I can’t believe I’d never come across the episode with Friends where Joey gets a thesaurus! This episode would be so great as part of a lesson teaching dictionary and thesaurus skills. You could cover issues of register, the issue of translating multi-word phrases, common vs. proper nouns, and avoiding the “word salad” phenomenon of stringing words together that don’t make sense on the sentence level.
Friends hasn’t aged well on many levels, but this clip could still work well in the classroom.
Hat tip to Fiona for telling me about this.
Jennifer MacDonald 