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Engramme: Your Daily English Programme #64: Smurfs (Listening A2-B1) |
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Think Before You Listen |
Do you watch cartoons? Which one(s) do you watch & why?
Who are your favorite cartoon characters? What's special about them?
What do you know about this cartoon and its characters? (click on the link below)
On October 23, 1958, the Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarfs, appeared for the first time in the story La Flute à Six Schtroumpfs! The smurfs live in mushroom houses deep in the woods. They are all dudes, except for one: a girl named smurfette.
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Watch and Listen |
Watch the Scene: Why are the boy smurfs and the girl smurfs all shocked?
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Let's Practice |
In this lesson, we will be practicing the use of personal pronouns in different positions in the sentence.
Watch & Listen Again: Can you supply the missing "personal pronouns" in the blanks below?
(mouse over the colored words to see their meaning)
- Take cover! Whoa!
- Who are you? What do you want?
- ____!
-Huh?
- Move.
- Smurfette!
- What should we do with her?
- Look at that hair.
- Where's she from?
- And that dress.
- It's ____. You're a girl. She's a girl. Oh. Oh. Oh!
- This is ____. This is the smurf I was telling you about.
- The one from the wall? She's real?
- I'm Smurflily.
- Hi. I'm Smurfette.
- Oh, my geez-to-petes! I'm Smurfblossom. Nice to meet ____. We don't
have a Smurfette. But we do have Smurfpetal, Smurfclover, Smurfmeadow,
Smurfdaisy, Smurfholly, Smurfhazel...
- Hey!
- Oh, everyone can just introduce ________ later. Look at you. You're
so different. I mean, sorry, but it's true. Do you know how to start a fire with
just rope and a stick? I do. I can show _____. Actually, Smurfstorm can
show you. ____'s the best at that kind of thing. Right, Stormy?
That means "yes." Have you ever seen a rainbow? What about
a double rainbow? What about an upside down rainbow? So, is your favorite
song... 'Cause _____ is: Your dress is so pretty.
- Smurfblossom, remember, work on that filter, okay?
- Right! Filter, filter.
- What's ______ deal anyway?
- Oh, well, we came to warn you about Gargamel.
- Garga? Garga-what?
- He's a dangerous wizard who wants to capture all smurfs and use _____
for his evil magic. And he knows about your lost village.
- "Lost village"? You're the ones who are lost, not ____.
- We have to take you to smurfy grove.
- What do we do with these blue blobs?
Oh, um...Bring _____ along.
- Come on, Smurfette. I'm gonna show you my room. You can tell ____
all about Gargasmell. But first, do you want to hear my favorite song
again?
- All right, move.
- Dang!
- Girl smurfs mean business.
- You got that right.
- Open the gate!
- The girls are back!
- Ew! Where did they find them?
- Is there something wrong with _____?
- Are they sick?
- Are they food?
- No, no, no. They're smurfs, just like ____. Except, well, they're boy
smurfs.
- "Boy." That's a funny word. Boy. Boy. Boy. Boy. Look at me: I'm a boy smurf!
- I like _____. Where do they come from?
- What is that?
- Where is their hair?
- You can see _____ tails.
- Oh, look.
- Hey, watch it!
- Brainy's log, day two. We've encountered a rare new life-form.
- Are there more like you?
- They are at times very intimidating.
- Are you gonna stay here?
- And _____ smell nice.
- Hello, boy.
- More on that later.
- Oh, I want one!
- Boundaries! Okay, that... That's enough of that!
- They're ____ friends. That's Hefty, Brainy and Clumsy.
- Hey, there!
- Hooptie, Berney, Klutzy. Got it. We should do
name tags.
- Wait, where are _____ boys?
- You won't find any boys here!
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(see this complete version to compare your answers)
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Over to You |
What if humans also lived separately as 'men' and 'women'? Would they be shocked when they discovered about each other? What would happen?
Well Done! You've reached the end of our first lesson in Week#17 on Engramme: Your Daily English Programme. We hope our daily lessons help you improve your English proficiency one day at a time :)
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