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Rick and Morty
Season 1, Episode 6
"Rick Potion Number 9"

Rick and Morty (S1, E6) Plot Summary

Morty is excited about going to a dance at his school, with his classmate Jessica. He asks Rick to create a love potion.

However, because Jessica has the flu, the potion becomes airborne, causing not only her but the whole population of Earth to fal[...]

Getting Started

2 ~ 4 minutes

Welcome your students to the lesson and ask them what they thought of today's episode.

  1. What did you think of this episode of Rick and Morty?
  2. Can you give Rick and Morty season 1, ep. 6 a star-rating between 1 and 5 stars?
  3. What factors did you consider when giving your rating?
  4. Are there any particular scenes, characters, or details you're looking forward to discussing?

Sections

Warm-Up

5 ~ 20 minutes

Warm up by asking your students to consider some open-ended general questions:

Q 1
Did you ever have the courage to ask somebody out at school? If not, how did you show you were interested?
Q 2
Do you usually change your behavior during flu season? How do you avoid getting sick?
Q 3
Rick says that love is nothing but a chemical reaction to make animals breed. Is he right?
Q 4
Did you ever go to a school dance? Can you remember what songs you danced to?

Key Expressions

Approx 20 ~ 40 minutes

Review these 19 key expressions from the transcript:

How to use this section

Level 1:For each expression, review the meaning and example with your student, then ask your student to listen/repeat the example sentence after you.

Level 2:You can ask your student to create their own example sentences, using the same expression.

Image Prompt

5 minutes

Tell your students that you will show them an image and ask them a question. They will have a limited amount of time to respond.

Countdown
How does Morty feel when he sees Jessica, and then sees Brad is with her?

Check Understanding

10 ~ 15 minutes

Let's make sure your students watched the episode and understood what was going on.

How to use this section

As the teacher, you can press the "SEE ANSWER" button to check our suggested answers. Students do not see this button.

  1. What favor does Morty ask of Rick?
  2. Why does everybody fall in love with Morty, not only Jessica?
  3. Why doesn't Rick also get the love virus?
  4. What happens to Rick's cure?
  5. How does Rick make everything fine?

Discussion

20 ~ 30 minutes

Lead students in an open-ended discussion of the scenes, themes, plot and characters in the episode

Q 1
If you had a real love potion that makes somebody fall in love with you forever, who would you use it on?
Q 2
When Beth answers Jerry's question about whether she loves him, what does she mean? Does she love him or not? Does it matter? Would she give a different answer by the end of this episode?
Q 3
After solving the problem, Rick says “it's not like we can do this every week- we get 3 or 4 more of these, tops”. What does he mean? Why can't Rick and Morty keep solving problems by moving to a copy of their reality?
Q 4
If you were Morty and you had to bury a copy of yourself, what would you be thinking? How long would it take you to feel normal again?

Shadowing Practice

15 ~ 25 minutes

Shadowing is a repetition technique for more natural pronunciation.

How to use this section

Ask your students to memorize this passage from the transcript and repeat it back to you, being careful to match the pronunciation, inflection, and emotion they heard in the show.

This can be assigned as homework or practiced together during class time.

Start playback at time: 17:45

Where there are yellow-highlighted gaps in the passage, press on the gap to see the correct text.
1
Is that us?!
2
W-w-w-we're dead!
3
What is going on, Rick?
4
I'm freaking out!
5
Calm down, Morty!
6
Look at me! Calm down, Morty!
7
No, I can't deal with this!
8
Calm yourself, Morty.
9
I can't deal with this, Rick!
10
Calm down, Morty.
11
This can't be real!
12
You got to calm down, Morty.
13
W-w-w-w-we're ripped apart!
14
Shut up and listen to me!
15
It's fine. Everything is fine.
16
There's an infinite number of realities, Morty, and in a few dozen of those, I got lucky and turned everything back to normal.
17
I just had to find one of those realities in which we also happen to both die around this time.
18
Now we can just slip into the place of our dead selves in this reality and everything will be fine.
19
We're not skipping a beat, Morty.
20
Now, help me with these bodies.
21
This is insane.

Role Play

10 ~ 20 minutes

Students take the roles of characters and act out the scenes by creating their own version of events

Option
1
One student is Brad (Jessica's boyfriend) and the other is Morty. Brad doesn't understand why he is in love with Morty, but he keeps suggesting situations in which they can be together. Morty is trying to be polite and giving reasons why this is impossible.
Option
2
One student is Morty and the other is Rick. Morty blames Rick for being too arrogant and destroying the world. Rick thinks Morty is taking this too seriously, and besides everything worked out in the end.

Articles (a/an/the) Practice

5 ~ 30 minutes

Ask your student to click on any incorrect articles, or to click in the space before a word that needs an article.

Some articles may be correct already, but clicking on them will show an alternate option.

Morty
is
excited
about
going
to
a
dance
at
his
school,
with
his
classmate
Jessica.
He
asks
Rick
to
create
an
love
potion.
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Guessing Game

5 ~ 10 minutes

Ask your student to type letters and try to guess the expression

Some expresssions might have punctuation, like question marks (?), exclamation marks (!), hyphens (-), or single quotation marks (').

“Having sex with somebody”
???????
????????
Guess 15 more letters

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