Videos. Simpsons.

The Simpsons is a very famous, very funny American animated TV show. It's great for practicing English because the vocabulary used in the show is the kind that is commonly used by normal people every day. Good luck!

Here's what you do:

1. Click on the video you want to watch below.
2. Watch the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
3. Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.
4. Check your answers.

Video 1


1. Homer tells Marge ______________________.
a)to go home
b)to help him look for Lisa
c)to keep driving

2. Mr. Burns ______________________.
a)fires Homer
b)doesn't recognize Homer
c)asks Homer for directions

3. Why is the police chief dressed as a woman?
a)Because he likes dressing as a woman
b)Because he finds women's clothing more comfortable
c)Because he's on a stake-out (he's trying to catch a thief)

4. Why does Homer give the construction worker balloons?
a)To get permission to use his cherry picker
b)To get him to look for Lisa
c)To make him go away

5. Although the construction worker already has balloons, the ones Homer gives him are ____________________.
a)not as nice
b)nicer
c)just as nice

Video 2


1. Ned threatens to _________________ the cable guy's ears, which is a colloquial expression meaning "to hit someone on both ears using the palms of your hands".
a)box
b)punch
c)beat

2. Why is Ned so angry?
a)Because the cable guy didn't agree to hook him up illegally
b)Because the cable guy offered to hook him up illegally
c)Because the cable guy told him he wouldn't be getting the channel he wanted

3. How much does the cable guy charge for an illegal hook-up?
a)$500
b)$150
c)$50

4. According the pamphlet that Homer gets, it is OK to steak cable because cable corporations are _________________.
a)rich
b)big and faceless
c)dishonest

5. At the end, Homer cries ___________________.
a)because he's happy he has free cable
b)because he's not sure he did the right thing
c)because he knows that he's stealing cable

Video 3


1. What's the first thing that Marge tells Bart?
a)That he needs to help her with something
b)That he needs to stop eating
c)That he's in the way

2. Where's the can of cranberry sauce?
a)On the top shelf of the cupboard
b)In the cupboard, on the bottom shelf
c)In the refrigerator

3. Bart says that the can opener ____________________.
a)doesn't work
b)is not broken
c)is from a cheap store

4. What doesn't Bart do at the end?
Leave the cranberry sauce on the counter
Put the cranberry sauce in the refrigerator
Leave the kitchen

5. Bart ends up ____________________.
a)helping his mother a lot
b)helping his mother a great deal
c)not really helping his mother at all


Answers: Video1(c,b,c,a,b) Video2 (a,b,c,b,a) Video3 (c,b,a,b,c)

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