Hey Mr. DJ

Intro

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

• turntables
• unfold
• progressively
• unravel

• sloppier
• playlist
• Oh boy

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

Joe is a special guy. Not only does he work at Ebaby! – he’s also a great DJ. He works nights at a club in Portland and plays the best music in town!
Zach wants to know what it’s like to work be a DJ on New Year’s Eve, so he asks Joe.

Dialog

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

Zach

Joe

Zach:  Does it suck not being able to enjoy the, the party? Or do you…?

Joe:  Nah, cause it’s, it’s kind of party behind the turntables because I get to watch everything unfold, you know. I get to watch people as they come in all, you know, nice, and they have all their nice clothes on, and then progressively as we get close to twelve o’clock they start to unravel.

Zach:  (Laughs) They get, they get sloppier and sloppier?

Joe:  Yup, yup.

Zach:  Yeah. So what’s on the, uh, playlist this year?

Joe:  Oh boy. Um… I’m going to start off playing a lot of 70’s and 80’s music, a lotta, you know, like Prince, and Confunction, Brass Construction, Commodores, Tina Marie, Rick James, you know – all that, and then kinda progressively just bring it up to the, to the now, present, with Tupac and Snoop Dogg and Jennifer Lopez.

 

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