For March 12, 2009

1. Here is a commercial that deals with a prejudice lots of North Americans have.



"Beauty is nothing without brains." What does that mean? What does that have to do with the Mercedes-Benz car?
(By the way, the car that Koreans usually call a "Benz" is called a "Mercedes" in North America.)

2. Here is one of my favorite commercials. He speaks with a European accent, but you should understand him.
*Why does he do these things to people?
*What is the point of the commercial?
*I think it also says something about love and understanding as well.
*Listen for, "Maybe I was too intense," "I got on their nerves, "I came on too strong". What do these mean?


Again we will spend a quite a bit of time getting talking to each other. HERE are the discussion questions for the next class. Kindly print them out, think about each issue, and bring them to class.

Don't forget to bring the vocabulary handout from the last class.