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My name is Marco. My name is Katherine and today we are here with an advanced level lesson that means that we're going to listen to a pretty long and exciting dialogue and then we'll talk a little bit about what you've heard and some of these cool interesting phrases.
That's right today we have a lesson about planning a crime.
We're planning a bank robbery.
Oh my favorite. There have been lots of movies about this topic.
Very fun movies. From the beginning of we're making so now it's a very popular topic.
That's right and I'm this occasion as Catherine said.
It's a nice fun dialogue and we're going to have a lot of colloquial terms. So maybe you won't really understand a couple of different phrases because they're very colloquial.
They're very American terms and the accents are also they're a little bit from like Boston kind of like New Jersey maybe or something.
Right, so keep in ear out for some of the strange or unusual phrases.
We will be talking about them in a moment, but don't worry if you don't understand this dialogue the first time.
You'll be hearing it again later All right, let's run through this one more time from the top I will be positioned here across from the bank on this park bench now according to the Intel we got from Jimmy Oh, it was Jimmy!
Jeez Ralph pay attention.
Well, yeah, Jimmy's our mole, you know, the guy on the inside, he's been snooping and passing on the info to us so we can pull this high stuff.
Yeah Ralph, clean the moth balls out of here and listen up!
This year's important.
We don't want to end up back in the slam of Julia.
Your role is pretty important here with depending on you, man.
Okay, okay. I'm listening.
Mark Bawson. Alrighty then.
Where was I oh, yeah, okay?
So I'll be on the lookout sitting here on the bench across from the bank Nobody moves until I give the go ahead all right and what's the go ahead Ralph you?
You ah, oh yeah, you'll take off your hat and scratch your head Right when I take my hat off and scratch my head you do what I get in the box Right you get in the box I'll make sure it's all sealed and then posing as the delivery guy.
I'll drop off a special package for the manager.
Now according to Jimmy, the bank managers leave in early on Tuesday, cause it's as wetting anniversary.
He and the wife are having a romantic rendezvous in the country, so any packages deliver will be left unopened in his office.
Until he gets back late on Wednesday.
Which gives us access to his office for at least 12 hours.
Okay Ralph, this is where you come in.
Where are you? I'm standing right next to you Sammy.
Oh sorry Sam I'm in the box right here in that box.
And what do you do once I deliver you to the manager's office?
I stay in the box until the bank is closed and then I get out of the box.
And then what next Ralph, oh for Pete's sake this is never going to work.
Hey come here chance you fellas, gonna correct us safe and then?
That I take the money, and then I I get back in the box.
At a boy Ralph, in the morning I come back to the bank, say there's been a mix up with the delivery I made and take the special package back here.
Alright, let's get some sleep, it's a big day tomorrow fellas.
A perfect plan Sammy and went off without a hitch. Let's open this up and get Ralph out of here so we can start counting the money Feel I sure am glad to see you guys.
I was sure getting lonely with knowing to talk that's nice.
Okay. How much oh really really really Money Ralph money.
Oh man. I knew I forgot something Tearbit All right, we're back so obviously the sky Ralph I don't know why always the the one robber whose name is Ralph is not very clever No, it's not doesn't mean that Ralph's are generally not smart people but yeah, I think you're right There's usually like in bank robberies or something like for example in the old movies always Ralph was one of the main things up Oh Ralph, well, let's find out what Ralph screwed up today.
First of all, we've got the guys Sami Ralph and Frankie for talking about the plan.
And Sami mentions that he had the intel from Jimmy.
Okay, so when we talk about intel, we're talking about information, right?
That's right. So intel is a word that's short for intelligence or facts or information.
That's right. So you can talk about intelligence as maybe you're very smart.
You're very intelligent.
But when we talk about intelligence, we talk about gathering information in order to help us accomplish an objective.
For example in movies about the CIA, we often hear them talk about gathering intel.
That means collecting facts.
Right. Very good. So, they had intel from Jimmy about the bank and the layout.
and well they were like who's Jimmy in Sami says that, well he's our mole.
You know the guy on the inside.
A mole, so mole is an animal, but in cases of intelligence, or maybe in this case a bank robbery, spying, a mole is a person who's basically stealing information.
So for example, if I work in the CIA, but I'm selling information from the CIA to the French government, I'm a mole, right?
So you're basically like a spy.
You're a person on the inside.
And that's what they mean when he says, he's our guy on the inside.
You're inside the enemies territory or you're inside their organization.
Exactly, so, for example, have you seen the show 24?
Mm -hmm. Yeah, with Jack Bauer?
Well, they often have this problem of moles inside the organization.
And so maybe the terrorists have a guy on the inside.
That's right. He's a mole.
So they have somebody who has penetrated their organization.
So they talk about the mole and how they are going to pull this heist off.
Okay, so the phrase here is to pull off a heist. First of all, what's a heist?
Well a heist is a robbery is basically a robbery.
Yeah, it's another word for robbery.
It's kind of old though.
You don't really say it anymore, right?
No, you can say, it's a heist movie, or it's a movie about a heist. It's almost like a genre, there's a basic storyline where they plan the robbery, if they do the robbery, something goes wrong.
What's going to happen?
So that's a heist. Very good.
So a heist is something that was planned out.
Like a robbery that's planned out.
It's not really if you come up to someone and say, give me your wallet.
That's not really a heist. No, that's a stick up.
Right. But a heist is something that you pull off.
So to pull off is to succeed, to accomplish, to accomplish.
So I pulled it off.
I was able to do it.
Mm -hmm. So you pulled off the heist. Very good.
And well, they were talking about if they do it, they don't want to get caught because they don't want to go back to the slumber.
The slumber? Yeah, well, I don't blame them.
I wouldn't want to go to the slumber either.
So what is the slumber?
The slumber. The big house.
Right, lock up the slumber.
The big house. All these are colloquial synonyms for prison for jail jail, so normally we say prison or jail like it's a it's a maximum security prison like prison break the TV show right but in cloak will English we often say slammer okay the slammer or the big house okay so they were talking that they don't want to go back to the slammer and now when they were actually planning out the crime yeah he says well you wait until I give you the go ahead okay so this is the plan he's going to wait for a sign.
The go ahead means a sign that indicates that it's time to do something.
Okay, so for example, so in this case, what is that sign?
The sign, or the go ahead, is he'll take off his hat and scratch his head.
Okay, so that's a sign that means it's okay to proceed.
It's okay to continue.
Right. So you can also say, okay, when we're ready to go, Marco.
I'll give you the go ahead.
OK, just wait for me to wait.
OK, very good. So that's the go ahead.
The signal? All right, very good.
Now moving on, we have a French word here, but it's used very commonly in English.
And they said, OK, we have a rendezvous.
OK, so a rendezvous is a meet -up or a time or place where people are connecting together.
So, for example, in a heist, you could say, we're going to rob the bank.
And then we will rendezvous our favorite restaurant in two hours.
OK, so rendezvous is to meet up, to get together.
But in this case, they're talking about a romantic rendezvous.
So this means a trip with a lover.
Ah, ah, so it's a little bit different.
He and his wife are having a romantic rendezvous in the country.
OK, that means that they're going to have a romantic meeting.
OK, very good. And now, this next phrase is very, very interesting.
it's a it's very common to hear it as well i think like mom said a lot oh for Pete's sake oh for Pete's sake well i don't know who Pete is honestly but this means my gosh or come on or uh i'm so tired of this so you're a little bit uh exasperated maybe you're a little bit irritated oh for Pete's sake Marko stop getting me examples i'm just i'm done hearing them yeah so there are a lot of other ways to say this right yeah so you could say for goodness sake or goodness sake or oh for heaven sake for heaven sake and finally for God's sake right but this one you have to be careful because some people
who are religious might be offended if you use it so if that's the case then you would just rather go with Pete's sake heaven sake or a good essay okay for goodness sake it's a very common phrase and as you say it's for when you're a little bit irritated like oh for goodness sake stop complaining exactly.
And now for our last word you may have seen the word fellas fellas fellas.
So this comes from the word fellow, person, man but often times in these kind of movies or stories about heists or crimes, the men talk to each other using the Oh fellas.
So come on fellas, let's go!
That means come on guys, come on everyone.
Okay yeah so this is always about men, not like a group of women would use this, and it's something that's a little bit older, we don't really say this like oh me and my fellas we're gonna go to the store.
You would say this more in old -time England.
Yeah you can see it maybe in some movies when somebody comes up and greets other people, other guys who say, hey fellas, exactly.
Or there's a Mafia movie.
It's about the American Mafia called Good Fellas.
Very good. It's a very famous one.
So it kind of gives you that feeling of an older English like the 1940s for the 1970s.
OK. Very good. A lot of interesting things going on in this bank robbery.
Why don't we go back, listen to the dialogue one last time, and we'll be back in a little bit.
Alright, let's run through this one more time from the top.
I will be positioned here, a cross from the bank on this park bench. Now, according to the Intel, we got from Jimmy.
Who's Jimmy? Geez Ralph, pay attention, will ya?
Jimmy's our mole, you know?
the guy on the inside.
He's been snooping and passing on the info to us so we can pull this high stuff.
Yeah Ralph. Clean the mothballs out of here and listen up.
This year's important.
We don't want to end up backing the slam at Dewia, your role is pretty important here with dependent on you man.
Okay, okay I'm listening, my balls.
Alrighty then. Where was I?
Oh yeah. Okay. So I'll be on the lookout.
Sitting here on bench across from the bank.
nobody moves until I give the go ahead.
alright. and what's the go ahead Ralph?
you oh yeah you'll take off your hat and scratch your head.
right. when I take my hat off and scratch my head you do what?
right you get in the box.
I'll make sure it's all sealed and then posing as the delivery guy.
I'll drop off a special package for the manager.
Now according to Jimmy, the bank managers leave in early on Tuesday because it is waiting anniversary.
He and the wife are having a romantic rendezvous in the country, so any packages deliver will be left unopened in his office until he gets back late on Wednesday.
Which gives us access to his office for at least 12 hours.
Ok Ralph, this is where you come in.
Where are you? I'm standing right next to you Sammy.
Oh, sorry Sam. I'm in the box right here in that box.
And what do you do once I deliver you to the manager's office?
I stay in the box until the bank is closed.
And then I get out of the box.
And then... What next, Ralph?
Oh for Pete's sake, this is never going to work.
Hey, give me a chance here fellas.
I cracked the safe and then...
Then I take the money...
And then I... Well I get back in the box!
At a boy, Ralph. In the morning I come back to the bank, say there's been a mix up with the delivery I made and take the special package back here.
All right, let's get some sleep.
It's a big day tomorrow, fellas.
A perfect plan, Sammy.
We're off without a hitch!
Let's open this up and get Ralph out of here so we can start counting the money.
I feel, I'm sure I'm glad to see you guys, I was sure getting lonely with no one to talk.
That's nice, okay. How much?
Oh, really? Really, really, really glad.
Money, Ralph, money.
Oh man, I knew I forgot something.
Damn it. Okay, so, someone proclaimed the end of the dialogue that everything went off without a hitch. Mm -hmm.
Is this true? No. What does it mean if something went without a hitch?
It went off without a hitch means there was not even one problem.
It went off. It went perfectly.
Smootly. Smoothly. Yes.
Okay, and it didn't because well, these robbers didn't actually rob any.
Right, he forgot to get the money.
Right, so we kind of an idiot.
Alright, but there were actually a lot of good movies.
I think the most recent one about main cravries is Otions 11, Otions 12, Otions 13.
Yeah, that's right.
Those are all about big, heists.
Big heists. And I think they mentioned the word heists a couple of times, in that movie.
Yeah, definitely. So there was a movie with Clive Owen a few years ago called the Inside Man.
that was maybe one of the best high smoothies I've seen in a long time.
Yeah that was a really good movie.
I think also Swordfish was a pretty good movie with John DeRolta.
Yeah I remember that one too.
Yeah I like it when the bad guy's win.
You know, because it's a little bit more interesting.
Yeah I guess you could say that.
I don't think the public likes this.
Well in the inside man the bad guy is kind of a good guy but he wins.
Uh -huh. Yeah like that.
So but it's a very interesting topic And I don't know, I haven't really heard of many bank robberies nowadays anymore.
Not so much, I think security in banks is pretty good.
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