Name: 用《星球大戰》學習英語! (Learn English with STAR WARS!)
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It's time to use the force and learn some English.

Hey, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on

learning English with Star Wars. So, I am very excited

because Star Wars, episode seven, The Force Awakens,

is set to come out in theatres all across the world. Maybe it's already out at the time

that you're watching this. If you're watching this years from now, maybe Star Wars episode

seven is out, episode eight is out, episode nine is out, and we say that they're awesome,

Anyway, what I thought that I would do in preparation for the movie is go back, watch

the original, and teach you guys some English. Those of you who don't know, Star Wars is

"I thought Star Wars was science-fiction."

Well, Emperor Palpatine, that is a common opinion and a common misconception.

You see, science-fiction means that it takes the technology, pushes it into the future

to its most extreme. Now, Star Wars is closer to, like, Lord of the Rings, or, you know,

a fantasy where there are creatures that simply can't exist.

Okay, so now that that's clear, what I'm going to do is tell you about the story and the

characters of the original Star Wars, and I'm going to go through the movie, from beginning

to end, and talk about some of the key dialogue, key vocabulary with you guys. And at the end

of this, don't forget to check out the quiz. Hopefully, you'll have learned something.

So, let's get on with it and learn English with Star Wars.

Okay, so the story of the original Star Wars.

In the beginning, there is an evil galactic empire that is spreading across the galaxy.

What they're doing, what evil things they are accomplishing, we don't really know.

They don't say, we just know they're bad.

There's a small rebel group that is fighting back, and they're trying to take down this evil

empire, and this rebel group has recently stolen some plans for a powerful weapon.

Now, this weapon is being designed by the empire, and they call it the Death Star.

And now, the Death Star is this big, round, globe ball battle station in the movie, and the rebels

need to destroy it. They figure that if they have the plans, maybe they can find a weakness

in the Death Star and destroy it. Will they destroy it? Wait. You'll find out later.

And, again, at the beginning of the movie, the empire is chasing a small rebel ship, because

they think this ship has the plans, and they're trying to get them back.

Now let's look at some of the characters. We have Luke Skywalker.

from the planet Tatooine, and he's the main hero, here. He's the one who's going to learn

We have Princess Leia. She is there at the beginning

of the movie on the small rebel ship, and what she's going to do is give instructions

to R2D2, the little robot, to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Han Solo is the pilot of the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca or Chewy is the

guy who just sounds like this: [Roaring noise].

He doesn't actually say anything, but somehow,

Han Solo can understand him, based on a roar.

It was the '70s, you know, people believed these things.

C3PO and R2D2... C3PO and R2D2, they kind of just carry us through the whole movie.

They're always present, they're two robots, two droids. C3PO is called a protocol droid,

whatever that means. And again, R2D2, another person, like Chewbacca, doesn't speak English,

just speaks in: [Bleeping noise], in little bleeps and bloops. Okay?

And we have Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan Kenobi is a wise, old Jedi who teaches

Luke all about the force, and he's also enemies with Darth Vader. They have a lightsaber battle

"Oh, that's right. I'm in the second one."

Okay, now that we know the story, now that we know some of the characters,

So, at the beginning of the movie, C3PO, R2D2,

they're running around the rebel ship, and C3PO says:

So: "This is madness!" Not: "This is Sparta!"

"This is madness" means, like, this is crazy, this is insane. I don't understand what's

happening. "We are doomed" means that we have no chance, we're dead. Okay?

So if you have a difficult test coming up, you could say:

Next, yes, yes, yes, yes. Then Vader comes on to the rebel ship, and he starts asking

questions. He starts pushing people around, he picks up one guy, he throws him against

"Where are those transmissions you intercepted?"

So, again, some of this vocabulary, you know, they are in space,

there are spaceships communicating with each other.

"Transmissions" are just communications that you intercepted. When you intercept something,

it means that you catch it before it gets to where it needs to go.

For example, the most common interception I think of is in football.

If a quarterback throws the ball and another player from another team catches it

who is supposed to get the football, he intercepts the football. So, Vader is saying:

"We know that you got some of our messages.

We know you know that we're making a weapon, and I want those plans. Give them back."

All right, Vader then instructs his team, his commander, he says:

"Tear this ship apart until you've found those plans."

So, "to tear something apart", think of "tear", it means

to rip. Okay? So, "to tear apart" means destroy everything. Take... Doesn't

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