Red

Intro

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

Go Super to Listen

• CIA
• into
• hyped up
• take a step back

• conspiracy theory
• off one's rocker
• onto
• cover up

• assassination
• plot

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

Go Super to Listen

People who believe in conspiracy theories are usually seen as being slightly off their rocker. That is, until their theories turn out to be right. Conspiracy theory movies are popular in Hollywood. They play with the fine line between being paranoid and crazy, and being onto something.

Conspiracy theories in the U.S. often have to do with some mysterious agency covering up a shocking truth or elaborate government plot. In the new movie Red, a group of CIA agents learns too much about one such plot, and has to run from the same government they used to serve. Find out if Devan and Jeff believe in conspiracy theories.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

Log in to Listen

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

Jeff

Devan

Jeff:  Have you heard about this movie or seen any trailers for Red?

Devan:  That’s the one about a former CIA agent, right? And they kind of find out too many secrets about what’s going on with the government?

Jeff:  Yeah yeah, I think we’re talking about the same one.

Devan:  So it’s kind of a conspiracy theory type movie.

Jeff:  I feel like that subject draws quite a crowd.

Devan:  Are you into that? Do you believe in government conspiracies? Do you think they’re covering up things that we don’t know about?

Jeff:  I don’t know, I could go either way. Sometimes I get all hyped up and convince myself of things, and then, you know, once you take a step back you realize it might be more trouble for the government to create all these elaborate lies. But you never know.

Devan:  Yeah, I took a class on the 1960s and we learned about the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. And I have to say, there’s some pretty convincing conspiracies about the CIA getting involved with those assassinations, you know? And it really makes you wonder if there is some truth to it.

 

Grammar Point

Go Super to learn "Definite & Indefinite Articles" from this lesson

Quizzes

Go Super to take Quiz

 

Lesson MP3

Go Super to download full lesson MP3