Shadowing Practice: The Twilight Zone | Top 8 Best Plot Twists | Paramount+ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You have me at a disadvantage, Mr. Tennyson.
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In a rather compromising situation, you forced me into a position of rather distasteful candor.
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The truth is I am a fraud.
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I haven't any money.
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If I offered you $1,000, then $5,000, I would have had to go out into the street to beg even that amount,
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let alone a half a million dollars.
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It's true that I have pride, bearing, taste, exceptional breeding.
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But I lost most of my money some years ago.
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Why?
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Now you have forced me to uncover the situation.
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Proving, Mr. Tenison, proving that of the two of us.. you are by far the more substantial.
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I will naturally resign.
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I will not ask you to suffer my presence any longer.
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Tenison, you can talk.
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Your time's up.
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You can talk, gurgle, sing, twirl, anything you want.
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What's he writing?
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What is he doing?
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Why doesn't he talk?
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What does it say, Archie?
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What did he write?
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Why didn't he say something?
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I knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain.
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so one year ago i had the nerves to my vocal cord severed
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valley stop it stop talking about my father can't any of
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you understand i loved him i cared about him he was good
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and he was kind and he cared about me not what i wore not the way i looked but what I thought, what I felt.
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And what's more important, he cared about himself and his dignity as a human being.
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Valerie, he didn't die in the Ganymede incident.
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My father killed himself because when they took away his identity, he had no reason to go on living.
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I just don't understand you, Marilyn.
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Valerie, can't you feel anything?
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Well, of course, silly.
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I feel good.
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I always feel good.
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Life is pretty.
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Life is fun.
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I am all and all is one.
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You can't understand, can you?
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What?
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Oh, they can't understand!
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They can't understand!
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They can't understand!
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I'm sorry.
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Come in,
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my dear.
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We've been expecting you.
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Sooner or later, everyone wants to be beautiful.
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Where's your number?
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She's chosen number eight.
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Excellent.
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Excellent.
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I just love your suit, Val.
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Lana, Val, you're just in time.
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Just in time.
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It's all over, Doctor?
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All over.
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Is she all right?
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Yes, yes, she's fine.
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You'll see for yourself.
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I've been so worried these last few days not being able to talk to her.
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and she seemed in such a state the last time.
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Well, it's as I told you.
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Occasionally a young person has difficulty adjusting to the idea.
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But we've improved methods since the old days, and now it always turns out well in the end.
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Never fails.
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It's complete.
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Mother!
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Mother!
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Val!
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Look at me!
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What do you think?
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You're beautiful, Marilyn.
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Just beautiful.
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And the nicest part of all, Val, I look just like you.
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Portrait of a young lady in love, with herself.
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Improbable?
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Perhaps.
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But in an age of plastic surgery, bodybuilding, and an infinity of cosmetics, let us hesitate to say impossible.
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These and others' strange blessings may be waiting in the future, which, after all, is the Twilight Zone.
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Explain to him.
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Tell him the reason I can't go out there.
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You'll help me, won't you?
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What are you doing?
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Who are you talking to?
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Mr. Belden is a policeman.
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Please tell him.
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I'm sorry, but if you're still here when the crew is here, But you're still here when the crew arrives.
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I'll have to call a cop.
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Why didn't you help me?
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I thought you understood.
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You...
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He looked right at you and didn't see you.
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Now.
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Look in the mirror, Wanda.
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You tricked me.
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It was you all the time.
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Yes.
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I tricked you. But why?
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The moment I let you inside, you could have taken me any time. But you were nice.
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You made me trust you.
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But I had to make you understand.
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Am I really so bad?
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Am I really so frightening?
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You've talked to me?
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You've confided in me?
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Have I tried to hurt you?
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It isn't me you're afraid of.
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You understand me.
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What you're afraid of is the unknown.
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Don't.
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Don't be afraid.
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But I am afraid.
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The running's over.
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It's time to rest.
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Give me your hand.
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But I don't want to die.
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Trust me.
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No. No. Mother.
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Give me your hand.
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You see?
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No shock.
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No engulfment.
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No tearing asunder.
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What you feared would come like an explosion... is like a whisper.
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What you thought was the end, not the beginning.
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When will it happen? When will we go?
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Go?
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Look.
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We have already begun.
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No, honey, listen, please.
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I've had it.
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Understand?
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I've had it.
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I just can't take this another day, not another hour.
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This is it right now.
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I've got to get out of here.
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Janie, will you help me, please?
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Will you please help me?
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Janie?
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How are you tonight, Mr. Williams?
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Stanford, next stop.
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Stanford!
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Next stop, Stanford!
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Next stop, Stanford!
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Stanford, next stop!
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Stanford!
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Next stop, Stanford.
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Next stop, Stanford.
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Next stop, Willoughby.
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Willoughby.
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Stop is Willoughby.
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Willoughby?
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Yes, sir.
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Hi, Mr. Williams.
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Hi, boys.
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You catch some big ones today, huh?
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I think tomorrow I'll join you.
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Plenty of room and lots of fish.
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I'm going to go to the next one.
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I'm going to go to the next one.
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I'm going to go to the next one.
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I'm going to go to the next one.
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I'm going to go to the next one.
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Hi, Mr. Williams.
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Welcome.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I'm glad to be here.
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Just jumped off the train, did he?
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Shouted something about Willoughby, then ran out to the platform, and that was the last I saw him.
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Doctor says he must have died instantly.
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They're gonna take him into town for an autopsy.
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Funeral parlor there sent the ambulance.
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Poor fella.
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I'm going to go.
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Please.
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Please.
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Look, I know you think I'm out of my mind or something, but I've been seeing this man.
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He's been following me all the way across the country, and if you could only help me and just stay with me until I reach the coast, please don't go.
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Please.
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Excuse me, my shoes.
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I'm going to go.
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I'm going to go.
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I'm going to go.
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I'm going to go.
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My shoes.
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You listen, honey.
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What you need is a good night's sleep.
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You don't need a boyfriend.
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Just a good night's sleep.
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I'll see you around.
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No!
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Don't go!
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Don't go!
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I'll go to the next day.
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Now I'm outside of a diner near Tucson.
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There's a payphone outside, and I'm going to call home.
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Back to New York.
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Put in a call to my mother, so I can speak to someone familiar.
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Someone I love.
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Someone to bring back reality to me.
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Just a voice.
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A warm, familiar voice, so I won't lose my mind.
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Operator, I'd like to make a call to my home in New York City.
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My name is Nan Adams.
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The telephone number is Trafalgar 41098.
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Hello, Mother.
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This is Mrs. Adams' residence.
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Whom do you wish to speak to, please?
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Who's this?
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This is Mrs. Whitney.
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Mrs. Whitney?
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I don't know any Mrs. Whitney.
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Is this Trafalgar 41098?
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Yes, it is.
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Where's my mother?
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Where's Mrs. Adams?
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She's still in the hospital.
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A nervous breakdown.
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A nervous breakdown?
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But.. that's nothing the matter with my mother.
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What do you mean, a nervous breakdown?
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Well, it's all taken place since the death of her daughter.
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The death of her daughter?
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What do you mean, the death of her daughter?
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Who's this?
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Who's this?
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What number is this?
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It's all been very sudden.
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Nan was killed just six days ago in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania.
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A tire blew out and her car turned over.
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Very odd.
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The fear has left me now.
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I'm numb.
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I have no feeling.
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It's as if someone had pulled out some kind of a plug in me and everything...
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emotion, feeling, fear has drained out.
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And now I'm a cold shell.
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I'm conscious of things around me now.
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The vast night of Arizona.
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The stars that look down from the darkness.
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Ahead of me stretch a thousand miles of empty mesa.
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Mountains, prairies, desert.
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Somewhere among them he's waiting for me.
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Somewhere I'll find out who he is.
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I'll find out.
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I'll find out what he wants.
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Though just now, for the first time,
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John, looking out at the night, I think I know.
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I think I know.
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I believe you're going my way.
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The End
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Right here.
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What a nutty little town. And how.
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I still wonder how we got there.
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Come on, honey.
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Admit it.
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You did have a few drinks at the party now, didn't you?
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One or two.
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Well, somewhere along the line, your drinks caught up with you.
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And you got lost.
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And we ended up here in Center Bowl.
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I suppose it's the kind of screwball thing that I would do.
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How do you put up with me?
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I don't know.
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I guess I just have a weakness for screwballs.
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Well, you certainly have a good one.
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Well, well, it wasn't all that bad back there now, was it?
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Not a bit, no. As a matter of fact, I only jump a foot when somebody says boo.
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Boo.
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Oh!
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Wait till I get back to the office.
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I can see old Mr. Peabody now.
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Frazier, we're a team here.
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When one member of that team watches down, the whole organization suffers.
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No. Now, well, uh, maybe it's not the same Centerville.
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It's the same one.
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There's so on the street.
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Nothing moving.
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Nothing real.
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How did we get back there?
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Going in a circle.
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Come on.
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Oh, no, I'm not going back.
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Not back.
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We're gonna get on that main road and keep right on walking.
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Come on!
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Wait.
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Let's run. Could you?
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I could gallop if we'd get us on up here any faster.
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No. No. We'd better save our energy.
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Might be a long road ahead.
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We still have a few hours of daylight.
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The sun will be up.
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Be careful with your pets, dear.
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Daddy brought them all away from Earth.
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Oh, can I play with them, Mommy?
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After lunch, dear.
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Right now, put them back.
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Go on.
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The moral of what you've just seen is clear.
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If you drink, don't drive.
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And if your wife has had a couple, she shouldn't drive either.
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You might both just wake up with a wail of a headache in a deserted village in the Twilight Zone.
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Oh, my God.
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I'm going to go ahead and get some more of the stuff I've been doing.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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Central Control!
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Come in, Central Control! Do you read me?
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Gresham is dead.
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Repeat, Gresham is dead.
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The ship's destroyed.
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Gresham is dead.
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Repeat, Gresham is dead.
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The ship's destroyed.
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Incredible race of giants here.
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Race of giants.
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No central control.
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No counterattack.
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Repeat, no counterattack.
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Too much for us.
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Too powerful.
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Stay away.
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Oh, oh!
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Gresham and I!
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We're finished!
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Finished!
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Stay away!
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Stay away!
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I'm sorry.
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Didn't you go out on that bus?
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I did indeed.
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Oh, yes, I went out on that bus.
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And you know something?
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That bridge wasn't safe.
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It collapsed.
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The state police car, the bus, everything.
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Ka-plunk, right into the river.
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It was a terrible scene.
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No one got out.
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Except you.
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Except me.
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Lucky, I guess, huh?
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Very lucky. But.. but... But what?
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You're not even wet.
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Wet?
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What's wet?
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What do you mean, what's wet?
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You landed in the river, but your clothes are all dry.
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Illusion, that's all.
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Just an illusion.
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Like that jukebox playing in the corner.
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That's an illusion, too.
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Or, uh, that telephone ringing.
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That's an illusion.
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Just a parlor trick.
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What are you, some kind of magician? Who, me?
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Oh, hardly.
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Now, uh, before you, uh, faint dead away...
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I ought to explain that the name isn't really Ross.
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And, uh, I wasn't really going to Boston.
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Oh, I was sent as a kind of advanced scout.
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You know these, uh, cigarettes, do you call them?
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They taste wonderful.
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We haven't got a thing like this on Mars.
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That's incidentally where I come from.
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We're beginning to colonize.
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My friends will be arriving very shortly.
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I think they're going to like it here.
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It's a lovely area. So...
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So remote, so pleasant, so off the beaten track.
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Just the perfect spot for a colony, don't you think, Mr. Haley?
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While we're waiting, how about a little what you call music?
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I don't mind.
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I have to do a little waiting myself.
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You see, Mr. Ross, my name isn't Haley.
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And I do agree with you, this is an extraordinary place to colonize.
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We folks on Venus had the same idea.
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We got it several years ago.
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And I think I really ought to tell you now that your friends are not coming.
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They've been intercepted.
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Oh, a colony is coming.
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But it's from Venus.
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And if you're still alive, I think you'll see how we differ.
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And I agree with you about what they call music.
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Why don't you play some?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 391 sentences and 2213 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:12. The speaker talks slowly, about 76 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| illusion noun | /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ | A distortion of sensory perception where real stimuli lead to a false or misleading impression of reality. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| breakdown noun | /ˈbɹeɪkˌdaʊn/ | A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| telephone noun | /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ | A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to… |
| desert noun | /ˈdɛz.ɚt/ | A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
| 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… |
| colony noun | /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/ | A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area. |
| vast adjective | /væst/ | Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| mirror noun | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. |
| shortly adverb | /ˈʃɔɹtli/ | In a short or brief time or manner; quickly. |
| moral adjective | /ˈmoɹəl/ | Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| stay away verb | To avoid or not go anywhere near someone or something. | |
| blow out verb | To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas. | |
| bring back verb | /ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/ | To fetch something. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | We've been expecting · I've been seeing · I've been doing |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you're still alive, I think you'll see |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have forced · I've been · we've improved |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was killed · was sent · They've been intercepted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 107 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: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, shock /ʃɔk/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, operator /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/
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 illusion, trick, honey.
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.