Huh?
What the heck is that?
Huh?
Problem solved.
Okay, let's clear it all out.
It's demo time!
Are you the one in charge here?
Could you do me a favor and stop tearing headquarters apart?
No can do, didn't you hear?
Permits just came through.
Permits?
For what?
For expanding the place.
You know, for the others.
What others?
They're not here yet?
Aye, aye, aye.
Hey, Margie, you got that console?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, give me a sec.
Hey, hey, what are you doing?
All right, she's all set.
Set with what?
Come on, Riley, get up.
Camp time.
Wow, that was pure chaos.
But by the end of this lesson, you will understand 100% of it.
Today, we will encounter every parent's nightmare, including me and maybe some of you, when their child goes through puberty.
And we learned a ton of English expressions and pronunciation with this hilarious clip from Inside Out 2.
Right, so the first thing that kicks things off is that alarm going absolutely haywire.
When it all starts, sadness immediately reacted.
Now, what the heck is a very common casual expression in English.
It's a more polite substitute for what the hell.
You use it when you are confused, surprised, or frustrated.
Can be used in questions or exclamations.
Think of when Harry Potter first discovers
He's a wizard and his whole life turns out to be a lie.
That is very much a what the heck is going on situation.
Or this other example.
Vic, why are you reading this to me?
Yeah, Vic, what the heck?
Well, because I'm your manager, darling.
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When those mysterious workers show up, Joy watches in disbelief as they start trashing headquarters.
So, first up, to clear something out means to remove everything from a space to empty it completely.
You might clear out your locker at the end of the school year or clear out your desk when you leave a job.
And what do you think demo day means in this context?
A day to make a speech, a day to demonstrate a new product, and a day to demolish a structure.
Cool.
So demo here is short for demolition.
The act of tearing something down.
If you've ever watched any home renovation show, you'll know that Demo Day is the exciting and chaotic moment when the crew smashes walls and rips out the old to make room for the new.
Basically, Riley's childhood mind is being demolished
To make room for her teenage self.
As Joy tries to make sense of what's happening, she goes to talk to the boss.
To be in charge means to be the person with authority, the one making the decisions, the one who's responsible for what's happening.
Like in Kung Fu Panda, Master Shifu is in charge.
He trains Poe and the Furious Five, gives orders, corrects mistakes, and
Is responsible for the students.
Joy tries to stop the chaos, but she can't.
The phrasal verb tear something apart is very similar to a more formal word demolish, the one we covered earlier.
Meaning to violently destroy something by pulling it to pieces.
Let's listen to a couple more examples.
You can tear this tower apart brick by brick, but without my help you will never find your precious satchel.
Using a little girl for a shield?
This is low even for you!
It's quite frustrating when natives speak fast and you can't understand them, right?
But actually, it isn't about speed.
It's because
Of connected speech, how natives cut, reduce and link words together when speaking fluently.
Listen again to how Joy asked this question.
So when we encounter a D followed by U in fluent English, oftentimes they morph into J or J, which is what happened here.
Instead of robotic could you do me a favor, she said a smooth could you do me a favor.
Could you do me a favor?
Your speaking will only improve with lots of practice, so listen again to Joy and try to say that just like her.
Then Joy asks the workers to stop and gets this response.
What do you think no can do means?
That's not allowed.
I'm sorry, not able to do that.
Or you don't know what you're doing.
Right, this is a casual, slightly playful way of saying that's not possible.
The worker isn't being mean, he's just letting Joy know that the wheels are already in motion and there's nothing to be done about it.
Then the boss asks one of his workers for a status update.
Two things to understand here.
First, all set means ready or prepared.
When you finish packing for a trip, you're all set.
Listen to this example.
Now, listen to Margie's response again.
Did you notice something interesting?
Margie called the console she, not it.
Why would she do that?
In English, objects don't have grammatical gender the way they do in Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian.
Most of the time, objects are referred to as it.
But there is a fun tradition in English, especially in casual or affectionate speech, of referring to certain things as she.
Ships, cars, musical instruments, and machines are the most common examples.
A mechanic might say, she's running beautifully, about a car engine.
Of course,
Using it is always correct.
And listen to the connected speech in Margie's request.
First off, sec is a reduction of second.
Give me a second.
Natives almost always morph give me into gimme.
And the article a reduces to a schwa sound uh let's put that all together give me a sec give me a sec now you try listen again and repeat
Finally, we hear Riley's dad outside, letting Riley know she needs to wake up and get ready.
Get up is one of those phrasal verbs that's so simple you might overlook it, but it shows up absolutely everywhere.
It literally means to move from lying or sitting to standing.
But we often use it as a substitute for wake up, like I get up every day at 6am.
Alright, let's move on to the next part of the scene where we see Riley wake up with her new post-pubescent brain.
Riley, you aren't packed yet?
You're always on me.
Can't you just lay off for like one second?
Uh, overreact much?
I barely touched it.
Those morons broke the console.
Riley.
What's wrong?
Oh, mom looks sad.
I'm the worst.
Oh, no.
Honey.
I barely touched it.
That's what I said.
Let the professional handle this.
I'm too gross to go to camp or anywhere ever again!
Oh yeah, this is totally broken.
This whole scene is a perfect picture of what puberty actually feels like from the inside.
We start off with two great expressions for a teenager to use.
First, you're always on me.
When someone says this, they mean you're constantly criticizing me or pressuring me.
We might also say you're always nagging me.
Listen to these examples.
He is always on me about having more of a life outside of work, and yet he can't see the same about himself.
He's a dad.
That's what they do, right?
And what do you think lay off means in this context?
To stop bothering someone?
To fire someone from a job?
To lie down and relax?
Yeah, the answer is A, though, fun fact, option B is also a real meaning of layoff.
In a work context, if a company lays off employees, it means they are letting them go, often because of budget cuts.
Hundreds of people can be laid off during an economic downturn.
And this guy has the perfect reaction to all of this.
To overreact means to respond to something with way more emotion or drama than necessary.
Check out this example.
So about all that stuff I said back at the beach, I guess I kind of overreacted.
Yeah, me too.
Overreact much?
Is a sarcastic rhetorical question.
The much at the end is a casual way of pointing out that someone is doing something excessively.
Too much.
And we can use this in other situations.
Like, if your friend won't stop talking about Blackpink's new album, he might jokingly say, obsess much?
And it might sound like an overreaction, but if you don't review the expressions we're learning today, you're sure to forget them in hours.
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Moving on, pay attention to how anger responds to disgust.
It means he touched it almost not at all.
Here's another example.
And we see Riley surprised by how much she sweat during the night.
So here, gross is being used informally to mean disgusting.
It's one of the most versatile slang words in everyday English.
Listen to this.
Continuing with the scene, we go inside Riley's mom's head
To see her reaction to her new teenage daughter.
Well, we all knew this day would come.
Remember, we agreed not to make a big deal about this.
But she really does stink.
Oh, it's bad.
Remain calm.
Stick to the prepared script.
You are not gross, honey.
You're just changing.
Remember that.
Easy.
Oh my gosh, Mom!
Just go away!
Well, that's a preview of the next ten years.
To make a big deal out of something means to treat it as more important or serious than it actually is.
So, mom's emotions are reminding themselves to stay calm and not react dramatically to Riley's puberty.
Because they don't want to embarrass her.
This expression works both ways, by the way.
Don't make a big deal out of it.
Calm down, it's not that serious.
This is a really big deal.
This actually is significant and important.
Here are a couple more examples.
Now, I realize that you guys have probably heard about this other villain who stole the pyramids.
Apparently, it's a big deal.
People are calling it the crime of the century and stuff like that.
Well, what do you want me there for anyway?
I know.
I thought maybe you'd want to be there.
I mean, I don't know why it's a big deal.
It's no big deal.
To stick to something means to remain committed to a plan or a set of rules.
Stick to the script is an expression you'll hear in business meetings, sports, and even politics.
It means to follow the plan and not go off
On your own.
Gosh is a softer substitute for God, used to express surprise, frustration or disbelief.
Just like heck substitutes for hell,
Gosh, keeps things polite while still letting the emotion fly.
And finally, after all of that, the emotions inside mom's head deliver the funniest line of the scene.
Well, that's a preview of the next 10 years.
A preview is a look at something before it's officially released or before it fully happens.
In the context of movies, a preview or trailer shows you what's coming.
So Riley's mom
Thinks her emotional explosion is just a small sample of what the next 10 years of parenting a teenager are going to look like.
It's going to be a long, long ride.
Awesome work today.
Now comes the most important part of the lesson, your test.
Will watch all the clips again this time without subtitles and answer some quiz questions ready you got this huh
You've been waiting in line for hours for tickets to see your favorite artist.
When you finally get to the front, the cashier says the show just sold out.
Which expression fits your reaction perfectly?
No can do.
What the heck?
She's all set.
What the heck is that?
Ah!
Problem solved.
Okay, let's clear it all out.
It's Demo Day!
Demo?
Wait, wait, what's happening?
What's going on?
To tear something apart and to clear something out mean the same thing.
True or false?
False.
Clear something out means to empty a space by removing things.
Tear something apart means to pull or rip something to pieces, usually with force.
What others?
You're not here yet?
Not here yet.
Hey, Margie, you got that console?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give me a sec.
Hey, hey, what are you doing?
All right.
She's all set.
Set with what?
Come on, Riley.
Get up.
Camp time.
Riley, you aren't packed yet?
Fill in the blank.
Your little brother has been bugging you all day about helping him with a video game.
You finally snap and say, I'm trying to study, just for five minutes.
Just lay off for five minutes.
Can't you just lay off for like one second?
Uh, overreact much?
I barely touched it.
Those morons broke the console.
Riley, what's wrong?
Oh, mom looks sad.
I'm the worst.
Oh no, honey.
I barely touched it.
That's what I said.
Let the professional handle this.
I'm too gross to go to camp or anywhere ever again!
Oh yeah, this is totally broken.
Match the expressions to its meaning.
Make a big deal, stick to, gross, barely.
Oh yeah, great work today!
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And this journal holds the secret that will prove it.
I have to prove it.
Please.
This is our only chance to set things right.
And when I do, my family will finally be able to come home.
