634 - Resembling One’s Parents

Do you have your father’s chin and your mother’s nose? Then you need to learn how to talk in English about looking like your parents with the help of this episode.
Slow dialogue: 1:25
Explanations: 3:34
Fast dialogue: 17:06
Khaled: Hi, what are you looking at?
Susanna: Your photo albums. Your roommate let me in and said I could make myself comfortable while I waited for you.
Khaled: There are some really incriminating pictures in there. You’d better give those back to me.
Susanna: Not yet! I’m looking at your baby pictures and your family portraits. You’re the spitting image of your mother.
Khaled: That’s not my mother. That was our neighbor.
Susanna: Oh, now that I look a little closer, I can see that you resemble your father. You’re a chip off the old block.
Khaled: That’s not my father. That’s my father’s friend. Now, why don’t I take those...
Susanna: Wait! These candids of your birthday parties are so cute! You were so adorable!
Khaled: Right. When I was a kid, I had a face only a mother could love.
Susanna: That’s not true! You have a great profile. I’d expect to see your likeness in paintings and on statues.
Khaled: Okay, enough with the brown-nosing. What do you really want?
Susanna: I don’t want anything...okay, just one little thing. My cousin is in town. I want to go out with Rick tonight and I thought we could double date. Me, Rick, my cousin...and you. What do you say?
Khaled: I knew it had to be something. Does she look like you?
Susanna: We are like two peas in a pod.
Khaled: Then, forget it!
Susanna: Hmph!

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse