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.
Everyone has a secret or two. These secrets may be small, like the fact that you’ve never told anyone that you were the one who accidentally left the door open, letting your pet dog run into the yard that one time. Or you may have a bigger secret, like the fact that you cheated on your girlfriend or boyfriend. The biggest kind of secret, though, is one that grows so big that it’s as if you have two separate realities. In one of the realities the secret is known, and in the other, it isn’t. It’s as if you’re living a double life.
Sometimes a double life isn’t so much about a secret as it is about having two parts of your life that just don’t really go together. Maybe you’re a doctor during the day, and at night you are a singer in a nightclub. Those two activities are so different that friends who only know you from one context might not really understand the other.
Marni has just gone into labor, and everything is becoming chaotic at the office. Sometimes chaos is what it takes for secrets and double lives to be revealed. Find out who’s living double in this identity English lesson.
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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Marni: Jeff, why don’t you just get out of here and leave me alone!
Jeff: Well, I’m the only person here that can help you, Marni. OK? I’m gonna help get you through this, regardless of whether or not I’m the father.
Greta: You’re not!
Jeff: OK, well, I’m the closest thing to a doctor that there is here. I studied holistic medicine for two years before college. We don’t have any drugs, so I’m gonna help get you through this.
Marni: Really? You studied natural medicine?
Greta: And he’s a climatologist.
Marni: Wow. Jeff, you’re really leading a double life here.
Jeff: Well, OK, let’s get that baby out of there, OK? I’m going to grab this pressure point…
Mason: Greta, you have to help us solve this us once and for all.
Amanda: You’re the expert here, so…
Mason: Are we moving too fast?
Amanda: Can I trust him?
Greta: Stop.
Mason: Can you trust me?! Can I trust you!?
Greta: Stop! Why do you people keep asking me for advice? I don’t write the characters in the movies that I act in, OK? The truth is…I don’t know anything about love. I’ve never even been on a date. I’ve been leading a double life all this time. I’ve kept it secret. But this storm, and you people! I can’t take it anymore!
Marni: You know, this is all really interesting and everything. I love that we’re learning a lot about each other, but I’m having a baby here! Jeff—what do we do now?
Jeff: Huh?
Marni: What’s the next step?
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Discussion
The last episode ended in the middle of a dramatic moment. Now, Marni is still in labor, and, even though Marni is annoyed at Jeff, he’s the only one who can help. It turns out that he studied natural medicine for a while. Earlier, during the storm, he revealed that he knew quite a bit about weather, too. Nobody knew this side of Jeff before.
While all this is going on, Amanda and Mason are still asking Greta for advice. Finally, Greta has had enough. She’s so angry that she reveals her biggest secret: even though she plays romantic characters in the movies, she’s never had a relationship. She’s never even been on a date. She’s also living a double life.
Did you ever know anyone who was living a double life? What were the two sides of their life, and how did you discover them?
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