Hitch 1| Effortless English| LEARN ENGLISH EVERYDAY – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.job is to open her eyes basic principles no matter what no matter when no first of all swept off my feet he says no woman wakes up saying god i hope i don't get swept off my feet today swept off my feet is past tense present would be sweep off my feet and this phrase this idiom it means to make someone fall in love very deeply usually we say a man sweeps a woman off her feet sweep of course comes from like you have a broom you're clean cleaning the floor and you sweep the floor but it has the idea that also of a man knocking a woman off her feet so you can imagine she's so in love she falls down right she falls off her feet she falls down and the man catches her right this is the image that you want to imagine for this phrase the woman sees the man she's so in love she falls down and the man catches her he sweeps her off her feet right he picks her up he takes her off her feet so this phrase means a man makes a woman fall deeply in love very quickly very suddenly very strongly he makes her fall in love so he's saying no woman wakes up saying she in in the morning i hope i don't negative i hope i don't get swept off my feet which means every woman does want to be swept off her feet according to this character he thinks every woman loves romance if she might say she does not but really she wants love that's the meaning of that sentence all right and then the next little um line he says something like um now she might say this is a really bad time for me or something like i just need some space we've had this before i need space if you say this in a relationship if you're just talking about dating i need space means i need time alone i don't want to be with you right i don't want to be with a boyfriend i don't want to be with a girlfriend i need time alone i need to be away from other people i need space i need space and in the next line uh he said she might say i'm really into my career right now these are excuses a woman might use i'm really into my career to be into something really into something means you're really interested in it or you're really focused on it or you're really concentrating on it so i'm really into my career right now means i'm really focused on my job right now and these are all examples of excuses that a woman might use if you want to ask a woman on a date you want to date her you say i like you and she uses these excuses i need some space i'm into my career it's a bad time for me these are excuses that women use when they don't want to date a man all right so then we go on he says 60 60 of all human communication is non-verbal nonverbal of course means not verbal and verbal means uh speech right speaking so non-verbal means without speaking sixty percent of all human communication is non-verbal it means you communicate with your body body language how what your face and your body show sixty percent of the information thirty percent is your tone tone means intonation it means how you say something not the words but the way you say it and then he says so that means that 90 of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth ain't is casual english it's don't use it for writing but in speech it's okay ain't means uh m not or are not or is not you can use it for all of those ain't im not in this case it means uh is not ain't coming out of your mouth is not coming out of your mouth all right and then next we see the uh the word wanna of course she's gonna lie to you she's a nice person she doesn't wanna hurt your feelings wanna is kind of casual speech it means want to she doesn't want to hurt your feelings she doesn't want to hurt your feelings hurt your feelings means to hurt someone's feelings means to make them feel sad make them feel upset make them feel hurt right so a nice woman if you ask her oh i like you go on a date well she's nice she doesn't want to hurt your feelings she doesn't want you to feel sad so she lies she says oh i'm sorry i'm busy or i have a boyfriend or something like that so you don't feel so bad she's trying to be nice that's why she's lying that's what hitch is saying hitch is the name of the character in this beginning scene of the movie okay and he says luckily the fact is just like the rest of us even a beautiful woman doesn't know what she wants until she sees it and that's where i come in that's where i come in means it's a it's a common phrase a common idiom it means that's where i start or that's where my job begins or that's what i'm going to help you with that's where i come in it means that's when i should come in and start helping right she doesn't know you yet she doesn't know what she wants so he's going to help her figure out what she wants he's going to come in and help the woman understand and realize what she wants that's where he comes in that's where he will start doing his work he says my job is to open her eyes to open someone's eyes means to make them understand right i will make i will open your eyes it means i will make you understand i will help you understand i will help you realize the truth i will help you see the truth that's what open your eyes open their eyes open her eyes means okay then you hear her there's a woman in the in the beginning scene she says toby oh my god is that what you're look is this what you're looking for it's her dog toby's the name of her dog she loses her dog and the guy in the scene helps her get the dog and then she wants to have a date with the guy so in the beginning scene hitch will smith's character helps guys kind of uh geeky guys guys that are not cool he helps them get a date with women they really like and maybe the guys usually they can't do it they're too shy they're too they're not cool enough they're not confident so he helps him he's a date doctor he helps them get dates and in this beginning scene the first scene of the movie it shows him helping a few guys uh get a date with girls they like and he's giving this speech at the same time so you should rent the movie you can really understand more what's happening and finally at the end he says basic principles no matter what means any situation no matter when means any time no matter who means any person any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet okay here we have sweep off her feet it means any man can make any woman fall in love with him so any woman can love any man if that's what that line means any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet to make any woman love him and then he then he has a joke at the last line just needs the right broom he just needs the right broom broom of course we use that to sweep this is a joke he's he's talking about two different meanings right sweep can mean to you know clean a floor which you use a broom or in sweep also can mean sweep off her feet romantic so he means just needs the right broom that means he just needs the right technique he needs the right method to get the woman okay that's what that means and it's but it's kind of a joke joking about the two meanings of sweep so just needs the right brew means he just needs the right technique all right so that is the end of the first scene again this is a from the movie hitch starring will smith it's a romantic comedy if you want to understand it better it's good to see it so i suggest renting it at least one time okay let's get started with the mini story lesson for the hitch introduction here we go once there was a shy guy named nick he loved a beautiful girl named stephanie he wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet but he was too shy one day he finally asked her for a date he said uh uh you wanna go to dinner with me she laughed nervously and said i'm really into my job right now i'm sorry i just need some space nick's feelings were hurt he knew stephanie didn't like him but he said to himself i ain't gonna take no for an answer i'm gonna show her i'm a great guy i'm gonna open her eyes so nick bought 500 roses for stephanie and told her i love you stephanie was shocked and a little scared then nick started to follow her everywhere stephanie became more worried finally nick broke into her apartment when stephanie came home she said enough this is where the police come in then she called the police now nick is in jail and stephanie finally has some space all right let's go back to the beginning once i don't know maybe ten years ago maybe five years ago maybe three years ago but in the past once there was a shy guy named nick he loved a beautiful girl named stephanie he wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet but he was too shy did he want stephanie to fall in love with him yes that's right he wanted stephanie to fall in love with him he wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet did he want to be very very romantic and surprise her and impress her yes that's exactly right he wanted to sweep her off her feet he wanted to impress her and surprise her with romance with love he wanted to sweep her off her feet did he want to sweep his sister off her feet well no no of course not yeah that's a romantic meaning sweep off your feet it's romantic he did not want to sweep his sister off her feet did he want to sweep a girl named angelina off her feet no he did not want to sweep a girl named angelina off her feet did he want to sweep a girl named stephanie off her feet or a girl named julia off her feet well he wanted to sweep a girl named stephanie off her feet was he able to sweep stephanie off her feet could he do it well no he could not unfortunately he was too shy so he could not sweep stephanie off her feet she didn't fall in love with him but one day he did ask her for a date he said uh uh you wanna go to dinner with me did he ask her if she wanted to go to dinner hmm yes he did that's exactly what he said he said do you wanna do you want to go to dinner with me did he ask julia do you want to go to dinner with me no he didn't ask julia do you want to go to dinner with me did he ask his best friend do you want to go to dinner with me no he did not ask his best friend do you want to go to dinner with me did he ask a friend or a girl do you want to go to dinner with me well of course he asked a girl do you want to go to dinner with me which girl did he ask well he asked stephanie do you want to go to dinner with me did stephanie want to go to dinner with him well no she didn't want to she laughed nervously and she said i'm really into my job right now was stephanie really into her school right now no no no no no no she wasn't really into her school was she really into her family no no she wasn't really into her family was she really into exercise really love exercise really focused on exercise really concentrating on exercise no no no not on exercise what was she really into well she said i'm really into my job right now is she really focused on her career was she really focused on her career yeah that's right she was really focused on her career was she truthfully was she telling the truth that she was really into her job well we don't know but maybe not maybe she was lying maybe she was lying maybe she's not really into her job maybe she wasn't really into her job but anyway she said i'm really into my job right now i'm sorry i just need some space did she tell nick that she needed time alone yeah that's right she wants some time independent time time alone she said i just need some space did she just need some space from her friends we don't know but i think not maybe not did she just need some space from her parents well again probably not who did she need space from well she needs space from nick she told nick i just need some space she just wants to be away from nick right she needs space from nick how did nick feel about this well nick's feelings were hurt were nick's arms hurt no not his arms his arms weren't hurt was his head hurt oh no his head was not hurt uh was he very sad yes that's correct nick was very sad nick's feelings were hurt was nick upset right very upset yeah that's right nick was very upset nick's feelings were hurt who hurt nick's feelings well stephanie hurt nick's feelings were nick's feelings hurt by stephanie yeah same question right just a little different yes that's right nick's feelings were hurt by stephanie why were nick's feelings hurt well because he knew stephanie didn't like him but he didn't give up he said to himself i ain't gonna take no for an answer was he going to take no for an answer no no no he was not going to take no for an answer he said i ain't right i am not going to take no for an answer i ain't gonna i am not going to take no for an answer would nick accept this answer from stephanie no no he would not accept no he would not accept this answer he refused he said no i will not accept this i ain't gonna take no for an answer would he take yes for an answer well yeah yeah yeah of course he said i ain't gonna take no for an answer but he certainly would take yes for an answer he would love for her to say yes he just said i ain't gonna take no for an answer i will not i am not he said i'm going to show her i am a great guy i'm gonna open her eyes was nick going to open her ears no no he's not gonna open her ears is he to open her eyes yes of course he's going to open her eyes was nick going to make her realize he was great yes that's exactly what that means he was going to make her realize make her understand that he is a great guy he said i'm gonna open her eyes i'm gonna make her understand how great i am i'm gonna open her eyes whose eyes was he going to open well he was going to open stephanie's eyes was he going to open every girl's eyes no not every girl he was only going to open stephanie's eyes he said i'm going to open her eyes i'm going to open stephanie's eyes i'm going to make stephanie realize i'm great what did he do how did he try to open her eyes well he bought 500 roses for stephanie and he told her i love you stephanie was shocked and a little scared then even worse then nick started to follow her everywhere stephanie became more worried finally nick broke into her apartment he came into her apartment secretly when stephanie came home she saw him she was surprised she was scared she said enough this is where the police come in did she decide wow it's time to call the police yes that's right that's exactly right she decided this is where the police come in this is where the police should begin this is where i should call the police or when i should call the police this is where the police come in it means time to call the police time for the police to start doing their work did she say this is where the fire department comes in oh no no she didn't want the fire department to help who did she want to help well she said this is where the police come in she wanted the police to help she said this is where the police come in and then she called the police now nick is in jail he's in prison and stephanie finally has some space is stephanie finally alone yes that's right stephanie is finally alone she's finally separate from nick alone from nick she finally has some space does stephanie finally have space from nick yes that is correct why does stephanie have some space from nick well she has space from nick because nick is in jail nick is in prison so finally stephanie has some space alrighty back to the beginning this time i will tell the story after key phrases after important phrases with new vocabulary with new idioms i will pause please repeat repeat my pronunciation not just the words copy my pronunciation here we go let's start once there was a shy guy named nick he loved a beautiful girl named stephanie he wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet good he wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet good but he was too shy one day he finally asked her for a date he said uh you want to go to dinner with me good you want to go to dinner with me okay she laughed nervously and said i'm really into my job right now good i'm really into my job right now okay very good then she said i'm sorry i just need some space good i just need some space okay nick's feelings were hurt good nick's feelings were hurt okay he knew stephanie didn't like him but he said to himself i ain't gonna take no for an answer good i ain't gonna take no for an answer good i'm going to show her i'm a great guy i'm gonna open her eyes very good i'm gonna open her eyes okay so nick bought 500 roses for stephanie and told her i love you stephanie was shocked and a little scared then nick started to follow her everywhere stephanie became more worried finally nick broke into her apartment when stephanie came home she said enough this is where the police come in okay very good this is where the police come in good then she called the police now nick is in jail and stephanie finally has some space good and stephanie finally has some space all right that's all very good now please pause your ipod pause your computer and try to tell all of the story everything yourself just use the key phrases right sweep stephanie off her feet really into my job right now i just need some space nick's feelings were hurt i ain't gonna take no for an answer i'm gonna open her eyes this is where the police come in stephanie finally has some space use those key phrases in your story you don't need to memorize every word just try to use the new phrases correctly and remember this story is about the past alrighty good after you finish this after you can remember and tell the story go to the next lesson the mini story point of view lesson see you next time bye bye okay welcome to the hitch mini story point of view lesson we're going to tell this story again but we're going to change the point of view we're going to change the time frame first we're going to talk about this story as if it was happening today okay this story is happening today here we go there is a shy guy named nick he loves a beautiful girl named stephanie he wants to sweep stephanie off her feet but he is too shy finally he asks her for a date he says uh you wanna go to dinner with me she laughs nervously and says i'm i'm really into my job right now i'm sorry i just need some space nick's feelings are hurt he knows stephanie doesn't like him but he says to himself i ain't gonna take no for an answer i'm gonna show her i'm a great guy i'm gonna open her eyes so nick buys 500 roses for stephanie and tells her i love you stephanie is shocked and a little scared then nick starts to follow her everywhere stephanie becomes more worried finally nick breaks into her apartment when stephanie comes home she says enough this is where the police come in then she calls the police now nick is in jail and stephanie has some space okay very good very nice now i'm gonna change it a little again this time our second version we're gonna start with since high school there's a guy named nick a shy guy there was a shy guy named nick there's a shy guy named nick since high school he has loved a beautiful girl named stephanie he has wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet but he's been too shy to do it well one day he finally asked her for a date he said uh you want to go to dinner with me she laughed nervously and said i'm really into my career right now i'm sorry i just need some space nick's feelings were hurt he knew stephanie didn't like him but he said to himself i ain't gonna take no for an answer i'm going to show her i'm a great guy i'm gonna open her eyes so nick bought 500 roses for stephanie and told her i love you stephanie was shocked and a little scared then nick started to follow her everywhere stephanie became more worried finally nick broke into her apartment when stephanie came home she said enough this is where the police come in and then she called the police now nick is in jail and stephanie has had some space for many years okay good so you see in that one the middle part of that story most of it was the same as the original right because we're talking about specific events specific experiences in the past that are finished totally done however in the beginning uh you could say there is a guy shy guy named nick because he's still alive or you could say there was a shy guy named nick either one but then the rest of it we say he has loved a beautiful girl named stephanie for a long time since high school so he started loving her in high school he still loves her now he has wanted to sweep stephanie off her feet since high school he's wanted to do that and up until now he has wanted to sweep her off her feet he's been too shy so he's been too shy from high school until now he's been too shy but then something changed one day right now we've switched because something it's a specific event that is over at the end i say stephanie finally has had some space from him right so it means after that event after he went to jail she got space and she's continued to have space until now all right very good let's do the next version now we're going to talk about a movie idea this is a movie idea i have an idea for a movie a movie i will make i will make this movie next year okay here's my idea for the movie next year there will be a shy guy in this movie there will be a shy guy named nick and he will love a beautiful girl named stephanie uh he's going to want to sweep stephanie off her feet but he will be too shy however one day he will finally ask her for a date he will say uh you want to go to dinner with me she's going to laugh nervously and she's going to say i'm really into my career right now i'm sorry i just need some space of course nick's feelings will be hurt because he's going to know that stephanie really doesn't like him but he will say to himself i ain't going to take no for an answer i'm going to show her i'm a great guy i'm going to open her eyes so then nick will buy 500 roses for stephanie and he's going to tell her i love you stephanie will be shocked and a little scared then nick is going to start following her everywhere stephanie's going to become more and more worried finally nick will break into her apartment when stephanie comes home she will say enough this is where the police come in then she's going to call the police finally nick will be in jail and stephanie will have some space from him okay there you go so of course now that was talking about the future hello and welcome to the commentary for the hitch introduction let's get started hitch is a great movie by the way it's a really nice movie it's a romantic comedy it's funny starring uh will smith and i have used hitch many times in my classes in san francisco i will use the whole movie not just one scene but i will teach the entire movie little by little and what i do uh it's called the focal skills movie technique but i mean it sounds great but but it's really quite simple i show one scene of a movie maybe two minutes maybe one minute and i show at normal speed then i go back then i show it again and i pause and i explain new vocabulary slang and idioms then i go back again then i this the third time i turn the sound off and then i play part of a scene i pause and i ask the students questions about the movie i might say you know what's happening here describe this character what do you think he is thinking why is he doing this what is this person doing describe the place where they are at what are they saying to each other anyway i ask a lot of questions about what's happening in the movie then after we finish that three times i go to the next scene and we do the same thing again so one movie usually takes a few weeks to to show but uh it's it's works really well it's very very popular my students love it it's the most uh it's the most popular thing i do in my class and so i i started thinking okay this is really popular students love it how can i do this on effortless english it's more difficult i can't show you the movie on effortless english but i i thought maybe i could record scenes from the movie the audio and then i could use that for the the basic lesson and then i could make vocabulary lessons and mini story lessons to help you understand that movie scene so that's why this this hitch introduction it's my first try my first experiment to see if i can start using movies um steve kaufman at the linguist and i uh we i think we disagree about movies he doesn't like movies he thinks movies are not very good for learning language he thinks they're not intensive enough and i understand his point there's a lot more language concentrated in a book an audio book or an audio article however um i disagree i think they're fantastic ways to learn languages fantastic sources because the thing i like about movies uh number one movies use more natural conversational english you know books even even authentic real native speaker articles or books they use a writing style of english it's a little bit more formal than what we actually use when we speak because when we speak we use a lot more idioms we use a lot more slang we use words like ain't gonna wanna all those kind of things we we use every single day if you listen to two americans talking to each other they do not sound like written english you know it's it's different kind of english it's not better or worse but it is a little bit different movies are closer to that kind of english the kind of english you hear on the streets if you walk around san francisco people speak more like you hear in the movies not so much like you hear or see in books so i think movies are a great way to learn real conversational english casual english and especially americans are quite casual when we speak we usually are casual even if i speak to my boss i'm not formal i'm very casual when i speak to my boss when i speak to teachers when i speak to my parents i'm very casual so i like movies for that reason another reason i like movies movies have a continuous story so you can understand the vocabulary and the phrases and the slang it's there's a big context you understand the whole situation and especially when you can see it you you understand more how the vocabulary is used in what situations the vocabulary is used and and a third reason i think movies are great for memory because you not only hear the language but you have a picture to connect with the language so if you hear the line uh you know uh any man can sweep any woman off her feet sweep off her feet well you could memorize that phrase and you could read it in an article that's okay but if you see the movie hitch you will you will have some images you will have some pictures from the movie to connect with that phrase and it will help you remember the phrase much much much more easily so for all of those reasons i think movies actually are very powerful ways to learn languages if you use them correctly just watching a movie full speed one time it's not good it's not efficient steve is right it's not a good way to to use movies correctly you really need to watch it scene by scene you need to repeat the scenes many times now at if you don't have a teacher to help you like my class i can help them i can do it but if you're on your own you're at your home you're doing this yourself here's what you can do buy a dvd or rent a dvd let's say hitch i recommend do it with hitch you put it in and maybe you watch it one time to get the general idea but to study with it to learn with it you go back and you do what i do in my class you play one scene you use english subtitles and you play the scene one time trying to get the general idea then you go back you pause after one minute or two minutes you go back to the beginning of the scene you play it again this time every time you don't understand a word or phrase you pause you write it down in your little notebook or something and you use your dictionary and you find out oh wow what does this word mean what does this word mean if it's an idiom or slang you might need to get on the internet there uh go to google and type in english idioms you can there are many different websites so you can find some of those idioms some of that slang you can find it on the internet the meaning so you you go through the scene little by little right step by step finding all the new words and phrases and slang and idioms that you can find if you can't find something just don't worry about it just forget it keep going just get as much as you can after that go back again watch the scene one more time this time you should understand more then go to the next scene repeat the same process it will take you some time to go through all of the movie but the good thing is you will be learning real conversational english as native speakers use it on the street in real conversations you won't be learning the textbook english that nobody uses you won't be using or learning more formal english which people do use but maybe not as much you'll be using average everyday conversational english that's good so that's that's one great way to use movies one reason i love movies using them in class and i think that's why they're very popular with my students my students often complain wow i know all the textbook english i understand all this grammar we that you know i've studied all my all these years and i can read articles i can read toefl articles and understand them but i go to the bus stop two americans are talking to each other i can't understand them i don't know what they're saying it's because they're using casual english they're using a lot of idioms they're using slang they're speaking quickly all those reasons they're not speaking the way the textbooks speak so that's my sales pitch use movies now for hitch if you like this if you like me using this movie if you like this lesson please tell me go to the forums and write a comment you know just tell me aj please use more movies if you tell me that if members tell me they want movies i will do this more maybe i'll do the next scene in hitch maybe i'll go through most of hitch scene by scene and do lessons for each part and eventually you could do the whole movie this way so if you like that idea please tell me if you don't if no one tells me i might not do it because it is a lot of work i want to make sure that you like that but one important part of this is that you need the pictures right just listening to the audio is okay but you really should watch the movie at least one time so to get the most power from this lesson please go rent the movie hitch okay it's the movie name is hitch the star is will smith the actor rent the movie at least one time then when you hear the audio from effortless english you can remember some of the pictures you can remember what's happening in the story because you saw the movie so it's very important to go get this movie and watch it it will be much better than just listening to effortless english only if you watch it first then the lessons will be more powerful for you okay finally i have one more uh suggestion for you for using movies and that is movies are great for pronunciation work for improving your pronunciation in fact when i with my private students i use movies all the time to help them with pronunciation in fact i used this speech at the beginning of hitch i've used it many many many times the reason is this uh one as i said already movies use conversational english usually depends on the movie but usually and number two often or usually the actors have very good pronunciation a movie like hitch with will smith a movie like about a boy with hugh grant they have excellent pronunciation right they're professionals they get paid a lot of money to speak well to speak powerfully to have really clear strong english speech so they're good people to imitate you know imitate julia roberts imitate will smith imitate hugh grant if your pronunciation is like theirs you will sound fantastic so i like using uh these movie scenes for pronunciation here's what you do use the audio from this lesson hitch intro audio the mp3 the original from the movie and first listen to it many times you know over you know one week two weeks listen to it until you understand it easily then start pausing after every sentence pause and repeat the line repeat the sentence try to copy will smith's pronunciation exactly when i say exactly it i mean copy his pauses where does he pause where does he stop where does he speak quickly which words go together quickly which words are separated by a pause copy his intonation when does he go up and when does he go down copy his loudness his volume when does he speak more loudly when does he speak more quietly copy his emotion when is he sounding like he's a little bit funny when is he sounding like he's serious copy all of those things and of course copy actually the words how he says the words but all those other things are very very very important you will need to do this well you could do this every day for one year you could probably do this every day for 10 years but uh do it over a long period of time each time you will get better and better it's it's it's slow pronunciation takes some time it takes a lot of repetition it takes a lot of careful listening it's it's not fast and easy i'll be honest it's not but if you can do it little by little if you use something like from a movie it's a little more interesting i guarantee your pronunciation will improve it will get much better my students that i work with my private students when they do this when they use hitch for example to practice pronunciation it's amazing over a few months three four five months their pronunciation is so much better so please try this it it will help you a lot all right that's the end of my comments i guess this is mostly uh a a commentary that contains a lot of suggestions i'm i'm trying to suggest to you different ways to use movies to study and improve your english i think most of you will enjoy using movies more than using textbooks and maybe more than articles i don't know depends on each student alrighty i will see you next time and remember if you like me using the movies if you want me to use more movies then please write a comment in the forums all right i'll see you next time bye bye you