Problems with English pronunciation FUNNY

Scrooge

(0:38)  ".....and we have our very own Scrooge."
Ebenezer Scrooge-  a character from a famous story who hates Christmas

Meeting Rie

After three years of lessons online, my student from Japan happened to come to Portugal for a business meeting!  My daughter and I drove five hours to meet her and we had a lovely time.  It was amazing to finally talk to each other face to face without a screen and ocean between us!

ANSWERS- Mike and Molly- The Screw Up

1.     What does Molly say she’s really good at?

Karaoke

2.     What is Molly ok with?

Mom’s decision

3.     Molly says it isn’t Victoria’s fault that she’s the what?

Screw up

4.     Molly says that because she was a tough act to follow, maybe that’s why Victoria is what?

Easy

5.     According to Molly why did their mother do what she did?

Because Molly is the good daughter and Victoria is the mess.

6.     Victoria is the screw up only in whose eyes?

Mom’s

7.     Victoria points out that she isn’t the one who quit her job, and she also doesn’t have a mountain of debt because of a what?

Shopping addiction

8.     Victoria has enough money to do what?

Put a down payment on any house in the neighborhood.

9.     At the moment who is sober?

Victoria

10. Do Mike and Molly have any stock?

no

Mike and Molly- Extended Christmas Preview

Vocabulary

Clueless Joe Jackson- clueless means not knowing what is going on; Shoeless Joe Jackson was a famous American baseball player.

Jumper cables- used to start a car with a dead battery

Fudge log-  a cake shaped like a log made of fudge usually made at Christmas time

Leather bomber jacket- a leather jacket that closes at the waste

Co-pilot- the assistant pilot

Feign enthusiasm- pretend to be happy

Bedazzler- a tool used to decorate material with shiny stones

Crapper- toilet

Post it- small yellow paper used for reminders

Questions

1.     What is official?

2.     Molly’s mom says that Mike hasn’t had a lot of girlfriends and asked if Molly ever showed any interest in what sport?

3.     What is Mike trying to get Molly?

4.     Molly thinks she’ll be getting ear muffs and a fudge log.  How does she say she will she feel about that?

5.     What did she get Mike?

6.     What does Molly’s mom ask her if she’ll do when she gets a bedazzler?

7.     What has Molly left laying around on the nightstand?

8.     Where does Molly’s mom suggest she leave those?

9.     What will she lose for a set of golf clubs?

10. What isn’t Molly going to put on his forehead?

11. What does Molly think it’s important for Mike to do?

Idioms and Phrases- "a tad"

A tad- A little

(0:02-0:05)

"Frankly we're a tad concerned with your performance history......"

Honestly we're a little concerned with your performance history

ANSWERS Mike and Molly- Soup

1.     When Joyce asks what the stench is, what is Mike’s response?

It’s his dinner.

2.     Mike says he hopes they had fun and Joyce tells him they had a blast.  What did Molly win?

A trivia contest

3.     What place did Joyce come in at the limbo contest?

Third

4.     What does Mike say he’s eating and how long has it been there?

A can of crap that’s been there since he moved in.

5.     Molly says that no one is forcing him to eat old soup.  What else is there?

Peanuts and beats.

6.     Mike asks Molly if she did anything productive today and she responds by saying she guesses he didn’t see what?

That the laundry got done.

7.     Who did the laundry?

Vince

8.     When Mike says she was supposed to do it and Molly gets upset, Joyce says that is their cue.  Victoria says good because what is getting to her?

The fumes from that portapotty soup.

9.     Mike says that stink is his dinner that he had to cook himself.  What is it that Molly didn’t realize?

Her job was to cook him dinner and be the perfect little wife.

10. Mike says what would probably happen if it was her job?

She’d be fired.

11. Where is Mike taking his sad, stinky soup?

To go

Idioms- shake up your life

shake up your life- make a big change

(0:00) "Everyone needs to shake up their life now and then."

Mike and Molly- The Jackpot

Vocabulary

Mechanics forum- a forum (a “place” people go online) to talk about car repairs

My little Pep girl- The Pep Boys was an automotive chain store

Drive the car over 40- drive the car more than 40 miles per hour

A can of Shout- It’s not a can. (Vince just says that because he’s being funny) It’s a spray bottle of laundry stain remover.

Wrestling pig juice out of that- trying to get a stain of pig juice out of a piece of clothing.

Hit the jackpot- won something great, or had a good stroke of luck.

Questions

1.     What does Mike think Molly is doing when he comes in the door?

2.     What is she doing?

3.     What does Molly say were pretty important?

4.     What does she suggest not to do until she gets it figured out?

5.     Mike smells dinner and who does he think cooked it?

6.     What did Vince make?

7.     What does Vince tell Mike to do?

8.     What did Molly’s mother hit when she married Vince?

9.     What does Mike say after Molly says that?

10. He asks Molly if she thinks Vince knows anything about what?