Code 46

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• get the idea
• in the mood
• sci-fi
• dangling

• storyline
• mysterious
• dislike
• salt and pepper

• baffled

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Sometimes, when you see movies, you just don’t get them. Sometimes, you’re not in the mood for the film and other times, the movie just doesn’t make sense.
In the next conversation, Derek and Steph talk about a movie that has recently been released on video.

Dialog

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Steph

Derek

Steph:  I saw this movie Code 46 last weekend.

Derek:  Really? What was it about?

Steph:  Well, it was a sci-fi film. Normally, I am not really interested in sci-fi films. But, um, I got it because Tim Robbins was in it.

Derek:  Oh yeah? He’s a good actor.

Steph:  Yeah, he is. And he was a pretty good actor in this, but I was a little bit confused about the storyline.

Derek:  Why was it confusing?

Steph:  I don’t know. There were just all kinds of dangling issues. Like, there were things that I didn’t understand. Um, it was set in the future, but they didn’t explain things very well.

Derek:  Were they trying to keep it mysterious?

Steph:  It’s possible they were trying to keep it mysterious. But, at the end of the movie, I was baffled because I just didn’t understand anything which had happened.

Derek:  Kind of like a dream, maybe.

Steph:  Kind of. And I couldn’t tell if was me or if it was the movie.

Derek:  Well, maybe I’ll check it out and I’ll see what I think of it, too.

Steph:  Yeah. Just let me know.

Derek:  Ok.

 

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