Revision: Chapters One – Eleven (pp. 1-70)

I. Fill in prepositions where necessary.

1. Marcus couldn’t get used … being bullied … school.

2. … a fit … remorse Will sometimes applied … a job, filled … the forms, but all his attempts failed.

3. When Will started talking … his ex-girlfriend Jessica, they ended up sitting … silence and glaring … each other.

4. If Marcus hadn’t thrown a piece … sandwich … the duck, he wouldn’t have hit … it … the head, and the duck wouldn’t have died … it.

5. Will was sure that all parents had car seats … children … the back … their car.

6. The only reason … having children, Will thought, was to have someone to look … you when you are old.

7. Fiona was sure that only shallow people made judgments … the basis … clothes or hair.

 

II. Give the corresponding nouns (and adjectives where possible) to the following verbs.

fail _______________________         annoy _____________________________

bother ____________________     accuse ____________________________

warn _____________________     intend ____________________________

deceive ____________________     betray _____________________________

pretend ____________________     astonish __________________________

 

III. Rephrase the following sentences using the active vocabulary and the vocabulary of the exercises.

1. Moving to London was a very important point in Marcus’s life. Though he didn’t start liking kids at school, he hoped that things would become normal soon. His mum told him that he would get accustomed to it and he shouldn’t worry about things which were not important.

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2. Will had no girlfriend at the moment and was eager to begin a new relationship with some single mother. To his regret, it was not easy. Children didn’t let single mothers spend their free time anywhere.

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3. Fiona and her boyfriend Roger had a good relationship at first, but one evening, after a quarrel, they separated.

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4. Fiona had been feeling unwell lately. She blamed herself for being weak. It seemed to her that she was alone. She decided to kill herself.

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5. The accident with the duck in the park was absolutely unusual. Marcus was sure that the park keeper would be angry with him and would send him to prison. But all of a sudden, that trendy man, called Will, defended him and sorted things out.

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6. Will was proud that he was cool. He had never had a job and was not going to get one to earn his living. He lived on the money made from selling the Christmas song his father had once written.

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· Watching Video in Class

Episodes 4-7 (16 min: 12:50-28:38)

Will      Hugh Grant

Marcus Nicholas Hoult

Fiona    Toni Collette

Suzie   Victoria Smurfit

Plot:

· Will at SPAT;

· Will at the department store buying a car seat;

· Picnic in Regent Park;

· Suicide, hospital;

· Fiona back home.

 

Complete the sentences with the phrases from the film.

 

Woman at SPAT: By the time I had the baby, he was in Majorca with another woman,

not even the one he ________    _________________ (с которой изменил мне) the first time.

 

Will: The other day I was thinking about my ex. Ned came crawling up, put his little pudgy arms around my neck and said, “ _________________ (Держись, папа!)”

Suzie: God, that’s amazing for a 2-year-old boy!

 

Will: (going on a picnic): ______________________________________________

(Чем больше народу, тем лучше).

Will: ______________________ (Как жаль, что) Ned can’t come.

 

Will: How often do you look after him?

Suzie:  _____________________________ (Время от времени). His mum’s a little

 _______________ (не здоровится).

Marcus: You call it ______________________ (не здоровится), I call it

_______________ (крыша едет).

Suzie: She’s not _______________, she just needs a weekend __________________ (отдохнуть, расслабиться).

Will (about the bread): My god! What the hell is that?

Marcus:                    My mum’s __________________ (домашний) bread.

Will:                         It looks pretty good.

Marcus:                    No, it isn’t. It’s ______________ (полезный для здоровья).

Suzie (entering Fiona’s flat): _______________________ (Ты одета?)

Will (at the hospital): ________________________ (К тебе или ко мне поедем?)

 

Will (after the hospital): If Marcus’s mum couldn’t manage her own show, if her rating

were falling, it was sad, but _________________ (это была её проблема). Ultimately, the whole single-mum plot line was a bit _______________________ (сложный) for me.

Fiona:   We have to look after each other. The two of us.

Marcus (to himself): Suddenly I realized two people __________________________

(не достаточно). You need a ___________________ (поддержка, резерв, запасной). … Two isn’t a large number. You need three, at least.

 

 

Get ready to discuss the main characters of the novel. Use active vocabulary.

 

Sum up everything you know about Marcus, Will and Fiona and get ready to speak on:

 

- their past and their present lives;

- their principles;

- the strong and weak points of their characters;

- attitude of other people to them;

- your attitude to them.

 

Put down at least seven adjectives (for each) which might be used to describe these characters.

 

Marcus	Will	Fiona

 

 

You are welcome with any other questions or problems touched upon in the book to discuss in class.

 

Lesson 6