F2F Class Notes 20th December (Celeste)***

Read the story below WITH the recording 2-3 times. Next class: upgrade the vocabulary.

Review

I memorized SE’s address since I came here 3 months ago.

I can recite SE’s address.

I’m sick of doing housework every day.

I will send a gift out to my friend before her birthday.

The team scored the first round game.

The team scored the first point in the game.

Playing Poker
Rachel hated to be waitress anymore and was sick of being called”Excuse me”, so she sent many resumes for interview. She got an interview from Saks Fifth Avenue.

In Central Perk Cafe, Ross, Joey and Chandler were talking about playing poker last night, Monica, Phoebe and Rachel asked why not anybody invite them. They wanted to play poker as well. The men guys hesitated but agreed to teacher them. They started to draw cards and play for real. But at last all of Monica, Phoebe and Rachel lost and had to pay the men guys money. The next day Monica asked her aunt Iris to teacher them how to play poker. They learned many of the poker game skills and even could shuffle cards very well. But they lost again when they played with Ross, Joey and Chandler.

What’s worse, Rachel received a phone call and was told the interview had not been passed when they were playing in third round. She felt rather depressed and disappointed so she went on playing the game more crazily. Ross wanted to make Rachel happy and deliberately lost to her.

Finally, Rachel won the game. She opened a bottle of wine and cheered with Monica and Phoebe. She was very excited and even forgot the bad interview.

Edited

Playing Poker
Rachel hated being a waitress and was sick of being called”Excuse me”, so she sent many resumes out for interviews. A few days later, she got/scored an interview from Saks Fifth Avenue.

In Central Perk Cafe, Ross, Joey and Chandler were talking about playing poker last night. Monica, Phoebe and Rachel asked why didn’t anybody invite them. They wanted to play poker as well. The men/guys hesitated but agreed to teach them. Later in Monica’s apartment, they started to deal the cards and play for real. But at last, all of the women/Monica, Phoebe and Rachel lost and had to pay the men/guys money. The next day Monica asked her Aunt Iris to teach them how to play poker. They learned many poker game skills and even could shuffle the cards very well. But they lost again when they played with Ross, Joey and Chandler.

What’s worse, Rachel received a phone call and was told she didn’t get the job when they were playing in the third round. She felt rather depressed and disappointed so she went on playing the game more crazily. Ross wanted to make Rachel happy and deliberately lost to her.

Finally, Rachel won the game. She opened a bottle of wine and cheered with Monica and Phoebe. She was very excited and even forgot about the bad interview.

Vocabulary

deal / dealing / dealt / will deal v. – to give or hand out cards in a card game

eg. It is Rachel’s turn to deal the cards.

eg. Ross dealt the cards last time.

draw a card – pick a card

eg. The magician asked the woman to draw a card from the deck.

eg. Pick a card, any card!

deck n. – the whole set of playing cards

eg. Shuffle the deck!

eg. Pick up the deck!

Pronunciation

real (ree – yull )

deal ( dee – yull )

all – open your mouth more

shuffle – LLLLL

deliberately ( duh – lib – ber – rit – lee )

worse ( werss )

wine – nnnnnnn