Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
What makes you who you are? Is it your job? That’s part of it. But other important parts of your identity are your family, your friends and your hobbies. If you spend too much time on one of those things and ignore the others, you’re likely to get depressed. You’ll start to feel like you have no life.
If someone says “you have no life,” it means they think your life isn’t very interesting or varied. It’s a mean thing to say to someone, but after working long into the night at the office, Marni may need someone to tell her to get a life.
3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.
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.
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Mason: Long day. Phew. Marni, what are you doing here so late?
Marni: Oh, you know, I’m just trying to get caught up on some reports and things like that.
Mason: Yeah? That sounds boring.
Marni: Well, you know, it’s gotta get done and I take my career very seriously.
Mason: You have hobbies, right?
Marni: Oh, sure. I have a lot of hobbies.
Mason: Like what?
Marni: Oh, I’m on an ice dancing team. Those are my skates there.
Mason: Oh, with the plant in it?
Marni: Yeah. Uh-huh.
Mason: So, when was the last time you did the ice dancing thing?
Marni: Maybe 2009?
Mason: Uh-huh.
Marni: Um, I’m in a book club! And we’re meeting tomorrow, actually.
Mason: For that book?
Marni: Yeah!
Mason: ...that looks totally brand new and unopened.
Marni: Well…Alright, busted. It is.
Mason: I know you’re my boss and everything, so I hope you don’t take this the wrong way.
Marni: OK.
Mason: But it sounds like you need to get a life. There is more to life than your job, right? I mean last weekend alone, I went BASE jumping, I took a little trip down to Africa to build a house for some under-privileged children…
Marni: What?
Mason: ...did a little homebrewing in my garage. Clogging with my troop.
Marni: Clogging? Maybe you’re right. I might need to get out a little more.
Mason: I tell you what. Step number one to Marni getting a life: beers. Right now. Let’s go.
Marni: I don’t know. I gotta get this report done.
Mason: This is what life is, Marni. It’s calling you. Embrace it.
Marni: OK. If you’re sure. Let me just finish up one more thing. Give me five minutes.
Mason: No. No.
Marni: No?
Mason: No. Come with me.
Marni: OK.
Mason: It’ll be OK.
Marni: OK. OK, but I should…OK.
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Discussion
Mason, the office janitor, is cleaning late at night and discovers that Marni is still at the office working. He asks her what she likes to do outside of work.
Marni says that she does ice dancing. But Mason notices that her skates are being used to hold a plant. She says she’s part of a book club, but Mason discovers that she hasn’t read the book for her meeting tomorrow. He thinks that Marni has no life. He tells her all the interesting things he does and suggests that she get a life.
Since she needs to do something fun in order to get a life, Mason wants to take Marni out to get a beer right then. She tries to stay and keep working, but he makes her leave.
Do you know anyone who needs to get a life?
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