1. What do you think is going to happen further on in the novel?
2. Complete the table below.
| Chapter
| Highlights
Use the key words to reconstruct the events.
| Important Quotes
Think what the quotes suggest.
| Words and phrases
| Definitions/Translation/Use
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| 1. Eamon, nervous, Harry, excited
2. Club, girls, champagne
3. Harry, dump, a cancer ward, custody
4. Harry, Mem, Cyd’s ex
| 1. “Why would a man want to settle down with just one woman? It’s not the way we’re made.”
2. “Blondes rule the world.”
3. “Relationships are like cars. They start off all shiny and new looking like they’re going to last forever. And then they end up as rubbish.”
| 1. to be lost for words
2.one’s mind goes blank
3. to handle things
4. to go off the boil
5.loads of something
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| 1. Harry, hospital, die from cancer, bring Pat
2. Sally, apologize, baby-sitter, pregnant
3. Marty, recommission the show
4. Solicitor, favour the mother, get a residence order, fight for custody
| 1. “A child isn’t a possession which can be won or lost.”
2. “A baby isn’t the same as a teddy bear. Once you’ve got a kid, you’re not free any more.”
3. “People should still cling to life even when life is full of torment.”
| 1.the ebb and flow of something
2. to wear off
3. to cling to hope
4. to recommission a show
5. to favour somebody
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| 1. Pat, hospital, Harry’s mother, against the visit, furious, cheat
2. A removal van, moving, back with smb, give it another go
3. Faithful, commit adultery, receive a head injury, exercise parental control
| 1. “The love between them would always be there. They needed to know that the cancer couldn’t kill that.”
2. “Dad and mum and the kids is all very well, but if you don’t love each other…”
| 1 to.inflict on smb
2. to wish well
3. out of one’s system
4. to allege
5.to watch smth unsupervised
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| 1. Hold, medal, games, childhood
2. Harry’s mum, the same man
3. Break the news, die in the night, live on
4. Register the death, the undertaker, go for the second most expensive coffin
| 1.“The divorce courts, that’s where we fought our grubby little wars.”
2.“Which was better? War and a perfect love? Or peace and love which came in installments of five, six or seven years?”
3.“You can’t be the same man your father was. It’s a different world.”
4 “The spirit lives on.”
| 1. to look back on smth
2.on the box
3. to chuck in the towel
4. to push the boat out
5.posh
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| 1. Eamon, applaud, afraid, excited
2. Body, uncle Jack, spark
| 1. “Fathering a childdidn’t make you truly adult.”
2. “With my father gone, there was a part of me that felt alone – at last and forever.”
| 1.hereditary
2. to wipe away
3.strained
4. to bicker
5.secure
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| 1. Gina, Pat, Richard
2. Richard, sympathy, have a choice
3. Cyd, restaurant, Jim, offer
| 1. “You’ve done a good job over the last few months. But what do you want? A medal?”
2. “You can’t expect us to take part in parenting and then just step aside, as if it was really women’s work.”
| 1. to ferry smb
2.the natural order of things
3. to take responsibility for
4. to step aside
5. to row
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| 1. Church, have a laugh, gather together, sermon
2. Sinatra, graveyard, mourners, dry-eyed
| 1. “The vicar had never met my father, and so he could never really capture him and his life.”
2. “I had to get a grip of my heart.”
| 1. cocky
2. to console oneself with
3. to capture smb or smth
4.goofy
5. to get a grip of one’s heart
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| 1. Lawyer, ex-wife, receive permission, victory, defeat, lose, the man
2. Pat, get on, prefer to live
3. Harry, take out to a show, get over smth
| 1. “I hate the thought of my son growing up around some other guy.”
2. “The one who loses is usually the man.”
3. “The centre of my universe was my boy.”
4. “Love means knowing when to let go.”
| 1.negligent
2.to come apart
3.on one’s behalf
4. to be better off
5. to pay the mortgage
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| 1. Hand smb over to smb, be a good father
2. Harry, Pat, like all that stuff
3. Richard, a big day
4. The main road, twist with rage, drive with care
| 1.“I think a child needs two parents.”
2.“It’s the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price.”
| 1.voluntarily
2.weekend dads
3. to give it a good try
4.central to smb
5.Don’t bet on it.
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| 1. Marty and Siobhan, church, Cyd, Peggy, Pat
2. Cyd, Harry, Jim
3. Best man’s speech, notes
4. Dance, Cyd, for good. airport
5. Miss the plane, let it go
| 1. “It was everything I wanted. To love and to cherish.”
2. “A life without love is no life at all.”
| 1.teething problems
2. to cherish
3. to slip away
4.rooted to the spot
5. to draw to a close
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