Shadowing Practice: The Percy Jackson Cast Plays Make Me Laugh - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey Collider!
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We're the cast of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and we're playing
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Make Me Laugh.
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The rules are simple.
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Three rounds, three memes.
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The goal...
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Make me laugh!
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Buck, paper, scissors, shoot.
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Mmm!
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Nice try.
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Okay, we have three categories to choose from.
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You guys can choose the category.
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Greek mythology, OG memes, and trending.
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OG memes, sorry.
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OG memes, okay.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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I did not confer or talk about it.
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I don't mind that.
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Yeah, we go God
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I'm a bad person.
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Okay, I just want to say that this was already
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No, no, stop, stop, stop, stop it.
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We love everybody on this cast.
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I gave you an alternate show.
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Is there pictures of us?
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We're all in this together.
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This does not represent how we actually feel.
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Can they take a picture of us, maybe?
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Just now?
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No, bro, don't worry.
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I think that...
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Should there be some more...
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This has been bad.
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No, I think it's funny without it.
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Can't laugh.
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Should it just be there?
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Quiet.
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I'm so sorry.
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Wait a minute.
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I know how I said it.
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Don't, don't, like, just don't.
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I'm just like, I'm not going to say it.
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You suck.
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That's so good.
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I hate you.
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I love it.
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Wait.
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Is that not it?
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No, I think that has to be it.
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OK, all right, you guys.
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Are we ready?
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We're sorry.
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OK, here we go.
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I'm sorry.
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Walker's going through it.
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Walker, you look like you want to let something out.
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It's okay.
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It's making you worse.
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That's alright.
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My dog's batting.
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I'm thinking about her.
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Why the dawn's early light?
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That really helps Leah.
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I wonder what it's gonna be.
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I'm not even worried about this.
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I'm not even tripping.
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I'm just gonna be like on my phone, super uninterested the whole time they're trying to show it to us.
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Let's look through first.
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I do like that one.
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I don't know if I...
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I was getting in my nonchalant stance, hold on.
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I think that will work on a couple of specific things.
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I think...
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There's a six, seven, it's not that good.
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Think about it.
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I got it best to me that's to me just numbers cuz
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I'm thinking I don't even know what seven is life is like no I feel like this man
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But I think I'm gonna do three wake up.
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Yeah, I think that's my favorite one
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Yeah, but I'm also down a lot of a deal.
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No, that's smart, but what?
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Yes, that is the question.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you guys know that me that reference that we brought?
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I go to bed at 3, wake up at 6, excited.
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Let's get to the money, man.
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Everybody like, eh.
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No. Do you guys know that?
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I do not.
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You guys don't know that?
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You're going to make yourself laugh and cause us this challenge.
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You're locking.
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I'm chilling, I'm chilling, I'm chilling.
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And then you go, I'm chilling.
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You're right.
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No, no. What are we doing after this, James?
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I don't know.
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Pizza.
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No, I meant, wait.
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I like it.
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You don't?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Quest.
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Quest.
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Quest.
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One more round.
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Okay.
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Yeah, we're good.
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Yeah?
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Okay.
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All right.
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You guys are not going to want to keep it together.
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Good luck.
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You're going to have to think about it for a second because it's like...
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Thank you for prefacing your names.
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Alright.
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She says nothing.
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And she says no. You guys spent that long?
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Impressive.
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It took a lot of work. So bad.
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Is that white text covering something else that's supposed to be?
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No, it's just, you know, it's like...
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She says no, but she didn't even say anything.
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She never said anything.
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We can see, we can see.
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So she gave a no without receiving.
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Oh, and it's funny because Andrew would call that bad listener.
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Mmm, Andrew.
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No. Diole!
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Oh, okay.
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I'm so stupid.
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I'm just straight up crying.
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You're crying?
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Look at him.
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I kind of like this. For what?
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I just don't know, but I kind of like that.
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What are you seeing?
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I like the what?
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Is that cool or?
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Oh, evil laugh.
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I like the evil laugh.
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It's so stupid.
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Why are you looking at me like that?
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You're not ready.
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This cannot possibly be that funny.
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It's not that funny.
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My method last time was more like get you guys to think that it was something.
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You know what I mean?
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Oh, that's what you're talking about?
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Why are you talking like you're talking about?
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There we go.
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Masterpiece.
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Y 'all getting that?
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Picasso.
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Do you understand what song is?
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You get this, huh?
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I get it.
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It's not funny.
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Yeah, I think you do.
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It's really funny.
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Leah, you get it?
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It's so true though.
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You remember because he was like, they were like, why is he wearing those stupid shoes with no socks?
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Stupid little boat shoes with the ankles rolled all the way up to the cap.
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They were in.
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Oh man.
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End of time.
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Just ankles rolled all the way up to the cap.
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Exactly.
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It's Atlas carrying the weight.
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You don't get it.
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We're in the season, Leah.
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Is this like, is this like.
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Comic -Con.
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Don't laugh.
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Comic -Con.
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Comic -Con.
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His stupid boat shoes with the...
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This is so unfair.
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Leah just doesn't get any of our jokes.
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I think it's...
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Yo got way closer than I did.
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Okay, but we were funnier.
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No, we were way funnier.
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I didn't get it.
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We didn't get as many opportunities, okay?
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Okay, but only two people on your team got the jokes both times.
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All right, let us know who you thought won in the comments.
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And make sure to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians December 10th on Disney Plus and Hulu.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Percy Jackson Cast Plays Make Me Laugh”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: laugh, funny, stupid, Leah, chilling. This video has 193 sentences and 980 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:07. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 31 of its 193 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 |
|---|---|---|
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| meme noun | /miːm/ | Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a… |
| comic noun | /ˈkɑmɪk/ | A comedian. |
| quest noun | /kwɛst/ | A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| ankle noun | /ˈæŋ.kəl/ | The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint. |
| impressive adjective | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| walker noun | /ˈwɔkɚ/ | The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race. |
| unfair adjective | /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ | Not just. |
| alternate adjective | /ˈɔl.tɚ.nət/ | Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly). |
| stance noun | /stæns/ | The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| masterpiece noun | /ˈmæstɚˌpis/ | A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| look through verb | To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Is there pictures of us?
- Can they take a picture of us, maybe?
- Do you guys know that?
- You guys don't know that?
- Why are you talking like you're talking about?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | we're playing · I'm thinking · I'm not even tripping |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm not going to say · gonna be · gonna do |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | has to be · have to think |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 54 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, nonchalant /ˌnɑn.ʃəˈlɑnt/
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 chill, meme, comic.
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.