“What is a friend?”
Do you know the answer to this question? Can you describe the qualities of a good friend? In this episode, Forky talks about friendship and the characteristics of a friend.
This is Forky’s definition of friendship:
“Someone you can just sit with and say absolutely nothing and still have the best time.”
Below are some of the points Forky mentions to describe a good friend:
1) A good friend reminds you to smile.
2) A good friend is kind to you.
Besides, Forky reminds us that we should appreciate our friends. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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Do you know the answer to this question? Can you describe the qualities of a good friend? In this episode, Forky talks about friendship and the characteristics of a friend.
This is Forky’s definition of friendship:
“Someone you can just sit with and say absolutely nothing and still have the best time.”
Below are some of the points Forky mentions to describe a good friend:
1) A good friend reminds you to smile.
2) A good friend is kind to you.
Besides, Forky reminds us that we should appreciate our friends. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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Let’s take a look at this list and see what we learned from Forky today:
1) carry someone/something around = to physically carry someone or something to many places
“Bonnie’s mom always carries him around when she’s on the phone.”
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2) say something over and over = to repeat something constantly and repeatedly
“She says over and over…”
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3) take your time = do something as slowly as you like; do not hurry
“Take your time, no rush.”
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4) tickle fight = a long but fun fight with someone, in which no violence is present.
“You know what friends really like? Tickle fights!”
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5) cut it out = stop; used to ask someone to stop doing or saying something annoying or offensive
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6) knucklehead = a stupid person
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7) inanimate = without life or spirit; not alive
“You know that's just an inanimate ceramic mug, don’t you?”
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8) spork (spoon + fork) = an eating tool that combines the bowl of a spoon with the tines of a fork
For example, Forky is a type of spork.
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9) I can’t thank you enough = said when one is very appreciative of another’s words or actions
Piece of cake, huh? Now that you know their meaning, try to pronounce them as Forky and Hamm do. #ForkyAsksAQuestion
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1) carry someone/something around = to physically carry someone or something to many places
“Bonnie’s mom always carries him around when she’s on the phone.”
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2) say something over and over = to repeat something constantly and repeatedly
“She says over and over…”
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3) take your time = do something as slowly as you like; do not hurry
“Take your time, no rush.”
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4) tickle fight = a long but fun fight with someone, in which no violence is present.
“You know what friends really like? Tickle fights!”
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5) cut it out = stop; used to ask someone to stop doing or saying something annoying or offensive
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6) knucklehead = a stupid person
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7) inanimate = without life or spirit; not alive
“You know that's just an inanimate ceramic mug, don’t you?”
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8) spork (spoon + fork) = an eating tool that combines the bowl of a spoon with the tines of a fork
For example, Forky is a type of spork.
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9) I can’t thank you enough = said when one is very appreciative of another’s words or actions
Piece of cake, huh? Now that you know their meaning, try to pronounce them as Forky and Hamm do. #ForkyAsksAQuestion
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فورکی مفهوم هنر رو بررسی میکنه و چیزهای جالبی راجع به بازیگری یاد میگیره. #فورکی_سؤال_میپرسه #سریال
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Did you miss Forky? No worries, he is here with another good question.
In episode three, he is wondering what art is, and he asks Mr. Pricklepants to help him. The first thing you might notice about Mr. Pricklepants is his accent, which is different from Forky’s. He seems to speak in a British accent, and that is why he talks differently.
Let’s take a look at their conversation and see how they define art.
Forky: So, what is art?
Mr. Pricklepants: Well, Forky, art is a means through which important feelings and thoughts are conveyed, utilizing creativity, skill, and imagination.
Forky: Hmm. What is art?
Mr. Pricklepants: You know, sculpture, and painting, and music, and, in my case, acting. Now, repeat that back to me.
Forky: Scooping, and pants, and moo-lacta.
Mr. Pricklepants: Very good, Forky. You were using mimicry, one of the cornerstones of acting.
Mr. Pricklepants seems to have a wide range of vocabulary, and you really like to listen to him when he talks. To simplify what he means by those definitions, here are some of the new vocabulary that he has used.
• convey = express feelings and thoughts to other people
• utilize = make use of something
• creativity = the use of the imagination or original ideas to make something new
• skill = the ability to do something well
• imagination = the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful
• sculpture = the action or art of making statues
• mimicry = the act of copying the way someone speaks and moves, often in order to make people laugh
• cornerstone = something of great importance on which everything else depends
So, according to Mr. Pricklepants’s definition, art is a way to express feelings and thoughts, using our abilities and ideas; we think and imagine, and then we create or act. Something that Forky seems to be good at is acting. But how does he do that? He repeats Mr. Pricklepants’s words and tries to copy the way he talks, which is called mimicry.
Mr. Pricklepants comes up with an idea when he sees that Forky likes acting. He wants to teach him how to act, and Forky, who was Bonnie’s art project, proves that he can be a good actor. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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In episode three, he is wondering what art is, and he asks Mr. Pricklepants to help him. The first thing you might notice about Mr. Pricklepants is his accent, which is different from Forky’s. He seems to speak in a British accent, and that is why he talks differently.
Let’s take a look at their conversation and see how they define art.
Forky: So, what is art?
Mr. Pricklepants: Well, Forky, art is a means through which important feelings and thoughts are conveyed, utilizing creativity, skill, and imagination.
Forky: Hmm. What is art?
Mr. Pricklepants: You know, sculpture, and painting, and music, and, in my case, acting. Now, repeat that back to me.
Forky: Scooping, and pants, and moo-lacta.
Mr. Pricklepants: Very good, Forky. You were using mimicry, one of the cornerstones of acting.
Mr. Pricklepants seems to have a wide range of vocabulary, and you really like to listen to him when he talks. To simplify what he means by those definitions, here are some of the new vocabulary that he has used.
• convey = express feelings and thoughts to other people
• utilize = make use of something
• creativity = the use of the imagination or original ideas to make something new
• skill = the ability to do something well
• imagination = the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful
• sculpture = the action or art of making statues
• mimicry = the act of copying the way someone speaks and moves, often in order to make people laugh
• cornerstone = something of great importance on which everything else depends
So, according to Mr. Pricklepants’s definition, art is a way to express feelings and thoughts, using our abilities and ideas; we think and imagine, and then we create or act. Something that Forky seems to be good at is acting. But how does he do that? He repeats Mr. Pricklepants’s words and tries to copy the way he talks, which is called mimicry.
Mr. Pricklepants comes up with an idea when he sees that Forky likes acting. He wants to teach him how to act, and Forky, who was Bonnie’s art project, proves that he can be a good actor. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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To further understand what Mr. Pricklepants is talking about, let’s take a look at some of his other lines.
– Basically, an actor pretends to be another. You inhabit their space, transform yourself, and transform the audience.
– Concentrate! Pretend to be someone else, and give me magic.
– You fooled a master of the acting arts.
– Oh, Forky, you disappoint me. Maybe the arts are beyond your grasp.
Mr. Pricklepants uses some useful words in the above sentences as well. Let’s take a look.
• pretend = behave as if something is true when you know it is not
• inhabit = live in or occupy a place
• transform = change the appearance or character of something or someone
• audience = a collection of people watching or observing something
• concentrate = focus
• fool someone = play a trick on someone
• master = teacher, instructor
• disappoint someone = to make someone feel unhappy because something they hoped for did not happen or was not as good as they expected
As we mentioned before, Forky seems to be a good acting student and here is how he uses his gift of words: “Bonnie made me. I was her art project. And I love Bonnie, so maybe I was created to make her feel good things, like love.” #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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– Basically, an actor pretends to be another. You inhabit their space, transform yourself, and transform the audience.
– Concentrate! Pretend to be someone else, and give me magic.
– You fooled a master of the acting arts.
– Oh, Forky, you disappoint me. Maybe the arts are beyond your grasp.
Mr. Pricklepants uses some useful words in the above sentences as well. Let’s take a look.
• pretend = behave as if something is true when you know it is not
• inhabit = live in or occupy a place
• transform = change the appearance or character of something or someone
• audience = a collection of people watching or observing something
• concentrate = focus
• fool someone = play a trick on someone
• master = teacher, instructor
• disappoint someone = to make someone feel unhappy because something they hoped for did not happen or was not as good as they expected
As we mentioned before, Forky seems to be a good acting student and here is how he uses his gift of words: “Bonnie made me. I was her art project. And I love Bonnie, so maybe I was created to make her feel good things, like love.” #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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We are here with another great episode from Forky, which focuses on time.
Have you ever thought about it? What is time really? Forky has the same question in episode four, and it would make sense to ask Old Timer—who is an elderly alarm clock—but we all know Forky; he always has a surprise for us! Eventually, he decides to go to Rex, the dinosaur. Rex is one of the old-timers in the Toy Story series, having been there right from the beginning.
The first part of their conversation seems a little bit weird, though. Let’s see.
Forky: Boo! Boo!
Rex: Why are you booing me?
Forky: I don’t know.
Forky “boos” Rex, which is an act of showing displeasure for someone or something—often in response to players or entertainers—by loudly yelling boo ad sustaining the “oo” sound by holding it out. Booing is usually followed by hand signs, like the thumbs down. But even Forky doesn’t know why he is doing it. Well, all right, let’s look at the rest of their conversation.
Forky: What is time?
Rex: Well, Forky, let me explain it to you this way. Now is now, stuff happens, then it’s later.
Forky: Ho-ho, slow down, poindexter.
Rex: Time can be future or past. For example, in the past, dinosaurs walked the Earth. Back then, my kind was known as the King of the Dinosaurs. Oh, I wish I could’ve seen that.
Forky: What’d they eat?
Rex: Sauropods, Triceratops, you know, creatures from the Cretaceous period.
After explaining the concept of time to Forky in a simple way, he calls Rex a poindexter, which refers to a bookish or socially unskilled person. Another word for poindexter can be “nerd.”
Also, you might have noticed that Forky speaks in a casual way and not formal at all. For instance, instead of saying, “What did they eat?” He says, “What’d they eat?” Which is a contraction of “what did.” For example:
What’d (what did) you do last night?
Why’d (why did) she say that?
Next, Rex talks about a period of time when dinosaurs like him still existed, and he also points to their extinction.
Forky: Did they eat with a spork?
Rex: No. Sporks weren’t invented yet.
Forky: What?!
Rex: This is 65 million years ago. Real dinosaurs ate with dagger-line teeth. Of course, then the asteroid made them extinct.
Forky (not understanding Rex properly): Your hemorrhoid was a stink?
Rex: No. Asteroid—like a giant ball that bounces on the Earth and wreaks havoc.
But all kidding aside, Forky comes to the realization that he prefers the present and says, “You know what? The future and the past sound great, but I think I like the ‘now.’ I get to spend time with you.” And who better to spend our moments with than the people we love. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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Have you ever thought about it? What is time really? Forky has the same question in episode four, and it would make sense to ask Old Timer—who is an elderly alarm clock—but we all know Forky; he always has a surprise for us! Eventually, he decides to go to Rex, the dinosaur. Rex is one of the old-timers in the Toy Story series, having been there right from the beginning.
The first part of their conversation seems a little bit weird, though. Let’s see.
Forky: Boo! Boo!
Rex: Why are you booing me?
Forky: I don’t know.
Forky “boos” Rex, which is an act of showing displeasure for someone or something—often in response to players or entertainers—by loudly yelling boo ad sustaining the “oo” sound by holding it out. Booing is usually followed by hand signs, like the thumbs down. But even Forky doesn’t know why he is doing it. Well, all right, let’s look at the rest of their conversation.
Forky: What is time?
Rex: Well, Forky, let me explain it to you this way. Now is now, stuff happens, then it’s later.
Forky: Ho-ho, slow down, poindexter.
Rex: Time can be future or past. For example, in the past, dinosaurs walked the Earth. Back then, my kind was known as the King of the Dinosaurs. Oh, I wish I could’ve seen that.
Forky: What’d they eat?
Rex: Sauropods, Triceratops, you know, creatures from the Cretaceous period.
After explaining the concept of time to Forky in a simple way, he calls Rex a poindexter, which refers to a bookish or socially unskilled person. Another word for poindexter can be “nerd.”
Also, you might have noticed that Forky speaks in a casual way and not formal at all. For instance, instead of saying, “What did they eat?” He says, “What’d they eat?” Which is a contraction of “what did.” For example:
What’d (what did) you do last night?
Why’d (why did) she say that?
Next, Rex talks about a period of time when dinosaurs like him still existed, and he also points to their extinction.
Forky: Did they eat with a spork?
Rex: No. Sporks weren’t invented yet.
Forky: What?!
Rex: This is 65 million years ago. Real dinosaurs ate with dagger-line teeth. Of course, then the asteroid made them extinct.
Forky (not understanding Rex properly): Your hemorrhoid was a stink?
Rex: No. Asteroid—like a giant ball that bounces on the Earth and wreaks havoc.
But all kidding aside, Forky comes to the realization that he prefers the present and says, “You know what? The future and the past sound great, but I think I like the ‘now.’ I get to spend time with you.” And who better to spend our moments with than the people we love. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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To better understand the words used in the fourth episode, let’s review them together:
• explain = make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it
• slow down = be less active and relax more
• walk the Earth (idiom) = exist
• The Cretaceous period = the period from millions of years ago that ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs
• invent = create or design something new
• dagger-like = having the characteristics of a blade; like a blade
• asteroid = large, irregularly shaped objects in space that orbit the Sun
• extinct = having no living members (e.g. dinosaurs are extinct)
• wreak havoc = cause great damage
• grasping the gravity of something = fully understanding the seriousness of something
• collision = an instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another; crash
• depressing = upsetting
Pretty easy, huh? Now that you know their definition, try pronouncing the words above exactly as Forky and Rex do. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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• explain = make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it
• slow down = be less active and relax more
• walk the Earth (idiom) = exist
• The Cretaceous period = the period from millions of years ago that ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs
• invent = create or design something new
• dagger-like = having the characteristics of a blade; like a blade
• asteroid = large, irregularly shaped objects in space that orbit the Sun
• extinct = having no living members (e.g. dinosaurs are extinct)
• wreak havoc = cause great damage
• grasping the gravity of something = fully understanding the seriousness of something
• collision = an instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another; crash
• depressing = upsetting
Pretty easy, huh? Now that you know their definition, try pronouncing the words above exactly as Forky and Rex do. #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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Hi, guys! What’s up?
Today’s question may seem easy at first, but it is not so easy when you try to explain it to Forky, given how handful he is and how easily he gets bored!
In the fifth episode, Forky struggles to understand what a computer is, and to help with that, he asks Trixie to give him a better understanding.
Forky introduces Trixie as someone who clicks a lot and yells at the screen and asks her if she has studied computers at a university. As the conversation continues, Trixie realizes that Forky has been watching Bonnie’s mom’s British TV shows, and that is why he is speaking kind of weird. For example, he uses “boot,” which is the British way of saying “trunk” (of a car).
Further in the conversation, the more Trixie tries to describe computers, the more confused and bored Forky gets. Take the conversation below, for example:
Trixie: A computer has storage and a processing unit…
Forky: Lost again.
Trixie: Ugh! A computer is a tool which makes calculations to…
Forky: So very, very lost!
Trixie: Computer, smart box for doing?
Forky: Nope! I’m still lost—beyond hope of ever being found.
This is where Trixie gives up and admits that with a computer, you just click a lot and yell at the screen, which is all Forky needs to hear! So, he jumps on the keyboard and starts clicking, yelling,and dancing , probably. He continues whatever it is that he is doing until the computer starts beeping. Yes, that is right! Forky makes a mess and erases the contents of Trixie’s hard drive. She stresses that computers are everything to her, but Forky tries to convince her that working with a computer cannot be as meaningful as talking to one another.
Do you think Trixie is convinced? Of course not! To her, computers ARE everything! #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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Today’s question may seem easy at first, but it is not so easy when you try to explain it to Forky, given how handful he is and how easily he gets bored!
In the fifth episode, Forky struggles to understand what a computer is, and to help with that, he asks Trixie to give him a better understanding.
Forky introduces Trixie as someone who clicks a lot and yells at the screen and asks her if she has studied computers at a university. As the conversation continues, Trixie realizes that Forky has been watching Bonnie’s mom’s British TV shows, and that is why he is speaking kind of weird. For example, he uses “boot,” which is the British way of saying “trunk” (of a car).
Further in the conversation, the more Trixie tries to describe computers, the more confused and bored Forky gets. Take the conversation below, for example:
Trixie: A computer has storage and a processing unit…
Forky: Lost again.
Trixie: Ugh! A computer is a tool which makes calculations to…
Forky: So very, very lost!
Trixie: Computer, smart box for doing?
Forky: Nope! I’m still lost—beyond hope of ever being found.
This is where Trixie gives up and admits that with a computer, you just click a lot and yell at the screen, which is all Forky needs to hear! So, he jumps on the keyboard and starts clicking, yelling,and dancing , probably. He continues whatever it is that he is doing until the computer starts beeping. Yes, that is right! Forky makes a mess and erases the contents of Trixie’s hard drive. She stresses that computers are everything to her, but Forky tries to convince her that working with a computer cannot be as meaningful as talking to one another.
Do you think Trixie is convinced? Of course not! To her, computers ARE everything! #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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In this post, we take a look at the words Forky used. Some of these words are related to computers. Let’s first have a look at them.
• click = select (an option on an electronic interface) by pressing a button or touching a screen
• screen = the part of a television or computer where the picture or information appears
• storage = the way that information is kept on a computer
• processing unit = the part of computer hardware that processes data
• tool = something that you use to do a particular job
• calculation = when you use numbers to find out an amount, price, or value
• hard drive = the part of a computer where information and programs are stored, consisting of hard disks and the electronic equipment that reads what is stored on them
• erase = to remove information from a computer memory
• soak up = to learn something quickly and easily
• technical = connected with practical knowledge, skills, or methods
If you remember, Forky also used British words and expressions in this episode. What do you say we take a look at some of them? Please note that some of these are informal, everyday words.
• blimey = used to express surprise
• boot = an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage
• kerfuffle = unnecessary noise and activity
• brassed off = exasperated
As you can see, Forky had been so influenced by Bonnie’s mom’s British TV shows and was constantly trying to use these words and imitate the British accent. So, it’s not for nothing that watching movies and TV series is recommended for English learners!
We hope that Forky influences you in the same way! #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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• click = select (an option on an electronic interface) by pressing a button or touching a screen
• screen = the part of a television or computer where the picture or information appears
• storage = the way that information is kept on a computer
• processing unit = the part of computer hardware that processes data
• tool = something that you use to do a particular job
• calculation = when you use numbers to find out an amount, price, or value
• hard drive = the part of a computer where information and programs are stored, consisting of hard disks and the electronic equipment that reads what is stored on them
• erase = to remove information from a computer memory
• soak up = to learn something quickly and easily
• technical = connected with practical knowledge, skills, or methods
If you remember, Forky also used British words and expressions in this episode. What do you say we take a look at some of them? Please note that some of these are informal, everyday words.
• blimey = used to express surprise
• boot = an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage
• kerfuffle = unnecessary noise and activity
• brassed off = exasperated
As you can see, Forky had been so influenced by Bonnie’s mom’s British TV shows and was constantly trying to use these words and imitate the British accent. So, it’s not for nothing that watching movies and TV series is recommended for English learners!
We hope that Forky influences you in the same way! #ForkyAsksAQuestion #Series
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