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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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EstebanM

EstebanM

Colombia

Cool Jason! Thanks for those lessons!

04:15 PM Sep 24 2008 |

Totto

Totto

Sudan

   It isnt?  Do you know most people who died in an accident, were drunk and driving?  And almost all the rapes committed during wild parties as above?

   For your info, nearly of them.  Well, that depends on lots of things.

03:18 PM Sep 24 2008 |

TotalBrutal

Hungary

It isnt :p

06:29 AM Sep 24 2008 |

Totto

Totto

Sudan

   That is very wild and crazy.  These kind of parties are where girls get hurt and raped, and anything can go wrong in a second.  So I dont go to these dangerous, careless parties, in fact I dont drink at all.  Drinking is just not my thing. 

10:45 PM Sep 23 2008 |

Totto

Totto

Sudan

 

10:45 PM Sep 23 2008 |

sallysu

sallysu

China

good

10:55 AM Sep 23 2008 |

john_zhang_q

China

I think i always swig a beer,and sometimes maybe i will take a chug if some one wanna challenge me,but how is a shotgunning,i can't imagine.

04:20 AM Sep 23 2008 |

shel0428

shel0428

China

It’s so crazy!

Great lesson!

11:56 AM Sep 22 2008 |

elliott2918

China

u c, my favorite music live show is End Of An Era of Nightwish in Helsinki 。 Tarja was still the vocal in the band then. for me, nightwish was already dead.

10:14 AM Sep 22 2008 |

catcappuccino

China

that's so exciting

06:39 AM Sep 22 2008 |

195854255

195854255

United States

Drinking seems to be a must-have feature of    Rock band

05:04 AM Sep 22 2008 |

195854255

195854255

United States

totally crazy drinking ways

05:03 AM Sep 22 2008 |

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