Top Songs, Books, TV Shows and Movies for Learning English

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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I want to start this English lesson by saying thank you
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to everyone who filled in the survey from last week's video.
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Over 1500 English learners filled in the survey
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and let me know what song they're currently listening to
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in English, what book they're reading,
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the TV show that they are currently watching,
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and about a movie that they've recently watched.
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I'm sure though, that you're really curious
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to know what the results are.
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I've already seen them.
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I made some nice graphs to show you.
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So in this video, what I'll do is I'll show you
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all of the results of the survey from last week,
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so that you know about the most popular book,
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the most popular song, the most popular TV show,
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and the current most popular movie
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that people are listening to, reading, or watching
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in order to improve their English.
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(upbeat music)
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Well hello, and welcome to this English lesson
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where I'm going to show you the results of the survey
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that many of you filled out last week.
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Before we get started though,
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if this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that red subscribe button
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and give me a thumbs up if this video helps you
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learn just a little bit more English.
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Well, it was interesting when I looked at the responses
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to the question what your favorite song was
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because all of you mentioned your favorite artist
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and your favorite song.
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So let's look at the top five artists
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before we look at the top three songs.
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At number five, we have Olivia Rodrigo,
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and many of you mentioned her song "Good 4 U,"
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kind of an angry song, but it has a good beat,
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I really like it.
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At number four, we have Lady Gaga.
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And many of you mentioned the song "Shallow"
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that I think is a duet with Bradley Cooper.
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At number three, the third most popular artist,
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Justin Bieber, who by the way is Canadian,
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and you mentioned a variety of songs from Justin Bieber.
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At number two, we had The Weeknd, and most of you mentioned
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either "Save Your Tears" or "Blinding Lights."
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And at number one, this was no surprise to me,
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the number one artist that you chose was Ed Sheeran.
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And you mentioned about 11 or 12 different songs
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from Ed Sheeran, he is a very popular artist.
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But let's look at the most popular songs.
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At number three, we had "Shallow" by Lady Gaga,
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again, I think a duet with Bradley Cooper,
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a very nice song, very, very cool.
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At number two, we had "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber.
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This was kind of a surprise to me.
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It's not a happy song.
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It's probably a great song though
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to listen to when you're learning English.
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He sings very clearly in the song
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and you can understand the words.
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At number one, we had "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd.
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This came as no surprise to me.
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This was a very clear winner above all of the other songs.
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And it was no surprise
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because this song is actually quite popular.
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It's on the radio all the time.
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It's in the top 10, I think, in Canada right now.
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It's just a really, really cool song.
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So there are your results for top artists and top songs.
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I'm sure you're curious to know what the top choice was
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for book from the survey that you filled in last week.
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And instead of making you wait, I'll just tell you,
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because there was a clear winner.
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The book that came out on top
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is a book called "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.
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This is an author from Brazil, and it doesn't surprise me
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that an author from Brazil was the top choice in the survey.
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There are many people from Brazil
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that watch my YouTube videos,
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so maybe they swayed the results a little bit.
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This book is a book that I have not read,
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and I promise you, I will read it this winter.
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It looks very, very interesting.
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There was no clear second or third place choice,
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but what did show in the results was
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that many people read the Harry Potter books,
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so that's a series of books,
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and many people read the books from Jeff Kinney
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called "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."
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So the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling,
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written for teenagers and young adults,
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is a very good series to read if you are learning English,
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great books, interesting stories.
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And "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is actually written
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for younger children, but there is no shame
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in reading kid's books when you are learning a language.
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid,"
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my kids read almost all of those books.
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Between the age of seven and eight to about age 11 or 13,
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they would read those books, and they were very interesting.
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They're about a little kid in middle school.
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It's just a good little picture,
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a humorous picture of American life for kids in school.
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So top choice, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho,
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second place-ish would be the Harry Potter series,
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and third place-ish would be "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."
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When I say ish, it means, you know, sort of,
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it's not really a specific book that got second or third,
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it's kind of a book in a series,
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but those are your top three.
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I have to be honest,
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the results for top TV show kind of surprised me.
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There were a few titles in there that I was expecting,
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but there were a few that were a surprise.
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At number five, we have a show called "Breaking Bad."
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This was a surprise to me.
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It's about a high school teacher
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who begins to lead a life of crime.
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It's an interesting show, I have watched it.
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I should warn you though, it's very violent,
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and you'll see a lot of criminal activity.
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In fourth place is a show called "How I Met Your Mother."
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I have not watched this show,
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but it's about a guy named Ted, I think,
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who lives in New York City, and it's a story about
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how he met the person who he eventually married,
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so that's kind of how the title came about.
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The third most popular show,
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I have to check my list, is "The Office."
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This did not surprise me.
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"The Office" is a very popular English television show.
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There's actually two versions, by the way.
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There's the original British version
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and there's the American version.
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The American version is much more popular.
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In second place, this surprised me,
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was "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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I've watched this show.
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It is called a daytime talk show,
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and it's hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
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And it's on, I think here it's on around 4:00.
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I don't watch it very often, maybe once every few months,
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but it's a good show to watch
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because you'll see natural English conversations.
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And the number one show, this show being chosen number one,
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this did not surprise me at all, the top show is "Friends."
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"Friends" is a show about a bunch of friends
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that live in New York City.
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It's actually starting to seem a little bit old.
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If you do watch it to learn English,
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there's a few things that they say or do
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that just aren't common anymore.
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But "Friends" was the top show out of all the TV shows
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that people mentioned when they filled out the survey.
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The top choices for movies were not a surprise to me at all.
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They almost mimicked the box office
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or the most popular movies of 2021.
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At number four, we have "Black Widow,"
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starring Scarlett Johansson.
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This is a movie from the MCU.
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MCU stands for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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It was a pretty cool movie.
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I watched it with my kids a couple of months ago.
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We really enjoyed it.
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The third most popular movie is "No Time to Die,"
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the most recent James Bond movie.
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No surprise to see that on the list.
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At number two was the movie "Free Guy,"
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starring Ryan Reynolds.
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This, of course, was no surprise either.
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I myself just watched this movie a few weeks ago.
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It's really good, it was really funny.
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The top movie though came as a bit of a surprise.
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The top movie is the movie "Dune."
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This movie just came out in the last week.
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It's a movie based on a book by Frank Herbert called "Dune,"
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which I read a long time ago when I was a kid.
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I would suggest you do this.
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If you haven't watched the movie,
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read the book, and then go see the movie.
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So in reverse order, once again,
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number four, Scarlett Johansson in "Black Widow,"
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number three, Daniel Craig in "No Time to Die,"
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the most recent James Bond movie,
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at number two, Ryan Reynolds in the movie "Free Guy,"
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and at number one, a whole bunch of actors,
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very, very good actors, in the movie "Dune,"
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based on the book by Frank Herbert.
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Well hey, thank you so much
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for watching this little English lesson
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where I gave you the results of last week's survey.
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Don't forget that listening to music in English,
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reading books in English,
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watching TV shows and movies in English
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are all really good things to do.
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A quick recap, listening to music is awesome
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because you can learn all of the lyrics.
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You can print out the lyrics, and memorize them,
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and then listen to the song hundreds of times.
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Reading books are awesome
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because you can read fast, you can read slow,
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and you can learn a lot of new vocabulary.
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Watching TV shows, awesome because you can hear
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the same people speak episode after episode,
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and you can really train your ear to understand them.
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And then movies are just awesome
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because you kind of forget about life for a while
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and you immerse yourself in what's happening.
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So do take the time
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to do all four of those things regularly.
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It will really, really help you.
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Thanks again for watching.
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Remember, if this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that red subscribe button
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and give me a thumbs up if this video helped you
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learn a little bit of English.
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And if you have the time,
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why don't you stick around and watch another English lesson?
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