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A Quick Coffee

A Quick Coffee English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: Feb 12 2008

Themes: Romance, Soap Opera

Intro

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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Remember last week when Amanda agreed to go on a date with Jason, but it had to last only 30 minutes? What would you do for a date with only half an hour? Jason went with the classic low-key date: coffee.

Watch Amanda and Jason hang out at the coffee shop. You might have to pause it in the middle and rest if it gets too awkward for you!

3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jason

Jason

Amanda

Amanda

Jason:  It’s awesome you live so close to this little coffee shop. It’s a really cool spot.

Amanda:  Yeah, I come here a lot…with…

Jason:  Is it a good place to study?

Amanda:  ...you know, guys.

Jason:  Huh? Do you like to come here to read and stuff?

Amanda:  They have Wi-Fi so I bring my laptop and update my profile and do all that stuff.

Jason:  Yeah, yeah. Cool.

Amanda:  I haven’t really seen you out there on some of the match-making sites.

Jason:  I’m sort of a real-life kinda guy. I like to meet people in real life.

Amanda:  Oh, like this? Yeah, that’s cool.

Jason:  Yeah, I mean we met by chance through our friends and everything. I feel like that’s the best way to…

Amanda:  Do you mind if I work on my laptop or is that…

Jason:  Uh, I guess, that’s…

Amanda:  I don’t have to. It’s just so weird being here and not, you know?

Jason:  You could show me some of the sites you’re talking about, if you want.

Amanda:  Um, no that’s OK. It’s cool. We don’t really have to go there. Let’s just say that we did.

Jason:  OK.

Amanda:  Yeah…do you…I can’t really see the clock from here.

Jason:  Quarter after.

Amanda:  What?

Jason:  It’s quarter after.

Amanda:  Oh, gosh.

Jason:  Do you have, like…

Amanda:  Time flies, right? When you’re having the best coffee in the world and really connecting. But, OK. So, do you want to pull up the car or do you want me to?

Jason:  Uh, yeah. It’s my car, I guess, so I’ll go get it.

Amanda:  Because if it will go faster, I’ll do it. I’m a really fast driver.

Jason:  It’s probably…I don’t want to have to explain how to drive it.

Amanda:  Oh OK. Cool. Hurry. K.

 

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Discussion

Jason says it must be cool to live so close to a nice coffee shop. Amanda says she goes there a lot, adding under her breath, “with guys…”

She says she also comes to do work on her laptop because they have wireless Internet. She updates her profiles on various social networking sites, some which are dating sites. She says she doesn’t really see Jason on the dating sites. He prefers to date people he meets through friends in real life.

Amanda asks if Jason would mind if she pulls out her laptop. He says that would be OK. Maybe she could show him some of the sites she just told him about.

When Amanda finds out what time it is, she abruptly asks Jason to get the car. She offers to do it herself if it would be faster.

How do you think this date went? Do you think Amanda and Jason will go on another date?

 

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miffoo

miffoo

Slovakia

cool

06:48 PM Dec 25 2008 |

rayson

rayson

China

you see…. quarter time..just 15 minutes….
and amanda is always look for meaningless things to talk. and form these. we can easily know….amanda have refused jason… and i think jason will know the truth…  so for amanda.. she has attained the objective.  but for jason… it's really a awful engagement… wow!!!!

08:45 AM Dec 02 2008 |

Iva_English

China

Such kinda dating is a little bit awkward. Both of them are nervous. Well, it's a start, anyway.

03:58 AM Oct 23 2008 |

aoyunhui

aoyunhui

China

i think it's because Amanda is too good at hinting,things becomes  more and more confused.what do you think?

01:50 AM Aug 14 2008 |

artistbuon

artistbuon

Viet Nam

poor Jason….............no chance for him to get her!

02:51 AM Jun 19 2008 |

ler102

Mexico

She is in a rush and wants to work in her laptop at a date! I think the young man should look for love somewhere else,she is not interested in him.

02:51 PM Mar 24 2008 |

just 2 more

Sudan

 that`s is hilarious , it`s really  irritate , i mean how can

you  talk like that to someone. it`s like you move from

subject to subject, and say something not have any

business with the situation you were  .You can easily 

say to the person you don`t like to go out with  : Hey i t

hike we should not going out together again. Or  just

be truthful with who you meet…..   !! ...


11:30 AM Mar 21 2008 |

justicemon

United Arab Emirates

it seems to me that she was interested to begin with .. but then she lost interest because he was boring, and that she is a bad lier

11:45 PM Mar 20 2008 |

justicemon

United Arab Emirates

it seems to me that she was interested to begin with .. but then she lost interest because he was boring, and that she is a bad lier

11:44 PM Mar 20 2008 |

trananh

trananh

Viet Nam

maybe they was so nervous or just because he is not in common with her.

07:39 PM Mar 14 2008 |

Macaronica

Macaronica

Russian Federation

"if it will go faster, I’ll do it."

why does she use "will" after "if" here? why not just "if it goes faster, i'll do it" as rule says?

02:09 PM Mar 12 2008 |

LAMLIMA

Tunisia

REALY IT'S A MAGNIFIQUE THINGS WHAT YOU ARE PRESENTING IN THIS SITE

04:58 PM Mar 11 2008 |

rooia

rooia

Iraq

Oh..they dont know ,what they want from each other..

06:11 AM Feb 19 2008 |

ahmeet

Turkey

hi

 

06:24 PM Feb 18 2008 |

ahmeet

Turkey

hi

06:21 PM Feb 18 2008 |

gokuh

gokuh

India

amanda is not interested in jason and jason shud understand this and shud ask for another date as appeared from the lesson according to me.

10:24 AM Feb 18 2008 |

a-k

a-k

Japan

Oh, what a terible date! Amanda is really not in love with Jason. For her, he must be just a friend. However,she knows Jason like her not only as a friend. She should tell him that she doesn't like him like him…It would be good for two of them.

06:21 AM Feb 17 2008 |

Sibinh

Sibinh

South Korea

I don't like the way Amanda behaves to Jason. He 's better to sleep instead of going out with her. Poor you Frown

05:17 PM Feb 16 2008 |

tina.xu

tina.xu

China

it's so boring,nobody like to have such moment~Frown

03:37 AM Feb 16 2008 |

xiaowugui

xiaowugui

China

agree that  they will not  go to  date

09:21 AM Feb 15 2008 |

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