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Friends, all about the greatest TV series

 

Friends is an American sitcom television series, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22nd 1994 to May 6th 2004, lasting ten seasons.

The show is the story of six friends in their 20s and 30s who live in Manhattan, New York City.

There are 3 girls and 3 boys : Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer).

It quickly became one of the most popular television shows of all times.

 

If you are lucky enough to have a Netflix account, why not start watching the 1st of the 236 episodes in English of course!!

 

 

How it all started.....

In the West Village, in Manhattan, Rachel Green, a young woman, escapes her wedding day and her rich but unsatisfying life, and finds her childhood friend Monica Geller, a nice chef with lots of obsessions. 

After, Rachel becomes a waitress at a coffee house called Central Perk, where Monica's group of friends meet: her previous roommate Phoebe Buffay, a strange but innocent masseuse; her neighbor across the hall Joey Tribbiani, a dim-witted actor and womanizer; Joey's roommate Chandler Bing, a sarcastic, self-deprecating IT (Information Technology) manager; and her older brother and Chandler's college roommate Ross Geller, a kind but insecure paleontologist.

The episodes show the friends' comic and romantic adventures and career issues, such as Joey auditioning for roles or Rachel seeking jobs in the fashion industry. The six characters each have many dates and serious relationships, such as Monica with her dentist and Ross with an English woman. Ross and Rachel's love story with its numerous break-offs is the most important storyline together with Monica and Chandler's.

 

 

 

Click on the link to have a look at the opening scene of the sitcom in 1994!

The song was an immediate success!

 

Exercise 1: Vocabulary

In the texts you have just read, find the English word for:

un mariage   ►  a            diffusé     ►  

durant   ►               insatisfaisante   ►               un café    ►  a

précédente   ►                 un voisin   ►  a

bennet   ►                dragueur   ►  

plein d'auto-dérision   ►             gentil(le)  ►   or  

problèmes   ►                             cherchant   ►  

la mode  ►                         des rendez-vous (amoureux)   ►     

des ruptures (amoureuses) ►                 une intrigue   ►  a

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Exercise 2: Complete the Friends Theme song

I'll Be There For You

by The Rembrandts

 

So no one told you  was gonna be this way
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your life's D.O.A.  (Dead or Alive)
It's like you're always stuck in gear
When it hasn't been your , your , your , or even your , but

Chorus

I'll be there for
(When the starts to pour)
I'll be for you
(Like I've been there )
I'll there for you
('Cause you're there for too)

You're still in at ten and work began at eight
You've burned your , so far things are going  
Your mother warned you there'd be  like these
But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees that

Chorus

No could ever know me
No one could see me
Seems you're the only one who  what it's like to be me
to face the day with, make it through all the rest with
Someone I'll always  with
Even at my worst, I'm with you, yeah!

It's like you're always stuck in second  
When it hasn't your day, your week, your month, or even your year

Chorus

I'll be there for you (x3)
('Cause you're there for me too)

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