A- Watch the video and match the names of the characters what happens to them in

the video.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Gloria
Manny
Phil
Claire
Cam
Luke

(
) wants to beat her husband by winning the race to the
restaurant.
(
) is looking for her car keys.
(
) helps an old man who wants to talk with his mistress Ellen.
(
) is getting older and afraid he was never a child.
(
) believes his parents are getting divorced.
(
) gets sad when he realizes his daughters has grown up more
than him.

B- Answer these questions about the video:

1.
Why are they all in such a hurry?
2.
What bothers Jake about Gloria?
3.
Where do the girls (Alex and Haley) dont want to go with the family?
4.
Why do Claire and Phil take different cars?
5.
What is Jake implying when he tells Gloria and left the car?
6.
What is at risk for Luke?
7.
How does Claire feel when she finds out her son prefers going with his dad if they
divorce?
8.
What doesnt Manny do to prove his childhood didnt just fly away?
9.
What are Alex and Haley tired of?
10.
Why does Cam say he will help the old man and the old lady?
Match the expressions underlined in the dialogues below to their meaning.
Manny: I was almost too depressed to come today. I realized I let my childhood slip away.
Phil: Yeah, its on. Ill take the girls.
Claire: Luke, your dad and I are splitting up.
Phil: I dont think you two appreciate whats at stake here.
Alex: Our lives?!
Claire: We are so kicking your dads butt! We are the best ones!
Luke: How come you and dad are breaking up?
Claire: What?
Luke: If its just a little disagreement, cant you just work it out?
Many: Id never made a prank call. Never mixed different sodas together to see what theyd taste like.
Cam: Hang on! Hang on, Ellen! Ill have you down in a jiffy.
Haley: Dad, are you upset?
Phil: Nope.
Haley: Then what was that sniff?
Phil: Sniff? What sniff? Im actually relieved. The day that Ive been dreading, the day when you two finally
outgrow me, has finally arrived and Im handling it very well.
Gloria: I am so sick of stubborn men! You act like a little boy that doesnt want to accept that hes wrong.
And you like a sad old man that doesnt want to be happy!

1. A kind of joke, over the telephone, that is intended to make someone look silly.
2. To beat someone easily in a fight, game or sport.
3. Very soon.
4. To deal with a problem in a satisfactory way.
5. To be at risk, to have a chance of not being successful.
6. To not do something or enjoy something anymore, because you have grown older and
changed.
7. To gradually disappear / to die peacefully.

8. To separate or divide something into different parts. When a couple does this, it means they
end their marriage or relationship.
9. To be angry and bored with something that has been happening for a long time.
10. To try to find someone or something by looking in several places or asking several people.