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  • Azan, English learner you have probably thought about or even taken advantage of using Skype.

  • Or it's Apple counterpart face time to practice your spoken English with people from all around the world.

  • In this funny scene for modern family, you will see how clear uses face time to talk to her family.

  • You will also learn tons of vocabulary and expressions that natives use all the time.

  • We've divided the scene into three clips.

  • In the 1st 1 Claire, who is travelling, calls her husband, Phil, to check.

  • Everything is OK at the house.

  • In this second cliff, Claire starts to panic when she finds out that Haley, one of her daughters, is missing.

  • The third clip shows the funny conclusion to the scene, so stay tuned until the end for some laughs.

  • If you're new here, you will first watch each cliff with subtitles in English.

  • Then we will teach you all the most important vocabulary, pronunciation and cultural context before moving on to the next clip.

  • Finally, you will test everything you learn by watching all the clips without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.

  • What's the best first person shooter about genetically modified space?

  • Marines, Halo Honey, have you been playing your new little video game all day?

  • I can't get in touch with Haley.

  • I haven't talked since we got in that fight.

  • She around?

  • I think she slept at a friend's house.

  • A friend?

  • Um oh.

  • Maybe Alex knows.

  • Is she home?

  • Nope.

  • I have not seen her for hours.

  • Does Haley know on Arjun?

  • Barge.

  • I'm on.

  • Hi, honey.

  • Were you?

  • I'm in the kitchen, Alex, when you get home.

  • I've been here all day.

  • Honey, when I'm not home, I need you to be present and keep track of everyone.

  • Feels good.

  • I love you too, Alex Jr.

  • Where Haley is.

  • What's the best first person shooter about genetically modified space?

  • Marines?

  • Halo, A first person shooter is a type of action game where the players shoots a weapon.

  • It's called first person because you see the action from the player's perspective, as opposed to 1/3 person shooter, which you control from a different view angle.

  • Phil is playing the popular game Halo.

  • Some of the characters in this game are Marines, which our soldiers in the United States Army that serve on Navy ships.

  • Food uses this question as a humorous way to answer the phone because Halo sounds like Hello.

  • Claire is not happy to see that Phil is playing video games when he should be looking after the kids and the house.

  • You can notice this in her tone of voice and in her use of the word little honey, have you been playing your new little video game all day?

  • Sometimes we say little to communicate that we dislike something.

  • You are so lucky that I have to go to work today or I would show you scary.

  • I would win your little contest.

  • You don't know what you're up against.

  • Also, she calls her husband, Honey, this is a common way to address each other in a romantic relationship.

  • It is, however, not so common among younger people.

  • Can't get in touch with Haley.

  • I haven't talked since we got in that fight.

  • There are three different ways you can use this verb to be in touch, to keep in touch and to get in touch.

  • If you are in touch with someone, it means that you speak or write to someone example.

  • We haven't seen each other in three years, but we're still in touch through Facebook we can also use keep in touch here, as in, I still keep in touch with her.

  • When youse keep instead of B, it implies an effort to not lose the habit of communication or fall out of touch.

  • To get in touch means to speak or write with someone, especially after you haven't spoken to them for a long time.

  • He's talking a London.

  • My God, did you get in touch with him?

  • Lee.

  • No, I'm not yet.

  • He's calling everyone on her side of the family, hoping that someone will help get in touch with Clear.

  • And Haley got into a fight over household chores, specifically doing the dishes.

  • I asked you to clean up the kitchen nine hours ago.

  • When I left for work, I come back and it's the exact same ET plus pickles and peanut butter.

  • Yes, I could see that, Honey, you left it in this thing.

  • By the way, that's a funny response from player considering one of the things Haley refused to do is clean up the kitchen because she had a lot on her plate.

  • She's using an idiom here to have a lot on one's plate, which means to be very busy, clear, makes a play on words and says, Yeah, you left them in the kitchen.

  • I can't get in touch with Haley.

  • I haven't talked since we got in that fight.

  • She around.

  • If you ask you, someone is around.

  • You want to know if they're in the same places you or where the person you are asking ISS In this case, Claire wants to know if she's at home.

  • In her question.

  • She's around, she admits.

  • The is as it's informal communication.

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  • Pull up Alex when you get home.

  • Did you notice that Phil here doesn't say When did you get home, but rather a shortened Alex when you get home?

  • When did is before you some speakers sometimes will turn it into a just sound.

  • Let's see other instances of reductions with did fiance.

  • Would you start working here?

  • Where'd you get all this week?

  • Furniture.

  • In other cases, when it's not before you or awards starting with why you could hear did simply reduce to eight sound huge.

  • Where'd that come from?

  • Hey, guys.

  • What?

  • I miss what I missed.

  • Honey, When I'm not home, I need you to be present and keep track of everyone.

  • She asked him to be present, which in this case means to be involved to accompany other people and focus on their needs.

  • You don't want to lose her.

  • You gotta try a little harder.

  • Be more attentive to where she is emotionally.

  • Just be present.

  • Yes, totally.

  • You just do me a favor and call your sister here.

  • She's screening.

  • I'm not making the cut.

  • Why don't you just snoop on her Facebook page with your fake profile?

  • I don't have a fake profile, Mom.

  • Save it.

  • Brody.

  • Kendall just logged in That truck.

  • Might have worked on Haley, but I know that's a picture of Chachi.

  • Oh, my God.

  • What?

  • Please tell me that some kind of mistake.

  • Where?

  • Which paragraph it gives your father now.

  • Dad, Mom needs Theo in the shower.

  • Oh, hey, Mrs de Hey, De la No harm Mr D You with Haley?

  • In what way?

  • Physically romantically, Mer, Italy.

  • No, I'm at work.

  • I have a career now.

  • Hey, can you hold this phone for a second?

  • So you have no idea where Haley is right now.

  • You mean spiritually?

  • Geographically.

  • Can you please stop spending that time?

  • No.

  • My bosses.

  • If I do, he'll replace me with one of those guys.

  • Go back to where you came from.

  • I used to be a favor and call your sister here.

  • She's screaming.

  • I'm not making the cut.

  • To screen your calls is to check who is calling, either by letting go to voicemail or through caller I.

  • D.

  • Example.

  • I make sure to screen all of my calls to avoid talking to telemarketers.

  • If you make the cut, you're selected for something.

  • Time before that, he was making a list of who's allowed in his tree Fort if he ever gets one, I still can't believe I did make the cut example.

  • There's a lot of competition for this job.

  • I'm not sure if I could make the cut.

  • So what Alex means, basically, is that it?

  • Hayley is intentionally not answering calls from Claire.

  • She probably also won't answer her calls.

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  • Why don't you just snoop on her Facebook page with your fake profile?

  • Two sneu means to look for private information about someone or something, much like dogs.

  • Snoop around to find a bone, for example.

  • Pay attention to the propositions that this takes Barney's taking her toe.

  • Why Lily snoop through her stuff?

  • She snooped on my phone Red summer might e mails that's not cool emails or private.

  • So the first time I leave you alone used snoop on me.

  • You've never snooped around my apartment.

  • No.

  • Come on, think back.

  • It would really help.

  • If you have.

  • I don't have a fake profile, Mom, Save it.

  • Brody Kendall just logged in.

  • When we say Save it, we tell someone to stop talking, because what they'll say is not needed or wanted sometimes even because we know they're lying.

  • In this case, she doesn't need to pretend she doesn't have a fake Facebook account to snoop on Haley because Alex already knows that's not true.

  • A similar expression is to save someone the trouble.

  • I'm going into the city just well, I'm gone.

  • Don't go snooping around in our stuff.

  • I know you think we have a sex tape hidden somewhere, so I'll save you the trouble.

  • We don't go by.

  • That trick might've worked on Haley, but I know that's a picture of Chachi.

  • In natural speech, we usually reduced, have Thio, so might have becomes might have.

  • The same happens with other exhilarate burbs like might, for example, would should could, et cetera.

  • Let's see some examples.

  • I would have laughed, too.

  • We never should have talked about this.

  • I couldn't say no, I could've said no, which is why you have 12 friends on Facebook.

  • Chachi is a character from the American Siri's happy Days.

  • Alex is referring that the profile picture of Claire's fake profile is actually a picture of this character.

  • Are you with Haley?

  • In what way?

  • Physically romantically, Mer, Italy.

  • Haley did it Dylan several times.

  • Anyone who watches the Siri's knows that Dylan is not very smart.

  • So when Claire asked him if he is with Haley, he doesn't know what she means.

  • It could be physically meaning she is there with him.

  • It could be romantically because depending on the context, if you say you are with someone, it could mean that you're dating someone.

  • And because Clare suspects Haley has gotten married, she asked if he is with her.

  • Mer, Italy.

  • This word comes from marital, which refers to marriage as you've seen in the scene.

  • You can state your marital status on Facebook.

  • No, I'm at work.

  • I have a career now.

  • Hey, can you hold this phone for a second?

  • When we say that we have a career, we mean that we have a job that allows you to improve your skills in a certain area and grow professionally, resulting in making progress within an organization or in a field of working and earning more money.

  • What's funny here is that a sign spinner is not a job that would traditionally fit into what's considered a career.

  • A final note on this word.

  • Many English learners mistakenly referred to what they study at university as their career.

  • However, this would be called your major example.

  • I majored in international relations at the University of Colorado.

  • By the way, in the U.

  • S.

  • It's common to see people spinning signs in the street to advertise a store, product or service.

  • If you search online, you would find videos of people showing amazing skills spinning their signs.

  • You have Haley's iCloud password.

  • Yeah, she gave it to me in a little envelope with her diary key and a list of things she's most afraid of.

  • Ooh, try password.

  • I'm kind of glad that didn't work.

  • Wait, I think I remember telling her to use something that people wouldn't know about her.

  • Like her favorite literary character.

  • I'm in.

  • What?

  • What was it?

  • Snoopy.

  • Wow.

  • And that could be your new nickname.

  • Okay, find my iPhone.

  • Oh, no.

  • She's in Vegas.

  • Be serious.

  • I'll hang on.

  • I'm zooming in.

  • Hold on Hold on.

  • Let me see what?

  • I can not Come on.

  • And Oh, God, honey, she's in a wedding chapel.

  • Oh, Hayley here he's gone.

  • Mom!

  • Hi, Mom.

  • We have been trying to get in touch with you all day.

  • I've been in bed.

  • Oh, goodness.

  • I don't think we need to hear that.

  • Uh, before I admit to anything, maybe you could be more specific.

  • Hey, you're home?

  • Yeah.

  • I've been home all day.

  • Have been sleeping.

  • You shouldn't get married.

  • Married?

  • Why would get married Because you're pregnant with Andy's baby.

  • What do you think?

  • That because you changed your Facebook status to married.

  • And then we tracked your cellphone to a wedding chapel in Vegas and you ordered this book.

  • Wow.

  • First of all, it's called privacy Google a second.

  • I married a cronut last night.

  • My friend Andy and I, we went to go get cronuts on.

  • I said that they were so amazing.

  • I wanted to marry one, so I posted it on Facebook as a joke.

  • Then I accidentally left my phone in Andy's car, which he drove to a friend's wedding in Vegas.

  • And that book is for my crazy boss, because he's designing maternity clothes on.

  • He wants to get inside.

  • Do you have Haley's iCloud password?

  • Yeah, she gave it to me in a little envelope with her diary key and a list of things she's most afraid of.

  • Oh, try password.

  • I'm kind of glad that didn't work.

  • Can you hear Alex's tone here?

  • She's being sarcastic.

  • She's basically joking that her sister would never give her something that personal.

  • However, then she has an idea that maybe Haley just used the word password as her password because she knows Haley is not very smart.

  • I'm in.

  • What?

  • What was it?

  • Snoopy.

  • Wow.

  • And that could be your new nickname.

  • Okay, Snoopy is this cartoon character.

  • The joke here is that because she's snooping into her Facebook, she could be nicknamed Snoopy, which is how we describe a person who's interested in finding out about a person's private information.

  • I'll hang on, I'm zooming in.

  • Hold on, hold on.

  • Let me see what I can Hang on and hold on.

  • Both mean wait example.

  • Hang on, let me finish this phone call and then I can help you.

  • This is to zoom in, and this is to zoom out, honey, she's in a wedding chapel.

  • A wedding chapel is a building or room, like a small church where marriages are regularly performed.

  • Something that could be feeding.

  • Claire's anguish in this situation is that Las Vegas is considered the marriage capital of the world.

  • Many people go there to get married because it's cheap and easy to acquire a marriage license.

  • Married.

  • Why would get marry other than the most common usage is of this word.

  • You can also use wood, especially as why would when you want to express that you're surprised by someone else's actions.

  • Blabber plan to kill us?

  • Why would you even say that?

  • I'm just trying to lighten the mood.

  • He's feeling a little under the weather.

  • I let him stay on.

  • Or is he just to embarrass like the house?

  • Why would you be embarrassed?

  • Because Dad tried to fix all our problems and instead ruined all our lives.

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  • Wow.

  • First of all, it's called privacy.

  • Google it way sometimes say it's called when we're being sarcastic or want to provide an explanation?

  • Because we have done something.

  • You read my diary?

  • Well, yeah, I read it because I wanted to see if you were on drugs.

  • It's called parenting, Claire.

  • Is nobody gonna even try to get a job?

  • I have a job, Michael.

  • Yeah, that's called supporting my husband.

  • I married a cronut, but a cronut is a pastry that combines the shape of a doughnut and the dough of Cristante so it tastes similar to a doughnut, but is light and fluffy like a Cristante.

  • And it's called crone up because that is the union of the names Cristante and Donut.

  • What's the best first person shooter about genetically modified space?

  • Marines Halo.

  • Honey, have you been playing your new little video game all day?

  • I can't get in touch with Haley.

  • I haven't talked since we got in that fight.

  • She around?

  • I think she slept at a friend's house.

  • My friend.

  • Um oh.

  • Maybe Alex knows.

  • Is she home?

  • Nope.

  • I have not seen her for hours.

  • Does Haley know on Arjun Barge.

  • I'm on.

  • Hi, honey.

  • Were you?

  • I'm in the kitchen, Alex, when you get home, I've been here all day.

  • honey, when I'm not home, I need you to be present and keep track of everyone is good.

  • I love you too, Alex Jr.

  • Where Haley is, you just do me a favor and call your sister here.

  • She's screaming.

  • I'm not making the cut.

  • Why don't you just snoop on her Facebook page with your fake profile?

  • I don't have a fake profile, Mom.

  • Save it.

  • Brody Kendall just logged in That truck.

  • Might have worked on Haley, but I know that's a picture of Chachi.

  • Oh, my God.

  • What?

  • Please tell me that some kind of mistake.

  • Where?

  • Which paragraph it gives your father.

  • Now.

  • Dad, Mom needs you in the shower.

  • Oh, hey, Mrs D.

  • Hey, Dylan.

  • No harm.

  • Mr.

  • D.

  • Are you with Haley?

  • In what way?

  • Physically romantically, Mer, Italy.

  • No, I'm at work.

  • I have a career now.

  • Hey, can you hold this phone for a second?

  • So you have no idea where Haley is right now?

  • You mean spiritually?

  • Geographically.

  • Can you please stop spending that time?

  • No.

  • My bosses.

  • If I do, he'll replace me with one of those guys.

  • Go back to where you came from.

  • Do you have Haley's iCloud password?

  • Yeah, she gave it to me in a little envelope with her diary key and a list of things she's most afraid of.

  • Ooh, try password.

  • I'm kind of glad that didn't work.

  • Wait.

  • I think I remember telling her to use something people wouldn't know about her.

  • Like her favorite literary character.

  • I'm in.

  • What?

  • What was it?

  • Snoopy.

  • Wow.

  • And that could be your new nickname.

  • Okay, find my iPhone.

  • Oh, no, She's in Vegas.

  • Be serious.

  • I'll hang on.

  • I'm zooming in.

  • Hold on, hold on.

  • Let me see what I can.

  • Come on.

  • And Oh, God.

  • Honey, she's in a wedding chapel.

  • Oh, it's Haley.

  • Here's going.

  • Hi, Mom.

  • Hi, Mom.

  • We have been trying to get in touch with you all day.

  • I've been in bed.

  • Oh, goodness.

  • I don't think we need to hear that.

  • Uh, before I admit to anything, maybe you could be more specific.

  • Hey, you're home?

  • Yeah.

  • I've been home all day.

  • Have been sleeping.

  • You shouldn't get married.

  • Married?

  • Why would I get married?

  • Because you're pregnant with Andy's baby.

  • What do you think?

  • That because you changed your Facebook status to married, and then we tracked your cellphone to a wedding chapel in Vegas, and you ordered this book.

  • Wow.

  • First of all, it's called privacy Google.

  • At second, I married a cronut, but last night my friend Andy and I, we went to go get Cronuts, and I said that they were so amazing.

  • I wanted to marry one, so I posted it on Facebook as a joke.

  • Then I accidentally left my phone in Andy's car, which he drove to a friend's wedding in Vegas.

  • And that book is for my crazy boss because he's designing maternity club and he wants to get great job today.

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