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Kidnapped!

Date: Jan 27 2009

Themes: Soap Opera

Grammar: Simple Future Tense

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Intro

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Remember when Beren was eating meat even though she’s supposed to be a vegetarian? And remember when she was afraid of Russians and everything Russian for some reason? What was up with that?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the truth comes out this week on the soap opera. Beren was kidnapped and replaced by her evil twin! Watch as her twin reveals her evil plans.

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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.

Beren

Beren: Why are you doing this to me?

Evil Beren: I don’t want to do this. I’m not going to hurt you, but I’m running from the Russian mob and I need your identity. Remember that two-for-one drink special in the all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet? I arranged that. I knew it’d lure you to that casino. That’s where I got your driver’s license, your Social Security number, even the name of all your friends. Here we are.

Beren: But we’re sisters. Don’t you want to get to know me? We have the same DNA. We shared a womb.

Evil Beren: I would love to have a sister. It’d be nice, but I’ve spent my whole life without one and it’s just too much of a hassle. Besides, you have better credit than I do.

Beren: How long are you going to keep me down here for? It’s kinda cold.

Evil Beren: I probably won’t shoot you. I’ll let you go eventually. I mean, lucky for you Jason, the only person who’d know the difference between us, is in a coma.

Beren: He’s in a coma! What happened?

Evil Beren: It’s a long story. It involves a banana peel.

Beren: A banana peel?

Evil Beren: I don’t really want to get into it. We don’t really have time. in fact, I have more evil things to go do and plot and think about, but I’ll be back.

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Discussion

As she removes the gag from Beren’s mouth, her twin explains that she got in some hot water with Russian mafia, so when Beren went to Vegas, she seized the opportunity to capture Beren and steal her identity.

Beren is sad, not just because she’s been kidnapped, but also because she just discovered she has a sister, but her sister is evil. What a bummer. At least Evil Beren says she probably won’t kill good Beren, but you can never trust an evil twin.

What a crazy plot twist. Do you think Beren’s friends will be able to figure out what’s going on before it’s too late?

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khsrow

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I like these kind of conversations

abdo405

Nigeria

verewell

PRISCILA18

Colombia

woau… its horrible that your own members family dont let u be free…. and u cant do anything….. and this thing happens in our world everyday!!!!!

zaayd

Bahrain

moomman64

Saudi Arabia

I hate mafia but don't tell anybody

little cherry

Lithuania

Hah interesting lesson :)

Yanusya

Ukraine

Very interesting!

nona-nona

Egypt

ioomeli

Uruguay

it`s a sad story :(

they are sisters but they are very differents too.

muyubaby80

China

田永山

China

funny!i like it.Evil is a kind of power exists in man's mind or heart. i like being evil,because sometimes i feel that i am an evil man.However i won't tell ya what kinda evil things i have done!that is a secret i won't tell anyone except my dear friend whose name is angel of death!

superpig

Viet Nam

i have to admire this evil girl, because she could act as another person, and remembered names of all her sister's friends. how could she do that??

penghai

China

faster

barth

Mexico

no good
excellent.

Gadzhi

Russian Federation

срань

napo_leone

Italy

it happens sometimes in real life

napo_leone

Italy

it happens sometimes in real life

kukuka

Ukraine

really funny. You made me smile thanks

renee

China

i guess u have some mistake,today our spoken english tole us,the "will" have some assion with strong than"be going to",that means ,the" be going to" instead of maybe or maynot ,and the will equals exactly u will call u tomorrow.span.meecallWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B0E0E6; text-decoration:none; } a.meecallLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.meecallInLink:hover { background-color:#B0E0E6; }