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ah yeah what's going on all so I was a
bit late to the party but last month I
just finally watched the first season of
Netflix's award-winning series Arcane
now if you've never heard of this series
it is set in the fictional world of
League of Legends and it follows two
sisters bye and Jinx who find themselves
on imposing sides of a conflict in the
Utopian city of piltover
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so Vine powder lose their parents in an
uprising that is an act of resistance or
rebellion and they become inseparable
they live in piltover a city divided
between the rich who live in top side
the upper part of the city and the
rebels who live in the undercity
after their parents die the two girls
are raised by Vander who's considered a
leader in the undercity thy Potter and
their friends often go on different
missions to steal things from topside or
to sabotage the enforcers police their
friends don't like it when powder comes
along because she always messes up on
missions one of their friends Milo even
starts calling powder a jinx
every time she comes something goes
wrong
Jinx is every job just drop it Milo if
you call someone a jinx you mean that
person brings bad luck VI is the oldest
of the sisters and very protective of
powder let's watch a scene where the two
sisters are bonding after mission or
powder messed up
and that
when I was a kid so I'm glad I took my
favorite toy threw it up there
I used to come out here at night stare
at it
hoping maybe the wind or a bird might
knock it down
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we've all had bad days
but we learn
when we stick together
oh I forgot
these were in my pocket they're from the
apartment
what are they
I don't know
should we show Vander no
let's keep this our little secret
Milo's wrong powder you're stronger than
you think
and one day
this City's gonna respect us
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and that
when I was a kid some guy took my
favorite toy and threw it up there
English can be quite literal sometimes
when Bai says that some guy threw her
toy up there that is literally what
happened as you can see in the scene the
toy is literally stuck up there so the
phrasal verb to throw up here means to
throw something up in the air
but there's another common meaning for
throw up to vomit check out this example
from Friends where Rachel is talking
about smoking
God you know it's I mean yeah my tongue
feels a little fuzzy and this bigger
sort of smell
I actually feel like I could throw up
all right but you gotta push past this
okay because it's about to get so good
I used to come out here at night and
stare at it
we use used to to talk about past habits
but it's important to point out the
pronunciation here we say yusta and it
doesn't matter if the sentence is in the
affirmative negative or interrogative
form the sound is the same let's
practice I used to come out here
I didn't used to come out here did you
used to come out here
I used to come out here at night stare
at it
hoping maybe the wind or a bird might
knock it down when you stare at
something or someone you look at that
thing or person for a long time without
blinking remember that the preposition
that follows the verb to stare is always
at so you always stare at something or
someone check out this example from The
Simpsons
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you'll get the hang of it honey today is
just a little Gusty everyone's staring
at me
hoping maybe the wind or a bird might
knock it down to knock something down
that means to bring it down from a high
position which is exactly what via
saying here
a person can also be knocked down this
usually happens in the context of sports
such as boxing or when someone suffers
an accident what do we got head injury
he got knocked down we'll get him up
again we've all had bad days
but we learn
and we stick together
we can see the present perfect tense
being used here
one of the uses of the present perfect
tense is when talking about things that
happened in the past without saying when
they happened when by says we've all had
bad days she's talking about the past
but since we don't know exactly when
those bad days happened we see the
present perfect instead of the past
simple here
now if you want to say when something
happened in the past then you can use
the past simple tense look at these
examples
I've seen Arkin twice
I saw Arcane twice last month choose the
correct option I League of Legends of
any time
I have played League of Legends many
times
they League of Legends in 2010.
they started playing League of Legends
in 2010.
we've all had bad days
but we learned
together
as I said at the beginning of the lesson
Vai is very protective of her sister
powder when she says we stick together
she's saying the same as we stay
together and help each other when people
stick together at the remain United and
loyal in the context of romantic
relationships two other phrasal verbs
that are commonly used are to end up
together and to get back together
to end up together means to spend the
rest of your life with someone to get
back together means to start a
relationship again after breaking up
with someone check out these examples
you're gonna have to understand that
you're with a guy who's not going to
stop planning his future with you
because he knows we're going to end up
together and if that scares you tough
because you're gonna have to deal with
that fine I will
there's just some things I've been
thinking about you know things about us
and before you can even think about the
two of us getting back together I just
need to know how you feel about this
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silco is a gang boss in the undercity
who wants to take control from Vander
after he captures Vander Vai and her
friends go to rescue him knowing powder
vitals her not to come because she's not
ready but powder secretly comes anyway
and while Vai and her friends are
struggling to take on silco Powder
throws one of her bombs
her bombs usually don't work but this
time it does at first powder is really
happy she's been able to make one of her
bombs work but she doesn't realize that
the explosion ends up killing Vander and
the rest of their friends
aside from being really emotional the
next scene is great for us to practice
pronunciation with let's watch it
fight worked what did you see me my
monkey bomb finally worked
you did this
why
why did you do this
hidden I was saving you
oh they wanted to help
I only wanted to help I told you to stay
away
why did you leave me because you're a
jinx do you hear me Milo was right
oh
my God
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see me my monkey bomb finally worked
the second bee and bomb is silent words
in English that end in mb are usually
pronounced with a silent B so we say
bomb
here are other examples where the letter
B is silent repeat after me comb lamb
dumb limb
num
did you see me my monkey bomb finally
worked
be careful when pronouncing regular
verbs in the past such as worked aside
from a couple of exceptions we don't
pronounce the e in Ed verbs so don't say
Wicked but worked
notice that the D in worked actually has
a t sound here are other examples
asked locked
fixed
helped passed walked good
did you do this
did you hear how VI pronounces the first
D and did she uses a flap D here duh
another common pattern we see here is
the D plus y combination between the
final D and did and the letter Y in u
so we hear why did you do this
check out these examples
why did you do this and he's like why
did you do this why did you pollute you
are bad
I was saving you
absolutely wanted to help if I only
wanted to help powder speaks this
segment quite quickly in American
English we usually drop the T in wanted
and just say wanted then the word to
that follows is either pronounced ta as
in wanata or da as in Juanita
listen again
I
told you to stay away
I told you day away
did you hear how via reduces the word to
to duh she says I told you to stay away
and again we can hear the D plus y
combination in told you remember this is
the Jew sound putting it all together we
have I told you to stay away
I told you to stay away
because you're a jinx do you hear me
when you call someone a jinx you mean
that the person is immature the person
brings bad luck the person is stubborn
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told you at the beginning of the lesson
that Milo one of their friends used to
call powder a jinx obviously hurt by the
death of her friends Vai who was always
super productive of powder finally calls
her a jinx too there's also a common
idiom in English with this word which
goes like this Jinx yomi Coke
this is an informal phrase that people
say when two people unintentionally say
the same thing at the same time check it
out
who do you all fantasize about Russell
Crowe Jinx you owe me Coke that's
amazing what did women do before Russell
Crowe some people also say it Jinx buy
me a coke check it out
I do not think that is
Jinx buy me a coke oh no no no no
talking
Jim is not allowed to talk until after
he buys me a Coke
about 10 years have passed after
vander's death powder is raised by silco
and transforms into Jinx a powerful
fighter however she carries with her
some Trauma from the past having
hallucinations about her dead friends
being extremely violent and doing bad
things for silco
Bai has been in prison but an enforcer
Caitlyn gets her release so she can help
with the investigation on silco's gang
in the next clip we're going to watch
the Two Sisters reunite
he's changed when you left I changed
I know how I know you did what you had
to do to survive
me too it's okay what matters is we're
together
who's she
who are you it's okay she's a friend
savika wasn't lying you're with an
enforcer
is jinx Caitlyn just listen we can work
this out this is a trick you're playing
me shut up
no mood
we didn't say anything I wasn't talking
to you powder it's okay stop calling me
that it's Jinx now powder fell down a
well
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who's she
who are you it's okay she's a friend
savika wasn't lying you're with an
enforcer in the series the police
officers from topside are called
enforcers that actually makes sense
because the verb tin Force means to make
sure the law or the rules are followed
for example
it isn't always easy for the police to
enforce speed limits the new teacher had
failed to enforce any sort of discipline
Mrs Jinx Caitlyn just listen we can work
this out the phrasal verb to work it out
means to fix a problem or to find the
solution to a difficult situation
this actually reminds me of a classic
song from The Beatles we Can Work It Out
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we can work this out this is a trick
you're playing me suspicious by seeing
her sister with an enforcer Jinx thinks
VI is tricking her if you trick someone
you make that person believe in
something that is not true usually out
of self-interest
then Jinx says to VI you're playing me
this is the same as saying you're
tricking me or you're lying to me the
idea here is that you're being
manipulated by someone else
Quinn is totally playing you what that's
ridiculous if she were playing me why
would she agree to go on a date with me
shut up
so it seems like Jinx is hallucinating a
bit here you can use the phrase I'm in
no mood to say that you don't want to do
something or you're not willing to do it
the word mood represents your state of
mind when you're in a bad mood you feel
sad and with a lack of energy when
you're in a good mood you feel the
opposite hello friend Leonard hey you're
in a good mood I'm in a great mood
powder it's okay stop calling me that
it's Jinx now powder fell down a well
choose the picture that shows a well
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thank you
now picture someone falling down a well
can you imagine it Jinx is using this
phrase figuratively here what she means
is that she's not the same girl she used
to be powder's gone and now there's only
Jinx hey are you enjoying the lesson so
far well that's great
hey if you're anything like me then
probably some of your favorite series
over the last couple years I've actually
been on Netflix right so what I want to
know is what Netflix series would you
like to learn English with let us know
down in the comments below and who knows
we might just make our next lesson on it
and now let's test everything that you
learned in today's lesson by watching
the scenes a final time without
subtitles and answering some quiz
questions oh yeah
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foreign
toy
and threw it up there
I used to come out here at night and
stare at it
hoping maybe the wind or a bird might
knock it down
we've all had bad days
to stare at means to look at for a long
time to look at briefly to look at
repeatedly
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wanted to help I always wanted to help
we only wanted to help I told you to
stay away
I told you to stay away
because you're a jinx do you hear me
Milo was right
hey Jinx is someone who brings good luck
brings bad luck brings Fortune
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it's okay she's a friend savika wasn't
lying you're with an enforcer
your sister is jinx Caitlyn just listen
we can work this out this is a trick
you're playing me shut up
no mood
we didn't say anything I wasn't talking
to you powder it's okay stop calling me
that it's Jinx now powder fell down a
well which phrase is closest in meaning
to the phrase that you're playing me
to joke with someone to have fun with
someone to manipulate someone
foreign
for joining me for today's lesson and if
you haven't yet I highly recommend that
you check out Arcane it was one of my
favorite series that I watched last year
I mean it has beautiful animation a
compelling storyline and a Twist at the
end that you really won't see coming I
mean what else do you need and season
two is actually going to be coming out
later this year or maybe early next so
it's a perfect time to watch
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could only transform into great apes but
this is no great ape
move as fast as you can these Piccolo
dies that Kami dies too I don't think I
need to remind you what that would mean