Lesson 1: A Kiss (main article)
Carlos buys a new car. It 's a very expensive car. It 's a huge,
blue, fast car. While driving dow n the street ,
Carlos sees a girl on a bicycle.
She has long blond hair and is beaut iful.
He yells to her, "What's up?"
She ignores him.
He yells, "How 's it going?"
She keeps going and ignores him.
He yells, "Hey, why won't you talk to me?
I want to go to dinner with you. I'll take you to an expensive
rest aurant ."
The girl turns, gets off the bike, and looks at him. She says, "I
don't want to go to dinner. But if you give me your car, I will
give you a surprise."
Carlos says, "OK!" He jumps out of the car. He gives her the
keys and says, "Here are the keys."
The beautiful blond takes the keys and then kisses Carlos on the
cheek. Then she jumps int o the car and drives away.
Carlos st ands on the sidewalk. Now he has no car and no girl.
He says, "That's it , just a kiss on the cheek?"
He gets on her bike and rides home.
Lesson 1: A Kiss (vocabulary)
Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for a kiss. Ok let's start .
Carlos buys a new car. It 's very expensive. It 's a huge blue fast
car, huge, huge means very very big, super big, so it 's huge,
huge, huge means very very big, very very very big, it 's a very
very big car, it's huge car. While driving dow n the street he sees
a girl, so while means at the same time, same time driving
down the Street , seeing the girl same time, they happen at the
same time, So while driving dow n the street , Carlo sees a girl on
a bicycle, he yells to her what 's up, what 's up is a common way
to say hello, we say what 's up, what's up, its very popular to say
what 's up, instead of saying hello, if you have a friend, you see
your friend, someone you know, you say what 's up, when I see
my friends, sometimes I say what 's up, it means hello or how
are you, what 's up.
So Carlo says what's up to the girl but she ignores him, to
ignore means you don't listen to someone, and you don't pay
at t ent ion to someone, you don't look at them, you don't list en
to them, that 's ignore, he ignored her, means he did not list en
to her, he did not look at her, he ignored her or ignores
present, ignores, she ignores Carlos, she does not look at
Carlos, she does not listen to Carlos, she ignores him. And Carlo
yells how's it going, how's it going, how 's it going means how
are you, how are you, we oft en say how's it going or how's it
going, that the last sound good, sometimes "g" (going going),
sometimes "no g sound" (goin-goin), the same meaning,same
just different pronunciat ion, so how's it going means how are
you.
So he yells to her how 's it going, she keeps walking and ignores
him, keeps, here, keeps means continues, keep has anot her
meaning, keep can mean something else but here in this article
keeps means cont inues, cont inues, she continues walking, she
keeps walking, keeps and cont inuous.
So she keeps walking and she ignores him, he yells hey why
won't you talk to me, won't means will not, why will you not
talk to me, is what he's saying, but in normal speech, normal
speaking, we don't say will not , we usually say won't, i won't go
to the st ore, means I will not go to the store, and it's fut ure,
fut ure, so he asked her why won't you talk to me, why will you
not talk to me.
And he does want to go to dinner with you, and he wants a
dat e, he want s to go to a restaurant wit h her, i take you to an
expensive rest aurant , not a cheap rest aurant , right , and he
want s to take her to an expensive restaurant , finally the girl
turns and looks at him, and she says I don't want to go to
dinner, but she says, if you give me your car, I will give you a
surprise, give me your car, and i will give you a surprise, so if
you give me your car, so he has to do that first , the first action,
and if that happens then she will give him a surprise, Carlo says
okay, because she's beautiful, he jumps out of the car, he gives
her the keys, and he says here are the keys, here are the keys,
we say here, here is the book, here are the keys, we say here is
or here are when we give something to someone, here is the
key, here is the money, here are the keys. Okay so Carlos gives
the keys to the beautiful blonde girl, beaut iful blonde girl takes
the keys, and then kisses Carlo's on the cheek, cheek is the side
of your face, right, she kisses Carlo's on the side of his face, on
the cheek, he kisses on the cheek, then she jumps into the car
and drives away. Carlo's stands on the sidew alk, sidewalk is
next to the Street, it 's where people walk, so the st reet, the
street is for cars, cars and buses only, and the sidewalk next to
the street, right , sidew alk where people walk side of the st reet .
Okay so he st ands on the sidewalk, and now he has no car and
no girl, he says that 's it, just a kiss on the cheek, that's it , that's
it, that's it means there is no more, there is not hing more,
nothing more is coming, not hing more to get, nothing more to
do, so basically means finished, so that's it means he only got a
kiss, he will not get more from her, he will not get somet hing
else, only a kiss, that's it , sometimes we say that 's all, that's all,
same meaning, that 's all or that 's it , it means totally finished,. In
a rest aurant you will use this when you finish eating, the wait er
or the wait ress will come and ask you, do you want something
else, do you want more food, do you want more drinks, means
if you're finished, you say that 's it , that's it means we are
finished eating, we don't want more food, we don't want more
drinks, right , we are finished bring the check, bring the bill, so
at the end when you finish eat ing in a restaurant, tell the wait er
that 's it, you're finished. Okay and then he says that 's it just a
kiss on the cheek then he gets on her bike, he gets on the girl's
bicycle, bicycle or bike same, and he rides home, poor Carlos
Okay that 's it, that's it the lesson is finished, t he vocabulary
lesson is finished, that 's it.
Lesson 1: A Kiss A (mini story)
Welcome to the mini-story for A Kiss. In this lesson I will ask
many quest ions. You must answ er every quest ion. Answ er
every quest ion. Pause your comput er or pause your iPod,
answ er the quest ion, then play again. It 's very important —
very important. Answer every quest ion.
Let's st art A Kiss. Carlos bought a new car. Did Carlos buy a new
car? Yes. Yes, of course. He bought a new car. Did Carlos buy an
old car? No. Carlos didn't buy an old car. Carlos bought a new
car. Did Carlos buy an old car or a new car? A new car. Carlos
bought a new car.
Who bought a new car? Carlos, right? Carlos bought a new car.
What did Carlos buy? A new car. Carlos bought a new car. Was
the car expensive or was the car cheap?