Learn English with GAME OF THRONES 👑 - 3 Quotes that English Learners Need to Know (S8 Ep3)

- Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com.

And welcome to this lesson that is

going to focus on Game of Thrones.

Now, I'm going to give you three quotes

from Season 8, Episode 3.

And I think that these are particularly interesting

because of the types of language that they use.

Now, if you haven't seen this episode yet,

then maybe pause this video

and go watch a different one instead.

I'll leave a link up here to a similar type of video.

But if you've seen this

or if you're not worried about hearing some spoilers,

then continue watching.

Now, a spoiler is when somebody gives you information

that ruins the TV show or movie.

So they tell you a really important part of what happens,

so that there is no surprises when you go

to watch it, so that is a spoiler.

Now, Game of Thrones is a TV show

that has taken over the world.

I mean, everyone talks about it,

and right now, it's a real hot topic,

and I think this is a great show for learning English too.

The dialogue is usually quite slow,

so people speak at a quite slow pace.

Sometimes it can be difficult,

especially when they use names and places and things

like that, but generally speaking,

as we're going to see, they use basic,

everyday English, okay.

So let's get started with number one.

Here it is.

There's no need to execute me.

I'll be dead before the dawn.

So hopefully you can see that.

There is no need to execute me.

I'll be dead before the dawn.

And this is something, Melisandre,

I think that's how you say her name,

said to Sir Davos, and she said this

when she arrived at Winterfell.

Now, look at this.

There's no need to execute, no need to do something.

And this means it's not necessary.

So she's saying it's not necessary to execute me,

because I'll be dead before the dawn anyway.

So there's no need to, this is common in everyday English.

For example, there is no need

to cry over spilt milk, a very common idiom.

There is no need to cry over spilt milk.

There is no need to complete that form.

We have all your information.

There is no need to worry.

They'll be fine.

There is no need to worry, they'll be fine.

Now, she also uses I'll,

I will, I will be dead,

I will be dead, so here,

she is stating a fact about the future,

or maybe she is predicting the future too.

She's making a prediction.

I will be dead before the dawn.

Now, this isn't that common in everyday English.

You can say before the morning,

that's a little bit more common,

but when we're talking about battles and wars,

if you watch war movies,

then they use this, before dawn,

or before daybreak, for example.

So I'll be dead before dawn,

I'll be dead before the morning, and to execute, is to kill.

And again, this is used more for war type situations

to execute somebody, and yeah, it's a great phrase here.

There is no need to execute me,

I'll be dead before the dawn.

Number two, Melisandre is involved in this one again,

but this is something that Arya says, Arya says.

You said we'd meet again.

You said we'd meet again.

So we'd, we'd.

This is short for we would, we would.

You said we'd meet again.

You said we would meet again.

Now, this is a great contraction to know,

because what we're doing here is we are using the past.

You said, you said we'd meet again.

In the past, Melisandre said, we will meet again.

We will meet again.

So we can use would as the past of will, okay?

We will meet again.

You said, we would meet again.

You said, we'd meet again.

This is a very common contraction here.

You said we would meet again.

You said you would come.

He said he would come to the party.

He said he would come to the party.

Now, something that's quite similar

is that if you use going to,

I'm going to go to the party,

then to talk about this in the past,

you said you were going to come to the party.

You said you were going to come to the party.

So to be going, in the past, you were going.

I'll leave some more examples in the description for you.

Okay, number three.

I'll move over here.

Is that better?

No, you can't see me, I'll move back over here.

Hopefully you can just see me.

Maybe we should've stayed married.

Maybe we should've stayed married.

Now, this is something that Tyrion said

to Sansa when they were in the basement,

a crypt, and Tyrion used

to be married to Sansa, and they separated.

Now, I actually did some research here.

They didn't divorce, but obviously,

they aren't living like a married couple right now,

and he said to her, maybe we should've stayed married.

Should've.

Should have.

This is the contraction of should have.

Very common in everyday speech.

You'll also hear and there's a new video

on this coming very soon, shoulda.

Maybe we shoulda.

Maybe we shoulda stayed married.

But in this case, you should've, should've, should've.

Maybe we should've stayed married.

So should is used in the past here.

We're using should for a past action.

So he's saying, maybe the best thing

was for us to stay married.

He's talking about regrets, maybe a mistake in the past.

Now, an example I'd love to give here

is when you see a football player who

has a very easy opportunity to score a goal,

but he misses, you can say, he should've scored.

He should've scored.

And I made a video on should have,

could have, and would have.

So be sure to check them out.

Okay, so let's just go through these again very quickly.

There is no need to execute me, I'll be dead before dawn.

You said we'd meet again.

Maybe we should've stayed married.

So, what I want you to do

is to leave more examples using these types

of constructions, and also,

let me know if you like this lesson.

If you do, click the Like button,

and be sure to share it with your friends.

So that is Season 8, Episode 3.

I thought it was a very good episode,

although it was a little dark at times.

A lot of people mentioned this.

It was very difficult to see what was happening in

some of the scenes, but yeah,

great episode, good ending,

and I'm excited for the next episode too.

Okay, so be sure to check the description for more examples

and to get my book, The Five Step Plan for English Fluency,

that is free to download,

okay, thank you for watching, bye-bye.

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