Task I. Fill in the missing parts. How does the way people talk and act (their manners, choice of words, intonation) characterize them?
1. Darcy: Mother, I don’t need a blind date, particularly with some verbally incontinent spinster who …………….. like a chimney, ….. ………….like a fish and ………….. like her mother.
2. Bridge: I suddenly realized that unless something changed, soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a ……………………... And I’d finally die, fat and alone, and be found three weeks later ………………. by wild dogs.
3. Bridge: Equally important – will find a nice ……………boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic ………………… to any of the following:.…,.…, commitment-phobics, peeping Toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. And especially not …………………. about a particular person who………………. all these things.
4. Bridge: Message Mr.Cleaver. I am ………….by message. Skirt is demonstrably neither sick nor absent. …… by the management’s …………. size-is attitude to skirt. Suggest management is sick, not the skirt.
5. Bridge: A very bad start to the year. Have been ……………….. by the informality of messaging medium into ………….. with office scoundrel. Will …………….. with resolution to find a nice sensible man. Will put a stop to …………. first thing tomorrow.
Home Assignment:
1. Study the vocabulary, put the words into your dictionaries down.
2. Prepare a vocabulary card (to fill, to hold, to appall, to blow, to distract, to inflict, to commit, to derange, to be poised, thoughtful, blatant, posh, gripping, attachment).
3. Watch the film up to 00:22:25 (up to the end of the party, time can vary). Summarize the contents of the sequence you have seen, describing Bridget in details and her relations with people around.
4. Remember the first conversation between Bridget and Mark (00:02:49), which was a very awkward one. Role play such kind of a conversation in pairs (build up a dialogue first).
GUIDE II
Active vocabulary: To fix (up smb with smb), to dread, incontinent, attachment, to fantasize (about smb/smth), to staple (smth to smth), demonstrably, gorgeous, to suck up, to ooze, to boss (people around), to inflict (on smth), gripping, to fanny, skimpy.
Task I. Match the words with their definitions
| to fill | an affectionate relationship |
| to hold | offensively noticeable |
| to appall | showing careful thought |
| to blow | exciting or interesting in a way that keeps your attention |
| to distract | Make (someone) insane |
| to inflict | to be or cause to be balanced or suspended |
| to commit | smart, elegant, or fashionable; exclusive |
| to derange | to be or cause to be in motion |
| to be poised | (often passive) to draw the attention of (a person) away from something |
| thoughtful | occupy the whole of |
| blatant | be in a long-term emotional relationship with (someone), be dedicated to (something) |
| posh | to impose (something unwelcome, such as pain, oneself, etc. |
| gripping | to fill with horror; shock or dismay |
| attachment | be able to drink (a reasonable amount of alcohol) without becoming drunk or suffering any ill effects |
Task II. Fill in the gaps with missing prepositions
1. Jones, sod’em all. It was a brilliant post-modernist masterpiece……… oratorical fireworks.
2. So that means that people write things ……….. us and then we print ………. all the pages and fasten them together and make ……………. into what we call a book, Jones.
3. Ah, anyone else want to have it ………….?
4. Now it’s the winter …………my life, and I actually haven’t got anything of my own. I’ve got no power, no real career, no sex life – I’ve got no life at all. I have been talent-spotted. Julian thinks I’ve great potential as a demonstrator ………….his cable show. Apparently, it’s the highest-rated show ……… the channel. Well, apart from the one where the fat people beat ……………their relatives.
5. Look at this. “Paying …………. this heart-shaped pendant. One of my own personal recommendations is this absolutely stunning matching necklace and earring set”. Well, has she actually moved …………… then?
Task III Translate the words in brackets
1. BRIDGET: It’s the truth universally acknowledged that the moment one area of your life starts going OK, another part of it (разлетается с треском на куски).
2. MARK: Thought I might make it a (полностью прошедший даром) weekend. DANIEL: I got to go back to town. A meeting’s coming up.
BRIDGET: On a Sunday?
DANIEL; No, the meeting’s first thing tomorrow. I’ve got to work on some figures.
BRIDGET: We could just (заскочить) the party for a minute.
3. DANIEL: Well, the truth is, we’re the same, Bridge, you and me. You know? We’re two people of (определенного возраста) looking for the moment to commit and finding it really hard. And (в конце концов it’s got to be something extraordinary, something that makes us go that extra mile. And I think Lara and me … There’s no (нелегко) to say this, but I wanted you to be the first to know that we’re engaged.
Home Assignment:
1. Study the vocabulary, put the words into your dictionaries down.
2. Prepare a vocabulary card (To fix (up smb with smb), to dread, incontinent, attachment, to fantasize (about smb/smth), to staple (smth to smth), demonstrably, gorgeous, to suck up, to ooze, to boss (people around), to inflict (on smth), gripping, to fanny).
3. Compose and then role play a dialogue between Bridget and her father and then btw her and Mark Darcy (00:37:37-00:39:11) using your active vocabulary.
4. Watch the film up to 00:59:48 (before the moment, when Bridget’s trying to cook for her birthday party) and describe her way to success in career in written form.
GUIDE III
Active vocabulary: to hold (smb down), blip, misapprehension, to gamble (one’s life on smb/smth), pulp (to bit smb to a pulp), (to get) sacked (for doing smth), (to be) overlooked, outfit, inarticulate, hard-headed, to extradite, tantamount, seedy, haughty