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High School Musical 3

Date: Dec 03 2008

Themes: School

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

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Intro

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

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

Disney’s High School Musical movie franchise has made millions of dollars by turning teen growing pains into upbeat song and dance numbers. In High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the kids struggle with new hopes and fears as they get ready to graduate and leave for college.

HSM is incredibly popular in the US, especially with young children. But the squeaky clean characters and songs don’t make Marni want to sing along. Listen to her talk about the movie with Amanda.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

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

Marni

Amanda

Marni: You know what I am just so sick of?

Amanda: What?

Marni: High School Musical.

Amanda: What’s the problem? HSM?

Marni: So many things! It’s just this crazy Disney franchise that has just taken over. And I’m inundated with it all the time, because every child over the age of seven is obsessed with High School Musical.

Amanda: OK, but didn’t you appreciate having Grease in your life when you were growing up?

Marni: OK, that is true.

Amanda: Shouldn’t every generation have its Grease?

Marni: Good point. Yet, Grease had this certain charm because it was a little down and dirty. There were some pretty risque songs. High School Musical is so squeaky clean. Everyone’s perfect.

Amanda: I suppose. So you liked the risque aspect…

Marni: Apparently, yes.

Amanda: Even though it’s all about high school kids. They’re all supposed to be the same age, going through the same growing pains…

Marni: But everybody’s kinda perfect and everybody’s playing into these stereotypes.

Amanda: I don’t know. I’d have to say you missed out. We checked it out last week.

Marni: Yeah?

Amanda: Almost every show was sold out but one.

Marni: Highest grossing weekend ever for a musical.

Amanda: Mm-hm.

Marni: Way to go.

Amanda: I don’t know, they can’t have an HSM4 because

they’re going to be off in college. What are they gonna call it now, hm?

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Discussion

Marni has heard way too much about the new High School Musical movie. All the kids at the school where she teaches can’t stop talking about it.

Amanda doesn’t understand why Marni dislikes this movie. She reminds
her about Grease, another musical about high school students that was extremely popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Marni liked Grease because the characters in it weren’t so squeaky clean. They were rebellious teenagers and the movie dealt with some mature themes, like teen pregnancy and gangs.

What was your high school experience like? Could you relate more to
the squeaky clean characters in HSM or the rebellious
teenagers in Grease?

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liushuixun

China

I enjoy HSM, the music and song are very beautiful and besides it is this generation Grease and gives the kids a good example.as we all known kids like imitation.Obviously squeaky clean will lead kids better.

Marcelolic

Brazil

I watched Greese many times…It was one of the best musical movies of 80's…I remind of John Travolta and his rebellious style of the 50's and those slits,pretty cool hehe

Marcelolic

Brazil

Certainty Greese was better than HSM…it was a musical too like HSM,but it talked of real issues…I confess that I just watch the first HSM! hahaha :D

johny_snooch

United States

no stars,they should be martered!

luu.-21

Argentina

I like it, I haven't seen high school musical 3 yet but the others were very good. And i think all if perfect because this is what children have to watch. Maybe, it can be stupid for us because all is perfect, but it's okay for children. Children don't have to watch bad and sad thigs. That's what i think

jinning

China

i have watched the other two,and it is not good so much.

lunnyman

Argentina

it's good hahaha

Yasminne_15

Venezuela

I love HSM 3 HAHAHA Because, i love Zac Efron-!!

miffoo

Slovakia

I couldn't watch this lame( slang stupid, dislike,..) movie and I think won't . I agree with Marni. This movies like HSM made still some similar point, and it's far far away reality it's waste of time watch this lame movie.

miffoo

Slovakia

????lamb movie

nestor219

Brazil

I liked so much this lesson…

nestor219

Brazil

I saw all movies of HSM and i like it so much.

Everybody in Brazil loved. We have a HSM cover, and It will be record a HSM movie in Brazil in 2009…

I like so much. I sing and dance the songs and also study the subtitles… It's awsome!!!

Totto

Sudan

I couldnt relate to anyof them so far, because there is no point. someone may say the point is having fun. year right.

kaira_harry

Yemen

i saw all movies of high school musical

and i like it so much

but it's very sad coz the high school musical 3 it's the last

but i have to say about it it's very cool movie

kaira_harry

Yemen

venissa sun

China

Have seen this movie, the characters are really too simple , so is the plot, but still feel like the songs in this movie, the rhythems are good.
I can say i was squeaky clean in high school too, stupidly fell in love with a boy i even didn’t talk with, but this young ages silly things were really precious.

Alexander02

Russian Federation

I haven't watch this movie yet, but I thing I'm not going to. I agree with Marni. But if people love this film – that means that it brought some good emoutions for them, so maybe this movie wasn't so vain.