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GLEE

=【Program Introduction】=

Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate members deal with relationships, sexuality, social issues, and learning to become an effective team.

=【Today's Episode】=

Season 5 episode 3 []

Because of Finn's sudden death, old friends return to McKinley to grieve in the only way they know, by singing. Kurt, Burt and Carole sort out Finn's belongings; Sue, Santana and Puck seek guidance as their anger and pain over Finn's death frustrates them; Will and Shannon assist in helping everybody else grieve but Emma realises that Will isn't allowing himself time to cry and Rachel makes a return to McKinley, presenting the Glee Club with something meaningful.

= 【Characters】 = Finn Hudson Rachel Berry Kurt Hummel Carole Hudson-Hummel Burt Hummel Will Schuester Emma Pillsbury Sue Sylvester Shannon Beiste Noah Puckerman Santana Lopez

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=【Vocabulary and Phrases】=

Burn one’s bridge：
To cut off the way back to where you came from, making it impossible to retreat. To act unpleasantly in a situation that you are leaving, ensuring that you'll never be welcome to return. ====Faculty： All the teaching staff at a university, college, school, etc. ====

Jittery： Having or feeling nervous unease. 

Bird： Birdlike

Erect：To construct by assembling.

Fondle：To touch lovingly. Post-op：Postoperative. Done after a surgical operation.

Surreal：Having an oddly dreamlike quality.

Self-serving：Serving one's own interests, especially without concern for the needs or interests of others.

Spectacle：Something that can be seen or viewed, especially something of a remarkable or impressive nature.

Bawl：To cry or shout loudly.

Sonogram：An image, as of an unborn baby or the internal organ, produced by ultrasonography.

Porcelain：A hard, white, ceramic made by firing clay and then glazing it with variously colored materials; from china.



Instrumental in being：play an important part in doing something.

Dig into：To take out part of the money

Vandalize：to destroy or damage (something)

Faggy：Something gays would like

Tear into： To attack with great vigor or violence

Misfit：One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances

Bedazzle：To dazzle so completely as to make blind.  Pry：To look or inquire closely, curiously, or impertinently

Janitor：One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building 

Tyrannical ：Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way

Jackboot：The spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian system.

Regime：A form of government or a government in power

Assault：A violent physical or verbal attack.

Plop down：To let the body drop heavily

Smother：To cover thickly

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Butterscotch：A sauce, candy, or flavoring made by melting butter and brown sugar together. Tator tots：deep-fried, grated potatoes. Chicken out：To decide at the last moment not to do something you said you would do, because you are afraid.

Round up：A gathering up, as of people under suspicion by the police.

Utterly：completely; absolutely entirely.

Cut the crap：To tell someone to stop talking.

Rail against someone：To complain vehemently about someone.

Dopey：stupid; silly Cheesy：informal of poor quality.

Hefty：Considerable weight; heavy; informal of considerable size or amount.

Bait：Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals. Trip someone up ： To cause someone to falter while speaking, thinking, etc.

Make it big ： To become successful, especially financially.

=【Culture notes】=

He was our quarterback.
Quarterbacks are the leaders of the offensive team, responsible for calling the play in the huddle. Often being used to describe a leader in a group.

At the end of this episode, Beiste also told Puckerman " It’s time that you got to be your own quarterback. "

West Village Halloween Parade
An annual holiday parade presented the night of every Oct. 31.

Marlene Dietrich
a German-born American actress and singer. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of all time.

Fist-bump
a gesture similar to high-five

Banksy
An anonymous United Kingdom-based, graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

Project runway
An American reality television series which focuses on fashion design. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme. Their designs are judged, and one or more designers are eliminated each week.

Letterman jacket
Seen especially on the campuses in the United States. Those students who participate in varies of sports or extracurricular activities(marching bands,etc) will wear the jackets and has made a specified level.

Siesta
Spanish. A short nap taken in the early afternoon.

Treat someone with kid gloves.
to deal with someone very gently or carefully.

Root beer
A carbonated, sweetened beverage, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink.

Top gun
a 1986 American action drama film. United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (nickname：Top Gun)

Have a good line.


=【Listening Activities】=

Listen and answer those questions.

=【Discussion Questions】=

1. Would you deal with grief like any of the characters in the film? If not, what would you do?

2. What are funeral customs for different cultures? Wake, cremation,sea burial?

3. How do your parents comfort or encourage you? Do you feel they should give more physical affection?

4. How do you feel or what would you do when your friends let out their grief?

5. What did Bieste mean when she told Puckerman to "Make the man"? What would you do differently to make the man?

6. What can you do to have a good line? Do you have your own bucket list?