Comedy for ELT - Englishman in Paris 1
[To get a free worksheet (+KEY, +Script) just click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByC3... ] We have all heard of L1 interference -- but what if you start forgetting your mother tongue because of exposure to the second language?? In this sketch, our fully-naturalised subject comes across a couple honeymooning in Paris -- and with the forwardness one would expect of a native Parisian proceeds to make friends... A brilliant way of raising students' awareness of MTI... Topic: Language / Cross-cultural Communication Level: B2-C1 Taken from the BBC Series 'The Armstrong and Miller Show' [NB: I do not own the copyright to this video clip. I have uploaded it here for educational purposes]. SCRIPT S: What do you fancy? C: Coffee -- what else? S: How do you think you order? Do you... do you just go to the bar thing? T: Bonjour messieurs-dames?... Oh -- I'm so sorry... Please excuse myself to myself... You are English, is it not? S: Yes.. we're.. we're from London. T: Ah -- London... I am originally of Reading, but I'm living in the beautiful France since 6 months... * I shall never forget London. I've seen so many wonderful paintings at the... the... (Gallerie Nationale... Gallerie Nationale) * the National Gallery! * S: So -- you're from Reading? T: Slowly please, my English is a little old... * S: It's ok... T: I'm so much in the France now, that my conversation is a little... what is the word in English...eer...rusting! My English is ever so slightly rusting! * But I see you have the thirst... should I command the waiter? Really it is.. my pleasure. (He yells at the waiters) Garçon? prenez les commandes! toute de suite! mon dieu! mon dieu! mon dieu!-- my young companions... what are you calling yourselves to yourselves? * S: Steven and Charlotte... T: Ah -- so you are... you are making love to one another? * S: What? T: I believe you are making the kisses, eh? C: We're on honeymoon! T: Please? C: We're on honeymoon! T: (he laughs) ...say it again? S: We're on honeymoon! T: Ah! She has risen! (he laughs) That is truly excellent! That is super-good! (S and C look at each other bemused - Tom again addresses the waiters angrily) Toujours? Qu'est ce que vous foutez? depéchez vous, depéchez-vous!! Can you lend me twenty Euros? **
