Today’s Lesson
Skills Focus
Vocabulary,
Expressions &
Colloquial
Language
Study
Details
Undergraduates, brush up, good graces, auspicious,
former, lowly, considerably, stretch of the imagination,
ascertain, rogue, thy, spectators, unmasking, conferred,
throw down the gauntlet, vigor, arraignment, graffiti
Guinea, out of our way, prick, layaway, welfare, payment
plans, a good line of credit, rent a center style, hold up,
you’re up next
Linking Patterns
Reduced Forms
Common Reductions
Stress, Rhythm and
Intonation
Thought Groups
Performance
Variables
Students will direct their attention to pauses in the speech
pattern and the way these pauses occur in both slower
and faster speech to help determine and emphasize
meaning.
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 1: The Challenge
Professor Lambeau’s classroom, where the scene is set for the academic
portion of the movie.
LAMBEAU: Mod f(x) squared dx. So, please finish Percival, by next time. And I
know many of you had this as undergraduates, but it won't hurt to brush up . . . .
Thank you, Steven . . . . I also put an advanced Fourier system on the main
hallway chalkboard. I'm hoping that one of you might prove it by the end of the
semester. Now, the person to do so will not only be in my good graces, but also
go on to fame and fortune by having their accomplishment recorded and their
name printed in the auspicious MIT Tech. Former winners include Nobel
Laureates, Fields Medal Winners, Renowned Astrophysicists, and lowly MIT
professors. Well, that's all. If you have any questions, I'm sure that..Tom has the
answers.
LAMBEAU: Is it just my imagination or has my class grown considerably? Well,
by no stretch of my imagination do I believe you've all come here to hear me
lecture. But rather to ascertain the identity of the mystery math magician. So,
without further ado, come forward silent rogue and receive thy prize.........Well,
I'm sorry to disappoint my spectators, but it seems there will be no unmasking
here today. However, um...my colleagues and I have conferred, and there is a
problem on the board right now that took us more than two years to prove. So, let
this be said: the gauntlet has been thrown down, but the faculty have answered,
and answered, with vigor.
Scene 1 - Vocabulary
Undergraduates – students who are working towards obtaining their bachelors
degree in American universities.
Won’t hurt to brush up – phrasal verb meaning to review or study something
again.
Good graces – an old fashioned way of saying that someone will be appreciative
towards another person
Auspicious – an adjective that means a favorable sign that implies future good
fortune
MIT Tech – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the best universities
in the world. MIT Tech is the school newspaper.
Former – previous, prior, before
Fields Medal – an award similar to the Nobel Prize for mathematics given every
four years
Lowly MIT professors – meaning humble or unimportant. Often used in a
sarcastic manner when referring to oneself.
Considerably – greatly
No stretch of the imagination – it is not hard to imagine
Ascertain – find out
Without further ado – a fancy way to say, without speaking more, or without
further introduction, during a speech.
Rogue – an unprincipled or mischievous person who behaves poorly.
Thy – used poetically, is an old expression for your
Spectators – people who are watching
Unmasking – the process of discovering someone’s identity
Conferred – 1. to give something to someone from a superior position or 2. to
compare views, take counsel with equals
To throw down the gauntlet – to openly challenge someone.
Vigor – energy and strength
Arraignment – A legal terms for a hearing at a court where a person is officially
charged with committing a crime
Graffiti – writing on building walls
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 2: The Trouble
The trouble begins for Will one fine autumn day in Boston.
CHUCKIE: Run, Joey, yeah!
WILL: Look, McNamara's up.
CHUCKIE: ______ __, kid!...
BILLY: Hey, Morgan. Who's the girl with the striped pants? She's got a nice ass.
MORGAN: That's a real nice ass.
BILLY: Who's the guy she's with?
MORGAN: That fucking guinea. I hate that little bitch. Will knows him.
WILL: That fuckhead Carmine Scarpaglia (?). That kid _____ ___ beat the shit
_____ ___ me in kindergarten.
BILLY: That guy?
WILL: Yeah.
BILLY: Oh.
MORGAN: Let's get some food.
CHUCKIE: Hey, what, Morgan? You're not ______ ___ talk to her?
MORGAN: Fuck her.
WILL: I'm good for a Whopper.
BILLY: I don't _______ ___ Whopper.
MORGAN: Let's go to Kelly's.
CHUCKIE: Morgan, we're not goin' to Kelly's just _________ you like the
takeout girl. It's 15 minutes out of our way.
MORGAN: What the fuck are we gunna do, we can't spare 15 minutes?
MORGAN: Double burger. . . . .double burger?........ Chuck, I had a double
burger!
CHUCKIE: Would you shut the fuck up. I know what you ordered. I was there.
MORGAN: So, _____ ___ my fuckin' sandwich.
CHUCKIE: ______ ___ ____ mean, "your sandwich?" I bought it....Morgan, how
much money you got on you?
MORGAN: I set out your change, right. Get the snowcone (?) I said that before,
when we pulled up. Why don't you just ______ ____ my sandwich, and stop
being a prick?
CHUCKIE: All right, well, give me your fucking 16 cents that you got on you
now, and we'll put your fuckin' sandwich on layaway. There we go. Keep it right
up here for ______, and we'll put you on a program. Every day you come in with
your six cents, and at the end of the week you get your sandwich.
MORGAN: Why you ______ ___ be an asshole..?
CHUCKIE: ________ ___ __? Your fuckin' sandwich welfare? I think you should
establish a good line of credit. Like how you bought your couch. Payment plans.
Remember? Your mother brought in ten dollars every day for a year..she finally
got a couch rent-a-center style.
MORGAN: Can I have my food now, please?
CHUCKIE: Here's your fuckin' double burger.
WILL: Hey, hold up Chuck. Slow it down.
CHUCKIE: _______ ____ ____ got?
WILL: I _______ _______, yet.
MORGAN: _________ ___, Will...we just seen the guy 15 minutes ago at the
ballpark. If we was _______ ___ fight him him we _________ _____ fought him
then, we got snacks, now.
CHUCKIE: Shut up, Morgan, you're goin'.
MORGAN: I'm not goin'.
CHUCKIE: So, don't go.
MORGAN: I'm not goin'.
BILLY: So, don't fuckin' go, Morgan.
CHUCKIE: ____ ____ tell you somethin'. If you're not out there in two fuckin'
seconds, when I'm done with them, you're up next.
WILL: Carmine! It's me! It's me, Will, remember? We went to kindergarten
together. . . .
CHUCKIE: Will......Will.....Cops!
Scene 2 - Vocabulary
Guinea – derogatory, or rude term, for a person of Italian origins.
Beat the shit out of me – vulgar way of saying someone beat up, or physically
attacked someone
It’s 15 minutes out of our way – a useful expression that means in a different
direction from the one we are going
Prick – a vulgar term literally meaning penis, but more often refers to someone
who is acting like a jerk.
Layaway – a financial expression meaning to pay for something each month
over an extended period of time. You cannot actually have the object until you
have completed all payments.
Welfare – reference to a social system where one person provides something for
another free of charge because they need it
Payment plans – an agreement between two parties on how to pay for a certain
item
Establish a good line of credit – access to money, often through a bank loan.
This will allow you to borrow more and more money as you show yourself to be
financially responsible.
Rent-a-center style – Rent – a – Center was a company which would allow you
to rent furniture and household appliances with the option to buy them at the end
of rental period.
Hold up – in this case means to wait a minute or to slow down
You’re up next – means you are next in line
Today’s Lesson
Skills Focus
Vocabulary,
Expressions &
Colloquial
Language
Study
Details
Equations, time out, honeys, survey course, elementary,
insight, evolution, contention, modalities, aptly,
characterized, agrarian, pre-capital, hang on a second,
Marxian historian, entrepreneurial, capitalist, regurgitate,
underestimates, social distinctions, inherited wealth,
plagiarize, obscure, pawn it off, certainties, fifty grand,
wicked, receding, clone, arbitrary, how do you like them
apples?
Linking Patterns
Reduced Forms
Omission of final ‘g’
Stress, Rhythm and
Intonation
Listening for content words
Thought Groups
Performance
Variables
Discuss the different uses of fillers: uh, eh, you know, like
Discuss how repetition functions and what it reveals about
the speaker in context and natural speech. What
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 3: Harvard Bar
Will finds himself in a battle of the brains at Harvard bar
BILLY: Let’s sit over here...
CHUCKIE: This is...This is a Harvard bar, huh? I thought ________ be
equations and shit on the walls...I will take a pitcher of the finest Lager in the
house....Time out. I'm ________ ______ bust a little move on ____ Harvard
________ down at the end of the bar. Work some magic..........Oh, hello.
SKYLAR: Oh, hello.
CHUCKIE: Hi, how are you?
SKYLAR: Fine.
CHUCKIE: So, ___ ____ ladies uh. . .
SKYLAR: _______ ______ often?
CHUCKIE: Do I come here..? I come here a bit. I
here...uh...you know...from time to time...Do you go to school here?
SKYLAR: Yup.
CHUCKIE: Yeah...let's see...see, I think I ____ _ class with you.
SKYLAR: Oh yeah? What class?
CHUCKIE: History.
SKYLAR: Maybe.
CHUCKIE: Yeeesss...I think that's what it was. You don't necessarily...might
not remember me...You know, I like it here. It doesn't mean ______ I go here
I'm a genius...I am actually very smart...
CLARK: Hey.
CHUCKIE: Hey. _____ ___ ____? How are you?
CLARK: Good. ______ ________ _______ _______?
CHUCKIE: You ________...-CLARK: What uh...What class did you..did you say that was?
CHUCKIE & SKYLAR: History.
CLARK: Yeah...JUST History? It ______ been a survey course then, huh?
CHUCKIE: Yeah, it was, it was surveys.
CLARK: Right.
CHUCKIE: You should check it out, it's a good course. It's a, uh...good..good
class.
CLARK: _____ ____ like that course?
CHUCKIE: You know...Frankly, I found the class, you know,
rather...uh...elementary.
CLARK: Elementary..
CHUCKIE: eah..
CLARK: You know I don't doubt that it was.
CHUCKIE: eah...
CLARK: I uh...I remember that class. It was um...it was just between recess
and lunch.
SKYLAR: Clark, why don't you go away..?
CLARK: Why don't you relax?
SKYLAR: Why don't you just go away?
CLARK: I'm just having fun with my new friend, that's all.
CHUCKIE: What, are you ________ have a problem? I don't understand...
CLARK: No, no, no, no..no, there's no problem here. I was just hoping you might
give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the Southern
Colonies. My contention is that uh...prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic
modalities, especially in the Southern Colonies, could most aptly be
characterized as agrarian precapital-WILL: Let me tell you __________, all right? Of course that's your contention.
CLARK: Hang on a second.
WILL: _______ __ first year grad student. You just got finished reading some
Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison, probably -- you ______ be convinced of that
till next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're ______ be ______
about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and
capitalist way back in 1740. That's ______ last until next year, _______ ____ be
in here __________ Gordon Wood. _______ about, you know, the preRevolutionary Utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
CLARK: Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically
underestimates the impact of social di-WILL: Wood drastically...Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social
distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that
from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 98, right? Yeah, I read that, too. You
_______ plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts that...of
your own on this matter? Or do you-- is that your thing? You come into a bar, you
read some obscure passage, and then pretend you, you..pawn it off as your
own..as your own idea just to impress some girls..? Embarrass my friend? See,
the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years ______ ______ start doing
some _________ on your own, and _______ ________ come up with the fact
that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and, two, you dropped a
hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you _______ got for a dollar fifty in
late charges at the public library.
CLARK: Yeah, but I will have a degree. ______ you'll be serving my kids fries at
a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
WILL: Yeah, maybe. eh, but at least I won't be unoriginal. Pardon me, if you
have a problem like that, you and me could just outside 'n we could figure it out.
CLARK: No, man, there's no problem.. It's cool.
WILL: It's cool?
CLARK: Yeah.
WILL: Cool.
CHUCKIE: You're fuckin' damn right it's cool. How do ____ like me NOW?
MORGAN: My boy's wicked smart... You spend three minutes in this fucking
place, you run into a Barney! (later)...you know, I was _______ lose that crazy
deal, but then Chu...uh, Billy insulted one of them and the heavy-set girl said that
I had a--have a recedin' hairline and I was a few pounds overweight and I was
like "go fuck yourself!".........I swallowed a bug.
Scene 3 - Vocabulary
Equations – Mathematical formulas
Time out – wait a minute
Bust a little move – slang, to
Honeys – good looking women or men
Work some magic – show people what you can do
Survey course – an introductory class
Elementary – one way to say simple, or too easy
Insight – intelligent observations or analysis
Evolution – development
Contention – belief or claim
Modalities – relating to a structure
Aptly – best suited or most qualified
Characterized – best described as
Agrarian pre-capital – farming communities before they became capitalistic
Hang on a second – a good way to slow somebody down when you need time
to think, or as here, when you object to what someone is saying
Marxian historian – a historian who analyzes subjects from a Marxist viewpoint
Entrepreneurial – assuming the risk of organizing and starting a business
Capitalist – land ownership is privately held
Regurgitating – means to spit back out. Used for both food and ideas
Capital forming effects of military mobilization – how making the military able
to move helps to generate private land ownership and wealth creation
Underestimates – assumes the value is less than what it actually is
Social distinctions – social differences
Inherited wealth – money, property or material gain received from the death of
one’s ancestors
Plagiarize – a verb meaning to copy or steal another person’s writing or artistic
expression without giving them any credit for the ideas
Is that your thing? – a colloquial expression meaning, “Is that what you enjoy?”
Obscure – not easily found, understood, or clearly expressed
Pawn it off – to pass off something usually by deception
Certainties – things that are sure or certain in life
Hundred and fifty grand – a grand is $1,000. So, it’s $150,000
Drive-thru – in a fast food restaurant, a drive thru is used so people don’t have
to get out of their cars to order food. They simply use the drive-thru window,
order, pay and pick up their food
It’s cool – means it’s not a problem
Wicked smart – a slang term meaning extremely smart
Receding hairline – a growing loss of hair above the forehead
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 4: Meeting Skylar
Will asks Skylar for a date
WILL: Hi...
SKYLAR: You're an _______.
WILL: What?
SKYLAR: You're an ________. I've been _______ over there for __________
_________ ______ for you to _______ and _________ to me, but I'm ___ now
and I hafta' go _____, and I..I couldn't ____ there any more _______ for you.
WILL: Well..I'm _________.
SKYLAR: _________.
WILL: ___________.
SKYLAR: Oh, and by the way, that ____ over there...the ________ ________
________...he wasn't __________ with us, so to speak.
WILL: Yeah, I know. I kinda' got that __________.
SKYLAR: Okay. Well, I've got to go. Gotta' get up __________ and ________
some more _________ on my __________ ______________.
WILL: No..I didn't mean you. I-SKYLAR: Oh, that's all right. There's my _________. I was ___________ we
could go out for _________ sometime.
WILL: All right, yeah. May-maybe we could just get _______ and ________ a
_________ of ___________.
SKYLAR: dyou--?
WILL: When you ________ about it, it's as _________ as ________ ________.
SKYLAR: Oh...yeah...okay...uh...well then...
MORGAN: Yo. Fuck you bitch. Same fuckin' thing. There goes dem fuckin'
barnies right now...with his skiing trip. Shoulda' beat that little bitch's ass.
WILL: Do you like _________?
CLARK: aYeah.
WILL: Yeah? Well I got 'er _________. How do you like dem _________?
Scene 4 - Vocabulary
Michael Bolton clone – saying that someone is a copy of someone else; in this
case Michael Bolton
Arbitrary – determined by whim or personal desire, and not by law or principle.
How do you like them apples? – an old-fashioned expression used when you
expect the listener to be surprised, angry, or amazed
Today’s Lesson
Skills Focus
Vocabulary,
Expressions &
Colloquial
Language
Study
Details
Linear, impressionistic, muddled, composition, rip-off,
paint by numbers, any port in a storm, sky’s falling, oars
are about to snap, banging, disrespect, chief, time’s up,
at ease
Got a thing for, fetish, devote some time to, faintest idea,
skinny on, political aspirations, sexual orientation,
syllabus, been laid, into the breach, lap, sonnet, level you,
visiting hours, cocky, scared shitless, depths of you,
presume, ripped my life apart, encapsulate, don’t give a
shit, sport, your move, chief
Linking Patterns
Izzit, duzzy, etc
Reduced Forms
D+Y = J
T+Y = CH
Stress, Rhythm and
Intonation
Thought Groups
Performance
Variables
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 5: Sean & Will’s First Meeting
After meeting with five psychiatrists unsuccessfully, Will meets Sean, a
psychologist with a similar background to Will’s.
WILL: You ______ ______?
SEAN: Yeah. You paint?
WILL: uh-unh.
SEAN: Do you sculpt?
WILL: Nope.
SEAN: ____ ___ like art? _____ ____ like music?
WILL: It's a real piece of shit.
SEAN: Oh..Well, tell me _______ _____ really think.
WILL: Uh, just the--the linear impressionistic mix makes a very muddled
composition. It's also a Winslow Homer rip-off, except you got Whitey uh..rowin
the boat there.
SEAN: Well, it's art, Monet...wasn't very good.
WILL: That's not really what concerns me, though.
SEAN: What concerns you?
WILL: _____ ____ coloring.
SEAN: You know what the real bitch of it is? It's paint by number.
WILL: ____ ___ color by number? Because the colors are fascinating to me.
SEAN: Are they really? What about that?
WILL: I think you're about one step away from cuttin' your fuckin' ear off.
SEAN: Really?
WILL: Oh yeah..
SEAN: Think I should move to the south of France, change my name to
Vincent?
WILL: ____ ____ heard the saying "any port in a storm?"
SEAN: Yeah.
WILL: Yeah, maybe that means you.
SEAN: In what way?
WILL: ell, maybe ______ ___ the middle of a storm, a big fuckin' storm.
SEAN: eah, maybe.
WILL: The sky's fallin' on your head, the waves are crashin' over your little boat,
the oars are about to snap. You just piss in your pants, you're cryin' for the
harbors, and maybe you do _____ ____ _____ ___ do to get out. Yeah, maybe
you became a psychologist.
SEAN: Bingo. That's it. _____ ___ do my job now, we still have a minute. ____
__.
WILL: Maybe you married the wrong woman.
SEAN: Maybe you should _______ ____ mouth. Watch it right there, chief, all
right?
WILL: Ah...Well, ______ __, isn't it? You married the wrong woman. What
happened? What, ____ ___ leave you? _____ ____, you know, banging some
other guy?
SEAN: If _____ ____ disrespect my wife again, I will end you, I will fuckin' end
you. ______ _____, chief?
WILL: Time's up.
SEAN: Yeah.
WILL: At ease, gentlemen.
LAMBEAU: You okay?. . . . I--I'll understand if you don't ______ __ meet with
him again.
SEAN: Thursday, four o'clock. Make sure the kid's here.
LAMBEAU: Yeah....Thanks.....
Scene 5– Vocabulary
Linear – of or relating to straight lines
Impressionistic – a style of art, usually associated with Monet, where smaller
parts of the whole are used to create a larger picture
Muddled composition – 1. unclear or perhaps confused. 2. a complete work
Rip off – to say that something is a fake or a poor imitation of the original
The real bitch of it is – what is really bad about it is
It’s paint by numbers – a reference to those books that allow children to paint
their own pictures by telling them where to put the colors according the numbers
on the pages
Any port in a storm – an expression that means you are looking for any
available help when you are in serious trouble
The sky’s falling – the world is coming down on you
Oars are about to snap – oars are the wooden tools used to help steer a canoe
or small boat, to snap means to break suddenly and with great force
Watch your mouth – pay attention to what you are saying. Usually a warning
that what someone is saying is going to get them into trouble.
Banging some other guy – banging is a colloquial expression for having sex
Disrespect – to say inappropriate things about someone
Chief – literally the head of a Native American tribe. Used colloquially as a word
for boss or possibly friend. When used sarcastically it implies just the opposite
Time’s up – a typical way a psychologist will end a session with a patient
At ease, gentlemen – military term that means relax
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 6: Sean’s Response
Sean responds to Will’s comments from their first meeting at the Swan
Pond in Boston Commons
WILL: So what's this? A Taster's Choice moment between guys? This is really
nice. You _____ __ ______ _____ swans? Is this like a _____? It's something,
like, maybe we need to ________ _____ _____ ___?
SEAN: I thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting.
WILL: yeah?
SEAN: Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me, I
fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know
what occurred to me?
WILL: No.
SEAN: You're just a kid. You don't have the _________ ______ what you're
talking about.
WILL: Why thank you.
SEAN: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
WILL: Nope.
SEAN: So, if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the ______ ___
every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him. Life's work,
___________ _______, him and the pope, __________ _______, the _____
_____, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel.
You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen
that....If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a _______ of your
personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell
me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a
tough kid. I ask you about war, you'd probably uh...throw Shakespeare at me,
right? "Once more into the _______, dear friends." But you've never been near
one. You've never held your best friend's head in your _____, and watched him
gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I ask you about love, y'probably
quote me a __________. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally
___________...known someone that could ________ _____ with her eyes.
Feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you.. who could rescue you from
the depths of Hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, n to have
that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you
wouldn't know about sleepin' sittin' up in a hospital room for two months, holding
her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms ________
_____ don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only
occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've
ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you: I don't see an intelligent,
confident man. I see a ______, ________ _______ kid. But you're a genius, Will.
No one denies that. no one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you
__________ to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine
and you ripped my fuckin' life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I'd
know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are
because I read Oliver Twist? Does that _________ you? Personally, I ______
_____ ___ ______ about all that, because you know what? I can't learn anything
from you I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you wanna talk about you,
who you are. And I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you,
_______? You're terrified of what you might say. _________ _______ _______.
Scene 6 – Vocabulary
Got a thing for – means do you like something, usually in a sexual way
Fetish – an object or irrational reverence or obsessive devotion
Devote some time to – spend some time discussing and understanding
Faintest idea – means the slightest or the least idea
Skinny on – a colloquial expression meaning to “briefly summarize”
Political aspirations – political goals
Sexual orientation – used to describe the gender to which one is attracted
The whole works – everything
Syllabus – literally a guide or list about what will be studied
Been laid – colloquial expression that means to have had sex
Into the breach – into the hole in the ground
Lap – the space made on the top of your two legs when they are together
Sonnet – a type of romantic poem associated with Shakespeare
Level you with her eyes – to tear you down completely
Visiting hours – the appointed times someone can legally be in the hospital
visiting a loved one
Cocky – means someone who acts too confidently
Scared shitless – very scared
Depths of you – the different levels of someone
Presume – to suppose to be true without proof
Ripped my life apart – analyzed and destroyed my life.
Encapsulate – means to describe, summarize, or to completely explain
Don’t give a shit – I don’t care
Sport – a term of address for a lower ranking person
Your move, chief – it’s your decision as to what you will do next
Vocabulary List
Ripped my life
apart
Lap
The whole
works
Encapsulate
Faintest idea
Depths of you
Visiting hours
Don’t give a
shit
Sonnet
Got a thing for
Sport
Devote some
time to
Been laid
Presume
Your move,
chief
Political
aspirations
Syllabus
Level you with
her eyes
Cocky
Skinny on
Fetish
Sexual
orientation
Into the
breach
Scared
shitless
Today’s Lesson
Skills Focus
Vocabulary,
Expressions &
Colloquial
Language
Study
Details
Amateur, fart, idiosyncrasies, had the goods on me, little
peccadilloes, good stuff, suspense, piss ant, shrink, hence
Bullshit, takeback, fling, other side of town, trust fund
babies, slumming obsession, orphan, put your shit on me,
give it a shot, surgery, stabbed, don’t bullshit me
Linking Patterns
Reduced Forms
Stress, Rhythm and
Intonation
Listening for function words
Mark text for Stress & Rhythm Patterns, Intonation.
Analyze how these can work to emphasize and change
meaning
Thought Groups
Students will direct their attention to pauses in speech
patterns and the way these pauses contribute to
developing overall meaning.
Performance
Variables
Look at the use of repetition and hesitation and how they
contribute to overall meaning
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 7: Sean & Will talk about Love
Will tells interviewer what he thinks of the job
WILL: Haven't called ______.
SEAN: Christ, ________ _____ amateur.
WILL: I know ______ I'm doin'.
SEAN: Yeah.
WILL: Yeah. Don't worry _______ me, I know ____ I'm doin'. Don’t worry about
me, I know _______ I’m doin’. Yeah, but this girl ____ like, ____ ____, beautiful.
_____ smart. _______ funny. She's different ____ most ___ ____ girls I've been
with.
SEAN: So, call _____ __, Romeo.
WILL: Why? So I ____ realize she's not _____ smart, _____ she's fuckin'
boring? Y'know--I mean...this girl __ like fuckin' perfect right now, I don't wanna r-ruin that.
SEAN: Maybe _______ perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin ____. I
think that's a super philosophy, Will, that way you _____ go through ____ entire
life without ever having ___ really know anybody....My wife ______ ___ fart when
she _____ nervous. She ______ all sorts ___ wonderful idiosyncrasies. You
know what? She _____ _____ fart ___ ____ sleep. Sorry I shared that with you.
One night ___ ____ so loud ___ woke ____ dog up. She woke up ____ gone like
"oh was that you?" 'd say yeah...I didn't ______ ____ heart __ tell __...Oh God...
WILL: She woke herself up?
SEAN: Ye e e e sss....Oh Christ....aahhh, but, Will, she's ____ dead two years
____ ______ ____ shit I remember. Wonderful stuff, you know, little things ____
____. Ah, but, those _____ _____ things I miss the most. Those little
idiosyncrasies _____ only __ knew ____. That's what made ____ my wife. Oh
____ she ____ ___ goods on me, too, she knew all my little peccadillos. People
call these things imperfections, but they're not, aw that's the good stuff. ____
____ we ___ ___ choose who we let _____ our weird little worlds. You're not
perfect, sport. ____ let me save you ___ suspense. This girl you met, she isn't
perfect either. But the question is: whether or not you're perfect for each other.
That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy ___ all ______. Now you can know
everything __ ___ world, sport, but the only way you're findin' out ____ one is by
givin' ___ __ shot. You certainly won't learn ____ an old fucker like me. Even if I
did know, I wouldn't tell __ piss ant like you.
WILL: Why not? ____ told ___ every _____ fuckin' thing. Jesus Christ. Fuckin'
talk ______ _____ any shrink I ______ seen ___ ____ life.
SEAN: I teach ____ shit, I didn't say I know how ___ ___ ___.
WILL: Yeah.......______ ever think ________ gettin' remarried?
SEAN: My wife's dead.
WILL: Hence _____ word: remarried.
SEAN: She's dead.
WILL: Yeah.. Well, I think ______ ___ super philosophy, Sean. I mean _____
way _____ could actually go through _____ rest of your life _______ ever really
knowing anybody.
SEAN: Time's up.
Scene 7 - Vocabulary
Amateur – one who engages in a pursuit as a hobby or pastime and not as a
professional
Fart – releasing gas from the buttocks
Idiosyncrasies – things that are unique to individuals; often those which one
might find peculiar or strange
Had the goods on me – means to know secrets about someone
Little peccadilloes – things that are slightly offensive
The good stuff – useful phrase that means worthwhile and interesting
Suspense – waiting without knowing
Piss ant – a small, insignificant person
Shrink – a derogatory term used for a therapist
Hence the word – therefore
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 8: Will & Skylar Break Up
Skylar asks Will to move to California with her
SKYLAR: You awake?
WILL: No.
SKYLAR: Yes you are. Will, come to California with me.
WILL: What?
SKYLAR: I want you to come to California with me.
WILL: Are you sure about that?
SKYLAR: Oh yeah.
WILL: Yeah, but how do you know?
SKYLAR: I dunno. I just know.
WILL: Yeah, but h--how do you know?
SKYLAR: I know because I feel it.
WILL: Because that's a really serious thing to say.
SKYLAR: But, I know.
WILL: You could be in California next week and, you know, you might find out
something about me you don't like and, you know, maybe you'll wish you hadn't
said that and then, you know, it's such a serious thing that you can't take it back
and now I'm stuck in California with someone who doesn't really want to be with
me who just wishes they had a takeback.
SKYLAR: A what? What's a takeback? I don't want a takeback. I just want you
to come to California with me.
WILL: Well, I can't go to California with you.
SKYLAR: Why not?
WILL: Well, one, because I--I got a job here, and two, because I live here.
SKYLAR: Look, um.If you don't love me, you should tell me because it's such aWILL: I'm not saying I don't love you.
SKYLAR: Then why? Why won't you come? What are you so scared of?
WILL: What am I so scared of?
SKYLAR: Well, what aren't you scared of? You live in this safe little world where
no one challenges you and you're scared shitless to do anything else but defend
yourself because that would mean you'd hafta' change.
WILL: Oh no. Don't, don't, don't tell me about my world. Don't tell me about my
world! I mean you just wanna have your fling with like the guy from the other side
of town. Then you're going to go off to Stanford, you're going to marry some rich
prick who your parents will approve of and just sit around with the other trust fund
babies and talk about how you went slumming too, once.
SKYLAR: Why are you saying this? What is your obsession with this money?
My father died when I was 13 and I inherited this money. Nearly every day I wake
up, and I wish that I could give it back, that I would give it back in a second if it
meant I could have one more day with him, but I can't and that's my life and I
deal with it. So don't put your shit on me, when you're the one that's afraid.
WILL: I'm afraid? Wha--wha--what am I afraid of, huh? What the fuck am I afraid
of?
SKYLAR: You're afraid of me. You're afraid that I won't love you back. And you
know what? I'm afraid too. Fuck it. I want to give it a shot and at least I'm honest
with you.
WILL: I'm not honest with you?
SKYLAR: No, what about your twelve brothers?
WILL: All right.
SKYLAR: No. You're not going. You're not leaving.
WILL: What do you want to know? What? That I don't have twelve brothers?
SKYLAR: Yes.
WILL: That I'm a fuckin' orphan!
SKYLAR: Yes
WILL: No, you don't wanna hear that!
SKYLAR: I didn't know that.
WILL: No, you don't wanna hear that.
SKYLAR: I didn't know it.
WILL: You don't wanna hear that I had fuckin' cigarettes put out on me when I
was a little kid.
SKYLAR: Oh...I didn't know that...
WILL: That this isn't fuckin' surgery, that the motherfucker stabbed me. You
don't wanna hear that shit, Skylar.
SKYLAR: I do wanna hear it.
WILL: Don't tell me you want to hear that shit!
SKYLAR: I want to hear it because I want to help you. Because I want to-WILL: Help me! What the fuck? What I got a fucking sign on my back? That
says "save me?"
SKYLAR: No.
WILL: Do I look like I need that?
SKYLAR: No. God, I just want to be with you because I love you!
WILL: Don't bullshit me. Don't bullshit me. Don't you fuckin' bullshit me!
SKYLAR: I love you. I wanna hear you say that you don't love me. Because if
you say that, then I won't call you, and I won't be in your life...
WILL: I don't love you.
Scene 8 - Vocabulary
Bullshit – a vulgar, but absolutely critical word to describe what the speaker
views as nonsense or lies. Also used: B.S.
Takeback – a word meaning that you want to undo something that was done in
the past
Fling – brief affair or sexual relationship
Other side of town – usually means from a very different social class. Wrong
side of town refers to someone from a lower social class.
Trust fund babies – a trust fund is money put into an account by one person for
another, often by rich parents for their kids. Usually trust fund babies do not ever
have to worry about money.
Slumming – to live or associate with lower people
Obsession – constant thought that keeps repeating in your head
Orphan – a child without parents
Put your shit on me – tell me your problems are my problems
Give it a shot – to try something, often with great risk to yourself
Surgery – an operation performed by a doctor
Stabbed – to attack with a knife
Don’t bullshit me – don’t lie to me
Today’s Lesson
Skills Focus
Vocabulary,
Expressions &
Colloquial
Language
Study
Details
Cutting edge, exposed to, classified, code-breaking,
aspect, brag, take a shot at it, rebel army, secure the area,
number got called, pulling a tour with the National Guard,
shrapnel, plant, exported, bathroom breaks, install a
government, scare up prices, ancillary benefit, take their
sweet time, took the liberty, skipper, play slalom, buddy’s
out of work, chronic hemorrhoids, blue plate special,
scrod, Quaker State, holding out for something better, club
a baby seal, sworn enemy, hash pipe
Run him out, rapport, at my expense, undermine, fragile
point, retarded gorillas, handled you, abandoned,
Freudian crap, defense mechanism, infect, resent,
arrogant, conscious choice, chronies, pity case, kiss ass
chorus, pimple faced, if you ride him
Linking Patterns
Reduced Forms
Stress, Rhythm and
Intonation
Thought Groups
Performance
Variables
Final ‘g’ omissions
Contractions
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 9: Job Interview at the NSA
Will tells interviewer what he thinks of the job
WILL: So, why do you think I should work for the National Security Agency?
NSA AGENT Well, ______ be working on the cutting edge. ______ be exposed
to the kind of technology that you wouldn't see anywhere else because ______
classified it. Super string theory, chaos math, advanced algorithms...
WILL: Code-breaking.
NSA AGENT: Well, that's one aspect of what we do.
WILL: Oh, ________, I mean, that is what you do. You guys handle 80 percent
of the intelligence workload. _________ seven times the size of the CIA.
NSA AGENT: We _______ like to brag about that, Will, but _______ exactly
right. So, the way I see it, the question ________ Why SHOULD you work for
the NSA? The question is: Why __________ you?
WILL: Why __________ I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But ______
take a shot. Say _______ working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my
desk, __________ no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I
break it. And ____ real happy with myself, _____ I did my job well. But maybe
that code was the location of some rebel army in....North Africa or the Middle
East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels
are hiding... Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with
get killed. Now the politicians are ______, "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the
area" _____ they ______ give a shit. It _______ be their kid over there,
__________ shot. Just like it ________ them when their number got called,
________ they were off ________ a tour in the National Guard. _________ be
some kid from Southie over there _________ shrapnel in the ass.
He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the
country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his
old job, ____ ______ work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks.
Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so
that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of
course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic
oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ________ helping my buddy
at two-fifty a gallon. They're _________ their sweet time _________ the oil back,
of course, maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who
likes to drink martinis and _________ play slalom with the icebergs, it _______
too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic.
So now my ________ out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the
_______ job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is
________ him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile _____ __________ ______
every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special ________
________ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? ____
________ out for ________ better. I figure fuck it, while _____ at it why not just
shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices,
bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I
could be elected President.
Scene 9 - Vocabulary
Cutting edge – recent, high tech
Exposed to – see or experience something
Classified – secret information only available to a select group of people
Super string theory – a theory that fundamental entities are not point-like
particles, but finite lines (strings) or closed loops formed by strings.
Chaos math – a theory that helps people to understand the improbability of
predicting anything for certain
Advanced algorithms – high level mathematical function
Code-breaking – ability to figure out codes and communications
Aspect – part
Brag – arrogant talk, boastful statements
Take a shot at it – give it a try
Rebel army – a small group of people who form an army opposing the
government
Never had no problem with – meaning that the people have never harmed him
Secure the area – inhabit and protect the area
Their number got called – when it was their turn to do something
Pulling a tour in the National Guard – serving time in the National Guard,
which is considered a much softer, easier and less dangerous military service
than the army, navy, marines, or air force. The National Guard rarely sees the
battlefield. Many upper-middle class students in the 60s joined this to avoid
military service
Shrapnel – metal bomb, mine, or shell fragments
Plant – factory
Exported – sent out to another country
Bathroom breaks – time when people can stop working for a short break
Install a government – help to put in place
Scare up prices – make prices higher by causing people to react from fear
Ancillary benefit – an added benefit
Taking their sweet time – not worrying about how much time their taking;
usually implies someone is moving very slowly
Took the liberty – decided without asking anyone else
Skipper – person in charge of the boat
Play slalom – skiing term that mean moving in a zigzag or wavy course between
upright obstacles as in a race
Buddy’s out of work – my friend is unemployed
Chronic hemorrhoids – a pain in the butt that won’t go away
Blue plate special – usually refers to one of the cheapest dishes or specials in a
diner
North Atlantic scrod – a cheap type of fish found in the Atlantic Ocean
Quaker State – a brand name of motor oil
Holding out for something better – waiting for
Club a baby seal – beat a baby seal with a club. This expression is also used
for unnecessary and inexplicable violence towards something weaker than you.
Sworn enemy – person or people one has promised to hate
Hash pipe – a pipe used to smoke opium or marijuana. Probably refers to
Clinton and the accusations that he smoked marijuana while in college.
Good Will Hunting:
Scene 10: What should be done with Will?
Sean & Lambeau debate over the best course for Will’s future
LAMBEAU: This is a disaster, Sean. I brought you in here because I wanted
you to help me with the boy. Not to run him out.
SEAN: I know what I'm doing with the boy.
LAMBEAU: I don't care if you have a rapport with the boy. I don't care if you
have a few laughs even at my expense, but don't you dare undermine what I'm
trying to do here.
SEAN: ___________?
LAMBEAU: This boy is at a fragile point right now.
SEAN: I do understand. He is at a fragile point, ______? He's got problems.
LAMBEAU: ________ , what problems does he have, Sean? ______ ____
_____ ___ as a janitor? _______ ____ _____ _____ in jail? ________ _____
hanging out with a bunch of retarded gorillas?
SEAN: _____, why do you think he does that, ______? Do you have any fuckin'
clue why? ________?
LAMBEAU: ______ ______ ______ the problems. ______ ______ ______ the
work. And he obviously _________ you.
SEAN: _____ ______ ______ ______. ______ ______ ______. ____ is he
hiding? _______ doesn't he trust anybody? Because the first thing that happened
to him, he was abandoned by the people who were supposed to love him most.
LAMBEAU: _____, _________, don't give me that Freudian crap.
SEAN: ____, _____ ____, ______. And why does he hang out with those
________ ______, as you call them? Because any one of them, if he asked them
to, would take a fuckin' bat to your head, _______? That's called loyalty.
LAMBEAU: Yeah, that's very touching.
SEAN: And who's he __________? He pushes people away before they have a
chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, ________ _____? And for
twenty years he's been alone because of that. And if you push him right now, it's
going to be the same thing all over again, and I'm not gunna let that happen to
him.
LAMBEAU: ______, ______ ______ ______ _____, Sean.
SEAN: What, Gerry?
LAMBEAU: ______ ______ ______ _____. Don't infect him with the idea that
it's okay to quit, that it's okay to be a failure because it's not okay, ______. And if
you're angry at me for _________..__________ successful, for ________ what
you could have been, ________..
SEAN: I'm not angry at you, __________.
LAMBEAU: Oh, yes, you're angry at me, Sean. You resent me. But I'm not
going to apologize for _____..._____ success I've had. You're angry at me for
doing what you could have done, but _____ ________, ______, _____ _______
___ ____ _____ Will to feel that way, ____ ____ ____ him to feel like a failure..
SEAN: ____, you arrogant shit. That's why I don't come to the goddamned
reunions. Cus' I can't stand that look in your eye. _____ ______? That
condescending, embarrassed look.
LAMBEAU: ______ ______ ______ _____,.
SEAN: You think I'm a failure. I know who I am, and I'm proud of what I do. It
was a conscious choice. I didn't fuck up. And you and your cronies think I'm sort
of pity case. You and your kiss ass chorus, following you around going, "______
______ ______, _____ ______ _____,." Why are you still so fuckin' afraid of
failure?
LAMBEAU: It's about my medal, ___ ___? _____ ______, I can go home and
get it for you. You can have it.
SEAN: ______ please don't, ______ ____-LAMBEAU: I mean that-SEAN: ______ ______ ______ _____? Shove the medal up your fuckin' ass,
all right? Cus' I don't give a shit about your medal because I knew you before you
were a mathematical god. When you were pimple-faced and homesick, and didn't
know what side of the bed to piss on.
LAMBEAU: ______, you were smarter than me then and you're smarter than
me now. ____, don't blame me for how your life turned out it's not my fault.
SEAN: I don't blame you! It's not about you, you mathematical dick! It's about
the boy! He's a good kid, and I won't see you fuck him up like you're trying to fuck
up me right now. I won't see you make him feel like a failure too.
LAMBEAU: He won't be a failure, Sean!
SEAN: But ___ ____ ____ _____, Gerry. ______ ______ ______ _____,
LAMBEAU: Seeeaaaan. I am what I am today because I was pushed and
because I learned to push myself.
SEAN: He's not you, ______ _____ _____?
WILL: I can...come back.
LAMBEAU: No come in. uh...I was just leaving.
Scene 10 - Vocabulary
Run him out – to get rid of someone
Rapport – relationship marked by comfort, harmony, etc
At my expense – at cost to me
Undermine – to weaken or ruin something by small steps
Fragile point – a moment where something could break
Retarded gorillas – slang terms that refers to big, bulky, usually below average
intelligence people
Handled you – take advantage of somebody
Abandoned – to withdraw support, protection or help from someone
Freudian crap – Freud was a famous psychologist. This term means that the
ideas and thoughts of Freud are not worthwhile.
Take a bat to your head – beat you with a baseball bat
Defense mechanism – a way of protecting oneself from harm
Infect – contaminate or to give some one something harmful
Resent – feeling of anger or annoyance because of something another has said
or done
Arrogant – an insult meaning someone is snobby or too confident
Conscious choice – a decision that you are fully aware of making while you are
making it
Chronies – long standing close friends
Pity case – someone you feel a sympathetic sorrow for
Kiss ass chorus – a group of people who follow you around singing your praises
and telling you how wonderful you are
Mathematical god – someone who is a genius at math. Usually calling
someone a “god” implies sarcasm
Pimple faced – face is filled with pimples. Usually implies adolescence
If you ride him – to ride someone means to keep pushing them to perform at
their best