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5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the brackets:
(cemetery; shots; implanted; scary; rap; winding; adds; judgment;
devastated; but)
1) She sent him a photo which is now forever ____ in my brain.
2) I was thinking maybe it was _____ down.
3) I would like to be a little less ____ if that’s possible.
4) You’re not actually taking the ___ for any of this, are you?
5) I’m hoping it’s just a horrible lapse in ____.
6) I’ll be buried in the single strangers’ section of the ____. Not
that that’s a reason to stay together, that’s just a ___ side bar.
7) If someone else can call some of the ___ at work, then may-
be we can get back to where we were 18 months ago.
8) I don’t see how that ___ up. You should be nothing ___ great
about what you’ve done.
6. Translate from English. Comment on the contribution of stage
remarks to eshing out the characters of the movie:
1) INT. CTF — AFTERNOON Ben wends his way through the
offi ce, pre-occupied, looking a bit wan. He passes Lewis who is
clean shaven, got a bit of a haircut and is wearing a tie and carrying a briefcase exactly like Ben’s. Ben doesn’t notice.
2) Across the offi ce, Ben notices a small crowd has gathered to
sing “Happy Birthday.” He sees Jules is part of the crowd, smiling,
singing. He takes a deep breath at the sight of her. Jules gives the
Birthday Girl a hug, then spots Ben.
BEN CLICKS ON HIS E-MAIL He has tons. His desk is now
stacked with paperwork.
3) INT. PLANE
—
IN THE AIR — THE NEXT DAY Ben and
Jules in fi rst class, both have work on their tray tables. Jules is on
her iPad. Ben is staring at her. Bursting, but not talking.
4) INT. PLANE
—
A LITTLE LATER Jules and Ben are midmeal and getting refi lls on their wine. Jules is telling Ben a story
and laughing so hard, she can’t get the story out. Ben is dying
laughing. Can’t catch his breath. He laughs, wiping away tears as
Jules continues.
5) EXT. FOUR SEASONS SAN FRANCISCO
—
NIGHT
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INT. JULES HOTEL ROOM — SAME TIME Jules has wet hair,
she’s in the hotel robe and on her iPad. TV is on in the b.g.. Suddenly there’s a LOUD SIREN-LIKE BEEPING coming from the
hallway. Jules looks up sharply.
INT. BEN’S ROOM
—
SAME TIME — THE BEEPING CONTINUES Ben is asleep with an open book on his chest. His eyes
pop open.
EXT. FOUR SEASONS HOTEL
—
NIGHT. A hundred or so Hotel Guests have gathered on the street dressed in everything from bath
towels to tuxedos. Jules, in her robe and wet hair, pushes through the
crowd, relieved to spot Ben walking toward her in his pj’s and robe.
6) Jules picks up the remote, clicks around and is relieved to
land on Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dancing to “You Were
Meant For Me” from Singin’ in the Rain. They watch in silence at
the optimism, innocence and youthful beauty on the screen. Ben
turns to Jules, sees her eyes are shutting. Ben watches the movie
alone, happy to be lost in another world.
7) INT. JULES BATHROOM
—
THAT NIGHT Jules lies in the
bathtub, wiped out. She looks over at the sink, sees two toothbrushes in a cup, then to the back of the door
—
Matt’s robe hangs
on the hook. She shuts her eyes for a sec, rubs her chest, tries to
calm her breathing. A few of Paige’s bath toys sit on the tub ledge.
Jules picks up a little frog, winds it up, places it in the tub and
watches it fl ip around. Her eyes fi ll with tears.
INT. BEDROOM
—
SAME TIME Matt lies across the bottom
of the bed, wishing his life wasn’t crumbling. He sits up, faces the
closed bathroom door, wants to do the right thing, but can’t seem
to get up and go in there. His phone pings
—
he has a text. He
doesn’t look at it.
8) EXT. PROSPECT PARK
—
DAY Ben’s Tai Chi group, all in
sync, move slowly toward the right, arms raised. Ben is among them.
Jules approaches. Ben doesn’t see her at fi rst. She joins the group,
standing awkwardly near Ben.
JULES (whispers) Sorry to interrupt. Ben motions for her to be
silent, then to get next to him. She does.
7. Fill in the gaps with the suitable particles where necessary:
1) Check this ___. — Found it ___ e-bay.
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2) Thank you so much __ doing that. So — you excited ___
going to San Francisco tomorrow?
3) You’re tired? That’s why you haven’t looked __ me once since
I walked __ here.
4) We got the day ___. We’re traveling __fi rst class.
5) A smoke alarm went ___ ___ one of our rooms but the prob-
lem has been taken care ___.
6) It is still going ___. I was thinking it was winding ___.
7) Just wanted to say I slept ___it, I haven’t called ___Townsend
yet but I still think it’s the right thing to do.
8) Don’t let anybody ___ take that away from you. I guess you
came ___ here ‘cause you wanted to hear some of this...
8. Paraphrase the following sentences paying special attention to
the words and expressions in bold:
1) She wasn’t feeling so great at the party so we... we left a little early then she fell asleep so I just hung out in the car and let
her get in a nap.
2) Just needed a little downtime, I guess or maybe I wasn’t that
sick, I don’t know. (Ben nods...) Ben, I wanted to ask you, what’s
your take on this whole CEO thing? You’re more on the inside
than I am.
3) You know, I’m a sensitive man. I don’t look it, people don’t
think that about me. But I am. Under all this man stuff that you
so admire, I’m just a big bowl of mush.
4) No... because, honestly I’m not really ready to deal with it.
I would like to be a little less devastated if that’s possible. It’s
classic, though, isn’t it? The successful wife’s husband feels ignored,
his manhood is threatened so he acts out.
5) I mean, that’s an exhausting endeavor. BEN Wait, wait,
wait. Hold on. You’re not actually taking the rap for any this,
are you?
6) No! Monogom-ish is not what I’m going for. I’m just trying
to wait it out for a sec. I’m hoping it’s just a horrible lapse in
—
judgment and not like, love
and once he gets it out of his sys-
tem, we’ll be able to eventually be okay again.
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7) If someone else can call some of the shots at work,
then maybe we can get back to where we were 18 months ago.
They say you can’t get the genie back in the bottle, but we can
try.
—
8) This big, beautiful, intricate thing that you created
it’s
a dream isn’t it? And you’re going to give that up in the hopes
that your husband will stop having an aff air? I don’t see how that
adds up.
9. Translate into English, making use of the vocabulary of this Epi-
sode:
1) Бен, я хотел спросить Вас, каково Ваше мнение о проблеме исполнительного директора. Вы ведь значительно больше
в теме, чем я.
2) Ты знаешь, люди иногда говорят, что хотят состариться
вместе. Что ж, мы это сделали. Когда мы познакомились, мне
—
было 20, а ей 19. Что меня всегда поражало
это то, что она
не изменилась. Такое трудно осуществить. Она шла по жизни
так, как будто ей все нипочем. Всегда, даже когда это было не
так.
3) У меня есть странная история для тебя. Метт мне изме няет.
4) Мне все еще трудно это осознать. Я была на кухне, делала бутерброды, а его телефон лежал рядом, Метт был наверху
с Пейдж, а ему все время приходили сообщения.
5) Она прислала ему фотографию, которая навсегда запечатлелась у меня в памяти. Думаю, в конце концов, мобильные
телефоны станут причиной погибели всех мужиков.
6) Он сказал, что не хочет лишать компанию души. Сказал,
что у него нет плана, он хочет понаблюдать и увидеть, что сработает. Он был вежлив, он был уважителен, он был чрезвычайно умен, и я его наняла.
7) Я стоял у входа на склад и наблюдал, как ты показываешь
сотрудникам, как лучше сворачивать и складывать одежду в коробки. Тогда я понял, почему компания «Одежда, которая впору»
стала такой успешной. Никто никогда не будет настолько предан
своему делу, как ты, Джулз.
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III. POSTVIEWING ACTIVITIES
1. Read the following interview and express your opinion on the
phenomenon of STAY-AT-HOME Dads. How common is it in Russia for
women to become breadwinners and for men to perform the role of
bread bakers, full-time dads?
Stay-at-Home Dads Are Reshaping American Masculinity
Abstaining from the breadwinner role off ers fathers an opportu-
nity to redefi ne manhood for themselves.
Ashley Fetters
September 6, 2018
Traditional manhood, the kind that many young boys are taught
at an early age, is made up of two ingredients: bodily strength and
control, and breadwinner status as a husband and father. That’s the
conclusion of Scott Melzer, a sociologist at Albion College who asks
in his new book, Manhood Impossible: What happens when one or
both of those ingredients are missing?
Melzer has spent his career studying how men respond when their
masculinity is threatened, both individually and collectively. (His fi rst
book, Gun Crusaders, is about the National Rifl e Association). In
Manhood Impossible, Melzer observes the behaviors and habits of
four groups of men who are acutely aware of whether they’re living
up to the manhood ideal: members of a Bay Area fi ght club, men
in an online forum who chat about their anatomy and sexual performance, unemployed men, and stay-at-home dads.
Melzer claims that men tend to respond to their perceived failure
at living up to the body and breadwinner ideals in a combination
of four distinct ways: internalizing the perceived failure, attempting
to repair the failure, compensating for the failure, or rejecting it and
redefi ning what it means to be a man. In Manhood Impossible, he
characterizes the stay-at-home dads, and in particular those who stay
home voluntarily, as men who’ve recalibrated their personal defi nition
of what manhood really means.
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I spoke to Melzer about the unique plight of the stay-at-home
dad and how the two-pronged “manhood test” has evolved
evolved
—
over time. The conversation that follows has been edited
—
and not
for length and clarity.
Ashley Fetters: How did you arrive at the conclusion that traditional masculinity is basically breadwinner status plus bodily strength
and control?
Scott Melzer: What we fi nd is that men rank these as the most
important aspects of their identities as men. My research is mostly
about how men respond when they fail to live up to expectations,
and when they fall short on these two particular measures of manhood, this is where we see the most dramatic reactions.
Some of my research has examined how men who are in relationships with women are much more likely to engage in intimate-partner violence when they are failed breadwinners, and also when they’re
doing what some might call “women’s work.” When their jobs are
not providing them with a sense of masculine identity and status,
they’re more likely to engage in competitive masculinity or compensatory violence, and use violence against women and partners to
reassert their masculinity.
The many possible meanings of the ‘masculinity crisis’
Fetters: Is there much research on how common it is to be
a stay-at-home dad?
Melzer: There’s a small but growing body of research, starting
in the past 10 to 15 years or so. I think these folks have been fl ying under the radar for a long time, even though with the Great
Recession there was a pretty signifi cant increase in the number of
stay-at-home dads, many of whom were forced into that situation
sort of against their will. By all accounts they’ve declined since the
recession ended and the economy recovered. A lot of those men who
were forced into being stay-at-home dads returned to the workforce
if they desired to do so.
Fetters: What are some of the indicators that a stay-at-home-dad
situation is going to work out well?
Melzer: Certainly resources matter. Whether parents have the fi nancial resources to be able to choose to stay at home
usually means having a partner with a good income
—
and that
—
matters. The
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politics and beliefs of the [potential stay-at-home dad’s] parents matter a lot, too
—
whether parents believe that it’s okay for the dad to
be a stay-at-home dad. And the support and expectations that they
receive from their families matter quite a bit. All those things are
essential in determining whether someone can choose to be a stayat-home dad and essentially withstand the inevitable critiques and
questioning from others.
Fetters: In a lot of your anecdotes about the stay-at-home dads
you spent time with, it seems they “found their groove” when they
met other stay-at-home dads or joined groups for stay-at-home dads.
Why does that help?
Melzer: Parenting young children in general can be a very isolating experience. And the men I spoke with feel that’s especially the
case for them because their numbers are small, and many of them
felt marginalized, or even distrusted and feared, by moms. So it’s
an alien experience for many of these dads, and there are some
unique gendered aspects of this experience that only other men would
be able to relate to and understand. And so having that support is
essential.
And I think because they’re challenging this ideal, right? Men
are expected to be breadwinners, to work, not to be stay-at-home
dads. To take on this huge social norm, it’s good to have a support
network to lean on and to reinforce that you’re making a good choice.
That’s really important when bucking social trends.
Fetters: It surprised me how many men told you that stay-athome moms and the stay-at-home-mom community were not welcoming to them.
Melzer: I wondered how much of this was in their heads and
how much was just that those are the experiences that stood out to
them, and they were downplaying and minimizing all the times they
were invited to playgroup and so forth. There were a range of experiences, but it does seem to be the case in my research and others’ research that many of them have multiple experiences of just
not feeling welcomed by stay-at-home moms, for a variety of reasons.
I would anticipate that changing as stay-at-home-dads become more
prevalent and passersby don’t look at them and think, “It’s Daddy’s
day off ,” or question whether they have some sort of ulterior motive,
like picking up moms on the playground.
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Fetters: Do you think stay-at-home dads will rise in number over
time?
Melzer: Long term, yes. I think that’s going to take some time
and some signifi cant shifts in our thoughts about work and gender
roles. We saw a huge spike with the recession and then a signifi cant
decline, but I think all the long-term social trends indicate that yes,
we should see more growth based on women’s desire to be breadwinners, based on increasing numbers of same-sex couples who are
getting married and having kids, and some shifts among men and
their desire to be engaged parents.
The distinct, positive impact of a good dad
If you look at younger generations, boys and men just express
a much greater desire to prioritize family over work. But because
they then encounter workplace cultures, an economic system, and
a lack of family leave benefi ts that discourage them from prioritizing family, the change is slow. Perhaps when we start changing
some laws, the U. S. might look more like northern European
countries, and it’d be much easier for men to prioritize family a bit
more and not feel like they’re failing as men when they make
those decisions.
Fetters: It surprised me how much diff erence a supportive partner makes in whether men feel competent or fulfi lled as a stay-athome dad, particularly men who don’t end up staying home with
their kids by choice.
Melzer: Partners really bolster unemployed men. Some of them
talked about fi nding outlets including therapy or writing, but men
are less likely to seek those sources of support. They’re more likely to be isolated, and have weaker social-relationship networks. So
partners probably have an outsize presence for men in particular.
Some partners are essential to help men stave off more serious de-
—
pression and to
I don’t mean this in a condescending way—prop
them up or pump up their egos a little, or just remind them, It’s not
your fault, we’re in the midst of a recession. This has nothing to
do with you and everything to do with the economy.
The healthier way to cope would absolutely be to fi nd networks,
support groups, and friends and family to talk about these issues
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and try to mitigate some of the consequences—of long-term unemployment, in particular. But we tell men to do the exact opposite,
right? “Suck it up.” If you need or rely upon others, especially
—
counselors, to help you, then that’s a sign of weakness
and weakness is typically the antithesis of masculine. You’re out of control,
you’re weak, you need help: those are things that we socialize boys
out of beginning at the earliest ages.
Fetters: Do you think this two-pronged ideal of masculinity
—
bodily control and power, plus breadwinner status—has relaxed its
hold on men in recent years, or has it intensifi ed?
Melzer: We’re in this period of time where there’s both progress
toward gender equality in some ways and in other ways we’re
stalled. Women have entered the paid labor force and their rate of
participation looks somewhat comparable to men’s. There’s been
huge transfor mations thanks to various social movements, women’s
rights, and so forth. So in some ways we would expect that things
would begin changing and some of these old ways might die off .
But they’re fundamental, key aspects of men’s sense of identity,
and they haven’t changed. There’s been no reduction in the importance of work for men.
Sure, it’s okay for men to kind of be co-breadwinners these days,
but involuntarily unemployed men, or even some men who are stayat-home dads, really struggle with not having a paycheck. That hasn’t
changed much, despite the fact that women are taking on breadwinner responsibilities.
The body ideal may be more entrenched. There’s so much rapid
change economically and technologically that all of us feel a bit out
—
of control
and the easiest thing to control, in the grand scheme of
things, is our bodies. So that’s something that we can maintain
greater control over than, for example, our employment status.
—
That cuts across gender, too
we’re seeing all sorts of exercise
revolutions from jogging and aerobics back in the day to bodybuilding and weight lifting, and, more recently, trends like paleo and
CrossFit. Controlling our bodies seems like a kind of visceral response
to a lack of control that we’re feeling in a society where the ground
is constantly moving beneath us
chive/2018/09/stay-at-home-dads-masculinity/569425/].
[https://www.theatlantic.com/family/ar-
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2. Reread the interview and ll in the gaps with the suitable par-
ticles where necessary:
a) He desperately needed a support group to lean ____ .
b) She knew how challenging for her it would be to live ___ __
the ideal.
c) Everybody was surprised that he had arrived __ this unex-
pected decision.
d) It was her love and trust that helped him to withstand ___cri-
tiques of his friends and stave ___ depression.
e) They felt they had to abstain ___ voting at the Board of Di-
rectors.
f) There has been a signifi cant increase ___ the number of stay-
at-home dads lately.
g) More and more young men tend to prioritize family ___ work,
choosing to become full-time dads.
h) She didn't want to engage __ this activity not to get margin-
alized.
i) This approach cuts ___ gender nowadays, as many young
people buck this dated attitude.
j) Psychologists advise women to pump __ male egos, in case
the men have been forced ___ losing their breadwinner's status.
3. Study the list of stereotypes associated with the choice of some
American men to stay at home and take care of their kids letting their
female partners take on the role of breadwinners. Arrange those stereotypes according to their relevance to the Russian business context
and cultural patterns. In pairs, discuss your list:
He’s Sitting at Home Watching Sports All Day;
His Spouse Would Rather Be Home;
Men Would Rather Be in the Offi ce;
Men Don’t Stay at Home With the Children;
Men Can’t Watch the Kids as Well as Women;
He Must Have Lost His Job;
He Must Be Looking for a Job;
He Must Not Have Any Motivation;
So, You’re Babysitting Today?
He Is Not Masculine
[https://www.verywellfamily.com/top-misconceptions-about-at-home-dads-3126848]
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