Kung Fu Panda

Intro

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

• blown away
• good clean fun
• every once and a while
• underdog

• computer animated
• here today gone tomorrow
• take off
• remake

• qualified for
• thriller

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You always get better at something when you have no choice. In the new animated movie Kung Fu Panda a young panda has dreams of becoming a warrior, but he has no fighting skills. Nonetheless he is chosen to defend his valley against a powerful attacker, so he learns as quickly as he can.

Dialog

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Jason

Beren

Jason:  You know, I thought Kung Fu Panda would be sort of here-today-gone-tomorrow, but it’s still in the theaters.

Beren:  Animation’s like really taking off. Like people…I think the problem is they’re remaking so many old movies just with updating, and you haven’t seen it before. It’s totally new. It probably costs a little less than making a big action thriller.

Jason:  Oh yeah. It’s got a good cast though. It’s got Jack Black and Angelina Jolie doing voices and I guess it’s surprisingly good.

Beren:  Really? I’m not that surprised. I’ve never really be into animation, but everybody I know whose seen Kung Fu Panda, from my 10-year-old friend to his dad, they’re like, “It’s actually really entertaining. It’s really funny. It’s really good.” It’s just like Ratatouille. I was like, “Uh, no…” but then I saw it and I was blown away...Just good clean fun, probably.

Jason:  Yeah. I guess the panda has to…He’s having a hard time doing kung fu because he’s fat, but then he realizes that being fat is the secret to success as a warrior, so it’s like a believe-in-yourself kind of message.

Beren:  Of course! And who doesn’t need a little reminder to believe in themselves every once and a while.

Jason:  And that fat people can kick ass.

Beren:  Exactly.

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