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Engramme's Weekend with TV #6 - The Simpsons (Listening B1-B2) |
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Watch, Listen & Enjoy |
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom, the longest-running prime-time sitcom in the US (running for 27 years/28 seasons), produced by the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satire of a typical, working-class family living in the fictional town of Springfield. The show criticizes and makes fun of many aspects of American culture, lifestyle, politics, and society.
Watch This Short Extract (season10, episode 1): What aspects of (American) culture are satirized in this extract?
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Let's Learn |
In this post, we are focusing on a couple of pronunciation details in everyday speech, an idiomatic expression, and a more-or-less fixed sentence that can be used in certain contexts in response to other people's comments. Let's dive in!
Listen Again: (1) What are the actual forms of the 3 phrases (boldface) written in connected speech1? (2) What idiomatic expression does Milhouse use to mean "We are similar in many ways"? (3) What does Milhouse say when Lisa tells him he has a pen glued to his hair?
mouse over the underlined words to see their meaning
Lisa: Look, Dad! They've got every kind of paper: Loose-leaf,
graph, unlined, college-ruled.
Homer: Kanchu just write on your arm like I do?
Marge: All you're getting is rubber bands and paper clips? Donchu
need a notebook or something?
Bart: Nah. These days, everything's done on computers. And
staplers. Computers and staplers.
Lisa: ''Krusty's Speak and Say''?
Krusty the Clown: ''S'' is for shiksa. S-H-I- Mmm- I think
there's a ''T'' in there somewhere. Ah, look it up.
Milhouse: [Lisa! Stay cool, Milly.] Oh! Hi, Lisa. Did you have a
nice summer? Donchu hate that we have to go back to stupid school
tomorrow?
Lisa: I like school.
Milhouse: Me too! We _____ so much ___ ________.
Milhouse: ___ ____ _____
_____ ___, ____ ______! Uh, you want this?
Lisa: No!
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(see the first comment for answers)
Have a Nice Weekend Ahead! If you missed any of this week's posts, click here.
Review the Vocabulary from this lesson HERE.
Download a teacher's pdf copy to use in the classroom HERE
1 In natural speech in English, many words become connected, sometimes making it hard to recognize the individual words that make up a stream of connected speech. For example, you may here "What are you doing here?" as "Watcha doin'ier?" in fast spoken English.↩
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