Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Who hasn’t wished for a cleaning robot? It would be great. Something that doesn’t get tired and doesn’t have feelings to do all your dirty work.
But the new movie WALL-E shows us that robots have feelings too. In the distant future when Earth is so polluted that all the humans have gone and only cleaning robots live there, love blooms.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Beren: Have you seen this new movie, WALL-E?
Mason: Absolutely. Totally. It took me too long to see it, but it was phenomenal.
Beren: Is it a Pixar or…
Mason: Yeah. So it totally lives up to standard, right?
Beren: Yeah, awesome. What’s the plot, it’s a robot…like post-apocalyptic or…
Mason: It’s not really apocalyptic, it’s like garbage…It’s way, way off in the future and basically the humans have completely polluted the planet so they’ve all left on this giant cruise space ship and they created these teeny little WALL-E robots to clean up all the garbage, basically and they’ll call when they’re done and it’s thousands of years. Of course, it still hasn’t happened.
Beren: And then they’ll come pick up the WALL-Es?
Mason: No, then the people will come back and repopulate Earth. But in the meantime, it’s just kind of not happening. There’s so much trash. So there’s a lot of social commentary in the film, actually.
Beren: Yeah, that’s what I heard. Everybody who’s seen it, all of my friends are older and they don’t have kids and they’ve seen it multiple times.
Mason: It’s a kind of very current movie with issues that are going on right now, but it’s also just a freakin’ incredible story. It’s a great love story…
Beren: A love story between the WALL-E and another WALL-E?
Mason: Yeah, there’s a lot of emotion there, which is kind of the Pixar magic. How do they take this boxy-looking robot and practically make me cry with him?
Beren: Yeah, make him human.
Mason: Mm-hm.
Beren: Wow.
Grammar Point
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Discussion
Mason liked that WALL-E, a movie made for children, had a lot of social commentary about environmental issues. Most of Beren’s friends liked the movie too.
One thing that Mason finds particularly amazing about the film is that it is able to be very emotional even though the characters are robots. The robots don’t even look like humans either!
What would like a robot to do for you?
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Hmmm..I am not sure what you mean, parion |
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Well, of course, Lesya… don’t rely on someone else for your happiness. Only you can be responsible for that. I 100% agree with you on that one. I was just saying that a little help with those daily tiring household tasks would be a major relief for me. So why not getting help for something you are limited by the necessity. If the robot should stop doing the vaccuming for technichal reasons one day..I then had to do it myself..so what? Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs…but with lots of chances to make it a little better or a little more convenient.. ;) Just my opinion… |
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Robots, thanks :) I like to do my housework myself. Robots, don’t spoil us. Otherwise we will turn into the fat and lazy “substance” :) Robots, you can be very useful for the lonely disabled people. They need your help so much. Wall -E, special thanks to you!! You and EVE are amazing couple! My family and I watched that movie several times and each time we enjoyed it so much. Wall-E is the movie from the category: “Never persecute” |
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