Learn ENGLISH with MODERN FAMILY — Manny's Friend is in Love with Gloria

today you will learn English with the Modern Family and in the scene that we've chosen for you Man's parents Gloria and Jay witness a funny and interesting situation around his new friend from school if you are new here we will be so happy to become your new friends because every week we help English Learners just like you understand your favorite movies and TV series without getting lost without missing the jokes and without subtitles so please hit that subscribe button and Bell down below so you never miss any of our newest lessons well I'm really not

getting that relationship why can't you just be happy that money's making new friends cuz it doesn't add up cool kids like Griffin Cooper they don't hang out with kids like Manny Manny's very cool maybe those kids are finally catching up to him wait a minute I get it couple of days last week I took Manny to school on my motorcycle Griffin must think I'm pretty boss yes D it's all because of you kids are looking for Role Models why do you think Fonzi was so popular he told people that they were rich but really took

their money with his scheme no that's a yes hola griin how are you oh 13 I'm fine so why do you boys have planned for for today well it's kind of a surprise for Griffin but let should say it involves de coupage oh jeez come on let's go goodbye oh no what you were right this boy is not here to see man I told you you see the way he looks at me no fany the way he looks at me he couldn't talk he kept staring he was just like my teachers back in school Gloria

you're very pretty but the kid idolizes me really griefing money do you want to go with Jay to ride his motorcycle or you want to go with me to the supermarket and buy a couple of onions motorcycle rides onions sound good I'm really not getting that relationship why can't you just be happy that money's making new friends cuz it doesn't add up so the connected speech we see here can CH it happens in the combination of letters t and u so they make this new sound CH K so can you turns into can you and

this interesting phrase it doesn't add up so Jay says because it doesn't add up Ethan can you define this yeah so if something doesn't add up it means it doesn't make sense and I believe it comes from mathematics that if two things you're solving for x and the two things that add up they're not coming off to the right formula probably has something to do with that cool kids like Griffin Cooper they don't hang out with kids like Manny Manny is very cool to hang out with is to just spend time with right we usually

hang out with our friends this is one of those really versatile phrasal verbs though because someone could call you and ask you say I call cenia say cenia what are you doing she could say oh just hanging out which means I'm not really doing anything she could be cleaning up she could be watching a movie but it's just a way to be vague with our language did you notice here also Gloria's pronunciation of fairy my is very cool yeah she has this R very pronounced R yeah like the top bar right mhm very maybe those

kids are finally catching up to him I get it that's an interesting use of the phrasal verb catchup to cetch up with something like imagine if you are running or if you are riding a car and if you catch up with another car you um make up the difference so you become closer or in the same level but here it has another meaning in this context what does it mean to catch up to someone yeah if you catch up to someone in this sense it's saying because she's saying that Manny is cool like he's a

trend Setter and they're finally catching up they're finally starting to be cool as well so he was cool in a different way and the other kids are finally getting hip with the his style MH okay so it's similar to the meaning of like Katch up with something when you're running or writing right there's a another really nice way that we use this phrase verb though if you and I haven't spoken in a long time I might say oh let's have a call and catch up meaning let's get up to date with what's been happening with

you what's been happening with me like catching up with the news or catching up on the news or catch up on a series maybe because you've been behind on the episodes maybe with Netflix and so on we don't use it so much nowadays but when we used to have uh episode coming out every single week we might catch up because we missed a few weeks of the series or if I'm taking a course let's say and I missed a couple of lessons and now I have to catch up with my studies couple of days last

week I took Manny to school on my motorcycle you're a very common connected speech pattern couple of days so the phrase couple off days off is getting reduced totally we just hear a was out here couple of days Griffin must think I'm pretty boss yes do that's that's a nice expression I'm pretty boss so he's not a boss mafia boss or something what does it mean a boss in this situation boss is a slang meaning that someone is the best they're really cool they're really hip and it's funny because it's a more modern slang and

he's an old guy so he's trying to be cool by using this modern slang but it just doesn't fit at all all with who he is and his age mhm just wanted to take a moment here to explain the word pretty so pretty it's not in the sense of beautiful or handsome pretty here is the sense of quite I'm quite a boss or I'm quite boss notice the pronunciation as well that it's not pretty it's pretty kids are looking for Role Models why do you think Fonzi was so popular he told people that they were

rich but really took their money with his scheme oh that's a yes um I think he didn't want to explain too much to Gloria so he just said yes because there's a funny situation happening yeah so Gloria confuses Fonzi and Ponzi Ethan do you want to explain that to our viewers yeah so Fonzi was a character I believe the series was called happy days and he was this really cool guy who everyone looked up to we use that expression earlier that's exactly what Jay is talking about is a role model a role model is someone

who you look up to someone who admire yeah he he just says yes because he's not wanting to have to explain the confusion that she made because a Ponzi scheme which is what Gloria is defining there is basically that it's like a pyramid scheme how are you oh 13 I'm fine so why do you boys have PL today well it's kind of a surprise for Griffin but let's just say it involves de coupage oh jeez come on let's go so here's an interesting connected speech pattern we dro the D sound in the word kind and

links it to off but off changes the F to V because it is followed by the vowel kind of va so we link all three words together kind of a kind of a surprise I wanted to comment just on some of the context too here because both of us were laughing that she ask him how are you yeah and he is a guas he without words and then finally he says 13 so he completely wasn't listening to the question he understood how old are you mhm because he's staring at Gloria since she's wearing a very

revealing outfit and the other funny thing here is Jay is wearing this leather jacket so he's probably trying to look cool like Fonzi and he's wearing his motorcycle jacket I have to be blatantly honest I don't know what a decupage is is it like paper mâché or something like yeah yeah it's just like you decorate a certain object or you want to reproduce a shape of some object and you use like strips of paper like you need a lot of strips of paper and you glue several layers of paper in this object Jay says OG's

after that because it's this cool kid that he's wanting Manny to impress and he's doing something that's very artsy not so cool by traditional terms goodbye oh no what you were right this boy is not here to see man I told you you see the way he looks at me no fancy the way he looks at me I told you the combination of letters d plus y gives a new sound you so I told you becomes I told you no fancy the way he looks at me he couldn't talk he kept staring he was just

like my teachers back in school Gloria you're very pretty but the kid idolizes me really and she says that the boy was staring at her staring is just to look closely very attentively without sometimes even blinking right mhm kids might have a staring contest we did this when we were young like you stare at each other to see who is the first one to Blink and whoever blinks first loses so idolizing someone is to really admire someone uh usually it happens like with pop stars so teenage girls usually idolize some pop stars and here is

also interesting connected speech right the kid idolizes me yeah so he links all these words together he idolizes did you know that for today's lesson we created a deck of flashcards with all the words and expressions you've been learning so far if you want to learn and never forget new words try learning them with our flash cards that are based on an advanced technology called spaced repetition each flash card has a definition example sentences images to help you better memorize the word and audio files for you to practice the correct pronunciation you can download the

app from your favorite app store or simply grab the link in the description under this video all right should we watch SCB yeah let's watch it ah thank you hey mom guess what Griffin invited us all over to his house for a pool party in barbecue tonight pool party huh yeah and he said bring your swimsuits he was pretty adamant about it it's 50° outside sounds fun great I'll call him you know you're basically agreeing to a date with a 13-year-old boy y we use this to get as stables at restaurants why can we use

this to get money a friend because he's not really getting a friend oh but when you thought that he was trying to ride your motorcycle he was okay maybe now I don't like what he's trying to ride Manny likes Griffin maybe someday if they spend enough time together Griffin Would like money what Griffin doesn't like me no no no papy he loves you but you just said someday Griffin will like me that means he doesn't like me now you know what kid we think that Griffin might be hanging out with you because he's got a

little crush on your mother and me on you wow I can't believe it listen it's fine you're going to be sorry are you kidding it's fantastic how is it fantastic I'm only hanging out with him because I have the hots for his sister Chloe you've met Griffin the kids a door knob so you're just using him yeah and I felt really guilty about it until now now it's a win-win not for me just suck it up mom I've done a lot for you over the years J you too this girl could be the one that

I'm out of your hair forever pool party mom just accordingly that's hilarious ah thank you hey mom guess what Griffin invited us all over to his house for a pool party in barbecue tonight pool party huh let's break down this sentence in parts so invited us becomes invited us so the T sound in the word invited uh is between two vowels so it turns into an American D sound invite D and it ends with d right but then comes the word us and we link two words together invited us invited us nice and then it

continues with all over to his house so all over this is a word chunk we could often see and that L will pretty much always connect to the O and over all over all over two reduces to and we drop the H in his so all over house all over to house for a pool party first of all the American way to pronounce the word party is party yeah we don't pronounce the true T but it again turns into American the sound party and for a both words have awat sound so they are in a

weak position so we hear them uh reduce their longer sounds and we hear for for pool party for pool party and then party links end to itself so it becomes like just the whole item and the D sound at the end of an is just dropped so try to pronounce it all together for pool party in for pool party in so we have barbecue which we have Awad there on the first e bar barue and it links to tonight barbecue tonight so we have another schw there we don't say tonight we say tonight barbecue tonight

pool party huh yeah and he said bring your swimsuits he was pretty adamant about it it's 50° outside sounds fun great I'll call him this is hilarious he's pretty adamant about it what does that mean if he was pretty adamant I like this word adamant it's just like it's not only not willing to to change your decision but like you are adamant like the word is so strong the meaning is like yeah you decided already you made your decision or you chose something to do and you are uh not going to change it so he's

being emphatic that that's an important point to bring your bathing suits because obviously he's interested to see Gloria in a bathing suit yeah and Jay's next comment that it's 50° outside so that's 10° Cel which is not exactly swimming weather pool party huh yeah and he said bring your swimsuits he was pretty adamant about it it's 50° outside sounds fun great I'll call him I'll call him so again we see here the drop of H sound which happens pretty often in pronouns right so he says I'll call him I'll call him but you just said

someday Griffin will like me that means he doesn't like me now you know what kid we think that Griffin might be hanging out with you cuz he's got a little crush on your mother and you to have a crush in somebody means to be interested romantically in someone and Jay also uses it here again kind of like a synonym for idolizing someone because he doesn't think that Griffin is romantically interested in him but he idolizes him so that's why Gloria we'll see in the next clip comments on that mhm wow can't believe it listen it's

fine you're going to be sorry are you kidding it's fantastic how is it fantastic I'm only hanging out with him because I have the hots for his sister Chloe okay choice of expression yeah have the hearts it's such a nice phrase I haven't heard it but it's very close to have a crash right yeah have the H it's romantically interested but probably most of you know what hot means that we you use it as a slang for meaning that someone is very attractive it's more emphatic at that point that you find someone sexually attractive which

is especially funny because I don't know exactly how old he is here maybe 10 12 it's quite funny for him to be using that expression you've met Griffin the kid's a doorknob so you're just using him yeah and I felt really guilty about it until now now it's a win-win no for me I didn't know you can uh use it to refer to a person because I know a doorknob is like this round handle on the door like you turn it and the door's open it actually is uh it's a bit of a play on

words because we have an expression that is someone is dumb as a doorknob me that the person is not smart at all MH it'd be insulting if you said this directly to someone so that's why he's saying the kids a doorknob he's saying in a shortened way in a shortened Way kids dumb as a doorknob mhm you've met Griffin the kid's a doorknob so you're just using him yeah and I felt really guilty about it until now now it's a win-win no for me so now is a win-win but before that many felt guilty about

it uh what is that feeling feeling guilty feel guilty it's you did something bad and you know that morally it was wrong so he was feeling that feeling of Shame that's another way we could say it but now that he found out that Griffin is also using him now he doesn't feel bad about it now it's a win-win they can both use each other without any guilt or shame that's rather uh I don't know cruel kind of kids friendship just suck it up mom I've done a lot for you over the years is it great

that he tells him to to suck it up mhm yeah I I didn't see coming it's just like for me it sounds rude like to say to your mom suck it up yeah like this whole phrase suck it up I've done a lot for you over the years usually that's more like the mom or the dad would say to the kid is when the kid really doesn't want to do something it's like well you have to suck it up and do it anyway we we actually did damel last week right and we talked about this

expression of make your peace with something it's similar this expression to say that you need to just get it together and do it even though you don't want to do it mhm ju2 this girl could be the one that I'm out of your hair forever pool party mom just accordingly to be out of one's hair means to not be bothering not be annoying anymore it's just like why is it expression like out of your hair where does it come from I'm not actually sure but I imagine if someone were pulling your hair it'd be quite

annoying so you know you'd be like get out of my hair I can imagine too a lot of moms maybe using this or dads like when they're kitchen trying to cook dinner and the kid keeps bothering them with questions or you know distracting them away from the task say get out of my hair go play ah because you know um for for a moment I thought that um it comes from Imagine like a chewy gum that is stuck in your hair so you cannot get rid of it so I thought it's related somehow geologically to

this and he said that this girl could be the one mhm what does he mean when we use the one in the sense uh so he says that that girl could be his Destiny like that girl the one his soulmate his soulmate mhm again so funny like year old kid talking about like finding his soulmate which this is totally his character that he's always romantically interested in some new girl and there's quite a funny dynamic between him and Gloria with each of his romances J2 this girl could be the one that I'm out of your

hair forever pool party mom dress accordingly if you are going to some event you would probably want to know what the dress code is and dress accordingly right to wear the term dress code mhm dress code like imagine that you are going on a play at the theater to see a play so you would want to wear something fancy yeah maybe a dress mhm or to a wedding they might even say what the dress code is like black tie formal there there's these very what would you call like jargon very specific terms that we'll use

for a dress code all right guys so now let's check your comprehension by watching the CLI one more time this time without subtitles well I'm really not getting that relationship why can't you just be happy that money's making new friends cuz it doesn't add up cool kids like Griffin Cooper they don't hang out with kids like Manny Manny's very cool maybe those kids are finally catching up to him wait a minute I get it couple of days last week I took Manny to school on my motorcycle Griffin must think I'm pretty boss yes J it's

all because of you kids are looking for Role Models why do you think Fonzi was so popular he told people that they were rich but really took their money with his scheme no that's a yes hola gri how are you oh 13 I'm fine so what do you boys have planned for today well it's kind of a surprise for Grand Griffin blous say and involves de coupage oh jeez come on let's go goodbye oh no what you were right this boy is not here to see Manny I told you you see the way he looks

at me no fany the way he looks at me he couldn't talk he kept staring he was just like my teachers back in school Gloria you're very pretty but the kid idolizes me really griefing money do you want to go with Jay to ride his motorcycle or you want to go with me to the supermarket and buy a couple of onions motorcycle rides onions sound good ah thank you hey mom guess what Griffin invited us all over to his house for a pool party in barbecue tonight pool party huh yeah and he said bring your

swimsuits he was pretty adamant about it it's 50° outside sounds fun great I'll call him you know you're basically agreeing to a date with a 13-year-old boy yay we use this to get us stables at restaurants why can we use this to get Mone a friend because he's not really getting a friend oh but when you thought that he was trying to ride your motorcycle he was okay maybe now I don't like what he's trying to ride Manny likes Griffin maybe someday if they spend enough time together Griffin Would like money what Griffin doesn't like

me no no no papy he loves you but you just said someday Griffin will like me that means he doesn't like like me now you know what kid we think that Griffin might be hanging out with you because he's got a little crush on your mother and me on you wow I can't believe it listen it's fine you're going to be sorry are you kidding it's fantastic how is it fantastic I'm only hanging out with him because I have the hots for his sister Chloe you've met Griffin the kid a doorknob so you're just using

him yeah and I felt really guilty about it until now now it's a wi win not for me just suck it up mom I've done a lot for you over the years J you to this girl could be the one that I'm mad of your hair forever pool party mom dress accordingly thank you so much for learning with us today and if you are enjoying learning English with us I recommend you go and check this lesson next Gloria from the Modern Family a sexy and funloving housewife and gelda a Savvy and ambitious business woman the

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