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November 22, 2010
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.
Plenty of hip-hop artists rap about living the thug life, but not many of them actually do hard time. The rapper T.I. has more [def 14774]street credit[/def] than most. In 2007, he was arrested for possessing illegal weapons. And less than a year after getting out of jail for that arrest, he was arrested again, this time on drug charges.
But even T.I. has a softer side. Earlier this year, he helped save a suicidal man. The man was standing on the top of a building planning to jump off, and T.I. talked him into coming down. Find out what Ella and Mason think of the hero, convict, and rapper T.I.
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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Ella: He’s going back to jail!
Mason: Who? What now?
Ella: T.I. is going back to jail, and he just got out. And he saved someone’s life. What’s happening? Why can’t they just go easy on him?
Mason: Wait. Back that train up.
Ella: OK.
Mason: T.I. saved someone’s life?
Ella: Yeah.
Mason: What’s that about?
Ella: So, he heard on the radio there was a guy standing on a building ready to jump. So he showed up to the site. The police wouldn’t let him go to the top, but they recorded a phone message of him saying, “Hey, there’s still hope, don’t jump.” To prove that it was him they showed the video phone to the guy.
Mason: Did he rap it?
Ella: He didn’t rap it, though.
Mason: But he’s like, “Hey man, I’m T.I., don’t kill yourself.”
Ella: Yeah, basically. And the guy was shown the video and he came down.
Mason: Well what if he would’ve been a not-T.I. fan?
Ella: I know, it wouldn’t have worked.
Mason: Well, that’s interesting. Do you think he was trying to win favor from the judge, or…
Ella: Well, this happened earlier in the week, and then his court date was on Friday. So everyone speculates so, but in my heart I feel like T.I.’s just a good guy.
Mason: A good guy. Now why did he go to jail?
Ella: Machine guns.
More entries: Levy's Chinese 成语 lesson 1, I.I., Spread Thin (1), Education's purpose.(boring,don't read)
