Shadowing Practice: The Percy Jackson Cast Attempt A Percy Jackson Quiz - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oh dear, when the team's getting grumpy, trick to getting through it, you're singing this song.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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I did not think you were gonna do it.
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Now I just look like I'm mean.
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No, it's okay.
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I'm just your little court jester, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Hey guys, we're the cast of Percy Jackson.
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I'm Lisa Faye Jeffries.
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I'm Walker Scobell.
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I'm Ariane Simhadri.
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And we are here to take overs.
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Take over the injuries.
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We're playing the Percy Jackson quiz.
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We're doing a Percy Jackson quiz.
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What is the exact date of Annabeth's birthday?
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Okay, I have no idea.
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Sorry.
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I'm sorry, man.
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No, no, no. Is it like in August or something?
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I don't know.
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No, it's before.
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It's like, is it June or July?
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No, July, because I know she's like a month older than Percy.
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Is it July 15th or something?
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Very close.
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July 12th.
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Oh!
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How did I get that?
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Good memory.
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Wait, July 12th, that's my Paris anniversary.
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Is it really?
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Oh my gosh, it's gonna be so easy to remember now.
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I'll do it.
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I have no idea how I got that.
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Dude, get on you.
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Okay, who says she made a pinecone's fate?
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Percy.
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What nickname does Annabeth call Percy?
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Seawood Rain.
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In the books, whose parents was a Harvard graduate?
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Mine.
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Right?
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I'm sorry, wasn't it Frederick?
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Yep, he was.
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He's the Harvard ring.
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What are the names of the 12 main Campoplo campans?
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It's just all the Greek gods.
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Do we have to name all of them?
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Hermes, Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hera, Artemis, Aphrodite,
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Zeus, I think I got them.
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Dionysus, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena,
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Aries, Artemis, Apollo, Demeter, Demeter, Demeter, Demeter.
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The meter?
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Yeah.
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Alright, come on.
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Sorry.
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Um...
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That's the last one.
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Hestia doesn't have one.
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Hestia doesn't have one and Persephone doesn't have one.
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She's not really.
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Did we even reach 10 yet?
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We reached...
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We're at 11.
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We're at 11.
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Hermes!
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We forgot.
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How did we forget Hermes?
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I think we all said something different and then...
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I'm giving you all a point.
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Thank you.
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Why is Mr. D at camp Half -Blood?
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He was banished there by Zeus for chasing a nymph that
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Zeus was into.
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Yeah.
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I think.
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Chasing someone that
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Zeus was into.
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Yeah.
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Why did Sally Jackson marry gave his smell?
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The smell covers.
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Yep.
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Can you name all the Percy Jackson books from Newest to Oldest?
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Yes.
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Newest to Oldest, it would be...
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Oh, wait.
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No, we have to do the new three, too.
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The Wrath of the Three -Headed Goddess?
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That's the second one.
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The Triple...
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No, no, no. The third one is announced yet, though.
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No, The Wrath of the Triple Gods is the first one, right?
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From Newest to Oldest?
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Wrath of the Triple Gods.
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Wrath of the Triple Goddess.
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So here we go.
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Wrath of the Triple Goddess, Chalice of the Gods, The Last Olympian.
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Oh, no, all the Percy Jackson books.
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Here's the last, okay, so...
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The Last Olympian, Battle of the...
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Battle of the Rebellion, Titan's Curse, Sea of Monsters, Lighting People.
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I think we all get the points.
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We're not doing
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Heroes of Olympus, though?
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Those aren't Percy Jackson books.
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Those aren't Percy Jackson books.
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They involve Percy Jackson, but they're not Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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Alright, what did the first...
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What year did the first Percy Jackson book come out?
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2005?
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2005?
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2005. What song does Grover Underwood sing?
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Extinguished Disagreements.
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The consensus song.
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The what?
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Extinguished Disagreements?
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Distinguished, I said.
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I should be the guy to do this.
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This isn't fair.
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He's messing with me.
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He's reading the questions wrong.
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I like how you knew what I meant though.
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Yeah, I was like, hmm, we're good there.
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I feel like the second I said
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Song of Grover.
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Yeah.
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Well, I was thinking like ABBA or like The Beatles.
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Why would he be that?
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Well, because that's what he plays on like the Pan Pipes.
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I was thinking so much, what does he play?
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But he doesn't have the pan pipes yet.
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These are just general trivia questions.
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True.
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Okay, yeah.
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I was also thinking, like, in Chalice of the Gods, he plays, like, I think he plays...
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Do we ever explain in the show why
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Sally marries Gabe?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think in the first season...
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Is it for that reason?
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Someone's talking to Sally and she says something like, Percy, like, you know this or something.
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Like, she's saying something like, it's because this is an act.
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Okay, but if she is with Gabe for the smell,
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why do we leave to go to Montauk to hang out there the second that she knows?
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Well, I think because once you know that you're a demigod...
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Yeah, we're done.
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Walker, I think once you know you're a demigod, he's not going to do much to have you.
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But why didn't she take me to Camp Half -Blood to tell me I'm a demigod?
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Instead, she took me to a place where I wasn't safe to tell me I'm a demigod.
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Oh, because that's where Grover agreed to meet Sally.
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Although that maybe she didn't know.
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Because remember, she told you she'd be there.
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Then how do I know that you're at the Montauk house?
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Because she told you you would be there, and then you showed up.
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She told me I would be there.
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You showed up way earlier than she told you to show up.
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So she was playing to tell me, and then I would figure out what I am, attracting monsters to our house.
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But then she also doesn't know where
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Camp Haplett is.
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I have to take her there.
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Which seems like a...
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I should have just sent her an email about where it is.
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Wait, but how did she not know?
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Because she was driving.
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I was telling her.
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I was like, oh, it's up to Ben and around the corner.
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Oh, okay, okay.
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I was about to say.
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Grover is like not...
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I love him, but he really needs to figure it out.
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Like, he needs to start planning in advance.
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He does.
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Way more advanced.
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Do you remember the consensus song?
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I don't think I'll ever forget it.
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Do it, dude.
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Okay. Do it.
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Okay.
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Oh, golly, the road's getting bumpy, cause I got me some friends who just can't get along.
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Oh, dear, when the team's getting grumpy, trick to getting through it is singing this song.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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We should come up with like more verses.
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Thank you, thank you.
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I did not think you were gonna do it.
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Now I just look like I'm mean.
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No, it's okay.
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I'm just your little court jester, I guess.
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Yeah.
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That was part of our chemistry read.
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It was like the first Grover thing I ever did.
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It was funny because I did, there was, with Leah, I did a couple different, there was a bunch of different people auditioning for different roles.
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There was like a lot of Grovers there.
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There was like three Annabettes, one person.
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I don't know how they ended up on this one like conga line of like 11 Grovers walked into the chemistry room.
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And every one of them did the consensus song completely different.
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Because they didn't hear each other.
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They all like came...
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It was actually really interesting to see what they came up with.
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Because yours wasn't as different...
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Yours now, like what you came up with isn't very different from...
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It was just like a campfire song.
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And then if anything, we just made it more simple.
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He's either like straight up rapping or like completely gospel singing.
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Should I have sung it like a church song?
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Yeah, just start using the temporary.
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100%.
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I should have brought my own instrument.
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
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Percy Jackson season two is out now.
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Go watch it.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Percy Jackson Cast Attempt A Percy Jackson Quiz”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Percy, Jackson, song, Grover, Zeus. This video has 208 sentences and 1320 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:44. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 37 of its 208 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| consensus noun | /kənˈsɛnsəs/ | A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| chemistry noun | /ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/ | The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations… |
| pipe noun | /ˈpaɪp/ | A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. |
| quiz noun | /kwɪz/ | A competition in the answering of questions. |
| temporary adjective | /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/ | Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time. |
| fate noun | /feɪt/ | The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. |
| involve verb | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. |
| announce verb | /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ | To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known. |
| instrument noun | /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/ | A device used to produce music. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| gospel noun | /ˈɡɑspəl/ | The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion… |
| verse noun | /ˈvɝs/ | A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| get along verb | To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble. | |
| take over verb | To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How did I get that?
- Do we have to name all of them?
- I was thinking so much, what does he play?
- Do you remember the consensus song?
- Should I have sung it like a church song?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was banished · is announced |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was thinking · was also thinking · was playing |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · should have · should come |
| Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things | older than · earlier than |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, extinguish /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, banish /ˈbænɪʃ/
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 consensus, trick, chase.
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.