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Party Vocab with Municipal Waste

Party Vocab with Municipal Waste English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: Sep 22 2008

Themes: Alternative, Party

Grammar: Plural vs. Possessive "S"

Intro

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

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

When most people think of a party, they picture dancing and dance music. But there’s a level of partying beyond dancing, where the music is so loud and fast that it makes you dizzy and there’s no time to sip a drink so you pound beers as fast as you can. Sound dangerous? It is.

At that level of intense partying is American thrash band Municipal Waste. Their music is somewhere between punk and metal and their fans are somewhere between really drunk and passed out. Watch as Jason goes backstage at a Municipal Waste show to get some lessons in party vocab.

3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.

Dialog

1. Watch and Read - Watch the video and read the dialog at the same time.

2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jason

Jason

Tony

Tony

Matt

Matt

Jason:  Welcome to English, baby! I’m Jason and I’m here with…

Tony:  Tony.

Jason:  Tony’s band, Municipal Waste, has an album out called The Art of Partying. So Tony is here to help us learn some partying vocabulary. When you’re on stage, Tony, I’ve noticed you do a particular move that’s common at parties, called headbanging.

Tony:  Yes, I’ve headbanged before.

Jason:  Does it take its toll on your neck?

Tony:  Yeah. Headbanging in general just hurts. You get banger’s neck.

Jason:  He’s gettin’ a massage to help out his banger’s neck. Now, you guys have probably crashed a few parties in your day. Can you tell me a party crashing story?

Tony:  At a house party, we ended up, like, lighting a couch on fire and throwing it over a balcony.

Jason:  Wow.

Tony:  And then carrying it back up and throwing it off again.

Jason:  Right on, man. I’ll let you enjoy your massage. If you wanna give me a high five and say “English, baby!”

Tony:  Yeah. English, baby!

Jason:  Tony and Municipal Waste demonstrated one of the quickest ways to drink a beer, shotgunning. You poke a hole in the side of the beer and open it into your mouth, so that the whole beer goes down your throat in just a few seconds.

Jason:  Now you just drank the entire beer. That’s it.

Jason:  I’m here with Matt, a Municipal Waste fan who’s gonna demonstrate a couple of different drinking styles.

Matt:  The first one is gonna be a swig, alternately known as a sip. What qualifies a certain drink as a sip or a swig? Well, generally when you say, “swig,” it’s an alcoholic beverage. You don’t generally take a swig of water. You might, but it’s a swig of beer maybe or a swig of liquor.

Jason:  OK.

Matt:  And a sip could be of any beverage.

Jason:  And it’s a short, quick drink. It’s the duration that defines it.

Matt:  Indeed.

Jason:  Alright. And what’s the second kind of drinking you’re gonna show us?

Matt:  It is a chug.

Jason:  OK.

Matt:  And a chug is drinking for a longer period of time, swallowing many times as I will demonstrate.

Jason:  Alright. Note the throat action. That’s a mighty chug. English, baby!

 

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Discussion

Most people headbang at Municipal Waste shows, but the band has to do that every night! So Tony gets a massage to help the pain in his neck and tells Jason about crashing a party.

Then they learn about shotgunning. Have you ever seen anyone drink a beer that fast?

Next Jason finds a Municipal Waste fan who demonstrates different ways to drink. Which do you prefer, a chug or sip? Or would you rather skip the drinking and go straight to the massage?

 

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Christ96

Congo, Democratic Republic Of The

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03:37 PM May 23 2009 |

sapphire_lopez2000

Philippines

hi

02:33 PM Apr 14 2009 |

miffoo

miffoo

Slovakia

yeah, it’s very interesting !!!!!

09:27 AM Jan 11 2009 |

manisso

manisso

Switzerland

Oh, a very nice lesson and thanks a lot!

07:45 PM Dec 18 2008 |

al_nawah1

Yemen

i don't like party ilike party crash

hahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

02:13 AM Nov 15 2008 |

basantarya

basantarya

India

i like party but do not like crash party .I like soft band rather than hard band.swig is sophisticated way of drinking

but a chug is wild way of drinking .

12:16 PM Nov 13 2008 |

Naomi1010

Naomi1010

Taiwan

WOW!! There are lots of different ways of drinking saying!! Interesting!! :)

02:24 AM Nov 07 2008 |

baiyanyang

China

crazy durking style .

09:15 AM Oct 28 2008 |

guobingyou

guobingyou

China

Good lesson.There are so many drink styles at the party.

08:42 AM Oct 18 2008 |

lushujuan

lushujuan

China

 i like it  so crazy!

05:27 AM Oct 10 2008 |

freakyficus

Egypt

awesome

03:23 PM Oct 07 2008 |

cherry1205

China

Good! I likeit.

02:19 PM Oct 03 2008 |

shaya001

China

excellent!

09:35 AM Oct 01 2008 |

wanglinyue

wanglinyue

China

i went to be a good englishbaby but

I have a very poor memory. Cry

11:34 AM Sep 29 2008 |

sherrybaby

China

so crazy! i will never enjoy myself in this way! but this is a real way to relax thoroughly!

02:45 AM Sep 28 2008 |

ola3

ola3Super Member!

Ukraine

 "oh would you rather skip the drinking and go straight to the massage?"

No I would put a couch on fire and through it over the balcony. Cry ( a joke)

03:21 PM Sep 27 2008 |

momocha

momocha

China

useful

03:16 PM Sep 27 2008 |

pioupiou

Germany

That's hard for me to understand because it's not an "academic" English but an everyday English. Woaw ! But i'm determined !

 

By the way, i'm French and in France we are one of the worse in the world in English. I let you imagine the tragedy ! 

03:28 PM Sep 26 2008 |

pioupiou

Germany

That's hard for me to understand besouse it's not an academic English but everyday English. Woaw ! But i'm dertermined !

 

By the way, i'm French and in France we are one of the worse in the world in English. I let you imagine the tragedy ! 

03:26 PM Sep 26 2008 |

lisaluo

lisaluo

China

  1. crazy headbanging;
  2. get to know the party crashing  and different ways of drinking the beer,especially getting the words of saying them.
  3. pretty cool.

05:53 AM Sep 26 2008 |

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