[Music] so based on the popularity of our first lesson with harry potter and so many of you asking us for another one we thought we would bring you a new lesson with a famous scene from this delightful movie in this scene we see the kids learning one of their first spells as we explained in the other lesson we made on harry potter a spell is a group of words used as a magical charm or incantation in the wizarding world they use wands to cast spells that is to cause them to take effect alright let's watch
the first part of the scene where professor flitwick explains the spell one of the wizards most rudimentary skills is levitation or the ability to make objects fly uh do you have your feathers good now uh don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing the swish add flick everyone does wish and thick good oh and enunciate wingardium leviosa off you go then one of the wizards most rudimentary skills is levitation or the ability to make objects fly levitation is the action of rising and floating in the air without any physical support this word is typically
associated with supposed magical or super powers so when superman or a dragon ball z character flies we could also say they are levitating the verb to levitate can refer to causing something to levitate or levitating yourself example some people actually believe that if you meditate enough you can achieve the ability to levitate one of the wizards most rudimentary skills is levitation now the adjective rudimentary means the same as basic so if something such as a skill is considered rudimentary it relates to the beginning or initial phase of learning that is it is a basic skill
not an advanced one example she only had a rudimentary formal education do you have your feathers good professor flitwick will now try and teach the students how to levitate an object by magic for practice they're going to try the spell on feathers now don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing the wrist is the part of the body between the hand and the arm where you'd normally wear a watch don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing the swish and flick everyone does wish in the wizarding world to cast a spell with your
wand also requires you to make a specific movement of the wrist while holding the wand he describes this movement as the swish and flick if something swishes or you swish it it moves through the air making a soft sound this refers to the first part of the movement which is about making a long soft swishing movement with the wand the second part is about flicking the wand if something flicks or you flick it it moves and hits something or simply stops with a short sudden movement if you flick someone or something it could be painful
as we see when monica and rachel fight here [Music] did you just flick me [Music] okay well you wouldn't let me finish and i was ow that hurt quick [Music] hey if you're enjoying having fun learning with videos like this one on our channel but you feel like you need some more help taking your english comprehension and fluency to the next level then i highly recommend you check out our fluent with friends course you will master native vocabulary pronunciation cultural context and so much more with the first two seasons of the popular tv series friends
you can get a free try that right now with our three-part mini course just click up here or down in the description below to learn more and sign up don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing by the way did you notice how flitwick pronounces the word wrist here don't forget the nice wrist movement how about the word rudimentary one of the wizard's most rudimentary skills you probably noticed this sounds very different from the r sounds heard in the american accent and even different from the more common standard british accent let's hear it again
don't forget the nice wrist movement you just heard the distinctive rolling r that is common to the scottish accent interestingly enough it sounds very similar to the rolling r found in spanish portuguese and italian languages something you'd like to say dear oh there are several things i would like to say we never use transfiguration as a punishment surely dumbledore told you that you might have mentioned it but you will do well to remember it but professor i thought if you signed it then i could i can't only a parent or a guardian can sign since
i am neither it would be inappropriate what do you think of all the different accents that can be heard in the harry potter movies do you find any particular character who you think is harder to understand join the discussion in the comments below the swish and flick everyone does wish and think good oh and enunciate wingardium leviosa to enunciate it's to say or pronounce words fully and clearly for example i really try to enunciate much more when i teach english than when i speak with american friends in this case professor flitwick is referring to making
a clear sound and correctly pronouncing the spell oh and enunciate wingardium leviosa off you go then off you go is a british english idiomatic expression with two slightly different applications in this case it was used as to tell somebody that they can now start doing something such as a presentation or an activity in class as seen in the scene flitwick is allowing his students to start practicing however this expression is more commonly used to let somebody know that they can now leave is there something you wish to tell me no sir nothing very well then
off you go i highly recommend reacquaint yourself with the chapter on antidotes i'll tell you more about the zores in our next class right off you go please don't forget your rat tail [Applause] stop stop stop you're going to take someone's eye out besides you're saying it wrong it's leviosa not leviosa you doing then if you're so clever go on [Applause] oh well done see here everyone this great just done it splendid [Music] leviosa stop stop stop you're going to take someone's eye out even though hermione is probably jokingly exaggerating here when she says that
ron is going to take someone's eye out she means that he's being too careless or irresponsible with this movement because it seems to be so uncontrolled and aggressive that he will end up causing an accident and hurting somebody's eye example i don't want you kids playing with fireworks you could lose a finger or take somebody's eye out hey so every week we help learners like you understand fast speaking natives without getting lost without missing the jokes and without subtitles just like huma who said that she's improving her english fluency every day by watching our videos
so if you want to improve your fluency just like huma then i highly recommend you hit that subscribe button and the bell down below to not miss a single one of our new lessons you're going to take someone's eye out besides you're saying it wrong it's leviosa besides means the same as also or in addition it is used to add new information like an argument to what has already been said what's the matter potter been beyond your reach harry no way you heard what madam huge said besides you don't even know how to fly what
an idiot i'll be forever grateful for this to both of you i want to go with you one day perhaps for some time my life will be too unpredictable and besides you're meant to be here in this case hermione first said that he was doing the wrong movement by being too aggressive with it then she added that he was also saying it wrong you're going to take someone's eye out besides you're saying it wrong by the way be careful not to confuse it with a word beside which is a preposition that is used to indicate
being by the side of or next to something we had a very long homemade [Music] okay now you harry who have never known your family you see them standing beside you you're saying it wrong it's leviosa not leviosa you do it if you're so clever to be clever is to have the ability to quickly understand elaborate or apply ideas more simply put to be clever is to be intelligent ron is saying to hermione that if she thinks she is so smart telling him that he is doing it all wrong she should try doing the spell
herself my lord the one does it truly answer to me you're a clever man severus surely um [Music] [Music] guys let me go i'm clever harry but not clever enough besides we've got a better way guys i'm trying to get to hogsmeade we know don't worry we'll get you there we'll show you a quicker way you doing then if you're so clever go on go on golly as an informal idiomatic expression go on is used to encourage somebody to say or do something take a bit of toast mate go on ron's right harry you're gonna
need your strength today i'm not hungry come on now hurry up you'll be late train's leaving come on come on come on hurry up you're saying it wrong it's leviosa although when guardian leviosa are made up words we can still analyze this humorous explanation that hermione gave ron from a phonetic point of view and learn a lot from it she explained that when saying when guardium leviosa you should not pronounce leviosa with an open ah sound at the end but rather with a schwa sound so instead of saying leviosa you should say leviosa this is
really useful to practice because the schwa sound is the most common sound in english so in order to have clear correct pronunciation it is important that you master it so let's practice it with hermione [Music] [Applause] oh well done see here everyone this great just done it splendid splendid means excellent fantastic or very impressive example we had a splendid holiday together it can be used by itself just as flitwick did to express great admiration for something or somebody in the old days i used to throw together the occasional supper party you'd be welcome too granger
i'd be delighted splendid all right so now it's time for you to test everything that you learned today by watching the full scene without subtitles and to further challenge you we will be actually pausing the scene at different moments to ask you some different quiz questions and hey we definitely want to make more lessons like this one with harry potter so if you enjoyed it let us know by hitting that like button below and if there's a particular scene you would like us to do just write it down in the comments below and maybe we'll
do it alright so now it's time to roll the test one of the wizards most rudimentary skills is levitation or the ability to make objects fly uh do you have your feathers good now uh don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing the swish and flick everyone does wish and thick good oh and enunciate wingardium leviosa [Applause] stop stop stop you're going to take someone's eye out besides you're saying it wrong [Music] it's leviosa not leviosa you doing then if you're so clever [Applause] oh oh well done see here everyone this great just done
it splendid thank god leviosa well oh i think we're going to need another feather over here professor all right well if you're a harry potter fan we're definitely going to be making up more lessons with the movies i highly recommend that you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of those and if you're learning british english well we have a ton more bridge english lessons which you will find in this playlist i recommend you watch that after you finish this video so now it's time to go beyond the classroom and live your english
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