Ross Can't Remember if He Proposed
VOCABULARY:
1. give someone a little credit
Meaning: to acknowledge and praise (someone for a good piece of work etc)
Dialogue: Now, let's give him a little credit.
Student's Sentence: ____________________________________________________
2. propose
Meaning: to ask someone to marry you
Dialogue: I didn't propose!
Student's Sentence: _____________________________________________________
3. convince
Meaning: to persuade someone or make someone certain
Dialogue: Is this like that time you convinced us you are a doctor?
Student's sentence: _____________________________________________________
4. exhausted
Meaning: extremely tired
Dialogue: Let her sleep. She's so exhausted...
Student's sentence: _____________________________________________________
5. lukewarm
Meaning: not enthusiastic or interested; a thought, opinion
Dialogue: Oh, what beautiful lukewarm sentiment.
Student's sentence: _____________________________________________________
6. sentiment
Meaning: a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking about something
Dialogue: Oh, what beautiful lukewarm sentiment.
Student's sentence: _____________________________________________________
7. assume
Meaning: to accept something to be true without question or proof
Dialogue: Did she find the ring in my jacket, assumed I was gonna propose, throw it on and start telling people?
Student's sentence: _____________________________________________________
DIALOGUE:
Phoebe: Oh hey! Wait up!
Ross: Hi!
Phoebe: Congratulations! I didn't want to say anything in front of Joey because I didn't know if he knew yet.
Ross: What? That we had a baby? Now, let's give him a little credit. Although he did eat a piece of plastic fruit earlier.
Phoebe: No! No! That you and Rachel are engaged.
Ross: What?!
Phoebe: Oh... It's a secret? Oh! goody! Yes! We haven't done a secret in a long time!
Ross: Phoebe, there is no secret. Okay? I didn't propose!
Phoebe: Are you lying? Is this like that time you convinced us you are a doctor?
Ross: (stares at her pointedly) I AM a doctor! (Phoebe stares back at him, pity showing in her eyes) You know what, I am just gonna go and talk to Rachel myself.
Phoebe: Alright. Let me, too.
Ross: Shhh.
Phoebe: Should we wake her up?
Ross: No! No, come on. Let her sleep. She's so exhausted...
Phoebe: ...and so engaged. Dum.. dum... dum... (shows him the ring on Rachel's finger)
Ross: (mouths 'what', confused. signals Phoebe to come out of the room with him) Oh my god! She thinks we're engaged! Why? Why? Why would she think we're engaged?
Phoebe: Perhaps, because you GAVE her an engagement ring? You know, Ross, doctors are supposed to be smart.
Ross: I didn't give her that ring!
Phoebe: You didn't?
Ross: No!
Phoebe: So, whose ring is it?
Ross: It's mine!
Phoebe: Is it an engagement ring?
Ross: Yes.
Phoebe: But, you didn't give it to her?
Ross: No!
Phoebe: But, you were going to propose?
Ross: No!
Phoebe: Huh! I might be losing interest in this.
Ross: Look, Look. My mom gave me that ring because she wants me to propose to Rachel. But all I wanted to do was to see if she kind of want to start things up again.
Phoebe: Oh, what beautiful lukewarm sentiment.
Ross: Look, I didn't want to rush in to anything, and it seemed like she didn't want to either. But I don't understand how... how any of this happened. What? Did she find the ring in my jacket, assumed I was gonna propose, throw it on and start telling people?
Phoebe: No! No! She said you actually proposed to her!
Ross: Well, I didn't! I didn't propose! Unless... Did I? I haven't slept in forty hours. It does sound like something I would do.
QUESTIONS:
1. What was the video about?
2. Do you have a good memory or a bad memory?
3. Have you ever forgotten something important? Can you tell what you did after realizing you had forgotten about it?
4. Are there some things or times that you will never forget?
5. If you could edit your memories, which ones would you erase and why?
6. Do you have a photographic memory?
7. What's your earliest memory? When was it? Describe it in detail.
8. If you were Ross, would you have forgotten proposing to your bride-to-be?
9. If you were Rachel, what would you feel like or think if your groom-to-be forgot he proposed to you?
10. As a close friend of Ross and Rachel, what do you think should phoebe do after this scene? Can you tell how she should solve Ross' problem?
