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Learn English with South Park
- text back [phv] – respond to a text
- He is really into me. [exp] – He really likes me
- a dreamboat [n] – a very attractive person
- insecure [adj] – not feeling confident or safe
- bro [n] – buddy, friend, guy
- dude [n] – buddy, friend, guy
- subscribe [v] – sign up and pay for a service
- open AI [n] – a “smart” computer program that can understand and write like people
- chicks [n] – girls
- tons [n] – a lot
[n] – noun, [v] – verb, [phv] – phrasal verb, [adj] – adjective, [exp] – expression
- Stan, Wendy, Clyde, and Bebe are 4th grade students in a town called South Park.
- Stan is dating Wendy.
- Bebe is dating Clyde.
Grammar Tip: Quoted to Reported Speech
- Change pronouns
- Change verb tense (shift back one tense)
- Questions → Delete “do/does/did”
- Questions → Change word order (V+S to S+V)
- Yes/No Questions → Add “if/whether”
Part 1: Change these text messages from quoted (direct) speech to reported (indirect) speech. Use a tense shift.
- Bebe asked, “Do you think about me all the time?”Bebe asked (Clyde) [if/whether] he thought about her all the time.
Bebe asked (Clyde) [if/whether] he thought about her all the time. - Clyde responded, “It certainly seems like all the time.”Clyde responded (that) it certainly seemed like all the time.
Clyde responded (that) it certainly seemed like all the time. - Clyde texted “It’s hard to get someone like you out of my mind.”Clyde texted (that) it was hard to get someone like her out of his mind.
Clyde texted (that) it was hard to get someone like her out of his mind. - Bebe asked, “How do you know you’re in love with me?”Bebe asked (Clyde) how he knew (that) he was in love with her.
Bebe asked (Clyde) how he knew (that) he was in love with her. - Clyde texted back, “I can’t imagine life without you.”Clyde texted back (that) he couldn’t imagine life without her.
Clyde texted back (that) he couldn’t imagine life without her. - Bebe asked (Clyde), “Do you really care about me that much?”Bebe asked [if/whether] he really cared about her that much.
Bebe asked [if/whether] he really cared about her that much. - Clyde confirmed, “Yes. I do care about you that much.”Clyde confirmed (that) he did care about her that much.
Clyde confirmed (that) he did care about her that much. - Wendy asked (Stan), “Is your dad doing better?”Wendy asked (Stan) [if/whether] his dad was doing better.
Wendy asked (Stan) [if/whether] his dad was doing better. - Bebe asked (Clyde), “Do you think I’d look cute if I cut my hair short?”Bebe asked (Clyde) [if/whether] he thought she would look cute if she cut her hair short.
Bebe asked (Clyde) [if/whether] he thought she would look cute if she cut her hair short. - ChatGPT said, “You would look great with any length of hair!”ChatGPT said that she would look great with any length of hair.
ChatGPT said that she would look great with any length of hair. - It added, “Trying a new look could be fun.”It added (that) trying a new look could be fun.
It added (that) trying a new look could be fun. - Wendy texted back, “I probably won’t do it, but thanks for being supportive.Wendy texted back (that) she probably wouldn’t do it(,) but (she) thanked Clyde for being supportive.
Wendy texted back (that) she probably wouldn’t do it(,) but (she) thanked Clyde for being supportive.
Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order.
Use a present time frame (tense).
( ) = optional [ ] = necessary
Sentence 1
Bebe / excitedly / show / friend / yet / other / text / Clyde
=>Bebe excitedly shows her friends yet another text from Clyde.
Sentence 2
Bebe / friend / say / Clyde / must / really / love / Bebe / because / text / so / sweet / thoughtful
=>Bebe’s friends say (that) Clyde must really love Bebe because his texts are so sweet and thoughtful.
Sentence 3
however / Wendy / feel / insecure / because / Stan / only / respond / her / text / thumbs-up / emoji
=>However, Wendy feels insecure because Stan only responds to her texts [with/using] thumbs-up emojis.
Sentence 4
after / talk / Wendy / Stan / find / Clyde / and / ask / him / advice
=>After talking to Wendy, Stan finds Clyde and asks him for (some) advice.
After he talks to Wendy, Stan finds Clyde and asks him for (some) advice.
Sentence 4
Clyde / admit / he / use / ChatGPT / write / response / Bebe
Clyde admits (that) he uses ChatGPT to write (his) responses to Bebe.
Sentence 5
Clyde / then / show / Stan / how / use / ChatGPT / respond / Wendy / message
=>Clyde then shows Stan how to use ChatGPT to respond to Wendy’s messages.
Sentence 6
Clyde / tell / Stan / use / ChatGPT / save / him / ton / time / because / Bebe / text / him / so / much
=>Clyde tells Stan (that) using ChatGPT saves him a ton of time because Bebe texts him so (goddamn) much.
Sentence 7
however / Clyde / ask / Stan / not / tell / anyone / else / ChatGPT
=>However, Clyde asks Stan not to tell anyone else about ChatGPT.
- What is each character’s issue or problem in their relationship in this video clip (Clyde, Wendy, Stan, Bebe)?
- Clyde’s process for responding to Bebe is Cut. Paste. Write. Cut. Messages. Paste. Send. Can you describe the process in more detail?
- How do you think Bebe would feel if she knew that Clyde was using Chat GPT to reply to her texts?
- Do you think ChatGPT is making Bebe’s and Clyde’s relationship better or worse? Why? How?
- Stan is going to start using ChatGPT to respond to Wendy. What new issues or problems do you think he will have?
- Do you think it is okay to use ChatGPT (or similar apps) to respond to personal messages? Why or why not?
- How would you feel if someone used an app to write messages to you without telling you?
- What experience do you have with ChatGPT? What are its pros and cons?
Bebe: You guys! You guys! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
Red: What is it?
Nelly: What happened, Bebe?
Bebe: Clyde just sent me another text.
Nichole: Oh, what’s this one say?
Bebe: I texted him if he thought about me all the time, and he texted back, “It certainly seems like all the time. It’s hard to get someone like you out of my mind.”
Bebe: Doesn’t he just send the best texts ever?
Nelly: Yes, yes, he sure does.
Bebe: Yesterday, I texted him, “How do you know you’re in love with me?” And he said, “I know I’m in love with you because spending time with you makes me feel like I’m home, and I can’t imagine life without you.”
Red: That’s so sweet!
Wendy: Clyde wrote that?
Bebe: “OMG, Clyde! Do you really care about me that much?”
Red: Does Stan ever talk to you like that, Wendy?
Wendy: No. Every time I send Stan a text, he just responds with a thumbs-up emoji.
Bebe: Yeah, well, Clyde is just really into me. Oh, he’s texting back.
Bebe: “Yes. I do care about you that much. You mean a lot to me and I care deeply about you.”
Betsy: He sure is in love with you, Bebe!
Red: He’s a goddamn dreamboat!
Wendy: Hey, Stan. Is there a time we could talk today? I’m feeling a little insecure about some things.
Stan: Hey, Clyde, can I talk to you?
Clyde: Sure, bro.
Stan: Well, um, Wendy just came up to me and was acting all hurt ’cause she thinks I don’t care about her.
Clyde: Uh-huh.
Stan: Well, she says that she wishes I would reply to her texts the way that Clyde responds to Bebe, so, like, how do you do it?
Clyde: ChatGPT, dude.
Stan: ChatGPT?
Clyde: Yeah, dude. There’s a bunch of apps and programs you could subscribe to that use open AI to do all your writing for you. People use them to write poems, write job applications, but what they’re really good for is dealing with chicks.
Clyde: Here, check it out. There’s tons of Chat GPT apps for your phone.
Clyde: So, then I can take whatever latest dumb thing Bebe texted me.
Wendy (text): Do you think I’d look cute if I cut my hair short?
Clyde: I copy it, then I open the GPT app, click “Respond to”, paste her text here, hit write. It just thinks for a second. “You would look great with any length of hair! Trying a new look could be fun.” Copy that into messages, and send it off.
Clyde: It’s super easy and convenient, and it saves me a ton of time because she texts me so goddamn much.
Clyde: Jesus Christ! “I probably won’t do it, but thanks for being supportive.” Cut. Paste. Write. Cut. Messages. Paste. Send. There.
Clyde: All done with her stupid shit.
Stan: This is a real app?
Clyde: It’ll completely change your life, bro. Just, uh, just don’t tell anybody, huh? If Bebe found out, I’d be a dead man.
