EPISODE 1
Vocabulary notes:
exhilarating display
to mystify ,
to dump smb. -,
to barf over smb. -
incredibly disgusting
salacious gossip
to have no business mucking around
I have a problem hanging onto relationships
to cavort with
to start by dating a guy ,
Sounds needlessly vicious
to pull the switch
Thats cookie
Alls fair in love and war
to dangle the bait
to have an ethical problem
to rift/peek through the purse
a clutch
to catch a movie
to bring out the big guns
to look gorgeous
to get ahold of smb. -
drastic measures
to obsess over smbs old girlfriends
1.1 Decide whether these statements are true or false:
1. Andie wanted to write about things that didnt matter anything.
2. Andie got NBA Final tickets.
3. Magazine Composure was the fastest growing mens magazine in the country.
4. DeLauer Diamonds was looking for a new ad agency.
5. If the most beautiful woman in the world acted the way Michelle did, any normal guy would still go running in the other direction.
6. Andie was going to use the classic mistakes most women, like Michelle, made all time while dating a guy.
7. Benjamen could make a woman fall in love only with him.
8. Benjamen decided to win the bet and made the pitch to the DeLauers.
9. Andie had a Masters in journalism from California.
10. A clutch is Andies secret source of power.
11. A baby-fern was just like their relationship.
12. The dog was already potty-trained.
13. Frost yourself is the slogan for the compaign.
14. Ben wore diapers till he was seven.
15. Bens friends thought that she was a kind of mental person.
1.2 Look at the sentences and decide who says the following. Give an appropriate translation: (Andie, Jeannie, Andies boss, Ben, Green)
1. I busted my butt in grad school.
2. Ten to one shes wallowing.
3. What a hellish ordeal for you.
4. I was thinking that I could start by dating a guy and then drive him away.
5. I am going to have this guy running for his life.
6. The guys hate clingy, needy, touchy-feely.
7. I want to handle this pitch.
8. She has to feel giddy, desirous, adventurous and desperate.
9. You get to wear the goofy-looking helmet.
10. Denying your subconscious desires is extremely dangerous to your health, young lady.
11. I suppose your mind is a complete blank.
12. I hope you brought your appetite, girl.
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13. A helpless little baby in need of tender loving care.
14. You are acting completely insane.
1.3 Translate from Russian into English:
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1.4 Watch again and answer the questions. Try to give some more details:
1. What was written in Magazine Composure?
2. What did Andie want to write in the magazine?
3. What was the bet?
4. How did they manage to choose each other?
5. Where did they go together firstly? How was Andies behavior?
6. What was the movie that they caught?
7. How did she decorate his house? Did he like it?
8. What did he cook for her? And what was her reaction?
9. What did Ben think about Andie in 5 days?
10. What was the breed of a dog? What was its name? And why?
11. What was Bens idea when he heard a word frosting from Andie?
12. What is the city where the action takes place?
13. Did Ben like Celine Dion concert?
14. Where did she get a copy of a key from his flat?
EPISODE 2
Vocabulary notes:
to schedule an emergency session
to freak out
to be pure of heart
to read people
to get scalded
to be spunky
to be insatiable
to be uppity
to be a wagering enthusiast
clutch
brake
gears
2.1 Decide whether these statements are true or false:
1. Ben called Andie his girlfriend.
2. Mr. DeLauer controlled 50% of the worlds diamonds.
3. Mrs. DeLauer could not controll Mr. DeLauer.
4. The average Composure reader is spunky, insatiable, uppity.
5. Ben was a very talented advertising executive.
6. Ben was a knowledgeable sports fan.
2.2 Look at the sentences and decide who says the following. Give an appropriate translation: (Andie, Ben, Bens mother, Andies boss)
1. I know a therapist who will work wonders with somebody like you.
2. You are hitting on our shrink.
3. You are a pathological flirt!
4. Betrayed by my own parents.
5. Dont you break his heart, now.
6. Theres a lot of cool thing about a bike, you know?
7. This shows me youre ready to be unleashed.
2.3 Number the sentences in the right order and translate:
How to ride a bike:
1. The gears are on the left.
2. A little give, a little go.
3. When we take off, you are going to give a little bit on the clutch.
4. Turn it on.
5. There we are.
6. Keep this clutch in.
7. Brake here on the right.
8. You are going to go a little bit here.
9. A little clutch and a little brake.
2.4 Translate from Russian into English:
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2.5 Watch again and answer the questions. Try to give some more details:
1. What did Bens friends advise him after their quarrel?
2. What was the game at parents house?
3. Why did Andie decide to quit? What things helped her?
4. Where was she going to go after it?
5. Do you think they will be happy after all?
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OCEANS ELEVEN
Vocabulary notes:
first conviction
to be implicated
schemes and frauds ()
to get into a self-destructive pattern
to start out
to draw out the bluff
I fold
to keep smb. on the leash ,
to knock over a casino
to take the house
to breath out of a hose
to torpedo casino
to work with proper villains
to venture
to be rigged with
reconnaissance
dealers rotation
surveillance
a visual impairment
obsequious
to be in a snit
to suffocate
to trigger the vault
to refute
to comply with request
1.1 Decide whether these statements are true or false:
1. The casino was beneath 100 feet of solid earth.
2. The security system had vocal confirmation.
3. The security system was rigged with sensors.
4. There were 80-90 million dollars on the weekend.
5. Security had an eye and an ear on everything.
6. They decided to build an exact replica of the Bellagio vault to practice.
7. The grease man should get to the door without touching the floor.
8. They stole a pinch (a bomb) at California Institute of Advanced Science.
9. Such bomb would be worked without destruction and death.
1.2 Look at the sentences and decide who says the following. Give an appropriate translation: (Rusty, Daniel, Terry Benedict, Linus)
1. Im about to propose is highly lucrative and highly dangerous.
2. Its not your brand of vodka.
3. Be specific, but not memorable.
4. An explosive incendiary device has been detonated.
5. Just out of curiosity.
6. Thats an issue with availability.
7. You think we need one more?
8. The taupe is very soothing.
9. That is the best part of my day.
10. In my hotel, theres always somebody watching.
11. That my cue.
1.3 Give Russian equivalents:
1. to commit the crime
2. to get out of a clink
3. accessible vault
4. to take the house
5. to employ an ex-convict
6. authorized Personnel only
7. to pay debt to society
8. to handle personally
9. to blow the power
10. to be in violation of parole
1.4 Give English equivalents:
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1.5 Watch again and answer the questions. Try to give some more details:
1. What cities were mentioned?
2. What were the most successful robberies in the world?
3. What three casinos were going to be robbed?
4. Whom did they want to get robbed?
5. How many were they? Can you name them all? What was each duty?
6. What was the second task?
7. What was the fourth task?
8. What was the fifth task?
9. How many tasks were there? What was the last?
10. How much money did they steal? And what was the occasion on that day?
11. How did they manage to take money outside?
12. How did Daniel return his wife back?
1.6 Discuss the following issues:
1. What could happen if Terry Benedict didnt decide to ruin Reubens casino?
2. What could happen if Daniels wife didnt part with him?
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN.
THE DEAD MANS CHEST
1.1 Complete the following sentences:
1. Its bad luck for the groom...
2. No doubt youve discovered that loyalty is...
3. Consider into your calculations that...
4. They intend to do him the honour of...
5. There comes a time when one must...
6. If you do happen to get captured, just say Jack Sparrow sent you...
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7. And how do you intend to...
8. If we were any kind of decent, wed remove...
9. Abandon... or abandon...
1.2 Give Russian equivalents:
1. Stand your men down at once!
2. You and your fiancée face the hangmans noose.
3. I have faith in you.
4. She faces the gallows!
5. What has the world done to you?
6. Im deeply flattered.
7. to secure smbs freedom
8. to take care of smbs immortal souls
9. to condemn an innocent man
10. to share the punishment
1.3 Give English equivalents:
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Supplementary reading
1.1 Read and retell the text using the vocabulary notes:
Vocabulary notes:
important cult
the local governor -
to gain control over
absence of importance
to be restored as
to be sacked
preserved monuments
to be covered by , -
funerary temples
Thebes
Thebes is the capital in ancient Egypt, and the centre of the most important cult in Egypt, centered around Amen. The name "Thebes" is Greek, while the Egyptian name for the city as "Apet" or "Apit".
Thebes lied on the east side of the Nile, in the centre of today's Egypt, 700 km south of modern Cairo. Luxor and Karnak now lie where Thebes once was. The city became important during the 11th Dynasty (21st century) when the local governor gained control over the entire Egypt, and Thebes stayed on as capital until the 14th century when Akhenaten became Pharaoh. This absence of importance lasted only 2 decades, after which it was restored as capital. With the attack of the Assyrians in 661, Thebes was sacked. In Ptolemaic times, it remained important, but it was destroyed by the Romans and lost its importance forever. Thebes has some of the best preserved monuments of Ancient Egypt, even if the old settlement is now covered by modern houses. At Karnak, the temple of Amen lies. This was constructed for the first time around 2000, but was built on for 2000 years. The temple that lies in modern Luxor centre, was begun in 1417. Many more important monuments lie on the western side of the Nile. These the Ramesseum of Ramses 2, the temple of Ramses 3, and the temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the necropolis. The necropolis has many funerary temples, among them the one of Tutankhamon.
1.2 Read the text and answer the questions:
Real Hamunaptra
In actual history, a city called Hamunaptra (City of the Dead Man) was found in India in the 1850s when British engineers, trying to build a railroad, pillaged the area for bricks. In the 1920s, archaeologists began serious excavations. They found at the site a lost civilization occupying an area greater than that of Pakistan. It was a complex, literate, urbanized, centrally located society. Raw materials located in the area indicated that the civilization had long-distance trade with Mesopotamia. The civilization ended between 1900 and 1700, which archaeologists accredit to a new group of horse-riding invaders. However, there is no evidence to prove any hypothesis of why the civilization might have become extinct.
With the passage of time, Hamunaptra became a lost city, the subject of legends. As a result, by the 1920s, the decade in which most of the film's action takes place, its existence is doubted by serious scholars.
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Questions:
1. What was another name for Hamunaptra?
2. Where was it found and when?
3. What kind of society was it?
4. What happened to civilization next?
5. Was it a real place? What do you think about it?
1.3 Read and retell the text using the vocabulary notes:
Vocabulary notes:
urban areas
on the very edge of the city
ancient temples
ancient tombs
noisy honking of horns
grandest accommodations
incredible selection of
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt, the Triumphant City is one of the world's largest urban areas and offers many sites to see. It is the administrative capital of Egypt and, close by, is almost every Egypt Pyramid, such as the Great Pyramids of Giza on the very edge of the city. But there are also ancient temples, tombs, Christian churches, magnificent Muslim monuments, and of course, the Egyptian Antiquities Museum all either within or nearby the city.
Cairo, Egypt is an amazing city full of life and movement, and it is that way almost 24 hours every day, with the noisy honking of horns, children playing in the streets and merchants selling their wears and services. And here, the Egyptians are most at home in this powerful, modern and ancient city.
Cairo, Egypt provides great culture, including art galleries and music halls, such as the Cairo Opera House, as well it should, being one of the largest cities in the world. It also provides some of the grandest accommodations and restaurants in the world, such as the Four Seasons and the Cairo Marriott.
Cairo offers an incredible selection of shopping, leisure and nightlife activities. This is, and has been for over a thousand years, truly a shopper's paradise.
1.4 Read and retell the text using the vocabulary notes:
The ten plagues in Egypt
Vocabulary notes:
to turn to blood
to stretch out
frog spawn
gnats
the only obstacle
polluted river
without moisture
to remove obstacle
insect explosion
to be distinguished from
grievous swarm
grievous murrain ( )
to go unharvested
a boil breaking forth with blains
hailstorms
livelihood
to cause boils and blisters
to strip crops
to eat the residue
culprit ,
to black out the sky
Water to Blood
The Bible says: the Nile turned to blood at the touch of Moses's staff.
It stretches out upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
Frogs
All the fish will be killed; no fish means more frog spawn, which means more frogs. And a polluted river would drive them on to the land in their millions.
Gnats
Without moisture the frogs died, removing the only obstacle to an insect explosion and the biblical story is long before "lice" were distinguished from other insects. It may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Flies
The Bible says: there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh. Fly swarms are not uncommon, and this plague was probably of stable flies, which bite.
