Equilibrium (part XII)

I. Look through the words necessary to understand the episode;

to clean – производить зачистку местности; sweep – (воен.) уничтожать;

II. Memorise the following words & be ready to use them in speech as active vocabulary;

to hole up – if you hole up / are holed up somewhere, you stay there, esp. because you are hiding;

to estimate – to calculate the size, cost, etc, of sth approximately, before you have all the facts & figures;

(military) intelligence (MI) – a government organisation that collects information about the secret plans & activities of a foreign government, enemy etc;

landing – the area at the top of a set of stairs or between the sections of a set of stairs;

contraband – goods that are brought into or taken out of a country illegally;

III. Match the English words with their Russian Equivalents:

to hole up лестничная площадка;

to estimate контрабандный товар;

(military) intelligence отсиживаться, прятаться от людей;

landing оценивать; приблизительно подсчитывать;

contraband разведка;

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IV. Fill the gaps with your active vocabulary:

__________ __________ a considerable number of hackers and bootleggers with Microsoft ______________ ______________ in one of the _____________ of Bill Gates offices.

V. Use all active vocabulary to make 1 s-ce but leave them as gaps for others to fill in:

VI. Read the questions below and find the answers in the film:

1) Why did Brandt come for Preston?

2) What information did the police have about the group of rebels? Was it the 1^st time they heard about them?

3) Why did Preston keep an illegal article? Who did he take the explanation from?

4) Why was Brandt worried about his future?

VII. Discuss the following questions in pairs or groups of threes using your active vocabulary:

What has changed in Preston? Do you think he has a chance to improve?

VIII. Act out the episode by heart:

Brandt: Sense offenders holed up in the Nether.

Policeman: We estimate... we estimate 50 men, sir. Intelligence tells us they're all fully armed.

Brandt: This is the group that bombed the Prozium factories. You clean, we'll sweep.

Policeman: Yes, sir.

Police: Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Take it! Take the landings!

Brandt: Cover me. I'm going in. Nice grab, Cleric.

Preston: "Ludwig Van Beethoven."

Brandt: Cleric... Why didn't you leave that for the evidentiary team to collect & log?

Preston: They miss things sometimes. I'll take it in myself... make sure it gets done properly.

Brandt: You know, Preston... If we keep burning all this contraband, eventually there won't be anything left to burn. What'll there be for men like us?

Equilibrium (part XIII)

I. Memorise the following words & be ready to use them in speech as active vocabulary;

to put down – 1) to kill an animal using a drug because it is very old, ill, or dangerous; 2) to use force to stop a protest or an attempt by people to take power away from a government or leader;

to exterminate – to kill a large group of people or animals;

to toss – to throw sth lightly & carelessly;

to finish off – (informal) to kill someone;

epidemic – a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people;