Chuck and Larry

Intro

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

• make fun of
• over
• back in the day
• way

• straight
• penchant
• health benefits
• frankly

• down with
• 'cause

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Gay marriage is a topic of debate these days in many places around the world. Some places have already legalized it, while others offer same sex couples domestic partnerships, which are sort of like marriages only without the title.

One of the main reasons that same sex couples want to be allowed to get married is because married people file taxes differently and their property is distributed differently if they die. Same sex couples worry that if one of them dies, the remaining partner won’t inherit their property unless they have a legal union.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a movie about two straight fire fighters from New York. One of them is a single dad and in order to ensure that his children receive his pension if he dies, he has to be married. So he and his buddy decide to pretend to be gay and get a domestic partnership. The movie is supposed to be funny, but Kevin and Devan aren’t laughing.

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Dialog

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Kevin

Devan

Kevin:  Hey, so I saw this preview for this really, I think, offensive movie called Chuck and Larry. Have you heard about it?

Devan:  Uh-uh. What is it?

Kevin:  It’s Kevin James and Adam Sandler, and they pretend to be gay so they can get health benefits.

Devan:  That sounds ridiculous.

Kevin:  Frankly, as a gay person I find that really offensive ’cause they’re just making fun of gay people. And I don’t know, more than that, I’m just really over Adam Sandler. I don’t think he’s funny.

Devan:  He’s not. At all anymore. Billy Madison, that was funny back in the day, but how long ago was that?

Kevin:  Probably about ten years.

Devan:  I’m over Adam Sandler, too.

Kevin:  Totally. Way over him.

Devan:  Down with Adam Sandler!

Kevin:  It’s just these kind of lame movies. Some fat executive sat in an office and said, “That would be really funny.” It’s not cool. But people will go see it.

Devan:  That they will.

Kevin:  Sadly.

 

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