Shadowing Practice: Mark Ruffalo being....Mark Ruffalo - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You're like, you're a lot smaller than you look on screen.
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Literally, that's like the number one thing people say.
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I'm like, great.
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Thank you.
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I think everybody's smaller in real life.
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Yeah, it's true.
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Like every single actor I've ever seen is smaller in scale.
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And I'm extra smaller?
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No, no, you're the same amount of small.
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You're not particularly small.
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I'm the smallest Avenger.
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But if you look, I'm always looking up around me.
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I'm always looking up.
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You know what that's like?
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No. You don't know what that's like.
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No!
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Avengers tattoo.
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Everyone got it.
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So my question, my question to you.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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That's all right.
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We can censor you out.
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Take it easy.
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Do I need two pieces of paper?
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Is this, yeah.
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You're going to need more than two pieces of paper.
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah, sorry.
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Can we get a roll of paper towels?
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All right.
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Finally. Is that you?
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Purple shirt?
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That's the most pathetic one is there.
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Oh, I can tell because of your arm hairs.
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That's Mark Ruffalo.
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Is that a giveaway?
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And the hairy arm?
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The purple t -shirt.
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And the purple t -shirt.
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Hairy arms.
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With a nice purple shirt.
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That's gotta be Ruffalo.
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Next time, we'll ask you to submit your own bicep photo.
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Thanks a lot.
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Thanks, Josh.
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I see that was coming.
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I also, you know, you never know what's going to happen.
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Oh, look, he learned.
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Wow, he learned, didn't he?
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You just never know.
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Like you think you know, and then you just find out you didn't know.
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To our end game.
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I feel like he walks perilously.
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I mean that is a redemptive act happening in real time.
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I think you're back at zero now, buddy.
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I am.
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There's no red left in your ledger, right?
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Was that, was that Rowling?
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Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse down Ohtown Road.
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Wait, we're meant to say it dramatically.
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Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse down
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Old Town Road, and I'm gonna ride until I can't no more.
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First of all, I'm afraid of needles.
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Okay, so there's that.
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But also, I kind of got a punk rock soul.
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And I felt like, dude, everyone has tattoos.
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Oh.
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I'm gonna be punk rock and not get the tattoo.
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Oh, that's what I thought you were saying.
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Oh, wow!
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Wow!
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Oh my - Pack of tissues and a 12 pack of diapers.
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Oh!
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I asked if you need tissues, he said break diapers.
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That's just Mark.
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Yeah, he's just got a problem.
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But why is it?
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Is it because Mark can't be trusted?
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Is it because the rest of you can't be trusted?
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Why does everyone say that?
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I take the thing if anyone of us asked, I'm sure we'd probably - Hey everybody!
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Hi everybody!
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It's Mark Ruffalo.
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I'm Mark Ruffalo, this is Chris Evans.
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And I'm Chris Evans.
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That's all I wish.
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They're good.
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Do your kids' friends ever come up and go, you're the Hulk?
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As a matter of fact, they do.
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That's what I would do if I was one of your kids' friends.
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I had my daughter, who's in preschool,
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has a little period of time where the parents come and they hang out with the kid in the morning.
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This is last year.
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And this little boy, Nicholas, sat across the table from her,
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and I was coloring with her and doing the things you do with a preschool child.
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Absolutely.
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And he looked up at me and he said... Are you the Hulk?
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And I was like, well, no. And my daughter was like, yeah, he's the Hulk!
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And he said, can you turn into the Hulk?
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And I was like, she said, do it, Daddy, do it. So I went... And he went...
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No, no, no, no, no, no!
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No, no, no, no, no, no!
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No, no, no, no, no!
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Not here, not here!
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The school!
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You'll break it!
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You'll break it!
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Fantastic.
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Oh, my gosh.
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In the same category.
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Yeah, Mark, didn't he, like...
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That's not fair, man!
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Mark turned up to the Thor Ragnarok premiere.
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Right.
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And Instagram Live, the first 20 minutes.
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Not intentionally.
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That is so not true.
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I mean that's verifiably untrue.
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Verifiable, yeah.
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Fake news.
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But it's mostly like, I f* miss you guys.
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You can't, you can't, this is ET, dude.
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It's mostly like, I fricking miss you guys.
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You know?
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Yeah, it's a lot of, uh...
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Just out of the blue you're gonna text someone like, I miss you guys so much.
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And then everyone chumps.
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I know!
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That's just it, because everyone goes out.
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I don't want to get fired again.
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No, no, you won't.
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You won't.
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You won't.
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Here we go.
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The Hulk is green.
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Is it kind of like the Hulk's day?
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I guess that's what it is.
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Our choice is sexiest man alive right there, Mark Ruffalo.
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That's exactly, that's the way it works.
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Oh, you think you feel that way?
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Tell us about it, Mark.
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How do you feel?
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Aww.
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You're a repeat offender, Mr. Ruffalo.
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Not at re -education camp.
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What's the biggest one you've spilled?
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Well, what about when you stream the first ten minutes of...
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That, that's the highlight.
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That might be the highlight.
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And someone had to walk up to you at the premiere.
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I saw people running up and down the aisle.
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And they went to Mark going, OK.
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That was the one that got me the call from the up high.
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No, but wait, wait, wait.
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There's just some strategy there.
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Because everyone laughed so hard during that.
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You could hear it.
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That's all they could hear was laughing.
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They went, it must be good.
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Well, it sort of turned around on me.
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Because when I came to work on Monday, everyone ran up to me.
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I thought they were coming to scream at me, Barry.
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And he threw his arms around me.
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And he's like, that was genius!
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We got more press than we could have possibly paid for.
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Spoiler alert.
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Yes.
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In all fairness, it was in my pocket.
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What, the phone?
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Yeah.
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OK.
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And they heard the first 20 minutes.
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20 minutes?
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15. And when I knew, first my phone was just blowing up,
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like I was getting these texts and I was like, oh, I hope my mom's okay.
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Yeah.
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And, and, and, and I was like, I can't check my phone in the middle of the theater.
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That's rude, especially in my own movies.
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And then someone from Disney came up, a woman, and she poked me, and she said, turn off your phone.
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I said, what, what, what, what?
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Your phone is on.
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Turn off your phone.
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And I was like, my phone's not on.
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Oh!
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By the way, that was...
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Mark Ruffalo being....Mark Ruffalo”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Mark, Ruffalo, Hulk. This video has 185 sentences and 1134 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:05. The speaker talks at a natural 160 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| purple noun | /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ | A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. |
| tattoo noun | /tæˈtuː/ | An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle. |
| tissue noun | /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/ | Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric. |
| highlight verb | /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/ | To make prominent; emphasize. |
| punk noun | /ˈpʌŋk/ | A passive or effeminate homosexual man. |
| premiere noun | /pɹəˈmɪɚ/ | The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests. |
| hairy adjective | /ˈhɛɹ.i/ | Having a lot of body hair. |
| preschool adjective | /ˈpɹiːskuːl/ | Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school. |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
| sexy adjective | /ˈsɛksi/ | Having sex appeal; attractive. |
| buddy | /ˈbʌdi/ | A person far removed from the conversation. |
| theater noun | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on. |
| alert adjective | /əˈlɝt/ | Attentive; awake; on guard. |
| genius noun | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art… |
| submit verb | /səbˈmɪt/ | To yield or give way to another. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| look up verb | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | To have better prospects. |
| turn off verb | To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.). | |
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| run up verb | To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You know what that's like?
- Do I need two pieces of paper?
- Can we get a roll of paper towels?
- Is it because the rest of you can't be trusted?
- What's the biggest one you've spilled?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've ever seen · you've spilled |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | can't be trusted |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was coming · were saying · was coloring |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the smallest · the most pathetic · the biggest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, perilously /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ləs.li/, verifiable /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/
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 purple, tattoo, tissue.
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.