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Engramme's Weekend with TV #9 (The Classics#1) - Friends: We're So Gonna Party! (Listening A2-B1) |
Welcome to #Week9 of our free English lesson series Weekend with TV. This is also the first week we're presenting you with one of television's most-loved classics. Let's dive right in!
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Watch, Listen & Enjoy |
Putting all these amazing, larger-than-life characters together, what do you get?!
"Friends" is the name of one America's most successful TV sitcoms that lasted almost 10 years, beginning in 1994 and ending in 2004. It was based on the day-to-day life struggles and adventures of 3 young men and 3 young women - of the BFF kind - that lived in the same apartment complex in New York1.
In this particular scene (from S04E09) you're about to watch, two of the characters, Ross (picture above, third from right) and Chandler (first from right), are excited about an old friend who is going to visit them, a party wizard amusingly named Mike 'Gandalf' Ganderson. They are so excited about his arrival they act like two small children who can hardly sit still!
Watch The Video: How does Ross describe "Gandolf"?
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Let's Learn |
There are many collocations and fixed (or semi-fixed) expressions in English that you hear all the time and can also learn to use in your own sentences to sound more natural and fluent.
Listen Again to the Dialogs: Fill in the blanks below with words you hear (the blanks, and the sentences they appear in, represent expressions that are commonly used in daily English conversation):
mouse over the underlined words to see more info
Chandler: Hey, guys… Hey, Ross! _______ _________ for you: Are you ready to party?
Ross: I dunno. I could maybe go out for __ _______
___ beers, but there's this thing about bumblebees on the Discovery
Channel.
Chandler: No, I don't think you _______ ____ ! ARE YOU READY TO PARTY?
Ross: No! Gandalf? Gandalf is comin’ to town?
Chandler: Kathy’s with her parents; I have _______ ___
____; so tomorrow, we’re partyin’ with Gandalf, dude!
Phoebe: Wow, okay. Dude alert! And who is this
guy?
Ross: Mike "Gandalf" Ganderson. Only - like - the
funnest guy in the world.
Chandler: I'm-na call to ____
___ _______ tomorrow.
Ross: I'll call after you!
Chandler: This will be so cool! We never party anymore.
Monica: Were you smoking somethin’ in ____ ______ of our van?
Joey: Really? Wad-ye mean "We never have fun
anymore"? You have fun with me. __________ ____
______ you saw those strippers, and you paid me 50 bucks to eat
that book?
Ross: You are gonna to love this guy. Gandalf is – like - the party
wizard.
Joey: Why d-ye call him "Gandalf"?
Ross: Gandalf, the Wizard. Hello! _______ _____ read Lord of the Rings in high
school?
Joey: No, I’d sex in high school!
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(click to view full transcript + answers)
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1 Many learners of English claim that the series has helped them improve their spoken proficiency and sound more natural or even native-like in English. Would you want to give it a try?↩
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