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Rick and Morty
Season 1, Episode 10
"Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind"

Rick and Morty (S1, E10) Plot Summary

Rick is eating breakfast with the family when suddenly he gets murdered. The show's original Rick is accused of murdering twenty-seven Ricks from alternate dimensions and kidnapping their Mortys for a reason we don't know yet.

The Trans-Dimensional [...]

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. 10 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
Do you eat pancakes? What's your perfect breakfast... vs what breakfast do you usually have, on an average day?
Q 2
Jerry has a coin collection. Do you collect anything? What has been your favorite thing to collect in your life?
Q 3
Did you have any adults in your life who were mean or rude to you when you were young? Does it really matter how adults speak to teenagers?
Q 4
In this episode we saw a pizza-people dimension. What's your favorite type of pizza? Do you ever order half/half pizza?

Key Expressions

Approx 25 ~ 50 minutes

Review these 25 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
Why is this a special day? What does Beth do to celebrate?

Check Understanding

15 ~ 20 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. At the start of this episode, why is tomorrow a special day for the family?
  2. What dimension is "our Rick" from?
  3. Why did Rick get arrested? Who arrested him? Where did they take him?
  4. Rick jokes: 'As they say in Canada, Peace Oot!". What does this joke mean?
  5. The other Mortys are timid and believe that they will die. Why is Morty C-137 different?
  6. Who was responsible for killing the other Ricks?

Discussion

25 ~ 45 minutes

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

Q 1
Why is Rick disgusted by the idea of the Citadel of Ricks? Do you think the Citadel is actually a good idea?
Q 2
Was it true that "Doofus Rick" comes from a dimension where everybody eats poo?
Q 3
If you were Morty, how would you feel about Rick, after having seen the Citadel and then finding out that Ricks use Mortys as camouflage? Would you still go on adventures with him anyway?
Q 4
Who is the Morty with the eye patch? What do you think his backstory is?
Q 5
Morty is a young teenager and Rick treats him very badly. Do you think Morty will be affected by this?
Q 6
In this episode we saw some "science fiction tropes": elements that are common in science fiction movies and books, especially from the 1960s ~ 1980s. For example, the "memory extraction" machine. Which other science fiction tropes did you notice?

Shadowing Practice

5 ~ 10 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: 15:30

Where there are yellow-highlighted gaps in the passage, press on the gap to see the correct text.
1
Jerry: Okay, look. Everybody
_______________
for getting these, but… you're a genius scientist, what do you think?
2
There's little R2D2s where the George Washingtons should be!
3
Doofus Rick: You know Jerry, I'm not gonna tell you that these will increase in value, or
_____________________________
.
4
The truth is… you
__________
‘cause you like ‘em.
5
They have value to you. That's what matters.
6
Jerry: How long are you staying?
7
Doofus Rick: Until we find your Rick.
8
Jerry: I found mine. I found mine.

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 Morty and the other is Rick. Morty just found out that Ricks use Mortys as shields and he's angry. Rick doesn't think it's a big deal.
Option
2
One student is the head of the council of Ricks, and the other is Rick C-137. The head of the council is accusing Rick of murder, but Rick thinks this is stupid.

Grammar Tense Practice

10 ~ 20 minutes

Decide on a tense and ask your student to click on it. They will have to fill in the plot summary in the tense of your choice.

1
Rick is eating breakfast with the family when suddenly he gets murdered......
next...
_____________
and then...
_____________
2
Rick and Morty escape and are chased by a few duplicates of themselves......
and then...
_____________
after that...
_____________
3
They capture the original Rick and Morty, but the original Morty leads a rebellion......
after that...
_____________
next...
_____________
4
Evil Rick is actually under control by an unknown puppet-master......
next...
_____________
following that...
_____________

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.

Rick
is
eating
breakfast
with
the
family
when
suddenly
he
gets
murdered.
The
show's
original
Rick
is
accused
of
murdering
twenty-seven
Ricks
from
alternate
dimensions
and
kidnapping
their
Mortys
for
a
reason
we
don't
know
yet.
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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 (').

“(formal/official) What do you say?”
????
???
????
Guess 11 more letters

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