Shadowing Practice: Learn English With Avengers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oh!
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You okay?
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Help him!
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Bob, come on!
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No, no, we got it!
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Friday, what am I looking at?
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Not sure, I'm working on this.
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Hey!
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You might want to put that time stone in your back pocket, Doc!
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You might want to use it.
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In this scene from the Avengers Infinity War, two members of the group of villains known as the Children
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of Thanos come to New York City to capture the Time Stone.
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At this point, Thanos has two of the six Infinity Stones, and he's looking to complete his collection of stones to gain unlimited power.
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However, the masters of the mystic arts, Doctor Strange and Wong, and the Avengers themselves, Tony Stark and Doctor Banner,
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are set on keeping the stone in safe hands.
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If you're new here, you will first watch the clip with subtitles in English, then we will teach you all of the most important vocabulary,
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pronunciation, and cultural context before moving on to the next clip.
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Finally, you will test everything you learned by watching all the clips without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.
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Are you ready?
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You better pack it up and get out of here.
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Stone Keeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?
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Certainly not, I speak for myself.
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After trespassing in this city and on this planet.
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It means get lost, Squidward.
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He exhausts me.
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Bring me the stone.
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Lost him.
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Ben, you want a piece?
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No, not really, but when do I ever get what I want?
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That's right.
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I get it.
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It's been a while.
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It's gonna be good to have you, buddy.
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Okay, shh.
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I'm just...
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I need a car to drive for a second.
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Come on, come on, Max.
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Where's your gun?
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I don't know.
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It's never been having a thing.
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There's no time for a thing.
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That's the thing right there.
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Let's go.
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Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards.
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I'm sorry.
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I can't or he won't.
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I don't- Hey, stand down.
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Keep an eye on him.
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Thank you.
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I have a- Him.
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Where'd that come from?
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It's nanotech.
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You like it?
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A little something like that.
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Dr. Banner, if the rest of your green friend won't be joining us.
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You gotta get that stone out of here now.
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It stays with me.
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Exactly.
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Bye.
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Hear me and rejoice.
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You are about to die at the hands of the children of Thanos.
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At the hands of is a phrase
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that we use to say someone is going to receive some kind of suffering or unpleasant treatment from someone else.
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Many people have died at the hands of the gang members.
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To rejoice means to feel or show great joy or delight.
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If you rejoice at something, you feel extremely happy.
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He rejoiced at our victory.
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Tonight we rejoice.
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We rejoice!
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In the context of the Avengers, this villain is accustomed to using this phrase at the beginning of a speech, as we see earlier in this movie.
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Hear me and rejoice, for even in death you have become children of Samus.
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any of our new lessons.
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Literally, something that is meaningless has no meaning.
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These symbols are apparently meaningless.
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However, we especially use this word to say that something doesn't have a clear purpose or importance.
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I've been working for 10 years now at this meaningless, dead-end job and nobody here even knows that I exist.
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Chandler?
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And of course, for the opposite meaning, we say meaningful.
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How do you think it's gonna look when you get her something incredibly meaningful
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and expensive and her boyfriend Joey gives her an orange?
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Tony then tells the villains to pack it up and get out of here.
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To pack or to pack up means to put things into cases or bags before going on a trip.
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But if you say something like, let's pack it up, you're saying let's leave.
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Said in the imperative, this is usually a way to tell someone in an insulting way that they should go away.
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Get out of here is also a common phrase we use to say leave, especially in an emphatic manner.
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As a verb, to chatter means to talk quickly in a friendly way without stopping, especially about things that are not serious or important.
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Example, we were chattering about the events of last night.
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If animals chatter, they make short, high-pitched sounds.
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This is why he describes Tony in an insulting way as a chattering animal.
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On the other hand, if you say for example,
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I speak for myself, you're making it clear you're expressing an opinion or feeling that's yours and not anyone else's.
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In the same way, when you speak for someone else, you're expressing the thoughts and opinions of another person.
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Furthermore, we also often say that we speak for everybody, for all of us, etc. when we're confident that everybody agrees with what we're saying.
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when I wish them a lifetime of happiness.
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Trespassing in this city and on this planet.
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Means get lost Squidward.
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To trespass means to go onto someone's private property without their permission.
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Where are you going?
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The backyard.
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We'll take this picture really quickly and then we'll just get out of here.
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No, let's just wait for them to come home.
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Okay, that trespassing...
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No, it's not.
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We used to live here.
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I don't...
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Get lost is a rude way to tell someone to go away or to stop annoying you.
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She's no longer my friend.
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I told her to get lost.
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Then, Tony calls the villain Squidward.
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This is a character from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants and he's making fun of him because they look similar.
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Lastly, notice how Doctor Strange uses two prepositions, in and on, when he says in this city and on this planet.
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If you find the use of the prepositions in, on, and at difficult, you might want to check out this lesson we made.
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To want a piece of someone means to want to fight them.
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Manny, I'm talking to you, you want a piece of this?
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Ow!
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What was that for?
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Looks like I gave you a piece of this.
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What the hell?
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I was just offering you some apple crumble!
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It's been a while.
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A while is an unspecified period of time.
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When we say, it's been a while, we mean that a long time has passed since you last did something.
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We usually follow this up with since.
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It's been a while since I read an actual newspaper.
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Missed that sound.
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Where's your gun?
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I don't know, it's sort of been having a thing.
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Banner here is saying that he's been having some problems with the Hulk.
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He's addressing this issue in a very vague and general way, so that's why he refers to it as a thing.
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Example, he and his wife have been having a thing, so she's going to stay at her sister's apartment for a while.
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Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizard.
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I can't or he won't.
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In legends and fairy tales, a wizard is a man who has magical powers.
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A famous wizard you've probably heard about is Harry Potter.
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Tony is referring to Doctor Strange and his friend.
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He is being humorous and making fun of their superpowers as they are not actually wizards.
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As Banner is trying to summon the Hulk, he says either I can't or he won't.
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Besides being the negative version of Will to express a future action, won't is very very commonly used to say that someone doesn't have the intention of doing something.
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This use doesn't actually involve a sense of the future tense.
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Then we use the words either and or together in a sentence or phrase to indicate two ideas or possibilities.
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Example, I either drink tea or coffee in the morning.
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I'll either get an iPhone 8 or one of those high-end Samsung phones.
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If you tell someone to stand down, you're telling them to relax after they've gotten ready to do something.
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To keep an eye on someone or something is an idiom that means to watch someone or something carefully, paying attention that nothing bad happens to that person or thing.
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In fast speech, DID is often reduced or modified.
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In this case, the speaker only pronounces it as a D sound.
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We can see other instances of this reduction after question words like what, when, where, or how.
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As you saw, we can even express this informally in writing with an apostrophe and D.
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Where'd, what'd, when'd.
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Be careful to not confuse this with would, which we also express with an apostrophe D.
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You can tell the difference by the context.
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What did you have for dinner?
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What did you like for dinner?
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When did you get home from the concert?
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If you went to the concert, when did you get home?
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It's nanotech, you like it?
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This is short for nanotechnology, which is the science of building machines at a subatomic level.
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Alright, so now it is time to test everything that you learned by watching the full scene without subtitles.
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And we will be challenging you even more by stopping it periodically to ask you some different quiz questions.
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Be sure to let us know how you did by sharing your score down in the comments below.
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Hear me, and rejoice.
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You are about to die at the hands of the children of Thanos.
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Crasher.
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Be thankful that your meaningless lives are now contributing to the balance- I'm sorry, Earth is closed today.
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You better pack it up and get out of here.
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Stone Keeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?
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Does this chattering animal speak for you?
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Certainly not, I speak for myself.
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I've been trespassing in this city and on this planet.
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He needs to get lost Squidward.
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He exhausts me.
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Minia.
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Bring me the stone.
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Lost him.
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Ben, do you want a piece?
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No, not really, but when do I ever get what I want?
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But when do I ever get what I want?
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When do I ever get what I want?
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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It's been a while.
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It's going to be good to have you, buddy.
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Okay.
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I need a gun to try there for a second.
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Come on.
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Come on, Max.
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Where's your gun?
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I don't know.
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It's sort of been having a thing.
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There's no time for a thing.
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That's the thing right there.
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Let's go.
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Give me the shot!
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Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards.
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I'm sorry.
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I can't or he won't.
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It's okay.
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Hey, stand down.
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Keep an eye on him.
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Thank you.
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I love him.
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I need you to kill.
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I need you to kill.
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I need you to kill.
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I need you to kill.
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Damn!
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Where'd that come from?
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Where'd that come from?
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Where'd that come from?
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It's nanotech, you like it?
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Alright, so now you can go and really test your learning by watching the full Avengers Infinity Wars movie.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 221 sentences and 2009 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:46. The speaker talks at a steady 120 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- wizard /ˈwɪzɚd/ (noun) — Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ (noun) — A short written or spoken expression.
- villain /ˈvɪl.ən/ (noun) — A vile, wicked person.
- meaningless /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/ (adjective) — Lacking meaning.
- lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (noun) — A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- clip /klɪp/ (noun) — Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- refer /ɹɪˈfɜː/ (verb) — To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
- mini /ˈmɪn.i/ (adjective) — Miniature, tiny, small.
- buddy /ˈbʌdi/ — A person far removed from the conversation.
- meaningful /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ (adjective) — Having meaning, significant.
- insult /ɪnˈsʌlt/ (noun) — Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
- quiz /kwɪz/ (noun) — A competition in the answering of questions.
- vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ (noun) — A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
- exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/ (verb) — To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
- pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ (noun) — The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- speak for (verb) — To speak on somebody's behalf.
- come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.
- get out of (verb) — To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
- come from (verb) — To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
- stand down (verb) — To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a heightened readiness posture.
- check out (verb) — To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
- go away (verb) — To depart or leave a place.
- come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (verb) — To be discovered; to be revealed.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 55 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: furthermore /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
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 wizard, phrase, villain.
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 | I've been working · have been having · I've been trespassing |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you're new here, you will first |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to live · used to say |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have become · has passed · you've probably heard |
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.