Listening-Conversation Exercise

Everybody Loves Raymond

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Vocabulary (idioms and phrases included)

Powder puff, rash, by all means, ointment, to go, Giant’s locker room, pretty much, cleared out, receiver, sow seed, broad, get with the program, out of touch, a lot on his mind, on the road

-Look up the vocabulary words and idioms before watching the video, as these are important for understanding the context.

1.     When Ray comes home, who does he think he’s talking to before he turns around?

2.     Who is he really talking to?

3.     When he realizes it is his father and not Deborah, what does he say?             (0:00-2:25)

4.     Raymond asks his father what he’s doing there and what is his response?

5.     Deborah brings Frank ointment to put on his rash, and Raymond says, “That’s to go.”  Why does he say that?

6.     How did Raymond get all wet?

7.     What was Raymond doing there?

8.     After practice there weren’t many people around in the locker room, and Raymond looks in the shower.  Why?

9.     Raymond sees Joe Tagert, a famous football player, in the shower.  Raymond asks his father if he knows what he said to him, and what is Frank’s response?

10. What did the football player really tell Raymond?                                                                                                              

11. Who does Frank automatically blame?

12. Frank says that God programmed men to sow their seed, and he programmed women to “limit the crop to one farmer.”  What does he mean by this?

13. Frank tells Ray you can’t talk what with the wife?