Legally Blonde

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• quirky
• Reese Witherspoon
• blonde
• sappy

• chick flick
• cracking up
• airhead
• smart cookie

• Taco Bell
• Harvard
• senator

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Reese Witherspoon proves that blondes aren’t dumb in the movie Legally Blonde. Did the staff here at English, baby! enjoy the movie? Listen below to find out.

Dialog

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

Tanis

Chad

Tanis:  Have you ever seen a movie on a plane Chad?

Chad:  I have, but rarely were they any good.

Tanis:  Well, I saw a great movie on the plane, uh, I guess when I went to New York.

Chad:  Oh yeah? Which movie did you see?

Tanis:  Legally Blonde. Have you heard of it?

Chad:  Unfortunately I have. My wife made us rent that the other night and it actually was very surprising. I thought it be sort of a, a, sappy you know, little chick flick, but it was pretty good.

Tanis:  I thought it was great. I had the best time watching it. I was just cracking up.

Chad:  Yeah. Her, uh, Reese Witherspoon[/def]’s personality was quite, uh, original. I mean she was smart, but yet really quirky and funny.

Tanis:  Yeah, I thought it was great how they kind of portrayed her to be an airhead in the beginning, but then she ended up being a real smart cookie.

Chad:  Yeah. And her, her little dog liked Taco Bell[/def], like, it was pretty funny watching him, you know, jump up and and be amongst the students at Harvard[/def].

Tanis:  Oh, you know the sad thing is when I lived in Southern California, I knew people that had that kind of life, but, uh, they were, they were fun too, but maybe not as fun as, uh, her character in that movie.

Tanis:  Oh, you know the sad thing is when I lived in Southern California, I knew people that had that kind of life, but, uh, they were, they were fun too, but maybe not as fun as, uh, her character in that movie.

 

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