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The Chase

The Chase English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: May 05 2009

Themes: Soap Opera

Grammar: Simple Past Tense

Intro

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What if you started following someone who was following someone else? It sounds like a spy movie, but that’s exactly what happens in today’s soap opera.

Dale and Ella are detectives who have come to investigate Beren’s kidnapping. They staked out her place, and now they have some intelligence telling them where she is. They see her and follow her right into her building!

But Marni and Mason think Dale and Ella are just nice new friends. But when they see them talking into their jackets and running along the outside of Beren’s building, they start to get suspicious.

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Dialog

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

Ella

Ella

Dale

Dale

Marni

Marni

Mason

Mason

Ella:  OK. So according to surveillance reports, she should be around this area. I think…

Dale:  You know, I read that report, but I didn’t really read that. So is it, like, right around here?

Ella:  Yeah, yeah. She’s…Oh my God! I think I just saw her. We need to…

Marni:  This is kinda cute.

Mason:  I thought they were…I’m sorry. I totally thought they were gonna be open. I thought we could use, kinda, something to cheer us up.

Marni:  I know. It’s OK.

Mason:  But um…

Marni:  Hey.

Mason:  Oh wait, is that…Dale. Hey Dale! Ella!

Marni:  Yeah. What? Hi guys.

Mason:  Did they look weird to you? Kinda…

Marni:  Is she talking into her jacket?

Mason:  It’s a little suspicious.

Marni:  It’s very sketchy.

Mason:  Yeah. I mean, it’s kindacloak and dagger kinda stuff goin’ on over there. It’s…

Marni:  Look, they’re…

Mason:  Who are they…

Marni:  I don’t know. Let’s follow them.

Mason:  Alright. We’ll check it out. Let’s investigate further here. Have they seemed a little weird to you?

Marni:  Yeah.

Mason:  I mean…

Marni:  I mean, what was that? That was really weird. They didn’t…It was like they were ignoring us and then they’re, like, being all secretive.

Mason:  What’s that door they’re going in over there? Isn’t that…Is that Beren’s place?

Dale:  We’re hot on her trail. I think she went right over there.

Ella:  Yeah. I think she went this way.

Marni:  I think they went right over here.

Mason:  You picked up their trail? I don’t know.

Marni:  I thought I saw them go around here, but…

Mason:  There’s no tracks.

Marni:  So…

Mason:  Try it.

Marni:  It’s locked.

Mason:  Mysterious.

 

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Discussion

When Dale and Ella finally find Beren, it just so happens that Marni and Mason are standing right there to see them run off. They chase them, but then they follow them to a locked door leading into the basement.

The very same basement where Beren so strangely went after her awkward encounter with Dale and Ella in the elevator. Come back next week to see what happens!

Have you ever followed someone or been followed?

 

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Athan

Athan

China

I don’t have this experience before,but it would be exiting to follow someone or be followed.When you follow someone,you are like always afraid of being caught by him,so you may keep a certain distance from the guy you follow and sometimes you bring something with you for disguising.In the meantime,being followed is intereting too,since you are feeling like there is someone is tracing you all the time,hence you keep turning round to check out if there is really someone following you.This situation makes the one being followed a little nervous but also exited.

02:04 PM May 05 2009 |

babyeyes

babyeyes

China

as a detective,must be stimulative and be carefull.

01:00 PM May 05 2009 |

Futuristic

Futuristic

Philippines

I have never been followed someone. I dont know.

12:49 PM May 05 2009 |

coco lee

coco lee

China

i have never been followed someone,but i don't know whether i was followed by someone

11:22 AM May 05 2009 |

iman82

iman82

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

No, i haven`t do it that before, it seems pretty exciting, i wanna watch the upcoming Surprised

09:30 AM May 05 2009 |

mehmetd

mehmetd

Turkey

ıf they my friends then ı dont chase them…ı come close to them and ask them what are you doing?ı never like to investigate other people s private case…even though they re new my friends ı cant behave them suspiciously…ı think it s the best important thing on people relations is the trust….

07:59 AM May 05 2009 |

mehmetd

mehmetd

Turkey

ıf  are they my friends then ı dont chase them…ı come close to them and ask them what are you doing?ı never like to investigate other people s private case…even though they re new my friends ı cant behave them suspiciously…ı think it s the best important thing on people relations is the trust….

07:58 AM May 05 2009 |

zhzloverzy

zhzloverzy

China

haha…This show shocked me…so exciting…I can’t wait to see what happen next week~~
I guess I had always followed my friends who was scared by my suddently screem during the primary school
it’s funny and memories~~haha

07:01 AM May 05 2009 |

dinhquyen87@yahoo.com

Viet Nam

how do u think if oneday u r chased by police and ..oh my gosh i can’t imagin what happen next. i don’t want to be chased but i like chase someone. it like spies .

02:33 AM May 05 2009 |

Naomi1010

Naomi1010

Taiwan

Their actions are freaking weird!! :P It’s kinda scary that someone tries to chase after you.

01:18 AM May 05 2009 |

pizzachuwave

Thailand

I've never done this before

 

it's kinda cool and exciting

 

i should try,,somehow^^

01:16 AM May 05 2009 |

dinhquyen87@yahoo.com

Viet Nam

it's really interesting. it's like a spy movies that i watched on tv. and it make me remember to Sherlock Holmes. sherlock homes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases. In all of his appearances, he is portrayed as the titular protagonist.and i feel fun because of becoming firstpeople comments this lesson, hihi

12:52 AM May 05 2009 |

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