Intro
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Of all the jobs you could have, none of them seem quite as cool as being a spy. You get to go undercover, test out the latest high-tech spy gadgets, take on different identities and maybe even go rogue. At least, that’s how the movies make it look.
In the new movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise is back as agent Ethan Hunt, the coolest spy of them all. But when Hunt and his team get blamed for a bombing, they have to go rogue in order to prove their innocence. Find out why the new Mission Impossible has Amy thinking about becoming a spy.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: Have you seen the new Mission Impossible, Mason?
Mason: I haven’t yet. I kinda want to. I was a little surprised that they brought that one back after so long.
Amy: I know. Tom Cruise, he just keeps on giving.
Mason: It seems that people just never get tired of spy movies and that whole world of espionage.
Amy: I think so, and I think…like, I just watched The Dark Knight, the Batman movie, and I think partly it’s the gadgets. Spy gadgets are so fun.
Mason: For sure.
Amy: And the crazy things they do in order to get information, or in order to break in to a place. Like in the new Mission Impossible, there’s a scene where Tom Cruise is on the outside of the tallest building in the world. And it just looks so crazy and fun. It kind of makes me want to be a spy.
Mason: Oh really?
Amy: Mm-hmm.
Mason: I don’t know if I could cut it.
Amy: Do you think…so you think it would be the physical stuff that would be hard, or do you think…
Mason: Oh yeah. I could totally get down with all the betrayal and, like, double-secret-agent, triple-agent. No problem. Really the physical activity is what’s gonna keep me out of the profession.
Amy: But, like, are you a good enough liar to be a spy?
Mason: Well, how about this. I actually have seen Mission Impossible, and you believed me this whole time.
Amy: Woah.
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Discussion
Amy asks Mason if he has seen Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. He says he hasn’t seen it, but he would like to.
Mason says that people love spy movies. Amy thinks that is because of all the cool spy gadgets. She says the movies make it look really fun and exciting to be a spy.
Mason says he isn’t sure if he would be a good spy. He thinks it would be too physically challenging. But he wouldn’t have any trouble lying. In fact, he tells Amy that he was lying when he told her he hadn’t seen the Mission Impossible film. She believed him, so maybe he would make a good spy, after all.
Do you like spy movies? Do you think you would make a good spy?
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