Teacher Frank
1 HOPE - (n) a feeling of expectation and desire (e.g. "I hope he telephones me.")
2 DESPAIR - (adj) having no hope, hopeless, the opposite of hope
3 ADVENTURERS - (n) people attracted to unusual, exciting experiences
4 FUGITIVES - (n) people escaping and hiding (e.g. a criminal)
5 REFUGEES - (n) people forced to leave a place because of war, flood etc.
6 OASIS - (n) a green spot in a desert with water
7 TRAPPED - (adj) caught with no chance to get away (e.g. tapped mouse in a mouse trap)
8 FASCINATING - (adj) strangely attractive and causing very great interest
9 WOVEN - (v) interlacing thread to make cloth etc. (from weave, wove, woven)
I0 IMPERISHABLE - (adj) never dies, lasts forever
11 SAGA - (n) a long story, a history of events
12 DESPERATE PEOPLE - people trying to do something with little hope of success
13 DESTINY - (n) events that will certainly happen in the future
14 GOOD DEAL MORE - (n) a larger amount
15 STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE - unusual fact or condition
16 SAM - the name of the excellent pianist in Rick's Cafe American
17 LEADING COMMODITY." - usually a business term for 'major material or farm product',
but often said for other things. Here it's used for 'people'.
18 LETTERS - Here, they are 'letters of transit' - a visa to leave Casablanca.
ESL LESSON LISTENING SCRIPT
Casablanca, city of HOPE and DESPAIR located in French Morocco in North Africa - the
meeting place of ADVENTURERS, FUGITIVES, REFUGEES lured into this danger-swept OASIS by
the hope of escape to the Americas. But they're all TRAPPED for there is no escape.
Against this FASCINATING background is WOVEN the story of an IMPERISHABLE love and the
enthralling SAGA of six DESPERATE PEOPLE each in Casablanca to keep an appointment with
DESTINY "I was willing to shoot Captain Renault and I'm willing to shoot you. All right
Major, you asked for it!" "You knew how much I loved you, how much I still love you."
"I know a GOOD DEAL MORE about you than you suspect. I know, for instance, that you're
in love with a woman. It's perhaps a STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE that we both should love the
same woman." "What do you want for SAM?" "I don't buy and sell human beings." "That's
too bad, that's Casablanca's LEADING COMMODITY." "You can ask any price you want, but
you must give me those letters. I tried to reason with you; I tried everything. Now I
want those letters."
ESL LESSON LEARNING QUIZ - Fill in the blanks with the most correct word or words.
desperate people___leading commodity___oasis ___strange circumstance___destiny.
1 After a long drive in the desert, the adventurers finally arrived at an ____________.
2 The ____________ were refugees from a civil war in their home country.
3 Layla really thinks it's her ____________ to be a great rock guitarist.
4 It's a ____________ that I see that girl everywhere I go!
5 Blueberries are the ____________ in my hometown.
Transcript
0:11possible up
0:12city of hope and despair located in french morocco and north africa
0:16the meeting place of adventurers fugitives from those refugees log into
0:20this dangers that do exist but all of the state of the americas
0:25but they're all tracked
0:26or there is no list
0:29against this fascinating background is one of the story of an impossible
0:33and reinstalling saga of six desperate people each in casablanca
0:38to keep an appointment with destiny
0:41i was willing to ship captain and i'm going to shoot you
0:44alright major u_s_ for it
1:07homich instead
1:17a good deal more about you can use that
1:20panel for instance is one of the woman
1:23special strange circumstances we both should love the same moment
1:29maybe one percent arrives arrogantly has to bear the scars of actors leading him
1:34on
1:35must any president wanted most a group of citizens
1:39trying to reason with myself
1:41and now i want attention
