Learn English with Films Lesson 1: THE INCREDIBLES
L’ obbiettivo di questa lezione è di ascoltare e capire un breve dialogo in inglese, e imparare i nuovi vocaboli che vengono utilizzati.Questa lezione contiene un video, la trascrizione completa dei dialoghi, 10 nuove parole o espressioni con relativi esempi, e un quiz di avanzamento.
Video lesson 3:07, comprehension test 5:00
Problemi di Comprensione? Leggi la trascrizione completa della storia.
Helen: Do you have to read at the table?
Bob: Uh-huh. Yeah.
Helen: Smaller bites, Dash. Yikes! Bob, could you help the carnivore cut his meat?
Dash: Ow.
Helen: Dash, you have something you wanna tell your father about school?
Dash: [nervously] Well, we dissected a frog.
Helen: Dash got sent to the office again.
Bob: [distracted] Good. Good.
Helen: No Bob, that’s bad.
Bob: What?
Helen: Dash got sent to the office again.
Bob: What?! What for?
Dash: Nothing.
Helen: He put a tack on the teacher’s chair…during class.
Dash: Nobody saw me. You could barely see it on the tape.
Bob: They caught you on tape and you still got away with it? Whoa! You must have been booking. How fast did you think were you going?
Helen: Bob! We are not encouraging this.
Bob: I’m not encouraging, I’m just asking how fast…
Helen: Honey!
New Words and Expressions
NEW WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS | DEFINITION + EXAMPLES |
| Yikes! | Yikes!: informal — used to express a feeling of fear or surprise
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| you have something you wanna tell your father | wanna: used in writing to represent the sound of the phrase want to when it is spoken
◊ The pronunciation represented by wanna is common in informal speech. The written form should be avoided except when trying to represent such speech. |
| we dissected a frog | to dissect: to cut (a plant or dead animal) into separate parts in order to study it
2 : to study or examine (something) closely and carefully : analyze
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| Dash got sent to the office again | to be sent to the office: when you do something bad, the teacher sends you to the principal’s office who will take disciplinary procedures |
| He put a tack on the teacher’s chair | tack: The definition of a tack is a sharp pointed nail with a flat head.
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| You could barely see it on the tape | barely: hardly or scarcely — used to say that something was almost not possible or almost did not happen
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| you still got away with it | to get away with something: to avoid being caught : to escape
— often + with
— sometimes used figuratively
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| booking | “Booking” can mean “moving very fast” in informal American English. The origin of this phrase might come from moving fast enough to be entered in the record books. |
| I’m not encouraging | to encourage: to make (someone) more determined, hopeful, or confident
— often used as (be) encouraged
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