The I.T Crowd – Series 1

Episode 1 - Yesterday’s Jam

Match the phrasal verbs and definitions

Put the phrasal verbs in these quotes from the episode (include pronouns where necessary):

1) I hope this doesn’t embarrass you Jen, but I find that the best thing to do with a new employee is to ____ ____ ____ with a good, long stare.
2) Once the printer is fixed they ____ ____ ____ like yesterday’s jam.
3) ____ ____ of the lift!
4) Will you stop trying to undermine me! Now get in there and do some work to do with computers. I’ll be in there in a moment to ____ ____ ____ ____
5) You will ____ ____ one day, and we will be there when you do. There will be some piece of evidence that will prove beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you don’t know anything about computers.
– What are you doing?
– ____ ____ your computer.
6) I can’t believe you’re going to ____ ____ ____You’re like a pair of old women.
7) I’m a people person and people like you need a person to ____ ____ people. A people person like me. Oh my god. Ideas are coming. What would you say if I told you I had a plan to raise your profile by 100%? - It can’t be done! - What would you say Roy? Roy’s ____ ____

Grammar – Present Perfect/Past simple

Present perfect is used to ask questions about general events in life (if we don’t know when they happened, and we don’t know the details yet). Have you seen ‘Titanic’? Have you read ‘War and Peace’? Have you been to France? Or, from the episode:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

It is also used to show results in the present. I have done my homework – here it is! Look! My car has disappeared. It has been stolen. Or, from the episode

Roy has passed out!

Lastly, it is used for long periods of time that continue into the present. These are unfinished periods. We have been married for 5 years and we still love each other very much. For example

Moss and Roy have worked at Renholm industries for a long time. Jen has been there a few days.

(‘have been working’ is also possible)

With finished periods we use past simple

They got divorced last year. They were married for 5 years.

Present perfect is NEVER used if we say, ask or know WHEN something happened. When Moss tells the story of what happened when they went to Amsterdam, he only uses past simple

When we went to Amsterdam we were so drunk that we decided to hire prostitutes. But when they arrived at the hotel we were too scared to do anything and so we brought them to the fair.

Some words are a signal to use present perfect. Yet, already, just, ever, never, for and since

Some words are a signal to use past simple. Ago, last week, 1998, in August, when

Put the following verbs into present perfect or past simple.

1) How many times ____ you ____ to France? (be)

2) When ____ he ____? (arrive)

3) He ____ you about 10 minutes ago. (call)

4) I ____ never ____ that book. (read)

5) Look! The screen is all blue. The computer ____ ____ (break)

6) How long ____ you ____ your boss? (know)

7) I can’t see my dog. Where ____ he ____? (go)

8) I live in the UK now. But I ____ in Russia for 8 years. (live)

Questions for discussion:

Who do you find difficult to deal with at work? Is there anyone who you don’t get on with?
Who checks up on you at work?
In what kind of situations might someone pass out?
What are you looking forward to?
What have you plugged in so far today?
Have you ever gone out with someone and hit it off from the first date? What happened in the end?
When you’re getting to know someone, how do you size them up? By their appearance, or by their words?

Answers:

1) size them up

2) toss us away

3) get out

4) check up on you

5) slip up, plugging in

6) tell on me

7) deal with, passed out

Grammar

1) have you been

2) did he arrive

3) called

4) have never read

5) has broken

6) have you known

7) has he gone

8) lived

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 945