III. Fill in the gaps with active vocabulary (one word can be used multiply):

The database ____________ for each student records name, address and telephone number.

All the ____________ points to a substantial rise in traffic over the next few years.

The restaurant has a long menu of about 50 ____________.

As his illness progressed he made fewer ______________ in his diary.

Several ___________ of clothing lay on the floor.

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We discussed inflation, unemployment and ______________ issues.

Experts believe that the large number of cancer cases in the area are directly ___________ to the new nuclear power station.

Fresh _______________ suggests that the statement had been fabricated.

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

1) What was strange in Patridge’s reaction to Preston’s suggestion? Did Preston notice it?

2) Why did Preston go to the library? Did he found what he was looking for?

3) How did Partridge explain to the police his coming into the Nethers?

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

1) Why did it take Preston three times to accept a negative answer to his question? How does it characterise his relationship with Partridge?

2) Was Preston convinced with Patridge’s excuse for coming to the Nether every night for the last two weeks?

“Preston: Every time we come from the Nethers to the city, it reminds why we do what we do.

Partridge: It does?

Preston: Every time we come from the Nethers to the city, it reminds why we do what we do.

Partridge: It does? It does.”

Preston: Prosecutorial evidence for A.N.R. 136890. I need it. It was late this afternoon. May not have showed up in the records yet.

Library Clerk: I'm very sorry, Cleric. Nothing has been logged and nothing is pending under that entry.

Preston: It was an item of evidence brought in personally by Grammaton Errol Partridge. Check again.

Library Clerk: Sir, Cleric Partridge has not entered anything in for weeks.

Preston: You're mistaken. It was a book of some kind.

Library Clerk: Cleric, there's nothing.

Preston: Thank you.

Policeman: He's been passing through the gate into the Nether every night for the last two weeks. We assumed it was enforcement-related.

Equilibrium (part V)

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

vestigial – исчезающий, остаточный; placement – место (работы);

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

to tread – to put your foot on sth while you are walking;

to trade – to exchange sth you have for sth else;

jealousy – a feeling of anger and sadness because sb has sth better than you have; a strong feeling of anger and sadness because you think that sb you love is attracted to sb else;

rage – a strong feeling of uncontrollable anger;

to assign – to give sb a particular job or make them responsible for a particular person or thing;

advancement – progress in your career; progress in society, science, etc;

intuitive – based on your feelings rather than on facts or evidence;

uncompromising – refusing to discuss or change the decision;

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