Jake & Amy-week 8-Activities

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8/7/2019 Jake & Amy-week 8-Activities http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jake-amy-week-8-activities 1/1  IN TREATMENT- JAKE & AMY-WEEK 8  Watch the whole episode and answer these general points: 1. Briefly retell what happened in the last episode. 2. Complete following excerpts to reconstruct the rest of the episode: A. ♣ Amy's been trying to 1.  _________ to me this week... You know, make it all OK, the whole Ben thing, but how can you 2.  _________ for something like that? To tell you the truth, it's pretty sad watching her try. When Lenny fell asleep the other night, she 3.  _________ the house, pretending to be busy with house shit, which she never does. Not saying anything, just trying to 4.  _________ . And at one point we were pretty close together in the kitchen, she tried to kiss me... And I just... ♣ What? ♣ Just 5.  _________ do it. I wasn't into it. My heart wasn't there. B. ♣ And I was thinking how easy it would be to just... go lay down next to her and 6.  _________ . ♣ But you didn't. ♣ No, I couldn't. I just remembered how easily she could chip away at me and 7.  _________ . So I jumped in my car and I 8.  _________. C. ♣ That's who I wanted to be. The old man, he's such a 9_________ . The funny part is though, he does know it all. He can tell you the exchange rate for a Guyanese dollar, how to cook a freshwater salmon in a clay oven, or the history of the silk worm. ♣ Does he write 10.  _________ ? ♣ You 11.  _________ , right? ♣ No, he's a college professor. My mom too. 12.  _________ . Big readers, unlike me. I don't read. I don't think I've read a book since I left high school. ♣ Does that mean 13.  _________ ? ♣ I haven't. ♣ Really? I remember once I misquoted Roland Barthes and you corrected me. Where did that come from? ♣ I 14.  _________ in a house where everyone was reading at dinner. That shit was everywhere. Any parrot could pick it up and spit it back verbatim. That's what happens when your dad is an emeritus professor of Renaissance studies and your mother teaches classics... Greek and Hebrew. D. ♣ He was the kind of guy who would wince if you said sure instead of 15.  _________ . E. Maybe you decided earlier on you couldn't match up to his 16.  _________ and so you 17.  _________ trying. F. ♣ So how do your parents feel about Amy? ♣ She's a successful businesswoman, she's got an MBA, 18.  _________ that she went to grad school. Their high-school 19.  _________ of a son married a hotshot businesswoman. G. ♣ "This isn't entirely 20.  _________ , is it?" He expects me to 21.  _________ . Every time. At everything. ♣ Why did you go home, Jake? H. ♣ You know, if this 22.  _________ a movie... the lights would come on, right now. If this 23.  _________ a movie. 24.  _________ a movie.  

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  IN TREATMENT- JAKE & AMY-WEEK 8 Watch the whole episode and answer these general points:

1. Briefly retell what happened in the last episode.

2. Complete following excerpts to reconstruct the rest of the episode:

A.

♣ Amy's been trying to 1.  _________ to me this week... You know, make it allOK, the whole Ben thing, but how can you 2.  _________ for something like that?To tell you the truth, it's pretty sad watching her try. When Lenny fell asleep

the other night, she 3.  _________ the house, pretending to be busy with houseshit, which she never does. Not saying anything, just trying to 4.  _________ .And at one point we were pretty close together in the kitchen, she tried to

kiss me... And I just...

♣ What?

♣ Just 5.  _________ do it. I wasn't into it. My heart wasn't there.B.

♣ And I was thinking how easy it would be to just... go lay down next to her

and 6.  _________ .♣ But you didn't.

♣ No, I couldn't. I just remembered how easily she could chip away at me and 7. _________ . So I jumped in my car and I 8.  _________.

C.

♣ That's who I wanted to be. The old man, he's such a 9_________ . The funnypart is though, he does know it all. He can tell you the exchange rate for a

Guyanese dollar, how to cook a freshwater salmon in a clay oven, or the history

of the silk worm.

♣ Does he write 10.  _________ ?♣ You 11.  _________ , right?♣ No, he's a college professor. My mom too. 12.  _________ . Big readers, unlikeme. I don't read. I don't think I've read a book since I left high school.

♣ Does that mean 13.  _________ ?♣ I haven't.

♣ Really? I remember once I misquoted Roland Barthes and you corrected me.

Where did that come from?

♣ I 14.  _________ in a house where everyone was reading at dinner. That shitwas everywhere. Any parrot could pick it up and spit it back verbatim. That's

what happens when your dad is an emeritus professor of Renaissance studies and

your mother teaches classics... Greek and Hebrew.

D.

♣ He was the kind of guy who would wince if you said sure instead of 15. _________ .

E.

♣ Maybe you decided earlier on you couldn't match up to his 16.  _________ andso you 17.  _________ trying.

F.

♣ So how do your parents feel about Amy?

♣ She's a successful businesswoman, she's got an MBA, 18.  _________ that shewent to grad school. Their high-school 19.  _________ of a son married a hotshotbusinesswoman.

G.

♣ "This isn't entirely 20.  _________ , is it?" He expects me to 21.  _________ .Every time. At everything.

♣ Why did you go home, Jake?

H.

♣ You know, if this 22.  _________ a movie... the lights would come on, rightnow. If this 23.  _________ a movie. 24.  _________ a movie.