Brokeback Mountain

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• close-minded
• criticized
• immoral
• promotes

• bunch
• camping
• gay
• in the heart of

• complication

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Brokeback Mountain is a movie about the love between two men in middle America. The movie is set in Wyoming and calls in to question the popular notion of cowboys or rugged midwestern men.

Listen to Didi and I talk about the movie.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Dave

Didi

Dave:  Have you seen Brokeback Mountain yet?

Didi:  No, I haven’t. I heard that it was really good, though.

Dave:  Yeah, it won a bunch of awards at the, ah, whatever awards ceremony was last night.

Didi:  Yeah.

Dave:  Do you know what it’s about?

Didi:  Um, I heard it was about two cowboys that went camping together. I’m not sure.

Dave:  Yeah!

Didi:  I haven’t heard too much about it, but.

Dave:  Kind of like that, it’s kind of like that: two cowboys who spend the summer on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming and they realize that they’re gay.

Didi:  Mm hm.

Dave:  And they kind of fall in love with each other, but they’re in the heart of, you know, middle America.

Didi:  Mm hm. Is this in present times, or?

Dave:  I think it’s set in the ‘50s or ‘60s.

Didi:  Oh, that would add complication.

Dave:  Yeah. So, they’re, you know, they’re in this kind of close-minded community where they have to keep their love for each other quiet. So, they wind up each getting married, having families, but they meet together every few months to go camping…

Didi:  Mm hm.

Dave:  ...on Brokeback Mountain.

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