Then you sort of walked into it.
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It didn't work.
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Whoops.
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Did you call me a bus?
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No, I said...
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This is not the energy of two people who hate each other.
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That is two guys who spend way too long sitting on broomsticks together.
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Not everyone on this set was a young actor finding their feet.
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Jason Isaacs, Lucius Malfoy, is one of the most menacing presences in the entire franchise.
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Cold, calculating, completely terrifying.
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And then, the director yells cut.
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Get back, get back, do your stuff.
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This is the real Harry, you see.
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Turns out the man holding the cane is not the man behind the cane.
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Here's something most people don't know.
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Jason Isaacs ad-libbed one of Lucius Malfoy's most memorable lines.
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In The Chamber of Secrets, his sneer at Harry, enjoy it while you can, was never in the script.
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Isaacs improvised it on the spot, and the director kept it in without hesitation.
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The coldest line of the film came from the actor, not the writer.
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Daniel's silly energy was definitely infectious on set.
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The cast of one of the biggest film franchises in history, following instructions from the kid in the Hogwarts robe?
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No notes.
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Emma, meanwhile, had developed her own solution to the constant laughter problem, a formal one.
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A red card system for laughing on a Harry Potter set,
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which is somehow both completely reasonable and completely absurd.
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I'm sorry for turning up.
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I've made your life's hell.
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The apology landing exactly as well as you'd expect.
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And then this one boy on the Gryffindor table comes around and goes, He's a psycho kid, sonny.
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Daniel Radcliffe has the distinct energy of someone who has never once actually been in trouble his entire childhood.
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Then there's the question of what Daniel was like before any of this,
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before the fame, before the franchise, before he had an entire crew to drag down with him.
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His very first audition for the role.
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Isn't he beautiful?
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Isn't he gorgeous, isn't he?
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Yeah.
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The part was already in his spirit, that much is clear.
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Despite all the chaos, Daniel Radcliffe earned over $50 million from the Harry Potter franchise before he turned 18.
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You're a wizard, Harry.
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I'm a what?
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A wizard.
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He's gone on record saying he barely spent any of it.
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Most of it sat in a bank account he simply wasn't thinking about he had other priorities.
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Apparently, making the entire crew lose their minds was free.
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Now, there is one scene in this entire franchise the cast openly dreaded.
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Not the big battle, not the grief scenes, not the ones that required months of preparation.
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This one.
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So have a look at it, because we'll be doing the kiss this week between Ron and Hermione.
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What?
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Doing the kiss between Ron and Hermione in the Chamber of Secrets.
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I was dreading it, to be honest.
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You are not allowed to do that.
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Everyone was there for my kiss.
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7 books,
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8 movies, years of audience anticipation, and absolutely nobody on set was ready for it.
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Emma Watson and Rupert Grant had known each other since they were 9 years old.
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By the time that scene had to be filmed, they had spent over a decade as on-screen siblings.
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Director David Yates later described the shoot as genuinely difficult, not for technical reasons, but because neither of them could get their head around it.
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The audience waited years for that kiss.
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The cast spent days dreading it.
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Not all the awkward moments were that loaded.
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Some are just two people trying to get through a scene and completely losing it in the process.
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David Bradley, Mr. Filch, and Tom Felton had one of those days.
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Filch and Draco finding common ground, nobody saw that coming.
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And then there's the moments that had nothing to do with the individual scene.
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Just the whole cast in a room together, one person with too much energy and zero self-control.
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That is what the great hall actually sounded like, probably.
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This is unbelievable.
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Emma Watson, on the phone, on set.
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On the bed.
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On the bed.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Ouch.
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Camera.
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Jay.
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Okay.
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Ding dong.
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One thousand take one.
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Was that a thousand?
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Wahey!
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I just think it's an end of an year.
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It's ten years of my life and my children are growing up during it, of course.
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That is Robbie Coltrane, finest gamekeeper in Hogwarts,
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last day on Harry Potter. Which clip
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genuinely surprised you?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Harry Potter Bloopers That Made Filming Impossible 😂”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Harry, completely, Emma, franchise, Daniel. This video has 124 sentences and 1088 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:08. The speaker talks at a steady 119 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dread noun | /dɹɛd/ | Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. |
| cane noun | /keɪn/ | The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae. |
| wizard noun | /ˈwɪzɚd/ | Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| broomstick noun | /ˈbɹum.stɪk/ | The handle of a broom (sweeping tool); (sometimes) the entire broom. |
| gamekeeper noun | A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. | |
| improvise verb | /ˈɪm.pɹə.vaɪz/ | To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan. |
| kryptonite noun | /ˈkɹɪptənaɪt/ | The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable. |
| terrify verb | /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ | To frighten greatly; to fill with terror. |
| robe noun | /ɹoʊb/ | A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. |
| menace noun | /ˈmɛnɪs/ | A perceived threat or danger. |
| hesitation noun | /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/ | An act of hesitating |
| ouch | /ˈaʊt͡ʃ/ | An expression of one's own physical pain. |
| sibling noun | /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ | A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with. |
| prank noun | /pɹæŋk/ | A practical joke or mischievous trick. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. | |
| come around verb | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| go down with verb | To catch or contract (an illness). | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. | |
| turn up verb | To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You know, it's completely our own world.
- Did you call me a bus?
- I'm sorry for turning up.
- The apology landing exactly as well as you'd expect.
- Isn't he gorgeous, isn't he?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were never meant · are not allowed · be filmed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who hate · guys who spend · someone who has |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've probably never seen · I've made |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as isn't, didn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, infectious /ɪnˈfɛk.ʃəs/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dread, cane, wizard.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
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.