Name: Learn English with ZOOTOPIA 2
Uploaded: 2026-01-13T17:07:19.000Z
Duration: 17 min 25 s
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Are you ready to learn a ton of useful expressions with the brand new Zootopia movie?

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Well, stick with us because today we'll follow Detective Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, who is now a police officer going on an undercover operation to crack a case in his shady shipyard.

Now you should know this lesson comes with its own vocabulary flashcards covering all the divinity expressions that you learned today.

Like the words undercover and shady that you just saw highlighted in blue.

Practicing with these flashcards is the easiest way for you to remember these words forever.

If that sounds interesting to you, just click the link in the description below right now.

It'll take you directly to our app, the RealLife app, where you'll be able to start your vocabulary practice right after the lesson.

You're the one that said we needed a bust.

Ensure that nothing illegal gets smuggled here in one of these cargo containers.

I guess we should have thought this through, right, babe?

Before we decided to come down here to this beautiful industrial shipyard to celebrate the big day of our birthday boy.

Alright, now let's break down the advanced vocabulary we just saw.

So in this scene, Nick and Judy are working undercover and meaning they're disguising themselves as regular civilians instead of showing their police officers.

Kind of like a spy will do, if you remember the James Bond movies, for example.

So they're trying to crack a case that involves some criminal activity in a shady shipyard.

To crack a case is an informed expression that means solving a criminal investigation.

And shady refers to someone or something that looks suspicious.

The word bust has multiple meanings in English, but in law enforcement it refers to an arrest.

And just so you know, a bust can also mean something broke or failed.

Like my phone is busted or the plane was a bust.

Now, what do you think this other expression Nick used mean?

If someone tells you to followed your lead.

They want you to do exactly what they are doing.

It's like saying, let me guide this situation and you copy my actions.

So Nick follows with another everyday expression natives use that you definitely expect to hear in a movie with detectives being undercover.

Act casual means to behave in a relaxed, natural way, trying to appear like everything is normal.

Ensure that nothing illegal gets smuggled here in one of these cargo containers?

To smuggle means to illegally transport products across borders or into restricted areas, usually to avoid taxes or laws.

Smugglers hide contraband items like drugs, weapons, or stolen goods to sneak them past authorities.

And a cargo container is a large metal box like this, used to transport goods on ships, trains or trucks.

Gosh and darn it are euphemisms that is like softer versions of stronger words that people use when they want to avoid cursing.

Gosh is a lighter version of God, as in oh my God, and

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