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5)Hit yourself ____ the head ____ a baseball bat.

6)I should sent ____ her some flowers.

7)I am ___ the phone ____ these people twice a week.

8)We don’t get this crime bill ___ ours ___ Congress.

9)You can brief ___ the press.

10)We want to announce the crime bill ___ the State ___ the Union, which is 72 days _____ today.

6.Watch this part of the movie and listen to it carefully. Which word or phrase do the characters use to express the meaning of the underlined part of each sentence below? Circle a, b, or c .Use the words and word-combinations in a necessary form.

1)We need to plan more events for a particular time where somebody gives me a really big fish.

a)to scheme

b)to scandalize

c)to schedule

2)He seemed worried.

a)to conceal

b)to concern

c)to concise

3)You dropped the whole handguns paragraph.

a)to dunk

b)to dump

c)to dust

4)He seemed to make clear that it was very good news.

a)to indulge

b)to intent

c)to indicate

5)I do not need their help getting a formal statement of a new law passed.

a)bill

b)bile

c)bind

6)Sir, took part in this issue.

a)to catch on

b)to campaign on

c)to carry on

7)You can give the information to the press this afternoon.

a)brief

b)briefs

c)brim

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8)We have never gone wrong all moving in the same direction with you as the lonely widower.

a)to parade around

b)to parade up

c)to parade down

9)Get everybody direct the attention towards the crime bill.

a)to follow up on

b)to foist off on

c)to focus on

10)When we are not at the office and we are alone, you can call me Andy.

a)to be out

b)to be off

c)to be in

11)He just needs your document that proves that you are legally allowed to drive a car.

a)license plate

b)driver’s license

c)artistic lice

12)Janie, this never existed in the past .

a)to be unprincipled

b)to be unoccupied

c)to be unprecedented

13)The President has a critically wrong judgment about reality.

a)misjudged

b)misplaced

c)misled

14)I do not know what to say. I am temporarily unable to talk.

a)topless

b)speechless

c)breathless

15)I thought maybe we might have a word without other people present.

a)on public

b)in probability

c)in private

7. Complete the sentences as much closer to the context as possible.

1)Lucy called just a moment ago. You forgot to…

2)Three years ago we were elected to the White House by one of the narrowest margins in history and today Kodak tells us …

3)For reasons passing understanding, people do not …

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4)We are going to need detailed projections for…

5)We are playing hardball with Andrew Shepherd, and …

6)You have the Attorney General at 4:00 and…

7)Your social studies teacher said your class…

8)We have got 22 instructors from…

9)Let’s clear this off the table and get everybody…

10)The day the government starts subsidizing private schools is…

11)Mr. MacInerney doesn’t want us to leave, because…

12)The President has asked me to convey you that…

13)I apologize for interruption, but…

14)The best scientists in the world have given …

Post-viewing exercises

1.Write an “ inner conversation” in which Sydney reveals her thoughts and feelings about the President’s telephone call.

2.Role play.

Imagine the end of the telephone talk between Sydney and Shepherd. Make up a dialogue of your own.

3.Give a summary of this part of the movie.

4.Write an essay on the topic: “The role of Global Defense Council in American political life.”

Part 2

Pre-viewing exercises

Glossary

accuse (v) – to say that a person has done wrong, that he has broken the low or that he is to be blamed

agenda (n) – things to be done; a list of things to be settled at a business meeting behead (v ) – to cut off the head of

benefit (n) – help, advantage, profit, improvement

bomb (n) – a hollow iron ball or shell filed with explosive

booth (n) – a shelter made of boards or canvas especially one where goods are sold in a market or at a fair; a place for a special purpose, such as a voting booth at the elections

carnival (n) – feasting and merrymaking of a noisy kind cavity (n) – a hole or a hollow place

challenge (n) – a call or invitation to fight, to run a race, to play a game C.I.A. – Central Intelligence Agency

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custody (n) – care or guardianship, the duty of taking care of; imprisonment decisive (adj.) – causing a thing to be decided; settling something; showing a decision

doubt (n) – uncertainty of mind, not feeling sure

draft (n) – make a sketch, outline or rough plan of something to be made or written

escort (n) – a man going with another person or valuable goods for protection or honor; an armed guard

escort (v) – to go with as an escort

espionage (n) – the system of using spies, especially by the government to learn the naval military secrets of another nation

estimate (v) – to form an opinion or a judgment about the quality, size or value of something

explore (v) – to travel into or through little-known parts (land or sea ) in order to learn more

explosion (n) – a sudden and violent bursting as a bomb explosion flunkey (n) – a man-servant in livery

gain (n) – what is obtained by trade, work, effort, gambling

get off (v) – leave, go away; escape punishment, misfortune or loss

hammer (v) – to attack ; to defeat ; to produce as a result of hard work ; to strike or bit with a hammer (an instrument with a metal head and a handle) headquarters (n) – a place from which activities are controlled and from which orders are sent out

ignorance (n) – want of knowledge or experience; the state of being important impertinent (adj.) – not showing respect; not to the point

innocent (adj.) – free from guilt or wrongdoing; knowing nothing of evil or wrong

janitor (n) – a doorkeeper or porter; a caretaker lack (n) – want, shortage or need

lack (v) – to be without

liberty (n) – the state of being free ; (pl) – privileges or rights granted by authority

lobby (v) – try to win support by talking to members in the lobby mansion (n) – a large building divided into flats, an apartment house massive (adj.) large, heavy, solid; powerful

mock (v) – to make fun of; ridicule

mockery (n) –a contemptuous laughter; a person or thing that is mocked or ridiculed

perception (n) – the act or power of perceiving (receiving into the mind; understanding)

perish (v) – to be destroyed, to come to an end perishable (adj.) – liable to perish quickly

pick up (v) – to take hold of and lift up; to raise oneself after a fall

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priceless (adj.) – beyond price, invaluable; (slang ) most amusing, extremely absurd

residence (n) – having one’s home in or at; actually occupying an official residence

shift (v) – to move from one place to another; manage in the best way possible, without help from others

staff (n) – a group of persons working together; a group of officers engaged in planning and organizing

staff (v) – to provide with a staff

survey (n) – a general view, the act of looking over something carefully survey (v) – to study, to inspect

1.Translate the following word-combinations from English into Russian. Give synonyms or definitions.

1)to be at liberty to say

2)a pit bull

3)a prom queen

4)to hire somebody’s reputation

5)to be clocked with an egg timer

6)to develop ignorance

7)a kink in a system

8)a luncheon speech

9)a grazing right

10)political gain

11)a short-range weapons system

12)liberal bias

13)to fence pole out of somebody’s butt

14)in a virtue of proportional response

15)to have a date

2.Translate the following word-combinations from Russian into English. Use the word-combinations in the sentences of your own.

1)коктейль-вечеринка

2)достичь экономического роста

3)заслужить доверие

4)исследование общественного мнения

5)обсудить поправку к законопроекту

6)выглядеть по-королевски

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7)заседать, быть в сборе

8)вести кампанию (например, в печати)

9)быть на борту

10)расторгнуть договор

3. Translate the following sentences from the movie from English into Russian.

1)The crime bill is priority one on the President’s domestic agenda.

2)One minute I was calling him a mockery of an environmental leader.

3)I informed Ms. Wade that in my country, the guests at the Palace of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would soon find their heads in a guillotine if they made the impertinent gesture of dancing without so much as a by-your-leave from the King and the Queen.

4)This was just delivered by the White House messenger. It is marked

“perishable”.

5)I have got a cavity in my upper bicuspid region.

6)If you are curious about the mansion, there is probably a book you can get…

7)What shift puts the fewest people in the building?

8)What I did tonight was not about the political gain.

9)Leon, somewhere in Libyan right now there is a janitor working the night shift at the Libyan Intelligence Headquarters.

10)Each kid is playing one of the original delegates, and they debate the Amendments.

4. Read the comprehension questions and predict the answers.

1)Describe a reception organized by the president’s administration in honor of the president of another state?

2)What’s the community’s opinion about the president’s private life?

3)What does the abbreviation C-STAD mean? Why do the President and his staff often mention it?

Viewing exercises

1. Complete the dialogues. a)

SYDNEY: “Mr. President, I ____ _______ there's an _____________

________ to say at this _________. _________ some ________ _________for the nice-ass remark would be ___ _______. I just don't quite know how to it.” SHEPHERD: “It's my _______. I shouldn't have ______ you at ______. Should

I ________you at the office tomorrow?

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SYDNEY: “No, sir, of _______ not. I mean -- yes, you can call me anytime

_____want-- this is fine. ______ ____is fine. When I said "of course not," I meat

that...You know what? The hell with it-- I'm _________ to another _________.” SHEPHERD: “What ______ you _______ when you said you don't have a phone.”

SYDNEY: “I just moved to Washington over the weekend, and my

___________ isn't ready yet. This is my sister's apartment. Come to think of it, how _____ you _____this number?”

SHEPHERD: “How did I get the number? That's a ____________ question. I don't know. Probably the _____.”

SYDNEY: “The FBI. Sure. 'Cause i-if you ______to ______ someone and you're the __________, that's who you would call.”

SHEPHERD: “You know who else is _______ ___ that?” SYDNEY: “The _______?”

b)

KODAK: “We just had his name __________ under "_____________" How'd you _____ the _______ _______ out of his?”

LEWIS: “I ______I could take _______. He just said, "Lewis, I __________ the President a __________ __________." Not the ______, the President.”

LEWIS: “We're ________ ___ win this in a walk. It's like a kissing booth at a

________. _______ us a ________, get a photo-op with number 63.” LEWIS: “We should _______ _______after the handguns.” KODAK: “We gotta do ____ ________ at __ _______.”

LEWIS: “We don't have _______ ____ _________ one thing at a time.” c)

SHEPHERD: “That's a ________ ________, Luce.”

LUCY: “It____ _____________ to be tight. It's supposed to_______ you

_______ ________.”

SHEPHERD: “Is it supposed to ______ ____ the blood ______ to my

_______?”

LUCY: “All done.”

SHEPHERD: “Not bad. Where _____ you ________ how to do this?” LUCY: “__________ _________.”

SHEPHERD: “Very _______. Really, where did you learn?” LUCY: “I don't know...I just _______...”

SHEPHERD: “__________, did Mom teach you how to do this?” LUCY: “Yeah.”

SHEPHERD: “Lucy, is this ________ ______ you? My________

_________with a woman?” LUCY: “It's ________ okay.”

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d)

LEO: “It's ____________ unfair. But you've spent a lot of time _______ the

______telling me the _________ ______ the _______________ _______ is that we don't understand the ____________ _______ that _________ is__________.

This is a bad time to ___________ __________.”

SYDNEY: “You_____ ________ way _____ ______ of this.”

LEO: “Am I? This is your time, Sydney. You're sitting at the _________-ups'

________. You ______ a _________ to get everything you want -- _____ a

______ _________, be a ________ _________ inside the ________. But this

___________ had better go all the way, because with the _________ of the

_____world there is no __________. Politics is perception, and if thing don't

______ _____, the amount of time it'll take you to go from being a _______

_____ to a ________ ______ joke can be ________with an _____timer.” SYDNEY: “Leo, there is no relationship. It was one night. It's done.”

LEO'S SECRETARY: “Mr. Solomon, this was just __________ ____ White House __________. It's marked "___________."”

2.Switch off the volume of the sound and watch the video clip “ The formal reception in honor of the French president”. Write down verbs that describe the actions in the scene. Pay attention to non-verbal communication (body posture, gestures and facial expressions) and the settings to get a general idea of what is happening in the scene. The video clip should be played two or three times. Describe what you have seen in the scene. Imagine the conversation between the characters. Then watch the clip once more with the sound to be sure in the context.

3.Understanding the main points.

1)What did Sydney feel after a sudden telephone call made by Andrew Shepherd?

2)Did Sydney apologize for her disbelieve? What was the President’s reaction to it?

3)How did Andrew Shepherd find Sydney’s number?

4)Where did the President want her to join him in?

5)What was George Jarrett? Why was it very important for the President’s election campaign to get him in?

6)What were Sydney and David talking about on the phone?

7)Was Rumson a candidate of Republicans who could mount a serious challenge?

8)Why did Lucy tie a tie to her father?

9)Where was Andrew Shepherd going?

10)Was Sydney glad to be at a formal reception?

11)What was Ester’s opinion about how the President and Sydney had met?

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12)Did Sydney often date?

13)Did Sydney speak any foreign languages?

14)What was the conversation between D’Aster and Sydney about?

15)Did Sydney worry about her dancing with the President of the U.S.A.?

16)Why did the President want a florist telephone number?

17)Why was Leo concerned about Sydney’s date?

18)What made everybody think about Sydney’s as a President’s girlfriend?

19)Did Andrew Shepherd want to discuss Sydney’s issue with his staff?

20)How did Lucy meet Sydney? Did one like another?

21)Why did the President talk about C-STAD on the phone with the Prime minister of Israel?

22)Why could not Rumson and his staffers run the campaign the way they wanted?

23)Why did Shepherd have to cut the evening with Sydney short?

24)Why did Shepherd order to attack the Libyans?

4. Explain whether the sentences are true or false.

1)Sydney did not call the President back.

2)Andrew Shepherd told Sydney that she was not equal to join him in representing of the country.

3)The latest public opinion survey showed the President with approval ratings that would make him all but unbeatable.

4)Lucy said that she learned to tie a tie at social studies.

5)Shepherd wanted Sydney to think that he was a regular guy.

6)A.J. asked Sydney not to make the French President too bored.

7)Andrew Shepherd wanted to be different from the other guys.

8)Ester spoke French to the French President that evening.

9)Andrew Shepherd was shocked to hear Sydney speaking French.

10)The President sent Sydney a dogwood as a present after reception.

5. Insert prepositions where necessary.

1)I just moved ____ Washington ______ the weekend, and my apartment is not ready jet.

2)I will not let you ______, sir.

3)How would you get the fence pole_____ ___this butt?

4)We do not have time to do one thing ____ a time.

5)Congress is ____ session, right, I am not wrong _____ that.

6)I just got ____ _____ Luther Simons.

7)I am just looking ________ ___ a pleasant evening.

8)Is it supposed to cut ____ the blood flow ____ my face.

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9)The President wants you to join him upstairs ____ the residence.

10)Sydney, come ____ ___. You look beautiful.

6.Watch this part of the movie and listen to it carefully. Which word or phrase do the characters use to express the meaning of the underlined part of each sentence below? Circle a, b, or c. Use the words and word-combinations in a necessary form.

1)I just get along with Luther Simons.

a)to get off with

b)to get out

c)to get in with

2)Right now, I just feel happy and exited about a pleasant evening.

a)to look out for

b)to look forward to

c)to look down on

3)Is it supposed to break the blood flow to my face?

a)cut-and-dried

a)cut the mustard

b)to cut off

4)Sydney, let’s go. You look beautiful.

a)come on in

b)come up with

c)come in for

5)They explained it to me in details.

a)take over

b)take through

c)to take up on

6)I seemed to have a lot of first dates.

a)to be going out

b)to bo going of with

c)to be going through with

7)I am not allowed to say.

a)to take ethe liberty of

b)to take liberties

c)to be at liberty

8)It is supposed to make you be suitable for a king.

a)to look regal

b)to look a fool

c)to look sharp

9)I wished I could be praised for that.

a)to take a fancy

b)to take a tan