source: Dương Thu Thuỷ / Pearson Education, INC 2015年3月3日
* social language: explain life choices; express regrets
* grammar: the future in the past; perfect modals
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# video script
(After dinner in Cheryl’s apartment, Cheryl
and Bob talk about their future plans when they were younger.)
Marie:
Another wonderful dinner, Cheryl. Thank you.
Cheryl:
You’re welcome. I really enjoying cooking. Actually, when I was young, I
thought I was going to be a chef.
Paul:
You could be a chef. These cookies are fantastic.
Marie:
Why didn’t you become a chef?
Cheryl:
My mother talked me out of it. She thought I would always have to work
at night. She was afraid I would
never meet a man and get married.
Paul:
She was probably right. If you were a chef, you wouldn’t have met Bob.
Cheryl:
How do you know?
Paul:
Before he met you, Bob only ate fast food.
Bob:
It’s true.
Mr.
Evans: Your mother must have been
very happy when you and Bob got engaged.
Cheryl:
She was. Hey, you’ll never guess what Bob was
going to be.
Bob:
Cheryl ...
Marie:
A rock musician?
Paul:
A basketball player?
Cheryl:
No, Bob was going to be a dancer. He
was actually in the state ballet when he was young.
Marie:
No kidding!
Paul:
You never told me this!
Bob:
I could have been a great dancer.
Paul:
What made you change your mind?
Bob:
The diet was too hard. I had to stop eating everything--chocolate cake, fried
chicken, potato chips. I tried. I might
have been able to do it. But then they said no more bread and butter. Bread
and butter! Can you believe it? And that was the end.
Marie:
Wow, Bob. I never knew. Do you enjoy watching ballet at all?
Bob:
I can’t. I’d like to, but as soon as the music starts, I get very, every ...
hungry.
