Movies - Songs - Games with Exercises A2 Level
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Movies - Songs - Games with Exercises for A2 Level.
Table of contents
- 1. Tenses with Exercises A2 Level
- 1.1. Warm-up Video for My Name is and I am
- 1.2. Warm-up Video for My Name is and I am
- 1.3. Warm-up Video for to be (I'm, it's, this is..)
- 1.4. Warm-up Video for Simple Tenses
- 1.5. Warm-up Video for Present Simple
- 1.6. Warm-up Video for Present Simple
- 1.7. Warm-up Video for Present Simple: Affirmative - Questions
- 1.8. Warm-up Song for Simple Present and Continuous
- 1.9. Warm-up Video for Present Continuous
- 1.10. Warm-up Video for Present Continuous
- 1.11. Warm-up Video for Present Perfect
- 1.12. Warm-up Video for Present Perfect
- 1.13. Warm-up Video for Past Simple
- 1.14. Warm-up Video for Past Simple
- 1.15. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Regular and Irregular Verbs)
- 1.16. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Irregular Verbs)
- 1.17. Warm-up Video for Past Verb Forms: Telling Stories
- 1.18. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Irregular Verbs)
- 1.19. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
- 1.20. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
- 1.21. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
- 1.22. Warm-up Video for Going to
- 1.23. Warm-up Video for Simple Present-Past-Future Tenses
- 1.24. Warm-up Video for Regular Verbs
- 1.25. Warm-up Video for Irregular verbs
- 1.26. Warm-up Video for 12 Verbs
- 1.27. Warm-up Video for 12 Verbs
- 1.28. Warm-up Video for Modals: can
- 1.29. Warm-up Video for Modal Verbs: can't
- 1.30. Warm-up Video for Practice Hearing the Differences Between Can and Can't
- 2. Active - Passive Voice with Exercises A2 Level
- 3. Structures with Exercises A2 Level
- 4. Clauses with Exercises A2 Level
- 5. Prepositions with Exercises A2 Level
- 6. Use of English with Exercises A2 Level
- 6.1. Warm-up Video for Plural -s
- 6.2. Warm-up Video for Plural -s
- 6.3. Warm-up Video for Frequently Used Verbs
- 6.4. Warm-up Video for Where/where to?
- 6.5. Warm-up Video for Numbers and Prices
- 6.6. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
- 6.7. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
- 6.8. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
- 6.9. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
- 7. Vocabulary and Expressions with Exercises A2 Level
- 7.1. Warm-up Film Trailer for 'Basic' A1-A2 Vocabulary
- 7.2. Warm-up Song for 'Basic' Vocabulary
- 7.3. Warm-up Video for Body
- 7.4. Warm-up Video for Vocabulary in Context
- 7.5. Warm-up Video for Trailer
- 7.6. Warm-up Video for Trailer
- 7.7. Warm-up Video for Animated Story
- 7.8. Warm-up Video for Expressions
- 7.9. Warm-up Video for Disappearing Sounds
- 7.10. Warm-up Video for Disappearing Sounds
- 7.11. Warm-up Video for Expressions
- 7.12. Warm-up Video for Expressions
1. Tenses with Exercises A2 Level
Tenses with Exercises - A2 Level.
1.1. Warm-up Video for My Name is and I am
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR MY NAME IS AND I AM
Instructions. Watch this video and type expressions that we use to talk about names and age.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
If you have a beard, it's a plus. - (1) ………….. Darius and (2) …………... (3) ………….. , for work, (4) ………….. a manager. You grew up in Maryland. Your cultural or ethnic background is African American. (5) ………….. Andrew, (6) ………….. . (7) ………….. a construction worker, I grew up in New York, and (8) ………….. Jamaican. (9 ………….. Ashley, and (10) ………….. . (11) ………….. , (12) ………….. a waitress. You grew up in New York, and (13) ………….. black American. - (14) ………….. Rebeckah, (15) ………….. . (16) ………….. a production manager, I grew up in New York, and my cultural background is (17) ………….. Jamaican. - Word.- Yep. - Didn't hear the accent.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
If you have a beard, it's a plus.
- (1) (Your name is) Darius and (2) (this is your story) .
(3) (You are 29 years old) , for work, (4) (you are) a manager.
You grew up in Maryland.
Your cultural or ethnic background is African American.
(5) (My name is) Andrew, (6) (I am 32 years old) .
(7) (I'm) a construction worker, I grew up in New York,
and (8) (I'm) Jamaican.
(9) (Your name is) Ashley, and (10) (this is your story) .
(11) (You are 25 years old) , (12) (you're) a waitress.
You grew up in New York, and (13) (you're) black American.
- (14) (My name is) Rebeckah, (15) (I'm 28) .
(16) (I'm) a production manager, I grew up in New York,
and my cultural background is (17) (I'm) Jamaican.
- Word.- Yep.
- Didn't hear the accent.
Sources:
Channel: SoulPancake. This ONE Difference Could Make or Break Their Date | Tell My Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9FSAL22uY&t=5s
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1.2. Warm-up Video for My Name is and I am
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR MY NAME IS AND I AM
Instructions. Watch this video and type expressions that we use to talk about names and age
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
and you kind of create these ideals in your mind. (happy violin music) - (1) ………….. Elena and (2) ………….. your story. (3) ………….. . (4) ………….. a hair stylist and cultural background, Latina. - (5) ………….. Brieanna. (6) ………….. . 30 kind of threw me off. (laughing) Dang it! For work (7) ………….. an assistant event coordinator and (8) ………….. half Hispanic half Caucasian. (9) ………….. Oscar and (10) ………….. your story. (11) ………….. . For work, (12) ………….. a bartender. Your cultural or ethnic background is half Cuban half Caucasian. - (13) ………….. Simon. (14) ………….. and I run a small chemical company and my ethnic background is Persian, but whitewashed. (both laughing)
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
and you kind of create these ideals in your mind.
(happy violin music)
- (1) (Your name is) Elena and (2) (this is) your story.
(3) (You are 30 years old) .
(4) (You are) a hair stylist
and cultural background, Latina.
- (5) (My name is) Brieanna.
(6) (I am 28 years old) .
30 kind of threw me off.
(laughing) Dang it!
For work (7) (I am) an assistant event coordinator
and (8) (I am) half Hispanic half Caucasian.
(9) (Your name is) Oscar and (10) (this is) your story.
(11) (You are 33 years old) .
For work, (12) (you are) a bartender.
Your cultural or ethnic background
is half Cuban half Caucasian.
- (13) (My name is) Simon.
(14) (I am 37) and I run a small chemical company
and my ethnic background is Persian, but whitewashed.
(both laughing)
Sources:
Channel: SoulPancake. Are You Judging a Book By Its Cover? | Tell My Story, Blind Date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAiNnmkHukc
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1.3. Warm-up Video for to be (I'm, it's, this is..)
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR TO BE (I'M, IT'S, THIS IS..).
Instructions. Who does Jason Sudeikis look like? Watch the video and fill the gaps with phrases with the verb 'to be'
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
No, I've been doing hair impressions. So like (1) ………….. fun, so if (2) ………….. like this, if I do this kind of action, then (3) ………….. kind of like a Prince album cover. (4) ………….. like a Prince album cover. There it is. Yeah. See? You can barely [BLEATS]. (5) ………….. like my Prince impression. And then what else we got? We got, oh, well, this, I mean, (6 ………….. classic, and (7) ………….. a friend of yours, friend of mine. (8) ………….. a good one that I've been doing. (9) ………….. a little bit more under here-- Looks the same as Prince. No, no (10) ………….. a little flatter. (11) ………….. got a little bit less body, less body, but I would even argue more iconic. (12) ………….. the Rachel. [LAUGHS] I don't think it is. You don't think (13) …………..a Rach-- (14) ………….. more of a Ross, more of a Ross. (15) ………….. all right. Then we got more--well then here, (16) ………….., I mean, (17) ………….. good for anybody who has kids or was a kid, but (18) ………….. kind of like a let's see here we go. If you go right down the center, then you Lord Farquaad. Yeah, that actually is the closest. (19) ………….. not bad? (20) ………….. not bad? And then (21) …………..a daily show. (22) ………….. topical. You do a lot of topical stuff on here. But (23) ………….. a little bit more-- just bear with me here. Oh, wow. Well, yeah. I mean, anything for you. Then look, (24) …………..like-- and then you come back here and you do this, and then (25) ………….. Bradley Cooper from A Star Is Born. [CHEERING] Hey.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
No, I've been doing hair impressions.
So like (1) (correct answer: it's) fun, so if (2) (correct answer: I'm) like this,
if I do this kind of action, then (3) (it's)
kind of like a Prince album cover.
(4) (That is) like a Prince album cover.
There it is.
Yeah.
See?
You can barely [BLEATS].
(5) (That's) like my Prince impression.
And then what else we got?
We got, oh, well, this, I mean, (6) (this is) classic,
and (7) (this is) a friend of yours, friend of mine.
(8) (This is) a good one that I've been doing.
(9) (It's) a little bit more under here--
Looks the same as Prince.
No, no (10) (it's) a little flatter.
(11) (It's) got a little bit less body, less body,
but I would even argue more iconic.
(12) (This is) the Rachel.
[LAUGHS]
I don't think it is.
You don't think (13) (it's) a Rach-- (14) (it's)
more of a Ross, more of a Ross.
(15) (That's) all right.
Then we got more--well then here,
(16) (this is) , I mean, (17) (this is) good for anybody
who has kids or was a kid, but (18) (this is) kind
of like a let's see here we go.
If you go right down the center, then you
Lord Farquaad.
Yeah, that actually is the closest.
(19) (That's) not bad?
(20) (That's) not bad?
And then (21) (this is) a daily show.
(22) (It's) topical.
You do a lot of topical stuff on here.
But (23) (this is) a little bit more--
just bear with me here.
Oh, wow.
Well, yeah.
I mean, anything for you.
Then look, (24) (this is) like--
and then you come back here and you do this,
and then (25) (I am) Bradley Cooper from A Star Is Born.
[CHEERING]
Hey.
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Jason Sudeikis’ Hair Impressions Are The Best You’ll Ever See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX_Nowc4EMk
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1.4. Warm-up Video for Simple Tenses
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR SIMPLE TENSES
Instructions. Simple tenses. Watch the trailer of Terminator: Dark Fate and practice catching expressions in Present Simple and Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
(High-pitched tone) (1) …………… ? (Music builds) (2) …………… Sarah Connor. I've never seen one like you before. [Sarah] Almost human. (Metal clank) (Forceful hits) [Grace] (3) …………… human. [Music builds] ♪I'm the hunter♪ Why do you care what happens to her? [Sarah] Because (4) …………… . (Ominous music) (Music builds) (Choir sings) (Train rattle) How (5) …………… win? (6) ……………- [Grace] -by keeping you alive. (Metal hits)
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
(High-pitched tone)
(1) (Who are you) ?
(Music builds)
(2) (My name is) Sarah Connor.
I've never seen one like you before.
[Sarah] Almost human.
(Metal clank)
(Forceful hits)
[Grace] (3) (I am) human.
[Music builds]
♪I'm the hunter♪
Why do you care what happens to her?
[Sarah] Because (4) (I was her) .
(Ominous music)
(Music builds)
(Choir sings)
(Train rattle)
How (5) (do we) win?
(6) (We win) -
[Grace] -by keeping you alive.
(Metal hits)
Sources:
Channel: Paramount Pictures. Terminator: Dark Fate - Official Teaser Trailer (2019) - Paramount Pictures
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1.5. Warm-up Video for Present Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen to a great cover of a Whitney Houston song and type phrases with verbs in Present Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Take a breath. Relax. GUITAR PLAYS SOFTLY # Oh, (1) ………….. dance with somebody # With (2) ………….. me...I didn't expect that. Ooh. # Clock strikes upon the hour # And the (3) ………….. to fade # Still enough time to figure out # How to chase my blues away # I've done all right up till now # It's the light of day... [Oh, they are flying up. This is going to be close.] # That (4) ………….. me how # But when the (5) ………….. # My loneliness (6) ………….. # Oh, I wanna dance with somebody # Oh, yeah
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Take a breath. Relax.
GUITAR PLAYS SOFTLY
# Oh, (1) (I want to) dance with somebody
# With (2) (somebody who loves) me...I didn't expect that.
Ooh.
# Clock strikes upon the hour
# And the (3) (sun begins) to fade
# Still enough time to figure out
# How to chase my blues away
# I've done all right up till now # It's the light of day...
[Oh, they are flying up. This is going to be close.]
# That (4) (shows) me how
# But when the (5) (night falls)
# My loneliness (6) (calls)
# Oh, I wanna dance with somebody
# Oh, yeah
Sources:
Channel: BBC. Jodie WOWS 100 judges (not Paulus ????) with Whitney Houston classic - All Together Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0jhu-rUgY
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1.6. Warm-up Video for Present Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen and type expressions in Present Simple with frequently used verbs
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
(Whispers) Yo, I gotta go! (1) …………..? I only told you 12 times (2) …………..still your best find We've been sitting in this dressing room for hours (3) ………….. break, baby. (4) ………….. brain power. (5) ………….. opinion, I'm always sure to be your minion Girl, you're kinda like long division (6) ………….. Help me help you. Girl, what (are) you trying to do? No, I ain't no Scooby-Doo. (Help me, Help you) 'Cause (7) ………….. (8) ………….. and you're about to kill my mood. (Help me, help you) (9) …………..? Yeah, (10) ………….. But I'm smart and that's a trap. (Help me, help you) Oh, and here's a random fact: You still got my favorite hoodie and (11) ………….. . It ain't that I ain't calling back It's just you said you needed space But you ran out of your way to make that "k" a lowercase. (12) ………….. opinion I'm always sure to be your minion Girl, you're kinda like long division (13) ………….. . Help me help you. Girl, what you trying to do? No, I ain't no Scooby-Doo. (Help me, help you) 'Cause (14) ………….. (15) ………….. and you're about to kill my mood. (Help me, help you) (16) ………….. ? Yeah, (17) ………….. But I'm smart and that's a trap. (Help me, help you) Oh, and here's a random fact: You still got my favorite hoodie and (18) ………….. . (whoaa-oo-ooooo) Baby girl, when I ask you if there's a problem Don't tell me you're fine (19) ………….. I just (20) ………….. . You steal the covers and then you want me to cuddle you (21) ………….. ? Don't ask me if I think another girl is cute, that's a loaded question! What are you doing? What are you tryna do? Baby girl (Help me, help you) -Okay, (22) ………….. ! -I completely get it! -Yeah?-Yeah! -I just have one more question... -Okay, yeah! -(23) ………….. ? -I mean, I- I didn't know when I was getting ready this morning -if I do it with a longer jacket?
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
(Whispers) Yo, I gotta go!
(1) (What do I wear) ?
I only told you 12 times
(2) (The first dress that you put on is) still your best find
We've been sitting in this dressing room for hours
(3) (I need a) break, baby.
(4) (I don't have the) brain power.
(5) (When you ask me my) opinion,
I'm always sure to be your minion
Girl, you're kinda like long division
(6) (Everything is difficult)
Help me help you.
Girl, what (are) you trying to do?
No, I ain't no Scooby-Doo.
(Help me, Help you)
'Cause (7) (I'm hungrier than you)
(8) (I just want to get some food)
and you're about to kill my mood.
(Help me, help you)
(9) (Do these jeans make me look fat) ?
Yeah, (10) (I know you want the answer)
But I'm smart and that's a trap.
(Help me, help you)
Oh, and here's a random fact:
You still got my favorite hoodie
and (11) (you need to give it back) .
It ain't that I ain't calling back
It's just you said you needed space
But you ran out of your way
to make that "k" a lowercase.
(12) (When you ask me my) opinion
I'm always sure to be your minion
Girl, you're kinda like long division
(13) (Everything is difficult) .
Help me help you.
Girl, what you trying to do?
No, I ain't no Scooby-Doo.
(Help me, help you)
'Cause (14) (I'm hungrier than you)
(15) (I just want to get some food)
and you're about to kill my mood.
(Help me, help you)
(16) (Do these jeans make me look fat) ?
Yeah, (17) (I know you want the answer)
But I'm smart and that's a trap.
(Help me, help you)
Oh, and here's a random fact:
You still got my favorite hoodie
and (18) (you need to give it back) .
(whoaa-oo-ooooo)
Baby girl, when I ask you if there's a problem
Don't tell me you're fine
(19) (I know you're not fine)
I just (20) (don't understand) . You steal the covers and then you want me to cuddle you
(21) (Are you hot or are you cold) ?
Don't ask me if I think another girl is cute, that's a loaded question!
What are you doing? What are you tryna do?
Baby girl
(Help me, help you)
-Okay, (22) (I get it) !
-I completely get it!
-Yeah?-Yeah!
-I just have one more question...
-Okay, yeah!
-(23) (What do you really think about these jeans) ?
-I mean, I- I didn't know when I was getting ready this morning
-if I do it with a longer jacket?
Sources:
Channel: TheOfficialLoganPaul. Logan Paul - Help Me Help You ft. Why Don't We [Official Video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT20g6lTZ-k
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1.7. Warm-up Video for Present Simple: Affirmative - Questions
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT SIMPLE: AFFIRMATIVE & INTERROGATIVE
Instructions. Watch the video and learn more about the Present Simple through the examples. Notice the questions as shown in the clip.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Hey Victor! I'm gonna be everything (1) ………….. to be Felicit. All (2) ………….. a dream but (3) ………….. not reality. If you escape with me tonight, our dreams will come true. (4) ………….. ? A brilliant plan! I call them chicken wings! Are you the caretaker? You can stay with me until (5) ………….. on your feet. Starting tomorrow we'll have an audition to my new ballet. Can you dance? (6) ………….. I can. Training (7) ………….. at 5am tomorrow. 5am ? Do you think it was stupid to come to Paris? Do not say that. We should never give up on our dreams. So (8) ………….. that part? (9) ………….. the part with some passion. Tonight was a good performance. One day everyone will travel like this.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Hey Victor! I'm gonna be everything (1) (I want) to be Felicit. All (2) (the world has) a dream but (3) (dreams are) not reality. If you escape with me tonight, our dreams will come true. (4) Do you have a plan? A brilliant plan! I call them chicken
wings! Are you the caretaker? You can stay with me until (5) (you get) on your feet. Starting tomorrow we'll have an audition to my new ballet. Can you dance? (6) (I think) I can. Training (7) (starts) at 5am tomorrow.
5am ? Do you think it was stupid to come to Paris? Do not say that. We should never give up on our dreams. So (8) how do I get that part? (9) (You get) the part with some passion. Tonight was a good performance. One day everyone will
travel like this.
Sources:
Channel: Movieclips Trailers. Leap! Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-huA2o6OOY
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1.8. Warm-up Song for Simple Present and Continuous
WARM-UP SONG FOR PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS
Instructions: Watch the song and learn more about the uses of Present Simple and Continuous through the examples (lyrics).
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪♪ Hoping... ♪ ♪ Hoping ♪ ♪ (1) ………….. the keys ♪ ♪ from my daddy ♪ ♪ poured a couple bucks of gas ♪ ♪ in the chevy ♪ ♪ (2) ………….. in my shirt ♪ ♪ bought a dozen reds for her ♪ ♪ (3) ………….., hoping, hoping ♪♪ hoping, hoping, hoping ♪ ♪
I'm in my room ♪ ♪ (4) ………….. on my make up ♪ ♪ wrestling my hair ♪ ♪ out of the hair brush ♪ ♪ (5) ………….. up my dress ♪ ♪ mama's perfume on my neck ♪
♪ (6) ………….., hoping, hoping ♪♪ hoping, hoping, hoping ♪ ♪ hoping we end up somewhere ♪ ♪ in each other's arms ♪ ♪ hoping one kiss leads to more ♪ ♪ and love comes after that ♪ ♪ (7) ………….. she's my first ♪ ♪ and (8) ………….. he's ♪ ♪ (9) ………….. he's my last ♪ ♪ hoping, hoping ♪
♪ (10) ………….. that long walk ♪ ♪ to her front porch ♪ ♪ (11) ………….. for that knock ♪ ♪ on the front door ♪ ♪ (12) ………….. one more step ♪♪ one step ♪ ♪ (13) ………….. one more breath ♪ ♪ one breath ♪ ♪ (14) ………….., hoping, hoping ♪ ♪ hoping we end up somewhere ♪ ♪ in each other's arms ♪♪
Key: Look at the key and sing or say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪♪ Hoping... ♪ ♪ hoping ♪ ♪ (1) (I'm borrowing) the keys ♪ ♪ from my daddy ♪ ♪ poured a couple bucks of gas ♪ ♪ in the chevy ♪ ♪ (2) (I'm tucking) in my shirt ♪ ♪ bought a dozen reds for her ♪ ♪ (3) (I'm hoping) , hoping, hoping ♪♪ hoping, hoping, hoping ♪
♪ I'm in my room ♪ ♪ (4) (putting) on my make up ♪ ♪ wrestling my hair ♪ ♪ out of the hair brush ♪ ♪ (5) (zipping) up my dress ♪ ♪ mama's perfume on my neck ♪
♪ (6) (I'm hoping) , hoping, hoping ♪♪ hoping, hoping, hoping ♪ ♪ hoping we end up somewhere ♪ ♪ in each other's arms ♪ ♪ hoping one kiss leads to more ♪ ♪ and love comes after that ♪ ♪ (7) (I'm hoping) she's my first ♪ ♪ and (8) (I'm hoping) he's ♪ ♪ (9) (I'm hoping) he's my last ♪♪ hoping, hoping ♪
♪ (10) (I'm making) that long walk ♪ ♪ to her front porch ♪ ♪ (11) (I'm waiting) for that knock ♪ ♪ on the front door ♪ ♪ (12) (I'm taking) one more step ♪♪ one step ♪ ♪ (13) (I'm taking) one more breath ♪ ♪ one breath ♪ ♪ (14) (I'm hoping) , hoping, hoping ♪ ♪ hoping we end up somewhere ♪ ♪ in each other's arms ♪ ♪
Sources:
Channel: TemeculaRoadVEVO. Temecula Road - Hoping (Official Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEy__KGYD1w&t=7s
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1.9. Warm-up Video for Present Continuous
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Instructions. Watch the story of how Jill Bolte Taylor realized she was having a stroke and type phrases in Present Continuous.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
which is a full-body, full-exercise machine. And I'm jamming away on this thing, and (1) …………..that my hands look like primitive claws grasping onto the bar. And I thought, "That's very peculiar." And it was all very peculiar, and my headache was just getting worse. So I get off the machine, and (2) ………….. across my living room floor, and I realize that everything inside of my body has slowed way down. And every step is very rigid and very deliberate. and there's this constriction in my area of perception, so I'm just focused on internal systems. And (3) ………….. in my bathroom getting ready to step into the shower, and I could actually hear the dialogue inside of my body. blended with the atoms and molecules of the wall. And all I could detect was this energy -- energy. And (4) ………….. myself,"What is wrong with me? (5) ………….. on?" And in that moment, my left hemisphere brain chatter went totally silent. Just like someone took a remote control and pushed the mute button. and it says to me,"Hey! We've got a problem! We've got to get some help." And (6) ………….. , "Ahh! I've got a problem!" (Laughter) So it's like, "OK, I've got a problem." "Hey! You've got to pay attention. We've got to get help." And (7) ………….. , "I've got to get help. I've got to focus." So I get out of the shower and I mechanically dress and (8) ………….. around my apartment, and (9) ………….. ,"I've got to get to work. Can I drive?" And in that moment, my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side. Then I realized, "Oh my gosh! (10) ………….. a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is so cool! so I remembered, in my office I had a business card with my number. So I go into my business room, I pull out a three-inch stack of business cards. And (11) ………….. at the card on top and even though I could see clearly in my mind's eye what my business card looked like, So I take the phone pad and I put it right here. I take the business card, I put it right here, and (12) ………….. the shape of the squiggles on the card to the shape of the squiggles on the phone pad. But then I would drift back out into La La Land, so that as I would come back to normal reality, I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number." Eventually, the whole number gets dialed and (13) ………….. to the phone, and my colleague picks up the phone and he says to me, "Woo woo woo woo." (Laughter) that I couldn't speak or understand language until I tried. So he recognizes that I need help and he gets me help. And a little while later, (14) ………….. in an ambulance from one hospital across Boston to [Massachusetts] General Hospital. And I curl up into a little fetal ball.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
which is a full-body, full-exercise machine.
And I'm jamming away on this thing,
and (1) (I'm realizing) that my hands look like primitive claws
grasping onto the bar.
And I thought, "That's very peculiar."
And it was all very peculiar, and my headache was just getting worse.
So I get off the machine,
and (2) (I'm walking) across my living room floor,
and I realize that everything inside of my body has slowed way down.
And every step is very rigid and very deliberate.
and there's this constriction in my area of perception,
so I'm just focused on internal systems.
And (3) (I'm standing) in my bathroom
getting ready to step into the shower,
and I could actually hear the dialogue inside of my body.
blended with the atoms and molecules of the wall.
And all I could detect was this energy -- energy.
And (4) (I'm asking) myself,"What is wrong with me?
(5) (What is going) on?"
And in that moment, my left hemisphere brain chatter went totally silent.
Just like someone took a remote control and pushed the mute button.
and it says to me,"Hey! We've got a problem!
We've got to get some help."
And (6) (I'm going) , "Ahh! I've got a problem!"
(Laughter)
So it's like, "OK, I've got a problem."
"Hey! You've got to pay attention.
We've got to get help."
And (7) (I'm thinking) , "I've got to get help. I've got to focus."
So I get out of the shower and I mechanically dress
and (8) (I'm walking) around my apartment,
and (9) (I'm thinking) ,"I've got to get to work. Can I drive?"
And in that moment,
my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side.
Then I realized, "Oh my gosh! (10) (I'm having) a stroke!"
And the next thing my brain says to me is,
Wow! This is so cool!
so I remembered, in my office I had a business card with my number.
So I go into my business room, I pull out a three-inch stack of business cards.
And (11) (I'm looking) at the card on top
and even though I could see clearly in my mind's eye
what my business card looked like,
So I take the phone pad and I put it right here.
I take the business card, I put it right here, and (12) (I'm matching) the shape of the squiggles on the card to the shape of the squiggles on the phone pad.
But then I would drift back out into La La Land, so that as I would come back to normal reality,
I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number."
Eventually, the whole number gets dialed and (13) (I'm listening) to the phone,
and my colleague picks up the phone and he says to me,
"Woo woo woo woo." (Laughter)
that I couldn't speak or understand language until I tried.
So he recognizes that I need help and he gets me help.
And a little while later, (14) (I am riding) in an ambulance
from one hospital across Boston to [Massachusetts] General Hospital.
And I curl up into a little fetal ball.
Sources:
Channel: TED. My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
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1.10. Warm-up Video for Present Continuous
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Instructions. Listen and type expressions in Present Continuous with frequently used verbs
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
and we can create any mood with that sound. - [Narrator] When you watch a film, much of what (1) ………….. was created... (feet tromping heavily) From footsteps on a snowy path (pensive music) (cloth fluttering)- Foley is the art of sound. It's creating sounds in sync with (2) ………….. onscreen. The art of Foley goes back to the old radio days, where you would see the sound guys and I listen to them performing to the picture. I try not to look at them, because I really don't wanna see what (3) ………….. . I wanna see how it sounds. (playful music) (thunder crackles) - All sound is two elements hitting one another. - With rain, if (4) ………….. a puddle, or if (5) ………….. someone's face, that's all gonna sound different; so those are very specific little things (distant thunder) - Wind is interesting because it's usually what (6) ………….. through. - Alice is gonna use the Batman cape to create the sails, and I'm going to create the boat Okay, let's go. (fabric fluttering) (water splashing) - If (7) ………….. a boat going through waves, we would use the big tub that we have to get that slapping sound, and then go back and do maybe a general sound. We have a shot here of a hiker coming down the waterfall, so (8) ………….. the sound of the carabiner and his rope, and his equipment. (metal squeaks) How was that?
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
and we can create any mood with that sound.
- [Narrator] When you watch a film, much of what (1) (you're hearing) was created...
(feet tromping heavily)
From footsteps on a snowy path
(pensive music)
(cloth fluttering)- Foley is the art of sound.
It's creating sounds in sync with (2) (what's happening) onscreen.
The art of Foley goes back to the old radio days, where you would see the sound guys
and I listen to them performing to the picture.
I try not to look at them, because I really don't wanna see what (3) (they're using) .
I wanna see how it sounds.
(playful music)
(thunder crackles)
- All sound is two elements hitting one another.
- With rain, if (4) (it's hitting) a puddle, or if (5) (it's hitting) someone's face, that's all gonna sound different; so those are very specific little things
(distant thunder)
- Wind is interesting because
it's usually what (6) (the wind is blowing) through.
- Alice is gonna use the Batman cape to create the sails, and I'm going to create the boat
Okay, let's go.
(fabric fluttering)(water splashing)
- If (7) (we're doing) a boat going through waves, we would use the big tub that we have
to get that slapping sound, and then go back and do maybe a general sound.
We have a shot here of a hiker coming down the waterfall, so (8) (I'm doing) the sound of the carabiner and his rope, and his equipment. (metal squeaks)
How was that?
Sources:
Channel: Great Big Story. The Magic of Making Sound | That's Amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRIgX0
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1.11. Warm-up Video for Present Perfect
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT PERFECT
Instructions. Listen to the story and type in verbs in Present Perfect.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
David Cameron may be moving out - but oneresident isn't budging. Meet Larry - mouse-catcher extraordinaire. (1) ………….. a long way. He started out lifeat Battersea Cats and Dogs home… …before being adopted at number ten. (2) ………….. from strength to strength - with over 56 thousand followers on Twitter. He's popular for keeping mice and rodents at bay in the famous building. But like any moggy - (3) ………….. in his fair share of scraps….But on the whole – (4) ………….. a pretty good job. And while others will come and go – the newest of course being Theresa May……Larry will continue in his post.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
David Cameron may be moving out - but oneresident isn't budging.
Meet Larry - mouse-catcher extraordinaire.
(1) (He's come) a long way. He started out lifeat Battersea Cats and Dogs home…
…before being adopted at number ten. (2) (He's gone) from strength to strength - with
over 56 thousand followers on Twitter. He's popular for keeping mice and rodents
at bay in the famous building. But like any moggy - (3) (he's been) in his fair share of
scraps….But on the whole – (4) (he's done) a pretty good job.
And while others will come and go – the newest of course being Theresa May……Larry will continue in his post.
Sources:
Channel: ODN. What's next for Larry the Cat as David Cameron leaves No.10?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXLtrY90kc
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1.12. Warm-up Video for Present Perfect
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRESENT PERFECT
Instructions. Listen to this classic song by Queen and type expressions in Present Perfect
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
(1) ………….. my dues Time after time (2) ………….. my sentence But committed no crime And bad mistakes (3) ………….. a few (4) ………….. my share of sand. Kicked in my face. But (5) ………….. through And we mean to go on and on and on and on. We are the champions - my friends Cause we are the champions Of the world. (6) ………….. my bows And my curtain calls You brought me fame and fortune. And everything that goes with itI thank you all But (7) ………….. no bed of roses No pleasure cruise I consider it a challenge before The whole human race
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
(1) (I've paid) my dues
Time after time
(2) (I've done) my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
(3) (I've made) a few
(4) (I've had) my share of sand. Kicked in my face. But (5) (I've come) through
And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions - my friends
Cause we are the champions
Of the world
(6) (I've taken) my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune. And everything that goes with itI thank you all
But (7) (it's been) no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before The whole human race
Sources:
Channel: Playback.fm. Queen - "We Are the Champions" Acapella (Vocals Only) Concert Mash-Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8QWSW0UbY
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1.13. Warm-up Video for Past Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen to two people talk about their childhood and write phrases with verbs in Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Growing up, (1) ………….. a lot of struggle. Coming from a dysfunctional family, Caribbean family from Jamaica, (2) ………….. move around a lot. (3) ………….. here when (4) ………….. six years old. (5) ………….. both chefs. (6) ………….. homeless at one point, and then we kind of (7) ………….. our way back up. (8) ………….. me more adaptable to every situation I ever face and I guess, if I feel like if something's gonna work out, it's gonna work out. - (9) ………….. adopted at 15. (10) ………….. of course, a real struggle, but (11) ………….. the best thing that ever (12) ………….. to me. I love my family. Both my biological and my adopted family are Caribbean. (13) ………….. with my sister and lots of brothers. The house is loud, (14) ………….. people coming in and out. Kids on top of kids and just, love, and I hope to have that one day.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Growing up, (1) (it was) a lot of struggle.
Coming from a dysfunctional family, Caribbean family
from Jamaica, (2) (we had to) move around a lot.
(3) (I came) here when (4) (I was) six years old.
(5) (My mom and dad were) both chefs.
(6) (We were) homeless at one point,
and then we kind of (7) (worked) our way back up.
(8) (It made) me more adaptable to every situation I ever face
and I guess, if I feel like if something's gonna work out,
it's gonna work out.
- (9) (I was) adopted at 15.
(10) (It was) of course, a real struggle,
but (11) (it was) the best thing that ever (12) (happened) to me.
I love my family.
Both my biological and my adopted family are Caribbean.
(13) (I grew up) with my sister and lots of brothers.
The house is loud, (14) (there were) people coming in and out.
Kids on top of kids and just, love, and I hope to have that one day
Sources:
Channel: SoulPancake. This ONE Difference Could Make or Break Their Date | Tell My Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9FSAL22uY
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1.14. Warm-up Video for Past Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen and fill the gaps with verbs and expressions in Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
This is Nikki. She (1) ………….. trapped when searching for food in Peru. Locals eventually (2) ………….. to her aid and released her. The amazing rescue (3) ………….. in Peru's rural area of San Martin. According to reports, when searching for food in a canal "Nikki" (4) …………... She later emerged through another hole just big enough for her head to poke through. Struggling under Peru's harsh sun, locals (5) ………….. the canine water while they (6) ………….. a rescue plan. She (7) ………….. finally freed after locals (8) ………….. a hole big enough hole big enough for her to escape through. Nikki (9) ………….. with no reported injuries. Residents hope that "Nikki" may now find a comfortable home.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
This is Nikki.
She (1) (became) trapped when searching for food in Peru.
Locals eventually (2) (came) to her aid and released her.
The amazing rescue (3) (took place) in Peru's rural area of San Martin.
According to reports, when searching for food in a canal "Nikki" (4) (got lost) .
She later emerged through another hole just big enough for her head to poke through.
Struggling under Peru's harsh sun, locals (5) (gave) the canine water while they (6) (worked out) a rescue plan.
She (7) (was) finally freed after locals (8) (dug) a hole big enough hole big enough for her to escape through.
Nikki (9) (walked away) with no reported injuries.
Residents hope that "Nikki" may now find a comfortable home.
Sources:
Channel: ODN. Happy ending for dog stuck in a wall in Peru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKHiyYU0oc
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1.15. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Regular and Irregular Verbs)
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE (REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS).
Instructions. Watch the first 2 minutes of David Blaine's TED talk and revise Past Simple. If you want more practice, click here for the full 145-item quiz based on the whole video.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I was buried alive in New York City in a coffin, buried alive in a coffin in April, 1999, for a week. (1) ………….. there with nothing but water. And (2) ………….. being so much fun that (3) ………….. I could pursue doing more of these things. The next one is (4) ………….. myself in a block of ice for three days and three nights in New York City. That one was way more difficult than I had expected. The one after that, (5) ………….. on top of a hundred-foot pillar for 36 hours. (6) ………….. to hallucinate so hard that the buildings that were behind me (7) ………….. to look like big animal heads. So, next (8) ………….. to London. In London (9) ………….. in a glass box for 44 days with nothing but water. (10) ………….., for me, one of the most difficult things I'd ever done, but (11) ………….. also the most beautiful. There was so many skeptics, especially the press in London, that (12) ………….. flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me. (Laughter) So, (13) ………….. very validated when the New England Journal of Medicine actually (14) ………….. the research for science. My next pursuit was (15) ………….. to see how long I could go without breathing, like how long I could survive with nothing, not even air.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I was buried alive in New York City in a coffin,
buried alive in a coffin in April, 1999, for a week.
(1) (I lived) there with nothing but water.
And (2) (it ended up) being so much fun
that (3) (I decided) I could pursue doing more of these things.
The next one is (4) (I froze) myself in a block of ice
for three days and three nights in New York City.
That one was way more difficult than I had expected.
The one after that, (5) (I stood) on top of a hundred-foot pillar
for 36 hours.
(6) (I began) to hallucinate so hard
that the buildings that were behind me (7) (started) to look like big animal heads.
So, next (8) (I went) to London.
In London (9) (I lived) in a glass box for 44 days
with nothing but water.
(10) (It was) , for me, one of the most difficult things I'd ever done,
but (11) (it was) also the most beautiful.
There was so many skeptics, especially the press in London,
that (12) (they started) flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me.
(Laughter)
So, (13) (I felt) very validated
when the New England Journal of Medicine actually (14) (used) the research for science.
My next pursuit was (15) (I wanted) to see how long I could go without breathing,
like how long I could survive with nothing, not even air.
Sources:
Channel: TED. How I held my breath for 17 minutes | David Blaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnGhrC_3Gs
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1.16. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Irregular Verbs)
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE (IRREGULAR VERBS)
Instructions. Listen to the interview and type phrases with irregular verbs in Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
And it ended up being so much fun that I decided I could pursue doing more of these things. The next one is (1) ………….. myself in a block of ice for three days and three nights in New York City. That one was way more difficult than I had expected. The one after that, (2) ………….. on top of a hundred-foot pillar for 36 hours. (3) ………….. to hallucinate so hard that the buildings that were behind me started to look like big animal heads. So, next (4) ………….. to London. In London I lived in a glass box for 44 days with nothing but water. (5) ………….. , for me, one of the most difficult things I'd ever done, but (6) ………….. also the most beautiful. There was so many skeptics, especially the press in London, that they started flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me. (Laughter) So, (7) ………….. very validated when the New England Journal of Medicine actually used the research for science. My next pursuit was I wanted to see how long I could go without breathing, As a young magician, I was obsessed with Houdini and his underwater challenges. So, (8) ………….. , early on, competing against the other kids, seeing how long I could stay underwater while (9) ………….. up and down to breathe, you know, five times, while I stayed under on one breath. By the time I was a teenager, I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds. I would later find out that was Houdini's personal record. In 1987 (10) ………….. of a story about a boy that (11) ………….. through ice and was trapped under a river. He was underneath, not breathing for 45 minutes. When the rescue workers (12) ………….. , they resuscitated him and there was no brain damage. His core temperature had dropped to 77 degrees. if the boy could survive without breathing for that long, there must be a way that I could do it. So, (13) ………….. with a top neurosurgeon. And I asked him, how long is it possible to go without breathing, like how long could I go without air? And (14) ………….. to me that anything over six minutes you have a serious risk of hypoxic brain damage. So, (15) ………….. that as a challenge, basically. (Laughter) My first try, I figured that I could do something similar, In my first attempt to hold my breath, I couldn't even last a minute. So, I realized that was completely not going to work. (16) ………….. to talk to a doctor friend -- and I asked him, "How could I do that?" "I want to hold my breath for a really long time. How could it be done?" And (17) ………….., "David, you're a magician, create the illusion of not breathing, it will be much easier." (Laughter) So, (18) ………….. with this idea of creating a rebreather, with a CO2 scrubber, (19) ………….. basically a tube from Home Depot, with a balloon duct-taped to it, that (20) ………….. we could put inside of me, and somehow be able to circulate the air and rebreathe with this thing in me. There is a chemical that's called perflubron. And it's so high in oxygen levels that in theory you could breathe it. So, (21) ………….. my hands on that chemical, filled the sink up with it, and (22) ………….. my face in the sink and tried to breathe that in, (23) ………….. really impossible. It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said, while having an elephant standing on your chest. Then I started thinking, would it be possible to hook up a heart/lung bypass machine and have a surgery where (24) ………….. a tube going into my artery, and then appear to not breathe while they were oxygenating my blood? (25) ………….. another insane idea, obviously. Then (26) ………….. about the craziest idea of all the ideas: to actually do it. (Laughter) You know, because they go down for four minutes on one breath. And when I was researching pearl divers, I found the world of free-diving. (27) ………….. the most amazing thing that I ever discovered, pretty much. There is many different aspects to free-diving. There is depth records, where people go as deep as they can. So, I learned never to move. And I learned how to slow my heart rate down. (28) ………….. remain perfectly still and just relax and think that I wasn't in my body, and just control that. And then I learned how to purge. We'll say big-boned. (Laughter) (29) ………….. drop 50 pounds in three months. So, everything that (30) ………….. into my body, I considered as medicine. Every bit of food was exactly what (31) ………….. for its nutritional value. (32) ………….. really small controlled portions throughout the day. And I started to really adapt my body. [Individual results may vary] live on prime-time television. The world record was eight minutes and 58 seconds, held by Tom Sietas, that guy with the whale lungs (33) ………….. you about. I assumed that I could put a water tank at Lincoln Center and if I stayed there a week not eating, I was completely wrong. I entered the sphere a week before the scheduled air date. And (34) ………….. everything seemed to be on track. Two days before my big breath-hold attempt, for the record, the producers of my television special (35) ………….. that just watching somebody holding their breath, and almost drowning, is too boring for television. (Laughter) So, (36) ………….. add handcuffs, while holding my breath, to escape from. (37) ………….. a critical mistake. Because of the movement, I was wasting oxygen. And by seven minutes I had gone into these awful convulsions. By 7:08, I started to black out. And by seven minutes and 30 seconds, (38) ………….. pull my body out and bring me back. I had failed on every level. (Laughter) I decided to call Oprah. (Laughter) (39) ………….. her that I wanted to up the ante and hold my breath longer than any human being ever had. (40) ………….. a different record. (41) ………….. a pure O2 static apnea record that Guinness had set the world record at 13 minutes. So, basically you breathe pure O2 first, oxygenating your body, flushing out CO2, (Laughter ends) In January of '08, Oprah (42) ………….. me four months to prepare and train. So, I would sleep in a hypoxic tent every night. A hypoxic tent is a tent that simulates altitude at 15,000 feet. your brain is completely wiped out. My first attempt on pure O2,I was able to go up to 15 minutes. So, (43) ………….. a pretty big success. The neurosurgeon pulled me out of the water because in his mind, at 15 minutes your brain is done, you're brain dead. So, he pulled me up, and I was fine. There was one person there that was definitely not impressed. (44) ………….. my ex-girlfriend. While I was breaking the record underwater for the first time, she was sifting through my Blackberry, checking all my messages. (Laughter ends) I then announced that I was going to go for Sietas' record, publicly. And what he did in response, is he (45) ………….. on Regis and Kelly, and (46) ………….. his old record. Then his main competitor (47) ………….. out and (48) ………….. his record. So, he suddenly pushed the record up to16 minutes and 32 seconds. (49) ………….. three minutes longer than I had prepared. (50) ………….. longer than the record. I wanted to get the Science Times to document this. I wanted to get them to do a piece on it. I walked into the New York Times offices and did card tricks to everybody. (Laughter) So, I don't know if (51) ………….. the magic or the lure of the Cayman Islands, but John Tierney (52) ………….. down and did a piece on the seriousness of breath-holding. While he was there, I tried to impress him, of course. and as I was coming up, I blacked out underwater, which is really dangerous;that's how you drown. Luckily, Kirk had seen me and he (53) ………….. over and pulled me up. So, I started full focus. I completely trained to get my breath-hold time up But for TV they wanted me to be upright so they could see my face, basically. The other problem was the suit was so buoyant that (54) ………….. strap my feet in to keep me from floating up. So, (55) ………….. use my legs to hold my feet into the straps that were loose, (56) ………….. a real problem for me. (57) ………….. me extremely nervous, raising the heart rate. Then, what they also did was, which we never did before, is there was a heart-rate monitor. And (58) ………….. right next to the sphere. So, every time my heart would beat, I'd hear the beep-beep-beep-beep, you know, the ticking, really loud. (59) ………….. making me more nervous. And there was no way to slow my heart rate down. Normally, I would start at 38 beats per minute, which is pretty unusual. (Laughter) This time it started at 120 beats, and it never (60) ………….. down. I (61) ………….. the first five minutes underwater desperately trying to slow my heart rate down. I was just sitting there thinking, "I've got to slow this down. I'm going to fail." And I was getting more nervous. And the heart rate just (62) ………….. going up and up, all the way up to 150 beats. Basically it's the same thing that created my downfall at Lincoln Center. (63) ………….. a waste of O2. When (64) ………….. it to the halfway mark, at eight minutes, I was 100 percent certain that I was not going to be able to make this. at least then they can pull me out and take care of me and all that. (Laughter) (65) ………….. pushing to 10 minutes. At 10 minutes you start getting all these really strong tingling sensations in your fingers and toes. And (66) ………….. that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushes away from your extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs. Then at 13 minutes, maybe because of the hypochondria, I started feeling pains all over my chest. (67) ………….. awful. (Laughter) At 14 minutes, I had these awful contractions, to 150, to 40, to 20, to 150 again. It would skip a beat. It would start. It would stop. And (68) ………….. all this. And I was sure that I was going to have a heart attack. So, at 16 minutes what I did is (69) ………….. my feet out because (70) ………….. that if I did go out, if I did have a heart attack, they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up. I was really nervous. (71) ………….. my feet out, and I started floating to the top. And I didn't take my head out. But I was just floating there waiting for my heart to stop, So, with the energy of everybody that was there, I decided to keep pushing. And (72) ………….. to 17 minutes and four seconds. (Applause) (Applause ends) As though that wasn't enough, what I did immediately after is (73) ………….. to Quest Labs and had them take every blood sample that they could to test for everything and to see where my levels were, so the doctors could use it, once again. I also didn't want anybody to question it. I had the world record and I wanted to make sure (74) ………….. legitimate. So, I get to New York City the next day, I'm walking out of the Apple store, and this kid walks up to me he's like, "Yo, D!" I'm like "Yeah?" (75) ………….. , "If you really held your breath that long, why'd you come out of the water dry?" I was like "What?"
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
And it ended up being so much fun
that I decided I could pursue doing more of these things.
The next one is (1) (I froze) myself in a block of ice
for three days and three nights in New York City.
That one was way more difficult than I had expected.
The one after that, (2) (I stood) on top of a hundred-foot pillar
for 36 hours.
(3) (I began) to hallucinate so hard
that the buildings that were behind me started to look like big animal heads.
So, next (4) (I went) to London.
In London I lived in a glass box for 44 days
with nothing but water.
(5) (It was) , for me, one of the most difficult things I'd ever done,
but (6) (it was) also the most beautiful.
There was so many skeptics, especially the press in London,
that they started flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me.
(Laughter)
So, (7) (I felt) very validated
when the New England Journal of Medicine actually used the research for science.
My next pursuit was I wanted to see how long I could go without breathing,
As a young magician,
I was obsessed with Houdini and his underwater challenges.
So, (8) (I began) , early on, competing against the other kids,
seeing how long I could stay underwater while (9) (they went) up and down to breathe,
you know, five times, while I stayed under on one breath.
By the time I was a teenager,
I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds.
I would later find out that was Houdini's personal record.
In 1987 (10) (I heard) of a story
about a boy that (11) (fell) through ice and was trapped under a river.
He was underneath, not breathing for 45 minutes.
When the rescue workers (12) (came) ,
they resuscitated him and there was no brain damage.
His core temperature had dropped to 77 degrees.
if the boy could survive without breathing for that long,
there must be a way that I could do it.
So, (13) (I met) with a top neurosurgeon.
And I asked him, how long is it possible to go without breathing,
like how long could I go without air?
And (14) (he said) to me that anything over six minutes
you have a serious risk of hypoxic brain damage.
So, (15) (I took) that as a challenge, basically.
(Laughter)
My first try, I figured that I could do something similar,
In my first attempt to hold my breath, I couldn't even last a minute.
So, I realized that was completely not going to work.
(16) (I went) to talk to a doctor friend --
and I asked him, "How could I do that?"
"I want to hold my breath for a really long time. How could it be done?"
And (17) (he said) , "David, you're a magician,
create the illusion of not breathing, it will be much easier."
(Laughter)
So, (18) (he came up) with this idea of creating a rebreather,
with a CO2 scrubber,
(19) (which was) basically a tube from Home Depot,
with a balloon duct-taped to it,
that (20) (he thought) we could put inside of me,
and somehow be able to circulate the air and rebreathe
with this thing in me.
There is a chemical that's called perflubron.
And it's so high in oxygen levels that in theory you could breathe it.
So, (21) (I got) my hands on that chemical,
filled the sink up with it, and (22) (stuck) my face in the sink
and tried to breathe that in, (23) (which was) really impossible.
It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said,
while having an elephant standing on your chest.
Then I started thinking,
would it be possible to hook up a heart/lung bypass machine
and have a surgery where (24) (it was) a tube going into my artery,
and then appear to not breathe while they were oxygenating my blood?
(25) (Which was) another insane idea, obviously.
Then (26) (I thought) about the craziest idea of all the ideas:
to actually do it.
(Laughter)
You know, because they go down for four minutes on one breath.
And when I was researching pearl divers, I found the world of free-diving.
(27) (It was) the most amazing thing that I ever discovered, pretty much.
There is many different aspects to free-diving.
There is depth records, where people go as deep as they can.
So, I learned never to move.
And I learned how to slow my heart rate down.
(28) (I had to) remain perfectly still and just relax
and think that I wasn't in my body, and just control that.
And then I learned how to purge.
We'll say big-boned.
(Laughter)
(29) (I had to) drop 50 pounds in three months.
So, everything that (30) (I put) into my body, I considered as medicine.
Every bit of food was exactly what (31) (it was) for its nutritional value.
(32) (I ate) really small controlled portions throughout the day.
And I started to really adapt my body.
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live on prime-time television.
The world record was eight minutes and 58 seconds,
held by Tom Sietas, that guy with the whale lungs (33) (I told) you about.
I assumed that I could put a water tank at Lincoln Center
and if I stayed there a week not eating,
I was completely wrong.
I entered the sphere a week before the scheduled air date.
And (34) (I thought) everything seemed to be on track.
Two days before my big breath-hold attempt, for the record,
the producers of my television special
(35) (thought) that just watching somebody holding their breath, and almost drowning,
is too boring for television.
(Laughter)
So, (36) (I had to) add handcuffs, while holding my breath, to escape from.
(37) (This was) a critical mistake.
Because of the movement, I was wasting oxygen.
And by seven minutes I had gone into these awful convulsions.
By 7:08, I started to black out.
And by seven minutes and 30 seconds,
(38) (they had to) pull my body out and bring me back.
I had failed on every level.
(Laughter)
I decided to call Oprah.
(Laughter)
(39) (I told) her that I wanted to up the ante
and hold my breath longer than any human being ever had.
(40) (This was) a different record.
(41) (This was) a pure O2 static apnea record
that Guinness had set the world record at 13 minutes.
So, basically you breathe pure O2 first, oxygenating your body, flushing out CO2,
(Laughter ends)
In January of '08,
Oprah (42) (gave) me four months to prepare and train.
So, I would sleep in a hypoxic tent every night.
A hypoxic tent is a tent that simulates altitude at 15,000 feet.
your brain is completely wiped out.
My first attempt on pure O2,I was able to go up to 15 minutes.
So, (43) (it was) a pretty big success.
The neurosurgeon pulled me out of the water
because in his mind, at 15 minutes your brain is done, you're brain dead.
So, he pulled me up, and I was fine.
There was one person there that was definitely not impressed.
(44) (It was) my ex-girlfriend.
While I was breaking the record underwater for the first time,
she was sifting through my Blackberry, checking all my messages.
(Laughter ends)
I then announced that I was going to go for Sietas' record, publicly.
And what he did in response, is he (45) (went) on Regis and Kelly,
and (46) (broke) his old record.
Then his main competitor (47) (went) out and (48) (broke) his record.
So, he suddenly pushed the record up to16 minutes and 32 seconds.
(49) (Which was) three minutes longer than I had prepared.
(50) (It was) longer than the record.
I wanted to get the Science Times to document this.
I wanted to get them to do a piece on it.
I walked into the New York Times offices and did card tricks to everybody.
(Laughter)
So, I don't know if (51) (it was) the magic or the lure of the Cayman Islands,
but John Tierney (52) (flew) down
and did a piece on the seriousness of breath-holding.
While he was there, I tried to impress him, of course.
and as I was coming up, I blacked out underwater,
which is really dangerous;that's how you drown.
Luckily, Kirk had seen me and he (53) (swam) over and pulled me up.
So, I started full focus.
I completely trained to get my breath-hold time up
But for TV they wanted me to be upright so they could see my face, basically.
The other problem was the suit was so buoyant
that (54) (they had to) strap my feet in to keep me from floating up.
So, (55) (I had to) use my legs to hold my feet into the straps that were loose,
(56) (which was) a real problem for me.
(57) (That made) me extremely nervous, raising the heart rate.
Then, what they also did was,
which we never did before, is there was a heart-rate monitor.
And (58) (it was) right next to the sphere.
So, every time my heart would beat, I'd hear the beep-beep-beep-beep,
you know, the ticking, really loud.
(59) (Which was) making me more nervous.
And there was no way to slow my heart rate down.
Normally, I would start at 38 beats per minute,
which is pretty unusual.
(Laughter)
This time it started at 120 beats, and it never (60) (went) down.
I (61) (spent) the first five minutes underwater
desperately trying to slow my heart rate down.
I was just sitting there thinking,
"I've got to slow this down. I'm going to fail."
And I was getting more nervous.
And the heart rate just (62) (kept) going up and up,
all the way up to 150 beats.
Basically it's the same thing that created my downfall at Lincoln Center.
(63) (It was) a waste of O2.
When (64) (I made) it to the halfway mark, at eight minutes,
I was 100 percent certain
that I was not going to be able to make this.
at least then they can pull me out and take care of me and all that.
(Laughter)
(65) (I kept) pushing to 10 minutes.
At 10 minutes you start getting all these really strong tingling sensations
in your fingers and toes.
And (66) (I knew) that that was blood shunting,
when the blood rushes away from your extremities
to provide oxygen to your vital organs.
Then at 13 minutes, maybe because of the hypochondria,
I started feeling pains all over my chest.
(67) (It was) awful.
(Laughter)
At 14 minutes, I had these awful contractions,
to 150, to 40, to 20, to 150 again.
It would skip a beat.
It would start. It would stop. And (68) (I felt) all this.
And I was sure that I was going to have a heart attack.
So, at 16 minutes what I did is (69) (I slid) my feet out
because (70) (I knew) that if I did go out, if I did have a heart attack,
they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out
before pulling me up.
I was really nervous.
(71) (I let) my feet out, and I started floating to the top.
And I didn't take my head out.
But I was just floating there waiting for my heart to stop,
So, with the energy of everybody that was there,
I decided to keep pushing.
And (72) (I went) to 17 minutes and four seconds.
(Applause)
(Applause ends)
As though that wasn't enough, what I did immediately after
is (73) (I went) to Quest Labs
and had them take every blood sample that they could
to test for everything and to see where my levels were,
so the doctors could use it, once again.
I also didn't want anybody to question it.
I had the world record and I wanted to make sure (74) (it was) legitimate.
So, I get to New York City the next day,
I'm walking out of the Apple store,
and this kid walks up to me he's like, "Yo, D!"
I'm like "Yeah?"
(75) (He said) , "If you really held your breath that long,
why'd you come out of the water dry?"
I was like "What?"
Sources:
Channel: TED. How I held my breath for 17 minutes | David Blaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnGhrC_3Gs
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1.17. Warm-up Video for Past Verb Forms: Telling Stories
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST VERB FORMS: TELLING STORIES.
Instructions. Listen to the story and type verbs in Past Simple (two verbs are in Past Continuous and Past Perfect).
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Storm Reyes: The conditions (1) ………….. pretty terrible. I once (2) ………….. someone that I (3) ………….. to fight with a knife long before I (4) ………….. how to ride a bicycle. And when you are grinding day after day after day, there is no room in you for hope. There's nothing to aspire to except filling your hungry belly. That's how I (5) ………….. raised. But when I (6) ………….. 12, a bookmobile (7) ………….. to the fields. And you have to understand that I (8) ………….. allowed to have books, because books are heavy, and when you're moving a lot you have to keep things just as minimal as possible. So when I first (9) ………….. this big vehicle on the side of the road, and it (10) ………….. filled with books, I immediately stepped back. Fortunately when the staff member (11) ………….. me, kind of (12) ………….. me in, and (13) ………….., "These are books, and you can take one home." I'm like, "What's the catch?" And he (14) ………….. to me there (15) ………….. no catch. Then he (16) ………….. me what I (17) ………….. interested in. And the night before the bookmobile (18) ………….. , in the camps, there (19) ………….. an elder who (20) ………….. us about the day that Mount Rainier (21) ………….. . So I (22) ………….. the bookmobile person that I (23) ………….. a little nervous about the mountain blowing up. And he (24) ………….., "You know, the more you know about something, the less you will fear it." And he (25) ………….. me a book about volcanoes. And then I (26) ………….. a book about dinosaurs. I (27) ………….. "Oh, that looks neat." So he (28) ………….. me a book about dinosaurs. And I (29) ………….. them home, and I devoured them. I (30) ………….. them, I devoured them. And I (31) ………….. back in two weeks and (32) ………….. more questions. And he (33) ………….. me more books and that (34) ………….. it. That (35) ………….. me that hope (36) ………….. not just a word. And it (37) ………….. me the courage to leave the camps. That's where the books (38) ………….. the difference. By the time I (39) ………….. 15,I (40) ………….. there (41) ………….. a world outside of the camps. I (42) ………….. I could find a place in it. And I (43) ………….. .
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Storm Reyes: The conditions (1) (were) pretty terrible.
I once (2) (told) someone that I (3) (learned) to fight with a
knife long before I (4) (learned) how to ride a bicycle.
And when you are grinding day after day after day,
there is no room in you for hope.
There's nothing to aspire to except filling
your hungry belly.
That's how I (5) (was) raised.
But when I (6) (was) 12, a bookmobile (7) (came) to the fields.
And you have to understand that I (8) (wasn't) allowed to have books,
because books are heavy, and when you're moving a lot
you have to keep things just as minimal as possible.
So when I first (9) (saw) this big vehicle on the side of the road,
and it (10) (was) filled with books, I immediately stepped back.
Fortunately when the staff member (11) (saw) me, kind of (12) (waved) me
in, and (13) (said) , "These are books, and you can take one home."
I'm like, "What's the catch?"
And he (14) (explained) to me there (15) (was) no catch.
Then he (16) (asked) me what I (17) (was) interested in.
And the night before the bookmobile (18) (had come) ,
in the camps, there (19) (was) an elder who (20) (was telling)
us about the day that Mount Rainier (21) (blew up) .
So I (22) (told) the bookmobile person that I (23) (was) a little nervous
about the mountain blowing up.
And he (24) (said) , "You know, the more you know about something,
the less you will fear it."
And he (25) (gave) me a book about volcanoes.
And then I (26) (saw) a book about dinosaurs.
I (27) (said) "Oh, that looks neat."
So he (28) (gave) me a book about dinosaurs.
And I (29) (took) them home, and I devoured them.
I (30) (didn't just read) them, I devoured them.
And I (31) (came) back in two weeks and (32) (had) more questions.
And he (33) (gave) me more books and that (34) (started) it.
That (35) (taught) me that hope (36) (was) not just a word.
And it (37) (gave) me the courage to leave the camps.
That's where the books (38) (made) the difference.
By the time I (39) (was) 15,I (40) (knew) there (41) (was) a world
outside of the camps.
I (42) (believed) I could find a place in it.
Sources:
Channel: StoryCorps. The Bookmobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OvHcgh-E4
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1.18. Warm-up Video for Past Simple (Irregular Verbs)
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE (IRREGULAR VERBS)
Instructions. Listen to the interview and type phrases with irregular verbs in Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
In the late 1980s, in a moment of youthful indiscretion, (1) ………….. to law school. (Laughter) In America, law is a professional degree: after your university degree, you go on to law school. When (2) ………….. to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class (3) ………….. the top 90% possible. (Laughter) Thank you. Many people begin trying to thumbtack the candle to the wall. Doesn't work. (4) ………….. somebody kind of make the motion over here -- some people have a great idea where they light the match, melt the side of the candle, try to adhere it to the wall. who is now at Princeton University, US, This shows the power of incentives. He gathered his participants and (5) ………….. : "I'm going to time you, how quickly you can solve this problem." To one group (6) ………….. , "I'm going to time you to establish norms, averages for how long it typically takes someone to solve this sort of problem." To the second group he offered rewards. (7) ………….. , "If you're in the top 25%of the fastest times, you get five dollars. If you're the fastest of everyone we're testing here today, How much faster did this group solve the problem? Answer: (8) ………….. them, on average, three and a half minutes longer. 3.5 min longer. This makes no sense, right? This is one of the most robust findings in social science, and also one of the most ignored. (9) ………….. the last couple of years looking at the science of human motivation, particularly the dynamics of extrinsic motivators Dan Ariely, one of the great economists of our time, he and three colleagues did a study of some MIT students. (10) ………….. these MIT students a bunch of games, games that involved creativity, and motor skills, and concentration. But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance. Then (11) ………….. , "Let's see if there's any cultural bias here. Let's go to Madurai, India and test this." economists at LSE looked at 51 studies of pay-for-performance plans, inside of companies. Here's what (12) ………….. : "We find that financial incentives can result in a negative impact on overall performance." for our businesses. I want to talk today only about autonomy. In the 20th century, (13) ………….. up with this idea of management. Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree, it's a television set. The mid-1990s, Microsoft started an encyclopedia called Encarta. They had deployed all the right incentives, (14) ………….. professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure (15) ………….. in on budget and on time. A few years later, another encyclopedia got started. Different model, right? if you had gone to an economist, anywhere, "Hey, I've got these two different models for creating an encyclopedia. If (16) ………….. head to head, who would win?" 10 years ago you could not have found a single sober economist anywhere on planet Earth
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
In the late 1980s, in a moment of youthful indiscretion, (1) (I went) to law school.
(Laughter)
In America, law is a professional degree: after your university degree, you go on to law school.
When (2) (I got) to law school, I didn't do very well.
To put it mildly, I didn't do very well.
I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class
(3) (that made) the top 90% possible.
(Laughter)
Thank you.
Many people begin trying to thumbtack the candle to the wall.
Doesn't work.
(4) (I saw) somebody kind of make the motion over here -- some people have a great idea where they light the match, melt the side of the candle, try to adhere it to the wall.
who is now at Princeton University, US,
This shows the power of incentives.
He gathered his participants and (5) (he said) :
"I'm going to time you, how quickly you can solve this problem."
To one group (6) (he said) ,
"I'm going to time you to establish norms,
averages for how long it typically takes someone to solve this sort of problem."
To the second group he offered rewards.
(7) (He said) , "If you're in the top 25%of the fastest times,
you get five dollars.
If you're the fastest of everyone we're testing here today,
How much faster did this group solve the problem?
Answer:
(8) (It took) them, on average, three and a half minutes longer.
3.5 min longer.
This makes no sense, right?
This is one of the most robust findings in social science,
and also one of the most ignored.
(9) (I spent) the last couple of years
looking at the science of human motivation,
particularly the dynamics of extrinsic motivators
Dan Ariely, one of the great economists of our time,
he and three colleagues did a study of some MIT students.
(10) (They gave) these MIT students a bunch of games,
games that involved creativity,
and motor skills, and concentration.
But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill,
a larger reward led to poorer performance.
Then (11) (they said) ,
"Let's see if there's any cultural bias here.
Let's go to Madurai, India and test this."
economists at LSE looked at 51 studies
of pay-for-performance plans, inside of companies.
Here's what (12) (they said) :
"We find that financial incentives
can result in a negative impact on overall performance."
for our businesses.
I want to talk today only about autonomy.
In the 20th century, (13) (we came) up with this idea of management.
Management did not emanate from nature.
Management is not a tree, it's a television set.
The mid-1990s, Microsoft started an encyclopedia called Encarta.
They had deployed all the right incentives,
(14) (They paid) professionals to write and edit thousands of articles.
Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing
to make sure (15) (it came) in on budget and on time.
A few years later, another encyclopedia got started.
Different model, right?
if you had gone to an economist, anywhere,
"Hey, I've got these two different models for creating an encyclopedia.
If (16) (they went) head to head, who would win?"
10 years ago you could not have found a single sober economist
anywhere on planet Earth
Sources:
Channel: TED. The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
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1.19. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR FUTURE SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen and type future expressions with 'will' and frequently used verbs
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I'm gonna be everything I want to be Felicit, All the world has a dream but dreams are not reality. If you escape with me tonight, our (1) ………….. true. Do you have a plan? A brilliant plan! Good morning sunshine. When was the last time you brushed your teeth? You (2) ………….. the greatest dancer and (3) ………….. the greatest inventor ever. Are you the caretaker? You can stay with me until you get on your feet. Starting tomorrow (4) ………….. an audition to my new ballet. Can you dance? You get the part with some passion. Tonight was a good performance. One day (5) ………….. like this. Dance through right here! What are you doing?
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I'm gonna be everything I want to be
Felicit, All the world has a dream but dreams are not reality.
If you escape with me tonight, our (1) (dreams will come) true.
Do you have a plan?
A brilliant plan!
Good morning sunshine.
When was the last time you brushed your teeth?
You (2) (will become) the greatest dancer and (3) (I will become)
the greatest inventor ever.
Are you the caretaker?
You can stay with me
until you get on your feet.
Starting tomorrow (4) (we'll have) an audition
to my new ballet.
Can you dance?
You get the part with some passion.
Tonight was a good performance.
One day (5) (everyone will travel) like this.
Dance through right here!
What are you doing?
Sources:
Channel: Movieclips Trailers. Leap! Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-huA2o6OOY
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1.20. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR FUTURE SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen and type future expressions with 'will' or 'won't' and frequently used verbs.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
(YELLING) ♪ SOMETIMES WE COME LAST BUT WE DID OUR BEST ♪ ♪ (1) ………….. UP, NO, (2) ………….. IN ♪ ♪ TILL I REACH THE END AND THEN (3) ………….. AGAIN ♪ ♪ NO, (4) ………….. ♪ ♪ I WANT TO TRY EVERYTHING ♪ ♪ I WANT TO TRY EVEN THOUGH I COULD FAIL ♪ ♪ (5) ………….. UP ♪ ♪ NO, (6) ………….. IN TILL I REACH THE END ♪ ♪ THEN (7) ………….. AGAIN ♪ ♪ NO, (8) ………….. ♪ ♪ I WANT TO TRY EVERYTHING ♪ ♪ I WANT TO TRY EVEN THOUGH I COULD FAIL ♪ ♪ (9) ………….. ON MAKING ♪ ♪ THOSE NEW MISTAKES ♪ ♪ (10) ………….. ON MAKING THEM ♪ ♪ EVERY DAY ♪ ♪ THOSE NEW MISTAKES ♪
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
(YELLING)
♪ SOMETIMES WE COME LAST BUT WE DID OUR BEST ♪
♪ (1) (I WON'T GIVE) UP, NO, (2) (I WON'T GIVE) IN ♪
♪ TILL I REACH THE END AND THEN (3) (I'LL START) AGAIN ♪
♪ NO, (4) (I WON'T LEAVE) ♪
♪ I WANT TO TRY EVERYTHING ♪
♪ I WANT TO TRY EVEN THOUGH I COULD FAIL ♪
♪ (5) (I WON'T GIVE) UP ♪
♪ NO, (6) (I WON'T GIVE) IN TILL I REACH THE END ♪
♪ THEN (7) (I'LL START) AGAIN ♪
♪ NO, (8) (I WON'T LEAVE) ♪
♪ I WANT TO TRY EVERYTHING ♪
♪ I WANT TO TRY EVEN THOUGH I COULD FAIL ♪
♪ (9) (I'LL KEEP) ON MAKING ♪
♪ THOSE NEW MISTAKES ♪
♪ (10) (I'LL KEEP) ON MAKING THEM ♪
♪ EVERY DAY ♪
♪ THOSE NEW MISTAKES ♪
Sources:
Channel: shakiraVEVO. Shakira - Try Everything (Official Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6rP-YP4c5I&t=1s
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1.21. Warm-up Video for Future Simple
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR FUTURE SIMPLE
Instructions. Listen and type future expressions with 'will' and frequently used verbs.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
and that's not a good combination, as it turns out. And yet rather than be scared, most of (1) ………….. that what I'm talking about is kind of cool. I'm going to describe how the gains we make or inspire us to destroy ourselves. And yet if you're anything like me, (2) ………….. that it's fun to think about these things. And that response is part of the problem. OK? That response should worry you. Now take a moment to consider why this might happen. I mean, given how valuable intelligence and automation are, (3) ………….. to improve our technology if we are at all able to. What could stop us from doing this? A full-scale nuclear war? At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are, and once we have machines that are smarter than we are, (4) ………….. to improve themselves. And then we risk what the mathematician IJ Good called an "intelligence explosion," We don't need Moore's law to continue. We don't need exponential progress. We just need to keep going. The second assumption is that (5) ………….. going. (6) ………….. to improve our intelligent machines. And given the value of intelligence -- I mean, intelligence is either the source of everything we value We want to cure diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. We want to understand economic systems. We want to improve our climate science. So (7) ………….. this, if we can. The train is already out of the station, and there's no brake to pull. Finally, we don't stand on a peak of intelligence, and we continue to improve our machines, we will produce some form of superintelligence. And we have no idea how long (8) ………….. us to create the conditions to do that safely. Let me say that again. We have no idea how long (9) ………….. us to create the conditions to do that safely. And if you haven't noticed, 50 years is not what it used to be. Another reason we're told not to worry is that these machines can't help but share our values because (10) ………….. literally extensions of ourselves. (11) ………….. grafted onto our brains, and we'll essentially become their limbic systems. Now take a moment to consider that can make changes to itself, it seems that we only have one chance to get the initial conditions right, and even then (12) ………….. to absorb the economic and political consequences of getting them right. But the moment we admit
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
and that's not a good combination, as it turns out.
And yet rather than be scared, most of (1) (you will feel)
that what I'm talking about is kind of cool.
I'm going to describe how the gains we make
or inspire us to destroy ourselves.
And yet if you're anything like me,
(2) (you'll find) that it's fun to think about these things.
And that response is part of the problem.
OK? That response should worry you.
Now take a moment to consider why this might happen.
I mean, given how valuable intelligence and automation are,
(3) (we will continue) to improve our technology if we are at all able to.
What could stop us from doing this?
A full-scale nuclear war?
At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are,
and once we have machines that are smarter than we are,
(4) (they will begin) to improve themselves.
And then we risk what the mathematician IJ Good called
an "intelligence explosion,"
We don't need Moore's law to continue. We don't need exponential progress.
We just need to keep going.
The second assumption is that (5) (we will keep) going.
(6) (We will continue) to improve our intelligent machines.
And given the value of intelligence --
I mean, intelligence is either the source of everything we value
We want to cure diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer.
We want to understand economic systems. We want to improve our climate science.
So (7) (we will do) this, if we can.
The train is already out of the station, and there's no brake to pull.
Finally, we don't stand on a peak of intelligence,
and we continue to improve our machines,
we will produce some form of superintelligence.
And we have no idea how long (8) (it will take) us
to create the conditions to do that safely.
Let me say that again.
We have no idea how long (9) (it will take) us
to create the conditions to do that safely.
And if you haven't noticed,50 years is not what it used to be.
Another reason we're told not to worry
is that these machines can't help but share our values
because (10) (they will be) literally extensions of ourselves.
(11) (They'll be) grafted onto our brains,
and we'll essentially become their limbic systems.
Now take a moment to consider
that can make changes to itself,
it seems that we only have one chance to get the initial conditions right,
and even then (12) (we will need) to absorb
the economic and political consequences of getting them right.
But the moment we admit
Sources:
Channel: TED. Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg
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1.22. Warm-up Video for Going to
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR GOING TO.
Instructions. Fill the gap with a form of 'be gonna' plus a verb
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
[cheers and applause] ON YOU. OH, THAT'(1) …………... THAT'(2) …………... THAT'(3) …………... EVERYBODY KNOWS, DON'T GO TO THE BOTTOM. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. [laughing] OKAY, AT A CERTAIN POINT, GUYS, I'(4) …………..A STOOL TO PUT THE PIECES BACK UP ON TOP. [laughter] [cheers and applause] - WELL, THERE IT GOES. - AH! - WELL, THERE'S NO WAY IT'(5) ………….. LIKE THAT. - ELLEN, DO NOT--DO NOT TALK WHILE I'M DOING MY PIECE RIGHT NOW. - IF I GET THIS PIECE TO GO BACK SOME-- - NO, IT'S NOT. IT'(6) …………... - AH! DA! DA!
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Kevin Hart and Ellen Play Jenga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my5iN7NKWTY
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1.23. Warm-up Video for Simple Present-Past-Future Tenses
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR SIMPLE PRESENT-PAST-FUTURE TENSES
Instructions. Watch this World of Warcraft cinematic and practice catching expressions in Present Simple, Past Simple and Future Simple
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
So...(1) ………….. home now... Home... and family. And (2) …………..? Not far. This world... it (3) ………….. good... but...(4) ………….. ... broken... falling apart... Just like the Horde. (5) ………….. ... (6) ………….. what she's done while you've been hiding? (7) ………….. that life behind. (8) ………….. no one's savior. (9) ………….. lead the Horde. (10) ………….. . But (11) ………….. you would at least fight for it. (12) ………….. followed! (13) ………….. them. You and I... (14) ………….. to hide.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
So...(1) (This is) home now...
Home...
and family.
And (2) (where are they) ?
Not far.
This world...
it (3) (looks) good...
but...(4) (It's wrong) ...
broken...
falling apart...
Just like the Horde.
(5) (Do you know) ...
(6) (Do you know) what she's done while you've been hiding?
(7) (I left) that life behind.
(8) (I'm) no one's savior.
(9) (I will not) lead the Horde.
(10) (I didn't ask) .
But (11) (I hoped) you would at least fight for it.
(12) (You were) followed!
(13) (I followed) them.
You and I...
(14) (We don't get) to hide.
Sources:
Channel: World of Warcraft. Cinematic: "Safe Haven": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umAgdVTBae0&t=1s
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1.24. Warm-up Video for Regular Verbs
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR REGULAR VERBS
Instructions. Listen to the interview and type phrases with regular verbs in past and Present Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
skills as an architect to make more money so you can forget about paying the bills and focus on creating great architecture. >> If you're a residential architect (1) ………….. to share something with you before (2) ………….. the show. I recently bought a great book by master marketer Jay Abraham. I'm holding it right here in my hands. It's titled "Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got." Basically, the book talks about how to get the most out of your existing business efforts without reinventing the wheel, or in other words, if (3) ………….. for other people, it will work for you too. You don't have to figure out everything out on your own. Now, (4) ………….. thinking of this and how it relates to architects and their websites. The web is great at connecting people, but most architects aren't getting viable leads from their websites. But, here's the interesting part - some do. So, the question (5) ………….. myself is: What is it about certain websites that makes them successful? I've spent the past five years researching this question, and I'm ready to share the results. I found that Welcome, Rob, back to the Business of Architecture. >> Hello. >> Yup. Rob Paulus is the owner and Principal of Rob Paulus Architects. Last week, (6) ………….. to him about some of his early projects that he was actually able to be a partner in developing them. He practices architecture in Tucson, Arizona. Today, we're going to continue But, it was all about creating the most detail within these tight budgets that we could really create, you know, a clear concept. A lot of it (7) ………….. about, and a lot of people say this too, is that the first idea, typically, is the best idea. Then, you run through a whole gamut of other, kind of, approaches. Ever since (8) ………….. , I always come back to that first, initial, intuitive concept. Then, we have to make (9) ………….. , and then it gets in to costing. That's one thing I learned by building that first project, it's the intimate relationship with subcontractors. These guys have done it all their lives, some cases they're multi-generations, >> I think it's even like, kind of, a larger university projects that are taking this approach where you have a concept, and then whether it's to price it out… We're currently doing a really fun house for one of the electrical engineers (10) ………….. with, which is really gratifying. There are a lot of architects in town that are quite skilled and haven't come to us, but we're going to end up building it for him. test things out. Sometimes it only takes ten minutes, even a phone call, to figure out if your idea is going to be in budget, or it's too wacky, and it's not going to work. So, we really big on having (11) …………... >> Okay. When (12) ………….. to these subcontractors at the beginning, are they expecting to be able to get the project? How does that dynamic work? >> They did, but we treat them with respect. A lot of these guys, they don't get calls, our clients if we run it as a construction manager. So, we're not contractors. Typically, it involves a client who's paying cash, or they've got enough cash in the deal, they don't have a bank, kind of, climbing over their back saying (13) ………….. to get a bonded contractor. It's really worked out well. We learned more, we were able to adapt, and give the client a better product. So far the development price we've got haven't been larger to where we couldn't do that. >> Okay. >> Honestly, something (14) ………….. to do is be able to build even some of the larger projects myself. With that said, one way is you just team with a contractor. Once again, you've got a relationship where it's not… What I'm talking about is you've got this bag of money, and architects, I think we have the best skill set to know where to place it. So, you know, working back and forth, (15) ………….. to make sure that we're not overspending on any one thing. (16) ………….. to make sure whether, in our case, if we're going to put something in, it has to have some sustainability metric, as well as look good, as well as perform well, and just create a great space. So, really just kind of this feedback loop of how to >> Okay. >> Just really do the research to learn what you can and can't do. >> Okay. You do that research through your insurance broker (17) ………….. with? >> Yeah. Just, kind of, reading books out there. But, we always say, if (18) ………….. at what a contractor does and then you don't do that, but you're just managing. I realized the AIA contract pretty much spells it out. So, it's frustrating, but we live in a litigious society. >> So, it doesn't affect your personal insurance, I guess, of your firm, but you just wrap it in on a project per project basis? Is that how (19………….. ? >> Yeah, you can do it in a lot of different ways. Like this current project we're looking at will be a for lease project. So, it's so much easier to structure that in to that. damage. We put a protocol in place, and then literally, a couple of months later, it was lit on fire again, except it was very serious this time — the fire got up in to the wood framing. Being an ice and cold storage building (20………….. to use cork. So, instead of rigid insulation in the top roof, it was actually two layers of two inch, dried out cork with some asphalt mixture in it. >> Yeah. >> It's still solid. >> (21………….. out. I was not quite thinking that at the time. It's such an unusual thing. I mentioned it earlier, but to take on this bigger project as a first development thing, it was really… Once again, it was all based on a really cool, old building, great bones, from there and tell us about what you're doing today. >> Indigo was, kind of, we were riding high after doing so well with the Ice House, so (22) ………….. that project in '04. We are in the ground in '06, which meant we were on a, kind of, downfall. By the time we were selling units, we got out of it. It was a great project, it won some awards, but it wasn't nearly as financially successful fee simples, so we were able to divide the lot in to eleven lots. The twelfth was actually the pool area in the back. What was interesting is instead of having cars that drive up in to the units, (23) ………….. a shared parking area. So, that was rather unusual, but (24) ………….. out really well because it gave more room for outside areas, and didn't comingle the car with the units. So, that went really well.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
skills as an architect to make more money so you can forget about paying the bills and
focus on creating great architecture.
>> If you're a residential architect (1) (I want) to share something with you before (2) (we start)
the show. I recently bought a great book by master marketer Jay Abraham. I'm holding it
right here in my hands. It's titled "Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got."
Basically, the book talks about how to get the most out of your existing business efforts
without reinventing the wheel, or in other words, if (3) (something works) for other people,
it will work for you too. You don't have to figure out everything out on your own.
Now, (4) (I started) thinking of this and how it relates to architects and their websites.
The web is great at connecting people, but most architects aren't getting viable leads
from their websites. But, here's the interesting part - some do. So, the question (5) (I asked) myself
is: What is it about certain websites that makes them successful? I've spent the past
five years researching this question, and I'm ready to share the results. I found that
Welcome, Rob, back to the Business of Architecture.
>> Hello.
>> Yup. Rob Paulus is the owner and Principal of Rob Paulus Architects. Last week, (6) (we talked)
to him about some of his early projects that he was actually able to be a partner in developing
them. He practices architecture in Tucson, Arizona. Today, we're going to continue
But, it was all about creating the most detail within these tight budgets that we could really
create, you know, a clear concept.
A lot of it (7) (we talked) about, and a lot of people say this too, is that the first idea,
typically, is the best idea. Then, you run through a whole gamut of other, kind of, approaches.
Ever since (8) (I started) , I always come back to that first, initial, intuitive concept. Then,
we have to make (9) (it work) , and then it gets in to costing.
That's one thing I learned by building that first project, it's the intimate relationship
with subcontractors. These guys have done it all their lives, some cases they're multi-generations,
>> I think it's even like, kind of, a larger university projects that are taking this approach
where you have a concept, and then whether it's to price it out… We're currently
doing a really fun house for one of the electrical engineers (10) (we worked) with, which is really
gratifying. There are a lot of architects in town that are quite skilled and haven't
come to us, but we're going to end up building it for him.
test things out. Sometimes it only takes ten minutes, even a phone call, to figure out
if your idea is going to be in budget, or it's too wacky, and it's not going to work.
So, we really big on having (11) (that happen) .
>> Okay. When (12) (you talk) to these subcontractors at the beginning, are they expecting to be
able to get the project? How does that dynamic work?
>> They did, but we treat them with respect. A lot of these guys, they don't get calls,
our clients if we run it as a construction manager. So, we're not contractors. Typically,
it involves a client who's paying cash, or they've got enough cash in the deal,
they don't have a bank, kind of, climbing over their back saying (13) (you need) to get a bonded
contractor.
It's really worked out well. We learned more, we were able to adapt, and give the
client a better product. So far the development price we've got haven't been larger to
where we couldn't do that. >> Okay.
>> Honestly, something (14) (I want) to do is be able to build even some of the larger projects
myself. With that said, one way is you just team with a contractor. Once again, you've
got a relationship where it's not… What I'm talking about is you've got this bag
of money, and architects, I think we have the best skill set to know where to place
it.
So, you know, working back and forth, (15) (we want) to make sure that we're not overspending
on any one thing. (16) (We want) to make sure whether, in our case, if we're going to put something
in, it has to have some sustainability metric, as well as look good, as well as perform well,
and just create a great space. So, really just kind of this feedback loop of how to
>> Okay.
>> Just really do the research to learn what you can and can't do.
>> Okay. You do that research through your insurance broker (17) (you worked) with?
>> Yeah. Just, kind of, reading books out there. But, we always say, if (18) (you look) at
what a contractor does and then you don't do that, but you're just managing. I realized
the AIA contract pretty much spells it out.
So, it's frustrating, but we live in a litigious society.
>> So, it doesn't affect your personal insurance, I guess, of your firm, but you just wrap it
in on a project per project basis? Is that how (19) (it works) ?
>> Yeah, you can do it in a lot of different ways. Like this current project we're looking
at will be a for lease project. So, it's so much easier to structure that in to that.
damage. We put a protocol in place, and then literally, a couple of months later, it was
lit on fire again, except it was very serious this time — the fire got up in to the wood
framing. Being an ice and cold storage building (20) (they used) to use cork. So, instead of rigid
insulation in the top roof, it was actually two layers of two inch, dried out cork with
some asphalt mixture in it.
>> Yeah.
>> It's still solid.
>> (21) (It worked) out. I was not quite thinking that at the time. It's such an unusual thing.
I mentioned it earlier, but to take on this bigger project as a first development thing,
it was really… Once again, it was all based on a really cool, old building, great bones,
from there and tell us about what you're doing today.
>> Indigo was, kind of, we were riding high after doing so well with the Ice House, so
(22) (we started) that project in '04. We are in the ground in '06, which meant we were on
a, kind of, downfall. By the time we were selling units, we got out of it. It was a
great project, it won some awards, but it wasn't nearly as financially successful
fee simples, so we were able to divide the lot in to eleven lots. The twelfth was actually
the pool area in the back.
What was interesting is instead of having cars that drive up in to the units, (23) (we created)
a shared parking area. So, that was rather unusual, but (24) (it worked) out really well because
it gave more room for outside areas, and didn't comingle the car with the units. So, that
went really well.
Sources:
Channel: Business of Architecture. 016 Rob Paulus, Architect as Developer Interview Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUGdZ8cba0
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1.25. Warm-up Video for Irregular verbs
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR IRREGULAR VERBS.
Instructions. Listen and type phrases with irregular verbs in Past Simple.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath Scared to rock the boat and make a mess So (1) ………….. quietly, agreed politely I guess that (2) ………….. (3) ………….. a choice (4) ………….. you push me past the breaking point (5) ………….. for nothing, so (6) ………….. for everything (7) ………….. me down, but (8) ………….. up Already brushing off the dust You hear my voice, you hear that sound Like thunder, gonna shake your ground (9) ………….. me down, but (10) ………….. up Get ready cause I've had enough I see it all, I see it now (11) ………….. the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar Louder, louder than a lion
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So (1) (I sat) quietly, agreed politely
I guess that (2) (I forgot) (3) (I had) a choice (4) (I let) you push me past the breaking point
(5) (I stood) for nothing, so (6) (I fell) for everything
(7) (You held) me down, but (8) (I got) up Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound Like thunder, gonna shake your ground
(9) (You held) me down, but (10) (I got) up Get ready cause I've had enough
I see it all, I see it now
(11) (I got) the eye of the tiger, a fighter,
dancing through the fire'Cause I am a champion
and you're gonna hear me roar Louder, louder than a lion
Sources:
Channel: KatyPerryVEVO. Katy Perry - Roar (Official): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
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1.26. Warm-up Video for 12 Verbs
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 12 VERBS
Instructions. There are 12 verbs that are extremely important because they cover 45 per cent of all verbs in spoken English. Here they are: say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, take, want, give and mean. Fill the gaps with these verbs.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
>> I WAS 9. >> Jimmy: 9 YEARS OLD. AND BEFOREHAND DID YOU (1) ………….. ABOUT THE BOOKS WAS THAT A PART OF YOUR LIFE? >> OH MY GOT, IT WAS A HUGE PART OF MY LIFE, YEAH. >> Jimmy: SO, SO AND THEN YOU (2) ………….. INVOLVED IN THIS THING AND LITTLE DO YOU (3) ………….. , IT WOULD (4) ………….. YOU ALL THE WAY TO ADULTHOOD, WHICH IS REALLY CRAZY I (5) ………….. , NOBODY HAS THAT EXPERIENCE. >> NO. I (6) ………….. , YEAH, NO ONE GOES TO THE FIRST AUDITION THEY'VE EVER BEEN TO IN THEIR ENTIRE LIFE AND THEN (7) ………….. THOSE MOVIES FOR OVER A DECADE >> Jimmy: NO, IT JUST DOESN'T EVER (8) ………….. . >> THAT DOESN'T (9) ………….. . >> Jimmy: IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU HAVE MAGIC POWERS OR SOMETHING. >> ALMOST. >> Jimmy: IN A WAY, LITERALLY. NOW, THERE'S A VIDEOTAPE THAT, I DON'T (10) ………….. , SOMEBODY ON THE SHOW FOUND THIS. IT'S LIKE AN OUTTAKE FROM THE MOVIE. >> OH, YEAH? >> Jimmy: AND, NOW, I (11) ………….. TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY. WATCH EMMA'S LIPS VERY CLOSELY HERE THROUGHOUT THIS. CAUSE I'LL.. AND I'LL ASK YOU TO EXPLAIN THIS TO ME. >> A STONE THAT (12) ………….. GOLD AND STOPS YOU FROM DYING. NO WONDER SNAPE'S AFTER IT. ANYONE WOULD (13) ………….. IT. >> SOMETHING DOESN'T (14) ………….. SENSE. IF ALL SNAPE WANTS IS THIS SORCERER'S STONE, WHY DID HE TRY TO KILL YOU DURING THE QUIDDITCH MATCH? >> Jimmy: YOU'RE HELPING THEM WITH THEIR LINES. >> YOU LAUGH. THIS IS ACTUALLY QUITE TRAUMATIC FOR ME. BECAUSE I (15) ………….. ISSUES BECAUSE OF THIS. >> Jimmy: OH, REALLY? >> YES. >> Jimmy: WHAT ISSUES? >> I WOULD RUIN TAKES. CHRIS WOULD BE LIKE, CUT, EMMA, YOU'RE (16) ………….. IT AGAIN. YOU'RE MOUTHING DAN'S LINES. AND I'D BE LIKE, OH, I'M SO SORRY, SO SORRY. OH, I FEEL SO BAD. BUT, LIKE, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF. BUT IT WAS LIKE I WAS, I WAS SUCH A LOSER. I REALLY LOVE THOSE BOOKS, I REALLY (17) ………….. TO DO MY JOB WELL, AND I KIND OF OVERDID IT. >> Jimmy: DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. GUILLERMO DOES THAT WITH ME ALL THE TIME WHEN I (18) ………….. OFF SCRIPT. HE CORRECTS ME - YOU COULD (19) ………….. - HE HIDES IT WITH HIS MUSTACHE. YOU (20) ………….. , IF YOU HAD A MUSTACHE, IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN NOTICEABLE TO ANYBODY, SO. >> OH. >> Jimmy: HEY, CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
>> I WAS 9.
>> Jimmy: 9 YEARS OLD.
AND BEFOREHAND DID YOU (1) (KNOW) ABOUT THE BOOKS
WAS THAT A PART OF YOUR LIFE?
>> OH MY GOT, IT WAS A HUGE PART OF MY
LIFE, YEAH.
>> Jimmy: SO, SO AND THEN YOU (2) (GET) INVOLVED IN THIS THING AND
LITTLE DO YOU (3) (KNOW) , IT WOULD
(4) (TAKE) YOU ALL THE WAY TO ADULTHOOD, WHICH IS REALLY CRAZY
I (5) (MEAN) , NOBODY HAS THAT
EXPERIENCE.
>> NO. I (6) (MEAN) , YEAH, NO ONE GOES TO THE FIRST AUDITION THEY'VE EVER BEEN TO
IN THEIR ENTIRE LIFE AND THEN (7) (MAKES) THOSE MOVIES FOR OVER A DECADE
>> Jimmy: NO, IT JUST DOESN'T EVER (8) (HAPPEN) .
>> THAT DOESN'T (9) (HAPPEN) .
>> Jimmy: IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU HAVE MAGIC POWERS OR SOMETHING.
>> ALMOST.
>> Jimmy: IN A WAY, LITERALLY.
NOW, THERE'S A VIDEOTAPE THAT, I DON'T (10) (KNOW) , SOMEBODY ON THE SHOW FOUND THIS.
IT'S LIKE AN OUTTAKE FROM THE MOVIE.
>> OH, YEAH?
>> Jimmy: AND, NOW, I (11) (WANT) TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY.
WATCH EMMA'S LIPS VERY CLOSELY HERE THROUGHOUT THIS.
CAUSE I'LL.. AND I'LL ASK YOU TO EXPLAIN THIS TO ME.
>> A STONE THAT (12) (MAKES) GOLD AND STOPS YOU FROM DYING.
NO WONDER SNAPE'S AFTER IT. ANYONE WOULD (13) (WANT) IT.
>> SOMETHING DOESN'T (14) (MAKE) SENSE.
IF ALL SNAPE WANTS IS THIS SORCERER'S STONE, WHY DID HE TRY TO
KILL YOU DURING THE QUIDDITCH MATCH?
>> Jimmy: YOU'RE HELPING THEM WITH THEIR LINES.
>> YOU LAUGH. THIS IS ACTUALLY QUITE TRAUMATIC FOR ME.
BECAUSE I (15) (CREATED) ISSUES BECAUSE OF THIS.
>> Jimmy: OH, REALLY? >> YES.
>> Jimmy: WHAT ISSUES?
>> I WOULD RUIN TAKES. CHRIS WOULD BE LIKE, CUT,
EMMA, YOU'RE (16) (DOING) IT AGAIN.
YOU'RE MOUTHING DAN'S LINES.
AND I'D BE LIKE, OH, I'M SO SORRY, SO SORRY. OH, I FEEL SO BAD.
BUT, LIKE, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF.
BUT IT WAS LIKE I WAS, I WAS SUCH A LOSER.
I REALLY LOVE THOSE BOOKS, I REALLY (17) (WANTED) TO DO MY JOB WELL,
AND I KIND OF OVERDID IT.
>> Jimmy: DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
GUILLERMO DOES THAT WITH ME ALL THE TIME WHEN I (18) (GO) OFF SCRIPT.
HE CORRECTS ME - YOU COULD (19) (SEE) - HE HIDES IT WITH HIS MUSTACHE.
YOU (20) (KNOW) , IF YOU HAD A MUSTACHE, IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN NOTICEABLE TO ANYBODY, SO.
>> OH.
>> Jimmy: HEY, CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL
Sources:
Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live. Emma Watson's Harry Potter Outtake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxMiLwA3qQ4&t=1s
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1.27. Warm-up Video for 12 Verbs
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 12 VERBS
Instructions. There are 12 verbs that are extremely important because they cover 45 per cent of all verbs in spoken English. Here they are: say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, take, want, give and mean. Fill the gaps with these verbs.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Hi, I am Ed Sheeran, in session here, and this is my cover, kinda, of Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself' For all the times that you rain on my parade And all the clubs you (1) ………….. in using my name You (2) ………….. you broke my heart, oh girl for goodness sake You (3) ………….. I'm crying, on my own well I ain't And I didn't wanna write a song 'cause I didn't (4) ………….. anyone thinking I still care I don't but, you still hit my phone up And baby I be movin' on and I (5) ………….. you should be somethin' I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should ………….. that My mama don't like you and she likes everyone And I never like to admit that I was wrong And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't (7) ………….. what's going on And now I (8) ………….., I'm better sleeping on my own 'Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh baby you should (9) ………….. and love yourself And if you (10 ………….. that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should (11) ………….. and love yourself But when you told me that you hated my friends The only problem was with you and not them And every time you told me my opinion was wrong And tried to (12) ………….. me forget where I came from And I didn't wanna write a song cause I didn't (13) ………….. anyone thinking I still care I don't but, you still hit my phone up And baby I be movin' on and I (14) ………….. you should be somethin' I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should (15) ………….. that My mama don't like you and she likes everyone And I never like to admit that I was wrong And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't (16) ………….. what's going on And now I (17) ………….., I'm better sleeping on my own 'Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh baby you should (18) ………….. and love yourself And if you (19) ………….. that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should (20) ………….. and love yourself For all the times you made me feel small I fell in love, now I feel nothin' at all Was I a fool to let you break down my walls? 'Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh baby you should (21) ………….. and love yourself And if you (22) ………….. that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should (23) ………….. and love yourself 'Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh baby you should (24) ………….. and love yourself And if you (25) ………….. that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should (26) ………….. and love yourself! I'm in love with the shape of you We push and pull like a magnet do
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Hi, I am Ed Sheeran, in session here, and this is my cover, kinda, of Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself'
For all the times that you rain on my parade
And all the clubs you (1) (get) in using my name
You (2) (think) you broke my heart, oh girl for goodness sake
You (3) (think) I'm crying, on my own well I ain't
And I didn't wanna write a song 'cause I didn't (4) (want) anyone thinking I still care
I don't but, you still hit my phone up
And baby I be movin' on and I (5) (think) you should be somethin'
I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should (6) (know) that
My mama don't like you and she likes everyone
And I never like to admit that I was wrong
And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't (7) (see) what's going on
And now I (8) (know) , I'm better sleeping on my own
'Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh baby you should (9) (go) and love yourself
And if you (10) (think) that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should (11) (go) and love yourself
But when you told me that you hated my friends
The only problem was with you and not them
And every time you told me my opinion was wrong
And tried to (12) (make) me forget where I came from
And I didn't wanna write a song
cause I didn't (13) (want) anyone thinking I still care
I don't but, you still hit my phone up
And baby I be movin' on
and I (14) (think) you should be somethin'
I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should (15) (know) that
My mama don't like you and she likes everyone
And I never like to admit that I was wrong
And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't (16) (see) what's going on
And now I (17) (know) , I'm better sleeping on my own
'Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh baby you should (18) (go) and love yourself
And if you (19) (think) that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should (20) (go) and love yourself
For all the times you made me feel small
I fell in love, now I feel nothin' at all
Was I a fool to let you break down my walls?
'Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh baby you should (21) (go) and love yourself
And if you (22) (think) that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should (23) (go) and love yourself
'Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh baby you should (24) (go) and love yourself
And if you (25) (think) that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should (26) (go) and love yourself!
I'm in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Sources:
Channel: KISS FM UK. Ed Sheeran covers Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself' (Live) | KISS Presents:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FylXxDGII
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1.28. Warm-up Video for Modals: can
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR MODALS: CAN
Instructions. Modals: can. The verb 'can' is often pronounced like 'kn'. Do this quiz to practice catching this verb in authentic speech.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
It's very easy to test your business ideas, for basically nothing. (1) ………….. videos on YouTube, (2) ………….. on social media, (3) ………….. digital products. PayPal accounts, (4) ………….. literally test your idea in a matter of weeks. And, find out if there's something there. (5) ………….. enough money to then build on that product, and build on that business. And so, I'm just curious, if this is you, You know, action is always the answer. And, with these days, with the way that we're connected, with digital media, with the way that (6) ………….. ideas, (7) ………….. literally test something so fast, right now, and then pivot, and change your model, and so many successful tech companies did that.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
It's very easy to test your business ideas,
for basically nothing.
(1) (You can upload) videos on YouTube,
(2) (you can get) on social media,
(3) (you can create) digital products.
PayPal accounts,
(4) (you can) literally test your idea in a matter of weeks.
And, find out if there's something there.
(5) (You can make) enough money to then build on that product,
and build on that business.
And so, I'm just curious, if this is you,
You know, action is always the answer.
And, with these days, with the way that we're connected,
with digital media, with the way that (6) (you can promote) ideas,
(7) (you can) literally test something so fast, right now,
and then pivot, and change your model,
and so many successful tech companies did that.
Sources:
Channel: London Real. WE ALL HAVE THIS FRIEND ????or maybe it's YOU ????
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1.29. Warm-up Video for Modal Verbs: can't
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR MODAL VERBS: CAN'T
Instructions. Listen to this song by Shawn Mendes and type expressions with 'can't'.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪ EVERYTHING MEANS NOTHING IF I (1………….. YOU? ♪ ♪ I (2) ………….. ONE SONG THAT'S NOT ABOUT YOU ♪ ♪ (3) ………….. WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT YOU ♪ ♪ IS IT TOO LATE TO TELL YOU THAT ♪ ♪ EVERYTHING MEANS NOTHING IF I (4) ………….. YOU? ♪ ♪ I'M SO SORRY THAT MY TIMINGS OFF ♪ ♪ BUT I (5) ………….. IF WE'RE STILL GONNA TALK ♪ ♪ IS IT WRONG FOR ME TO NOT WANT HALF ♪ ♪ I WANT ALL OF YOU ♪
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪ EVERYTHING MEANS NOTHING IF I (1) (CAN'T HAVE) YOU? ♪
♪ I (2) (CAN'T WRITE) ONE SONG THAT'S NOT ABOUT YOU ♪
♪ (3) (CAN'T DRINK) WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT YOU ♪
♪ IS IT TOO LATE TO TELL YOU THAT ♪
♪ EVERYTHING MEANS NOTHING IF I (4) (CAN'T HAVE) YOU? ♪
♪ I'M SO SORRY THAT MY TIMINGS OFF ♪
♪ BUT I (5) (CAN'T MOVE ON) IF WE'RE STILL GONNA TALK ♪
♪ IS IT WRONG FOR ME TO NOT WANT HALF ♪
♪ I WANT ALL OF YOU ♪
Sources:
Channel: ShawnMendesVEVO. Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJ-oqwxdZY
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1.30. Warm-up Video for Practice Hearing the Differences Between Can and Can't
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRACTICE HEARING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CAN AND CAN'T.
Instructions. The sound /t/ is often missing from negative auxiliaries, such as don't and won't. As a result, it might be very difficult to hear the difference between can and can't. As you do this quiz, you will notice that can is often not stressed and sounds like 'kn', while can't is stressed and sounds like 'can'.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Today we're at Fox Village! It's a gorilla! It's like gorilla village. It's a village slash zoo for foxes that (1) …………..inside and play with more than 200 foxes for only 1,000 yen. Can I touch it? (2) ………….. a place like this reallyexists. It was even better than I thought it was going to be. How excited are you on a scale of 1 to 10? When you first enter, you'll be in an area with cages where there are newly born baby foxes who are being taken care of by their mamas. There's a fox hospital in this area, and if you want to, (3) ………….. a fox here! Once the babies separate from their mom they join in one of these big adolescent pens where (4) ………….. them running back and forth and playing with each other, or sleeping in the most adorable giant fox ball EVER. That is literally a pile of foxes. (5) ………….. how many there are there. And then, finally, they've graduated to the main fox village, which is an open area of more than 18,000 square feet filled with fox houses, They were all born and raised here, so that might explain some of it, but they were even more domesticated than I would have expected. (6) ………….. treats for them, which come in plastic bags, and as soon as they realize you have treats, they will follow you everywhere. Oh. He's like strangling me. They did this thing a lot where they open their mouths and squeal at each other, which we assumed was a show of dominance, but I'm not a fox scholar so (7) ………….. for sure. Which one won? You? You're so chubby. Oh, the lens cap... Awww. So be careful, and make sure they don't get a hold of anything (8) ………….. on. (9) ………….. about the noises they make, because it's so adorable it's killing me. What does the fox say? They're very quiet. They mostly seemed chubby and happy so it was a really fun place to visit. All in all I highly recommend this place. Thank you for watching, and I hope (10) ………….. visit fox village one day, too. Up until now I was like, I don't really care about foxes. But now I'm gonna walk out of here a changed man.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Today we're at Fox Village!
It's a gorilla! It's like gorilla village.
It's a village slash zoo for foxes that (1) (you can go) inside
and play with more than 200 foxes for only 1,000 yen.
Can I touch it?
(2) (I can't even believe) a place like this reallyexists.
It was even better than I thought it was going to be.
How excited are you on a scale of 1 to 10?
When you first enter, you'll be in an area with cages where there are newly born baby
foxes who are being taken care of by their mamas.
There's a fox hospital in this area, and if you want to, (3) (you can hold) a fox here!
Once the babies separate from their mom they join in one of these big adolescent pens
where (4) (you can watch) them running back and forth and playing with each other,
or sleeping in the most adorable giant fox ball EVER.
That is literally a pile of foxes. (5) (I can't even count) how many there are there.
And then, finally, they've graduated to the main fox village, which is an open area of
more than 18,000 square feet filled with fox houses,
They were all born and raised here, so that might explain some of it, but they were even
more domesticated than I would have expected.
(6) (You can buy) treats for them, which come in plastic bags,
and as soon as they realize you have treats, they will follow you everywhere.
Oh.
He's like strangling me.
They did this thing a lot where they open their mouths and squeal at each other, which
we assumed was a show of dominance, but I'm not a fox scholar so (7) (I can't say) for sure.
Which one won?
You?
You're so chubby.
Oh, the lens cap... Awww.
So be careful, and make sure they don't get a hold of anything (8) (they can choke) on.
(9) (And can we talk) about the noises they make, because it's so adorable it's killing me.
What does the fox say?
They're very quiet.
They mostly seemed chubby and happy so it was a really fun place to visit.
All in all I highly recommend this place.
Thank you for watching, and I hope (10) (you guys can all) visit fox village one day, too.
Up until now I was like, I don't really care about foxes.
But now I'm gonna walk out of here a changed man.
Sources:
Channel: Rachel and Jun. Fox Village in Zao Japan! 蔵王きつね村・kitsune mura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wtDKCtOiU&t=1s
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2. Active - Passive Voice with Exercises A2 Level
Active - Passive Voice with Exercises - A2 Level.
3. Structures with Exercises A2 Level
Structures with Exercises - A2 Level.
3.1. Warm-up Video for There is and There are
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR THERE IS AND THERE ARE
Instructions. 'There is' and 'there are' might be difficult to catch, because sometimes they sound like 'thz' or 'the'. Listen and fill the gaps with a frequently used expression that contains 'There is' or 'There are'.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
In this phone, (1) ………….. 100 million transistors, in this computer (2) ………….. a billion. The transistor is in virtually every electronic device we use: TV's, radios, Tamagotchis. improve performance. Yeah it's actually just like that, except on the atomic level. (3) ………….. types of doping called n-type and p-type. To make n-type semiconductor, you take pure silicon and inject a small amount of an element with 5 valence electrons, like Phosphorous. has n on the ends with p in the middle. Just like a switch a transistor has an electrical contact at each end and these are called the source and the drain. But instead of a mechanical switch, (4) ………….. third electrical contact called the gate, which is insulated from the semiconductor by an oxide layer. When a transistor is made, the n and p-types don't keep to themselves -- electrons actually diffuse from the n-type, where (5) ………….. of them into the p-type to fill the holes. This creates something called the depletion layer. What's been depleted? Charges that can move. (6) ………….. more free electrons in the n-type -- why? Because they've filled the holes in the p-type. Now this makes the p-type negative thanks to the added electrons. And this is important But to keep up with Moore's law, they're going to have to keep getting smaller. Moore's Law states that every two years the number of transistors on a chip should double. And (7) ………….. limit, as those terminals get closer and closer together, quantum effects become more significant and electrons can actually tunnel from one side to the other. So you may not be able to make a barrier high enough to stop them from flowing.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
In this phone, (1) (there are nearly) 100 million transistors, in this computer (2) (there's over) a billion. The transistor is in virtually every electronic device we use: TV's, radios,
Tamagotchis.
improve performance.
Yeah it's actually just like that, except on the atomic level.
(3) (There are two) types of doping called n-type and p-type. To make n-type semiconductor,
you take pure silicon and inject a small amount of an element with 5 valence electrons,
like Phosphorous.
has n on the ends with p in the middle. Just like a switch a transistor has an electrical
contact at each end and these are called the source and the drain. But instead of a mechanical
switch, (4) (there is a) third electrical contact called the gate, which is insulated from the
semiconductor by an oxide layer.
When a transistor is made, the n and p-types don't keep to themselves -- electrons actually
diffuse from the n-type, where (5) (there are more) of them into the p-type
to fill the holes.
This creates something called the depletion layer. What's been depleted? Charges that
can move. (6) (There are no) more free electrons in the n-type
-- why? Because they've filled the holes in the p-type.
Now this makes the p-type negative thanks to the added electrons. And this is important
But to keep up with Moore's law, they're going to have to keep getting smaller. Moore's Law
states that every two years the number of transistors on a chip should double.
And (7) (there is a) limit, as those terminals get closer and closer together, quantum effects
become more significant and electrons can actually tunnel from one side to the other.
So you may not be able to make a barrier high enough to stop them from flowing.
Sources:
Channel: Veritasium. How Does a Transistor Work?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrBqCFLHIY
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3.2. Warm-up Video for comparative Adjectives
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES.
Instructions. Listen and type comparative adjectives.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I pretty much wasn't allowed to. (Laughter) But today, against my (1) ………….. judgment, against the advice of my own wife, I want to try to dust off some of those legal skills -- How much faster did this group solve the problem? Answer: It took them, on average, three and a half minutes (2) ………….. . 3.5 min (3) ………….. . This makes no sense, right? I mean, I'm an American. I believe in free markets. That's not how it's supposed to work, right? (Laughter) If you want people to perform (4) ………….. , you reward them. Right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. in many parts of Asia, in North America, in Australia, white-collar workers are doing (5) ………….. of this kind of work, and more of this kind of work. That routine, rule-based, left-brain work -- As long as the task involved only mechanical skill bonuses worked as they would be expected: the (6) ………….. the pay, the (7) ………….. the performance. Okay? But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a (8) ………….. reward led to (9) ………….. performance. Then they said, "Let's see if there's any cultural bias here. Let's go to Madurai, India and test this." Standard of living is (10) ………….. . In Madurai, a reward that is modest in North American standards, is more meaningful there. What happens? People offered the medium level of rewards did no (11) ………….. than people offered the small rewards. But this time, people offered the highest rewards, they did the worst of all. In eight of the nine tasks we examined across three experiments, (12) ………….. incentives led to (13) ………….. performance. Is this some kind of touchy-feely socialist conspiracy going on here? No, these are economists from MIT, autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get (14) ………….. and (15) ………….. at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something (16) ………….. than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works (17) ………….. . Some examples of some kind of radical notions of self-direction. You don't see a lot of it, Some examples. How many of you have heard of the company Atlassian? It looks like (18) ………….. than half. (Laughter) Atlassian is an Australian software company. Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time. A few years (19) ………….., another encyclopedia got started. Different model, right?
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I pretty much wasn't allowed to.
(Laughter)
But today, against my (1) (better) judgment,
against the advice of my own wife,
I want to try to dust off some of those legal skills --
How much faster did this group solve the problem?
Answer:
It took them, on average, three and a half minutes (2) (longer) .
3.5 min (3) (longer) .
This makes no sense, right?
I mean, I'm an American. I believe in free markets.
That's not how it's supposed to work, right?
(Laughter)
If you want people to perform (4) (better) , you reward them. Right?
Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show.
Incentivize them.
in many parts of Asia,
in North America, in Australia,
white-collar workers are doing (5) (less) of this kind of work,
and more of this kind of work.
That routine, rule-based, left-brain work --
As long as the task involved only mechanical skill
bonuses worked as they would be expected:
the (6) (higher) the pay, the (7) (better) the performance.
Okay?
But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill,
a (8) (larger) reward led to (9) (poorer) performance.
Then they said,
"Let's see if there's any cultural bias here.
Let's go to Madurai, India and test this."
Standard of living is (10) (lower) .
In Madurai, a reward that is modest in North American standards,
is more meaningful there.
What happens?
People offered the medium level of rewards
did no (11) (better) than people offered the small rewards.
But this time, people offered the highest rewards,
they did the worst of all.
In eight of the nine tasks we examined across three experiments,
(12) (higher) incentives led to (13) (worse) performance.
Is this some kind of touchy-feely socialist conspiracy going on here?
No, these are economists from MIT,
autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives.
Mastery: the desire to get (14) (better) and (15) (better) at something that matters.
Purpose: the yearning to do what we do
in the service of something (16) (larger) than ourselves.
These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system
for our businesses.
Traditional notions of management are great
if you want compliance.
But if you want engagement, self-direction works (17) (better) .
Some examples of some kind of radical notions of self-direction.
You don't see a lot of it,
Some examples.
How many of you have heard of the company Atlassian?
It looks like (18) (less) than half.
(Laughter)
Atlassian is an Australian software company.
Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing
to make sure it came in on budget and on time.
A few years (19) (later) , another encyclopedia got started.
Different model, right?
Do it for fun.
Sources:
Channel: TED. The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
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3.3. Warm-up Video for Comparative Adjectives
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES.
Instructions. Listen and type comparative adjectives.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
And when I look at the overall size of the page, first of all, an average page is about 700 kilobytes. So it's actually a little bit (1) ………….. than a desktop version, which is good news. But then, this number actually shocked me. types, images are basically 70% of the data on the wire. STEPHEN KONIG: That's pretty typical. It's actually a little bit (2) ………….. on mobile than what we see on desktop, but the fact that it's the single largest component of the page size is very consistent with what we don't look so good. And so it's putting a lot of pressure on publishers to update their sites and their images to look (3) …………..on these hiDPI devices. ILYA GRIGORIK: And that's a really hard one, right? Because to your point (4) ………….. , my bandwidth is not going to up magically by four, or latency decrease by four, but all of a sudden, the images are getting four times (5) ………….. . STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly. ILYA GRIGORIK: And I think, actually, the four is worth So if you're using a lossy format like JPEG, in addition to that, what you're probably going to see is a demand for (6) ………….. quality images with your compression artifacts. So that in itself will also play a part in increasing the size. ILYA GRIGORIK: Right. So there's probably no magic bullet to say we can have both hiDPI and a (7) ………….. file size, but perhaps there's a middle road somewhere in between. STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly. format is actually a challenge. STEPHEN KONIG: It is. ILYA GRIGORIK: So as I mentioned (8) ………….. , when I talked to a lot of web developers and designers, they say, great, I took my image, I optimized it. formats in the background. And then we figure out that, hey, this image file is actually much (9) ………….. compressed if we use JPEG, for example. So we don't assume anything about your decisions. animation and metadata. So that will replace the GIF use case. (10) ………….. term, we're looking at ways of improving performance on the encode and decode side, so we're always looking at optimizations we can do there. to talk about that. STEPHEN KONIG: We're going to talk a little bit about that. (11) ………….. support for RN mobile. So those platforms are supported today, but there's work we know we can do to make them even faster. ILYA GRIGORIK: So at least in theory in the long term, as a person who's authoring this content, as a designer, for example, it actually it makes my job a lot (12) ………….. . STEPHEN KONIG: Correct. ILYA GRIGORIK: I just save it as-- And obviously, what you see there is that for almost all images, the WebP is significantly (13) ………….. than PNG. There are a handful of cases, (14) ………….. than 2%, where it's slightly (15) ………….. than one. ILYA GRIGORIK: So that's this peak right here? STEPHEN KONIG: That's that little peak right there. But overall, across, in this case, 1,000 images, 98% of them were (16) ………….. , and in most cases by a significant degree, than PNG. ILYA GRIGORIK: So it seems like, especially for lossy with alpha, if I look at, half of the distribution here, it's significantly (17) ………….. , like 80%, 90%. STEPHEN KONIG: You're looking at between 70% and 80% (18) ………….. . ILYA GRIGORIK: Which is actually representative of kind of the (19) ………….. number that we saw, which is for certain images, with alpha channel and PNGs, we can get on average, 70% to 80% improvement in byte size. So the red is JPEG. But what you see there is that again, consistently, WebP is (20) ………….. for each quality level. But what you notice on the right hand tail of that graph, JPEG spikes up once you get above quality about 75, whereas WebP has a much more static increase in file size. So what that really tells you is that as you get (21) ………….. quality images-- which hearkens back to what we were discussing ILYA GRIGORIK: So if nothing else, going from a JPEG or WebP from quality 100 to 90 is going to give you more benefit than going (22) ………….. . You should consider going (23) ………….. , but you're not going to get as much. STEPHEN KONIG: Yeah, you get diminishing returns as you go (24) …………..quickly. ILYA GRIGORIK: So I think that's a point worth pointing out. So coming back to these tails, right before the show we were talking about-- so one of the cases where this could happen, because if you're curious, why would WebP ever be (25) ………….. -- is actually for very small images where the actual container of WebP file is (26) ………….. than the image itself. We're talking about one by one pixels and silly things like that. ILYA GRIGORIK: So another topic that comes up frequently is, great, WebP is (27) ………….. , but I hear that it takes a lot more time to compress and decompress. STEPHEN KONIG: Yep, it does. STEPHEN KONIG: That's a good question. So you're absolutely right. The reason we get (28) ………….. file sizes from WebP is because we spend more time doing the encoding work. And so what we typically see on average is that on the And so far, it looks like it's they're competitive, both WebP and JPEG. But you scroll a little bit (29) ………….., like 200 milliseconds (30) ………….., and you can see that a whole bunch of WebP images have fully loaded, more getting pulled in, et cetera. That's what this graph here is showing you. Yes, you spent more CPU time, but the actual time to glass, if you will, pixels visible on the screen for WebP is (31) ………….. because we're transferring fewer bytes. STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly. And that's where WebP clearly, in this example, shines. Even though we're spending a little more time on one part of the process, we're spending far (32) ………….. in another and the net effect is definitely positive. ILYA GRIGORIK: So hopefully by shipping fewer bytes and adding support for WebP. I think they're receptive to it. They're sort of waiting for indications of (33) ………….. adoption on the community, which we're making great progress on. And following that, I'm hoping that we'll actually invest into more of the infrastructure, the tooling, and everything to make authoring WebP (34) ………….., employing it (35) ………….. . STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly. ILYA GRIGORIK: So we have, I guess, a couple of points to We'll talk about tooling in a second. But Android and iOS, ready to go. In fact, it's actually probably (36) ………….. to deploy WebP today on native platforms, on Android and iOS, than it is on the web to some degree, although it's still definitely be in IE 11. And so for some long period of time, you're going to have all these (37) ………….. IE versions that don't. And so even when we get to native support across all these different browsers, as a web developer, you still have to be conscious of the fact there are going to be users on (38) ………….. browsers that can't support WebP, and so you do need a fallback option. ILYA GRIGORIK: And maybe the last point to make here is everything's going to work well, but we're working very well with that team, and I think you'll see that rolling out (39) ………….. this year. ILYA GRIGORIK: So it sounds like in a year's time, if we were to have a 2014 episode of this, looking back, I think STEPHEN KONIG: Definitely. Well, it's one of the things you want to look at because obviously, with (40) ………….. quality, you get (41) ………….. file sizes. So as you're trying to improve speed, that's a knob you can tweak that will definitely have an impact. But you're right. As you (42) ………….. the quality, you're going to get more compression artifacts. And the kinds of artifacts you see between JPEG and WebP are different, especially as you get into (43) ………….. quality levels. So you do need to do visual comparison at that level to understand, am I comfortable with the kinds of artifacts about Android and iOS. We're not going to go into too much detail. As I said, I'm going to share the slides (44) ………….. . So this is more as a reference. I just wanted to show that it's actually very simple if One thing that's worth mentioning is we ship native support in 4.0 plus, but there's a great project on GitHub where somebody did a back port, so for the (45) ………….. versions of Android. So you can pull that in if you need to. And there's a lot (46) ………….. Android devices out there, unfortunately, so that's a handy thing to have. And then for iOS, same thing. So that's the native side. I'm going to claim that that one is actually (47) ………….. . STEPHEN KONIG: It is today. You're right. But we find, at least in all of our case studies at Google, that this is definitely a worthwhile investment because it gives such a (48) ………….. experience to the user. STEPHEN KONIG: Correct. And I think the thing I'd point out on that is it's a question of who should be paying the cost and where is that best paid for? And I would argue that it's (49) ………….. paid for on the part of the web developer and the site author. It's (50) ………….. for them to pay for a little bit more storage and some more memory for the cache than it is to ask every single user who hits your page to spend more time they're on mobile. ILYA GRIGORIK: Exactly. And of course, as the adoption grows, this also becomes (51) ………….. of a problem. So for example, for client side detection, Modernizer And then alongside that, we're going to continue to focus on optimization and trying to bring that encode and decode time down even (52) ………….. . But you know, we're at a point today, we're ready to really push the gas pedal and make some great progress with WebP. So we have to sort of work this in a stepwise manner. And so getting WebP adopted across the web will make it a lot (53) ………….. for us to go to consumer electronic device manufacturers-- camera makers, phones, et cetera-- ILYA GRIGORIK: So yeah, if the camera saved it directly as WebP, that would be great. STEPHEN KONIG: Even (54) ………….. . ILYA GRIGORIK: But it'll probably take some time before we get there. Thou shalt use a GIF, a PNG, and a JPEG, and there's no reason for it. We could optimize things much (55) ………….. . STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly. And we see this sometimes when we go out and talk to folks We don't view it as an exclusion to other options. ILYA GRIGORIK: So is there any way to use WebP in Android (56) ………….. than 4x? Yes. So there's that backport, and I'll share the slides (57) ………….. so you can find the link to it. Wouldn't just using a PNG file be faster than converting WebP Potentially. I think again, you have to measure that in terms of what is the bandwidth savings from the (58) ………….. file size. Obviously, plug-ins aren't perfect either because they introduce a little bit of user friction into the experience, everybody's considering just because the mobile web is shooting through the roof. Pages are getting (59) ………….. . You saw the number of bytes on the wire. So they're all looking at this in some way or another. And that's not to say that user agent is the only way to do it. I think there are (60) ………….. ways. In fact, we've been talking with the Chrome team about fixing some of the accept headers and making this (61) ………….. such that you don't have to write these crazy user agent detection functions. alternative formats, but if you find JPEG Mini is a good choice, then that's fine. We think WebP offers a much (62) ………….. alternative for the vast majority of use cases that are out there today. ILYA GRIGORIK: At the end the day, make the web fast. download those plug-ins. And I hope, as we said, we're going to make the tooling (63) ………….. in 2013. All right, I think that's it.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
And when I look at the overall size of the page, first of
all, an average page is about 700 kilobytes.
So it's actually a little bit (1) (less) than a desktop version,
which is good news.
But then, this number actually shocked me.
types, images are basically 70% of the data on the wire.
STEPHEN KONIG: That's pretty typical.
It's actually a little bit (2) (higher) on mobile than what we
see on desktop, but the fact that it's the single largest
component of the page size is very consistent with what we
don't look so good.
And so it's putting a lot of pressure on publishers to
update their sites and their images to look (3) (better) on these
hiDPI devices.
ILYA GRIGORIK: And that's a really hard one, right?
Because to your point (4) (earlier) , my bandwidth is not going to
up magically by four, or latency decrease by four, but
all of a sudden, the images are getting four times (5) (bigger) .
STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly.
ILYA GRIGORIK: And I think, actually, the four is worth
So if you're using a lossy format like JPEG, in addition
to that, what you're probably going to see is a demand for
(6) (higher) quality images with your compression artifacts.
So that in itself will also play a part in
increasing the size.
ILYA GRIGORIK: Right.
So there's probably no magic bullet to say we can have both
hiDPI and a (7) (lower) file size, but perhaps there's a middle
road somewhere in between.
STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly.
format is actually a challenge.
STEPHEN KONIG: It is.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So as I mentioned (8) (earlier) , when I
talked to a lot of web developers and designers, they
say, great, I took my image, I optimized it.
formats in the background.
And then we figure out that, hey, this image file is
actually much (9) (better) compressed if we
use JPEG, for example.
So we don't assume anything about your decisions.
animation and metadata.
So that will replace the GIF use case.
(10) (Longer) term, we're looking at ways of improving performance
on the encode and decode side, so we're always looking at
optimizations we can do there.
to talk about that.
STEPHEN KONIG: We're going to talk a little bit about that.
(11) (Better) support for RN mobile.
So those platforms are supported today, but there's
work we know we can do to make them even faster.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So at least in theory in the long term, as a
person who's authoring this content, as a designer, for
example, it actually it makes my job a lot (12) (simpler) .
STEPHEN KONIG: Correct.
ILYA GRIGORIK: I just save it as--
And obviously, what you see there is that for almost all
images, the WebP is significantly
(13) (smaller) than PNG.
There are a handful of cases, (14) (less) than 2%, where it's
slightly (15) (higher) than one.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So that's this peak right here?
STEPHEN KONIG: That's that little peak right there.
But overall, across, in this case, 1,000 images, 98% of
them were (16) (smaller) , and in most cases by a significant
degree, than PNG.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So it seems like, especially for lossy
with alpha, if I look at, half of the distribution here, it's
significantly (17) (less) , like 80%, 90%.
STEPHEN KONIG: You're looking at
between 70% and 80% (18) (smaller) .
ILYA GRIGORIK: Which is actually representative of
kind of the (19) (larger) number that we saw, which is for certain
images, with alpha channel and PNGs, we can get on average,
70% to 80% improvement in byte size.
So the red is JPEG.
But what you see there is that again, consistently, WebP is
(20) (smaller) for each quality level.
But what you notice on the right hand tail of that graph,
JPEG spikes up once you get above quality about 75,
whereas WebP has a much more static increase in file size.
So what that really tells you is that as you get (21) (higher)
quality images--
which hearkens back to what we were discussing
ILYA GRIGORIK: So if nothing else, going from a JPEG or
WebP from quality 100 to 90 is going to give you more benefit
than going (22) (lower) .
You should consider going (23) (lower) , but you're not going to
get as much.
STEPHEN KONIG: Yeah, you get diminishing returns as you go
(24) (lower) quickly.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So I think that's a point
worth pointing out.
So coming back to these tails, right before the show we were
talking about-- so one of the cases where this could happen,
because if you're curious, why would WebP ever be (25) (bigger) --
is actually for very small images where the actual
container of WebP file is (26) (larger) than the image itself.
We're talking about one by one pixels and
silly things like that.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So another topic that comes up frequently
is, great, WebP is (27) (smaller) , but I hear that it takes a lot
more time to compress and decompress.
STEPHEN KONIG: Yep, it does.
STEPHEN KONIG: That's a good question.
So you're absolutely right.
The reason we get (28) (smaller) file sizes from WebP is because we
spend more time doing the encoding work.
And so what we typically see on average is that on the
And so far, it looks like it's they're competitive,
both WebP and JPEG.
But you scroll a little bit (29) (further) , like 200 milliseconds
(30) (later) , and you can see that a whole bunch of WebP images
have fully loaded, more getting pulled in, et cetera.
That's what this graph here is showing you.
Yes, you spent more CPU time, but the actual time to glass,
if you will, pixels visible on the screen for WebP is (31) (better)
because we're transferring fewer bytes.
STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly.
And that's where WebP clearly, in this example, shines.
Even though we're spending a little more time on one part
of the process, we're spending far (32) (less) in another and the
net effect is definitely positive.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So hopefully by shipping fewer bytes and
adding support for WebP.
I think they're receptive to it.
They're sort of waiting for indications of (33) (further)
adoption on the community, which we're making great
progress on.
And following that, I'm hoping that we'll actually invest
into more of the infrastructure, the tooling,
and everything to make authoring WebP (34) (easier) ,
employing it (35) (easier) .
STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So we have, I guess, a couple of points to
We'll talk about tooling in a second.
But Android and iOS, ready to go.
In fact, it's actually probably (36) (easier) to deploy WebP
today on native platforms, on Android and iOS, than it is on
the web to some degree, although it's still definitely
be in IE 11.
And so for some long period of time, you're going to have all
these (37) (older) IE versions that don't.
And so even when we get to native support across all
these different browsers, as a web developer, you still have
to be conscious of the fact there are going to be users on
(38) (older) browsers that can't support WebP, and so you do
need a fallback option.
ILYA GRIGORIK: And maybe the last point to make here is
everything's going to work well, but we're working very
well with that team, and I think you'll see that rolling
out (39) (later) this year.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So it sounds like in a year's time, if we
were to have a 2014 episode of this, looking back, I think
STEPHEN KONIG: Definitely.
Well, it's one of the things you want to look at because
obviously, with (40) (lower) quality, you get (41) (smaller) file sizes.
So as you're trying to improve speed, that's a knob you can
tweak that will definitely have an impact.
But you're right.
As you (42) (lower) the quality, you're going to get more
compression artifacts.
And the kinds of artifacts you see between JPEG and WebP are
different, especially as you get into (43) (lower) quality levels.
So you do need to do visual comparison at that level to
understand, am I comfortable with the kinds of artifacts
about Android and iOS.
We're not going to go into too much detail.
As I said, I'm going to share the slides (44) (later) .
So this is more as a reference.
I just wanted to show that it's actually very simple if
One thing that's worth mentioning is we ship native
support in 4.0 plus, but there's a great project on
GitHub where somebody did a back port, so for the (45) (older)
versions of Android.
So you can pull that in if you need to.
And there's a lot (46) (older) Android devices out there,
unfortunately, so that's a handy thing to have.
And then for iOS, same thing.
So that's the native side.
I'm going to claim that that one is actually (47) (easier) .
STEPHEN KONIG: It is today.
You're right.
But we find, at least in all of our case studies at Google,
that this is definitely a worthwhile investment because
it gives such a (48) (better) experience to the user.
STEPHEN KONIG: Correct.
And I think the thing I'd point out on that is it's a
question of who should be paying the cost and where is
that best paid for?
And I would argue that it's (49) (better) paid for on the part of
the web developer and the site author.
It's (50) (better) for them to pay for a little bit more storage
and some more memory for the cache than it is to ask every
single user who hits your page to spend more time
they're on mobile.
ILYA GRIGORIK: Exactly.
And of course, as the adoption grows, this also becomes (51) (less)
of a problem.
So for example, for client side detection, Modernizer
And then alongside that, we're going to continue to focus on
optimization and trying to bring that encode and decode
time down even (52) (further) .
But you know, we're at a point today, we're ready to really
push the gas pedal and make some great progress with WebP.
So we have to sort of work this in a stepwise manner.
And so getting WebP adopted across the web will make it a
lot (53) (easier) for us to go to consumer electronic device
manufacturers--
camera makers, phones, et cetera--
ILYA GRIGORIK: So yeah, if the camera saved it directly as
WebP, that would be great.
STEPHEN KONIG: Even (54) (better) .
ILYA GRIGORIK: But it'll probably take some time before
we get there.
Thou shalt use a GIF, a PNG, and a JPEG, and there's no
reason for it.
We could optimize things much (55) (better) .
STEPHEN KONIG: Exactly.
And we see this sometimes when we go out and talk to folks
We don't view it as an exclusion to other options.
ILYA GRIGORIK: So is there any way to use WebP in Android
(56) (less) than 4x?
Yes.
So there's that backport, and I'll share the slides (57) (later) so
you can find the link to it.
Wouldn't just using a PNG file be faster than converting WebP
Potentially.
I think again, you have to measure that in terms of what
is the bandwidth savings from the (58) (smaller) file size.
Obviously, plug-ins aren't perfect either because they
introduce a little bit of user friction into the experience,
everybody's considering just because the mobile web is
shooting through the roof.
Pages are getting (59) (bigger) .
You saw the number of bytes on the wire.
So they're all looking at this in some way or another.
And that's not to say that user agent is the
only way to do it.
I think there are (60) (better) ways.
In fact, we've been talking with the Chrome team about
fixing some of the accept headers and making this (61) (easier)
such that you don't have to write these crazy user agent
detection functions.
alternative formats, but if you find JPEG Mini is a good
choice, then that's fine.
We think WebP offers a much (62) (better) alternative for the
vast majority of use cases that are out there today.
ILYA GRIGORIK: At the end the day, make the web fast.
download those plug-ins.
And I hope, as we said, we're going to make the tooling
(63) (better) in 2013.
All right, I think that's it.
Awesome.
Sources:
Channel: Google Developers. Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tu2SJfSalA&t=1989s
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3.4. Warm-up Video for Used to
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR USED TO
Instructions. How to talk about things that aren't true any more? Do this quiz to hear some examples in real speech.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I've come to realize that you can't just judge somebody on their appearance. - (1) ………….. princess, (2) ………….. . Well, I kinda still do, but. - Road raging, I don't road rage (3) ………….. . - Fake suntanning. - Wearing sunscreen. - Country music. - Women. - (4) ………….. John Lennon all the way, and recently (5) ………….. a Paul fan. - (6) ………….. that people couldn't change, that who you were at the beginning is who you really were at the end of the day, and I don't, (7) ………….. . - I've started eating meat again. It's delicious, and I'm kind of like, I want the world to be as good as possible for my generation and the generations to come. - (8) ………….. to myself, I don't wanna make it to 100, (9) ………….. I really wanna see what the other side of 100 looks like. - I've stopped caring what other people thought, or is it okay or was it perfect enough. It's just, you gotta just do it. - (10) ………….. it was sort of a virtue to be able to stay angry at someone and remember all the wrongs that they've done to you, (11) ………….. life is too short to be like that. So, I've been trying to, yeah, I've been trying to just let go a lot
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I've come to realize that you can't just judge somebody on their appearance.
- (1) (I used to like) princess, (2) (but now I don't) .
Well, I kinda still do, but.
- Road raging, I don't road rage (3) (anymore) .
- Fake suntanning.
- Wearing sunscreen.
- Country music.
- Women.
- (4) (I used to be) John Lennon all the way, and recently (5) (I'm now) a Paul fan.
- (6) (I used to think) that people couldn't change, that who you were at the beginning is who you really were at the end of the day, and I don't, (7) (I don't think that that's true anymore) .
- I've started eating meat again.
It's delicious, and I'm kind of like, I want the world to be as good as possible for my generation and the generations to come.
- (8) (There was a time when I used to think) to myself, I don't wanna make it to 100, (9) (but now) I really wanna see what the other side of 100 looks like.
- I've stopped caring what other people thought, or is it okay or was it perfect enough.
It's just, you gotta just do it.
- (10) (I used to think) it was sort of a virtue to be able to stay angry at someone and remember all the wrongs that they've done to you,
(11) (but I think) life is too short to be like that.
So, I've been trying to, yeah,
I've been trying to just let go a lot.
Sources:
Channel: SoulPancake. What Have You Changed Your Mind About? | 0-100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0yA1PNoFCo&t=1s
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3.5. Warm-up Video for Imperatives
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR IMPERATIVES
Instructions. Listen and type verbs in the imperative form.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Belle, you must leave here. This castle is alive. - Who's there?- Do you wish to take your father's place? (1) ………….. into the light. (2) ………….. me the girl. (3) ………….. at her! What if she is the one? The one who'd break the spell! - Hello!- You can talk?! The master is not as terrible as he appears. I say we kill the beast! (4) ………….. of the one thing you've always wanted. Now (5) ………….. it in your mind's eye and (6) ………….. it in your heart. No! (7) ………….. afraid. I'm not afraid. Beauty and the Beast
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Belle, you must leave here. This castle is alive.
- Who's there?- Do you wish to take your father's place?
(1) (Come) into the light.
(2) (Show) me the girl.
(3) (Look) at her! What if she is the one?
The one who'd break the spell!
- Hello!- You can talk?!
The master is not as terrible as he appears.
I say we kill the beast!
(4) (Think) of the one thing you've always wanted.
Now (5) (find) it in your mind's eye and (6) (feel) it in your heart.
No!
(7) (Don't be) afraid.
I'm not afraid.
Beauty and the Beast
Sources:
Channel: Movieclips Trailers. Beauty and the Beast Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Emma Watson Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSGUAlTDyO8
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3.6. Warm-up Video for Pronouns and Determiners
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS
Instructions. Watch this trailer and fill the gaps with words like 'I' and 'my'.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
REY:[Heavy breathing] ♪♪ LUKE SKYWALKER: (1) ………….. 've passed on all (2) ………….. know. A thousand generations live in (3) ………….. now. But this is (4) ………….. fight. ♪♪ LANDO CALRISSIAN:[Laughing] LUKE SKYWALKER: (5) ………….. 'll always be with (6) ………….. . No one's ever really gone. EMPEROR:[Evil Laugh]
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
REY:[Heavy breathing]
♪♪
LUKE SKYWALKER: (1) (We) 've passed on all (2) (we) know.
A thousand generations live in (3) (you) now.
But this is (4) (your) fight.
♪♪
LANDO CALRISSIAN:[Laughing]
LUKE SKYWALKER: (5) (We) 'll always be with (6) (you) .
No one's ever really gone.
EMPEROR:[Evil Laugh]
Sources:
Channel: Star Wars. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzYW5DZoWs
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4. Clauses with Exercises A2 Level
Clauses with Exercises - A2 Level.
4.1. Warm-up Video for Linking between Words
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR LINKING BETWEEN WORDS
Instructions. What do expressions 'even now', 'in New York' and 'and not' have in common? The sound 'n'! In fast speech, these expressions might be difficult to catch because they last sound of the first word links with the first sound of the second word, and so they sound more like 'evenow', 'inew York' and 'a not'. Listen and fill the gaps with two words that link together.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Yvonne Hunter: (1) ………….. , let me introduce our host for the evening, Globe and Mail crime and fiction reviewer, Margaret Cannon. Welcome, Margaret. [applause] of the appeal was... I mean first of all, he was this guy who was taking the conventions of the mystery novel and doing more with it. He was exploring all this family dysfunction and so forth, and I (2) ………….. if I fully realized at the time just how dysfunctional my own family was, but it was fun to read about other families that were even worse. [laughter] MC: Then you were at the Star for a long time. LB: I was there for 27 years. I didn't do the column for them. I was hired at the Star, I went in looking for a job as a reporter, and they said, "Well we (3) ………….. any reporters, what we need are copy editors, we're desperate for copy editors. Do you have a lot of editing experience?" And I said, "Sure." write a column and keep it fresh three times a week, but you gotta have a lot of talent to make... LB: Well, I (4) ………….. . MC: The simple things fun. [laughter] agent said, and this is kind of the way I've always gone ever since, is you really need a great hook. You need a great idea. And I'd finally woke up one morning at 5:00 and I had this idea about a girl who's 14 years old, who goes out with a bad boy (5)………….. and comes home totally drunk. And her parents are outraged and furious with her and she goes to bed, and she wakes up the next morning and everyone's gone. LB: Like her mother is gone, her father is gone, her brother is gone, and 25 years go by and she's never known what happened to them. And were they all killed? Or did they decide to leave (6) ………….. take her with them? And which would be worse? To find out that everyone in your family was dead or that they had left you behind and didn't want you? So, I'd sent an email to my agent about 8:30 in the morning and said, "How about this?" And she called immediately. "That's it, that'sa great book for a thriller." And she said... And she likes to know the whole story. She said, "What happened to the family?" I said, "I (7) ………….. ." [laughter] LB: I have no idea. But you know what she said, and it was true, "Go figure that out." [laughter] LB: So, that's happening. I had another one,"Never Look Away" was optioned by Sony for the idea of making it into a TV series. But I (8) ………….. if that's going anywhere. And it looks like one of the other books, "The Accident", may be headed for... It has been optioned for television in France. Books, my works, do really, really well, among other this business, and having all of this responsibility at the age of 16, that I had never expected to have, that that was, I think, more than anything else, shaped completely who I am. I swear to God, to this day, I still dream at least (9) ………….. a week that I'm still running that place, like it just imprinted on me on a way that you cannot imagine. MC: Like a chick. [laughter] MC: Well, Ross MacDonald always said, "All writers must mine their childhoods." He actually said that, many times, and he's certainly mined his, over and over. But his (10) ………….. as... Well, it was terrible. Yours was merely... LB: Well, and there were a lot of things that happened to him, as an adult and as a father, in himself like that's what he had been. MC: Yeah. 'Cause he decided to be a writer at 19 and then continued to strive for years. So well, we know what's coming up. We know where you'd been, (11) …………..) we're gonna open it up to the audience. And would you please come to the microphone and ask a question? Anything you wanna say? MC: I can't add and he can't subtract, so, between us we're... [laughter] LB: I (12) ………….. if the mic was on, but I heard that, but it was, "Who am I... S?: This is not on? LB: I (13) ………….. if it's not. But the question was, "Who am I writing for?" Like who do I picture the readers to be? Or when I am writing, who is the audience? Who am I writing for?" And I honestly, I don't really think about that in the writing. I think in many ways, characters isn't sometimes necessarily as hard as fixing a plot problem. It's funny, when I did "Trust Your Eyes", I had a character, there was a woman in the book and my editor said, "You know, she's really not working and maybe you don't (14) ………….. her in the last half of the book." So, I said, "Okay." So, I rewrote the book and I dropped her from the last half of the book but in the first half, I rewrote her, to make her better. Then put her into the back of the book." [laughter] MC: You (15) ………….. win. LB: No. You just can't, You just can't win. I have to say that every book that I've... About editors, I'll just say something about editors. Every book I have done has gotten may be two-thirds the way or I may be a third of the way through writing something that I'm really having a lot of fun with. And I'm working with a coach who has been enormously helpful. But she keeps saying, "Okay, well, what's gonna (16) ………….. ?" And I keep saying, "My hand hasn't told me yet." Because I sort of sit down and then it just starts happening and then all of a sudden, I'll go, "Oh, where did that come from?" And it's taking turns all over the place. And she's talked about doing upgrades and chapter things and... I don't seem to be able to do that. I (17) ………….. how weird that is. LB: One of the great things about doing this for a living is I've gotten to know an awful lot of really well known crime writers and I haven't met any two that do this the same they all are going to be before they start, they map it all out, they do pages and pages of outline, and so everyone has a different process. I'm sort of in the middle. I mean, I (18) ………….. what every chapter that's coming up is gonna be, but I know where I want to end up. I kind of know who done what, and what forces are happening in the background to make these events happen. And so I'd like to know that before I begin, but a lot of times, I (19) ………….. what the next chapter may be until I get to it. But when I was doing my very first novel, which was one of the funny Zack thrillers and it was called "Bad Move", and when I was writing that, that very first book, and I got in touch with my agent, it out and then finish it." And that's what I did. And then once I had it sort of figured out, then I was able... I mean, there were still things that when I got to them, they were surprises to me like I (20) ………….. I was going to write that chapter, I didn't know that little thing would happen. But I knew the mechanics of it. I knew who had done what because I think, at least for me, I need to know what everybody did that the reader (21) ………….. that they did. I need to really need to know that as the writer because it shapes every single thing that they say. So, if I know in chapter two that this person who's talking is the killer, I have to be in their head (22) ………….. that every word they say is said, if they're couching their language this way because they're hiding something, I have to know that before... I need to know that. But I don't necessarily know every little LB: Yeah, I know. He's been married for two years. I mean, it's... When he was about 16 or 17, he borrowed the car one day, his mom's car, and he'd used it to go... He used it to school. I get a phone call. He says, I (23) ………….. how he did this but, "I've locked the keys in the car and the engine's running." [laughter] would be if they didn't give you contract to do a book a year. [laughter] LB: That would be really stressful. If they said, "No, we don't really need (24) ………….. year." That would keep me awake at night. But when you spend 30 years in newspapers and you're used to deadlines, and yes, books are slightly longer than the columns, but when you're used S?: It's not tied up in a bow and that's the part that I like, yeah. LB: No. I mean, you get your answers. You know what happened. I don't want you to leave it so you (25) ………….. what happened but once you know what happened, it's like, "Well, what on earth will they do with this information that they have now?" I like doing that. S?: Thank you. And so they've sent me James Elroy's book to read, which is 700 and some pages. [laughter] LB: It might be the only thing I get to read (26) ………….. and the end of October. So, I'm not able to look at stuff, but I do still get requests to look at things. S?: Thank you. to ask you, what was that like writing with another author? And, sorry, I forget... LB: It was Raymond Khoury. Yeah, so I belong to an organization called the International Thriller Writers, and they have a big convention every year (27) ………….. York. And the writer, Steve Berry, had this brainchild to put out a book that Simon and Schuster published, and it would have 11 short stories and each story would be written by two well known thriller the story went, and that was the way we did it. And it was an interesting process, and it was actually really nice to be asked to be part of that book with all those writers. But I (28) ………….. if I would do it again. [chuckle] But I was glad to be part of it. It was a neat experience. And the book's done really, really well. It's done quite well, and so it was kind of a neat thing to do. LB: We're talking about this. And the thing is, it's a legitimate question, but it's the one that authors get the most and it's the one that they don't have an answer for. The old, "Where do you get your ideas?" And most of us (29) …………... They just happen. I get ideas sometimes... You just wake up at 2:00in the morning and it's just there. The whole thing, it's just there. It comes whole. And I find when you look for an idea deliberately
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Yvonne Hunter: (1) (And now) , let me introduce our host for the evening, Globe and Mail crime and fiction reviewer, Margaret Cannon. Welcome, Margaret.
[applause]
of the appeal was... I mean first of all, he was this guy who was taking the conventions
of the mystery novel and doing more with it. He was exploring all this family dysfunction
and so forth, and I (2) (don't know) if I fully realized at the time just how dysfunctional
my own family was, but it was fun to read about other families that were even worse.
[laughter]
MC: Then you were at the Star for a long time.
LB: I was there for 27 years. I didn't do the column for them. I was hired at the Star,
I went in looking for a job as a reporter, and they said, "Well we (3) (don't need) any reporters,
what we need are copy editors, we're desperate for copy editors. Do you have a lot of editing
experience?" And I said, "Sure."
write a column and keep it fresh three times a week, but you gotta have a lot of talent
to make...
LB: Well, I (4) (don't know) .
MC: The simple things fun.
[laughter]
agent said, and this is kind of the way I've always gone ever since, is you really need
a great hook. You need a great idea. And I'd finally woke up one morning at 5:00 and I
had this idea about a girl who's 14 years old, who goes out with a bad boy (5) (one night)
and comes home totally drunk. And her parents are outraged and furious with her and she
goes to bed, and she wakes up the next morning and everyone's gone.
LB: Like her mother is gone, her father is gone, her brother is gone, and 25 years go
by and she's never known what happened to them. And were they all killed? Or did they
decide to leave (6) (and not) take her with them? And which would be worse? To find out that
everyone in your family was dead or that they had left you behind and didn't want you? So,
I'd sent an email to my agent about 8:30 in the morning and said, "How about this?" And
she called immediately. "That's it, that'sa great book for a thriller." And she said...
And she likes to know the whole story. She said, "What happened to the family?" I said,
"I (7) (don't know) ."
[laughter]
LB: I have no idea. But you know what she said, and it was true, "Go figure that out."
[laughter]
LB: So, that's happening. I had another one,"Never Look Away" was optioned by Sony for
the idea of making it into a TV series. But I (8) (don't know) if that's going anywhere. And
it looks like one of the other books, "The Accident", may be headed for... It has been
optioned for television in France. Books, my works, do really, really well, among other
this business, and having all of this responsibility at the age of 16, that I had never expected
to have, that that was, I think, more than anything else, shaped completely who I am.
I swear to God, to this day, I still dream at least (9) (one night) a week that I'm still running
that place, like it just imprinted on me on a way that you cannot imagine.
MC: Like a chick.
[laughter]
MC: Well, Ross MacDonald always said, "All writers must mine their childhoods." He actually
said that, many times, and he's certainly mined his, over and over. But his (10) (wasn't nearly)
as... Well, it was terrible. Yours was merely...
LB: Well, and there were a lot of things that happened to him, as an adult and as a father,
in himself like that's what he had been.
MC: Yeah. 'Cause he decided to be a writer at 19 and then continued to strive for years.
So well, we know what's coming up. We know where you'd been, (11) (and now) we're gonna open
it up to the audience. And would you please come to the microphone and ask a question?
Anything you wanna say?
MC: I can't add and he can't subtract, so, between us we're...
[laughter]
LB: I (12) (don't know) if the mic was on, but I heard that, but it was, "Who am I...
S?: This is not on?
LB: I (13) (don't know) if it's not. But the question was, "Who am I writing for?" Like who do I
picture the readers to be? Or when I am writing, who is the audience? Who am I writing for?"
And I honestly, I don't really think about that in the writing. I think in many ways,
characters isn't sometimes necessarily as hard as fixing a plot problem. It's funny,
when I did "Trust Your Eyes", I had a character, there was a woman in the book and my editor
said, "You know, she's really not working and maybe you don't (14) (even need) her in the last
half of the book." So, I said, "Okay." So, I rewrote the book and I dropped her from
the last half of the book but in the first half, I rewrote her, to make her better. Then
put her into the back of the book."
[laughter]
MC: You (15) (can never) win.
LB: No. You just can't, You just can't win. I have to say that every book that I've...
About editors, I'll just say something about editors. Every book I have done has gotten
may be two-thirds the way or I may be a third of the way through writing something that
I'm really having a lot of fun with. And I'm working with a coach who has been enormously
helpful. But she keeps saying, "Okay, well, what's gonna (16) (happen next) ?" And I keep saying,
"My hand hasn't told me yet." Because I sort of sit down and then it just starts happening
and then all of a sudden, I'll go, "Oh, where did that come from?" And it's taking turns
all over the place. And she's talked about doing upgrades and chapter things and... I
don't seem to be able to do that. I (17) (don't know) how weird that is.
LB: One of the great things about doing this for a living is I've gotten to know an awful
lot of really well known crime writers and I haven't met any two that do this the same
they all are going to be before they start, they map it all out, they do pages and pages
of outline, and so everyone has a different process. I'm sort of in the middle. I mean,
I (18) (don't know) what every chapter that's coming up is gonna be, but I know where I want to
end up. I kind of know who done what, and what forces are happening in the background
to make these events happen. And so I'd like to know that before I begin, but a lot of
times, I (19) (don't know) what the next chapter may be until I get to it. But when I was doing
my very first novel, which was one of the funny Zack thrillers and it was called "Bad
Move", and when I was writing that, that very first book, and I got in touch with my agent,
it out and then finish it." And that's what I did. And then once I had it sort of figured
out, then I was able... I mean, there were still things that when I got to them, they
were surprises to me like I (20) (didn't know) I was going to write that chapter, I didn't
know that little thing would happen. But I knew the mechanics of it. I knew who had done
what because I think, at least for me, I need to know what everybody did that the reader
(21) (doesn't know) that they did. I need to really need to know that as the writer because it
shapes every single thing that they say. So, if I know in chapter two that this person
who's talking is the killer, I have to be in their head (22) (and know) that every word they
say is said, if they're couching their language this way because they're hiding something,
I have to know that before... I need to know that. But I don't necessarily know every little
LB: Yeah, I know. He's been married for two years. I mean, it's... When he was about 16
or 17, he borrowed the car one day, his mom's car, and he'd used it to go... He used it
to school. I get a phone call. He says, I (23) (don't know) how he did this but, "I've locked
the keys in the car and the engine's running."
[laughter]
would be if they didn't give you contract to do a book a year.
[laughter]
LB: That would be really stressful. If they said, "No, we don't really need (24) (one next) year."
That would keep me awake at night. But when you spend 30 years in newspapers and you're
used to deadlines, and yes, books are slightly longer than the columns, but when you're used
S?: It's not tied up in a bow and that's the part that I like, yeah.
LB: No. I mean, you get your answers. You know what happened. I don't want you to leave
it so you (25) (don't know) what happened but once you know what happened, it's like, "Well,
what on earth will they do with this information that they have now?" I like doing that.
S?: Thank you.
And so they've sent me James Elroy's book to read, which is 700 and some pages.
[laughter]
LB: It might be the only thing I get to read (26) (between now) and the end of October. So, I'm
not able to look at stuff, but I do still get requests to look at things.
S?: Thank you.
to ask you, what was that like writing with another author? And, sorry, I forget...
LB: It was Raymond Khoury. Yeah, so I belong to an organization called the International
Thriller Writers, and they have a big convention every year (27) (in New) York. And the writer, Steve
Berry, had this brainchild to put out a book that Simon and Schuster published, and it
would have 11 short stories and each story would be written by two well known thriller
the story went, and that was the way we did it. And it was an interesting process, and
it was actually really nice to be asked to be part of that book with all those writers.
But I (28) (don't know) if I would do it again. [chuckle]But I was glad to be part of it. It was a
neat experience. And the book's done really, really well. It's done quite well, and so
it was kind of a neat thing to do.
LB: We're talking about this. And the thing is, it's a legitimate question, but it's the
one that authors get the most and it's the one that they don't have an answer for. The
old, "Where do you get your ideas?" And most of us (29) (don't know) . They just happen. I get
ideas sometimes... You just wake up at 2:00in the morning and it's just there. The whole
thing, it's just there. It comes whole. And I find when you look for an idea deliberately
Sources:
Channel: torontopubliclibrary. Linwood Barclay | Sept 9, 2014 | Appel Salon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iE0L5QMPys
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4.2. Warm-up Video for Linking between Words
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR LINKING BETWEEN WORDS
Instructions. What do expressions 'even now', 'in New York' and 'and not' have in common? The sound 'n'! In fast speech, these expressions might be difficult to catch because they last sound of the first word links with the first sound of the second word, and so they sound more like 'evenow', 'inew York' and 'a not'. Listen and fill the gaps with two words that link together
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
fund what they do is borrow money, make promises to pay later. (1) ………….. just any money. They promise to depositors that they can get their money anytime. We used to have a separation between investment banks and commercial banks, deposit-taking institutions. If you take deposits, you can only do this (2) ………….. that. That's a tough subject. The problem is it might help, but if they remain fragile, under water, like homeowners whose house is worth less than they owe. (3) ………….., all kinds of terrible things are going to happen. The government can bail them out. But in the case of banks, there will one source of fragility. Bad regulation. (4) ………….., because they saw that the banks were gaming this regulation. This regulation, by the way-- Basel II-- was not implemented It used to also be that they accepted some other things that might be equity, might absorb losses under some conditions, (5) …………..such capital-- what they called-- absorbed losses in the crisis. Everybody got paid. to have runs. The downside will be borne by the same people who have the upside (6) …………..by the rest of society, not the taxpayers. They won't need bailouts. about why you might borrow more or less but we have theories about that. (7) ………….. industry (8) ………….. borrowers in the economy without any regulation has as little equity on a regular basis. These banks are monstrous, inefficiently monstrous. If they had to fund in market prices (9) ………….. in subsidized way and would have less incentives to be so big and complicated, in order to be too big to fail, then we might begin to see more efficient institutions being If you were to start reading about what's going on, about the things I'm talking about, you wouldn't (10) ………….. that this is under discussion. Because the word is not equity. They use the word capital. that's plentiful for corporations out there. And that most corporations use. (11) ………….. problem in the Silicon Valley. Nobody borrows so much. And so, they confuse the debate with incredible nonsense. This he says after a crisis in which growth suffered the most since the Great Depression. (12) ………….. because they had too much equity but because they had too little. but $5 for the book, maybe you'll want to become an expert on banking, too. So you, too, (13) ………….. that the banking emperors are naked. [APPLAUSE] AUDIENCE: So as I read the book, the thing
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
fund what they do is borrow money, make promises
to pay later.
(1) (And not) just any money.
They promise to depositors that they
can get their money anytime.
We used to have a separation between investment banks
and commercial banks, deposit-taking institutions.
If you take deposits, you can only do this (2) (and not) that.
That's a tough subject.
The problem is it might help, but if they remain fragile,
under water, like homeowners whose
house is worth less than they owe.
(3) (And now) , all kinds of terrible things are going to happen.
The government can bail them out.
But in the case of banks, there will
one source of fragility.
Bad regulation.
(4) (And now) , because they saw that the banks were
gaming this regulation.
This regulation, by the way-- Basel II-- was not implemented
It used to also be that they accepted some other things that
might be equity, might absorb losses under some conditions,
(5) (and no) such capital-- what they called--
absorbed losses in the crisis.
Everybody got paid.
to have runs.
The downside will be borne by the same people who
have the upside (6) (and not) by the rest of society,
not the taxpayers.
They won't need bailouts.
about why you might borrow more or less
but we have theories about that.
(7) (And no) industry (8) (and no) borrowers in the economy
without any regulation has as little equity
on a regular basis.
These banks are monstrous, inefficiently monstrous.
If they had to fund in market prices
(9) (and not) in subsidized way and would have less incentives
to be so big and complicated, in order to be too big to fail,
then we might begin to see more efficient institutions being
If you were to start reading about what's going on,
about the things I'm talking about,
you wouldn't (10) (even know) that this is under discussion.
Because the word is not equity.
They use the word capital.
that's plentiful for corporations out there.
And that most corporations use.
(11) (And no) problem in the Silicon Valley.
Nobody borrows so much.
And so, they confuse the debate with incredible nonsense.
This he says after a crisis in which growth suffered the most
since the Great Depression.
(12) (And not) because they had too much equity
but because they had too little.
but $5 for the book, maybe you'll
want to become an expert on banking, too.
So you, too, (13) (can know) that the banking emperors are naked.
[APPLAUSE]
AUDIENCE: So as I read the book, the thing
Sources:
Channel: Talks at Google. Anat Admati, "What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It" | Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kdYHG32oig
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5. Prepositions with Exercises A2 Level
Prepositions with Exercises - A2 Level.
5.1. Warm-up Video for Expressions with 'of'
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS WITH 'OF'
Instructions. In fast speech 'of' often sounds like 'v'. That's why expressions like 'kind of' or 'a lot of' might be difficult to catch. Which frequent expressions with 'of' are missing from the gaps?
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
I grew up here in the valley about a mile from Apple Computer and I belong to (1) ………….. the Apple user groups that -- that was going and we had a friend -- a friend of the club, (2) ………….. the people on the -- in the club had a garage and we turned it into a BDS. was a blogger and videographer there going around doing interviews with all (3) ………….. people there. When I quit Microsoft I told 15 people at a conference smaller than 17 days. Fun story. If you -- (4) ………….. my favorite questions is, would you rather have a hundred thousand dollars today or would you rather have a an executive at Microsoft and you'll see what they wrote in realtime; and (5) ………….. 'em I can tell you something about them. Like Sacca is an investor in twitter, you know, Jeremy Toeman launched So I know Jeremy Toeman's totally into gadgets. He launched Bug Labs, which is a totally innovative company. Helped launch Slingbox which (6) …………..you have. Umm, and so I know he wants to hear about gadgets or see innovative innovation. He wants to hear about music and entrepreneur innovation. Maybe he has (7) ………….. the same interests that Jeremy does but I start looking at how to create a -- how to pass along a story. Umm, when I first sold Seagate, so Seagate was (8) ………….. my sponsors for a couple years, I told -- I went in there say said, let's with; right? And then you need to study, you know, start with (9) ………….. them, like Pierre Omidyar, which Loik knows, he started E-bay. He has (10) …………..money. So if you're trying to raise money, go where the money is; right? defensive because they know the camera can hurt me; right? (11) ………….. the tricks I used was I used a $250 camera instead of buying a real expensive big camera because it helps you relax and times. Loic is gonna tell you about his post he wrote last night. (12) ………….. his tips was you gotta be on 24 hours a day. You gotta figure out how to get your company to be on 24 hours a day, today? A few; right in this guy is changing how we think of Ford. Francine Hartaway, (13) ………….. my friends, is driving a Ford Focus just because of this guy, you know, and how he's personalized a the four people. Umm, we're craving less of this (14) ………….. experience but -- what? Yeah. Okay. We're craving less of this (15) ………….. experience and more of an intimate dinner conversation with four people and turn that around
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
I grew up here in the valley about a mile from Apple
Computer and I
belong to (1) (one of) the Apple user groups that -- that was
going and we
had a friend -- a friend of the club, (2) (one of) the people on
the -- in
the club had a garage and we turned it into a BDS.
was a blogger and videographer there going around doing
interviews
with all (3) (sorts of) people there.
When I quit Microsoft I told 15 people at a conference
smaller than
17 days.
Fun story.
If you -- (4) (one of) my favorite questions is, would you rather
have a
hundred thousand dollars today or would you rather have a
an executive at Microsoft and you'll see what they wrote in
realtime;
and (5) (a lot of) 'em I can tell you something about them.
Like Sacca is an investor in twitter, you know, Jeremy
Toeman launched
So I know Jeremy Toeman's totally into gadgets.
He launched Bug Labs, which is a totally innovative company.
Helped launch Slingbox which (6) (many of) you have.
Umm, and so I know he wants to hear about gadgets or see
innovative
innovation.
He wants to hear about music and entrepreneur innovation.
Maybe he has (7) (some of) the same interests that Jeremy does but
I start
looking at how to create a -- how to pass along a story.
Umm, when I first sold Seagate, so Seagate was (8) (one of) my
sponsors for
a couple years, I told -- I went in there say said, let's
with;
right?
And then you need to study, you know, start with (9) (one of)
them, like
Pierre Omidyar, which Loik knows, he started E-bay.
He has (10) (a lot of) money.
So if you're trying to raise money, go where the money is;
right?
defensive
because they know the camera can hurt me; right?
(11) (One of) the tricks I used was I used a $250 camera instead of
buying a
real expensive big camera because it helps you relax and
times.
Loic is gonna tell you about his post he wrote last night.
(12) (One of) his tips was you gotta be on 24 hours a day.
You gotta figure out how to get your company to be on 24
hours a day,
today?
A few; right in this guy is changing how we think of Ford.
Francine Hartaway, (13) (one of) my friends, is driving a Ford
Focus just
because of this guy, you know, and how he's personalized a
the four
people.
Umm, we're craving less of this (14) (kind of) experience but --
what?
Yeah.
Okay.
We're craving less of this (15) (kind of) experience and more of an
intimate
dinner conversation with four people and turn that around
Sources:
Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Robert Scoble: Role of Social Media in Marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76CJrA6-4Y
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6. Use of English with Exercises A2 Level
Use of English with Exercises - A2 Level.
6.1. Warm-up Video for Plural -s
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PLURAL -S
Instructions. Watch the story and type nouns. Some of the nouns are plural, so they have 's' at the end.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
- ED, YOU'RE SO, SO CRAZY TALENTED, AND THAT'S THE FIRST (1) ………….. I'VE EVER SEEN YOU WITH A BAND, AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'SA--THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN. - THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN, NO.ONLY HAPPENS FOR TV, SO-- SO PEOPLE WILL NOT SEE A BAND IF THEY GO SEE YOU ON TOUR? - NO.- IT'S JUST YOU AND A GUITAR. - YEAH, I USE THIS (2) ………….. CALLED A LOOP STATION, WHICH YOU BASICALLY BUILD IT ON THE SPOT, YOU DO IT LIVE...- RIGHT. SO IT'S YOU JUST WITH A GUITAR AND THE LOOP STATION, AND YOU'VE SOLD OUT THREE SHOWS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN (3) ………….. . THAT IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. [cheers and applause] WAS PRODUCED BY PHARRELL, AND REALLY, REALLY COOL. I MEAN, YOU'RE DOING COOL (4) ………….. . AND THIS CD IS VERY, UH, PERSONAL. THERE ARE A LOT OF PERSONAL (5) ………….. ON HERE. SO THERE'S A LOT OF (6) ………….. WRITTEN ABOUT ALL THE (7) ………….. YOU'RE WITH. 'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM. I HEAR THE (8) ………….. .THERE'S A LOT OF (9) ………….. . SO WHO'S THE--WHO'S "DON'T" ABOUT? WHO DID YOU WRITE THAT ABOUT?- UM-- - 'CAUSE LISTEN TO THE-- "FOR ME AND HER, WE MAKE (10) ………….. THE SAME (11) ………….. , FOUR (12) ………….. , TWO (13) ………….. , THE SAME (14) ………….. ." YOU WERE WITH TAYLOR SWIFT A LOT. - YEAH, NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT--IT'S NOT ABOUT TAYLOR. YOU KNOW WHAT, WITH THAT SONG, IT WAS JUST-- I'M QUITE A CARE-FREE, HAPPY (15) ………….. , AND I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE GOES THROUGH (16) …………..THAT ANNOY THEM AND THEY GET ANGRY, AND I FEEL LIKE THE (17) ………….. THAT I GET MY ANGER OUT IS TO WRITE (18) ………….., AND IT--THAT SONG WAS LITERALLY-- I FELT SOMETHING, I PUT IT DOWN
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
- ED, YOU'RE SO, SO CRAZY TALENTED,
AND THAT'S THE FIRST (1) (TIME) I'VE EVER SEEN YOU WITH A BAND,
AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'SA--THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN.
- THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN, NO.ONLY HAPPENS FOR TV, SO--
SO PEOPLE WILL NOT SEE A BAND IF THEY GO SEE YOU ON TOUR?
- NO.- IT'S JUST YOU AND A GUITAR.
- YEAH, I USE THIS (2) (THING) CALLED A LOOP STATION,
WHICH YOU BASICALLY BUILD IT ON THE SPOT,
YOU DO IT LIVE...- RIGHT.
SO IT'S YOU JUST WITH A GUITAR AND THE LOOP STATION,
AND YOU'VE SOLD OUT THREE SHOWS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
IN (3) (MOMENTS) .
THAT IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.
[cheers and applause]
WAS PRODUCED BY PHARRELL,
AND REALLY, REALLY COOL.
I MEAN, YOU'RE DOING COOL (4) (THINGS) .
AND THIS CD IS VERY, UH,
PERSONAL.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PERSONAL (5) (SONGS) ON HERE.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF (6) (SONGS)
WRITTEN ABOUT ALL THE (7) (GIRLS) YOU'RE WITH.
'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM.
I HEAR THE (8) (STORIES) .THERE'S A LOT OF (9) (GIRLS) .
SO WHO'S THE--WHO'S "DON'T" ABOUT?
WHO DID YOU WRITE THAT ABOUT?- UM--
- 'CAUSE LISTEN TO THE--
"FOR ME AND HER, WE MAKE (10) (MONEY) THE SAME (11) (WAY) ,
FOUR (12) (CITIES) , TWO (13) (PLANES) , THE SAME (14) (DAY) ."
YOU WERE WITH TAYLOR SWIFT A LOT.
- YEAH, NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT--IT'S NOT ABOUT TAYLOR.
YOU KNOW WHAT, WITH THAT SONG, IT WAS JUST--
I'M QUITE A CARE-FREE, HAPPY (15) (GUY) ,
AND I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE GOES THROUGH (16) (THINGS) THAT ANNOY THEM
AND THEY GET ANGRY,
AND I FEEL LIKE THE (17) (WAY) THAT I GET MY ANGER OUT
IS TO WRITE (18) (SONGS) ,
AND IT--THAT SONG WAS LITERALLY--
I FELT SOMETHING, I PUT IT DOWN
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Who Is Ed Sheeran Writing Songs About?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDQD_t1ow0
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6.2. Warm-up Video for Plural -s
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PLURAL -S
Instructions. Watch the story and type nouns. Some of the nouns are plural, so they have 's' at the end.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Elegant and Happy, just two of the (1) ………….. that spring to mind when watching these adorable panda twins. And now you can officially been named Ya Lun and Xi Lun or 'Elegant' and 'Happy'. Lun refers to their (2) ………….. Lun Lun. This is hers and (3) ………….. Yang Yang's second set of twins. (4) ………….. of giant panda (5) ………….. from around the (6) ………….. chose the (7) ………….. which, in line with Chinese (8) ………….. , were announced on the hundredth (9) ………….. after they were born. The (10) ………….. garnered just over 11,000 of the more than 23,400 votes cast by panda (11) ………….. . Unfortunately the darling duo weren't able to attend the (12) ………….. announcing their (13) ………….. since they're still learning to walk but no need to fret, they're expected to make their big debut in the coming (14) …………..
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Elegant and Happy, just two of the (1) (words)
that spring to mind when watching these
adorable panda twins. And now you can
officially been named Ya Lun and Xi Lun
or 'Elegant' and 'Happy'. Lun refers
to their (2) (mother) Lun Lun.
This is hers and (3) (father) Yang Yang's second set of twins.
(4) (Thousands) of giant panda (5) (fans) from around
the (6) (world) chose the (7) (names) which, in line
with Chinese (8) (tradition) , were announced on
the hundredth (9) (day) after they were born.
The (10) (names) garnered just over 11,000 of the
more than 23,400 votes cast by panda (11) (fans) .
Unfortunately the darling duo weren't able to
attend the (12) (ceremony) announcing their
(13) (names) since they're still learning to
walk but no need to fret, they're
expected to make their big debut in the
coming (14) (weeks)
Sources:
Channel: ODN. Adorable twin baby pandas named 'elegant' and 'happy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCciOJMBjo
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6.3. Warm-up Video for Frequently Used Verbs
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR FREQUENTLY USED VERBS
Instructions. Watch this extract from Ellen's interview with Taylor Swift and type expressions with frequently used verbs.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
[BELL RINGS] All right. If you can't (1) ………….. in the middle of the night, what (2) ………….. you (3) ………….. ? (4) ………….. downstairs and rummage through the kitchen, and (5) ………….. whatever (6) ………….. . And it's really less like a human being and more like a raccoon in a dumpster. Li ke, the next morning, we just.. we (7) ………….. downstairs and we're li ke, what happened here? And I (8) ………….. . [BELL RINGS] [AUDIENCE LAUGHING] Does that help you (9………….. if you (10) ………….. a whole lot and then-- It's not really voluntary. Oh, (11) ………….. you (12) ………….. ? (13) ………….. so. I (14) ………….. it, but I (15) ………….. it (16) ………….. because it could have only been me or cats. Right. Well, that wasn't the question. We're learning something different. I said, if you can't (17) ………….. at night, what (18) ………….. you (19) ………….. ? But it sounds like-- I'm still (20) ………….. and (21) ………….. it? Yes, it sounds like you've got an issue. [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
[BELL RINGS]
All right.
If you can't (1) (sleep) in the middle of the night, what (2) (do) you (3) (do) ?
(4) (I go) downstairs and rummage through the kitchen,
and (5) (eat) whatever (6) (I can find) .
And it's really less like a human being
and more like a raccoon in a dumpster.
Li ke, the next morning, we just.. we (7) (walk) downstairs
and we're li ke, what happened here?
And I (8) (don't remember) .
[BELL RINGS]
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Does that help you (9) (sleep) if you (10) (eat) a whole lot and then--
It's not really voluntary.
Oh, (11) (do) you (12) (sleep eat) ?
(13) (I think) so.
I (14) (don't really remember) it, but I
(15) (know) it (16) (happens) because it could have only been me or cats.
Right.
Well, that wasn't the question.
We're learning something different.
I said, if you can't (17) (sleep) at night, what (18) (do) you (19) (do) ?
But it sounds like--
I'm still (20) (sleeping) and (21) (doing) it?
Yes, it sounds like you've got an issue.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Taylor Swift Answers Ellen's 'Burning Questions': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoAQv4kRwZQ
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6.4. Warm-up Video for Where/where to?
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR WHERE/WHERE TO?
Instructions. Watch this extract from 'Mary Poppins Returns' and type expressions that mean places (like 'behind' or 'there') or direction (like 'to me')
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪ Wondering where to find what you truly miss ♪ ♪ Well maybe all those things that you love so ♪ ♪ Are waiting (1) ………….. where the lost things go ♪ ♪ Memories you've shared ♪ ♪ Gone for good you feared ♪ ♪ They're all (2) ………….. still ♪ ♪ Though they've disappeared ♪ ♪ Nothing's really left ♪ ♪ Or lost without a trace ♪ ♪ Nothing's gone forever ♪ ♪ Only (3) ………….. ♪ ♪ So maybe now the dish and my best spoon ♪ ♪ Are playing hide and seek (4) ………….. the moon ♪ ♪ Waiting (5) ………….. until it's time to show ♪ ♪ Spring is like that now, far (6) ………….. the snow ♪ ♪ Hiding (7) ………….. ♪ ♪ Where the lost things go ♪ Now, time to get some sleep. And in the morning bright and early, we'll take that bowl (8) ………….. . We'll have it mended. ♪ Time to close your eyes ♪ ♪ For when you dream, you'll find ♪ ♪ All that's lost is found ♪ ♪ Maybe (9) ………….. ♪ ♪ Or maybe (10) ………….. ♪ ♪ Maybe all you're missing ♪ ♪ Lives (11) ………….. ... ♪ ♪ So, when you need her touch and loving gaze ♪ ♪ Gone but not forgotten is the perfect phrase ♪ ♪ Smiling (12) ………….. that she makes glow ♪ ♪ Trust she's always (13) ………….. , watching as you grow ♪ ♪ Find her (14) ………….. ♪ ♪ Where the lost things go ♪
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪ Wondering where to find what you truly miss ♪
♪ Well maybe all those things that you love so ♪
♪ Are waiting (1) (in the place) where the lost things go ♪
♪ Memories you've shared ♪
♪ Gone for good you feared ♪
♪ They're all (2) (around you) still ♪
♪ Though they've disappeared ♪
♪ Nothing's really left ♪
♪ Or lost without a trace ♪
♪ Nothing's gone forever ♪
♪ Only (3) (out of place) ♪
♪ So maybe now the dish and my best spoon ♪
♪ Are playing hide and seek (4) (just behind) the moon ♪
♪ Waiting (5) (there) until it's time to show ♪
♪ Spring is like that now, far (6) (beneath) the snow ♪
♪ Hiding (7) (in the place) ♪
♪ Where the lost things go ♪
Now, time to get some sleep.
And in the morning bright and early,
we'll take that bowl (8) (to my cousin) .
We'll have it mended.
♪ Time to close your eyes ♪
♪ For when you dream, you'll find ♪
♪ All that's lost is found ♪
♪ Maybe (9) (on the moon) ♪
♪ Or maybe (10) (somewhere new) ♪
♪ Maybe all you're missing ♪
♪ Lives (11) (inside of you) ... ♪
♪ So, when you need her touch and loving gaze ♪
♪ Gone but not forgotten is the perfect phrase ♪
♪ Smiling (12) (from a star) that she makes glow ♪
♪ Trust she's always (13) (there) , watching as you grow ♪
♪ Find her (14) (in the place) ♪
♪ Where the lost things go ♪
Sources:
Channel: DisneyMusicVEVO. Emily Blunt - The Place Where Lost Things Go (From "Mary Poppins Returns"):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESsjRYWtSjM
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6.5. Warm-up Video for Numbers and Prices
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR NUMBERS AND PRICES
Instructions. Can Bill Gates guess the prices of these five everyday items that you get at the supermarket? Listen and type the numbers and prices. Type the answers as full words (e.g. 'five dollars', NOT '$5')
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
This will be interesting. All right. If you can guess (1) ………….. out of the (2) ………….. products within (3) ………….. of each one, the audience will get something, OK? --the San Francisco treat, of course. How much do you think Rice-A-Roni would be, within (4) ………….. . Hm. (5) ………….. . OK. Let's see. Ready? Oh, it's (6) ………….. . Mm. What a bargain. I'll take (7) ………….. . I know. You've been hearing a lot about those lately. What do you think? (8) ………….. . Aw. They want me to go higher. Yeah. Let's go with (9) ………….. . (10) ………….. . (11) ………….. . All right. Ready? (12) ………….. . It's expensive to do laundry. I would say, (13) ………….. . [GASPS] Look at you! (14) …………..! That's one! All right. All right. You need to get bothof these within (15) ………….. so that they get something. That's going to be hard. --hot from the oven. I'll go with (16) ………….. . [SHOUTING] No! No, no. (17) ………….. . No! $7. Lower, lower. (18) ………….. . All right. Let's try it. (19) ………….. . (20) ………….. . Totino's. That's (21) ………….. in a row. Phew. All right. 8 ounces. It's branded. You know, you guys think less than (22) ………….. ? Yes. [SHOUTING] Yes! Yes, we think it is less. Like, (23) ………….. ? Who said what? He's saying, (24) ………….. . Somebody's-- (25) ………….. or (26) ………….. . I would go with maybe lower than (27) ………….. . Wow. OK, we'll go with (28) ………….. . Yeah, go with (29) ………….. . Yeah.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
This will be interesting.
All right.
If you can guess (1) (three) out of the (2) (five)
products within (3) (a dollar) of each one, the audience
will get something, OK?
--the San Francisco treat, of course.
How much do you think Rice-A-Roni would be,
within (4) (a dollar) .
Hm. (5) (Five dollars) .
OK.
Let's see.
Ready?
Oh, it's (6) (a dollar) .
Mm.
What a bargain.
I'll take (7) (five) .
I know.
You've been hearing a lot about those lately.
What do you think?
(8) (Four dollars) .
Aw.
They want me to go higher.
Yeah.
Let's go with (9) (ten) .
(10) (Ten) .
(11) (Ten dollars) .
All right.
Ready?
(12) (Nineteen dollars and ninety seven cents) .
It's expensive to do laundry.
I would say, (13) (four dollars) .
[GASPS] Look at you!
(14) (Three seventy eight) !
That's one!
All right.
All right.
You need to get bothof these within (15) (a dollar)
so that they get something.
That's going to be hard.
--hot from the oven.
I'll go with (16) (twenty two) .
[SHOUTING] No!
No, no.
(17) (Fifteen) .
No!
$7.
Lower, lower.
(18) (Eight) .
All right.
Let's try it. (19) (Eight dollars) .
(20) (Eight ninety eight) .
Totino's.
That's (21) (two) in a row.
Phew.
All right.
8 ounces.
It's branded.
You know, you guys think less than (22) (ten dollars) ?
Yes.
[SHOUTING] Yes!
Yes, we think it is less.
Like, (23) (seven) ?
Who said what?
He's saying, (24) (five) .
Somebody's-- (25) (five) or (26) (six) .
I would go with maybe lower than (27) (five) .
Wow.
OK, we'll go with (28) (four) .
Yeah, go with (29) (four) .
Yeah.
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Billionaire Bill Gates Guesses Grocery Store Prices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_higXixRA&t=206s
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6.6. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 'TOO' OR 'ENOUGH?'
Instructions. Read and decide, then listen and check.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
So they've got a beautiful feature page here, which has a perfectly distinctive icon. Now, it doesn't necessarily say (1) ………….. much about the app, but it's quite clear that you're not going to mistake that icon for anything else, anyone else's icon. All right, giant phone, excellent. I'm going to switch to the other side here, because my cables aren't long (2) ………….. . So if I fire up Endomondo, you can see here that-- we choose not to go Pro. We have do have screenshots for most of it. So the other important thing is that this-- yeah, let's just kill that because that's just way (3) ………….. annoying. So again, it's really important that you're likely to be using this app outside in direct sunlight, when with, and 99% of the time that's going to be GPS, probably consolidated with Wi-Fi and cell ID, if that's accurate (4) ………….. . In practice, for an app like this, you're going to want to listen for every location update that comes through zoom, the ability to pinch zoom as well as the ability to zoom using the controls by turning off the zoom controls. That should be (5) ………….. to make it all go away. But if you hit both of these methods here, then that will definitely make sure that there are no ability for the I mean, it's a great app. It has a lot of the features that I really want to see. It just feels like I have to do a little bit (6) ………….. much work to be able to use it. Build with tablet mode would be fantastic.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
So they've got a beautiful feature page here, which has a
perfectly distinctive icon.
Now, it doesn't necessarily say (1) (too) much about the app,
but it's quite clear that you're not going to mistake
that icon for anything else, anyone else's icon.
All right, giant phone, excellent.
I'm going to switch to the other side here, because my
cables aren't long (2) (enough) .
So if I fire up Endomondo, you can see here that--
we choose not to go Pro.
We have do have screenshots for most of it.
So the other important thing is that this-- yeah, let's
just kill that because that's just way (3) (too) annoying.
So again, it's really important that you're likely to be using this app outside in direct sunlight, when with, and 99% of the time that's going to be GPS, probably consolidated with Wi-Fi and cell ID, if that's accurate (4) (enough) .
In practice, for an app like this, you're going to want to
listen for every location update that comes through
zoom, the ability to pinch zoom as well as the ability to
zoom using the controls by turning off the zoom controls.
That should be (5) (enough) to make it all go away.
But if you hit both of these methods here, then that will definitely make sure that there are no ability for the I mean, it's a great app.
It has a lot of the features that I really want to see.
It just feels like I have to do a little bit (6) (too) much workto be able to use it.
Build with tablet mode would be fantastic.
Sources:
Channel: Android Developers. The App Clinic: Personal Fitness Tracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54e_IYm0RfQ
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6.7. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 'TOO' OR 'ENOUGH?'
Instructions. Read and decide, then listen and check.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
And then some tricky stuff-- weak references to garbage collection and stuff like that, which is a little bit (1) ………….. deep for the talk today. Like I said, you're not going to master the framework today, ends up going to OpenCORE to be played. Now, this provides some extensibility. The media player service is smart (2) ………….. to sort of recognize these file types. And we have a media scanner that runs at boot time-- the same sound over and over again without--without the pops and clicks. MP3 doesn't have a way to specify that accurately (3) ………….. that you can actually do that without having some sort of gap. There are people that have added things in the ID3 tags We're expecting that future hardware platforms will provide, you know, native encoders for AAC. It's a little (4) ………….. heavy to do AAC on the application processor while you're doing video record and everything else. do some processing on it, and now put it back out via the... the AudioTrack interface (5) ………….., that mixer engine. And that mixer engine will go wherever audio is routed. So, for example, a question that comes up But it's pretty clear that the CPU is unhappy. And this is kind of the typical thing, is that you're trying to play (6) ………….. many different compressed streams at a time. Codecs take a lot of CPU resources, Sparks: Yeah, that's... So it's pretty much the same thing. I mean, if you define your buffer size large (7) ………….., whatever that buffer size is, that's the buffer size it's going to use at the lower level.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
And then some tricky stuff--
weak references to garbage collection
and stuff like that, which is a little bit (1) (too) deep
for the talk today.
Like I said, you're not going to master the framework today,
ends up going to OpenCORE to be played.
Now, this provides some extensibility.
The media player service is smart (2) (enough)
to sort of recognize these file types.
And we have a media scanner that runs at boot time--
the same sound over and over again
without--without the pops and clicks.
MP3 doesn't have a way to specify that accurately (3) (enough)
that you can actually do that without having some sort of gap.
There are people that have added things in the ID3 tags
We're expecting that future hardware platforms
will provide, you know, native encoders for AAC.
It's a little (4) (too) heavy to do AAC
on the application processor
while you're doing video record and everything else.
do some processing on it, and now put it back out
via the...
the AudioTrack interface (5) (too) , that mixer engine.
And that mixer engine will go wherever audio is routed.
So, for example, a question that comes up
But it's pretty clear that the CPU is unhappy.
And this is kind of the typical thing,
is that you're trying to play (6) (too) many
different compressed streams at a time.
Codecs take a lot of CPU resources,
Sparks: Yeah, that's...
So it's pretty much the same thing.
I mean, if you define your buffer size large (7) (enough) ,
whatever that buffer size is, that's the buffer size
it's going to use at the lower level.
Sources:
Channel: Google Developers. Google I/O 2009 - Mastering the Android Media Framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UmSQeWsJc&t=4002s
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6.8. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 'TOO' OR 'ENOUGH?'
Instructions. Read and decide, then listen and check.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Right. Google is known for our good food. But did you eat (1) ………….. much so that now you're a little sleepy? I hope not. Well actually, I'm not worried. Melody, wow. These developer tools are amazing. But wait, one month later, it's (2) ………….. slow. It's (3) ………….. slow to get a build result in under a minute or in a matter of seconds, right? It's not (4) ………….. . So that point I want to make there is that the speed and the scale are something that we do well. Well, we struggle. And not to air dirty laundry here, but I will. It's never fast (5) ………….. . Every single engineer that I talk to, it's not fast (6) ………….. . The build is (7) ………….. slow. Engineers want and expect almost instantaneous results for what's broken. They help us a lot. Sometimes they slows down. It takes (8) ………….. long to turn things around. And we want to keep this focus on automation and velocity for engineers. And finally, I just want to highlight that finding and fixing bugs-- it's tough for us (9) ………….. . I need to go look at this log file and this log file. And I got an alert. RAE WANG: So as we just heard from Melody that Dev Ops is hard for everyone. It's hard at Google (10) ………….. . Regardless of whether it's making 800,000 builds at Google or it's your own company making three builds a day. Loading up the new App Engine Logs Viewer, I can filter this by error and scroll all the way down. And sure (11) ………….. , I see some errors uploading high scores. Error uploading high score, non-admin user attempting to upload a high score. So going straight from the App Engine logs, I can jump right to the problem, where it occurred to my code. And sure (12) ………….. , some bonehead developer on the team, this guy, introduced a problem. So what I'm going to do now is drive to the office, all with a couple of commands. OK. So (13) ………….. about G Cloud. Let's get back to fixing Fluttery Bird. Google has this the Git repo in the cloud.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Right.
Google is known for our good food.
But did you eat (1) (too) much so that now you're a little sleepy?
I hope not.
Well actually, I'm not worried.
Melody, wow.
These developer tools are amazing.
But wait, one month later, it's (2) (too) slow.
It's (3) (too) slow to get a build result in under a minute
or in a matter of seconds, right?
It's not (4) (enough) .
So that point I want to make there
is that the speed and the scale are something that we do well.
Well, we struggle.
And not to air dirty laundry here, but I will.
It's never fast (5) (enough) .
Every single engineer that I talk to, it's not fast (6) (enough) .
The build is (7) (too) slow.
Engineers want and expect almost instantaneous results
for what's broken.
They help us a lot.
Sometimes they slows down.
It takes (8) (too) long to turn things around.
And we want to keep this focus on automation and velocity
for engineers.
And finally, I just want to highlight
that finding and fixing bugs-- it's tough for us (9) (too) .
I need to go look at this log file and this log file.
And I got an alert.
RAE WANG: So as we just heard from Melody
that Dev Ops is hard for everyone.
It's hard at Google (10) (too) .
Regardless of whether it's making 800,000 builds at Google
or it's your own company making three builds a day.
Loading up the new App Engine Logs Viewer,
I can filter this by error and scroll all the way down.
And sure (11) (enough) , I see some errors uploading high scores.
Error uploading high score, non-admin user
attempting to upload a high score.
So going straight from the App Engine logs,
I can jump right to the problem, where it occurred to my code.
And sure (12) (enough) , some bonehead developer
on the team, this guy, introduced a problem.
So what I'm going to do now is drive to the office,
all with a couple of commands.
OK.
So (13) (enough) about G Cloud.
Let's get back to fixing Fluttery Bird.
Google has this the Git repo in the cloud.
Sources:
Channel: Google Developers. Google Cloud Platform Live: DevOps at Google Speed & Tools for You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU8-HJtYYc
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6.9. Warm-up Video for 'Too' or 'Enough?'
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR 'TOO' OR 'ENOUGH?'
Instructions. Read and decide, then listen and check.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
So we support pass through. How do codecs work? This is something that I don't think it's (1) ………….. coverage in the stuff that we talk about. So I'm going to briefly go over how codecs do their job. the bandwidth, you are not going to achieve the best possible quality, because you've reduced the amount of information that's transmitted (2) ………….. far, and there's more bandwidth available. Likewise if your bit rate when you're encoding is higher than the buffering screen. So some of you might see video like this if the bit rate is (3) ………….. low, and the other case that happens is the buffering as I said. And I hate buffering screens, don't you? video to start playing. This is actually due to the client side buffering up (4) ………….. information so it can start decoding the video. Average bit rate-- which I've mentioned-- But that's in Kansas City only. Sorry if you really want that for $70 a month. So if you're lucky (5) ………….. to live in Kansas City, and you've got Google Fiber, you don't have bandwidth problems. So consider carefully how much encoding or what kind of Now something else I'm going to point out here-- some of the more advanced encoders allow you to do time splicing in the video (6) ………….. . So instead of having to choose one continuous low, medium, or high video feed, typically the encoder will also slice the It gives you a point with which to debug any problems you might be having. So I'm not going to go (7) ………….. deep into the details of this, this is about the extent that I'm going to cover this part. But there is a lot of information that is available Some people have noted that there's a problem with the latest version of Flash on Google TV. We're looking at that, but there really isn't (8) ………….. much we can do because it is an Adobe product, and they're the ones who are responsible for maintaining it. That brings me to the end of these slides. And we can jump into questions, which is awesome because I wanted to leave (9) ………….. time to get to these questions. While I'm transferring over here, has anybody got any live looking at the presentation. KRISPY: Awesome. Did it come across clear (10) …………..? VIKRIN: Yeah. Do we have access to the PowerPoint after? Partially because we have a lot of things going on right now. And I want to make sure that we have (11) ………….. time to prepare Hangouts that are of a certain quality, and value to you guys. So this gives you guys (12) ………….. time to ask a lot of questions in the DORY or the moderator. If you can mute? posted an answer there. I don't think this is going to go away. I want NDK (13) ………….. . The reality is we can't have it yet, and it's mainly because of some of the legacy work that went on in
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
So we support pass through.
How do codecs work?
This is something that I don't think it's (1) (enough) coverage in
the stuff that we talk about.
So I'm going to briefly go over how codecs do their job.
the bandwidth, you are not going to achieve the best
possible quality, because you've reduced the amount of
information that's transmitted (2) (too) far, and there's more
bandwidth available.
Likewise if your bit rate when you're encoding is higher than
the buffering screen.
So some of you might see video like this if the bit rate is
(3) (too) low, and the other case that happens is the
buffering as I said.
And I hate buffering screens, don't you?
video to start playing.
This is actually due to the client side buffering up
(4) (enough) information so it can start decoding the video.
Average bit rate--
which I've mentioned--
But that's in Kansas City only.
Sorry if you really want that for $70 a month.
So if you're lucky (5) (enough) to live in Kansas City, and
you've got Google Fiber, you don't have bandwidth problems.
So consider carefully how much encoding or what kind of
Now something else I'm going to point out here-- some of
the more advanced encoders allow you to do time splicing
in the video (6) (too) .
So instead of having to choose one continuous low, medium, or
high video feed, typically the encoder will also slice the
It gives you a point with which to debug any problems
you might be having.
So I'm not going to go (7) (too) deep into the details of this,
this is about the extent that I'm going to cover this part.
But there is a lot of information that is available
Some people have noted that there's a problem with the
latest version of Flash on Google TV.
We're looking at that, but there really isn't (8) (too) much we
can do because it is an Adobe product, and they're the ones
who are responsible for maintaining it.
That brings me to the end of these slides.
And we can jump into questions, which is awesome
because I wanted to leave (9) (enough) time to
get to these questions.
While I'm transferring over here, has anybody got any live
looking at the presentation.
KRISPY: Awesome.
Did it come across clear (10) (enough) ?
VIKRIN: Yeah.
Do we have access to the PowerPoint after?
Partially because we have a lot of things
going on right now.
And I want to make sure that we have (11) (enough) time to prepare
Hangouts that are of a certain quality, and
value to you guys.
So this gives you guys (12) (enough) time to ask a lot of questions
in the DORY or the moderator.
If you can mute?
posted an answer there.
I don't think this is going to go away.
I want NDK (13) (too) .
The reality is we can't have it yet, and it's mainly
because of some of the legacy work that went on in
Sources:
Channel: Google Developers. Google TV Developers Hangout Oct.17.2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvOcTMyUPE
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7. Vocabulary and Expressions with Exercises A2 Level
Vocabulary and Expressions with Exercises - A2 Level.
7.1. Warm-up Film Trailer for 'Basic' A1-A2 Vocabulary
WARM-UP FILM TRAILER FOR 'BASIC' (A1 - A2) WORDS
Instructions. Watch this trailer and fill the gaps with 'basic' (A1 - A2) words
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the film trailer.
(1) ………….. fight (2) ………….. North (3) ………….. south Fight (4) ………….. battle everywhere (5) ………….. (6) …………..mind (7) ………….. centuries (8) ………….. have fought (9) ………….. Against (10) ………….. common enemy Despite (11) ………….. differences (12) ………….. (13) ………….. if (14) ………….. gonna survive Cause (15) ………….. enemy (16) ………….. real (17) ………….. real (18) ………….. fall (19) ………….. blow (20) ………….. lone wolf (21) ………….. (22) ………….. pack survives
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
(1) (Don't) fight (2) (in the) North (3) (Or the) south Fight (4) (every) battle everywhere (5) (Always) (6) (In your) mind (7) (For) centuries (8) (our families) have fought (9) (together) Against (10) (their) common enemy Despite (11) (their) differences
(12) (Together) (13) (We need to do the same) if (14) (we're) gonna survive Cause (15) (the) enemy (16) (is) real (17) (It's always been) real (18) (When the snows) fall (19) (And the white winds) blow (20) (The) lone wolf (21) (dies) (22) (But the)
pack survives
Sources:
Channel: Movieclips Trailers. Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer #2 (2017) | TV Trailer | Movieclips Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDL-yDKIAc
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7.2. Warm-up Song for 'Basic' Vocabulary
WARM-UP SONG FOR 'BASIC' WORDS
Instructions. Listen to the song and fill the gaps with 'basic' words.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tell me something girl ♪ ♪ (1) ………….. modern (2) ………….. ? ♪ ♪ (3) ………….. , ♪ ♪ (4) ………….. else you're searching for? ♪ ♪ I'm falling ♪ ♪ (5) ………….. ♪ ♪ I find myself longing for (6) ………….. ♪ ♪ (7) ………….. I fear myself ♪ ♪ (8) ………….. ♪ ♪ (9) ………….. trying to fill that void? ♪ ♪ (10) ………….. , ♪ ♪ ain't (11) ………….. keeping it so hardcore? ♪ ♪ I'm falling ♪ ♪ (12) ………….. ♪ ♪ I find myself longing for (13) ………….. ♪ ♪ (14) ………….. I fear myself ♪ ♪ I'm off the deep end ♪ ♪ (15) ………….. as I dive in ♪ ♪ (16) ………….. ground ♪ ♪ crash through the surface ♪ ♪ (17) ………….. hurt us ♪ ♪ We're far (18) ………….. shallow now ♪ ♪ (19) ………….. sha-ha-sha-ha-low ♪ ♪ (20) ………….. sha-ha-sha-la-la-la-low ♪ ♪ (21) ………….. sha-ha-sha-ha-ha-low ♪ ♪ We're far (22) ………….. shallow now ♪ ♪ (vocalization) ♪ ♪ (vocalization) ♪
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tell me something girl ♪ ♪ (1) (Are you happy in this) modern (2) (world) ? ♪ ♪ (3) (or do you need more) , ♪ ♪ (4) (Is there something) else you're searching for? ♪ ♪ I'm falling ♪ ♪ (5) (in all the good times) ♪ ♪ I find myself longing for (6)
(change) ♪ ♪ (7) (and in the bad times) I fear myself ♪ ♪ (8) (Tell me something boy) ♪ ♪ (9) (Aren't you tired) trying to fill that void? ♪ ♪ (10) (or do you need more) , ♪ ♪ ain't (11) (it hard) keeping it so hardcore? ♪ ♪ I'm falling ♪ ♪ (12) (in
all the good times) ♪ ♪ I find myself longing for (13) (change) ♪ ♪ (14) (and in the bad times) I fear myself ♪ ♪ I'm off the deep end ♪ ♪ (15) (watch) as I dive in ♪ ♪ (16) (I'll never meet the) ground ♪ ♪ crash through the surface ♪ ♪ (17) (Where
they can't) hurt us ♪ ♪ We're far (18) (from the) shallow now ♪ ♪ (19) (in the) sha-ha-sha-ha-low ♪ ♪ (20) (in the) sha-ha-sha-la-la-la-low ♪ ♪ (21) (in the) sha-ha-sha-ha-ha-low ♪ ♪ We're far (22) (from the) shallow now ♪ ♪ (vocalization) ♪ ♪ (vocalization)
♪<
Sources:
Channel: Lady Gaga VEVO. Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - Shallow (A Star Is Born): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo_efYhYU2A
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7.3. Warm-up Video for Body
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR BODY
Instructions. What's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new? People in London answer this question. Listen and type their answers.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
let's see who we find today What's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new? Their (1) ………….. . Yeah. What if they're wearing a hat? If they're bald or not. Okay What is the first thing you notice when you meet someone? Their (2) ………….. . before we start the video we wanted to tell you about a language learning platform that Harry and I have been using heavily for the last two with a native teacher couldn't be better so we hope you enjoy that enjoy the video. Name the first thing that you notice when you meet somebody new. Oh, their (3) ………….. . Why are the (4) ………….. so special? Cuz you look into them first. That's how you see. Anyway. Yeah, or if they have pretty (5) ………….. yeah and you like them If they're just dull (6) ………….. then well then you pretend like they're pretty for their sake. I think (7) ………….. in my case. Oh right. I tend to look at people, being slightly deaf, I think I lip read a bit, you know. And so I tend to look at people's mouths rather than their (8) ………….. . Anything else that's really important? Their (9) ………….. . Yeah. Okay. What's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new? Their (10) ………….. . Their (11) ………….. . Okay, do you look into their dental records?[laughter] No. Do you like it if they've got glasses? Is that a deal breaker? I don't care. You don't care? Contact lenses? I don't care, no. Take anything. Yeah. Their (12) ………….. , probably. Generally speaking, British people are quite stereotypically bad with smiling at people in the street but.. Oh really? I think it's quite important in this day and age, so yeah. Their (13) …………..) or like their (14) ………….. . What did you think when you first saw our outfits? Studenty. [laughter] That's a good one. yeah d'you know what I mean I do yeah I feel quite studenty
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
let's see who we find today
What's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new?
Their (1) (hair) . Yeah. What if they're wearing a hat?
If they're bald or not. Okay
What is the first thing you notice when you meet someone?
Their (2) (face) .
before we start the video we wanted to tell you about a language
learning platform that Harry and I have been using heavily for the last two
with a native teacher couldn't be better so we hope you enjoy that enjoy the video.
Name the first thing that you notice when you meet somebody new.
Oh, their (3) (eyes) .
Why are the (4) (eyes) so special? Cuz you look into them first.
That's how you see. Anyway. Yeah, or if they have pretty (5) (eyes)
yeah and you like them
If they're just dull (6) (eyes) then well then you pretend like they're pretty for their sake.
I think (7) (mouth) in my case. Oh right.
I tend to look at people, being slightly deaf, I think I lip read a bit, you know.
And so I tend to look at people's mouths rather than their (8) (eyes) .
Anything else that's really important? Their (9) (smile) . Yeah.
Okay.
What's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new? Their (10) (eyes) . Their
(11) (teeth) . Okay, do you look into their dental records?[laughter] No.
Do you like it if they've got glasses? Is that a deal breaker? I don't care.
You don't care? Contact lenses? I don't care, no.
Take anything. Yeah.
Their (12) (smile) , probably. Generally speaking, British people are quite stereotypically
bad with smiling at people in the street but.. Oh really?
I think it's quite important in this day and age, so yeah.
Their (13) (face) or like their (14) (outfit) . What did you think when you first saw our outfits?
Studenty. [laughter] That's a good one.
yeah d'you know what I mean I do yeah I feel quite studenty
Sources:
Channel: Real English With Real Teachers. Real English Conversations In London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoQtgxqQYg
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7.4. Warm-up Video for Vocabulary in Context
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
Instructions. Listen to the song and fill the gaps with 'basic' (A1/A2) words.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪ I've been staring at the edge of the (1) ………….. ♪ ♪ Long as (2) ………….. ♪ ♪ Never really knowing (3) ………….. ♪ ♪ I wish I could be (4) ………….. ♪ ♪ But I come back (5) ………….. ♪ ♪ No matter how hard (6) ………….. ♪ ♪ Every turn (7) ………….. every trail I track ♪ ♪ Every path (8) ………….. every road (9) ………….. ♪ ♪ To the place (10) ………….. where I cannot go ♪ ♪ Where I long (11) ………….. ♪ ♪ See the line where the sky meets the sea ♪ ♪ (12) ………….. ♪ ♪ And no one (13) ………….. ♪ ♪ How far it (14) ………….. ♪ ♪ If the wind in my sail on the sea stays (15) ………….. ♪ ♪ One day I'll know ♪ ♪ If I go, there's just no telling how far I'll go ♪ ♪ (16) ………….. everybody on this island ♪ ♪ Seems so (17) ………….. on this island ♪ ♪ (18) ………….. is by design ♪ (snorting) ♪ (19) ………….. everybody ♪ ♪ On this island ♪ (children laughing) ♪ (20) ………….. a role on this island ♪ ♪ So maybe I can roll with mine ♪ ♪ I can lead with pride, I can make us (21) ………….. ♪ ♪ I'll be satisfied if I (22) ………….. along ♪ ♪ But the voice inside sings (23) ………….. ♪ ♪ What is (24) ………….. with me? ♪
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪ I've been staring at the edge of the (1) (water) ♪
♪ Long as (2) (I can remember) ♪
♪ Never really knowing (3) (why) ♪
♪ I wish I could be (4) (the perfect daughter) ♪
♪ But I come back (5) (to the water) ♪
♪ No matter how hard (6) (I try) ♪
♪ Every turn (7) (I take,) every trail I track ♪
♪ Every path (8) (I make,) every road (9) (leads back) ♪
♪ To the place (10) (I know) where I cannot go ♪
♪ Where I long (11) (to be) ♪
♪ See the line where the sky meets the sea ♪
♪ (12) (It calls me) ♪
♪ And no one (13) (knows) ♪
♪ How far it (14) (goes) ♪
♪ If the wind in my sail on the sea stays (15) (behind me) ♪
♪ One day I'll know ♪
♪ If I go, there's just no telling how far I'll go ♪
♪ (16) (I know) everybody on this island ♪
♪ Seems so (17) (happy) on this island ♪
♪ (18) (Everything) is by design ♪
(snorting)
♪ (19) (I know) everybody ♪
♪ On this island ♪
(children laughing)
♪ (20) (Has) a role on this island ♪
♪ So maybe I can roll with mine ♪
♪ I can lead with pride, I can make us (21) (strong) ♪
♪ I'll be satisfied if I (22) (play) along ♪
♪ But the voice inside sings (23) (a different song) ♪
♪ What is (24) (wrong) with me? ♪
Sources:
Channel: DisneyMusicVEVO. Auli'i Cravalho - How Far I'll Go (From "Moana"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
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7.5. Warm-up Video for Trailer
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR TRAILER
Instructions. Watch this trailer and fill the gaps with phrases with verbs
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
is it my little friend? While some are born to feast, others (1) ………….. in the dark... begging for scraps. ♪♪ MUFASA: (2) ………….. ... exists together in a delicate balance. While others (3) ………….. ... a true king (4) ………….. . SCAR: (5) ………….. Simba... and (6) ………….. ! MUFASA: You (7) ………….. ... in the circle of life. [Roar]
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
is it my little friend?
While some are born to feast,
others (1) (spend their lives) in the dark...
begging for scraps.
♪♪
MUFASA: (2) (Everything you see) ...
exists together in a delicate balance.
While others (3) (search for what they can take) ...
a true king (4) (searches for what he can give) .
SCAR: (5) (Run away) Simba...
and (6) (NEVER return) !
MUFASA: You (7) (must take your place) ...
in the circle of life.
[Roar]
Sources:
Channel: Walt Disney Studios. The Lion King Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TavVZMewpY
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7.6. Warm-up Video for Trailer
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR TRAILER
Instructions. Watch this trailer and fill the gaps with 'basic' (A1/A2) words.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
♪♪ Mufasa: (1) ………….. the light touches... is our kingdom. But a king's (2) ………….. as ruler (3) ………….. ... and (4) ………….. like the (5) ………….. . One (6) ………….. ... the (7) ………….. will set on my (8) ………….. here, and will (9) ………….. with (10) ………….. as the (11) …………..king. ♪♪ Mufasa: (12) …………..
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
♪♪
Mufasa: (1) (Everything) the light touches...
is our kingdom.
But a king's (2) (time) as ruler
(3) (rises) and (4) (falls) like the (5) (sun) .
One (6) (day) ...
the (7) (sun) will set on my (8) (time) here,
and will (9) (rise) with (10) (you) as the (11) (new) king.
♪♪
Mufasa: (12) (Remember)
Sources:
Channel: Walt Disney Studios. The Lion King Official Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbLXeGSDxg&t=18s
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7.7. Warm-up Video for Animated Story
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR ANIMATED STORY
Instructions. Watch this moving animated story and fill the gaps with up to 6 'basic' (A1) words.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
We're all born (1) ………….. matter. However, (2) ………….. born equal. (3) ………….. be? (4) ………….. become? (5) ………….. born to be leaders, effecting (6 ………….. amongst (7) …………... Others are born into mediocrity, living unremarkable lives. (8) ………….. life will be a constant battle offering zero opportunities. So how can nothing... be something? (9) ………….. Zero received attention. He learnt (10) ………….. value in society (11) ………….. forbidden for his denomination to multiply. Sometimes Zero was made to feel like a much larger number. (12) ………….. remind him that a zero is a zero no matter which way you face. As Zero grew into an adult, (13) ………….. lonely path Despite his numerical shortcomings, Zero (14) ………….. offer. Zero never allowed bad situations to get him down. (15) ………….. negative number. (16) ………….. Zero awoke with a battered and bruised body. (17) …………... For the first time Zero felt unaware of his lowly number. In the company of his new friend, (18) ………….. three, or even a four. But the most wonderful sensation (19) ………….. belonging. A lifetime of loneliness faded (20) …………... Along with the notion (21) ………….. forbidden. (22) ………….. continued without him, Zero wondered how he could ever continue without (23) …………... The newborn bore the mark of infinity, the largest and most respected (24) ………….. had ever seen Zero (25) …………..nothing he had created something truly magnificent.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
We're all born (1) (of the same) matter.
However, (2) (we're not all) born equal.
(3) (Who will you) be? (4) (What will you) become?
(5) (Some people are) born to be leaders, effecting (6) (great change) amongst (7) (their people) .
Others are born into mediocrity, living unremarkable lives.
(8) (But for some)
life will be a constant battle offering zero opportunities.
So how can nothing... be something?
(9) (School was the only place where) Zero received attention.
He learnt (10) (important life lessons like his) value in society
(11) (and that it was) forbidden for his denomination to multiply.
Sometimes Zero was made to feel like a much larger number.
(12) (But the children only wanted to) remind him that a zero is a zero no matter which way you face.
As Zero grew into an adult, (13) (he walked a) lonely path
Despite his numerical shortcomings, Zero (14) (felt he had something to) offer.
Zero never allowed bad situations to get him down.
(15) (He didn't want to be a) negative number.
(16) (It wasn't the first time) Zero awoke with a battered and bruised body.
(17) (But this time was different) .
For the first time Zero felt unaware of his lowly number.
In the company of his new friend, (18) (he felt as important as a) three,
or even a four.
But the most wonderful sensation
(19) (was the feeling of) belonging.
A lifetime of loneliness faded (20) (into the past) .
Along with the notion (21) (that their love was) forbidden.
(22) (As the world) continued without him,
Zero wondered how he could ever continue without (23) (his love) .
The newborn bore the mark of infinity,
the largest and most respected (24) (number the people) had ever seen
Zero (25) (knew that for a) nothing
he had created something truly magnificent.
Sources:
Channel: Zealous Creative. Zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMbySJTKpg
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7.8. Warm-up Video for Expressions
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS
Instructions. Research shows that people often say frequently used expressions very fast, and so they can be difficult to catch. Listen and fill the gaps with frequently used three-word expressions.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
And then the WhatsApp deal happened. And Mark is on the board of Facebook. So I just wanted to ask you, (1) ………….. think about that deal and how are you thinking about evaluations? >> So I, unfortunately, I can't, ten years, ten years from now and I know that you all would not come visit me in jail. So I will, I will keep that one to myself. so, there's (2) ………….. big things. So, just in terms of thinking about what we've been through in the last 20 years in Silicon Valley, some people in the room are old enough, you may remember there was a bubble. and, (3) …………..fairly big deal, in sort of 1998 to 2000, and there was a very profound crash, which was deeply traumatizing, for those of us who went through it. long period of, basically, you know, years of pain followed by then, sort of, what I think of as, as very slow recovery. (4) ………….. actually been an object lesson in the psychology of markets and bubbles. I think that, people are much more highly sensitized to bubbles after a bubble. But people get highly sensitized and so there's this phenomena of, of trying to close the, the barn door after the horses have escaped. And that, that is (5) ………….. what all the bubble talk in the last, ten years has been about. And so we, we could talk at length about kinda why I think, in fact, kind of in the three phases and I think we're in the third phase now. The first phase was in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. (6) ………….. so crazily hard. If you talk to people who were in business then or you read the stories, it was so hard to build a new tech company. make all the current, like, high octane entrepreneurs look like wusses. And the ones I'm thinking of, Thomas Watson Senior. If (7) ………….. read, like, what it's like to work for somebody who's harsh, read the book on Thomas Watson Senior. You know, he makes, he makes all And then Ross Perot is my favorite example. Ross Perot built the first great outsourcing company, (8) ………….. big tech successes in the 60s. And of course, you know, he was fantastic as a business builder when he came into contact with the American public, people went, what? So those were kinda the extreme days and then I think both VC and entrepreneurship, tech entrepreneurship, sort of professionalized, and so you had (9) ………….. VCs then. And this includes great VCs, John Doerr, Mike Morris, Jim Breyer, you know, who are business people or investors first, and, and never ran companies. You know, Mark Zuckerberg is kinda the apotheosis of kinda the, the idea that we have now. And so now what's been lost for (10) ………….. the entrepreneurs. (11) ………….. the entrepreneurs are engineers, but not business people. Now what's been lost is (12) ………….. the actual art of building a business. and, in particular, what's been lost is the art of sales and marketing. And (13) ………….. today's founders, (14) ………….. big issues we deal with is they're very technical. They're very product-centric. It's almost like a post traumatic stress kind of thing, you know, like 15 years after the crash. And so now the challenge for (15) ………….. these companies is how to take what are actually fantastic products and fantastic technology and then integrate in top-end business technical founder, CEO, when you have somebody like a Mark Zuckerberg. So that's one model that works very well. And (16) ………….. interesting things about the last five or ten years is more and more of the top end business leaders in Silicon Valley have figured this out. And, like Sheryl, have chosen to partner not as the CEO, but as and became number two at Dropbox to Drew Houston, who's another one of these guys. And so that's one model and I think that's a very exciting model and (17) ………….. working well. The other model is what you might call sort of the Bill Campbell, Scott Cook model. >> And finding a share-all isn't, isn't necessarily that easy. And you've built up a, a very disruptive model within the venture capital industry where you provide (18) ………….. value-added services including hiring and marketing, to portfolio companies. Could you talk a little about, how you came up with that disruptive fire or demote the technical founder and you bring in the professional CEO and you become a sales, sort of a sales-driven company. And so, and we, we kind of, we have (19) ………….. experience with that model. Like I said, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. But we thought, this is, we started our firm, we planned our firm in >> That was good. >> The how do you actually identify them initially? And so (20) ………….. think are the, the traits that founders have and I'd also love to hear about some of the best and worst pitches you ever heard. >> So the, the basic math is the, so there's Failure is good, right? Failure, you guys have probably all been taught this. Heard about this from (21) ………….. people like failure is a wonderful thing, failure teaches you all this stuff, and it's great to fail a lot. Like, and we don't like buy any of that. We think success, on the other hand, is wonderful. You know, you wouldn't think that this is something (22) ………….. actually say out loud. But we, we do find it to be clarifying when we point it out. And so we are strongly biased towards people know that's the kind of thing that's not listed on a resume right. That's something that has to be deep in somebody's, fundamentally deep in somebody's character and (23) ………….. see it in their backgrounds. >> And what has been your, talking of courage, what has been your most courageous moment, and perhaps the moment of which you're most proud? second company, Loud Cloud, when, when got just taken apart. We started our second company Loud Cloud in September 1999. (24) ………….. classic, you know, we were, I mean it was fantastic. It was incredibly high rapid growth rate off of a standing start. Straight into the, you know, the the last six months of the bubble. through that kind of thing at the same time it looks like the entire world is ending, that it looks like (25) ………….. tech industry will never ever recover. I think we, the thing we are most proud of is, is, is actually working our way through that. He actually tells the story, in the book, of how we met, which is a whole story in and of itself. It involves (26) ………….. curse words. You know, we kind of describe ours, I mean we, we, we love each other and we, we, we do everything together, everything in business together. But they're there this year and they'll be there in five years, they'll be there in ten years. So you, (27) ………….. would say at this point, at this point it's troubly hard to untangle how the partnership works other than just we've been working together for so long. kind of different reference points for how we think about things. He is a far better operator than I am, so he's much better at running a business. So for example, (28) ………….. things, when we, when we used to run companies together. A big thing we'd argue about is, you know, I would, I, I, sort of I think what he would say about good idea, in practice, you'll destroy the entire company if we try that. And I'm like well, that's a pretty good point. And then, (29) ………….. argument in the other way is you know, look, I know that the organization is gonna get challenged by this and I know it's gonna be hard and we might lose people, but it's so important that we have to do this thing, that we have to really push it. And so I think (30) ………….. the theories that he and I have developed over the years about how to run companies are kind of at that intersection point of what's kind of intellectually this temptation to think there must be a magic answer. Like, there must be some stroke of genius, you know. It's almost, it's like what you, (31) ………….. . if people watch the new Sherlock Holmes, you know, TV series, which I just love. It's like, you know, Sherlock is gonna have, you And there's this really strong tendency to kind of think, that that, that that's out there. And we see (32) ………….. entrepreneurs that kind of cycle through different silver bullets, and then they don't work and they don't work and they don't work. Ben's point is always, it's probably the answer, So Monday is all day partner meeting. And all the VC firms kinda have this in common. And so, like (33) ………….. really critic, when you're starting a company, there's all these really critical issues, like what product you're gonna build. the crazy ones also seem nuts so it's a little bit of a you know they called Einstein crazy but they also called Charles Manson crazy (34) ………….. be cautious on this stuff. But, the really, really breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time, the first time you see them and, and it's the fact that they seem nuts, can be The entrepreneurs who really have the radical ideas are generally not in a way coachable, they generally react with hostility to being coached. And so (35) ………….. things we test for, is you know, basically say, have you thought about doing it this other way? And what we're not looking for is the, oh, that's a great idea. You know, that is a you, you know, we're just reaching the point now where we're able to apply technology to a, (36) ………….. really fundamental problems in the world, (37) …………..fundamental problems and opportunities. And so it, it, we, we just all feel or I, I feel like we have spent, we, I spent my career and then even to be like, you know, it's like you climb all the way up the hill and then you end up back at the bottom of the hill and (38) ………….. start the climb again. And so at some point you start to think, maybe there's a way to contribute. That has to do with helping people climb the And I guess if I could sum up your views, your optimistic about the prospects for journalism to thrive using a variety of business models. So I'm a former journalist and (39) ………….. the issues that you are thinking about now have been being discussed within the industry for maybe eight or ten years, a we don't really, content's not content, generally, so we don't really, we're not gonna be making (40) ………….. investments in, in media production. Just cuz it's a, it's a different field. We, we can talk more about that. with, to, to, to build, to build things like the web, it's like okay, maybe it's, maybe, maybe it's not the new technology's fault at a certain point. So my observation is, and that (41) ………….. a very interesting topic, so I think the news, and I focused on the news business, cuz that's kinda the, the, the pointy end of the spear, days, and if you extend all the way to the 1930's, the news business worked very differently. (42) ………….. very successful business (43) ………….. , (44) ………….. people were in it, (45) ………….. people made (46) ………….. money. But like, as an example this whole idea of objectivity, the journalist now take as kind of this, kind of, you know, kind of, purer concept that has to be maintained. There's a great book on the news business in the Colonial era in the US called Infamous Scribblers, which was what, (47) ………….. pejorative at the time for reporters, which could come back into fashion. and, it's a great articulation of how the news business actually grew up in the US. post World War II, and you say, well what happened. Well monopolies and oligopolies got established and so for and it, it was sort of this era of centralization in (48) ………….. parts of the economy. But it was very clear in the news business, you had, you know, you'd have one major newspaper per metro area, because of the cost of distribution. That has to do with in many cases having a very strong point of view. It has to with, not with the idea that you're gonna be the only point of view, but you'll be one of many and (49) ………….. argue things out. (50) ………….. have the right cost structure (51) …………..think about market segmentation and you have to, (52) ………….. do all the things that people do when they actually build businesses. The issue in the news business is that (53) ………….. the executives in the business did not grow up in a competitive market and and so they just don't know how to do that. people, the folks who built, you know, you see a lot of this in the tech industry, TechCrunch and all these things. You know, a, (54) ………….. these new things, they're, or, you know, what Pierre Omidyar is doing with First Look is, you're getting, now, very smart people who are coming in from And all the traditional journalists are like, oh yeah that doesn't count, but healthy business, healthy journalism (55) ………….. get the healthy business before you get the healthy journalism. And so, so then you look at market size and you At the intersection of healthcare and, and IT and software. And, actually, there's things happening, actually, on the medical side, and (56) ………….. that, it's very interesting, things now happening around genomics. And big data applied to genomics. And then there's another whole set Or they can get up to date health information, or they can educated, kids can get educated in ways, you know. (57) ………….. countries around the world like they don't have textbooks much less like modern education systems so there's just an enormous ability to upgrade modern education across the entire world. And then of course huge political change and (58) ………….. that is a consequence of people number one being able to see what they're missing and then number two being able to organize. and maybe a few, a few companies in markets like Europe. We're not really set up to invest on the ground in the developing world. But (59) ………….. the companies that we're investing in are building products that we think are going to be transformative on the ground. And so I'll just give you one example.
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
And then the WhatsApp deal happened.
And Mark is on the board of Facebook.
So I just wanted to ask you, (1) (what do you)
think about that deal and how are you thinking about evaluations?
>> So I, unfortunately, I can't, ten years, ten years from now
and I know that you all would not come visit me in jail.
So I will, I will keep that one to myself.
so, there's (2) (a couple of) big things.
So, just in terms of thinking about what we've been through in the last 20 years in
Silicon Valley, some people in the room are
old enough, you may remember there was a bubble.
and, (3) (it was a) fairly big deal, in sort of 1998 to 2000, and there was
a very profound crash, which was deeply traumatizing,
for those of us who went through it.
long period of, basically, you know, years of
pain followed by then, sort of, what I think of as, as very slow recovery.
(4) (I think it's) actually been an object
lesson in the psychology of markets and bubbles.
I think that, people are much more highly sensitized to bubbles after a bubble.
But people get highly sensitized and so there's this phenomena of, of
trying to close the, the barn door after the horses have escaped.
And that, that is (5) (a lot of) what all the
bubble talk in the last, ten years has been about.
And so we, we could talk at length about kinda why I think, in fact,
kind of in the three phases and I think we're in the third phase now.
The first phase was in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.
(6) (And it was) so crazily hard.
If you talk to people who were in business then or you
read the stories, it was so hard to build a new tech company.
make all the current, like, high octane entrepreneurs look like wusses.
And the ones I'm thinking of, Thomas Watson Senior.
If (7) (you want to) read, like, what it's like to work
for somebody who's harsh, read the book on Thomas Watson Senior.
You know, he makes, he makes all
And then Ross Perot is my favorite example.
Ross Perot built the first great outsourcing company,
(8) (one of the) big tech successes in the 60s.
And of course, you know, he was fantastic as a business builder
when he came into contact with the American public, people went, what?
So those were kinda the extreme days and then I think both VC and
entrepreneurship, tech entrepreneurship, sort of professionalized, and
so you had (9) (a lot of) VCs then.
And this includes great VCs, John Doerr, Mike Morris, Jim Breyer, you
know, who are business people or investors first, and, and never ran companies.
You know, Mark Zuckerberg is kinda the apotheosis
of kinda the, the idea that we have now.
And so now what's been lost for (10) (a lot of) the entrepreneurs.
(11) (A lot of) the entrepreneurs are engineers, but not business people.
Now what's been lost is (12) (a lot of) the actual art of building a business.
and, in particular, what's been lost is the art of sales and marketing.
And (13) (a lot of) today's founders, (14) (one of the)
big issues we deal with is they're very technical.
They're very product-centric.
It's almost like a post traumatic stress kind of
thing, you know, like 15 years after the crash.
And so now the challenge for (15) (a lot of)
these companies is how to take what are actually fantastic
products and fantastic technology and then integrate in top-end business
technical founder, CEO, when you have somebody like a Mark Zuckerberg.
So that's one model that works very well.
And (16) (one of the) interesting things about the last five or ten years is more
and more of the top end business leaders in Silicon Valley have figured this out.
And, like Sheryl, have chosen to partner not as the CEO, but as
and became number two at Dropbox to Drew Houston, who's another one of these guys.
And so that's one model and I think that's
a very exciting model and (17) (I think it's) working well.
The other model is what you might call
sort of the Bill Campbell, Scott Cook model.
>> And finding a share-all isn't, isn't necessarily that easy.
And you've built up a, a very disruptive model within the venture capital industry
where you provide (18) (a lot of) value-added
services including hiring and marketing, to portfolio companies.
Could you talk a little about, how you came up with that disruptive
fire or demote the technical founder and you bring in the
professional CEO and you become a sales, sort of a sales-driven company.
And so, and we, we kind of, we have (19) (a lot of) experience with that model.
Like I said, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
But we thought, this is, we started our firm, we planned our firm in
>> That was good.
>> The how do you actually identify them initially?
And so (20) (what do you) think are the, the traits that founders have and I'd
also love to hear about some of the best and worst pitches you ever heard.
>> So the, the basic math is the, so there's
Failure is good, right?
Failure, you guys have probably all been taught this.
Heard about this from (21) (a lot of) people like failure is a wonderful
thing, failure teaches you all this stuff, and it's great to fail a lot.
Like, and we don't like buy any of that.
We think success, on the other hand, is wonderful.
You know, you wouldn't think that this is
something (22) (you have to) actually say out loud.
But we, we do find it to be clarifying when we point it out.
And so we are strongly biased towards people
know that's the kind of thing that's not listed on a resume right.
That's something that has to be deep in somebody's, fundamentally deep
in somebody's character and (23) (you have to) see it in their backgrounds.
>> And what has been your, talking of courage, what has been
your most courageous moment, and perhaps the moment of which you're most proud?
second company, Loud Cloud, when, when got just taken apart.
We started our second company Loud Cloud in September 1999.
(24) (And it was) classic, you know, we were, I mean it was fantastic.
It was incredibly high rapid growth rate off of a standing start.
Straight into the, you know, the the last six months of the bubble.
through that kind of thing at the same time it
looks like the entire world is ending, that it looks
like (25) (you know the) tech industry will never ever recover.
I think we, the thing we are most proud
of is, is, is actually working our way through that.
He actually tells the story, in the book, of how
we met, which is a whole story in and of itself.
It involves (26) (a lot of) curse words.
You know, we kind of describe ours, I mean we, we, we love
each other and we, we, we do everything together, everything in business together.
But they're there this year and they'll be there
in five years, they'll be there in ten years.
So you, (27) (you know I) would say at this point, at this point it's troubly hard
to untangle how the partnership works other than
just we've been working together for so long.
kind of different reference points for how we think about things.
He is a far better operator than I am, so he's much better at running a business.
So for example, (28) (a lot of) things, when we, when we used to run companies together.
A big thing we'd argue about is, you know, I would,
I, I, sort of I think what he would say about
good idea, in practice, you'll destroy the entire company if we try that.
And I'm like well, that's a pretty good point.
And then, (29) (you know the) argument in the other way is you know,
look, I know that the organization is gonna get challenged by this and I
know it's gonna be hard and we might lose people, but it's so important
that we have to do this thing, that we have to really push it.
And so I think (30) (a lot of) the theories that he and I have
developed over the years about how to run companies are kind of at that
intersection point of what's kind of intellectually
this temptation to think there must be a magic answer.
Like, there must be some stroke of genius, you know.
It's almost, it's like what you, (31) (I don't know) .
if people watch the new Sherlock Holmes, you know, TV series, which I just love.
It's like, you know, Sherlock is gonna have, you
And there's this really strong tendency to kind
of think, that that, that that's out there.
And we see (32) (a lot of) entrepreneurs that kind of cycle through different silver
bullets, and then they don't work and they don't work and they don't work.
Ben's point is always, it's probably the answer,
So Monday is all day partner meeting.
And all the VC firms kinda have this in common.
And so, like (33) (one of the) really critic, when you're starting a
company, there's all these really critical
issues, like what product you're gonna build.
the crazy ones also seem nuts so it's a little bit of a you know they called
Einstein crazy but they also called Charles Manson
crazy (34) (you have to) be cautious on this stuff.
But, the really, really breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time, the first
time you see them and, and it's the fact that they seem nuts, can be
The entrepreneurs who really have the radical ideas are generally not
in a way coachable, they generally react with hostility to being coached.
And so (35) (one of the) things we test for, is you
know, basically say, have you thought about doing it this other way?
And what we're not looking for is the, oh, that's a great idea.
You know, that is a you, you know, we're
just reaching the point now where we're able to apply
technology to a, (36) (a lot of) really fundamental problems
in the world, (37) (a lot of) fundamental problems and opportunities.
And so it, it, we, we just all feel or I, I
feel like we have spent, we, I spent my career and then even
to be like, you know, it's like you climb all the way
up the hill and then you end up back at the
bottom of the hill and (38) (you have to) start the climb again.
And so at some point you start to think, maybe there's a way to contribute.
That has to do with helping people climb the
And I guess if I could sum up your views, your optimistic
about the prospects for journalism to thrive using a variety of business models.
So I'm a former journalist and (39) (a lot of) the
issues that you are thinking about now have been being discussed
within the industry for maybe eight or ten years, a
we don't really, content's not content, generally, so
we don't really, we're not gonna be making
(40) (a lot of) investments in, in media production.
Just cuz it's a, it's a different field.
We, we can talk more about that.
with, to, to, to build, to build things like the web, it's like okay,
maybe it's, maybe, maybe it's not the new technology's fault at a certain point.
So my observation is, and that (41) (I think it's) a very interesting
topic, so I think the news, and I focused on the news
business, cuz that's kinda the, the, the pointy end of the spear,
days, and if you extend all the way
to the 1930's, the news business worked very differently.
(42) (It was a) very successful business (43) (and it was) , (44) (a lot of)
people were in it, (45) (a lot of) people made (46) (a lot of) money.
But like, as an example this whole idea of objectivity, the journalist now take as
kind of this, kind of, you know, kind of, purer concept that has to be maintained.
There's a great book on the news business in
the Colonial era in the US called Infamous Scribblers,
which was what, (47) (it was a) pejorative at the
time for reporters, which could come back into fashion.
and, it's a great articulation of how the news business actually grew up in the US.
post World War II, and you say, well what happened.
Well monopolies and oligopolies got established and so for and it, it was
sort of this era of centralization in (48) (a lot of) parts of the economy.
But it was very clear in the news business, you had, you know,
you'd have one major newspaper per metro area, because of the cost of distribution.
That has to do with in many cases having a very strong point of view.
It has to with, not with the idea that you're gonna be the only point
of view, but you'll be one of many and (49) (you have to) argue things out.
(50) (You have to) have the right cost structure
(51) (you have to) think about market segmentation and you
have to, (52) (you have to) do all the
things that people do when they actually build businesses.
The issue in the news business is that (53) (a lot of) the executives in the business did
not grow up in a competitive market and and
so they just don't know how to do that.
people, the folks who built, you know, you see a lot
of this in the tech industry, TechCrunch and all these things.
You know, a, (54) (a lot of) these new things, they're, or,
you know, what Pierre Omidyar is doing with First Look is,
you're getting, now, very smart people who are coming in from
And all the traditional journalists are like,
oh yeah that doesn't count, but healthy business,
healthy journalism (55) (you have to) get the
healthy business before you get the healthy journalism.
And so, so then you look at market size and you
At the intersection of healthcare and, and IT and software.
And, actually, there's things happening, actually, on the medical side, and
(56) (a lot of) that, it's very interesting, things now happening around genomics.
And big data applied to genomics.
And then there's another whole set
Or they can get up to date health information, or
they can educated, kids can get educated in ways, you know.
(57) (A lot of) countries around the world like
they don't have textbooks much less like modern
education systems so there's just an enormous ability
to upgrade modern education across the entire world.
And then of course huge political change and
(58) (a lot of) that is a consequence of people
number one being able to see what they're
missing and then number two being able to organize.
and maybe a few, a few companies in markets like Europe.
We're not really set up to invest on the ground in the developing world.
But (59) (a lot of) the companies that we're investing in are building
products that we think are going to be transformative on the ground.
And so I'll just give you one example.
Sources:
Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marc Andreessen on Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYsXzt1VDc
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7.9. Warm-up Video for Disappearing Sounds
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR DISAPPEARING SOUNDS
Instructions. In fast speech the /t/ and /d/ sounds at the end of the word often disappear. Which frequent words that end in /t/ and /d/ are missing from the gaps?
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
Hi this is Frank Radice (1) ………….. I'm here with Hoby Darling, the head of SkullCandy. We're continuing the series on The Future of Content. Hoby tell me a bit (2)………….. SkullCandy, (3) ………….. you guys are up to (4) ………….. some of your new products. Absolutely, good question, so number one when we think (5) …………..SkullCandy (6) ………….. 's always how do we bring innovative audio (7) …………..'s fun, young (8) ………….. irreverent to our 20 year old consumer (9) …………..from an innovation perspective probably the biggest thing we have going on right now is around these headphones (10) ………….. I have right now, which are our Crusher platform headphones. (11) ………….. really (12) ………….. we did, is we (13)………….. (14) ………….. (15)………….. we said hey 20 year old (16) ………….. is (17) ………….. when you think (18)………….. how you've ever experienced music, when did you love (19) ………….. most? (20) ………….. pretty much (21) ………….. we always hear as you you can guess is, man (22) ………….. was when I sat in (23) ………….. front row of (24) ………….. concert, (25) ………….. first concert I remember (26) …………... (27) …………..so (28………….. we did with crusher is we (29) ………….. let's go (30) ………….. figure (31) ………….. how do we recreate (32) ………….. . So instead of just being a studio environment let's make (33) ………….. feel like you're in (34) ………….. front
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
Hi this is Frank Radice (1) (and) I'm here with Hoby Darling, the head of SkullCandy. We're
continuing the series on The Future of Content. Hoby tell me a bit (2) (about) SkullCandy, (3) (what) you guys are up to (4) (and) some of your new products. Absolutely, good question, so number one when we think (5) (about) SkullCandy (6) (it) 's always how do we bring innovative audio (7) (that) 's fun, young (8) (and) irreverent to our 20 year old consumer (9) (and) from an innovation perspective probably the biggest thing we have going on right now is around these headphones (10) (that) I have right now, which are our Crusher platform headphones. (11) (And) really (12) (what) we did, is we (13) (went) (14) (out) (15) (and)
we said hey 20 year old (16) (what) is (17) (it) when you think (18) (about) how you've ever experienced music, when did you love (19) (it) most? (20) (And) pretty much (21) (what) we always hear as you you can guess is, man (22) (it) was when I sat in (23) (that) front row of (24) (that) concert, (25) (that) first concert I remember (26) (it) . (27) (And) so (28) (what) we did with crusher is we (29) (went) let's go (30) (and) figure (31) (out) how do we recreate (32) (that) . So instead of just being a studio environment let's make (33) (it) feel like you're in (34) (that) front
Sources:
Channel: Red Touch Media. Hoby Darling on Skullcandy's Innovation Efforts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U2nLeAN73c&t=60s
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7.10. Warm-up Video for Disappearing Sounds
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR DISAPPEARING SOUNDS
Instructions. The word and almost always sounds like an. Practice catching it in frequent expressions.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
WE'VE ALL BEEN SWAMPED, SO IT'S LIKE TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING. (1) …………..HADN'T GONE THROUGH MY EMAILS FOR THE DAY, AND SO I DIDN'T SEE THAT, BUT I AM EVER SO GRATEFUL TO WHOEVER NOMINATED ME. - AND THIS SONG "HAPPY"HAS TAKEN-- I TOLD YOU YOU'D GET NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR, (2) ………….. DID. - YES, YES, YOU DID. - (3) ………….. WERE SO FANTASTIC ON THE OSCARS. - THANK YOU.- THAT PERFORMANCE WAS JUST... - THANK YOU.- SO MUCH FUN. - THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. (4) ………….. WAS--IT WAS-- IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE YOU DID TELL ME THAT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE COULDN'T-- WHEN WE COULDN'T GET THE SONG ON RADIO-- (5) ………….. SEE OUR FRIEND CAROLE BAYER SAGER OVER THERE. - HI.- HI. SO SHE UNDERSTANDS THE INDUSTRY. YOU KNOW, IT TOOK THE BRAVE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT, LIKE YOURSELF, (6) ………….. WERE THE LEADER. YOU WERE--YOU GOT AHEAD OF IT FIRST, (7) ………….. JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. - HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THAT SONG? I MEAN, IT'S JUST THE MOST CONTAGIOUS. AND THE ENTIRE--THE ENTIRE CD IS FANTASTIC. - THANK YOU. - (8) ………….. TALK ABOUT--IT'S A TRIBUTE TO WOMEN. - YES, YES.- RIGHT? YOU LOVE WOMEN.- I-- I DO.- IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS. - YES. IN MANY, MANY, MANY WAYS, (9) …………..'RE RIGHT, IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS. - YEAH. FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE A HUGE AFFINITY FOR THEM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'SA LOT OF INEQUALITY WITH WOMEN. YOU KNOW?(10) ………….. KNOW HOW THAT GOES. EVERYTHING FROM... [cheers and applause] - I HEARD THAT TOO.- RIGHT? - YEAH. - YOU KNOW, (11) ………….. 'VE SAID THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES, BUT, LIKE, WHAT--I NEED TO SAY THIS ON YOUR PLATFORM 'CAUSE IT'S SUPER HUGE. [applause] RIGHT? - I KNOW IT.I KNOW IT. - YOU KNOW ?(12) ………….. MEAN-- AND WHEN I SAY "EQUALITY"--LISTEN. YOU'LL BE SURPRISED, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
WE'VE ALL BEEN SWAMPED,
SO IT'S LIKE TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING.
(1) (AND I) HADN'T GONE THROUGH MY EMAILS FOR THE DAY,
AND SO I DIDN'T SEE THAT,
BUT I AM EVER SO GRATEFUL TO WHOEVER NOMINATED ME.
- AND THIS SONG "HAPPY"HAS TAKEN--
I TOLD YOU YOU'D GET NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR,
(2) (AND YOU) DID.
- YES, YES, YOU DID.
- (3) (AND YOU) WERE SO FANTASTIC ON THE OSCARS.
- THANK YOU.- THAT PERFORMANCE WAS JUST...
- THANK YOU.- SO MUCH FUN.
- THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
(4) (AND IT) WAS--IT WAS--
IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE YOU DID TELL ME THAT,
BUT AT THE SAME TIME,
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE COULDN'T--
WHEN WE COULDN'T GET THE SONG ON RADIO--
(5) (AND I) SEE OUR FRIEND CAROLE BAYER SAGER OVER THERE.
- HI.- HI.
SO SHE UNDERSTANDS THE INDUSTRY.
YOU KNOW, IT TOOK THE BRAVE PEOPLE
WHO UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT, LIKE YOURSELF,
(6) (AND YOU) WERE THE LEADER.
YOU WERE--YOU GOT AHEAD OF IT FIRST,
(7) (AND I) JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
- HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THAT SONG?
I MEAN, IT'S JUST THE MOST CONTAGIOUS.
AND THE ENTIRE--THE ENTIRE CD IS FANTASTIC.
- THANK YOU.
- (8) (AND YOU) TALK ABOUT--IT'S A TRIBUTE TO WOMEN.
- YES, YES.- RIGHT?
YOU LOVE WOMEN.- I--
I DO.- IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS.
- YES.
IN MANY, MANY, MANY WAYS, (9) (AND YOU) 'RE RIGHT,
IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS.
- YEAH.
FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE A HUGE AFFINITY FOR THEM,
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'SA LOT OF INEQUALITY WITH WOMEN.
YOU KNOW?(10) (AND YOU) KNOW HOW THAT GOES.
EVERYTHING FROM...
[cheers and applause]
- I HEARD THAT TOO.- RIGHT?
- YEAH.
- YOU KNOW, (11) (AND I) 'VE SAID THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES,
BUT, LIKE, WHAT--I NEED TO SAY THIS ON YOUR PLATFORM
'CAUSE IT'S SUPER HUGE.
[applause]RIGHT?
- I KNOW IT.I KNOW IT.
- YOU KNOW?(12) (AND I) MEAN--
AND WHEN I SAY "EQUALITY"--LISTEN.
YOU'LL BE SURPRISED, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
Sources:
Channel: TheEllenShow. Pharrell Williams' Impressive Career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FHcm2GHW6w
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7.11. Warm-up Video for Expressions
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS
Instructions. Research shows that people often say frequently used expressions very fast, and so they can be difficult to catch. Listen and fill the gaps with frequently used three-word expressions.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
INFLUENCE THAT THE WORKSHOP HAS HAD, FOR GOOD OR BAD. I THINK THERE ARE (1) ………….. VERY BAD IMITATIONS OF IT OUT THERE IN THE WORLD. AIRPORT WALKING DOWN THE RAMP. SO, I -- MY PARENTS WERE REPUBLICAN AND, LIKE (2) ………….. PEOPLE IN 1966, THOUGHT THAT THE WAR WAS A POLICING ACTION THAT >> SO, CHEEVER CONDUCTED THE CLASS LIKE A COCKTAIL PARTY. (3) ………….. LIGHT CONVERSATION WITH VERY BROAD NEW ENGLAND "A's." HE WOULD SAY, "THERE'S A CERTAIN >> [ LAUGHING ] OH, MY GOD. >> AND (4) ………….. MY BRILLIANT MIDWESTERN CLASSMATES WERE TERRIFIED OF NOT ONLY HIM BUT OF TALKING GEMINI, SO I FELT RIGHT AT HOME. (5) ………….. THE BEGINNING OF, AGAIN, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP AND A GREAT LASTING CONNECTION. >> BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE REALLY ARE THINGS STANDING IN THE WAY. AND (6) ………….. THINGS THAT I TRY TO DO FOR MY PRESENT STUDENTS IS SAY, "WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?" AND IF YOU CAN'T WAIT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR -- WHY (7) ………….. DO THIS AND WHAT PARENTHOOD REALLY MEANS." AUTHORSHIP ALSO HAS ITS RIGHTS WORLD, IT'S A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT. (8) ………….. FIND YOURSELF JUSTIFYING, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" THIS, 'CAUSE I TOOK FICTION CLASS AS AN UNDERGRAD. (9) ………….. IF I COULD HAVE DONE A STORY A WEEK. BUT YOU HAD A -- THERE WAS A >> YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE THINGS YOU TELL YOUR STUDENTS. (10) ………….. YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING HAS CHANGED AT ALL OVER THE YEARS, I MEAN, AND THEN WITH WORK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO IS YEARS AHEAD. AND THIS IS (11) ………….. PARADOXES OF BEING A NOVELIST IS A NOVELIST IS BORN AT 40. >> AND IT'S REALLY TRUE. I MEAN, THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR BEING A NOVELIST ARE (12) ………….. HAVE HAD YOUR HEART BROKEN AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN THREE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND SURVIVED IT, AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY (13) ………….. HAVE BROKEN A FEW YOURSELF, BUT WE'VE ALL DONE THAT ACCIDENTALLY AND ON PURPOSE. AND (14) ………….. BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. AND THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS AND I WENT TO FUNERALS FOUR DAYS A WEEK. (15) ………….. A HORRIBLE TIME, AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SURVIVE. BUT I CAME OUT OF THE REFINER'S THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPEAKING WITH US TODAY. >> (16) ………….. PLEASURE. >> ALLAN GURGANUS' MOST FAMOUS NOVEL IS "OLDEST LIVING
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
INFLUENCE THAT THE WORKSHOP HAS HAD, FOR GOOD OR BAD.
I THINK THERE ARE (1) (A LOT OF) VERY BAD IMITATIONS OF IT OUT THERE
IN THE WORLD.
AIRPORT WALKING DOWN THE RAMP.
SO, I -- MY PARENTS WERE REPUBLICAN AND, LIKE (2) (A LOT OF) PEOPLE IN 1966, THOUGHT THAT THE WAR WAS A POLICING ACTION THAT
>> SO, CHEEVER CONDUCTED THE CLASS LIKE A COCKTAIL PARTY.
(3) (IT WAS A) LIGHT CONVERSATION WITH VERY BROAD NEW ENGLAND "A's."
HE WOULD SAY, "THERE'S A CERTAIN
>> [ LAUGHING ]
OH, MY GOD.
>> AND (4) (A LOT OF) MY BRILLIANT MIDWESTERN CLASSMATES WERE TERRIFIED OF NOT ONLY HIM BUT OF TALKING GEMINI, SO I FELT RIGHT AT HOME.
(5) (AND IT WAS) THE BEGINNING OF, AGAIN, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP AND A GREAT LASTING CONNECTION.
>> BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE REALLY ARE THINGS STANDING IN THE WAY.
AND (6) (ONE OF THE) THINGS THAT I TRY TO DO FOR MY PRESENT STUDENTS IS
SAY, "WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?"
AND IF YOU CAN'T WAIT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR --
WHY (7) (YOU WANT TO) DO THIS AND WHAT PARENTHOOD REALLY MEANS."
AUTHORSHIP ALSO HAS ITS RIGHTS WORLD, IT'S A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT.
(8) (YOU HAVE TO) FIND YOURSELF JUSTIFYING, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING
HERE?"
THIS, 'CAUSE I TOOK FICTION CLASS AS AN UNDERGRAD.
(9) (I DON'T KNOW) IF I COULD HAVE DONE A STORY A WEEK.
BUT YOU HAD A -- THERE WAS A
>> YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE THINGS YOU TELL YOUR STUDENTS.
(10) (DO YOU THINK) YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING HAS CHANGED AT ALL OVER
THE YEARS, I MEAN, AND THEN WITH WORK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO IS
YEARS AHEAD.
AND THIS IS (11) (ONE OF THE) PARADOXES OF BEING A NOVELIST IS A NOVELIST IS BORN AT 40.
>> AND IT'S REALLY TRUE.
I MEAN, THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR BEING A NOVELIST ARE (12) (YOU HAVE TO) HAVE HAD YOUR HEART BROKEN AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN THREE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND SURVIVED IT, AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY (13) (YOU HAVE TO) HAVE BROKEN A FEW YOURSELF, BUT WE'VE ALL DONE THAT ACCIDENTALLY AND ON
PURPOSE.
AND (14) (YOU HAVE TO) BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE.
AND THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS
AND I WENT TO FUNERALS FOUR DAYS A WEEK.
(15) (AND IT WAS) A HORRIBLE TIME, AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SURVIVE.
BUT I CAME OUT OF THE REFINER'S THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPEAKING WITH US TODAY.
>> (16) (IT WAS A) PLEASURE.
>> ALLAN GURGANUS' MOST FAMOUS NOVEL IS "OLDEST LIVING
Sources:
Channel: University of Iowa. Conversations: Alan Gurganus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITfE9yZd5M&t=103s
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7.12. Warm-up Video for Expressions
WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS
Instructions. Research shows that people often say frequently used expressions very fast, and so they can be difficult to catch. Listen and fill the gaps with frequently used two-word expressions.
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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.
[SOUND] Thank you very much for taking the time to come in and speak to us. Many of us, are aspiring entrepreneurs, so (1) …………..really quite like to be like you. And, many others, would also like to pitch to you. >> [LAUGH] >> Actually sitting here makes me, gives me a sense of how intimidating that must be, so, (2) ………….., (3) ………….. wish it for much longer. >> [LAUGH] >> And perhaps, perhaps we could, just start by outlining the, the three main topics (4) ………….. love to cover today. The first is your views on tech and venture capital trends. The second is, how you assess entrepreneurial DNA. And the third is your views on leadership and your leadership experiences, that, that (5) ………….. had throughout your, your esteemed career. And so, if we could perhaps start with the, that first, tech trends, and go with something topical. >> So I, unfortunately, I can't, ten years, ten years from now I can come back and tell you all about the WhatsApp deal, but right now (6) ………….. on the, (7) ………….. on the, (8) ………….. on the Facebook board and I know that you all would not come visit me in jail. So I will, I will keep that one to myself. so, (9) …………..a couple of big things. So, just in terms of thinking about what (10) ………….. been through in the last 20 years in Silicon Valley, some people in the room are old enough, you may remember there was a bubble. long period of, basically, you know, years of pain followed by then, sort of, what I think of as, as very slow recovery. I think (11) ………….. actually been an object lesson in the psychology of markets and bubbles. I think that, people are much more highly sensitized to bubbles after a bubble. If you could be sensitized to them before a bubble, you could make a lot more money. But people get highly sensitized and so (12) ………….. this phenomena of, of trying to close the, the barn door after the horses have escaped. And that, that is a lot of what all the is an economist named Carlotta Perez, who wrote a book called Technological Revolutions. (13) ………….. probably the single best book. Like, that book and The Innovator's Dilemma are probably the two key books that are really critical to understanding how this industry works. a general model for the deployment of new technologies. And then how technologies intersect with financial markets. And so (14) ………….. got this whole thing, and (15) ………….. basically this multi-generational process. And (16) ………….. what, (17) ………….. basically these two big, sort of phases of it. (18) ………….. (19) ………….. called the installation phase and (20) ………….. (21) ………….. called the deployment phase. And it turns out in every single case and this includes railroads and, like, lots, electricity and steam engines and lots of prior new fundamental technologies, (22) ………….. always this just gigantic bubble and then crash kind of halfway through. And historically that marks the transition from The deployment stage, you could argue, is where the actual interesting thing, things happen. (23) ………….. where all the tech-, all the new technologies actually start to work. They actually make it into (24) ………….. hands. They actually become cost effective and we actually find out how to actually use all these things. And so that's the phase I think (25) ………….. in, in now. You know, without talking about the Whatsapp deal in particular, it is interesting to note that the companies that people think today, for the most part, have extraordinarily high customer, count. user, user count. Market sizes have expanded gigantically and so (26) ………….. got these things now that people are arguing about that have, in some cases, a half can have a large scale internet service that's worth a billion users that's not gonna be worth anything, you, you could take that position, (27) ………….. not sure you would recommend it. >> Yeah, no, that makes sense. When you, as you say, when you look at the, the cost per user, (28) ………….. actually only $36, which is much, much less than in many others for the (29) ………….. deal. But another thing you, you previously mentioned was that, MBAs flocking into the tech sector is a sign of the bubble. >> So, could that, perhaps, be a sign of a bubble? >> So things are heating up. And so, [LAUGH] Historically, (30) ………….. actually been, and I suspect everybody in the room knows this, there has been a
Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.
[SOUND] Thank you very much for taking the time to come in and speak to us.
Many of us, are aspiring entrepreneurs, so (1) (we'd) really quite like to be like you.
And, many others, would also like to pitch to you.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Actually sitting here makes me, gives me a sense of how intimidating
that must be, so, (2) (I won't) , (3) (I won't) wish it for much longer.
>> [LAUGH]
>> And perhaps, perhaps we could, just start by outlining
the, the three main topics (4) (I'd) love to cover today.
The first is your views on tech and venture capital trends.
The second is, how you assess entrepreneurial DNA.
And the third is your views on leadership and your
leadership experiences, that, that (5) (you've) had throughout your, your esteemed career.
And so, if we could perhaps start with the,
that first, tech trends, and go with something topical.
>> So I, unfortunately, I can't, ten years, ten years from now
I can come back and tell you all about the WhatsApp deal, but
right now (6) (I'm) on the, (7) (I'm) on the, (8) (I'm) on the Facebook board
and I know that you all would not come visit me in jail.
So I will, I will keep that one to myself.
so, (9) (there's) a couple of big things.
So, just in terms of thinking about what (10) (we've) been through in the last 20 years in
Silicon Valley, some people in the room are
old enough, you may remember there was a bubble.
long period of, basically, you know, years of
pain followed by then, sort of, what I think of as, as very slow recovery.
I think (11) (it's) actually been an object
lesson in the psychology of markets and bubbles.
I think that, people are much more highly sensitized to bubbles after a bubble.
If you could be sensitized to them before a bubble, you could make a lot more money.
But people get highly sensitized and so (12) (there's) this phenomena of, of
trying to close the, the barn door after the horses have escaped.
And that, that is a lot of what all the
is an economist named Carlotta Perez,
who wrote a book called Technological Revolutions.
(13) (It's) probably the single best book.
Like, that book and The Innovator's Dilemma are probably the two
key books that are really critical to understanding how this industry works.
a general model for the deployment of new technologies.
And then how technologies intersect with financial markets.
And so (14) (she's) got this whole
thing, and (15) (it's) basically this multi-generational process.
And (16) (there's) what, (17) (it's) basically these two big, sort of phases of it.
(18) (There's) (19) (what's) called the installation phase
and (20) (there's) (21) (what's) called the deployment phase.
And it turns out in every single case and
this includes railroads and, like, lots, electricity and steam engines
and lots of prior new fundamental technologies, (22) (there's) always this
just gigantic bubble and then crash kind of halfway through.
And historically that marks the transition from
The deployment stage, you could argue, is
where the actual interesting thing, things happen.
(23) (It's) where all the tech-, all the new technologies actually start to work.
They actually make it into (24) (everybody's) hands.
They actually become cost effective and we actually
find out how to actually use all these things.
And so that's the phase I think (25) (we're) in, in now.
You know, without talking about the Whatsapp deal in particular,
it is interesting to note that the companies that people think
today, for the most part, have extraordinarily high customer, count.
user, user count.
Market sizes have expanded gigantically and so (26) (you've)
got these things now that people are arguing
about that have, in some cases, a half
can have a large scale internet service that's worth a
billion users that's not gonna be worth anything, you, you
could take that position, (27) (I'm) not sure you would recommend it.
>> Yeah, no, that makes sense.
When you, as you say, when you look at the, the cost per user, (28) (it's)
actually only $36, which is much, much less
than in many others for the (29) (What'sApp) deal.
But another thing you, you previously mentioned was that, MBAs
flocking into the tech sector is a sign of the bubble.
>> So, could that, perhaps, be a sign of a bubble?
>> So things are heating up.
And so, [LAUGH] Historically, (30) (there's) actually
been, and I suspect everybody in the
room knows this, there has been a
Sources:
Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marc Andreessen on Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYsXzt1VDc
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