01 _1. Femme Fatale

This is an audio for the Active Listening tasks (as directed by Sam).

There are a few things to remember about these audios: 

  1. Don’t do more than 30 seconds at a time
  2. Only listen to it once. In the parts you have trouble understanding, listen to them again and:
    1. Count the words in the sentencees
    2. Write down the words you hear and use your grammatical and lexical knowledge to guess the words that are missing 
    3. Make note of any words that have features of connected speech and identify what happened and why you didn’t understand
    4. Say those words out loud to yourself in the same way the audio said them: get used to hearing them 
  3. Make note of the parts you missed and bring them to class; try to figure out why you missed them or didn’t hear them correctly

First transcribe the audio as usual then use the transcript to check your work … or as Sam tells you. Good luck!

[00:00:00] Male Speaker 1: I dreamt I was in a theater watching a movie, and then I realized I wasn’t watching it. I was in it.

[00:00:08] Male Speaker 2: You were watching yourself in a movie?

[00:00:10] Male Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was this woman. She was gorgeous, and she was dangerous.

[00:00:18] Female Speaker: “Make it look like an accident.”

[00:00:20] Male Speaker 2: Ah, she sounds like a femme fatale.

[00:00:22] Male Speaker 1: It was one of those black-and-white detective movies.

[00:00:24] Male Speaker 2: Film noir?

[00:00:25] Male Speaker 1: Yeah.

[00:00:26] Male Speaker 2: Were you the detective?

[00:00:27] Male Speaker 1: No, I was the patsy, a sucker of the sap.

[00:00:31] Male Speaker 2: What about the woman?

[00:00:32] Male Speaker 1: She wanted me to do in her husband.

[00:00:35] Male Speaker 2: [chuckles] Do you mean that–?

[00:00:35] Male Speaker 1: He was loaded, and she wanted all of it.

[00:00:38] Female Speaker: “When he’s out of the way, it will be just you and me, honey.”

[00:00:42] Male Speaker 2: W-what did you do?

[00:00:43] Male Speaker 1: I guess, I did him in.

[intense background sound]

[00:00:46] Male Speaker 2: [scoffs] You did?

[00:00:47] Male Speaker 1: Yeah.

[00:00:48]  Male Speaker 2: You got away with it?

[00:00:49] Male Speaker 1: She got the dough, and I got the chair.

[00:00:51] Male Speaker 2: You got the hot seat?

[00:00:53] Male Speaker 1: Yeah.

[00:00:54] Male Speaker 2: You got electrocuted?

[00:00:56] Male Speaker 1: That wasn’t so bad.

[00:00:57] Male Speaker 2: You got fried?

[00:00:59] Male Speaker 1: It was more like sizzle.

[sizzling sound]

[00:01:01] Male Speaker 2: And that was that?

[00:01:02] Male Speaker 1: After it was over, she came up, kissed me on the forehead, and she said–

[00:01:07] Female Speaker: “Mmm, well done.”

[00:01:14] [END OF AUDIO]

December 28, 2019

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