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After living in Portugal for 15 years and teaching English in various capacities there, including at the University of Aveiro, I moved back to the United States in 2019. Returning for our church was the best decision we have ever made and God has been so good to us. Reading the Bible everyday and trying to keep the commandments of Jesus are my priorities, along with loving my family and all the people God has put into my life. Helping people is something I enjoy doing, and meeting the individual needs of students who want to learn English is important to me.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Listening/Speaking exercises


Students love doing these exercises, as they are great for your listening skills, and speaking skills.  Improve your vocabulary, and learn new idioms to help you with your spoken English!  Read through the vocabulary and questions, then click on VIDEO to watch the clip and enjoy!  Answers will be posted next week.  

Everybody Loves Raymond
All Hopped Up on Sucrets

Vocabulary (idioms and phrases included)
Put him up to it (get someone to do something), lump (a lazy person who sits around and doesn't do anything) , sore throat (feeling of discomfort or pain in the throat), mortar shell (a hollow, cynlindar shaped explosive fired by a mortar or artillery), snap out of it (wake up, to become more focussed or conscious), walk it off (go for a walk to stop feeling bad), wise guys (someone who is being obnoxious), hopped up (nervous, or in an altered state because of medication), score some (buy some illegally).

1. Why does Marie want some tea?
2.  Marie makes the comment that the boys are back, and what does Frank say to Robert?
3. How does Robert respond?
4. What does Marie mean when she says, “again with the shoes?”
5. What does Raymond suggest Marie take for her sore throat?
6. Raymond, Robert, and Frank start laughing and Frank says they are laughing why?
7. When Marie mentions her pain (“my pain is your pleasure”) Frank begins to talk about being where?
8. What does Frank say they would do if you got hit with a mortar shell in the head?
9. When Marie realized her Sucrets were missing, Raymond and Robert claim to have eaten all of them and began to pretend to what?
10. When Robert and Raymond continue to laugh about Marie missing her Sucrets, she tells them that one day what?

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