大家這週好嗎？又到了週六聊英文的時候了！今天要聊《摩登家庭Modern Family (2009-2020)》，這是一部11季的情境喜劇，故事設定在洛杉磯，是一個現代大家庭的故事，影集採用類紀錄片 (documentary) 的方式，除了像是旁觀者一同經歷這個大家庭成員間的悲歡離合，最特別的還有穿插的訪問橋段，觀眾可以更了解角色行為背後的動機，在第一集首播後收穫了大量正面評價，甚至取得了高達1261萬觀眾的收視佳績。
💬dialogue 1
Phil: Okay, everybody. Cake time!
Alex: Thank God. I really have to study.
Claire: Oh, sweetheart, can't you just take a minute to enjoy it? It's your birthday. You put too much pressure on yourself.
Cameron: I remember my sweet 16. I wanted a theme party. "Moonstruck" had just come out, but I hadn't, so…
Alex: No stories, no time. S.A.T.s.
Jay: Here we go, everybody.
Alex: Wait, wait. We all know why we're here.
Gloria: Ay, honey, you missed one.
Alex: I know! I know I missed one! I'm not an idiot! There! Happy?!
Haley: Whoa. You're being a little…
Alex: Obstreperous?! Recalcitrant?! Truculent?!
Haley: I was gonna say "cray-cray."
Alex: I really need to focus! There is a 16-year-old science prodigy studying cancer research at Johns Hopkins! 16! What am I doing?! I'm eating cake!
#️⃣ 必備單字：
📝obstreperous (adj.) 吵鬧而不服管束的
📝recalcitrant (adj.) 不服從管束的
📝truculent (adj.)好鬥挑釁的
📝prodigy (n.) 神童
💬dialogue 2
Claire: Hey, Nina, how's Sanjay?
Nina: Oh, great. Thanks. He's just dealing with the S.A.T.s and the A.C.T.s and that merit scholarship application everyone's so stressed about.
Claire: What -- what application?
Teacher: Let's begin by talking about the A.P. Physics test, which, as you know, takes place on…
Parents: May 21st.
Claire: With Luke and Haley, I'm on top of everything because they aren't. But Alex is so self-sufficient, I just sort of put it in cruise control.
Teacher: I realize our juniors are busy with S.A.T.s, so as a rule, I only give two hours of homework a night.
Claire: Two hours?
Teacher: Our students are highly advanced. It's nothing they can't handle.
Claire: You know, I'm -- I'm sure they can.It's just that if they have two hours in this class and they have an hour for A.P. Bio and an hour and a half for, um, advanced lit and -- hang on one second. Let me just do this on the board, 'cause then it's -- um, we got 2 and 1 and 1.5 and then another, uh, hour and a half for A.P. History --gives us…
Nina: It's 6.
Claire: Yes! Nina, I was getting there. Thank you! Thank you so much! If I could just have a second to think without all the tippy-tappy typing. 6.
#️⃣ 必備單字：
📝S.A.T Scholastic Assessment Test (n.) 學術能力測驗
📝A.C.T American College Testing (n.) 美國大學測驗
📝scholarship (n.) 獎學金
📝A.P. Advanced Placement (n.) 進階先修課程
📝cruise control (n.) 定速巡航
📝advanced (adj.) 高等的
📝literature (lit) (n.) 文學
💬dialogue 3
Claire: Oh. Oh, hey, honey. How did it go?
Alex: Good. And I made another session for next week. How was the open house?
Claire: Wow. So intense. I had no idea the kind of pressure you're under. Honey, I was just you for two hours. I could barely hold it together. I don't know how you don't have a meltdown every day.
#️⃣ 必備單字：
📝session (n.) 導師會議
📝open house (phr.) 學校開放參觀日
📝intense (adj.) 緊張激烈的
📝meltdown (n.)崩潰
📈影片出處：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jOXdhhxa8
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