Not His Type

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• sweet
• girl next door
• side effect
• a history

• the one
• significant other
• my type
• cheerleader

• right under your nose
• sorority girl

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Jason was pretty sure Amanda was the one. But it didn’t work out. Devan was really into Mason. But she didn’t get him either.

Amanda and Mason wound up together, so why not Jason and Devan? Would that be so crazy? They have grown closer through her struggle against cancer. Watch Marni suggest the match to Jason.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jason

Marni

Jason:  Man, you’re so lucky. I gotta get a significant other like you have. It’s pretty sweet that you’ve found, like, the perfect person.

Marni:  Well, I’ve been thinking about…Well, maybe, but I’ve been thinking about you and what about Devan? What about…What’s goin’ on there?

Jason:  Well, I don’t know. I mean, we have been spending a lot of time together. You know?

Marni:  Yeah.

Jason:  But, I just don’t think she’s my type.

Marni:  Why do you say that? What is your type? So, you like cheerleaders or something? Or sorority girls?

Jason:  No. But, uh…I don’t know. I’m more into, like, like bad girls and stuff. She’s kinda sweet, like kind of girl next door, you know?

Marni:  Well, but she’s, I mean…I would think…Bad girl? I mean, like, define bad girl. You just want someone who’s bad for you? Who’s mean? Or, like, you want…

Jason:  Well, that’s often an unfortunate side-effect of dating bad girls, somebody who’s bad for me and mean.

Marni:  Right.

Jason:  But I just mean someone who’s, like…who has more of a dark side, more of a sense of danger. You know.

Marni:  Well…Yeah. I don’t know that that stuff is necessarily Devan, but I think…I don’t know. She’s artsy. She’s got a lot goin’ on for her. That seems like somebody you’d be interested in…

Jason:  But I’m also worried about though, like, what if, like…’Cause she told me that…that you know about the whole…the cancer thing. You know.

Marni:  Yes.

Jason:  And I’m worried that, like, you know, if we started dating now that it would, like, be based on that and then, like, if she…You know, once things go back to normal it would be, like, we wouldn’t know how to relate or something. You know what I mean? It just seems like an unstable foundation for a relationship.

Marni:  OK. Well, I guess I can see that, but it seems also like there’s more to it. You guys have had a history and you’re helping her go through this, being a good friend, and, I don’t know, sometimes that can strengthen the relationship.

Jason:  Yeah. I mean, you’re right. Like, the perfect person can be, like, right under your nose and you don’t know it.

Marni:  Yeah.

Jason:  I’m not so sure that it’s perfect for it. I don’t know.

Marni:  That’s a tough one.

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