This is the middle 7 minutes from the season 3 episode, "The One Where No One's Ready". I use the phone conversation that starts at around 5:00 to about 6:50.
There's nothing wrong with playing from the beginning to give students more context. The whole episode is on Youtube divided into 3 parts. However much of the stuff won't actually help build context so you could just set the scene verbally.
Anyway the conversation is Monica talking to Michelle (after Monica calls Michelle and hangs up on her to check if Richard was seeing someone else - Monica had heard a message from a woman after beeping into Richard's answering machine and wanted to make sure it was his daughter Michelle rather than a new girlfriend. Then when she talks to Michelle, Michelle seems to be threatening to tell her father, Richard, Monica's ex, that Monica beeped into Richard's answering machine and listened to his messages.
Anyway, filling in the missing conversation bits is extremely tough, especially in the middle where Monica wanders off and students have to fill in both speakers' lines.
This is for advanced speakers.
Posted by James Trotta at May 23, 2009 4:50 AMESL blog is one of many Blogs for learning English & teaching English. Translation services information.