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Ex. 1 Answer the following questions.
Describe the situation at Georgia’s workplace.
Describe the method of cooking “Poulet Tchoupitoulas”.
Speak on the “Book of possibilities”.
What happened to Georgia?
Why did Georgia decide to spend all her money and go to Karlovy Vary?
Name all the specialties from Chef Didier’s menu.
Why did Georgia think that God had changed her luck for the better?
How did Georgia succeed to charm Chef Didier and other people in “Pupp”?
How did people in “Pupp” find out that Georgia was dying?
Why did Sean decide to wade through snow himself?
Why did Kragen’s friends disapprove his behavior?
Speak on the situation on the ledge.
Did all the possibilities become realities?
Ex.2 Watch the film and find the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations. Reproduce the situations they were used in:
кожицей вниз |
дружеский жест |
вынюхивать |
цепной пёс |
вычесть из зарплаты |
упасть лицом вниз |
сделать предложение |
быть заклеймленным |
спустить деньги на ветер |
внести смуту/посеять раздор |
отдельная кабина в самолете |
мусорное ведро |
подмигнуть |
особый гость |
закадычный друг |
сообразительные люди |
топлёный свиной жир/сало |
ходить по острию/испытывать судьбу |
тонкий вкус |
легкомысленный/ немного не в себе |
очищенное топленое масло |
испытывать недостаток персонала |
благотворительная акция |
вкус к жизни |
врачебная тайна |
поставить неправильный диагноз |
целебные свойства |
лангуст |
Ex.3 Match the beginnings with the endings to form word-combinations from the film. Translate them and remember the sentences they were used in.
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Ex.4 What do the abbreviations and word combinations mean?
CAT scan
HMO
IRA
BASE jumping
Ex.5 Watch the film and fill in the gaps. Reproduce the dialogues and translate them.
– What brings you to … ?
It’s that smell, to tell you the … . I can’t … it. It … down the escalator, usually I can resist, but …
Oh, well, please … some.
I’ll probably get fired over this. Did you ever have a … that triggers a memory? This smells like … house.
– What? I got three weeks to live? Are you … me?
Four on the … . I’m sorry.
– What’s going on here?
It’s an … here. I’m sorry, but we’ll have to go … . I can’t believe this happened on New Year’s … .
Ex. 6 Whom do the following utterances belong to? Say how they characterize the speaker and what circumstances they were made:
Now, this is only for the brave ones. For those who don’t get a lot of heartburn.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Well, what do you mean, you won’t cover me?
You wait and you wait for something big to happen and then you find out you’re gonna die.
Now, I’m not flying all the way to Prague with some stranger in my lap.
Don’t that ceiling ever just make you want to cry?
I haven’t quite figured out this money yet.
Make me international.
Next time, stick this in my neck.
I’m still on my break for two and half more minutes.
What do I do for fun, madam? I shine the guests shoes when they leave them out in the hall.
Well, then you go back to school.
I would like to be cremated. Spent my whole life in a box. I don’t want to be buried in one.
Next time we do things different. We will laugh more, we’ll love more. We’ll see the world. We just won’t be so afraid. Happy New Year.
I’m gonna put somebody else on the cover of the magazine.
Ex. 7 Fill in the gaps. Give analysis of the quote.
“Life is easy if you are a … or a shiitake mushroom but the turnip is to be loved because she’s a self-made woman of … . All the others you can only destroy with … . But the turnip, she gets … . So, you see, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.”