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.
Imagine you’re going on a run with some friends. You all start out running at the same speed, but soon you start to get tired. Your friends keep running at a faster pace, but you start slowing down. You just can’t keep up with them anymore.
Or maybe you’re speaking English to a friend who is just starting to learn. You tell your friend that you hope he can keep up with the conversation, since you are more advanced. Or you attend a mathematics class, and you have some trouble keeping up because the difficulty level is beyond you. To keep up simply means to stay at the same pace or level of performance as the rest of the people around you.
Jeff just went out for a night on the town with Lily and her friends. Find out if he was able to keep up with their partying in this party English lesson.
3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Lily: Hi.
Greta: Hi. I’m here for a meeting with Jeff.
Lily: Oh, you mean Bon Jovi?
Greta: Bon Jovi?
Lily: Yeah. This guy totally killed it last night at karaoke signing Bon Jovi.
Jeff: Whoa-oh! Livin’!
Greta: Wow.
Lily: Yeah, he actually won the karaoke contest using that song.
Greta: Amazing.
Jeff: It was amazing. Mason didn’t think I could keep up, but we pretty much partied all night. They wanted to go to bed, I wanted to go to breakfast. You should’ve seen it.
Lily: Yeah, but you didn’t keep up with us as far as drinking goes. You were sipping club soda all night, and we threw back whiskey.
Jeff: Alcohol is very hard on my voice.
Greta: Wow, Jeff. I didn’t know you were a singer. Singer, climatologist, healer. It’s hard to keep up with all your talents.
Jeff: Yeah. Thanks! Well, thanks for showing up for this meeting. Let’s get started.
Greta: OK. Great. Cause I have a lot of things that I want to talk about. First of all, I’m having a really hard time picking a winner of the “dating me” contest on the website. And…Jeff? Jeff! Jeff, if we’re gonna have this meeting, you’ve got to keep up with what I’m saying.
Jeff: OK.
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Discussion
Greta comes into the office for a meeting with Jeff. Lily tells her that Jeff did an excellent job at karaoke the night before. He even won the karaoke contest by singing a song by 80s hard rock band Bon Jovi. He really kept up with Lily and her friends, although he didn’t drink as much as they did.
Greta is impressed that Jeff won the contest, but she’s mainly interested in getting on with her meeting. She has many things to discuss with him, about her dating contest and more. Unfortunately, Jeff’s night out made him very tired. He’s falling asleep, and may not be able to keep up with Greta.
Can you remember a time when you couldn’t keep up with your friends? What did you do to try to keep up?
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