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.
When you’re sad, there is nothing more annoying than happiness around. You don’t want to hear happy music or watch a happy movie. You don’t even want happy people around you.
In fact, when you’re miserable, the best way to feel better is often to listen to sad music, watch a sad film or hang out with other people who are also sad. This is the meaning of the English saying, “misery loves company.”
When we last saw Devan, she and her fiance Jason had just broken up. Her friend and co-worker Mason has been in love with a woman for some time who does not love him back. Find out if they can cheer each other up.
3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.
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.
Mason: Hey, Devan.
Devan: Hi, Mason.
Mason: How are you?
Devan: Terrible. What about you?
Mason: Awful.
Devan: What? Why?
Mason: Duh. Ella. I don’t think she’s ever going to admit that she’s in love with me.
Devan: I know how you feel. I thought Jason loved me, but I guess I was wrong.
Mason: At least you’ve known love. I mean, I’m so miserable right now, I don’t know if I ever will.
Devan: Yeah, same here. Hey, do you wanna watch this movie with me? You know what they say, misery loves company.
Mason: Uh, I don’t know, Devan. I mean, it’s a little soon. You’re a very attractive woman, but I need a little more time to heal.
Devan: What? No, it’s just an expression. “Misery loves company” means that miserable people want to be around other miserable people. When we’re sad, we want the other people around us to be sad too.
Mason: Oh, I guess I can see that. I mean, I do want other people to be sad, especially Jeff. I want him to be so sad that his eyes dry out from crying so much, and his nose gets all red, and not even a beautiful new mop like this one could make him feel happy ever again.
Devan: Right. So, do you want to watch this movie with me or not?
Mason: I don’t know. What’s it about?
Devan: Well, it’s about these two people who fall in love and…
Mason: I don’t know, Devan. That sounds way too happy. Misery loves company, remember.
Devan: You didn’t let me finish. So two people who fall in love, but then the girl gets into a car accident, and she goes into a coma, and then the guy is like so depressed that he gets so sick that he almost dies. But then she wakes up from the coma and he totally realizes that he doesn’t even love her anymore, and so they break up, and everyone’s miserable.
Mason: I’m in.
Devan: OK.
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Discussion
Devan is miserable because her wedding was cancelled. Mason is sad because Ella doesn’t love him back. Devan suggests that they hang out together, since misery loves company.
At first, Mason misunderstands and thinks that Devan wants to date him. She explains that spending time with another sad person might make them both feel better. She says she wants to watch a sad movie in which the characters feel awful at the end. Mason joins her to watch the movie and cry.
Do you think it’s true that misery loves company? How do you make yourself feel better when you’re sad?
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