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Read, translate, remember.This small piece of text represents you several examples of everyday speech in which phrasal verbs and idioms are used very often. Pay attention to them. Otherwise your spoken language will be stale and awkward. The attached vocabulary will alleviate your work. Tom's trouble Tom is a freshman. To buy a modern computer is his sweetest dream, but he cannot afford it because of the lack of money. If only he had a computer! Unfortunately, all his efforts to persuade his father to help him over that problem fail. «This box with its dull useless games will take too much of your time», always grumbles his father. «You had better brush away this idea and hit the books». «Back numbers can never keep up with the times», murmurs Tom, «but I won't throw in the towel. It's not in my habit to give in. Sooner or later I'll bring you round to my way of thinking». Yesterday on the way to the University Tom ran into his old friend, a first-class hacker, Jack. Tom: Hi, Jack. Jack: Hi, man. You look so downcast, Your face is as long as a fiddle. What's up? Tom: My Dad is against buying me a new computer. He thinks I'll be keen on games. Then, as a result, I'll miss my classes and fail my exams. Yesterday he added that if it happened, everybody would say that he had caused it by letting me have my own way. Sheer nonsense! Jack: We should do something about it.... Well, maybe you'll try to butter him up. Tom: I wish I knew how to do that .... I even don't know how to go about it. You see, as a matter of fact, I've always been a hard working student, never missed my classes, and now I'm getting along quite well in the University as you know. I thought Dad would take it into account, but, on the con- UNIT 2 trary, in this case he considers a computer as a wasting-time commodity. I think I'm fighting a losing battle. Jack: Keep your chin up, Tom. Follow me now and you will win! Pull yourself together and tell your Dad that you would study much more better if you had at hand all the necessary internet information. Tom: You're great, Jack! Your idea is excellent. It carried me away. I'll look in on my way home. Bye-bye. Jack: Drop in whenever you like. I'll be in at night. Good luck. Make up sentences using these phrasal verbs and expressions, Useful vocabulary A. Phrasal verbs (A special group of words which consists of two or three words: a verb followed by an adverb, a verb followed by a preposition, or a verb followed by an adverb and a preposition)
B. Expressions and idioms
Taking Computer for Granted
Just for fun When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. Law of the office: Vital papers always move from where yon left them to where yon can't find them. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. Oscar Wild 1 Clerk: Can I interest you in a nice pocket calculator? Customer: No thanks, I know exactly how many pockets I have. 2 Customer (annoyed): You said this computer was foolproof, but I can't figure out how to use it. Salesgirl (smiling): There you are. UNIT 2 Customer: What do you mean? Salesgirl: Like I said, it's proof that you're a fool. Tom, Bill and Dull were washed ashore on an island. Their only food and drink came from coconuts, and after a week they began to despair. One morning a lantern was washed ashore and Tom picked it up. More despairing than hopeful, he rubbed it ...Out came a genie, who promised to grant each of the men one wish. His eyes wide with thanksgiving, Tom asked to bring him back home. The genie snapped his fingers, and Tom was gone. The same happened with Bill. Looking around Dull began to weep. «I'm so lonely ... I wish the other two guys were back». The genie snapped his fingers ... 4 «Oh, God,» sighed the wife one morning, «I'm convinced my mind is almost completely gone»! «I'm not surprised», answered her husband looking up from the newspaper, «you've been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years». Optimistic statements or Murphy's laws: Murphy's first law: Nothing is as easy as it looks» Murphy's second law: Everything takes longer than you think. Murphy's third law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong and at the worst possible time. Murphy's fourth law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Murphy's fifth law: If any thing just cannot go wrong, it will anyway. Murphy's sixth law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's seventh law: Taking Computer for Granted If everything seems to go well, you have obviously overlooked something. Some useful advice: 1. Do not believe in miracles - rely on them, 2. When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. 3. If your idea works - something has gone wrong. 4. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. 5. Smile! Things can only get worse. UNIT3 Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1587
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