Shadowing Practice: Team Work Makes the Dream Work! 🤝 | Teen Titans Go! | @dckids - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I am the great Kalza!
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I can reveal your weakness.
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But take me, for some things are better left unknown.
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Do you still wish to know?
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Yes, of course!
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Fleshy flesh flew and Big Bang Boo!
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I know your weakness, now you shall too!
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Your weakness is...
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Your friends.
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Bum bum bum!
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But how could the people I most care about be my weakness?
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Because they hold you back.
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You could have been here hours ago if they didn't insist on coming along.
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They only slow you down.
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But they are my friends.
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You can be amazing without them.
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A queen, an empress, an all-powerful demigod!
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Oh boy.
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We made it!
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We're here!
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Did you find out your weakness?
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Yes.
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It is the all of you.
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Us?
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How could we be your weakness?
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Because you're holding her back from her true power.
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What?
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That be a lie!
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I'll take you out, you dumb, lying wizard!
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Stop it!
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Get it out!
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I'm warning you!
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You infinitesimal fools will pay for your insolence!
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I think we irritated him.
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Titans, go!
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Ah!
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The cold!
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You're no match for me.
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I know all of your weaknesses.
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That is your archmestrian.
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I got this!
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Oh, no!
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Not the cemetery scene!
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It's so sad!
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Ah, Robin, the most difficult titan of all.
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Because of my amazing skills?
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No, because you have so many weaknesses, I just don't know which one to choose.
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Untied shoelaces!
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See how weak and pathetic your friends are?
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No one calls the friends of mine the weak and the pathetic.
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Pathetic
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The love I have for my friends is not the weakness at all it is in actuality
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Greatest of my strengths Titans turn your greatest weakness into your greatest strength Oh do not listen to her
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This is what I call packing a puck!
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This one's for you, Shelby!
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No!
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My only weakness!
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Looks like we are not the only ones with the weakness.
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Nice one!
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Guys!
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Wait up!
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Those are some meaty thighs, bro!
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I wanna take a bite out of them!
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Your drumsticks are making me hungry!
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I'm glad someone brought a couple melons to this meat fest.
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You've done well, my friends.
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Your legs are fully jacked now.
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I feel our spirit has grown as big as our bulging thighs!
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Them legs.
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We aren't the Teen Titans anymore.
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We are the League of Legs.
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Step forward and receive your new League of Legs identities.
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Cyber.
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You shall now be known as Thunder Thighs.
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Starfire.
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You are the Incredible Kwa!
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Beast Boy!
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You are now...
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The Cat! And finally Robin!
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You will now and forever be known as...
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Captain Kanko!
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Let's kick it!
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As you can see, the enemy has spread across the entire eastern portion of Jump City.
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Here, here, and here.
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This is very worrisome, Lady Legacis.
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What do you mean, Quan?
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Their positioning indicates reinforcements are on the way.
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We can't let that happen!
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We need to stop them now!
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But how, Captain Kankle?
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Like this.
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Calf, throw me that pen.
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The enemy has focused their resources to fortify the upper levels of the command center, leaving the foundation vulnerable.
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We, the legs, need to extend past this line and then curl back.
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Curl back.
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That's when we flex our muscles.
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AHHHH!
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Are you crazy?
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A frontal assault?
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I like it.
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They'll never know what kicked them.
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Okay, everybody in. On three.
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One, two, three.
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Legs!
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This is where we make our stand, and then squat, with our knees at a 90 degree angle.
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Hold it!
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Hold it!
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Keep that form!
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Okay, legs, let's kick it!
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Leg lock!
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Quad crusher!
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Cap'n'cram!
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Time throw!
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Kankle crack!
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Those are some kankles.
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Yeah.
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Captain Kankle!
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Can't do it!
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My two legs.. not enough!
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I'll make that four, Mama!
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Six!
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Eight!
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Ten!
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Ah!
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Now that's what I call maxing out a rep!
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We did it!
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The Earth is saved!
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Oh, yeah!
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Go away!
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Tremble before the
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ill intentions of Starfire the Terrible!
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I am the cyborg.
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I put the in front of cyborg to make it sound more villainous.
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The cyborg.
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Go, go!
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Tremble before the demon of Azeroth!
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Say hello to Dick, Gravestone.
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You'll always be pooping in your pants when you see...
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Beast Monster!
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Our transformations are complete.
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We are no longer the Teen Titans.
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We are the Legion of Doom!
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Uh, there's already a Legion of Doom.
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We're bad guys now.
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If we want a name, we take it.
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Now, we must build an evil lair.
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Eh, that sounds like too much work, Gil.
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Work?
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You're forgetting one of the best things about being a villain.
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Who are all these people?
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These are our henchmen.
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These henchmen are really hard workers!
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Yo, henchy!
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Go hench me a grilled cheese!
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Make it two!
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Why did we not have the henchmen when we were the heroes of Superness?
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Heroes don't have henchmen, they have sidekicks.
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And believe me, that gets weird fast.
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Isn't this great?
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Doing what we want, when we want.
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I'm just waiting for a crime alert to ruin it all.
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But we no longer answer the call.
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We are those who make it.
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Then let's make some calls, baby.
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Love being evil.
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Mmm, good snuggles guys.
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Hot chocolate, take my worries away.
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A crime alert?
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Why are we getting a crime alert?
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I don't know.
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Let's just go check it out.
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That sound is super annoying.
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The Titans...
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Call us the Legion of Doom.
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Isn't there already a Legion of Doom?
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Yes!
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And we took their name!
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I see you got our crime alert.
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That was you?
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Oh, I hope we didn't inconvenience you.
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We had to drive all the way across the city to deal with this.
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Oh, isn't that the worst?
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Just when you're getting comfortable.
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Bam!
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Y'all gets interrupted by some hooligans doing some hooligan things.
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What are you even doing out here?
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What you never could.
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The taking over of the world!
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We won't let you get away with this.
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Try and stop us!
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I hate this!
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We could be home snuggling right now!
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Mwahahahaha!
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Wait!
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We get it!
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We get it!
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You're showing us how our villainous ways have negatively affected your lives.
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Until now, I didn't realize how awful this feels.
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You've really opened our eyes, Titans.
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We are glad that you have seen the errors of your ways.
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But we ain't doing this so you could learn some dumb's lesson.
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Boring.
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We're doing it because it's fun.
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Yeah!
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That was gross.
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Well done, Titans.
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You've uncovered my centuries old plot to make soccer interesting.
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Give it up, Ghoul.
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No more magic-ing people into liking soccer.
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I must, or the sport would never survive.
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It's just people kicking a ball and pretending to be hurt.
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Who would watch that?
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One way or another, we're going to settle this.
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Then how about on the field?
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One goal.
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Sudden death.
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And if we win, you call back all the soccer trolls.
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And if we lose?
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Sudden death.
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I said sudden death, didn't I?
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Thought I said something death
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He's really good You lose Titans time to die you're forgetting one thing goal the Titans are You're sore losers!
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It's the fiend!
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Larry!
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Okay, okay, okay, you win.
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I'll call back my soccer drones.
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I said you win.
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Why? So boring.
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Hey, who wants to go bowling?
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All right, bowling! Who are you?
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I'm a magical bowling turkey!
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Beast Boy, what are you doing to the Silky?
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Video games broken, so I'm playing What's Inside a Silky.
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Oh, yeah!
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Oh, I did not just pull out a hat.
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So, you finally destroyed the Hive Tower?
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That's a negative.
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Still gathering intel, uncovering so many secrets.
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You guys up for a game of What's Inside a Silky?
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No, thanks.
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Our wrists are tired from playing air hockey all day.
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They have air hockey?
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Not for long, they don't.
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And the wood-burning pizza oven?
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Come in!
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Hi, I'm...
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Ravine.
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I am Sapphire!
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I'm Beast Bomb!
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You're all in.
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We want in the hive!
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It's getting too crowded around here.
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What are you guys doing here?
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We thought you could use our help.
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The mission is under control.
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In and out.
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Mayday!
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Mayday!
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Why doesn't it surprise me that this pit of despair has a.. soda fountain?
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So many dastardly beverage choices!
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We need more time here.
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Too many unanswered questions.
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How much time?
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Years, bro.
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Years.
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Years it is.
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Then in and out.
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Our ultimate space weapon is complete.
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We're ready to launch.
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We can't go into space with them.
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We have to ask them to leave.
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That would be rude.
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So how do we get rid of them?
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Only one choice.
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We have to blow up Hive Tower.
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That's the best you can come up with?
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It'll be easy.
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In and out.
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Weird.
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There's a bomb here already.
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Just need to set it.
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Whoa.
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What are you doing?
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We're blowing up the tower to get rid of you.
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Yeah, you're rude and mean.
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Hey!
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Nobody blows this place up but the Team Titans!
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This place may be evil,
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but it's also way too awesome to destroy Titans go There!
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It's the Justice League!
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Batman, quick!
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Use your Batarangs to free them!
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Ha ha ha ha!
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D'arcy!
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How dare you enter alone and try to make what is mine?
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Children should not meddle in the affairs of adults!
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That voice.. is so scary!
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So gravelly, yo!
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For your incidents, you will be cast into the fires of- Excuse me, Mr. Side.
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Would you care for a lozenge?
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Oh, y-yes, actually.
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You appear to have the scratchies of the throat.
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Ugh.
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I have been fighting this cold for the longest time.
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Oh, wow, thank you!
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My throat feels so much better.
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My pleasure.
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Ah, Hannah, now where was I?
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Oh, yeah.
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You will be cast into the fires of Apocalypse, where you will burn for eternity!
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Um, you're not cowering in fear.
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Your voice isn't threatening anymore.
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Oh, come on!
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I'm still terrifying.
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You should be all trembling and stuff.
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Maybe it'll help if you tell us your evil plans.
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Can't you see I have the lives of the Justice League literally hanging in the balance?
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I press a button and boom!
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They're gone!
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You do not sound like the kind of person who would do such a thing.
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Well, I'm also going to use the anti-life equation to destroy Earth.
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Equations?
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Are you a bad guy?
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Are you a math nerd bro?
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You know this dude totally sounds like someone I Know where I like of it Yes,
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the great singer of song parodies
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If only I was half as evil to earn a living by making songwriters look like fools
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Diabolical I don't know I think it's all in good fun What's fun about undercutting musicians by subverting their words
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and compromising their artistic integrity?
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Weird Al is a true monster.
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You take that back!
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He is a national treasure!
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A monster, I say!
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That's it!
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You're going down, Dark Side!
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Justice League, go!
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That's you guys.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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Kamalasu.
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oh No!
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How will we ever learn to balance cutting humor and loving friendship without you?
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You failed!
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The Justice League will soon be no more, and Earth will be destroyed!
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Along with your precious Weird Al!
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I may have failed his green lantern, but I won't as cyborg!
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Bullseye!
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You were the amazing cyborg!
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Really?
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Thanks to you, we defeated Darkseid and saved the Justice League!
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Forget what I just said.
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You're a failure.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Team Work Makes the Dream Work! 🤝”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: titan, weakness, leg. This video has 352 sentences and 1927 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:44. The speaker talks slowly, about 89 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| weakness noun | /ˈwik.nɪs/ | The condition of being weak. |
| soccer noun | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | Association football. |
| alert adjective | /əˈlɝt/ | Attentive; awake; on guard. |
| sudden adjective | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly. |
| pathetic adjective | /pəˈθɛtɪk/ | Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos. |
| thigh noun | /θaɪ/ | The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. |
| hive noun | /haɪv/ | A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. |
| 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. |
| throat noun | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | The front part of the neck. |
| rude adjective | /ɹuːd/ | Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous. |
| equation noun | /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/ | The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical). |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| curl noun | /kɜɹl/ | A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. |
| come along verb | To accompany. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| do out verb | To decorate, tidy, or clean (a place). |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| get away with verb | To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one. |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you still wish to know?
- Did you find out your weakness?
- How could we be your weakness?
- I said sudden death, didn't I?
- That's the best you can come up with?
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 | You've done · has grown · has spread |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be known · is saved · be hurt |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who make · person who would |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most difficult · your greatest · the best |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, thigh /θaɪ/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
- Long words — get the stress right: integrity /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, cemetery /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/
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 weakness, soccer, alert.
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.