Riding Giants

Intro

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

• documentary
• swells
• neat
• star

• holy grail
• script
• played hooky
• fix

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What could be more free that riding the waves out in the ocean? In this documentary about the history of riding the biggest swells, surfers play themselves and talk about their experiences. That is so neat! Can you imagine if someone made a documentary about what you do every day, with you as the star? That would be –as the surfers say – RADICAL!

Dialog

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

Steph

Derek

Steph:  So, I’m thinking about going to see this movie called Riding Giants.

Derek:  Really? What’s it about?

Steph:  Well, you’d think from the title that it were some kind of Disney movie or something. But it’s not. It’s about surfing.

Derek:  Surfing. How different is it from the other surfing movies?

Steph:  Well, I don’t know yet. But they’re all different in their own subtle ways. This is about riding the biggest waves, the giants.

Derek:  The giants. The surfer’s holy grail.

Steph:  That’s right. They’re all after the biggest wave. And they wanna ride it and get the longest ride.

Derek:  Well, hopefully by the end of the movie, they actually get to do that.

Steph:  I hope so, too. And hopefully it’s more than just a, ya know, music video, like a lot of surf movies are.

Derek:  Right. Maybe a little bit of a good script or something would help.

Steph:  A good plot, yeah, is always nice.

Derek:   Sounds good. Well, tell me how it is.

Steph:  I will.

 

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