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7/17/2019 Fluent With Friends.
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00:00 - 01:05 Vocabulary
A. pick a pocket / to pickpocket - to stealsomething valuable (money, jewels, cellphones, etc) rom someone’s pocket or bag,especially as they carry the valuable objectsaround.
pickpocketing
Broadway play
A Tale o Two
Cities
Cliff Notes
Pronunciation
1. Who’s in an auditionWHO-zin-un-AW-DIH-SHUN
2. I want to say you: I-WANna-SAY-YOU
3. Pick them: PIK-em
Reerences
i. Broadway (musical/theather) - Street locat-
ed in Manhattan, New York. All o the manytheatres loctated on these street are calledBroadway theathres, as well as any perormanceplayed there.
ii. A Tale o Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)- Written by English author Charles Dickens, Atale o two cities is a 1859 novel set in Londonand Paris during the French revolution.
iii. New York, New York / I Lef my Heart inSan Fransisco - Very amous classic American
songs by Frank Sinatra and ony Bennett.
iv. Cliff Notes - A series o summarized, studynotes o longer literary works or complex topics.Also known as “Abridgements”
JOEY: Yes! Guess who’s in an au-
dition1 for a Broadway i musical?
CHANDLER: I want to say you2,but it seems like such an easy an-swer.
JOEY: It is me! It’s a musical ver-
sion of A Tale o Two Citiesii. So Ithink I’m going to sing New York,
New York iii, and ah, oh I lef My
Heart in San Franciscoiii.
ROSS: Ah Joey, I don’t think youget to pick the cities.
JOEY: What?
ROSS: Mr. Dickensii gets to pick
them2.
JOEY: Who?
CHANDLER: I’ll get you the Cliff
Notesiv .
JOEY: Te what?
CHANDLER: Te abridgment.
JOEY: Oh, okay. (to Ross) Tewhat?
JOEY: (singing) You’ve got to pick
a pocketA tssss, you’ve got to pick a
pocket or two......
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01:05 - 02:00 Vocabulary
A. Callback - Te act o calling someone
back, especially afer an interview. Call-back is the noun version o the verb to callsomeone back.
B. Background - One’s past educationalpreparation, likes, jobs, activities, past-times, etc. Your background is a com-bination of who you are (people rom
Spanish and Portuguese speaking countriesofen conuse “profile” or this).
C. A piece o cake - Really easy. >> Teexam will be a piece o cake or Jack.
callback
a piece o cake
ballet
Zoom Kids
1. We definitely want to see you or the
callback WE DEFINIT-LEE WAN-na SEE u f ir thuh
CALLBACK
2. Forget to bring your jazz shoesF iR-GEH t uh BRIN-gyir JAZZ SHOOS
3. All the roles got to dance
ALL t uh ROLES gaw-d uh DANCE(“ALL” is generally unstressed, but here it’ssaid emphatically)
4. Ballet - bA-lay (lay rhymes with day )
Reerencesi. Zoom kids - 1972 American V program
or kids.
ii. Resumé - another word or CV (curricu-
mul vítae) is used in other places.
DIRECTOR: Lovely, just lovely.
JOEY: Really? Tanks.
DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, we defi-
nitely want to see you or the
callback 1-A on Saturday.
JOEY: Excellent, I’ll be there.
DIRECTOR: Okay, and listendon’t orget to bring your jazz
shoes for the dance audition.
JOEY: Ahhh! My uh, my agent saidit wasn’t a dancing part.
DIRECTOR: Joey, all the roles gotto dance3 a little. But believe me
with your dance backgroundB it’ll
be a piece o cakeC.
[Scene: Chandler reading resuméii)
CHANDLER: ....three years ofmodern dance with wila Tarp!Five years with the American Bal-
let4picTeater?!
JOEY: Hey, everybody lies on their
resumeii, okay. I wasn’t one of the
Zoom Kidsi either.
PHOEBE: Well, can you dance atall?
JOEY: Yeah, I can dance, you know
Pronunciation
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02:00 - 03:04 Vocabulary
A. (o something) To be off - In this case,
i something is off, it won’t happen as it’sbeen canceled.
B. Come on - We use this phrase to tellsomeone to do something he or she ishesitating to do (which might be a favorwe want them to do for us). Also, we canuse it to tell someone to do something
faster.
C. Stunned - In shocked; so surprised
you can’t react.
stunned
pass de bourree
grand sissone
1. I have to get that - I -av t uh GET THAT
2. I just got a call - I jus gaw-d uh CALL
3. Can’t get out o long island
KANNt GET au-d uhv LONG I-LIND(au rhymes with cow)
4. I want you - I WAN-chu
Reerences
i. Long Island - New York City do extend intoLong Island with Brooklyn and Queens actually
orming the western end o ong Island
CHANDLER: Oh no, no, no, no.
PHOEBE: (covering her mouth inshock) What, what is that?
JOEY: Sure, it looks stupid now,there’s no music playing.
CHANDLER: I have to get that1,but no-no. (answering phone)Hello?
DIRECTOR: Ah, Joey. Joey rib-biani. Listen Joey, I got a problem,I just got a call2 from my dance
captain, he’s having a relationshipcrisis and can’t get out o LongIslandi3.
JOEY: So, does that mean the audi-tion is off A?
DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, seeingas you’ve got the most experience,I want you4 to take these dancersand show them the combination.
JOEY: What?!
DIRECTOR: Aw Joey, come onB!it’s easy. Y’know, it’s hand, hand,head, head, (very quickly, Joey
watches stunnedC) up, pas debouree, pas de bourreepic, big turnhere, grand sissonepic, sissone,sissone, slide back, step, step, step,and jazz hands!
Pronunciation
(phone rings)
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03:04 -Vocabulary
A. Synced / out o sync - sync is short orsynchronization. We use this shorter ver-sion much more requently than the ull
word. I someone is synced, it’s ordered,balanced or sequentially aligned. I it’s outo sync, it’s not ordered, or aligned. (below,picture o synchronised swimming )
Pronunciation1. It was the best I could get out o them
its thuh BEST I kuhd GET oudda them
2. Try it again - TRY-ih-duh-GEN
3. Show them - SHOW-em
JOEY: It’s ah, step-ity, step and
azz handsA.
DIRECTOR: Have fun.
JOEY: Bye. (does the jazz hands)
DIRECTOR: All right, let’s do it!
(Te group does the same horribledance that Joey did earlier in the
show, except they’re all out of
sync A and they do the jazz handsat the end.)
DIRECTOR: No, no, no. Whatwas that?
JOEY: I know, it was the best I
could get out o them1.
DIRECTOR: Well, people!
JOEY: People, people, people.
DIRECTOR: Let’s try it again2,and this time let’s everybody
watch Joey. (to Joey) Show them3 how it’s done. (to the pianist)Count it off.
(Te pianist starts to play, andJoey readies himsel, and then runs
out o the audition.)
A. Jazz hands - Hands extended and
palms toward the audience in a dancingperormance.
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