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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today’s movie is called You Again. It’s an American comedy that came out last month.
In the movie a girl’s brother is engaged to someone who she didn’t get on with at high school.
The girl’s name is Marni and she says: My brother is about to marry the girl who single-handedly ruined my life in high school.
Single-handedly means on your own, with nobody helping you.
The fiancée, whose name is Joanna, seems to be a nice person and Marni’s family is getting along well with her. But Marni thinks it’s all an act, and that Joanna is still a nasty person and she says to her: You’ve got this whole good girl act down to a T.
To a T is an informal idiom which means: exactly or to perfection.
To have something down means to have something mastered.
Down pat, down to a fine art, and down to at T are all similar expressions.
So Marni’s saying that Joanna acts like a good girl very well. She’s mastered her good girl act.
STICK NEWS
Kia ora in Stick News today a theatre company in the UK is putting on a play where the audience is supposed to fall asleep.
The Duckie theatre company is putting on a show in London which involves the audience changing into nightwear and sleeping over.
Tickets cost 42 pounds and the show is on for a month from the end of next June.
The producer is quoted as saying: "Every time I go to the theatre I fall asleep, so I thought why don't we embrace that idea and make a show that deliberately sends people to sleep?"
And that was Stick News for Tuesday the 5th of October.
Kia ora .
Um …
I usually sleep naked.
Any luck finding a cheap hotel in London?
I found something even cheaper!
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I PAID FOR THESE TICKETS?!
ZZZZ
Word of the Day
Today’s word is rancid.
I read the Wikipedia page for today’s movie.
And there’s a section called: Critical reception, and it seems like some critics didn’t like this movie very much.
One critic wrote: There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy.
Misogynistic means of or characterized by a hatred of women.
And rancid is a word that’s usually used to describe food.
rancid adj. (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being stale.
conversations with sarah
#850 Isn’t it funny?
Step 1: Repeat Marni’s lines.
Step 2: Read Marni’s lines and talk to Gail.
Gail So Marni, we have a lot to do before your brother’s wedding.
Marni I just feel bad that I haven’t met his fiancé.
Gail Isn’t it funny? You guys all went to high school together.
Marni Wait, we all went to high school together?
show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
qa bgm
artist: Rivers
album: House Juice
track: De funk
from: La Rochelle, France
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