Video Session Turning thirty!
Meet the characters
Monica Ross Rachel Joey Phoebe Chandler
At the Apartment
TASK 1: Watch the scene and then decide if the following statements are true or false
1. Monica prepared breakfast. _________
2. Joey’s thirties were okay. _________
3. Rachel feels she is overreacting. _________
At Monica and Chandlers apartment
TASK 2: Watch the scene and then complete the statements
1. Monica is ______________________________.
2. Chandler has organized a _____________________________________.
3. Monica‘s parents have never _______________________________________.
At Ursulas Apartment
TASK 3: Watch the scene and then choose the correct word to complete the statements
1. Phoebe gives her twin sister a Hippity-Hop / ball / doll as a birthday present.
2. Ursula says they are twenty-nine / thirty-two / thirty-one.
3. Ursula sold Phoebe’s birth certificate to a Polish / Turkish / Spanish runaway.
At Rachel´s Apartment
TASK 4: Complete the script with the words below. Then watch the scene and check!
married – hug – couple – fun – joke – list – guys – grandma – funny – card –
any
Tag: This one’s from me.
Rachel: Ahh!
Tag: It wasn’t on your list, but hopefully you’ll think it’s really 1.________.
Rachel: A scooter!
Ross: Stick to the 2.________. Always stick to the list.
Rachel: No! No, no, I love it. Thank you.
Chandler: Okay, open ours next. Open ours next!
Rachel: Okay.
Joey: Now that you’re a 3.__________, we don’t get two presents from you 4.__________?
Chandler: For my last birthday you gave me a 5.____________! Okay, read the card! Read the card!
Rachel: Okay. Happy birthday 6.__________! It’s better to be over the hill than buried under it. All our love Monica
and Chandler. That’s 7._________, yeah!
Chandler: No-no-no-no! That was the 8._______!
Rachel: No, I know! I get it! It’s funny!
Chandler: No, because you’re not a grandmother!
Rachel: No I know, because to be a grandmother you have to be 9._________ and have children and I don’t have
10.________ of those things. That’s why it’s so funny.
Monica: All you had to do was buy the 11.________!
TASK 6: Watch the scene and complete Rachel’s plan with numbers
Rachel wants to have ______ kids.
She should have the first one by the time she’s _________.
She doesn’t have to get pregnant until she is ________, which gives Prada ______ years to start
making maternity clothes!
She wants to be married for __________ year before she gets pregnant.
She doesn’t have to get married until she is _____, which is ______ whole years from now!
However, she needs a year and a half to plan the wedding, and she would like to know the guy for a year, year and a
half before they get engaged. Which means she needs to meet the guy by the time she’s __________.
TASK 7: Who said what: Ross, Phoebe, Joey or Monica? (throughout the episode)
“Why God? Why?!! We had a deal!! Let the others grow old! Not me!!”
___________
“I really like to say that I’m … You know what I’d really like to say? I’m drunk!!
That’s right mom and dad your little Harmonica is hammered!! And guess what!
I’ve been drunk before! And I’ve smoked a cigarette! It’s all okay. It’s okay because I turned thirty today.
And, and I can do anything I want… because I am a grown up.”
__________
“How would you feel if you found out you were 31? It totally ruined
My schedule! I haven’t done any of the things I wanted to do by
the time I was 31! I haven’t met any Portuguese people!
I haven’t had the perfect kiss!
And I haven’t been to sniper’s school!”
______________
“Do you realize in ten years we’re going to be forty?”
__ ___________________________
