Observing and Recording

Today, we started off by watching the pilot episode of the cult sci-fi comic strip Futurama. Not only is it really good, it's also full of character and detail that we can study.
After watching the show, we discussed language that the students found difficult. They thought the humour was very American, (it is an American show after all), and it is interesting that they picked up on that. Some of the language - cryogenics for example, was difficult at first.

There was one rude pun that worked particularly well in the context of visiting a laboratory full of frozen people waiting to wake up in the future. It took a bit of explaining why Fry's job of delivering a pizza ordered by "I.C. Wiener" to the corpsicles was a triple-layered joke...