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Along Came A Spider

Date: Apr 19 2001

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Intro

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freaked out

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We often go to the movies on the weekend, because we usually don’t have time during the week. A common conversation on Monday’s is about the movies we saw.

Dialog

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

Nedra

Tanis

Nedra: So, you saw a movie Friday?

Tanis: Yeah. I did I saw Along Came a Spider.

Nedra: Whoa. What was that about?

Tanis: Well, did you see Kiss The Girls, last year or two years ago?

Nedra: No, I’m afraid I didn’t.

Tanis: Well, it’s um, Morgan Freeman plays this detective Alex Cross and he’s like a profiler, you know.

Nedra: Mm hm. Yeah.

Tanis: And um, anyways so in this one he’s like profiling the Secret Service Agents, and the kidnapper of this child. He’s trying to be the next Lindbergh or something.

Nedra: OK. That movie kinda reminded me of Seven, just watching the previews.

Tanis: Yeah, you know I didn’t see Seven.

Nedra: You didn’t?

Tanis: No because I was, um, scared of it! (laughs)

Nedra: Really? It was pretty intense.

Tanis: Was it ?

Nedra: It had very intense scenes.

Tanis: Yeah. I… I… someone told… well I was studying Dante at the time that that came out…

Nedra: Ohhhh….

Tanis: And I was just like ‘no way.’ I’m too scared to see that.

Nedra: Yeah.

Tanis: Did you like it?

Nedra: I did like it. I’m not one to say I like horror movies. So…

Tanis: Huh.

Nedra: Yeah.

Tanis: Well I, I think I would like it too I just was kinda too freaked out, but um…

Nedra: Yeah…

Tanis: I would almost tell you without, that, that Seven is better than Along Came A Spider! (laughs)

Nedra: OK. That sounds good!

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Discussion

Tanis and Nedra have only known each other for a couple of days, but they’re already very comfortable talking to each other. Their conversation is very relaxed.
Have you seen Along Came a Spider? Did you like it? Do you like scary movies? Let us know! Come to the “Movie Madness” message board.
From the front row,
Migs