Learn the Second Conditional

Intro

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• edgy
• action movie
• pale
• root for

• twist
• fairytale
• classic
• interpretation

• villain
• lazy

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Great stories get told again and again. New twists might get added to them to grab the attention of a whole new audience, but there is something special about them that makes them last.

Snow White is one of those stories. First, it was a fairytale written hundreds of years ago. Then it was made into a classic children’s movie by Disney. Now it’s a thrilling adventure story starring Kristen Stewart called Snow White and the Huntsman. In the new version of the film, Snow White is a lot less helpless and a lot more fierce. Hear Jason and Amy talk about a wild new interpretation of this classic story.

Dialog

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Jason

Amy

Jason:  If you were one of the seven dwarfs, which one would you be?

Amy:  Probably either Sneezey…

Jason:  Yeah, I’d be Sneezey. It’s hay fever season right now.

Amy:  Yeah, hopefully not Lazy, but I don’t know. Or Dopey.

Jason:  Have you seen the new Snow White? It’s not very dopey or lazy at all.

Amy:  Yeah, it looks crazy.

Jason:  It’s very intense, yeah.

Amy:  It’s interesting, there have been a lot of these kind of edgy fairytales of late.

Jason:  Right. There was Red Riding Hood before. Yeah, this is the same deal. It’s an action movie version of a fairytale, with Kristen Stewart as the central character, which…I’m not sure if this is the best role for her. Snow White is a character that makes sense for her.

Amy:  Because she’s pale?

Jason:  Yeah, and she can be sweet, kind of. But this Snow White is like the leader of a revolutionary army. And she just doesn’t have the passion, I think, that this version of Snow White needs to have.

Amy:  Well, what about the evil queen?

Jason:  That’s who you end up rooting for. Charlize Theron is fun in almost everything she does, and so, since Kristen Stewart doesn’t really draw you in, I kind of ended up rooting for the evil queen.

Amy:  There’s actually a lot of stories where you end up rooting for the villain, I think. It’s kind of more fun to root for the dark side.

Jason:  Yeah, maybe that was the idea.

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