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We need to help Riley prepare.
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Now is the time to send up every possible thing that could go wrong.
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We are looking to the future.
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Every possible mistake she could make.
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Riley misses an open goal.
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Coach writes about her notebook.
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Yes!
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More like that.
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Oh no, they're using
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Riley's imagination against her.
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Val and her friends like us now.
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But if we don't make the team, will they like us tomorrow?
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We can't let her do this to Riley.
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We have to shut this down.
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Love it, 37.
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Riley hits the puck into her own net.
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Why are you drawing a hippo?
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I'm not.
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I'm drawing Riley.
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Joy, you forgot her ponytail.
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Oh, I love her ponytail.
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Yes.
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Riley scores and everyone hugs her?
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81. That is not helping.
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Today, we're learning English with Inside Out 2, and we'll also understand a little bit better how anxiety works.
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Along the way, you'll learn over 16 advanced expressions like use something against someone, shut down, and score.
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Now, don't just learn these expressions and then forget them.
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If you want to feel confident when you speak, to speak naturally, just like you do your mother tongue,
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then you need to be able to access these expressions when you get into a real conversation.
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So, I have just the thing for you.
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I want to give you access to all the smart flashcards from this lesson with Inside Out for free.
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You can practice with them in our app by clicking the link below.
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And thousands of learners just like you are becoming more fluent and having fun while doing it.
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You really only need a few minutes a day to see real progress.
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Now let's see how joy overcomes anxiety.
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Riley paints her nails to match her jersey.
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Everybody copies her, and she is so cool.
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Riley wears knee pads.
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We buy flowers for the losing team.
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What?
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I can't always be the rage guy.
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No, no, I liked it.
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Nail polish knee pads?
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I'm starting to think you guys don't understand the assignment.
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What?
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What?
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What?
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Um, who sent that projection to Riley?
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Why would I know?
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Ugh.
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What is going on?
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Who is sending all of this positive?
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Riley misses an open goal.
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Coach writes about her notebook.
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Yes!
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More like that.
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Oh no, they're using
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Riley's imagination against her.
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When you use something against someone, you take something that's meant to help them and turn it into a weapon instead.
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So Riley's imagination is supposed to be a fun creative tool, but anxiety is twisting it into a machine that makes
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Riley scared so she avoids mistakes.
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Pretty accurate to how real anxiety works.
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And you'll understand this better with a couple examples, like this one from Shark Tale.
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This is all my fault.
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That's the classic move.
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I've seen it a thousand times.
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They take the thing you love the most and then they use it against you.
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No parents for you until I get my crystal.
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No, Supergirl, if you give them the crystal, they'll use it against you.
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Oh, because I was thinking, what am I doing?
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If I can find a new, you'll sooner or later find some way to use it against me.
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Joy then says she wants to shut down Anxiety's operation.
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We can't let her do this to Riley.
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We have to shut this down.
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What do you think that means?
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Make it more organized?
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Slow it down?
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Stop it completely?
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Nice!
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You'll hear this everywhere from business, the factory shut down last year, to arguments.
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She shut down his excuse immediately.
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You can also say you shut down your computer when you power it off.
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Now one of anxiety's projections shows
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Riley messing up on the ice.
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This is a hockey puck.
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So here poor
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Riley accidentally scores on her own team.
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Every player's nightmare.
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Anger then points out that
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Joy is not a very good artist and she responds.
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This hairstyle is called a ponytail.
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So let's see what Joy drew.
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He won.
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That is not helping.
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To score means to get a point in a game or sport, like scoring a goal in hockey or soccer, or scoring a basket in basketball.
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Then, the other emotions also share ideas for positive projections they can send up to Riley.
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Riley paints her nails to match her jersey.
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Everybody copies her and she is so cool.
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Riley wears knee pads.
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These are knee pads.
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Skaters, volleyball players, and construction workers all might wear them.
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Fear is always thinking about how to keep Riley safe.
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And then, anger's idea is pretty ironic and funny.
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We buy flowers for the losing team!
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What?
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I can't always be the rage guy.
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No, no, I liked it!
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Rage is intense, out -of -control anger.
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So anger is basically saying he can't always be the angry one.
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Hilarious.
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You'll often hear this word in phrases like road rage, getting furious while driving.
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Or he flew into a rage, he suddenly became extremely angry.
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Check out these examples.
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And this is nail polish.
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You paint your nails with nail polish.
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Moving on, anxiety finally realizes what is happening.
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Let's watch.
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Really?
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Nothing?
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Sorry, Joy.
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Yeah, I see you, 87.
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A cat!
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A little off -topic, but I'll take it. Who else?
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Come on!
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What if Riley is better than Val, and then Val hates her?
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Or what if Riley is better than Val, and Val respects her?
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Yeah!
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There we go.
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What if Riley is so bad, she has to give up hockey forever?
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What if Riley does so well that the coach cries and the Olympics call and she rallies a weary nation to victory?
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Joy, reality is also a thing Anxiety?
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He's got you all chained to death, trying nightmares, but you don't have to take it anymore Pencils down, projections off Yeah!
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It's enough, it's enough
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My projections
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So things quickly spun into hilarious chaos, and there's a lot for us to learn there.
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When you give it your best shot, you try as hard as you possibly can at something, even if you're not sure you'll succeed.
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Listen to these examples.
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Next, anxiety explains this is their strategy to make Riley happy.
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If you ask people, who's with me?
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You're asking who agrees with you and is ready to support.
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We actually explained a similar use of this in our recent lesson with the Chronicles of Narnia.
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Check it out.
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Interestingly, in English we may use this expression to ask if someone understands you.
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When I'm teaching a class and I notice a student seems a little confused, I might ask them, are you with me?
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But in the clip we just watched, Peter is using a second meaning of this expression.
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Are you on my side?
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Will you fight alongside me?
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It's a way to ask for loyalty and commitment.
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Are you with me?
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Are you with me, lions?
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Alright, now we see some imagination workers start helping Joy.
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Really?
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Nothing?
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Sorry, Joy.
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Yeah, I see you, 87.
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A cat!
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A little off -topic, but I'll take it. Who else?
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Come on!
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If something is off -topic, it's not related to what you're actually supposed to be talking about or focusing on.
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So all the other drawings so far were about Riley succeeding or failing at hockey camp.
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But 87 drew something cute, but random, a cat.
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You can also say the opposite, on topic.
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If you get distracted, your teacher might say, let's stay on topic.
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Check out these examples.
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Don't get off topic, Tony.
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You said folks are talking.
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What are they talking about?
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Congressman, let's get back on topic, please.
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I'd love to.
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And what was that topic we were talking about?
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And listen to how they said this number.
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Yeah, I see you, 87.
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So when we have a T between two vowel sounds, it becomes a soft D, like in butter or cat and dog.
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This is called an American T.
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The same thing happens with numbers, like 80.
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Not 87, but 87.
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87. We heard another example from anxiety earlier.
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81?
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That is not helping.
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All right, I recommend that you pay attention to pronunciation when you hear different numbers.
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For now, listen to those lines again and repeat.
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What if Riley is so bad, she has to give up hockey forever!
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To give something up means to stop doing it completely, usually because it's too hard or you've lost hope.
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Anxiety is imagining an unlikely but terrible possibility.
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Now, I don't want you to give up on your English learning.
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A reason a lot of English learners like you get discouraged or lose motivation is because when you get into a conversation,
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words that you know you've learned won't come to your head.
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Now this may be because you're learning the words but you aren't studying them.
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So you hear them and poof, just hours or even minutes later you no longer have access to them.
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The good news is that there are learners who actually internalize the new words and use them naturally when speaking.
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Do you want to learn their secret?
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So they keep these new words they've learned active in their brains by using flashcards.
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If you want to see how that works, it's really simple.
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Just click the link in the description
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Now, joy is much more hopeful than anxiety.
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What if Riley does so well that the coach cries and the Olympics call and she rallies a weary nation to victory?
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If Riley rallies a weary nation, do you think that means she makes everyone feel tired and give up, brings people together and inspires them,
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confuses everyone with her performance.
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Awesome!
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To rally people means to bring them together and inspire them towards a common goal, especially when things look difficult.
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Well, I know how stressful mounting a rebellion can be.
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Rallying the troops, planning the attacks, so I brought you a little something to ease the tension.
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But if our ancestors were able to build this anthill, we can certainly rally together to build this bird!
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And wary is just a poetic way of saying tired or exhausted.
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If you work a 60 -hour work week, you might feel wary by the time the weekend comes.
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Here's another example.
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Have you been harboring gypsies?
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Our home is always open to the weary traveler.
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Have mercy, my lord.
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I grow weary of waiting.
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Where is Yolnir?
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Actually, this line is referencing a real moment from sports history.
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And the Olympics call, and she rallies a weary nation to victory!
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In 1980, the U .S.
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Olympic hockey team, made up of college kids, pulled off or achieved an incredible win over the much more prepared
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Soviet team, and the whole country, tired and discouraged at the time, rallied behind them.
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It even became a movie, Miracle.
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Discuss points out that this might be a lot to hope for.
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Joy, reality is also a thing.
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When someone says that something is also a thing, they're pointing out that something exists and shouldn't be ignored.
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Especially to bring someone back down to earth.
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You could use this in a ton of situations.
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Like I know you want ice cream every night, but a balanced diet is also a thing.
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And finally, anger creates the perfect rallying cry against anxiety.
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When you say you don't have to take it anymore, you're saying that you refuse to keep accepting something bad.
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If you have a partner who does not appreciate everything you do for them, or an over demanding boss,
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you might say, I'm not going to take this anymore.
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We have a great bit of connected speech here too.
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Listen again.
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Fuck, you don't have to take it anymore!
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Pretty hard to catch every word, right?
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First, oftentimes when we have an N and T together, we just pronounce the N.
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Like in 20. Or internet.
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Here we hear don't.
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Not don't.
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Have and to usually morph to have to. Have to.
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And we have another American T here in it.
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Take it anymore.
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Take it anymore.
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Let's put that all together.
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You don't have to take it anymore.
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You don't have to take it anymore.
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But you don't have to take it anymore.
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But you don't have to take it anymore.
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And let's watch that chaotic ending again.
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Pencils down.
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Projections off.
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Yeah.
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It's in there.
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We need to be prepared.
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So I just wanted to point out a cool cultural reference here.
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This is likely an Easter egg of Apple's famous 1984
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Super Bowl commercial, where a woman sprints in and hurls a sledgehammer at a giant
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Big Brother screen to shatter it, symbolizing breaking free from mind control and conformity.
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Nice work today, but we're not done yet.
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Now comes the most important part of the lesson.
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You'll test everything you learn by watching the scene again without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.
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Give it your best shot!
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We need to help Riley prepare.
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Now is the time to send up every possible thing that could go wrong.
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We are looking to the future.
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Every possible mistake she could make.
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Riley misses an open goal.
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Coach writes about her notebook.
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Yes!
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More like that!
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Oh no, they're using
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Riley's imagination against her.
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If someone uses your words against you, what are they doing?
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Repeating your words to compliment you?
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Turning your own words into a weapon against you?
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Translating your words into another language?
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Val and her friends like us now, but if we don't make the team, will they like us tomorrow?
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We can't let her do this to Riley.
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We have to shut this down.
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Love it, 37.
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Riley hits the puck into her own net.
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Why are you drawing a hippo?
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I'm not.
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I'm drawing Riley.
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Joy, you forgot her ponytail.
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Oh, I love her ponytail.
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Yes.
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Riley scores and everyone hugs her?
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81. That is not helping.
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Riley paints her nails to match her jersey.
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Everybody copies her and she is so cool.
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Riley wears knee pads.
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We buy flowers for the losing team.
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Recall the name of each of these images.
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Why would I know?
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Ugh!
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What is going on?
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Who is sending all of this positive...
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Joy, I know you're in there.
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Well, I think we gave it our best shot.
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Don't listen to anxiety.
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She's using these horrible projections to change Riley.
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Joy, I'm doing this for you.
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This is all so
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Riley can be happier.
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If you wanted her to be happy, then you'd stop hurting her.
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If you want to ask for someone's support, you can say, Give it your best shot.
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Can you keep on topic?
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Are you with me?
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Who's with me?
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Really?
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Nothing?
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Sorry, Joy.
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Yeah, I see you, 87.
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A cat!
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A little off topic, but I'll take it. Who else?
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Come on!
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What if Riley is better than Val, and then Val hates her?
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Or what if Riley is better than Val, and Val respects her?
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Yeah!
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There we go.
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What if Riley is so bad, she has to give up hockey forever?
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What if Riley does so well that the coach cries?
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And the Olympics call, and she rallies a weary nation to victory!
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Uh, Joy, reality is also a thing.
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What does it mean when someone says a topic is also a thing?
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It shouldn't be ignored.
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It's not important at all.
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It's the only thing that matters.
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No!
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Anxiety?
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He's got you all chained to death, drawing nightmares!
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Which of these means that you refuse to keep putting up with something?
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You don't have to take it anymore?
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You have to take it anymore? you should take it easy.
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So thanks for joining me in learning with Inside Out 2.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English with Inside Out - Anxiety Takes Over”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Riley, joy, anxiety, anymore. This video has 351 sentences and 2905 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:20. The speaker talks at a steady 130 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. 66 of its 351 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
anxiety noun/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
topic noun/ˈtɑpɪk/A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
rally noun/ˈɹæli/A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
lesson noun/ˈlɛs.ən/A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
hockey noun/ˈhɑ.ki/Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
nail noun/neɪl/The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
projection noun/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
weary adjective/ˈwɪɚi/Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
knee noun/ni/In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
imagination noun/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
rage noun/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/Violent uncontrolled anger.
pad noun/pæd/A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
anger noun/ˈæŋɡə/A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm…
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
polish verb/ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
shut down verbTo close, terminate, or end; to stop operating, either permanently or temporarily.
check out verbTo record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
give up verbTo surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
point out verbTo identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
send up verbTo imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour.
get off verbTo move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
pull off verbTo remove by pulling.
put up with verbTo endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Why are you drawing a hippo?
  • What do you think that means?
  • If you ask people, who's with me?
  • Are you on my side?
  • You don't have to take it anymore?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its resultif we don't make the team, will they · if that sounds like something you'd like · if you give them the crystal, they'll use
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowI've seen · you've lost · you've learned
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itis called · be ignored

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 75 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like anxiety, topic, rally.

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