Sex and the City

Intro

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

• doing their hair
• la-la
• twisted
• bawling

• cult
• designer
• cosmopolitan
• I feel ya

• look the part
• dressed to the nines

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

Few television shows start a cult like Sex and the City. The four single women in their 30s and later 40s are brilliantly balanced. Every woman can identify with one of them and every man wants to be with one of them.

But it’s not just the characters that made the show brilliant. It was the lifestyle. The designer clothes and setting of New York City captured imaginations of people around the world. Now, four years after the last episode the television show, these four beautiful women are back to gossip about their sex lives in a movie. Marni and Amanda just saw it. Listen to them talk about it over cosmopolitans.

Dialog

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

Marni

Amanda

Marni:  Oh my God. These heels are killing me. Oh God. Why did I think I had to dress fashionably for this film?

Amanda:  I have no idea. Maybe it’s because it was the huge anticipated premiere of Sex and the City, the movie? I get it. I feel ya.

Marni:  OK, but did you notice how every woman in the lobby, and, I mean, it was just a sea of women, were all dressed to the nines?

Amanda:  Oh everyone was so stylish. They had their heels and their handbags and their hair all done

Marni:  Did you love it?

Amanda:  Well, didn’t you see me crying? My whole seat was vibrating because I was crying.

Marni:  It was a roller coaster ride. It’s like we know them. Kind of scary…

Amanda:  You know what I liked? How real it was. I hate these la-la fantasy endings. That’s not what real life is. This was real.

Marni:  Do you think it was? I think they did a good job. There’s a lot of different ways they could have gone with the film. But there were a lot of things I didn’t like. Like the whole Samantha supposedly gaining weight and it being this huge ordeal. It’s like, “Yeah, women that are 50…they gain a little weight.”

Amanda:  Well, and she hadn’t even gained weight. I agree. That was completely twisted.

Marni:  So there are some things that weren’t realistic. But yes, in the grand scheme of things…there was a lot of heartache…

Amanda:  I love heartache. The one dramatic scene, you know what I’m talking about in the city of New York. I was bawling.

Marni:  I was too. I admit it. It got me.

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