Collecting Kids

Intro

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

• take a stand
• trivialize
• baby boom
• in full swing

• adopt
• cum
• implied
• bun in the oven

• conceiving
• conventional

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Just a few short weeks after the birth of her daughter, Angelina Jolie announced that she and Brad want to adopt another child. She hasn’t decided from which country she will adopt, and she hasn’t given a timeline, but the actress-cum-humanitarian certainly has not tired of motherhood.

Listen to Mason and Emily talk about Brad and Angelina’s adopting frenzy.

Dialog

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Mason

Emily

Mason:  Branjelina’s adopting again.

Emily:  Whoa, really? Is this confirmed news?

Mason:  It’s totally confirmed. Angelina said they’re looking. I don’t think she said they were shopping around…

Emily:  It was implied.

Mason:  ...but that’s kind of what it seems like, you know.

Emily:  Shopping around for a kid!

Mason:  Isn’t that a weird thought?

Emily:  Yes it is, yes it is.

Mason:  So that’d be four for them, right?

Emily:  Yeah. They just had their third a few weeks ago.

Mason:  They just had their first natural, natural kid, right?

Emily:  And what a good looking kid it is, you know. They should think about conceiving more kids.

Mason:  But, so, okay, here’s the question, right: Is it okay to go looking for a kid? I mean, because they like different ethnicities and what not. I mean, it seems kind of weird, doesn’t it?

Emily:  Yes and no. I mean, it’s not conventional, obviously, but I think it has a certain element to it that is very noble.

Mason:  Alright, I’m going to take a stand, I’m going to take a stand.

Emily:  Alright.

Mason:  I think it is fantastic that they want to adopt another kid. There’s maybe an impulse to trivialize it because it seems like, ‘Well, if they’re going to adopt one kid, why are they picking that one and not this one? Why don’t they adopt more?’ But, you know, they’re doing something.

Emily:  They’re making such a big difference in these kids’ lives, and even if they only adopted one more, which would be awesome – they’d have three adopted kids, and that’s three less kids that don’t have parents are being raised in orphanages.

 

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