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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
《不可能的任务:鬼影行动》

Date: Feb 01 2012

Themes: Pop Culture

Grammar: Present Perfect Tense

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Of all the jobs you could have, none of them seem quite as cool as being a spy. You get to go undercover, test out the latest high-tech spy gadgets, take on different identities and maybe even go rogue. At least, that’s how the movies make it look.

In the new movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise is back as agent Ethan Hunt, the coolest spy of them all. But when Hunt and his team get blamed for a bombing, they have to go rogue in order to prove their innocence. Find out why the new Mission Impossible has Amy thinking about becoming a spy.

在所有工作中,再没有比间谍工作更酷更帅的了。你可以当卧底,测试最新的高科技间谍装备,冒充不同身份甚至可能违背训练准则。至少,这就是影片呈现的效果。
在新电影《不可能的任务:鬼影行动》中,汤姆·克鲁斯 (Tom Cruise) 依旧扮演探员伊森·亨特,他是间谍当中最冷酷的一个角色。但是当亨特和团队受到炸弹指控时,他们不得不违背训练准则以证明自己的清白。找出新电影《不可能的任务》令艾米想当间谍的原因。

Dialog

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Amy

Amy

Mason

Mason

Amy:  Have you seen the new Mission Impossible, Mason?

Mason:  I haven’t yet. I kinda want to. I was a little surprised that they brought that one back after so long.

Amy:  I know. Tom Cruise, he just keeps on giving.

Mason:  It seems that people just never get tired of spy movies and that whole world of espionage.

Amy:  I think so, and I think…like, I just watched The Dark Knight, the Batman movie, and I think partly it’s the gadgets. Spy gadgets are so fun.

Mason:  For sure.

Amy:  And the crazy things they do in order to get information, or in order to break in to a place. Like in the new Mission Impossible, there’s a scene where Tom Cruise is on the outside of the tallest building in the world. And it just looks so crazy and fun. It kind of makes me want to be a spy.

Mason:  Oh really?

Amy:  Mm-hmm.

Mason:  I don’t know if I could cut it.

Amy:  Do you think…so you think it would be the physical stuff that would be hard, or do you think…

Mason:  Oh yeah. I could totally get down with all the betrayal and, like, double-secret-agent, triple-agent. No problem. Really the physical activity is what’s gonna keep me out of the profession.

Amy:  But, like, are you a good enough liar to be a spy?

Mason:  Well, how about this. I actually have seen Mission Impossible, and you believed me this whole time.

Amy:  Woah.

 

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Amy asks Mason if he has seen Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. He says he hasn’t seen it, but he would like to.

Mason says that people love spy movies. Amy thinks that is because of all the cool spy gadgets. She says the movies make it look really fun and exciting to be a spy.

Mason says he isn’t sure if he would be a good spy. He thinks it would be too physically challenging. But he wouldn’t have any trouble lying. In fact, he tells Amy that he was lying when he told her he hadn’t seen the Mission Impossible film. She believed him, so maybe he would make a good spy, after all.

Do you like spy movies? Do you think you would make a good spy?

 

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Peace to you to, friend!Smile

06:48 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

: )


Ogo! now I know


Peace , friend!

06:47 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

OGO ( means WOWSmile

06:45 PM Feb 01 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

On this good note I’m finishing our nice conversation for today. 


Best regards and we will continue this subject into our minds. ;)

06:45 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

:   ) , it’s okay Lesya.


but in one of your comments I saw “OGO” , what does that mean?


Ogopogo? : )

06:42 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

You are wrong….... you have got rich experience behind your shoulders. I feel it. My experience of life is nothing in the comparison with yours. 


As I said to Anja today. I”m not a leader and I’m not a mentor as well. 


Whole my life I prefered to be surrounded by friends and people that are much older than me. Sorrrrrrrrry, I can’t be your mentor. If you will look into my life as my conscience you will find my words correct.

06:38 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

experience of life!  I’m in my twenties  :  )


I haven’t experienced half of the things you’ve had.


you should be my mentor.

06:32 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Yes, dear Snoopyboy I have seen that movie many times. And each time I see it I sob Cry

06:32 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

I agree, but I need your inspiration, indeed. It will help me to take the experience of your life.

06:30 PM Feb 01 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

I almost fainted after I read your comment, Lesya


Have you ever seen the movie “Ghost”?

06:29 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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Mexican Curious

Mexico

It has many meanings would probably mean that it has “so many ways” of undestarding. I think!

06:27 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

You will live in me, being my conscience and I will live in you, being your conscience as well. We just will get an extra conscience to the our own one :)

06:27 PM Feb 01 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

well, how about we swap life and experience for a start?


 

06:24 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

What do you mean by that phrase??? It has many meanings

06:22 PM Feb 01 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

So basicly you want us to live vicariously, huh?


 

06:21 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

I want to join your pure conscience  to my pure conscience to get a saint double conscience then. I will listen to you and you will listen to me.

06:19 PM Feb 01 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

I’ve learned from an early age that you really can’t polish a turd


 


:  )


(oops!)

06:18 PM Feb 01 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Just make good use of me :  )


Listen to me, when in doubt


 

06:15 PM Feb 01 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

OGO and many times OGO!!! Conscience!!! My conscience is pure like an Alpine snow, so I suppose you are clear and innocent like my conscience is.

06:13 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Yes, Kotlesya..for ages. I’m your conscience ! ; )


Butta, I like the smell of Cow manure in the morning! : )


growing poor in a farm, my parents couldn’t afford Play Doh, so I had to sculpture cow manure for fun.


 

06:10 PM Feb 01 2012 |

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