Gangnam+style

**Gangnam Style** - a lesson from English, Baby!

In this file: Intro, Dialogue, Discussion, Grammar point, Quiz, Quiz answers, Vocabulary

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 * Dialogue **


 * Sara: ** Have you heard of this video that’s totally **blowing up** on the internet? It’s called “Gangnam Style?”
 * Greta: **No, I haven’t.
 * Sara: **You’re probably like the only person in the world who hasn’t heard of this thing. It’s a new single by a South Korean pop artist, I don’t know, he’s called PSY or something, and it’s the most-watched video in the history of YouTube.
 * Greta: **Oh my gosh, like, why did it **go vira**l? Why is it so big?
 * Sara: **I mean, I guess it’s sort of a catchy song but the idea is it’s totally **over the top**. It’s this guy in all these situations doing this really fancy choreography. It’s kind of **goofy**. I think maybe some people like it but maybe some people are kind of just **making fun of it**.
 * Greta: **Isn’t it strange how things that are just so random all of a sudden become these huge cultural phenomena that everyone’s seen?
 * Sara: **Yeah, totally, and almost as popular as the version that this guy has done are these parodies that people have done. Like, the Oregon Ducks did one, I think. All these different celebrities have done their own versions of “Gangnam Style.”
 * Greta: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Wow, I’m going to have to go home and Google that.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Sara: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">You should.

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