00:00 - 01:05 VocabularyA. pick a pocket / to pickpocket - to steal something valuable (money, jewels, cell phones, etc) from someone’s pocket or bag, especially as they carry the valuable objects around.

pickpocketing

Broadway play

A Tale of Two Cities

Cliff Notes

Pronunciation1. Who’s in an auditionWHO-zin-un-AW-DIH-SHUN

2. I want to say you: I-WANna-SAY-YOU

3. Pick them: PIK-em

Referencesi. Broadway (musical/theather) - Street locat-ed in Manhattan, New York. All of the many theatres loctated on these street are called Broadway theathres, as well as any performance played there.

ii. A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens) - Written by English author Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities is a 1859 novel set in London and Paris during the French revolution.

iii. New York, New York / I Left my Heart in San Fransisco - Very famous classic American songs by Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.

iv. Cliff Notes - A series of summarized, study notes of longer literary works or complex topics. Also known as “Abridgements”

JOEY: Yes! Guess who’s in an au-dition1 for a Broadwayi musical?

CHANDLER: I want to say you2, but it seems like such an easy an-swer.

JOEY: It is me! It’s a musical ver-sion of A Tale of Two Citiesii. So I think I’m going to sing New York, New Yorkiii, and ah, oh I left My Heart in San Franciscoiii.

ROSS: Ah Joey, I don’t think you get to pick the cities.

JOEY: What?

ROSS: Mr. Dickensii gets to pick them2.

JOEY: Who?

CHANDLER: I’ll get you the Cliff Notesiv.

JOEY: The what?

CHANDLER: The abridgment.

JOEY: Oh, okay. (to Ross) The what?

JOEY: (singing) You’ve got to pick a pocketA tssss, you’ve got to pick a pocket or two......

01:05 - 02:00 VocabularyA. Callback - The act of calling someone back, especially after an interview. Call-back is the noun version of the verb to call someone back.

B. Background - One’s past educational preparation, likes, jobs, activities, past-times, etc. Your background is a com-bination of who you are (people from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries often confuse “profile” for this).

C. A piece of cake - Really easy. >> The exam will be a piece of cake for Jack.

callback

a piece of cake

ballet

Zoom Kids

1. We definitely want to see you for the callbackWE DEFINIT-LEE WAN-na SEE u fir thuh

CALLBACK

2. Forget to bring your jazz shoesFiR-GEH tuh BRIN-gyir JAZZ SHOOS

3. All the roles got to danceALL tuh ROLES gaw-duh DANCE

(“ALL” is generally unstressed, but here it’s said emphatically)

4. Ballet - bA-lay (lay rhymes with day)

Referencesi. Zoom kids - 1972 American TV program for kids.

ii. Resumé - another word for CV (curricu-mul vítae) is used in other places.

DIRECTOR: Lovely, just lovely.

JOEY: Really? Thanks.

DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, we defi-nitely want to see you for the callback1-A on Saturday.

JOEY: Excellent, I’ll be there.

DIRECTOR: Okay, and listen don’t forget to bring your jazz shoes for the dance audition.

JOEY: Ahhh! My uh, my agent said it wasn’t a dancing part.

DIRECTOR: Joey, all the roles got to dance3 a little. But believe me with your dance backgroundB it’ll be a piece of cakeC.

[Scene: Chandler reading resuméii)

CHANDLER: ....three years of modern dance with Twila Tharp! Five years with the American Bal-let4picTheater?!

JOEY: Hey, everybody lies on their resumeii, okay. I wasn’t one of the Zoom Kidsi either.

PHOEBE: Well, can you dance at all?

JOEY: Yeah, I can dance, you know

Pronunciation

02:00 - 03:04 VocabularyA. (of something) To be off - In this case, if something is off, it won’t happen as it’s been canceled.

B. Come on - We use this phrase to tell someone to do something he or she is hesitating to do (which might be a favor we want them to do for us). Also, we can use it to tell someone to do something faster.

C. Stunned - In shocked; so surprised you can’t react.

stunned

pass de bourree

grand sissone

1. I have to get that - I -av tuh GET THAT

2. I just got a call - I jus gaw-duh CALL

3. Can’t get out of long islandKANNt GET au-duhv LONG I-LIND

(au rhymes with cow)

4. I want you - I WAN-chu

Referencesi. Long Island - New York City do extend into Long Island with Brooklyn and Queens actually forming the western end of ong Island

CHANDLER: Oh no, no, no, no.

PHOEBE: (covering her mouth in shock) What, what is that?

JOEY: Sure, it looks stupid now, there’s no music playing.

CHANDLER: I have to get that1, but no-no. (answering phone) Hello?

DIRECTOR: Ah, Joey. Joey Trib-biani. Listen Joey, I got a problem, I just got a call2 from my dance captain, he’s having a relationship crisis and can’t get out of Long Islandi3.

JOEY: So, does that mean the audi-tion is offA?

DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, seeing as you’ve got the most experience, I want you4 to take these dancers and show them the combination.

JOEY: What?!

DIRECTOR: Aw Joey, come onB! it’s easy. Y’know, it’s hand, hand, head, head, (very quickly, Joey watches stunnedC) up, pas de bouree, pas de bourreepic, big turn here, grand sissonepic, sissone, sissone, slide back, step, step, step, and jazz hands!

Pronunciation

(phone rings)

03:04 - Vocabulary

A. Synced / out of sync - sync is short for synchronization. We use this shorter ver-sion much more frequently than the full word. If someone is synced, it’s ordered, balanced or sequentially aligned. If it’s out of sync, it’s not ordered, or aligned. (below, picture of synchronised swimming)

Pronunciation1. It was the best I could get out of them

its thuh BEST I kuhd GET oudda them

2. Try it again - TRY-ih-duh-GEN

3. Show them - SHOW-em

JOEY: It’s ah, step-ity, step and jazz handsA.

DIRECTOR: Have fun.

JOEY: Bye. (does the jazz hands)

DIRECTOR: All right, let’s do it!

(The group does the same horrible dance that Joey did earlier in the show, except they’re all out of syncA and they do the jazz hands at the end.)

DIRECTOR: No, no, no. What was that?

JOEY: I know, it was the best I could get out of them1.

DIRECTOR: Well, people!

JOEY: People, people, people.

DIRECTOR: Let’s try it again2, and this time let’s everybody watch Joey. (to Joey) Show them3 how it’s done. (to the pianist) Count it off.

(The pianist starts to play, and Joey readies himself, and then runs out of the audition.)

A. Jazz hands - Hands extended and palms toward the audience in a dancing performance.