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Activity 1.
Do this before the class. Watch the video.Activity 2.
Oral Reading. Practice the script with your teacher.
LORELAI: ...kind of fiasco?
MICHEL: This is not funny.
LORELAI: No, I'm sorry, it's not. It's not funny at all.
(The swans honk and Michel jumps.)
LORELAI: (laughing) Oh my God! Come on, you have to admit, that's a little funny.
DRELLA: Hey, Pepe le Pew, you wanna give me a hand with this?
MICHEL: No.
LORELAI: Listen, it's Drella or the swans.
MICHEL: So either one beast of terror or another?
DRELLA: What the hell is he babbling about?
MICHEL: (quietly, to Lorelai) Don't --
LORELAI: He's afraid of the swans.
MICHEL: (quietly) Thank you.
DRELLA: Of course he is. He's French.
LORELAI: Mmm.
MICHEL: (to Swan Guy) OK, I'll take you to the pond.
LORELAI: Thank you.
MICHEL: But stay far away from me.
(Drella watches as Michel leads Swan Guy away.)
DRELLA: Can't stand the talk -- love to watch the walk.
(Cut to the dining room at the country club.)
RORY: She caught him in the pool house with the tennis pro, not the riding instructor.
RICHARD: I had no idea.
RORY: That committee of yours is not looking at people as much as you think.
RICHARD: Why would they? From what you've told me they're all involved in one nefarious activity after another.
RORY: It's a conspiracy.
RICHARD: It's Peyton Place. Is there more?
RORY: Can you handle it?
RICHARD: I'll steel myself.
RORY: OK, Mr. Neville likes all things frilly.
RICHARD: Good God. He's my broker.
RORY: I don't think one will affect the other.
(Man #1 and Man #2 or 3 approach the table.)
MAN #1: Mind if we barge in?
RICHARD: Look who's here. Ah, Rory, this is Julian Johnson (MAN #1) and Edward James (MAN #2 or 3)
EDWARD: Call me "Ed".
JULIAN: You can call me "Ed" too.
(The two men laugh.)
RORY: It's nice to meet you.
RICHARD: Would you like to join us?
EDWARD: If Rory doesn't mind us intruding on her time with her grandfather.
RORY: No, that's fine.
JULIAN: Oh that's good. So, we hear you're attending Chilton.
RORY: I just started.
JULIAN: That's a hard school.
RORY: Yes sir.
RICHARD: Rory is an excellent student.
JULIAN: Really?
RICHARD: 4.0 grade point average.
JULIAN: Whoa! That's got me beat.
(Edward and Julian laugh.)
RICHARD: She's going to Fez someday.
JULIAN: Fez? What the hell is in Fez?
RICHARD: That's for her to find out.
Activity 3.
Listening Comprehension.A. Talk about the following expressions, what do they mean?
1. MICHEL: So either one beast of terror or another?
2. DRELLA: What the hell is he babbling about?
3. DRELLA: Can't stand the talk -- love to watch the walk.
4. RICHARD: Why would they? From what you've told me they're all involved in one nefarious activity after another.
B. Answer the following questions:
1. Why do Michel hate the swans?
2. Between the swans and Drella which did Michel choose?
3. What did Rory and Richard talk about?
4. What did some men do in the golf course while Rory and Richard were eating lunch?
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