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Activity 1.
Do this before the class. Watch the video.Activity 2.
Oral Reading. Practice the script with your teacher.
RORY: Mom's having a huge wedding there this week.
EMILY: Really?
LORELAI: Yeah, actually there's people coming from all over the country.
EMILY: Well, isn't that nice?
LORELAI: Yeah.
EMILY: Rory, how's Chilton?
LORELAI: OK, done with me now.
EMILY: I'm sorry, was there more to the story?
LORELAI: Uh, Rory has to pick a team sport to play.
RORY: It's a requirement.
RICHARD: Physical fitness is as important as intellectual fitness. So says Plato and so say I.
EMILY: What sport are you going to pick?
RORY: I'm not sure. I'm not really the athletic type.
LORELAI: I told her she should go out for the debating team.
RORY: It's not a sport.
LORELAI: It is the way the Gilmores play.
EMILY: So, what are your choices?
RORY: God, there's like a thousand of them: basketball, lacrosse, swimming, track, golf --
EMILY: Golf?
RORY: Yeah.
EMILY: Well your grandfather is a golf player.
LORELAI: Oops.
EMILY: He plays every week at the club. He could teach you to play like a pro.
RICHARD: Emily.
EMILY: Why, he could take you there on Sunday. It's perfect.
RICHARD: It's not something you can teach in an afternoon.
LORELAI: That's OK. Rory can pick something else.
EMILY: Why should she pick something else? She needs to learn a sport and Richard can teach her a sport. (to Rory) You can use your mother's old golf clubs. They're upstairs gathering dust along with the rest of her potential.
LORELAI: OK, Mom, can I maybe talk to you for a minute?
EMILY: We're having dessert.
LORELAI: I know but I'd like to talk to you fast before the sugar sets in and makes me crazy.
EMILY: You are the oddest person.
LORELAI: Too easy.
(Lorelai and Emily get up from the table and go into another room to talk.)
EMILY: What is so important it can't wait for cake?
LORELAI: Keep moving.
EMILY: This is as far as I can go unless you'd like me to bore my way through the wall.
LORELAI: Don't do this, Mom.
EMILY: Do what?
LORELAI: Force Rory and Dad to go golfing.
EMILY: I'm not forcing anybody.
LORELAI: Well you're manipulating the situation in a way that gives no one a way out. That's force. Look it up.
EMILY: I'm just trying to help your daughter get an education.
LORELAI: Thank you. She'll find another sport.
EMILY: Why should she?
LORELAI: Because she doesn't want to go and Dad doesn't want to take her.
EMILY: Oh, your father doesn't know what he wants. He'd get his hair cut at the butcher if I let him.
LORELAI: Let it go please.
EMILY: Well, isn't this interesting? You're afraid.
LORELAI: Of what?
EMILY: That Rory will enjoy the club and have a good time without you.
LORELAI: That's crazy.
Activity 3.
Listening Comprehension.A. Talk about the following expressions, what do they mean?
1.RICHARD: Physical fitness is as important as intellectual fitness. So says Plato and so say I.
2. LORELAI: I told her she should go out for the debating team.
RORY: It's not a sport.
LORELAI: It is the way the Gilmores play.
3. EMILY: Why should she pick something else? She needs to learn a sport and Richard can teach her a sport. (to Rory) You can use your mother's old golf clubs. They're upstairs gathering dust along with the rest of her potential.
4. LORELAI: I know but I'd like to talk to you fast before the sugar sets in and makes me crazy.
B. Answer the following questions:
1. What did Rory tell her grandparents about the inn?
2. What seems to be Rory's problem in terms of school?
3. What is the suggestion of Emily about Rory's school problem?
4. What does Lorelai think of the situation?