Roller Skating, two

 
 
 
 

Vocabulary

event	incredible	work very hard
jury	judge (2)	platform (2)
wow	awesome	roller skating
hope	amount	performance
crazy	heart (2)	beat/beat/beat (3)
kiss	feel (2)	adrenaline
dizzy	absolute	unbelievable
logical	amazing	performance
talent	shock (2)	in the end
swear	drive (2)	present (3)

 
 
 
 
 
 

Video

 

 
 
 
 

Transcript

Jan: My name is Jan.
Sven: My name is Sven.
Jan: We are from Germany. We are married.
Sven: We have been together for thirteen years. From this we have been married for three years. I met this beautiful woman at an event, and I thought, ‘she’s mine’. So I worked very hard, and in the end, we are sitting here.”
Jan: It works very well.

 

 

Male Judge: Hello.
Jan: Hello jury; hello Georgia. My name is Jan. That is my husband, Sven. We are from Germany, and we are really happy to present Georgia our talent.
Male Judge: That’s nice. What is your talent?
Jan: We will try a little bit of roller skating on a little platform. We hope you will like it.
Male Judge: Okay, let’s start.

 

 

Side Host: Watch her head!
Female Judge: Oh, my god!
Female Judge: What is this woman doing?

 

 

Side Host: This is love. This is performance! This is talent!
Female Judge: Wow! Wow!
Side Host: This is my heart beating!
Female Judge, one: This was the craziest thing I have seen in my life.
Male Judge: Most of all, I liked the kiss in the end. Absolutely logical ending. Thank you.
Female Judge, two: I’ve never seen anything like this. I got dizzy by looking at you. How do you feel? Are you dizzy too? This is unbelievable. Amazing.
Male Judge: I can just say ‘wow’. It was great performance. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you very much for this huge amount of adrenaline. That was incredible. Thank you.
Female Judge three: “I am shocked. I have never ever seen anything like this before. So much drive. You are the best professionals.

It was fucking AWESOME!

Thank you so much!

Side Host: Ruska is shocked and she’s swearing. It’s the first time I’ve heard her swear.

Female Judge: Five ‘yeses’.
Sven: Thank you very much.

 

 

Questions

1. Jan and Sven are Americans. True or false?

2. Are they only performance partners?

3. Did Jan and Sven do a singing act? What did they do?

4. What were the reactions of the judges?

5. In the end of their act, Jan and Sven waved at the audience. Is this right or wrong?

6. Can the judges speak English? What did they say?

7. Did the judges vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to their performance?

 

A. I was very surprised and impressed by Jan and Sven’s performance. Yes or no?

B. My friends and I can roller skate. Are you good at roller skating?

C. Can your friends do roller skating tricks and stunts?

D. What will happen in the future?

E. My friends and I want to attend a talent show. Yes or no?