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00:00 - 01:05 Vocabulary

A. pick a pocket / to pickpocket - to stealsomething valuable (money, jewels, cellphones, etc) rom someone’s pocket or bag,especially as they carry the valuable objectsaround.

pickpocketing

Broadway play

A Tale o Two

Cities

Cliff Notes

Pronunciation

1. Who’s in an auditionWHO-zin-un-AW-DIH-SHUN

2. I want to say you: I-WANna-SAY-YOU

3. Pick them: PIK-em

Reerences

i. Broadway (musical/theather) - Street locat-

ed in Manhattan, New York. All o the manytheatres loctated on these street are calledBroadway theathres, as well as any perormanceplayed there.

ii. A Tale o Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)- Written by English author Charles Dickens, Atale o two cities is a 1859 novel set in Londonand Paris during the French revolution.

iii. New York, New York / I Lef my Heart inSan Fransisco - Very amous classic American

songs by Frank Sinatra and ony Bennett.

iv. Cliff Notes - A series o summarized, studynotes o longer literary works or complex topics.Also known as “Abridgements”

JOEY: Yes! Guess who’s in an au-

dition1 for a Broadway i musical?

CHANDLER: I want to say you2,but it seems like such an easy an-swer.

JOEY: It is me! It’s a musical ver-

sion of A Tale o Two Citiesii. So Ithink I’m going to sing New York,

New York iii, and ah, oh I lef My

Heart in San Franciscoiii.

ROSS: Ah Joey, I don’t think youget to pick the cities.

JOEY: What?

ROSS: Mr. Dickensii gets to pick

them2.

JOEY: Who?

CHANDLER: I’ll get you the Cliff

Notesiv .

JOEY: Te what?

CHANDLER: Te abridgment.

JOEY: Oh, okay. (to Ross) Tewhat?

JOEY: (singing) You’ve got to pick

a pocketA tssss, you’ve got to pick a

pocket or two......




A. Callback - Te act o calling someone

back, especially afer an interview. Call-back is the noun version o the verb to callsomeone back.

B. Background - One’s past educationalpreparation, likes, jobs, activities, past-times, etc. Your background is a com-bination of who you are (people rom

Spanish and Portuguese speaking countriesofen conuse “profile” or this).

C. A piece o cake - Really easy. >> Teexam will be a piece o cake or Jack.

callback

a piece o cake

ballet

Zoom Kids

1. We definitely want to see you or the

callback WE DEFINIT-LEE WAN-na SEE u f ir thuh

CALLBACK

2. Forget to bring your jazz shoesF iR-GEH t uh BRIN-gyir JAZZ SHOOS

3. All the roles got to dance

ALL t uh ROLES gaw-d uh DANCE(“ALL” is generally unstressed, but here it’ssaid emphatically)

4. Ballet - bA-lay (lay rhymes with day )

Reerencesi. Zoom kids - 1972 American V program

or kids.

ii. Resumé - another word or CV (curricu-

mul vítae) is used in other places.

DIRECTOR: Lovely, just lovely.

JOEY: Really? Tanks.

DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, we defi-

nitely want to see you or the

callback 1-A on Saturday.

JOEY: Excellent, I’ll be there.

DIRECTOR: Okay, and listendon’t orget to bring your jazz

shoes for the dance audition.

JOEY: Ahhh! My uh, my agent saidit wasn’t a dancing part.

DIRECTOR: Joey, all the roles gotto dance3 a little. But believe me

with your dance backgroundB it’ll

be a piece o cakeC.

[Scene: Chandler reading resuméii)

CHANDLER: ....three years ofmodern dance with wila Tarp!Five years with the American Bal-

let4picTeater?!

JOEY: Hey, everybody lies on their

resumeii, okay. I wasn’t one of the

Zoom Kidsi either.

PHOEBE: Well, can you dance atall?

JOEY: Yeah, I can dance, you know

Pronunciation




A. (o something) To be off - In this case,

i something is off, it won’t happen as it’sbeen canceled.

B. Come on - We use this phrase to tellsomeone to do something he or she ishesitating to do (which might be a favorwe want them to do for us). Also, we canuse it to tell someone to do something

faster.

C. Stunned - In shocked; so surprised

you can’t react.

stunned

pass de bourree

grand sissone

1. I have to get that - I -av t uh GET THAT

2. I just got a call - I jus gaw-d uh CALL

3. Can’t get out o long island

KANNt GET au-d uhv LONG I-LIND(au rhymes with cow)

4. I want you - I WAN-chu

Reerences

i. Long Island - New York City do extend intoLong Island with Brooklyn and Queens actually

orming the western end o ong Island

CHANDLER: Oh no, no, no, no.

PHOEBE: (covering her mouth inshock) What, what is that?

JOEY: Sure, it looks stupid now,there’s no music playing.

CHANDLER: I have to get that1,but no-no. (answering phone)Hello?

DIRECTOR: Ah, Joey. Joey rib-biani. Listen Joey, I got a problem,I just got a call2 from my dance

captain, he’s having a relationshipcrisis and can’t get out o LongIslandi3.

JOEY: So, does that mean the audi-tion is off A?

DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, seeingas you’ve got the most experience,I want you4 to take these dancersand show them the combination.

JOEY: What?!

DIRECTOR: Aw Joey, come onB!it’s easy. Y’know, it’s hand, hand,head, head, (very quickly, Joey

watches stunnedC) up, pas debouree, pas de bourreepic, big turnhere, grand sissonepic, sissone,sissone, slide back, step, step, step,and jazz hands!

Pronunciation

(phone rings)



03:04 -Vocabulary

A. Synced / out o sync - sync is short orsynchronization. We use this shorter ver-sion much more requently than the ull

word. I someone is synced, it’s ordered,balanced or sequentially aligned. I it’s outo sync, it’s not ordered, or aligned. (below,picture o synchronised swimming )

Pronunciation1. It was the best I could get out o them

its thuh BEST I kuhd GET oudda them

2. Try it again - TRY-ih-duh-GEN

3. Show them - SHOW-em

JOEY: It’s ah, step-ity, step and

azz handsA.

DIRECTOR: Have fun.

JOEY: Bye. (does the jazz hands)

DIRECTOR: All right, let’s do it!

(Te group does the same horribledance that Joey did earlier in the

show, except they’re all out of

sync A and they do the jazz handsat the end.)

DIRECTOR: No, no, no. Whatwas that?

JOEY: I know, it was the best I

could get out o them1.

DIRECTOR: Well, people!

JOEY: People, people, people.

DIRECTOR: Let’s try it again2,and this time let’s everybody

watch Joey. (to Joey) Show them3 how it’s done. (to the pianist)Count it off.

(Te pianist starts to play, andJoey readies himsel, and then runs

out o the audition.)

A. Jazz hands - Hands extended and

palms toward the audience in a dancingperormance.

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