Shadowing Practice: The Worst Witch 1x2 When we feast at midnight hour - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Onward ever striving on you, proudly on our rooms with light,
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straight and true above the tree-tops, shadows on the thorned sky.
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Ne'er a day will pass before us, when we had the joy of best,
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kept our curtains while we nicely,
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Cast off spells with sense Why do you imagine I have called you up here, Mildred Hubble?
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Mm-mm.
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You might find it easier to speak, Mildred, if you first remove what is in your mouth.
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Mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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Good heavens, girl!
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What on earth is that?
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A cobstopper mess.
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300 lines.
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I must not fill my mouth with disgusting rubbish.
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You may take your seat, Mildred, in silence.
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You have till the end of this form lesson to finish your letters home.
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Useful words and phrases may be copied from the board.
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Fresh air, strict but fair, practicing hard at potions and spells.
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Just right, hopeless at everything.
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Very neat, Mordenschein.
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Call this a witch school, I haven't even turned anyone into a frog yet.
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No. Fanciful and inaccurate.
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The words you were no doubt searching for to describe school
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food as distinct from the object you produced from your mouth earlier were plain, nourishing and extremely nutritious.
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What's that today?
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I don't even look.
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Liver and onions.
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Oh.
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In cold, greasy gravy.
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Hey, Franco!
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Can you do something about this leaking roof?
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The curse of Sir Walter is upon us!
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You don't believe all that old rubbish!
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Seven days of each year for the harm ye have done.
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On Sir Walter's wet week, shall the chill waters run it.
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I shall expect clean plates from every one of you.
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That'll be something magic to write home about.
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You don't belong here, Mildred Hubble.
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Why don't you run off and join the circus?
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I wouldn't sit next to her.
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Leave her alone.
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She's sticking up for your fidgety friend.
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Moo, babe.
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I'll get you for that.
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Ignore her.
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What's that?
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I don't know.
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It looks like an archery.
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Scalpole? Is it alive?
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No, I'm sorry, we were too late.
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Shh, look out.
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I can't.
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Wet mash and bullet peas, maybe.
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But I can't swallow this dead grey stuff.
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Nor can I.
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We've got to.
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Where's the waste bin?
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Over there.
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She'll see you.
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Ruby, are you wearing your watch, then?
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Oh, you mean my Trixie timer?
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Now.
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Seven seconds.
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Plenty of time.
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Three seconds there, stamped in the bin, three seconds back.
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Put it on the plate.
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Blast off.
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You seem in a bit of a stew, Miss Hardbroom.
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She'll have to go.
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Mildred Humble, I presume.
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She's a bad influence.
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The behavior in the dining hall today was quite atrocious.
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I confiscated it.
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We should set an example.
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I've finished my broth, haven't I, headmistress?
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Yes.
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I've got the girls, Miss Hardroom.
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It's time for a crackdown, Miss Cackle.
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They're filling up on sweets rather than eating their dinners.
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Who's on duty tomorrow lunchtime?
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It's the eyes, the way they look at you.
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Oh, big and staring.
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No, the smell.
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We could hold our noses and swallow them down quick.
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They get stuck.
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They're like.. whales.
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Extreme.
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Oh, now, come on, girls.
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A professional witch never knows where she might dine.
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You might have to eat termites one day, or snails, or sheep's eyeballs,
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or something really horrible, like chocolate fudge cake with caramel sauce.
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My mother used to do an aeroplane.
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Close your eyes.
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Open your mouth.
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Here comes an aeroplane.
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Brrrrrrrrr.
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All gone.
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Now your turn.
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Close your eyes.
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Open your mouth.
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Here comes an aeroplane.
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Brrrrrrr.
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Brrrrr.
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Brrrrr.
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Brrrrr.
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All gone.
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Well done, Gus.
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That's marvellous.
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Miss Hardroom's going to be so bleed.
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Quiet!
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I will be giving you all a small amount of enlarging potion.
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This you will drop on your snails one drop at a time.
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Each time measuring the result and marking the new height and width on your charts.
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The effects of such a small amount are purely temporary.
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The snails will revert to normal size by the end of the lesson.
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Look at yours!
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Now that is extreme.
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A writing musk.
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Miss, there's a funny smell, miss.
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Yes, there is rather.
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A fishy sort of smell, miss.
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Is it the potion?
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Certainly not.
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Who is responsible for that smell?
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A practical joke, I presume, and a not very funny one for the second time.
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Who is responsible?
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Very well.
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You can come up here a group at a time with your school bags, and we'll soon see where it's coming from.
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We'll start with the front row.
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Extreme!
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This whole thing has been blown up out of all proportion.
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We've been serving the same dinners for the past 30 years.
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Well, not precisely the same.
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We had fish yesterday.
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I've told the girls that for the rest of the week, I shall eat exactly what they eat.
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If it's good enough for their headmistress, it should certainly be good enough for them good enough for their headmistress, it should certainly be good enough for them.
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You're not really gonna swallow that stuff, are you, Miss Cackle?
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I meant what I said.
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It's perfectly edible.
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A whole week, though, Miss Cackle.
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A week without your cheese souffles, without your lemon cheesecake, no red Leicester and blue Stilton.
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We have to set the girls an example.
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It's very character-building.
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Mmm.
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What on earth is that, Miss Bat?
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Hags and horrocks called noodles with smoked eel flavoring.
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How do you find the pudding, Miss Cackle?
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Mmm-hmm.
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Oh, but how dumb do you like?
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This hard broom, she says, to make sure it's all eaten up.
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I can't.
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I just can't.
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Neely!
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Down you go.
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Oh, yes.
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The kitchen's down in the dungeons.
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Hey, Brankham!
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We've got company!
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Mildred Hubble.
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Lots of trouble.
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Have you eaten your pudding yet?
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Hey, pasta!
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C'est un gatto padrone.
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You'll have to have some of your homemade spaghetti now, with tomato and basil sauce and grated cheese on top.
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If you haven't eaten it all...
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Sit down, sit down.
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I thought we had a deal.
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Plenty pasta for me and a Frank Blossom patent painless cheese protector for you.
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The cheese protector?
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What's it for?
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For mice, for rats rats.
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My cat Lydon, she preferred to eat her food off a plate, like you see just now.
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So I'm inventing an extra large painless mouse and rat trap.
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Takes time, takes energy, takes a lot of bolognese.
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You like?
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It's delicious, if only school dinners were like this.
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I make a beautiful pizza also.
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My favorite.
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Caco's tradition is meat and two veg.
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Everything I have to do out of this book why is the food always
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so cold? it takes half an hour to carry out there everywhere here always cold,
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cold and wet especially on sir walter's wet week food and shelter you gave me none
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so on walter's wet week shall the chill waters run you get your cheese protector built if you You want some casata?
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Best get cracking then.
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These are a nice score.
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That big cupboard.
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Very interesting.
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If you're at home now, what do you have to eat?
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Chicken vindaloo.
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Pizza. With cheese.
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Pepperoni.
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No, but cheese is a lot.
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I just have a half of my dad takes this.
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They have chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream and big mugs of hot chocolate.
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Hot chocolate!
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Starving now.
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Me too.
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I wish I were at home.
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You all right, I'm thinking.
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What about?
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My back's winking makes me a nod.
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Maybe we should do what they do.
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What?
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Eat flies?
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I'm not talking about what they eat.
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I'm talking about when they eat.
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What's the point of being at a boarding school if we can't even have a midnight feast?
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Audacious.
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Extreme.
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Useless.
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HB's taken all our sweet rations.
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Yes, but you know why I just paid off to our plunge?
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No. Wow.
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Tell us.
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Oh, they're in the dungeon.
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Big storm tonight.
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It'll come pouring through.
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How do you know?
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Last night of Wetwick, the night of Sir Walter's walk.
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Really?
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From cold and hunger, Sir Walter died.
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Now his spirit seeks shelter from the storm outside.
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Stuff and nonsense, Frank.
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I'm surprised at you falling for all that old guff.
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Ghostly wet footsteps on the floor, Miss Drill.
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I've seen them with me own eyes.
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I don't believe a word of it.
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Neither do I.
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There's something very fishy going on.
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I'm sorry!
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Fishy!
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Miss Bat.
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You know, Miss Harbroom, since I started eating the school dinners, I've been feeling as if there's something missing.
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Have some more.
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I don't feel hungry for pudding.
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I feel hungry for something different.
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Alakazam, alakazoo!
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Alakazam, alakazoo!
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Whoa!
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That's enough now, girls.
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Time to turn them back.
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All together.
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Alakazam!
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Alakazoon!
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Now sit down, girls.
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Hats are easy.
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A witch's hat is already magical.
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But shape-changing is dangerous and difficult to get right.
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Mice to horses.
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Pumpkins to...
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...cookoches.
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Everyone knows that one.
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Now, say you wanted to make a cheese.
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A stilton, say, or a fine house cheddar, or, say, a cheese flan,
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or cauliflower cheese, or cheese and onion pie, or cheesecake with cherry.
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Miss Cackle?
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Yes?
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Where was I?
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What is it, Maud?
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What does magic chocolate cake taste like?
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Um, not bad, but it doesn't fill you up like the real thing.
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And we've had quite enough about food this week.
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So let's move on.
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Miss?
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Yes, Mildred?
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Why do they call it Walter's Wet Week?
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Now, that's a bit of a red herring, and we did say we'd keep off food.
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But I suppose he is part of the history of the school.
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Once upon a time, when Cackle's Academy was a proper castle, it was the home of a cruel lord called Baron Overblow.
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One wild and stormy night, his neighbor, Sir Walter, who had been robbed and wounded by bandits,
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staggered to the door, pleading for food and shelter.
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The Baron refused and left him in the cold rain to die.
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But they say that every year at this time it rains for a week
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and the water like tears of pity flows down the walls
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and on the last night there's a big storm and so Walter walks the corridors looking for revenge.
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Miss, do you believe in ghosts?
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Ghosts?
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Not many witches believe in ghosts, Mildred.
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Mind you, I don't think many ghosts believe in witches.
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Lights out!
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I said lights out.
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Ah!
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I think we should call it off.
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Why?
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You're not scared of that old Sir Walter story, are you?
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Well, it is the last night, and there is a storm brewing.
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What about the school song?
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Fearless witches never flinching through the dark and dismal night.
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Ghouls and ghosts and nightmare monsters run away in fright.
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I know, but what if a witch is a bit afraid of the dark?
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We'll have our candles.
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Look, we can't go about you.
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You're the only one who knows the way.
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All right.
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Yes.
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I told you she's scared of the dark.
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Wait till she meets some altar.
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Oh, yeah.
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She'll run screaming, probably wake up HP and get done.
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She'll be on the next bus home.
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She'll be too terrified to take cackles after this.
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I thought, you don't really believe in Sir Walter, do you?
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It's just some old story.
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You heard what Miss Cackle said.
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Witches don't believe in ghosts.
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Look!
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Sir Walter!
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Rubbish.
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Shhh!
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I bet he's gone down to the dungeon.
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Don't be silly.
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Keep close by me.
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It's like a maze down there.
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Oh, my
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God.
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There's no one here.
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I had a crash, and I know I did.
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What a place.
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Where's the group, then?
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Over there in that top cupboard.
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Come on.
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There should be something really, really nice.
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There's nothing in here.
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There's nothing.
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Look.
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Here, open the candle.
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There's nothing.
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Is it that?
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It's starving.
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Yes, come on.
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Let's see what's inside.
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Mrs Tapioca said it was interesting.
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Interesting for mice, maybe.
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Cheese is great.
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It just needs to be in something or on something.
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Like pizza.
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My favourite.
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I know, let's magic it into one.
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This kakak said it was difficult. And dangerous.
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Alakazam, alakazoo, that's all we did.
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Only you waggle your face.
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That was for hats.
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Come on, all together.
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A pizza for four with everything on it.
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Alakazam, alakazoo.
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Who said that?
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I don't know.
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Don't look at me.
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You.
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It wasn't me.
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Helikazam.
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Helikazoo.
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Wow.
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It's beautiful.
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Extreme.
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It's the water!
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I shall have my revenge!
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It worked.
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I told you it would.
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Look at that.
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How kind of them to leave it for us.
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Pack it in, Gisella.
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You've done your groaning.
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It wasn't me.
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It wasn't me either.
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Sir Walter!
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Now, then, let's see what we caught in Franco's cheese protector.
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I am waiting for an explanation.
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It's not bad, but I make better myself.
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It doesn't really fill you up, magic fool.
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Always feel hungry afterwards.
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Buy a pizza, fill you up a good and proper.
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Mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, salami, plenty cheese, mozzarella, parmigiano.
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And you think you can get it upstairs?
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Still warm?
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Si, special boxes they have now.
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Keep it good and hot.
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Miss Cackle!
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Mrs. Tapioca!
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Good morning, Miss Hardbrum.
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Good morning.
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I've come down here to ascertain if the extraordinary story these girls have told me is true.
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Well, that depends on the story.
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Mrs. Tapioka and I are celebrating the end of Sir Walter's wet week.
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And the beginning, I believe, of a new era in cackles and catering.
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Would you care to try a slice?
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As I've said before, what's good enough for your headmistress is good enough for you.
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And that works both ways.
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It has been a long, wet week, but the sun is shining, the hungry ghost is gone, and you may have your sweet rations back.
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Yay!
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Thanks to the inspiration of Mrs. Tapioka, and, dare I say it, Mildred Hubble and her Friends,
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I have decided to allow a change to school dinners.
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Saturday will in future be pizza day.
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Plenty of fresh vegetables and plenty of cheese on top.
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And extra anchovies.
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Buon appetito!
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When in flight quite a sight to see We are witches and glad to be Learning a project, cattle's academy
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Why This Video Clip Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice
This lively dialogue from The Worst Witch is ideal for improving English pronunciation and fluency. The mix of casual banter, classroom instructions, and playful insults mirrors real-life conversations, making it easy to connect with and practice. The varied speech speeds—from the strict teacher’s sharp remarks to the students’ quick exchanges—helps train your ear to understand different tones and rhythms, a key skill for shadow speech.
Breaking Down Natural English Phrases
Let’s look at 3 phrases that sound authentic and why they work:
- “300 lines. I must not fill my mouth with disgusting rubbish.” This short, direct rebuke uses everyday vocabulary (“disgusting rubbish”) and a conversational structure. The pause after “300 lines” mimics how people speak when giving orders, making it easy to practice intonation.
- “Call this a witch school, I haven't even turned anyone into a frog yet.” The informal “call this a…” structure is common for expressing frustration. The exaggeration (“turned anyone into a frog”) adds humor, a natural part of casual speech.
- “Leave her alone. She's sticking up for your fidgety friend.” “Sticking up for” and “fidgety” are colloquial terms that native speakers use daily. The quick transition between sentences reflects how people chat without overthinking, perfect for shadowing practice.
A Simple Shadowing Routine for This Clip
Use this repeat-and-record loop to master the dialogue:
- Watch the clip once to get the gist. Focus on how characters move their mouths and stress words.
- Pause after 2-3 seconds of speech and repeat the line out loud, mimicking the tone and speed. This is shadow speech in action—copying not just words, but rhythm and emotion.
- Record yourself and compare it to the original. Notice differences in pronunciation (e.g., “cobstopper mess” vs. your version) and adjust. A shadowing app or site can help track progress.
- Do this daily for 10 minutes. Over time, you’ll find your speech sounds more natural, and you’ll pick up new phrases without effort.
Practicing with this clip isn’t just about learning lines—it’s about training your brain and mouth to speak English like a native. Whether you use a shadowing app or just your phone, consistency is key to improving English pronunciation and fluency.
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 | have called · haven't even turned · have done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | may be copied · has been blown · had been robbed |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might find · may take · may be |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should set · should certainly be · should do |
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.