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Intro

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• exaggerate
• productive
• waste of time
• intrigued

• weakness
• play it down
• in heaven
• trashy

• blackmail
• reality TV

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Everyone has one. Maybe it’s eating ice cream when no one is looking. Perhaps it’s watching a soap opera when you get home from work. It could be playing video games after school. Whatever your guilty pleasure is, you’re not alone. We all have something in our lives that we like to see, do, eat or drink when we’re alone.

You might see your guilty pleasure as a weakness, but there’s no need to play it down. What’s wrong with eating a little chocolate or drinking an extra glass of wine? If doing it will put you in heaven after a tough day at work or in school, do it. The only person who is really paying attention is you.

Find out if Rafael and Marni share the same guilty pleasures in this English lesson about our private lives.

Dialog

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

Marni

Rafael

Marni:  There was just this trashy reality show on TV, and I just had to turn it off because it was just so horrible. You never watch that kind of stuff, right?

Rafael:  To be honest with you, I do that kind of stuff all the time.

Marni:  What?

Rafael:  And not only TV, I eat chips while I watch TV.

Marni:  I guess you have some weakness for some reality television and junk food.

Rafael:  I’m not exaggerating. I don’t want to play it down. I do have lots of issues with guilty pleasures.

Marni:  Really? Man, I just try to be productive with my life, and I feel like all of that stuff is just a waste of time. But I have to admit, I’m sort of intrigued. What other guilty pleasures do you have?

Rafael:  It’s definitely not a waste of time when you have some really cheesy chips in front of you and you’re enjoying every minute of it. You feel like you’re just in heaven.

Marni:  It kind of does sound good.

Rafael:  Nachos are one of my weaknesses. Can I share some with you?

Marni:  Uh, yes. But you’re not going to blackmail me, are you?

Rafael:  You might regret it, but you won’t regret it while it’s happening.

Marni:  I can be productive after that.

 

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