Name: Learn ENGLISH with QUEEN — Freddie Mercury Movie
Uploaded: 2026-01-29T17:23:20.000Z
Duration: 18 min 48 s
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Past simple

I want to give the audience a song that they can perform, right?

Modal verbs - A2

Let them be part of the band, so what can they do?

The imperative

Imagine thousands of people doing this in music.

Buddy, you're a boy Make a big knife Pain in the street Gonna be a big mad someday.

Your big disgrace kicking your can all over the place.

Today we're learning English with the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, which tells the story of Freddie Mercury and the amazing rock band Queen.

So we're going back to where it all began, the moment where Freddie meets the band for the first time and convinces them to let him join.

And after we learn with the entire scene at the end of the lesson, I'm gonna give you a little test to see how much you understood from the clip.

Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, before they were famous, concerned about their band because their singer just announced that he was quitting.

I'm sorry, guys, but we're not going anywhere with this.

At this point, the band's name was Smile.

They had just played a show that wasn't very good and now, without a singer, they didn't know what to do next.

So let's watch the clip and see what happens.

Yeah, I got better things to do my Saturday night.

I've been following you for a while, actually.

Makes sense for a dental student in your astrophysics, aren't you?

I got a feeling I should be doing all right Doing all right.

I was born with four additional incisors.

Alright, we're gonna jump into learning with the clip.

And I just wanted to let you know that we are saving the most advanced expressions, the everyday expressions that you learn with this lesson, such as room for improvement for a while.

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So let's hear again how Brian and Roger were describing the show they just played.

A load of bollocks is a very British way of saying something is absolutely ridiculous or totally wrong.

It's quite rude and definitely not something you'd say in a job interview or to your grandmother.

But for example, you could hear someone say that the weather forecast said it would be sunny all day, but

Or a Brit might also say, this is rubbish.

Now, Brian chooses his word more carefully when he says there was room for improvement.

He was being polite about saying, that wasn't very good.

It's the perfect expression for giving criticism without hurting someone's feelings.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy would you say you are, Janet?

I think there's room for improvement there, don't you?

I've got better things to do my Saturday nights.

I could give you their name if that wasn't very clear.

Those better things he could be doing on Saturday nights are actually women.

This is an informal, slightly vulgar way of referring to getting sexually intimate with someone, to do someone and enjoy the show.

Smile makes sense for a dental student in your astrophysics, aren't you?

Clearly Freddie has done his homework, right?

If someone has done their homework in this context, Yeah.

So it basically means to prepare in advance.

Freddy paid attention, did some research and learned details so he could impress and connect with the band.

This just means he's been a fan of them for some time.

Not for a super long time, but for a while.

Makes sense for a dental student in your astrophysics.

Is someone studying to become a dentist, A doctor who takes care of teeth.

And astrophysics is a branch of science that studies stars, planets and space.