Complete the sentences with the idioms learned from Exercise A in the textbook. 1.OK, I’ll 1________. I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go. 2.'You and your boss seem to agree on most things.’ ‘Yes, we are 2________. 3.Some important decisions were taken at yesterday’s meeting. Let me 3________. 4.I think we are 4________. I mean next month, not this month. 5.He never gives you a straight answer. He’s always 5________. 6. I 6________ that he’s been fired. Is it true? 7. It’s a very complicated system, but to 7_________it works exactly like a big kettle. 8. If you think our biggest problem is market share then you have 8________. 9. This report makes no sense at all. I 9________. 10. Everyone arrived for the meeting at different times. We must have 10________.
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- 5 Choose the correct word. ► Shall/Let me answer the door. Let 1 That’s very kind for/of you. ____ 2 Let/Let’s me get the shopping. ____ 3 Let/Shall I answer the phone? ____ 4 Would/Do you like me to help? ____ 5 Shall I/I’ll carry that for you? ____ 6 Shall I give/take you a lift to work? ____ 7 Let me/I do the washing-up. ____ 8 Do you like/want me to make the breakfast? ____
- Yeah, I think it does. I think as you get older, you become, probably, a bit more intolerant of certain, sort of, 1) behavior and, as, when you’re younger you’re probably not as 2) it. I think the order people, er, definitely 3) manners, good behavior and good 4) . I suppose so. I suppose we learn how to be more 5) of it. Um, we can be, probably, more short-tempered of it because we’ve probably had it all of our lives and we want it to, sort of, 6) , but I think we learn how to, sort of, either 7) from it or ignore it, that sort of things. It becomes more important as you get older. You have to 8) more people, therefore, be more polite.
- 3 Complete the dialogues. ► What kind of animal is it? ~ I think it’s a horse. 1 How ____ do you go? ~ Every week. 2 ____ jacket is this? ~ It’s mine. 3 ____’s she like? ~ She’s very nice. 4 I don’t speak German. ____ about you? ~ Yes, I speak a bit of German. 5 How ____ have you worked there? ~ Six months. 6 ____ does this belong to? ~ I’m not sure. I think it’s Mark’s.
- See, you can’t keep being nice to me and I can’t keep ____（1）____ like this is something that it’s not. We’ve been together for over seven years. You know me. You know who I am. You either wanna marry me or you don’t. … for every woman that has been told by some man that he doesn’t ____（2）____ marriage and then six months later, he’s married to some twenty-four-year-old that he met ____（3）____ It’s coming from the place that I have been ____（4）____ for about five years. About five years because I haven’t wanted to seem demanding, and I haven’t wanted to seem clingy or psycho ____（5）____ . So I have never asked you.
- 听力-J=Jane (Waitress ) S=Stephen Nobel (Guest) J: May I take your order, sir? S: Yes, please. I would like to 1 with a chef’s salad. J: The chef’s salad for 2 . And what would you like to have for the 3 4 ? S: I’ll have 5 6 . J: How do you like your steak done? S: 7 , please. J: What would you like to go with your steak? S: 8 and 9 . J: Potatoes? S: Yes, 10 . J: How about the dessert, sir? S: No dessert. Give me a cup of coffee. J : Yes, sir.