Learn English with Resident Evil 9 Requiem (Classic Mode, Part 1): Hustle and Bustle, Shop Till You Drop and Up in Smoke

Welcome to Wrenwood

• Alex: So, Wrenwood City Guide. “Welcome to the beautiful and historic city of Wrenwood! Come soak in the <mark>nostalgia</mark> of a <mark>bygone era</mark>…”
• Alex: “…with chic art galleries, classic restaurants, and plenty of stores where you can <mark>shop till you drop</mark>.”
• Alex: “If you want to get away from the modern <mark>hustle and bustle</mark>, Wrenwood is the place to be!”
• Alex: I like that expression, hustle and bustle. It’s one of those expressions in English that <mark>rhyme</mark>.
• Alex: Hustle and bustle is actually a <mark>binomial</mark>. B-I-N-O-M-I-A-L.
• Alex: Noise and activity. “I love the hustle and bustle of the marketplace.”

Shop till you drop

• Alex: <mark>Shop till you drop</mark>. That’s the one.
• Alex: It’s an American idiom for buying products excessively, until physical exhaustion. It’s often associated with long shopping trips during sales events like Black Friday.
• Alex: Do you shop till you drop, guys? Good question. I don’t. Don’t have enough money to do that.
• Alex: And I like the word <mark>nostalgia</mark>, because this game is quite <mark>nostalgic</mark>.
• Alex: Nostalgia: a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past.
• Alex: So, something can be <mark>filled with nostalgia</mark>. I think that this game is filled with nostalgia.

Up in smoke

• Alex: Oh, “can send your life <mark>up in smoke</mark>”. Okay.
• Alex: “Violators will be <mark>fined</mark>.”
• Alex: Look at that expression. <mark>Go up in smoke</mark>: to be destroyed by burning.
• Alex: So, something that goes up in smoke fails to produce the result that was wanted. To be wasted.
• Alex: For example, when the business went bankrupt, 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.

CRIME scene

• Alex: “Investigate the <mark>crime scene</mark>.”
• Alex: Don’t forget: that’s <mark>CRIME scene</mark>, not crime SCENE.
• Alex: Usually I struggle with my students pronouncing <mark>compound nouns</mark> as phrases. Like, instead of saying CHEESEcake, they say cheese CAKE. Especially Spanish speakers.
• Alex: All right, we need to <mark>crouch</mark>.
• Alex: You have to <mark>crouch walk</mark> all the time. It involves walking with your knees bent, hips lowered and torso slightly forward.

Creaks and investigation reports

• Alex: Did you see the word <mark>creaking</mark> there in the closed captions?
• Alex: When a door, floorboard, etc. <mark>creaks</mark>, it makes a long, low sound when it moves or is moved. Wooden things creak.
• Alex: “H. Ramirez, 59: <mark>pronounced dead</mark> at Stoneville Hospital.”
• Alex: Look at his face. He doesn’t look that happy, <mark>does he</mark>?
• Alex: Usually in this game, unnecessary words at the beginning get dropped. There’s <mark>ellipsis</mark>: the dropping of certain understood elements.
• Alex: In this case, the subject and the auxiliary verb: <mark>he was</mark> pronounced dead at Stoneville Hospital.

Leg it, stagger, sneak up and snarl

• Alex: Time to <mark>leg it</mark>. You leg it, you run away from somebody. That’s an informal UK expression.
• Alex: “Attacking an enemy’s head or legs will <mark>stagger</mark> them.” Remember that to stagger them means to make them walk unsteadily sideways, as if they’re about to fall.
• Alex: Stealth kills. We can <mark>sneak up on</mark> enemies from behind. That’s the expression: you sneak up on somebody from behind.
• Alex: “Frenzied <mark>snarling</mark>.” When that happens, there’s usually a zombie coming at us.
• Alex: To snarl: to make a deep, rough sound while showing your teeth, usually in anger. Or of people, to say something angrily and forcefully.
• Alex: “The dogs started to snarl at each other, so I had to separate them.”

Back to square one

• Leon, have you located Victor?
• No, I lost him.
• <mark>Back to square one</mark>.
• Alex: Back to square one, that’s a good expression.
• Victor purchased a building after Umbrella <mark>went under</mark>… I’ll send you the address.
• Leon, we’re <mark>running out of time</mark>.

Worn, clamber and sizzle

• Good, we’ve got the screwdriver. It’s rusty and the grip looks <mark>worn</mark>. But it should still work.
• Alex: If something looks worn, that means it has become damaged because of continuous use.
• Alex: So you could say, for example, “The wheel bearings have worn over the years, which is what’s causing the noise.”
• Alex: <mark>Clambering</mark>. Yeah, time to hide. ’Cause she is coming, <mark>isn’t she</mark>?
• Alex: To <mark>clamber</mark> means to climb up, across walls, into somewhere…
• Alex: To <mark>sizzle</mark> means to make a sound like food cooking in hot fat. That’s why it said that her face was sizzling.

Tune in

• Alex: “Will the millions of viewers who regularly <mark>tune in</mark> stay loyal now that their favorite host is gone?”
• Alex: To be <mark>tuned in to</mark>: that means to have a good understanding of what is happening in a situation or what other people are thinking.
• Alex: “She just doesn’t seem to be tuned in to her students’ needs.”
• Alex: Okay, I hope next time you can tune in, guys.
• Alex: Take care, and goodbye.