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A Short Upper Intermediate Course in English Speaking and Listening 2016-2017 PAUL ANDREW JARVIS
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A Short Upper Intermediate Course in English Speaking and Listening
2016-2017
PAUL ANDREW JARVIS
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The materials contained in the following pages will be used in the classroom during my Upper Intermediate courses for the academic year 2015-2016. The required text for home study for students attending this course is 1000 Real Answers – English Phrasebook & Self Study Guide, available in both paperback and ebook from amazon.it: http://www.amazon.it/1000-Real-Answers-Phrasebook-Self-Study-ebook/dp/B00AUHFGC0/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1356087726
Audio files for 1000 Real Answers – English Phrasebook & Self Study Guide are available free at: https://soundcloud.com/paulandrewjarvis/sets/1000-real-answers
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Some Tips For Improving Your English
1) Forget your perfectionist principles and stop worrying about brutta figura. Not understanding things and making mistakes are a necessary part of the process of learning any language (including your own!).
2) Always learn the pronunciation of a word. As well as the phonetic transcription, note down an easy-to-pronounce word that rhymes with or contains the same sound as the new item:
through [ɵru:] [rhymes with “blue”]
daughter [dɔ:tə] [rhymes with “water”]
hurt [hə:t][contains the same vowel sound as “term”, “word”, “girl” and “turn”]
3) Many words change their meaning in different contexts. Learn meanings in context by collecting examples from books, newspapers, films, songs, conversations, etc:
through the tunnel – attraverso il tunnel
wet through – bagnato fradicio
the whole night through – tutta la notte
I can’t get through to her – a) non riesco a contattarla (telefonicamente); b) non riesco a farmi capire da lei
4) For longer words, be sure you know which syllable takes the primary stress. This will make pronunciation of these words much easier. You can mark the stress in a variety of ways. Decide which is most effective for you: afternoon [ӕftə’nu:n] [afterNOON] [afternoon] [afternoon]
5) Try to read something in English at least twice a week. Avoid articles on nuclear physics or the complexities of the Scottish political system. Read about things you’re interested in. Useful links:
music – http://www.qthemusic.com/
cinema – http://www.imdb.com/
travel – http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel
6) Try to watch something in English (with subtitles in English) for 20-30 minutes twice a week. Pick programmes and films that you enjoy: if you are more motivated to watch, you will learn more.
7) Check out the BBC’s Language Learning website. It has lots of useful activities to help you develop your reading and listening skills, improve your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and practise your pronunciation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
8) Expand your vocabulary, practise your listening and improve your spelling with other language learning activities: http://thelanguagebag.wordpress.com/
9) Online dictionaries are improving all the time and many allow you to listen to the pronunciation (sometimes both the British and American versions!) of the word you are looking up. Find one you like, and use it! I suggest WordReference: http://www.wordreference.com/
10) If you need my help because you miss a lesson or have difficulty understanding anything on the course, you can find me in the office next to the Language Laboratory at the times published in the LELIA (Laboratori) section of the uniba.it website.
The office telephone number is 080 5714013. If you need to contact me by email, use this address: [email protected]
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Glorious 39 Part 1 0.00.00 – 0.24.04
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) It’ll take a moment to warm up.
2) They adopted a child but then, lo and behold, along came the babies anyway.
3) It seemed that the policy of appeasing Hitler, reasoning with him, really had worked.
4) Ralph was doing very well at the Foreign Office.
5) Anne was in charge of most things.
6) I like your friend. The other one’s a little dotty.
7) What are they up to?
8) We made up stories about chubby men doing heroic things.
9) They were deeply flawed, our knights.
10) They slaughtered anyone who dared attack them.
11) Your father made some terrific speeches in the House of Commons.
12) Evil has to be stood up to.
13) Not enough people are speaking out.
14) In order to do that, one has to have the means.
15) It’s up to young MPs like me to get rid of our present leadership, which is leading us straight towards
our doom.
16) I’m used to his fiery outbursts.
17) That’ll fool everybody. Nobody will see through that.
18) It’s always the bit players who get delayed.
a) deceive
b) destruction
c) doing
d) eccentric
e) fantastic
f) giving someone what they
want so they don’t get angry
g) had serious fundamental
weaknesses of character
h) killed in a cruel or violent
way
i) less important actors
j) members of Parliament
k) ministry responsible for
relations with other countries
l) realise it’s not true
m) resisted
n) resources that make
something possible
o) responsible for organising
p) rotund, rather fat
q) saying publicly what needs
to be said
r) start working properly
s) sudden passionate
expressions of strong feeling
t) very surprisingly
B. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) They were all very close.
2) He’s a little upset.
3) Point of order, Mr Speaker.
4) The Honourable Member must retract that
immediately.
5) You’ve surpassed yourself!
6) How very sensible!
7) That is quite a claim!
8) Grumpy old girl!
9) How odd!
10) There was an awful crush.
11) Positively glowing.
12) No moaning!
a) Describing a place or an event where there were too many people.
b) Congratulating someone who has performed even better than usual.
c) Describing a bad-tempered woman.
d) Referring to someone (usually a woman) who is radiantly healthy.
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e) Observing that someone is unhappy or disappointed.
f) Expressing approval of a practical or prudent action or approach.
g) In the British parliament. (2)
h) Telling someone not to complain.
i) When you are sceptical about the veracity of what someone has said.
j) Describing a group of people who had a good relationship.
k) When you hear or see something very strange.
C. Complete the following sentences with a suitable verb form from the list below:
aches
averted
calling for
drowning
live up to
re-arm
rehearse
reminds
sleepwalking
stand up to
store
take over
1) The year before it had seemed war with Germany had been __________________ .
2) This _____________________ me of someone I used to work with.
3) You certainly _____________________ Anne’s description of you!
4) We’re not even _____________________ towards disaster. We’re going up to it and welcoming it with
open arms.
5) Hitler wants to __________________ Europe and we are letting him do it so long as he doesn’t bother us.
6) Even if we have let Germany __________________ , we mustn’t exaggerate how strong she is.
7) They view Mr Churchill as dangerous because he wants to _____________________ Hitler.
8) My heart __________________ and a drowsy numbness pains my sense as though of hemlock I had
drunk…
9) He asked if they could __________________ some government overflow with us. They’re
__________________ in paper apparently.
10) I don’t really feel the need to __________________: it’s the same old part for me, the jolly old
gentleman.
11) He’s been __________________ a change at the top, for a new prime minister.
D. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) Have you ever been in charge of anything?
2) What kind of things do you speak out about?
3) When was the last time you were upset?
4) When do you get grumpy?
5) Do you think you would have been in favour of appeasement or of going to war with Hitler?
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Glorious 39 Part 2 0.24.05 – 0.49.28
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) It’s an anthem that reaches back almost as far as your family.
2) I don’t think he can have bumped him off.
3) Mind you, he is rather spooky.
4) I’ve seen you in the theatre many times. One or two performances really stood out.
5) He had a hell of a lot packed away in our sheds.
6) In winter the sheds leak.
7) We’ve lost a terrific chance to do a lot of snooping.
8) The house is not aired.
9) There is this awful racket from next door.
10) The FO will be abuzz.
11) I’ve been too bound up with my work.
12) You’ll never guess what my servants have unearthed.
13) If this irritating war breaks out, the whole collection will get scattered.
a) are not waterproof
b) broken up
c) building where things are stored
d) busy, occupied
e) discovered
f) enormous quantity
g) foreign ministry
h) full of animated activity
i) furtive investigating
j) has been closed up
k) is nearly as old as
l) killed him
m) sinister, disturbingly mysterious
n) song for a choir
o) starts, happens
p) terrible noise
q) that being said
r) were particularly impressive or memorable
B. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) I think I might stretch my legs.
2) I put it away in the lumber room.
3) Is the balloon going up?
4) Flattery as well!
5) Today is looking up.
6) Time for some riotous living!
7) That’d be thrilling!
8) It’s clouding over.
9) No time for rehearsal.
10) I’m not quite sure how to put it.
a) Very enthusiastically accepting an invitation.
b) Explaining the whereabouts of a household object.
c) Announcing that you are going for a walk.
d) Describing a deterioration in the weather.
e) Expressing positivity about the immediate future.
f) Insisting that a film scene must shot immediately.
g) Proposing a hedonistic approach to life.
h) Expressing surprise when someone pays you a compliment.
i) Asking whether something will happen (e.g. if war is imminent).
j) When, perhaps out of embarrassment, you can’t find the words to express what you want to say.
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C. Complete the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb form from the list below:
1) Let’s hope he is an improvement ________________ the last one.
2) Are we allowed to wave ________________ Walter?
3) Come on everybody. We’ve got to walk ________________ all this food.
4) If we all fan ________________, we can cover a lot of ground.
5) I could find ________________ who your real parents were.
6) Should we be held ________________ our promise to Poland?
7) Can this be happening all ________________ again?
8) It’s an absolutely splendid thing to cheer people ________________!
9) It’s conceivable that the secret service are listening ________________ and recording the conversations
of those opposed ________________ the government.
10) These recordings could be used to blackmail people ________________ silence.
11) Information like that would bring ________________ the present leadership.
12) I know you have your eye ________________ him but he is engaged ________________ another.
at
down
in
into
off
on (2)
out (2)
over
to (3)
up
D. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) Are there any episodes from your schooldays that really stand out?
2) Can you think of a person or place you would describe as spooky?
3) Do you ever listen in to other people’s conversations?
4) Have you ever done any snooping?
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Glorious 39 Part 3 0.49.29 – 1.11.52
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) I’ve asked for a wireless to be sent up.
2) We’ll pick up from where we were.
3) Thy love is better than high birth to me, richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ cost, of more
delight than hawks or horses be.
4) I can’t get through to them on location.
5) I really was very fond of him.
6) It was a barrage balloon being inflated.
7) Lots of people are having their pets put down because they’re leaving town and they have nobody to look
after them.
8) Maybe you should watch the whole scene, get in the mood.
9) It’s utterly wrong!
10) We’re exploring the objectives that we set out and agreed upon at the last meeting.
11) The operation that was mounted on the first two individuals has been successful and they will be
troubling us no more.
12) She said that least there is one silver lining to this war: one won’t have to wake up every Friday
morning wondering if one has got the guest list right for the weekend.
13) We must stick together down here.
14) Having one’s life summed up can be very dispiriting.
15) Let’s listen to what the world is getting up to.
a) begin again
b) carried out
c) clothes
d) completely
e) contact by phone
f) depressing
g) described in a few words
h) doing
i) form of defence against aircraft attack
j) had great affection for
k) hunting birds
l) immerse yourself in the atmosphere
m) killed by lethal injection
n) listed, described
o) nobility
p) not cause any further problems
q) positive side (to something bad)
r) radio
s) remain united and loyal to each other
t) your
B. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) Come along.
2) Putting you through.
3) That is classified.
4) You must be so upset!
5) It was in a cupboard right at the back.
6) You’ll find it distressing.
7) He wasn’t quite there.
8) That was bit off.
9) Rewind.
10) A slip of the tongue.
11) Don’t give out on me!
12) Step out of the vehicle, please.
a) When you want to return to a previous point in the film you are watching.
b) Asking someone to follow you.
c) Begging your car not to break down.
d) Describing someone behaving uncharacteristically.
e) Explaining that certain information is confidential.
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f) When a police officer stops a motorist he/she suspects of breaking a law.
g) Explaining why an object was not found immediately.
h) Predicting that a scene or situation will cause someone emotional suffering.
i) Referring to something not entirely accurate or satisfactory.
j) Speaking to someone who has just lost a friend or relative.
k) Trying to justify a gaffe you have made.
l) When a telephone operator is connecting you to a specific person or office.
C. Complete the following sentences with a suitable verb from the list below:
1) You’re not waiting for me, ________________ you?
2) We thought we ________________ all be together and that you ________________ read to us.
3) It would be terrible if they ________________ expecting him.
4) ________________ been there, I dream about it nearly every night.
5) He ________________ have killed himself. But what if he ________________?
6) No one knows what each day will ________________.
7) We won’t ________________ Mr Balcombe anywhere near us, whatever he’s up to.
8) Two million people are ________________ evacuated today.
9) It would be good if you ________________ go to Norfolk.
10) He dislikes using the telephone almost as much as I ________________.
11) I’m so glad you’re here to ________________ me company.
are
being
bring
could
didn’t
do
having
keep
let
may
might
should
were
D. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) Are there any particular passages of literature that you like to read aloud or listen to?
2) Can you imagine any circumstances in which you might have a pet put down?
3) Is there ever a silver lining to not passing an exam?
4) In what kind of situations do you think it is important to stick together?
5) What might you say to a policeman who treated you as rudely as the officer in the film treats Anne?
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Glorious 39 Part 4 1.11.53 – 1.36.00
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) Mr Kennedy keeps going on about how much stronger Germany is than we are and how everything is
over for us.
2) Ralph here will now be in charge.
3) You must go and get yourself some jelly.
4) Do you think he realises the full extent of what they are doing?
5) There’s a motley collection of people who are trying to bring this war to an end before it’s even started.
6) They killed my friend Gilbert and they blackmailed Hector and drove him to kill himself.
7) I really have to have it. Proof is invaluable.
8) This explains your theatrical bent.
9) They won’t follow you into the vet. They’re far too squeamish.
10) You can’t join the queue until you have filled out a form.
11) We’re being inundated at the moment.
a) a gelatinous dessert
b) easily sickened or frightened (e.g. by blood)
c) finished
d) have an unmanageable amount of work
e) incongruous mixture
f) indispensable
g) insisting, repeating
h) line of people waiting
i) printed document with blank spaces for the
insertion of information
j) real seriousness
k) talent, predisposition
l) the boss
m) threatened with the revelation of secrets
B. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) I couldn’t bear to be away from him.
2) Isn’t that good timing?
3) He’s expendable.
4) I’m a tiny bit nervous.
5) I wasn’t that long.
6) Keep an eye out.
7) What things have come to!
8) I will find a way.
9) I don’t want to queue-jump.
10) I thought so.
11) Believe me, I can tell.
12) It needs a stamp.
a) When something happens at exactly the right moment.
b) Before doing an exam or making a public speech.
c) Referring to a letter you are going to send.
d) Affirming your ability to understand what someone is thinking or feeling without them telling you.
e) Promising to resolve an apparently insoluble problem.
f) Replying to someone who suggests you have spent too much time away.
g) Talking about someone you love.
h) Referring to the serious deterioration of a situation.
i) Telling someone to be careful and alert.
j) When your suspicions about something are confirmed.
k) Affirming that people who have been waiting longer than you should receive attention first.
l) Referring to a person whose death would be of no significance.
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C. Check that you understand the meaning of the following nouns, then use them to complete the
sentences below:
comparison
deal
effort
envelope
hunt
pets
purpose
recording
storage
urge
wallow
1) I had this incredible ____________________ to see him.
2) You’ll have time to have a really good ____________________ in the bath before you see him.
3) Everything’s gone now. It’s all in ____________________ .
4) I must volunteer too. I have to do something for the war ____________________ .
5) Would you organise the treasure ____________________ ?
6) They are determined to do a ____________________ with Hitler.
7) I’ve got a ____________________ of a meeting.
8) Put the evidence you have into an ____________________ and address it to someone other than me.
9) Are you here to have your ____________________ put down?
10) There are people crying out there. I think I’m quite calm in ____________________ .
11) We have a little room for precisely that ____________________ .
D. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) Would you be good at organising a treasure hunt or other activities for children?
2) What alternatives might there be to a wartime policy of having pets put down?
3) Are you squeamish in any way?
4) What is the best way to deal with people who try to queue-jump?
5) Can you tell easily what other people are thinking or feeling?
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Glorious 39 Part 5 1.36.01 – 1.59.52
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) I thought some homemade lemonade might do the trick.
2) They phoned me to say you were distraught.
3) When I got here, you had run out with the cats onto the common.
4) He is charmingly absent-minded but very influential.
5) Your father is chairing those meetings.
6) You will not bring that ghastly woman back here.
7) Now we need to find you something delightful to eat.
a) a piece of open land for public use
b) achieve the result we want
c) extremely good
d) horrible
e) inattentive to the immediate surroundings
f) presiding over
g) too upset to think clearly
B. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) People do find it upsetting.
2) I let them go.
3) Hot and cold flushes.
4) You’ve got a temperature.
5) Talk about a silver lining!
6) I rather despise it.
7) You are nothing to do with
me!
8) It was bound to come out
sooner or later.
9) You knew all along.
a) Referring to something you strongly dislike or are disgusted by.
b) Emphatically ending a family relationship or a friendship.
c) Reproaching someone for not having been completely transparent.
d) Explaining why someone is not feeling well.
e) Observing that it was inevitable a secret would be revealed.
f) Describing certain symptoms of unwellness.
g) Reacting enthusiastically to the discovery of an advantage to a difficult situation.
h) Admitting that you released animals into the wild.
i) Referring to a duty that causes emotional distress.
C. Match each utterance to the most appropriate response:
1) Why did you come right out here to this place?
2) I thought you’d never wake up.
3) Are you going to kill me?
4) I thought all the children had been evacuated from round here.
5) No word of condemnation for me?
6) Do you think we know?
7) There is just one thing. A little favour.
8) You knew!
a) Another one?
b) Because I couldn’t bear to do it near home.
c) I wish I hadn’t.
d) No, you were very young after all.
e) They have.
f) We just wanted to hear it from your own lips.
g) What sort of question is that?
h) Yes, I think you do.
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D. Complete with appropriate tag questions:
1) I’ll just leave it here, ___________________ ?
2) It’s like a vision of hell, ___________________ ?
3) The noise doesn’t help, ___________________ ?
4) It’s a little hot, ___________________ ?
5) You are a little feverish, ___________________ ?
6) You would not listen to me, ___________________ ?
E. Complete the following sentences using the prepositions and adverbs provided below:
1) People are finding __________________ what war really means.
2) I thought her house was all shut __________________.
3) This is Mrs Knight. She will look __________________ you.
4) Everything we believe __________________ will be destroyed if we get involved __________________
this ruinous war.
5) I certainly don’t sympathise __________________ the Nazi ideology.
6) You have turned __________________ a proper hostess.
7) Mrs Knight will get something __________________ her that will keep her quiet, sedated for days.
8) I told you to get __________________ with your life.
9) It would depend __________________ the condition.
after
down
in (2)
into
on (2)
out
up
with
F. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) What are the things you find most upsetting?
2) Is there anyone or anything you really despise?
3) How do you imagine Anne has spent her life in the years before she returns to see the family?
4) Are there any ideologies you sympathise with?
5) What did you most like and most dislike about the film?
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Manhattan Part 1 0.00.00 – 0.20.35
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) He thrived on the hustle and bustle of the crowds and the traffic.
2) To him New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles.
3) It was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture.
4) Would one of us have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save the person who was drowning?
5) The situation is getting out of hand and I don’t know what to do about it.
6) She’s very nervous, high-strung, overbearing.
7) When it comes to relationships, I’m the winner of the August Strindberg Award.
8) He writes that crap for television.
9) I thought it was very derivative.
10) I was going to do a piece on Sol LeWitt for Insights.
11) They’re such schmucks up there, really mired in Thirties radicalism.
12) I think Lewitt is overrated.
13) His view is so Scandinavian. It’s bleak.
14) It is the dignifying of one’s own psychological and sexual hang-ups by attaching them to these
grandiose philosophical issues.
15) He was a sucker for the kind of woman that would involve him in discussions of existential reality.
16) That’s gone out of date.
17) I was in World War II. I was in the trenches.
18) They watch their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out.
19) All you guys do is drop ludes, then percodans and angel dust.
a) a total disaster
b) almost beyond my control
c) anxious, easily agitated
d) considered better than he
really is
e) courage
f) desolate, depressing
g) domineering, arrogant,
dictatorial
h) fighting on the front line
i) inhibitions, neuroses
j) men capable of using every
situation to their own
advantage
k) noisy activity or confusion
l) not at all original
m) old-fashioned now
n) really liked
o) rubbish
p) slow destruction, decline
q) stuck, trapped
r) stupid or contemptible
people
s) take drugs of various kinds
t) televisions
u) write an article
B. Match each utterance to an appropriate response:
1) Don’t you want me to stay over?
2) I find these photographs interesting.
3) Do you ever use the camera I got you?
4) You sound like the mouse in Tom and Jerry.
5) How do you do?
6) You want to see the Sol LeWitt exhibition?
7) Why are you getting so mad?
8) It’s difficult to live in this town without a big
income.
9) Don’t break her neck.
a) Nice to meet you.
b) Because I don’t like that pseudo-intellectual
garbage.
c) Yes, so do I.
d) I don’t want you to get in the habit.
e) Sure. That’d be fun.
f) Yeah, plus I got two alimonies and child support.
g) I won’t.
h) All the time.
i) You should talk! You have a whiny voice.
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C. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) Too corny.
2) It’s going to be too preachy.
3) You have to excuse me a
second.
4) That’s really tacky.
5) It started out very casually.
6) I’m stunned.
7) It’s mind-boggling.
8) Don’t get carried away.
9) Move over.
10) It has negative capability.
11) What a creep!
12) My stocks are down.
a) Expressing shock or amazement.
b) When you need to go to the toilet.
c) Criticising something you consider in very bad taste or of very poor quality.
d) Describing, perhaps pretentiously, a work of art.
e) Explaining how you ended up having a relationship.
f) Commenting on the draft of a speech or text that sounds moralistic or sententious.
g) Explaining that your finances are not in healthy shape.
h) Referring to an unpleasant or disturbingly strange person.
i) Telling someone to make room for you on a sofa.
j) Criticising something you consider excessively clichéd or banal.
k) Warning someone not to become too excited or optimistic.
l) Describing something so surprising that it is difficult to comprehend.
D. Check that you understand the meaning of the following verbs, then use them to complete the
sentences below:
beat up
burst in
hung up
knocked
lowered
mate
mystify
outgrow
pick
screwed
spilled
tucked in
1) I’m older than her father. I’m dating a girl wherein I can __________________ her father.
2) I __________________ wine on my pants.
3) When I was your age, I was still being ___________________ by my grandparents.
4) You don’t want to get ___________________ on one person at your age.
5) As long as the cops don’t ___________________ , I think we’re going to break a couple of records.
6) I loved it when I was at college but you ___________________ it.
7) One more remark about Bergman and I’d have ___________________ her other contact lens out.
8) That will never cease to ___________________ me. He’s got a wonderful wife and he prefers to diddle
this yo-yo.
9) I think people should ___________________ for life, like pigeons or Catholics.
10) This is an audience that has been raised on television. Their standards have been __________________
over the years.
11) I’ve made a terrible mistake. I’ve __________________ myself up completely.
12) I’m not going to be able to __________________ the checks up at dinner.
E. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) How do you feel about hustle and bustle?
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2) Have you recently seen or heard anything you would describe as mind-boggling?
3) Is there anyone you would nominate for “The Academy of the Overrated”?
4) What is the best exhibition you have ever been to?
5) Do you agree that people should “mate for life“?
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Manhattan Part 2 0.20.36 – 0.42.35
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) We needed you and you have come through.
2) My worst one was right on the money.
3) It’s enough to turn you off women and it accounts for the little girl.
4) I like the way you express yourself: it’s pithy yet degenerate.
5) The minute you climb into the sack [with them], they’re so grateful.
6) I think it works. They made some studies. I read it in a psychoanalytic quarterly.
7) I say what’s on my mind and if you can’t take it, then fuck off.
8) You’re going to have this big grin on your face.
9) If I don’t get at least sixteen hours sleep, I’m a basket case.
10) You weren’t going slowly enough that you didn’t rip the front porch off.
11) Why can’t we have frankfurters?
12) Come on! It’s an electrical storm. You want to wind up in an ashtray?
13) I felt that I was deficient in some way.
14) I like it when you get an uncontrollable urge.
15) I don't look good in leotards.
16) Get the filthy look off your face.
a) be burned to death
b) broad smile
c) concise but meaningful
d) destroy the (covered) veranda
e) didn’t have all the necessary qualities
f) exactly the way it should be
g) explains
h) go to bed
i) I think
j) impulse, desire
k) it’s a problem for you
l) journal published 4 times a year
m) one-piece garments worn by dancers and
gymnasts
n) provided the help you promised
o) smoked sausages
p) stop you being attracted to
q) unable to function as a human being
r) very dirty
B. Match each utterance to an appropriate response:
1) Biting satire is better than physical force.
2) Why did you get a divorce?
3) That must have been demoralising!
4) You get many dates? I don’t think so.
5) Why don’t I just move out?
6) Why were you lurking outside the cabin?
7) Thunder scares me.
8) Where would we be without rational thought?
9) It’s not too crowded.
10) So what happens to us?
a) Because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
b) No, I do. I actually do.
c) It’s not my favourite sound either.
d) You rely too much on your brain.
e) No, I thought it would be jammed.
f) Well, you know, we’ll always have Paris.
g) I was spying on you guys.
h) No, physical force is better with Nazis.
i) I took it well under the circumstances.
j) No, I don’t want to break up a marriage.
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C. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) This is a wonderful turnout.
2) We fought a lot.
3) Just a straight F?
4) It’s really a knockout.
5) I think I’d better head back.
6) I’m a pushover!
7) You want to have a blintz
or something.
8) It was just a shot.
9) I won’t keep you.
10) I’m going stir-crazy.
11) He was just a louse.
12) You want to grab a bite?
a) In a restaurant.
b) When it’s time to return home or to work.
c) Asking someone if they would like to eat with you.
d) Commenting on the number of people attending an event.
e) Ending a telephone call to someone you know is busy.
f) When you realise you have let yourself be persuaded too easily.
g) Explaining why a relationship ended.
h) In a discussion about an exam result.
i) When you feel as though you are trapped somewhere without any prospect of escape.
j) Referring to someone you have a very low opinion of.
k) Talking about something you consider wonderful.
l) Explaining that you were trying without any real hope of success.
D. Complete the following sentences using the prepositions and adverbs provided below:
1) A satirical piece in the Times is one thing but bricks and baseball bats get right __________ the point.
2) The premise of the film is this guy screws so great that when he brings a woman __________ orgasm,
she’s so fulfilled that she dies.
3) I tried to run them both __________ with a car.
4) Yeah, I have a kid; he’s being raised __________ two women.
5) I guess I should straighten my life __________.
6) I’ve been making good money __________ it for years.
7) A few years ago I wrote a short story and I want to expand it __________ a novel.
8) I can’t have this argument every time I come __________.
9) I think we could have picked __________ these two women.
10) I’m sorry __________ calling but I thought maybe if you could get __________, we could go
__________ a walk.
11) I had tickets for this Vivaldi concert and he had to cancel __________ me.
12) They never come __________ in conversation.
away
by
for (2)
into
off
on
out
over (2)
to (2)
up (2)
E. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) Do you feel deficient in any way?
2) Have you ever felt like a “basket case”?
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3) What scares you?
4) Has anyone cancelled on you recently?
5) Is there anything you have always wanted to do since you were a child but never had the opportunity to?
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Manhattan Part 3 0.42.35 – 1.07 58
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) My family has never had affairs.
2) It’s like somebody is sawing a trumpet in half.
3) Don’t be angry. You brought this up.
4) What do you think I’m going to do? Hang myself?
5) I knew it couldn’t possibly work out.
6) You don’t get suspicious when he calls you up at 3 a.m. and weeps into the telephone.
7) Your self-esteem is like a notch below Kafka’s.
8) You guys all stick up for each other.
9) It’s like the toupee dropped on his head from a window ledge as he was walking along.
10) She deserves more than a fling with a married guy.
11) You look so beautiful I can hardly keep my eyes on the meter.
12) I’m drunk. I don’t know if you can tell or not.
13) You can’t be in love with me. We’ve been over this.
14) Not as old as I am but in the same general ballpark.
15) I got the feeling for about two seconds you were faking. When you dug your nails into my neck.
16) I was hoping you’d pick up.
a) a short sexual relationship
b) already talked about at length
c) answer (the telephone)
d) artificial hairpiece
e) cries
f) cutting
g) defend, show solidarity with
h) extremely low
i) instrument in taxi indicating cost of journey
j) it is perceptible
k) kill
l) of a similar number (of years)
m) pretending, simulating
n) projecting horizontal surface
o) pushed into with force
p) raised the subject
q) secret sexual relationships
r) succeed, end well
s) the hard smooth parts at the ends of your
fingers
B. Match each utterance to an appropriate response:
1) It’s a rumbling. Where the hell is that coming
from?
2) There’s brown water.
3) What are you doing?
4) The truth is that I love someone else.
5) That was wonderful.
6) I’d like everything to work out.
7) We never see you any more.
8) That building is almost completely torn down.
9) You should be doing other stuff.
a) I’m working on my book. I’m submerged.
b) Can’t they have those things declared
landmarks?
c) I’ll say!
d) It’s probably just the elevator shaft.
e) Like what?
f) The pipes are rusty.
g) You do?
h) It will.
i) You have to ask?
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C. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) I’m not a home wrecker.
2) I’ll get back to you.
3) Let’s fool around.
4) It’ll take your mind off it.
5) I’m all fucked up.
6) Don’t get thrown by this.
7) He led me on.
8) Right up your alley.
9) Is it awkward for you?
10) It screws up the environment.
11) I cannot get over it.
12) It’s a cinch.
a) Admitting to having psychological problems.
b) When you can’t provide an immediate answer to someone who has phoned or emailed you.
c) Putting forward an argument against owning a car.
d) Advising someone to respond calmly to an unexpectedly difficult situation.
e) Encouraging someone worried about something to engage in an unrelated activity.
f) Insisting that someone deceived you by giving a dishonest impression of his intentions.
g) Pointing out that something is extremely easy.
h) Asking your interlocutor about a potential problem or embarrassing situation.
i) Insisting that you do not want to be the cause of a marriage breaking up.
j) Observing that something is very much to your interlocutor’s taste.
k) Proposing sexual activity.
l) When you continue having difficulty believing that something has really happened.
D. Complete the following sentences using the adjectives provided below:
1) It’s not your fault. It’s a ___________________ situation.
2) You’ll think of me always as a ___________________ memory.
3) Your voice on the phone was very ___________________. Like the Pope, or the computer in 2001.
4) I’m not angry. I just knew it was going to end and, now it has happened, I’m ___________________.
5) What is this? You got a ___________________ beef sandwich here from 1951!
6) The wine made my face all ___________________ and hot.
7) You look like one of those ___________________ kids from Bolivia who needs foster parents.
8) My ex-husband was just this ___________________, brilliant kind of animal.
9) It’s another contemporary American phenomenon that’s truly ___________________: the novelisation of
movies.
authoritative
barefoot
corned
flushed
fond
moronic
no-win
oversexed
upset
E. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) What do you do to take your mind off problems?
2) What effects does wine have on you?
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3) Have you found yourself in any awkward situations recently?
4) In your opinion, how can we best avoid “screwing up the environment”?
5) Are there any contemporary Italian phenomena that you would describe as “truly moronic”?
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Manhattan Part 4 1.07 59 – 1.30.00
A. Match the words and expressions in heavy type to the definitions below:
1) The publishing house will shell out the money.
2) He longed to be an artist but balked at the necessary sacrifices.
3) You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?
4) Before you get wound up, there’s something I want to tell you.
5) This is shaping up like a Noel Coward play.
6) I wish you’d get angry so that we could have it out.
7) You guys should get your story straight. Don’t you rehearse?
8) The next thing you know you are in front of a Senate committee naming names.
9) I want to make sure when I thin out that I’m well thought of.
10) It’s always a mistake to look the other way because you always wind up paying for it.
11) I didn’t want to lead her on or anything.
12) I was a little pissed off at you.
13) Do you still love me or has that worn off?
14) 18 years old: they could draft you in some countries.
a) accelerate
b) agitated, angry
c) angry with
d) betraying your friends and colleagues
e) end
f) give her a false impression of what would
happen
g) have a good reputation
h) lose weight, die
i) make sure your versions of what happened are
the same
j) make you serve in the army
k) pay
l) practise
m) starting to resemble
n) strongly desired
o) the feeling disappeared
p) try to resolve the problem through frank
discussion
q) was reluctant to make
B. Match each utterance to an appropriate response:
1) The book makes me out to be Lee Harvey
Oswald.
2) I wrote some nice things about you.
3) I think I’ve always been in love with him.
4) I give the whole thing four weeks.
5) Where are you going?
6) You think you’re God.
7) Why is life worth living?
8) You really hurt me.
a) Well, there are certain things that make it
worthwhile.
b) I can’t plan that far in advance.
c) How does he feel about this?
d) I’ve got model myself after someone.
e) It was not on purpose.
f) Like what?
g) I’ve got to get some air.
h) It’s an honest account.
C. Check that you understand the meaning of the following nouns, then use them to complete the
sentences below:
acid
arrangements
blanket
charade
complaints
compromises
extravagance
fits
mind
moods
thirst
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1) I bought the car. I know it’s a meaningless ______________________ but I had to have it.
2) Making love with this masterful female made me realise what a bizarre ______________________ sex
with my husband was.
3) He was given to ______________________ of rage, Jewish liberal paranoia, male chauvinism, self-
righteous misanthropy and nihilistic ______________________ of despair..
4) He had ______________________ about life but never any solutions.
5) Just let me get a glass of water. I’m dying of ______________________ .
6) I’m stunned. I’m in a state of shock. Somebody should throw a ______________________ over me.
7) He’s in a coma. He had a very bad experience with ______________________ .
8) It’s early. You can change your ______________________ one more time before dinner.
9) Marriage requires some minor ______________________ , I guess.
10) I have to go. All the ______________________ have been made.
D. Match the expressions to the situations in which you might hear or use them:
1) I didn’t want to be a bad sport.
2) Whose side are you on?
3) The car lurched.
4) I give the whole thing four weeks.
5) What kind of foresight is that?
6) You’re too easy on yourself!
7) You’re so self-righteous!
8) So that’s that.
9) I think I blew that one.
10) Let me get right to the point.
a) Explaining why you had an accident.
b) Admitting that you probably wasted an opportunity.
c) Replying to someone you think is being moralistic.
d) Observing that a question has been resolved and there is now no possibility of reopening it.
e) When you are unimpressed with someone’s ability to think about possible consequences.
f) Predicting that a relationship will not last very long.
g) Replying to someone whose self-justifications you find unconvincing.
h) When you don’t have time for verbal niceties or preliminary conversation.
i) Explaining why you agreed to do something.
j) When you feel that a friend or partner appears to be supporting your adversary rather than you.
E. Write answers to the following questions, then ask the questions to your partner:
1) What are your extravagances?
2) What might cause you to have a “fit of rage”.
3) What kind of compromises do you think marriage (or being in a relationship with another person)
requires?
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4) In your opinion, what are the things that make life worth living?
5) What did you most like and most dislike about this film?
