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.
In the US, there’s a game kids play called “telephone.” You sit in a circle and someone whispers a short message to the person next to them, and then that person passes it on, and so on until it goes all the way around the circle and the last person says it out loud to everyone. Almost every time, the message will have changed from being misheard and repeated by so many people.
It looks like we have our very own game of telephone developing on the soap opera. Remember when Ella talked to Devan about the possibility of working for her new company? Remember how seemed to misunderstand each other about how certain it is that Devan will hire her friends? Well, watch as Ella shares her version of things with her friends. What will happen when they finally talk to Devan?
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.
Beren: You have a ShamWow?
Dale: Yeah. We bought it. It was only twenty bucks.
Beren: Oh my God.
Dale: You get one for free when you call now.
Mason: Waste of money.
Ella: You guys…
Mason: Yo.
Ella: Best news ever. Ever. I got us the hook-up. Devan guaranteed us jobs.
Dale: Ah, yes!
Ella: How did Devan guarantee us…
Dale: I knew that.
Beren: With her company?
Mason: No. She got hooked up. She’s loaded now.
Ella: Yeah.
Mason: She’s gonna be an internet phenomenon.
Ella: She inherited money. She’s gonna get an internet site, American Dreamboat dot com.
Dale: I’m the head of marketing. I’m already in it.
Mason: Damn!
Beren: Can I do the programming? I’ll do the HTML.
Ella: We got jobs guys! Yes!
Dale: you got HTML?
Beren: Yeah, I can do some design.
Dale: What are you gonna do, Mason? We got guaranteed jobs. We’re out of the force. We got guaranteed jobs!
Ella: Whatever.
Mason: I’m gonna be the janitor.
Dale: You’re gonna clean up our mess?
Beren: Actually, I wanna be the receptionist. I just changed my mind.
Ella: I think I’ll be the assistant to the regional manager.
Dale: You guys are not really going forward to your careers. There’s gotta be advancement.
Mason: The janitor pulls the strings of the office. He, like, has his finger in all the pies.
Dale: Oh, really?
Mason: He’s like the guy behind the guy, behind the guy. It’s really nice of Devan. I mean, let’s just, like…Guys, this one’s for Devan. Like, seriously hookin’ it up.
Dale: True. Hook it up. Hookin’ it up.
Mason: Bump it…
Beren: This is guaranteed?
Ella: Yeah. Totally. She assured me.
Dale: Wait. Isn’t it weird though that she doesn’t hire any more qualified people? Just us?
Beren: It’s a little weird.
Mason: I happen to be a very qualified janitor.
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Discussion
Dale, Mason and Beren are sitting around talking about cleaning products when Ella walks up with good news. She says that Devan has guaranteed all her friends jobs in her new company.
Beren, who has been, um, traveling, hasn’t heard about the company yet so everyone fills her in. They talk about what jobs they want. Dale says he’s already started doing some work! But then he points out that it’s strange that Devan would hire her friends instead of qualified people. This calls to mind a common English saying, “If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.”
Have you ever accidentally passed on some incorrect information? Has anyone ever accidentally convinced you of something that wasn’t quite true?
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