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__ Drop Dead Diva __




**__Program Introduction __ **

This program is a legal comedy-drama. The series was created by Josh Berman and debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. So far, in total five seasons were created. The series is set in Los Angeles, California, but it is actually filmed in Peachtree City, Georgia, and Senoia, Georgia.

Deb Dobkins is a vapid blonde aspiring model. She is killed in a car crash on the way to an audition for The Price Is Right. Meanwhile, Jane Bingum, a smart attorney was shot when she tried to protect her boss. As Deb’s soul enters the gate of Heaven, a gatekeeper named Fred waits for her. Fred does not know what to do with Deb’s soul because she is a zero-zero. When Fred tries to figure it out, Deb sees a note on Fred's computer warning angels from pressing the "return" key. Deb presses the return key on Fred's keyboard before he can stop her. Amazingly, because of that, she is brought back to life in the body of Jane Bingum!

Jane is very different from Deb. She is smart, nice, hard-working, charitable, and overweight. The only person knows that she is Deb in Jane's body is Deb’s best friend, Stacy. Fred is punished for allowing her to press the return button, he is forced to become her guardian angel on Earth and he cannot allow her to tell anybody else the secret. At first, Deb totally cannot accept her new appearance. However, she learns valuable lessons about personal acceptance and inner beauty as she finds out more about her inherited life.

__Character Introduction __



 * Jane Bingum **, inhabited by Deb Dobkins, who is a brilliant, hardworking and overweight attorney with a flair for fashion.
 * Deb Dobkins, **a vapid blonde aspiring model, who is killed in a car crash. And her soul enters Jane’s body finally.




 * Teri Lee **, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Jane's sassy assistant, is Jane’s rock and confidant.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kim Kaswell, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jane's coworker and rival.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Stacy Barrett **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jane's/Deb's longtime best friend and roommate, and the only person from Deb’s old life who knows that she now inhabits Jane’s body.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Grayson Kent **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Jane's closest colleague and Deb's former boyfriend.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fred, **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Deb's original guardian angel.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Today’s episode is like a brief introduction of the whole story. Deb dies in a car accident and her soul goes to the gate of Heaven. Then, she presses the return key and is brought back to life of Jane’s body. (Jane is shot for protecting her boss.) Deb cannot accept it because Jane is an opposite person of her. Deb tells her best friend, Stacy the secret and goes to her own funeral. On the funeral, she hears someone says that she is selfish which makes her depressed. She also solves 2 cases but is betrayed by her partner. Surprisingly, Deb’s boyfriend, Grayson Kent works in the same company with Jane. However, it makes Deb really painful.



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are going to introduce this episode today. You can see the video here:

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Here is the transcript of the episode:

Music in this episode:

<span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">''Beautiful Inside" by Katie Herzig <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"Hey Na Na" by Katie Herzig <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"Wanna Fly" by Vassy <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"Everybody Got Their Something" by Nikka Costa <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"I Want You" by Holly Palmer <span style="font-family: sans-serif,Arial; font-size: 12px;">"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie

Vocabulary<span style="font-family: 新細明體,serif;">：

> > an instrument for recording the electrical activity of the heart
 * 1) Wrinkle – a slight ridge or furrow on a surface, such as a crease in the skin as a result of age
 * 2) Brooch – an ornament with a hinged pin and catch, worn fastened to clothing
 * 1) Lock – a person or thing that is certain to win or to succeed
 * 2) Firm – a partnership or association for carrying on a business
 * 3) EKG – abbreviation for electrocardiograph
 * 1) Flatline – be so near death that the display of one’s vital signs on medical monitoring equipment shows a flat line rather than peaks and troughs
 * 2) Amnesia – complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain unjury
 * 3) Concussion –shock caused by the impact of a collision
 * 4) Bloated – swollen; puffed out or dilated
 * 5) Vacated – empty
 * 6) Demote – to lower in position
 * 7) Apprehend – to arrest and escort into custody; seize
 * 8) Ditch – to get rid of
 * 9) Botox – a preparation of botulinum toxin used to treat muscle spasm and to remove wrinkles[[image:botox.jpg width="430" height="155"]]
 * 10) Pharmaceuticals – medicine, drug
 * 11) Zolpidem – a kind of medicine for smoothing or calming, used in the treatment of insomnia
 * 12) Hallucination – a sensory experience of something that does not exist, caused by physical mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances
 * 13) Verdict – any decision, judgment, or conclusion

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">1. **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">pull some strings **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">- To use personal connections to obtain a position 2.**all that** – too, very, usually employed in a negative context meaning not too, not very <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">3. **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">off the chart **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">- greatly exceeding the general level or average <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">5. **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">ring a bell **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;"> - arouse an indistinct memory, remind one of something
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">Phrase __ **

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">Listening Activities __
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">1. Why will Deb’s soul enters Jane’s body? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">2. Why did Deb suffer the car accident? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">3. What is Fred’s job in Jane’s firm? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">4. How does Jane die? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">5. How do Deb and Grayson meet each other?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comprehension Questions: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Listen and fill in your part of the transcript. You can work in a group to do this. Then get into a new groups of 2 and act out the scene.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Intensive Listening Activity: **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">1. You want to be a beautiful but shallow person like Deb, or a smart but obese person like Jane? Why? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">2. If you are a lawyer and you can help your client win the suit by no telling the fact, will you do that? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">3. If you die and your soul enters the other’s body like Deb, and you can only tell one person the fact, who will you choose to tell? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">4. Do you think first impression is important? Why? What is the first impression that others always feel about you? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">5. Have you ever had any experience of having inferiority of yourself? How did you solve it?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Discussion Questions: **

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">Cultural Notes __

 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Splenda : **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> It is a very stable sweetener that tastes like sugar, but without its calories

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Splenda on wiki: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Products and recipes: []






 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Price Is Right **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> : It is a television g ame show<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">. In the show, contestants compete to win cash and prizes by guessing the pricing of merchandise.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Price Is Right on wiki: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can play a game here: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]

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 * Prize model**: To help display its many prizes, The Price is Right has featured several models.





<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visit their official website: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hermes: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A brand that is very expensive.





<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pepto on wiki:[] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visit the pepto website: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pepto: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is a medicine used for the treatment of nausea, diarrhea, indigestion.




 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lanisha ****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;"> Diane Cole: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;"> An American model who has been most recognizable as a rotating model <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;"> on the game show //The Price Is Right//




 * Freshman15:** This word is often used in America. It means that <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5;">college students usually gain weight in their first semester attending a college.

Causes of the Freshman 15:
1. Lack of exercise 2. Eating unhealthy cafeteria food 3. Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol

Freshman 15 on wiki: [] Visit the freshman 15 website to know more about it: []

**<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lane Bryant: : **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A brand of women's plus size clothing
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Visit their website <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">: []



//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Zolpidem: **//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Zolpidem is a medicine used for the treatment of insomnia and helping you fall asleep. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Zolpidem: []




 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Erin Brockovich :** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is a movie about <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Erin Brockovich on wiki: [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">See more information about the movie: []




 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mojito: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">cocktail <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> that consists of five ingredients: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">white rum <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">sugar <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (traditionally <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">sugar cane <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> juice), <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">lime juice <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">sparkling water <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, and <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">mint <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cuba <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is the birthplace of the Mojito, although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mojito on wiki: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How to make a motjito: []

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Meals on wheels: ** There are some programs provide meals to seniors who need them each day. Some programs serve meals at senior centers, some programs deliver meals directly to the homes of seniors whose mobility is limited, and many programs provide both services.======

meals on wheels on wiki: [] Visit their website: []



pro bono on wiki: []
 * Pro bono:** A lawyer's free legal service to people who cannot afford to hire an attorney.