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.
Your favorite soccer team is playing the world’s best. There’s one minute left in the game, and no one has made a goal. Suddenly, your team gets the ball and begins running towards the other team’s goal. The time is nearly up, and if your team wins, they will go to the World Cup. You aren’t talking. You’re not even moving. You’re on the edge of your seat, waiting for something to happen!
To be on the edge of one’s seat is to be extremely excited, paying complete attention to something that’s happening. You might act this way when you think that a friend is going to tell you exciting news, or maybe when you know that something great is going to happen for your family. Or, if you’re lucky, when your soccer team is about to go to the World Cup!
First Gary’s on the edge of his seat, and then Rafael. What could be so exciting? You won’t know unless you read today’s English lesson.
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.
Gary: So, Jessica tells me that you have a crush on someone.
Rafael: Man, what is it with our friends? They’re always gossiping all the time.
Gary: Jessica just wants her friends to be happy. She’s something of a matchmaker.
Rafael: OK.
Gary: So? I’m on the edge of my seat. Who is she?
Rafael: Her name is Emma. OK? She’s a student in one of my classes. She’s very attractive. She’s very good at yoga. But I haven’t really had a long conversation with her.
Gary: Why not?
Rafael: I don’t know. I just start to clam up. I become totally tongue tied.
Gary: I totally understand. I was the same way until I met my girlfriend.
Rafael: Wait, what? What girlfriend? You have a girlfriend?
Gary: Yeah. I haven’t told you about her?
Rafael: No, you have not. Nobody knows about any girlfriend. For all I know, you could just be making her up.
Gary: I’m not making her up. She totally exists.
Rafael: OK, well now I’m on the edge of my seat. Come on.
Gary: OK. So, a couple months ago, I was out… This ghost thing is totally not OK.
Rafael: Tell me about it. I was just about to get the best gossip ever!
Gary: That’s not what I’m talking about! Don’t you think we should… do we need to be worried? Are we in danger... or anything?
Rafael: Man, it’s just a ghost.
Gary: Just a ghost.
Rafael: Women are scarier.
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Discussion
Gary wants to hear all about Emma, the girl who Rafael likes. Rafael shares that he doesn’t know a lot about her because he becomes unable to speak to her when they’re together. Clearly, Emma makes Rafael nervous.
Gary understands what that feels like, because he felt the same way when he first met his girlfriend. Rafael doesn’t believe that Gary has a girlfriend, though, because Gary has never said a word about her. Unfortunately, the moment that Gary starts to talk about her, the office ghost scares them both.
Do you believe that Gary has a girlfriend? What puts you on the edge of your seat?
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