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Episode 20 proper names:

Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) – one of America’s most popular poets

Questions and tasks:

1. Why was Robbie worried about his family life?

2. What idea came into his head?

3. What is “quality time”?

4. How did Robbie offer to solve the problem of his family? Did it fit in with Ellen’s schedule?

5. Did they solve the problem of the family? How?

6. Do you think you spend enough quality time with the people you love?

7. What is the quality time for you?

CARRIER. (Episodes 21, 22)

Vocabulary to episode 21 “a big fish in a little pond”

I II

to be on one’s mind a real dilemma

to be offered a job with to have a fantastic reputation

a major accounting company to work out something

a big decision to support somebody

to affect somebody or something to make a sacrifice

a client in the garment business to get one’s feelings about smth

to do taxes to delay something

a big sales office a once-in-a-lifetime offer

to do the major accounting work to interrupt the school year

to look for an executive a vice-presidency with the biggest

to recommend somebody accounting company

to move to some place to get a good job through somebody

to do some thinking about a major toy buyer

the career opportunities

III

considerate

to be in a good mood

to be behind somebody

to be touched

to turn something down

to go into business for oneself

to be one’s own boss

to be a big fish in a little pond or a little fish in a big pond.

Training exercises to episode 21:

1. Give English equivalents to the first set of expressions 1 – 13 to understand their meaning.

2. Find out the expressions from the second list 1 – 12, equivalent in meaning to those, given below:

a person or company who byes toys wholesale constantly

to stop going to school in the middle of the school year

to of a very high opinion about one’s job

a problem which is very difficult to solve

to design or invent something

to do something later

a high-level position in a major accounting company

a proposal which can never be given twice

somebody can help find a good job

to be of the same opinion as somebody

to have something on the mind about something

to refuse from something for the sake of somebody

  1. Translate expressions 1 – 8 into Russian. Your teacher will help you.

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