SUPERNATURAL: S01E01 - PILOT

1. Discussion:

Is family more important than friends?
Are you pressured by your family to
act in a certain way?
Do you get along well with your
family?
If you were offered an excellent job
abroad could you leave your family and
country for 5 years?
Describe a perfect family
Do you believe in supernatural?
Why/why not?
Would you talk to a ghost?
Do you put any faith in the modern day
ghost hunters?
If you were a ghost, who or what would
you haunt?



2. Pecularities of American pron.
(hafta, gotta etc):

going to: gonna.
got to: gotta.
have to: hafta.
want to: wanna.
ought to: oughta.

I have got to go out = I gotta go out
He has got to do something = He gotta
do something
I have to work = I gotta work
I'm going to eat = I'm gonna eat
What are you going to do ? = What
(are) you gonna do

Practice with these phrases:

I really want to find a better job.
You ought to find a better job.
I have to work overtime tonight.
I got to get up early to go work.
I'm going to have to work every day
next week.
Do they have to work every day?
The doctor says she has to stop
smoking.
She will have to finish the other
books before the final exam.
I'm not going to use the computer for
around four hours.
I'm not going to go on holiday.





3. Vocab. list from the episode:

Hit the road
Vanish
Kidnap
Dig around
My whole future on a plate
Take off
Running credit card scams
I'll bet
Hitchhike
Sly dog
Jerk
Boobs
Temporary insanity
Took their own lives
Screwed up my car



DEFINITIONS:

Hit the road:
To leave a meeting/place (because you
just have to); other way of saying "have
to go"...
Aight I gotta hit the road, peace,
later!


Bet (verb, noun):
1 [intransitive, transitive] To risk
money on a race or an event by trying to
predict the result You have to be over
16 to bet.
2 [transitive] (informal) Used to say
that you are almost certain that sth is
true or that sth will happen~ (that)
I bet (that) we're too late.


Chick-flick:
Is a slang term for a film genre mainly
dealing with love and romance and
designed to appeal to a largely female
target audience.


Vanish:
1.[intransitive] To disappear suddenly
and/or in a way that you cannot explain.
He turned around and vanished into the
house.
2.[intransitive] To stop existing the
vanishing woodlands of Europe.


Kidnap:
To take sb away illegally and keep them
as a prisoner, especially in order to
get money or sth else for returning
them.


Boobs:
(slang) A woman's breasts.


Take one's own life:
To kill oneself; to commit suicide.
Bob tried to take his own life, but he
was stopped in time.


Temporary insanity:
n. In a criminal prosecution, a defense
by the accused that he/she was briefly
insane at the time the crime was
committed and therefore was incapable of
knowing the nature of his/her alleged
criminal act.





Dig around:
1. To try to find something inside a
place or container by searching in every
part of it.
2. To try very hard to find out
information about someone, especially
when they do not want you to.
They said, after digging around, the
photo was a fake.


On a plate:
Without requiring any effort on the part
of the recipient; In an easy situation;
easily acquired.
They handed him the world on a plate.


Take off:
Leave, pack one's bags.


Hitchhike
To travel by asking for free rides in
other people's cars, by standing at the
side of the road and trying to get
passing cars to stop.
They hitchhiked around Europe.


Sly dog:
A sneaky, devious, or just plain lucky
chap who manages to be sneaky, devious
and lucky in an endearing way. Often
used as term of admiration.
Hugh Hefner is the only man alive
to have slept with Marilyn Monroe,
Barbie Benton, Anna Nicole Smith, and
Pamela Anderson - at the same time! The
sly dog.


Jerk:
A person regarded with contempt, esp. a
stupid or ignorant person.
He silently swore at himself for being
such a jerk.


Screw up:
(pl. screw-ups)(slang) An occasion when
you do sth badly or spoil sth.

4. Complete the sentences with these words in the correct form:

take life
kidnap
jerk
dig around
take off
bet
hitchhike
on a plate
screw up


a. You can ________ that the moment I sit down, the phone will ring.
b. The terrorists were planning to __________ one of the president's sons.
c. I ____________ in my bag for a pen.
d. Nobody's going to hand you success ___________.
e. Let's ___________.
f. You should never go ____________ alone.
g. He was acting like a complete ____________.
h. This is the 5th time in a row I'm getting a bad grade. I'm really ____________.
i. If you have gotten to the stage where you have been thinking of ___________ your
own _______ you need to take these feelings very seriously


5. Complete the text (dialogue from the episode):

Dean: Fake 911 phone call? Sammy, I don't know, that's pretty illegal.
Sam: You're welcome.
Dean: Listen, we
1
______ talk.
Sam: Tell me about it. So the husband was
2
________. We are dealing
3
_____ a woman in
white. And she's buried behind her old house, so that should have been Dad's next stop.
Dean: Sammy, would you shut up for a second?
Sam: I just can't
4
__________ why Dad hasn't destroyed the corpse yet.
Dean: Well, that's what I'm trying to tell you. He's gone. Dad left Jericho.
Sam: What? How do you know?
Dean: I've got his journal.
Sam: He doesn't go anywhere without that thing.
Dean: Yeah, well, he did this time.
Sam: What's it say?
Dean: Ah, the Same old ex-Marine crap, when he wants to let us know where he's going.
Sam: Coordinates.
5
_________?
Dean: I'm not sure yet.
Sam: I don't understand. I mean, what could be so important that Dad would just skip
out in the middle
6
______ a job? Dean, what the hell is going
7
_____?
Dean: Sam? Sam!


6. After movie discussion:

a. Formulate the idea of the episode in one sentence.
b. What is your impression of the episode?
c. What did you like and didnt like about it?
d. What would you do and how would you feel if you were one of the characters?
e. What do you think will happen in the following episodes?













7. Cultural clip for the episode (from the Internet)


The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show

SAM: Cause were not exactly the Bradys.
SAM'S FRIEND: And Im not exactly the Huxtables.

[The Brady Bunch was an American television sitcom aired from September
26, 1969, to March 8, 1974.]






The Smurfs


DEAN: (looking at Jess nightshirt) I love the Smurfs. You know I gotta
tell you, you are completely out of my brothers league.








Miller - Beer

DEAN: Um. Dad hasn't been home in a few days.
SAM: So he's working overtime on a "Miller Time" shift. He'll stumble
back in sooner or later.
DEAN: Dad's on a hunting trip. And he hasn't been home in a few days.
SAM: Jess, excuse us. We have to go outside.



Jim Beam, Jack Daniels & Jose Cuervo

JESS: Wait youre taking off? Is this about your dad? Is he all right?
SAM: Yeah, you know, just a little family drama.
JESS: But your brother said he was on some kind of a hunting trip.
SAM: He's just deer hunting up at the cabin. He's probably got Jim,
Jack, and Jose along with him. I'm just going to go bring him back.

[Jim, Jack and Jose probably refer to Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Jose Cuervo. The kinds
of alcohol. The first two are whiskey and the third one is tequila.]


Black Sabbath, Motrhead & Metallica

SAM: I swear man; you gotta update your cassette-tape collection.
DEAN: Why?
SAM: Well for one they are cassette tapes, and twoBlack Sabbath?
Motrhead? Metallica? Its the greatest hits of mullet rock.
DEAN: House rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his
cake hole.








Unsolved Mysteries

SAM: A pentagram is protection against evil, really powerful. I mean,
if you believe in that kind of thing.
DEAN: Okay, thank you Unsolved Mysteries.

[Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program broadcast by NBC (19871997), CBS
(19971999), Lifetime (20012002) and Spike (2008)].


The X-Files

SHERIFF: Can I help you boys?
DEAN: No sir, we were just leaving. Agent Mulder, Agent Scully.









Ted Nugent

POLICEMAN: So you want to give us your real name?
DEAN: I told you, its Nugent. Ted Nugent.






Deliverance

POLICEMAN: Im not sure you realize just how much trouble youre in
here.
DEAN: You talkin' about misdemeanor kind of trouble or "squeal like a
pig" trouble?

["Squeal like a pig" was taken from Deliverance.]




Casper

SAM: Thats why she could never go home. She was too scared to face
them.
DEAN: You found her weak spot. Nice work Sammy.
SAM: I wish I could say the same for you. What were you thinking
shooting Casper in the face, you freak?
DEAN: Hey, saved your ass. Ill tell you another thing. If you screwed
up my car, Ill kill you.











8. Answers

Exercise 4:

a. bet
b. kidnap
c. dug around
d. on a plate
e. take off
f. hitchhiking
g. jerk
h. screwing up
i. taking; life

Exercise 5:

1. gotta
2. unfaithful
3. with
4. figure out
5. where to
6. of
7. on