Shadowing Practice: thor and loki being chaotic siblings - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Loki!
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Loki!
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Over here!
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Over here!
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Excuse me, who wants to do that?
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Shh!
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Shh!
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What?
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You're alive?
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Yes, of course I'm alive.
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Surprise!
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Ow.
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Just had to be sure.
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Well, I left him right here.
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Right here on the sidewalk or right there where the building's being demolished?
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Great planning.
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How was I supposed to know?
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I'm probably better off staying here on the car.
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That's exactly what I was thinking.
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What the hell are you talking about?
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Did you just agree with me?
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Come on, this place is perfect for you.
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It's savage, chaotic, lawless.
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Brother, you're going to do great here.
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Do you truly think so little of me? Of course!
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You're late.
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You're missing an eye.
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This isn't over.
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What are you doing here?
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What do you mean, what am I doing?
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I'm stuck in this stupid chair.
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Where's your chair?
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I didn't get a chair.
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Well, get me out of this one.
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I can't.
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Get me out.
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I can't.
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It's all right.
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One time when we were children, he transformed himself into a snake, and he knows that I love snakes.
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So I went to pick up the snake to admire it.
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And he transformed back into himself and he was like, yeah, it's me.
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And he stabbed me.
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We were eight at the time.
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Do you really think it's a good idea to go back to Earth?
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Yes, of course.
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People of Earth love me.
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I'm very popular.
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Wait a minute.
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Let me rephrase that.
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Do you really think it's a good idea to bring me back to Earth?
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Probably not, to be honest.
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Hurts, doesn't it?
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Being lied to.
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Being told you one thing and learning it's all a fiction.
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hey let's do get help what get help no come on
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you love it i hate it it's great it works every
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time it's humiliating do you have a better plan no we're
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doing it i remember thinking i'm not doing get help this is
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so unlike you brother it's
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so clandestine are you sure you wouldn't rather just punch your
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way out you can speak you guys it's mighty fine what's your wish I can't see into the future, I'm not a witch No?
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Why'd you dress like one?
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Hey, I can't believe you're alive I saw you die I mourned you,
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I cried for you I'm honoured I made friends with this man,
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he's called the Grand Moritz I've gained his favour The White Frost found me out here weeks ago Weeks ago?
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Yes How'd you just got here?
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Wait, where's Pramer?
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Hit her with a lightning blast I just hit her with
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the biggest lightning blast in the history of lightning It did nothing I mean, you didn't think I'd really come and see you, did you?
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This place is disgusting.
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Does this mean you don't want my help?
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I couldn't jeopardize my position with the Grand Master.
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It took me time to win his trust.
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He's a lunatic, but he can be amenable.
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Would you mind taking a picture with us?
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Oh, sure.
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Start figuring out where he is.
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We should listen.
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We should talk.
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I disagree.
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Alrighty then.
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Open communication was never our family's 14.
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You have no idea.
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Been quite the revelation since we last spoke.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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So what do we do?
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I'm not doing get help.
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Get help!
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Please!
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My brother's dying!
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Get help!
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Help him!
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Classic.
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Still hate it?
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It's humiliating.
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Not for me, it's not.
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How selfish of me.
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Let's do all the things
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that you want to do What I'm telling you is You
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could join me at the Grandmaster's site Perhaps in time An accident befalls the Grandmaster And then
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In any case You know this
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You call yourself Lord of Thunder God of Thunder I have
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never met this man in my life He's my brother Adopted Loki is beyond reason
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But he is of Asgard and he's my brother.
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He killed 80 people in two days.
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He's adopted.
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I'm not even here. Is this better?
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It's better company at least.
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Still, it could be less inspicuous.
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You're not seriously thinking of going back, are you?
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Our sister destroyed your hammer like a piece of glass.
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Odin brought us together.
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It's almost poetic that his death should split us apart.
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by that you might as well be strangers now two sons of the crown set adrift
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thought you didn't want to talk about it oh no here's the thing brother ravishing
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will hurt no less when i kill you very well sorry to hear that jane dumped you
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she didn't dump me you know i dumped her
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it was a mutual dumping now which one's the ship she told us to get
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the commodore though i feel they won't make much of a difference Now they're firing at us.
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Yeah, thank you for the commentary, Loki.
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It's not at all distracting.
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Well done.
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You just decapitated your grandfather.
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Where is the Tesseract?
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I missed you too.
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Do I look to be in a gaming mood?
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Oh, you should thank me.
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I know I've betrayed you many times before, but this time it's truly nothing personal.
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The reward for your capture will set me up nicely.
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Never won for sentiment, were you?
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Easier to let it burn.
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I agree.
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Oh, no. He's stronger than both of us.
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He's stronger than you.
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You don't stand a chance.
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Do you understand what I'm saying here?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Fine.
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I thought we were going to fight side by side forever, but at the end of the day, you're you and I'm me.
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I don't know, maybe they're still good in you, but let's be honest, that path has diverged a long time ago.
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Yeah.
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Let's steal the biggest, most obvious ship in the universe An escape in the night
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Flying around the city Smashing into everything Despite what everyone is here It's really cool It's truly pretty cool Hello Hello,
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mother I guess I'll just have to go it alone Like I've always done Would you say something?
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No, no, no Say something What would you like me to say?
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Damn, I missed a - Oh, it looks painful.
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Dear brother, becoming predictable.
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I trust you.
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You betray me round and round in circles, Weiko.
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Perhaps you prefer one of your new companions, given that you seem to like them so much.
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Oh, this is much better.
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Whoa.
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You faked your own death.
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You stole the throne, stripped Odin of his power, stranded him on Earth to die, releasing the goddess of death.
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If I said enough, would you like me to go back further than the past two days?
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I think we should disband the revenges.
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I thought you did. Did you mourn?
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We all did.
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Our father.
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Your father.
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Your Loki life is about growth, it's about change, but you seem to just want to stay the same.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that you'll always be the god of mischief, but you could be more.
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What's this?
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What are you doing?
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This isn't me.
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Loki.
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You know, I haven't seen this beloved champion he talks on, but I've heard he's astonishingly savage.
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That's how it feels!
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I'm just a huge fan of the sport.
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I placed a large wager against you tomorrow.
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Don't let me down.
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It's probably for the best that we never see each other again.
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That's what you always wanted.
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Listen well, brother.
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I'm listening.
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Maybe you're not so bad after all, brother.
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Maybe not.
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Loki, I thought the world of you.
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If you were here, I might even give you a hug.
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I'm here.
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I don't know.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “thor and loki being chaotic siblings”. This video has 184 sentences and 1298 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:51. The speaker talks at a steady 147 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 36 of its 184 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 |
|---|---|---|
| dump verb | /dʌmp/ | To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. |
| snake noun | /sneɪk/ | Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues. |
| lightning noun | /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ | A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| blast noun | /blæst/ | A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle). |
| adopt verb | /əˈdɑpt/ | To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. |
| transform verb | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | To change greatly the appearance or form of. |
| fiction noun | /ˈfɪkʃən/ | Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. |
| mood noun | /muːd/ | A mental or emotional state, composure. |
| wage noun | /weɪd͡ʒ/ | An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. |
| capture verb | /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ | To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. |
| jane noun | /d͡ʒeɪn/ | A female client of a prostitute. |
| strip verb | /ˈstɹɪp/ | To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
| painful adjective | /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ | Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Excuse me, who wants to do that?
- Why'd you dress like one?
- Does this mean you don't want my help?
- You're not seriously thinking of going back, are you?
- Do you understand what I'm saying here?
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 | I've gained · I've betrayed · has diverged |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being demolished · Being told |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 56 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, throne /θɹəʊ̯n/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, demolish /dɪˈmɒl.ɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: commentary /ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛ.ɹi/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, amenable /əˈmiːnəbəl/
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 dump, snake, lightning.
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.