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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: ...continue your diatribe?
LORELAI: Would ya? Thanks. I'd rather cut off my head and use it as a punch bowl than go to the club with you.
(Cut to the inn. Lorelai escorts the brides, Jackie and Jessica, and their mother around the grounds.)
LORELAI: You'll walk down here over the bridge with the swans floating by and the music playing --
JACKIE: What are they doing with those purple flowers?
LORELAI: Just decorating the bridge.
JACKIE: I didn't want purple flowers. I wanted pink.
JESSICA: And I wanted blue.
LORELAI: So I thought violet would be a nice compromise.
JACKIE: But we paid for pink flowers.
JESSICA: And blue flowers.
MRS. SHALES: You did not pay for anything. I told her to decorate with violet flowers and while it's very nice of her to try to take the heat for me it's certainly not necessary. If you don't like it, buy your own flowers. (silence) Yes, I thought so. Now go away. My Advil is wearing off.
(The twins walk away.)
MRS. SHALES: Their father spoiled them.
LORELAI: Oh, they're just excited.
MRS. SHALES: They're spoiled. And they won't move away.
MRS. SHALES: Now, disaster list. What if it rains?
LORELAI: We'll put up tents.
MRS. SHALES: What if it's too windy?
LOREAI: Well, then we'll secure everything and put extra hair spray in everybody's hair.
MRS. SHALES: Too hot?
LORELAI: We'll use umbrellas and fans that won't cause any damage because of the things that have been secured and the hair that has been sprayed.
MRS. SHALES: So I have nothing to worry about.
LORELAI: Nope.
MRS. SHALES: Well there must be something.
LORELAI: Listen, I have everything under control. Why don't you go up to your room and have a fabulous bubble bath and I'll send up some wine and a masseuse who bears a remarkable resemblance to Antonio Banderas.
MRS. SHALES: How remarkable?
LORELAI: Get ready to applaud.
MRS. SHALES: This is my favorite place in the whole world.
(Inside the inn Michel is handling gift baskets.)
LORELAI: (to an employee) Could you send Maury up to room twelve in about twenty minutes? Thanks.
Activity 3.
Listening Comprehension.
A. Talk about the following expressions, what do they mean?
1.RORY: ...continue your diatribe?
2.MRS. SHALES: You did not pay for anything. I told her to decorate with violet flowers and while it's very nice of her to try to take the heat for me it's certainly not necessary. If you don't like it, buy your own flowers. (silence) Yes, I thought so. Now go away. My Advil is wearing off.
3.LORELAI: Listen, I have everything under control. Why don't you go up to your room and have a fabulous bubble bath and I'll send up some wine and a masseuse who bears a remarkable resemblance to Antonio Banderas.
4.LORELAI: Get ready to applaud.
B. Answer the following questions:
1. Why is Lorelai making a diatribe?
2. Who are Jackie and Jessica, and Mrs. Shales?
3. What's up at the inn?
4. How's Lorelai handling the situation at the inn?
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