Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English. Heard at the movies. Meet Deanna at the beginning of this film. She is getting a divorce and feeling very bad about her life. Listen for the phrase down the tubes, 23 years of marriage is just down the tubes. Move! What am I gonna do? 40 something year old woman that doesn't even have a degree. God, I know what I'm gonna dio. Let me see you staying at home being your mom. But I regret not getting my degree. That's why somebody's mom just rolled in college. So what do you think down the tubes? Means is it wasted or wanted? Listen again. Did you have the right answer? 23 years of marriage is just down the tubes. Move! What am I gonna do? 40 something year old woman that doesn't even have a degree. God, I know what I'm gonna dio. Let me see you down the tubes means wasted. But Deanna decides to make the best of her time. Now by going to college, she enrolls in school with her daughter and soon becomes the title of this movie Life of the Party.
A2 VOA degree wasted marriage college mom English @ the Movies: 'Down The Tubes' 4 0 林宜悉 posted on 2020/07/03 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary