Friends - Ross's British Accent

Vocab/ defintion/ sentence/phrase
1. (n) laboratory / a room a scientist uses for experiments
2. (n) discovery /a person or thing being found/ The discovery of a new fossil
3. (adj) igneous / conditions in intense heat or fire/ "rocks formed by igneous agents"
4. (adj) sedimentary / produced by the action of water
5. (n) consternation / a fear from awareness of danger / To my consternation, I realised I lost the key to home
6. (adj) nervous / feeling anxious about something/ ‘I feel nervous about my test today’
7. (v) staring/ use of eyes looking/ ‘she is staring at me?’
8. (n) accent / different sounds of speech/ ‘he has a strong Russian accent’
9. (n) pantology/ scientist in human knowledge
10. (n) department / a specialised area in a large shopping mall/ ‘you’ll find it in the hardware department’
11.(n) lecture / to deliver information to a class / ‘he attended a lecture about...’
12. (v) excuse/ to pardon or to forgive/ ‘excuse me please’

Before you watch:

1. What are the differences between British and American accents?
2. Which one is easier for you to understand?
3. Can you speak different accents of your native language? 

Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. Why is Ross speaking with an accent?
2. Why is Monica speaking with an accent, too?
3. What type of accent is Rachel speaking?

Speaking and Listening:

1. Right so when Ridley got his samples back from the laboratory he made a startling discovery.
2. What he believed to be igneous was in fact sedimentary.
3. Imagine his consternation when..
4. Oh bloody hell.
5. What the hell are you doing?
6. Look I was nervous.
7. You guys had me all worried. I was gonna be boring.
8. I got up there and they were all like staring at me.
9. I opened my mouth and this British accent just came out.
10. Yeah not a very good one.
11. Will you, will you please.
12. Doctor Gellar,  Kerk Rathman I am a Professor in the paintology department here
13. Do you have moment to talk about your lecture?
14. I’m sorry I’ve got plans with my sister.
15. Monica Gellar.
16. Right will excuse us for one moment.
17. What are you doing? Oh you can have accent but I can’t.
18. Top of the morning to ya laddy.
19. Yes, yes bombay is very, very, nice this time of year.

Friends - With Chandler's Dream AmE

1. Watch the video;
2. Write down the words as you hear them;
3. Check it with your teacher;
4. Practise saying the lines.


Before you watch the video:
1. Do you remember your dreams?
2. Have you had any weird dreams before?
3. What were they about?
4. Did you enjoy them or not? why?

Vocabulary/ definitions
(n) cafeteria / somewhere you go to eat
(n) high school / somewhere you go to learn
(adj) naked / someone who does not wear any clothes
(n) sweetie / informal word for dear
(n) throat / part of body
(n) intestine / the inside part of body
(n) mouth / on your face
(n) neck / part of body
(n) cookie / something you eat which is sweet/biscuit
(n) dream / when you sleep you see images / I dreamt I was on a/ with
(n) nightmare / when you are asleep you dream something bad/ I had a really bad nightmare

Speaking and Listening:
1. So I’m back in highschool standing in the middle of the cafeteria and I realise I am totally naked.
2. Then I look down and I realise there is a phone. There. - What is he talking about?
3. Instead of.. thats right! - instead of what? How does he sound/feel?
4. All of a sudden the phone starts to ring.
5. and it turns out its my mother.
6. Which is very, very weird because.
7. She never calls me.
8. This guy says ‘Hello’ I wanna kill myself.
9. You ok sweetie?
10. I just feel like someone reached down my throat and grabbed my small intestine
11. Pulled out of my mouth and tied it around my neck
12. Cookie?

Friends - Ross and Chandlers Mom AmE

1. Watch the video;
2. Write down the words as you hear them;
3. Check it with your teacher;
4. Practise saying the lines.