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imagine this you're living your life
just having a normal day but then
suddenly aliens come down from the sky
and start destroying everything ins
sight they have lasers that evaporate
people into nothing crazy right
well that's exactly what one of the
worlds is
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Tom Cruz plays Ray a regular guy facing
an extraordinary problem when strange
aliens attack Earth and start destroying
everything in their way Ray needs to
take his two children and escape from
the Extraterrestrial
Invaders the movie is is like a really
intense Adventure where Ry tries to
survive and keep his kids safe next
let's watch a clip when Ry meets a
Survivor named Haren ogi who offers him
and his daughter a place to hide from
the
aliens
harl refere I got
water food enough for weeks
you're welcome to stay both of
you
sorry I get some
sleep those machines
those tripods they
got they buried
them right under our
feet since before there there were even
people
here they've been planning this for a
million
years we're beat to please my
daughter think about
it they defeated the greatest power in
the world in a couple
days walked right over us and these are
only the first they'll keep
coming this is not a war any more than
there's a war between men and
maggots this is an
extermination
[Music]
I got
water food enough for
weeks you're welcome to stay both you
saying use is an informal colloquial way
of saying you it's generally not
considered appropriate for formal or
professional settings and may even be
considered an educated speech in those
contexts however it can be perfectly
acceptable and even expected in casual
conversations among friends or in
certain cultural contexts it's also
important to point out that use is
primarily used in some dialects of
English particularly in Ireland parts of
Scotland Australia and certain regions
of the United States I know it is what
are you guys looking at go back to work
all of
is
oh oh to we need to talk these huh
what do you
want I get some sleep so we have a going
to sentence here a typical reduction for
going to is G I'm gone but here in the
movie we actually hear it even more
reduced Tom Cruz's character says amam
amam all right and then the T forget
becomes G it's a stop tea or stop
consant that we have there get get so
putting it together we have I'm going to
get I'm going to get some
sleep going to get some
sleep they buried
him right under our feet right under our
feet
let's study the connected speech so
right under the T for right becomes a
flap sound which joins with under the
vowel U so right under right under all
right and then our feet the T for feet
is not really fully pronounced this is a
stop T again so I say feet feet right
under our feet right under our feet
right under I
Fe they've been planning this for a
million
years or beat please if you feel
beat you feel extremely tired or
exhausted but in this context the phrase
we're beat to is used to emphasize
how the characters are extremely
exhausted and emotionally affected
because they have been trying to defend
themselves against the
aliens I thought dogs was going to be an
ny way to make money I was half R you
look all beat the
yeah they defeated the greatest power in
the world in a couple
days this phases an informal way of
expressing a short duration of time
typically referring to two days it's
commonly used in casual conversation to
express the idea of a brief period often
without specifying exact dates or times
for example I'll be away for a couple
days indicates that the speaker will be
absent for approximately 2 Days in the
movie AGI is referring to the United
States military as the greatest power in
the world and how the aliens have
defeated it in only two days what's also
interesting is that the character says a
couple days instead of a couple of days
which makes it sound even more informal
again I'm sorry if I caused you any
trouble oh no you didn't cause me any
trouble you got me home and uh a little
late couple days what no I'm supposed to
go to the Grove with my friends oh
really how long you been planning that a
couple days oh yeah I've been planning
this for a couple of months girl they
defeated the greatest power in the world
in a couple
days walked right over us if you walk
right over someone you act in a way that
that shows that you consider the other
person to be insignificant or Irrelevant
for example during the meeting the
manager walked right over us and made
decisions without consulting our
team but in this context since the story
is about aliens destroying humankind
this expression can be understood more
literally it's like the aliens with
their tripods are literally walking over
people and cities and destroying
everything
inide but this expression actually
reminds me of another expression to walk
all over someone if you walk all over
someone you take advantage of that
person's kindness and generosity you
don't treat the other person with
dignity and respect oh give it up your
band has never made two sents py come on
I'm on this oh you're on this you're on
this he's walking all over you mommy
could we please talk about this
later this is not a war anymore than
there a war between men and maggots
this is an
extermination in its literal sense
maggots are the larvae of flies often
found in decaying organic matter in this
context the word maggots is used
metaphorically to refer to a group of
individuals considered inferior
insignificant or powerless compared to
another group in this case the aliens
would be considered the Superior Group
while humans are the maggots who get
exterminated easily do you love learning
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the way did you know that War of the
Worlds is actually a novel written by HG
Wells the book was published in
1898 and in the 1930s there was the
first adaptation of the book to audio
format which played on the radio this ad
adaptation was done by Orson Wells let
me read a bit of that adaptation for you
we now know that in the early years of
the 20th century this world was being
watched closely by intelligences greater
than man's and yet as mortal as his own
we know now that as human beings busy
themselves about their various concerns
pretty cool isn't it now let's watch a
clip from an interview where Tom Cruz is
talking about working with Steven
Spielberg on this movie
what makes
working with Mr Spielberg different from
other directors now Mr Spielberg is that
your dad that's that's my dad what makes
working for my dad different than
working for other dads and what do you
take away from your experience working
with him well now I'm going to really uh
embarrass
Stephen but uh I'm actually GNA I really
don't care because the truth is is that
what everyone knows is that stepen
sperberg is the greatest uh Storyteller
Cinema has ever known every director is
is very different but I can just tell
you what it's like working with Steven
Spielberg which is it is a creative
combustion it's not an analytical it's
not a a a mechanical process it's it's
uh an inspired process and something
that just happens on the moment although
this was the fastest pre-production and
the scale of this film is the largest
scale that that I I have ever been a
part of and uh I've proded produced and
acted in big films but with Steven I
never felt
rushed and what do you take away from
your experience working with him and
what do you take away from your
experience working with him is the same
as and what do you take with you or
extract from that experience a takeaway
is exactly something that you take or
extract from an experience a movie a
book a podcast anything that you
experience or assume in my case for
example I always ask my students this at
the end of our lessons together I
usually ask them okay guys we're done
with the class what is your takeaway
from today in other words what is one
big idea that you take with you from the
session and what do you take away from
your experience working with him well
now I'm going to really uh embarrass
Stephen when you embarrass someone you
make that person feel shy or
uncomfortable especially in public
but here Tom Cruz is saying that he's
going to embarrass stevenh because Tom
Cruz is about to say a lot of positive
things great things about Spielberg and
spiber might be a little bit
uncomfortable with all this
praise but uh I'm actually going to I
Really Don't Care Tom Cruz does
something interesting with the word but
here notice that he joins butt with the
schw sound up the schw sound up is the
rting sound we make when we are thinking
about what we're going to say next so
this is very common some natives do that
a lot they go but uh but uh as a way to
give them those two three seconds to
think before continue
speaking but uh I'm actually going to I
really don't care because the truth is
is that what everyone knows is that
Steven sperberg is the greatest uh
Storyteller Cinema has ever known what
everyone knows the T for what again
becomes a flap T sound which is joined
with the vow e for everyone so what what
everyone what everyone
knows but uh I'm actually going to I
really don't care because the truth is
is that what everyone knows is that step
sperberg is the greatest uh Storyteller
Cinema has ever known this is a great
use of superlative with a present
perfect sentence this is really common
usually we use a superlative sentence
for example this is the greatest movie
or this is the best book and at the end
of that sentence we use a present
perfect Clause with have ever so this is
the greatest movie I have ever seen or
this is the best book I have ever read
it's like in my life all right so wiom
Cruz says that Steven Spielberg is the
greatest Storyteller Cinema has ever
known that's what he means that there's
nobody in the history of Cinema that is
as great of a Storyteller as Steven
Spielberg what everyone knows is that
Steven Spielberg is the greatest uh
Storyteller Cinema has ever known every
director is is very different but I can
just tell you what it's like working
with Steven Spielberg notice that Tom
Cruz doesn't say different but the T
again here has a stop sound it's a stop
consonant he goes different
different every director is is very
different but I can just tell you what
it's like working with Steven Spielberg
this is a great phrase what it's like or
what is it like if you want to ask a
question we tend to think about how
first right we tend to say how is
working with stepen Spielberg but a more
natural colloquial way to ask this is by
using what is it like it's uh an
inspired process and something that just
happens on the moment just happens on
the moment so just here has the T
dropped I say just just and then just
happens just happens the ask for happens
has a z sound so I join that ZZ sound
with the on preposition happens on
happens on just happens on just happens
on the moment it's uh an inspired
process and something that just happens
on the moment when I heard Tom Cruz
saying this I thought it was a bit weird
though because we usually say in the
moment or at the moment but here he's
saying on the moment this is possibly a
slip of the tongue a slip of the tongue
is when you know the right way to say
something but because you are nervous or
you are thinking about something else or
you are not uh really paying attention
so much to what you're saying you might
have these slips of the tongue when you
speak something not 100% correctly
because you are distracted or not really
focusing on the language you are using
this goes to show that even natives
sometimes make mistakes so think about
that although this was the fastest
pre-production and the scale of this
film is the largest scale that that I I
have ever been a part of all right here
we have examples of superlative in
English Tom Cruz says the fastest and
the largest do you remember the rules
the rules are really simple for one
syllable words or smaller words we tend
to add EST so large becomes largest the
largest and fast becomes the fastest now
if you have a word that is a little bit
bigger like two three or more syllables
then we say the most the opposite of the
most would be the least the least
beautiful the least dangerous and of
course remember the purpose of the
superlative a superlative sentence is
not really comparing two people or three
things you are picking one person or one
thing and putting that on top of
everyone else
so this is the largest movie there isn't
any other movie that compares to this
one or this is the fastest production
there isn't any other production that
compares to this one so superlative is
not really comparative remember this
although this was the fastest
pre-production and the scale of this
film is the largest scale that that I I
have ever been a part of or connected
speech I have ever been a part of so he
says I have ever I have ever Ben Ben so
the N for Ben joins with the vowel a Ben
and the a here has a schw sound uh Ben
Ben Ben a part of the T for part again
flap sound which joins with of part of
part of and the vowel o for of also has
a schw sound uhuh so part of part of of
so I have ever been a part of I have
ever been a part of and uh I've produced
and acted in big films but with stevenh
I never felt rushed when you feel rushed
to do something you feel pressured
because you don't have much time and you
feel like you have to finish that thing
quickly that's usually not a good
feeling to have now this actually
reminds me of a nice expression what a
rush if you say what a rush you mean
that you have just experienced an
exciting situation something that made
you feel really good and that elevated
your dopamine levels and then you could
say what a rush all right so now it's
time to watch the scenes again and test
your listening skills I have also
prepared some questions for you to
answer and let's see how you
do they buried
him right under our
feet since before there there were even
people
here they've been planning this for a
million
years we beat to please don't think
about
it what is the literal meaning of the
phrase I'm beat I'm really angry I'm
really tired I'm really
scared
they defeated the greatest power in the
world in a couple days walked right over
us these are only the first they'll keep
coming this is not a war anymore than
there a war between men and
maggots this is an
extermination which image shows
maggots but uh I'm actually going to I
really don't care because the truth is
is that what everyone knows is that step
sperberg is the greatest uh Storyteller
Cinema has ever known every director is
is very different but I can just tell
you what it's like working with stepen
Spielberg which is it is a creative
combustion it's not an analytical it's
not a a ride the correct superlative
form of the following
adjectives slow expensive
far the slowest the most expensive the
farthest or the
furthest all right great job guys but
now I have a question for you what is
your takeway from this lesson what is
that one thing that you extracted from
today's lesson share or takeaway here
under the video in the comment section
because I'm curious to see them all
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easy to become complacent imagine you
have a friend who's been doing well in
their job or life and they're feeling
pretty comfortable with where they are
being complacent is like when you get so
comfortable that you become a bit lazy
or too relaxed it's when you're stop
trying to improve or challenge yourself
because you're satisfied with how things
are