VIP Class Notes (Olivia)

‘The Launderette’

Mr. Bean takes his dirty clothes to the launderette. To pay for the wash he takes his pound coin hidden in his trousers at the end of a piece of string. A young man pushes him away from his machine. Mr. Bean is angry but doesn’t say anything because the man is taking a karate suit out of his bag. Mr. Bean puts his clothes in another washing machine. He realizes he is wearing Wednesday’s underpants and takes them off.

On getting dressed again, he accidentally puts on a young woman’s skirt instead of his trousers. The woman puts his trousers with her washing.

Mr. Bean gets a cup of black coffee and changes it for the young man’s conditioner. The young man puts the ‘conditioner’ into his washing, and his karate suit turns brown. He is very angry. Mr. Bean tries to find his trousers. He looks in the young woman’s dryer and then climbs into the machine. The woman puts some clothes into the dryer and turns it on. Mr. Bean begins to go round and round!

Launderette: a store that helps people wash clothes for public use.

Laundry – dirty, needs to be washed clothes. Do laundry.

hanger – hang your clothes

Karate – a form of martial art

accidentally – accident

Conditioner – detergent

prank – when someone is trying to fool/game someone else,  on purpose.

embarrassing/ embarrasement

partition – restaurant, balcony, clothing store

balcony

(a) Why couldn’t Mr Bean find his trousers in the woman’s bag of clothes?

(b) Why did he climb into the dryer?

(c) What did the young man do with the brown trousers?

(d) Why did Mr Bean shout ‘Help!’?

Grammar

Mr Bean started to put his (a) ………laundry……………into his washing (b) ………..machine…….…… . There were some (c) ………dirty……………underpants.

He was (d) ……….wearing……..…… Wednesday’s underpants, so he had to (e) ………take……………them off. He went behind a (f) ………….partition…..……near the washing machines. He took off his brown (g) ……….trousers……..…… and put them down near a young woman’s clothes. He took off his underpants, put his hand round the partition and took a brown (h) ……….conditioner……..…… . The young woman put his trousers into the

(i) ……….washing……..…… machine. Mr Bean tried to (j) ……….put on……..…… the skirt with his hands.

The young man (k) …………looked………… at Mr. Bean. Mr Bean was (l) …………..ashamed….…… .