Beautiful Gifts from Japan

I’ve received a lot of wonderful gifts from my wonderful students over the years, but this takes the cake.

My beautiful student, Rie, from Japan brought with her beautifully wrapped gifts from her home country.  I am thankful beyond belief and so honored!

“Takes the cake” is an idiom meaning “is the best.”

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!

Mike and Molly- Arresting Victoria

Vocabulary

Skunks- animals that have a very strong odor

Weed- marijuana

Blatant lack of respect for the law- obvious disrespect for the law

Flushin it- flushing it down the toilet

Stash- hidden supply

Citizen’s arrest- when a citizen takes it upon themself to make an arrest

Dubi- a cylinder of finely cut marijuana rolled in paper

Life on the line- risk his life

Wigged out pot head- a person high on marijuana

Sparking up- lighting marijuana to smoke it

Rough up- to get physical with someone to intimidate them

Take you all downtown- take you all to the police station

Who turns on who- who starts fighting with who

Questions

1.     What did Victoria hear about?

2.     Mike said that crime doesn’t stop for what?

3.     Who said it doesn’t work every time?

4.     Victoria says you get what you deserve if you’re dumb enough to do what?

5.     What did Victoria tell the family next door?

6.     What does Mike think the problem is?

7.     Victoria tells Mike to give it back and what does he say he’s going to do with it?

8.     Mike tells her to get off of him because she is assaulting a police officer and what does Victoria say he assaulted?

9.     Victoria tells him he can’t handcuff her because he isn’t her what?

10. Molly asks Mike why he handcuffed her sister and what is his reason?

11. He asks Molly if he’s supposed to ignore it.  She says yes and they’ve always pretended it was a what?

12. Where does Victoria go next time?

ANSWERS MM Boat

1.     Carl asks if he can’t just wear what?

Little arm floaties

2.     Ship rules say every passenger has to have their own what?

Lifevest

3.     What is Mike’s excuse for not having to wear a lifevest?

He’s crew.

4.     What has the boat shown Mike?

Vince in a completely different light.

5.     Who is Mike happy to call his captain?

Vince

6.     Carl says it’s about time Mike found someone else to look up to and that he’s done what all these years in his own quiet way?

Given Mike guidance.

7.     What does Mike say is the only thing Carl has ever given him?

A bad case of hemorrhoids.

8.     Mike believes that Vince sees him like a what?

Son

9.     Mike thinks he can do what by playing along?

Make his life a little happier.

10. What does Mike tell Carl to bear in mind?

It still needs a little more work.

11. When Mike opens the garage door and the boat isn’t there what does Carl tell him to do?

Make it reappear.

12. What happened to the boat?

Someone bought it

13. Vince tells the mailman a story about the boat.  What does Vince say he does with the boat?

Takes it out on Lake Michigan to fish.

14. What did it look like when the mailman took the boat away with his tiny little jeep?

An ant pulling a French fry.

15. Mike is upset Vince sold the boat and Mike says that he’s a bigger what than the mailman?

Sucker.

16. Carl takes Vince’s money and says it’s for what?

The bright orange, non-refundable life vest.

Mike and Molly- Soup

 (0:00-1:39)

Vocabulary

Mm, mm not good- the slogan for a popular brand of soup in America (Cambell’s Soup) is “Mm, mm good.”

Aloha- this is a greeting in Hawaii

Stench- bad smell

Lentils- a type of bean

Saddest of the soups- the worst soup

The limbo- a contest to see who can walk under a stick, leaning backwards, at its lowest point.

That’s our cue- that’s our signal to leave

Portapotty- a portable toilet often used on construction sites, or at outdoor fairs.

Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.     Who did the laundry?

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?

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

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

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

Great Video!

ANSWERS- Mike and Molly- Homemaker

1.     Who is the breakfast in bed for?

The king of the castle

2.     What kind of juice is it?

Fresh squeezed

3.     Why did Molly remove the pulp with a strainer?

Because she knows how angry he gets when things aren’t just so.

4.     What does Mike think she did with the toast?

Wiped it on the floor.

5.     What is her response when he asked her if she spit in the orange juice and did other things to the food?

Nonsense

6.     What does Mike tell Molly to quit calling him?

Husband

7.     She asks if he would prefer she call him what?

Master

8.     What does Mike say he thinks she is trying to make him feel guilty for?

What he said last night.

9.     What is Molly’s response?

If you say so

10. What does Mike feel good about?

That there’s a breakfast in front of him.

11. When he asks Molly how that makes her feel, what is her response?

How should she know how she feels when he hasn’t told her how she feels.

12. Mike says that if that is how she wants to play it, what?

Let the games begin.

13. Mike says Molly probably buttered the toast with what?

Her shoe

Idioms- Firecracker

(2:11) "She's a firecracker."
Firecracker- a person with a lot of energy who is very witty

Idioms- Train Hard

(0:12)  "A Kung-Fu master is prepared to train hard."
Train hard- exercise a lot and practice a lot

ANSWERS- Everybody Loves Raymond- Robert is the Funniest Man Alive

1.     What does Deborah want to use the word “selfless” to describe?

Marie’s work as a piano teacher

2.     What did Robert hear they were writing?

A family Christmas letter

3.     What did he do?

Write his biography

4.     How would he like it inserted?

Verbatim

5.     How long has it been since Marie has written a Christmas letter?

Ten years

6.     Did Robert like the way he was portrayed in the Christmas letter written ten years ago?

No

7.     What did he make a solemn pledge to do?

Never let that happen again.

8.     Raymond is defending his job, and claims to have 600,000 “discriminating readers.”  Robert  says that Ray has included in his definition of discriminating people who do their reading with their elbow on a roll of toilet paper.  What does he mean by this?

People reading while on the toilet in the bathroom

9.     Ray accuses Robert of competing with him all the time and Robert realizes that he actually saved a Christmas family letter for 10 years in a what?

Zip-lock bag

10. When something bad happens to Robert what does he pray for?

Raymond not to do so good that day

11. What is the prayer Robert says?

“Come on God, get him.”