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Chapter 7 The brown envelope
Before listening
Glossary:
1. necessary – that is needed for a purpose or a reason; (syn)compulsory, obligatory
2. steal – to take sth from a person, shop etc. without permission and without intending to return it or pay for it; (syn) to nick
3. turn red (with ) (of a person’s face) – to become pink because of embarrassment, anger; syn: to go red with
4. watch – to look at sb/sth for a time, paying attention to what happens; (syn) view, observe
5. wonderful – that you enjoy very much; that gives you great pleasure; extremely good; (syn)lovely, delightful, marvelous
Ex. I. Pronounce the words correctly.
send – spend to – two where – there from – home
beer – here month – once got – forgot that – bad
Ex. II.Before listening to Chapter 7 make a guess the following…
1. Who was waiting for Karen at the airport?
a) Drew c) Susan
b) police d) journalists
2. Whom did Karen tell about her business trip to Washington?
a) nobody c) Susan
b) Drew d) union leader.
3. Why did Karen begin to work at night?
a) She wanted to earn much money.
b) She was a workaholic.
c) She couldn’t sleep in the daytime
d) She wanted to steal negatives.
4. What did Karen do with negatives from the photographic laboratory?
a) She tore them. c) She stole them.
b) She resent them to the addressee. d) She burnt them.
5. Karen hid a brown envelope ……………..
a) in a hole in the wall of her house
b) under her mattress
c) in her safe
d) in a secret place in the factory.
While listening
Ex. III. Listen to Chapter 7 (Part I) twice and complete the sentences.
1. The Union leaders are going to ……………… (1) some doctors to the factory to talk to ……………… (2) about the ……………… (3) of uranium.
2.’Poor Karen. ………………… (4) go home, have a …………. (5), and listen to music.’
3. Karen told …………… (6) about the secret, but she felt very …………… (7).
4. She began to work at ……………… (8) because it was ……………. (9) to get into the photographic laboratory.
5. She put the ……………… (10) in a brown envelope and the envelope in a …………… (11) hole in the ……………… (12) of her house.
6. She often …………… (13) that people were ……………… (14)her.
Ex. IV. Listen to Chapter 7 (Part II). Answer the questions.
1. Who came to the nuclear factory from Washington?
a) FBA agents c) journalists
b) doctors d) scientists
2. What danger were the workers afraid of at the factory?
a) unemployment
b) overtime working
c) solar radiation
d) uranium radioactivity
3. What did Karen tote (=carry) with her everywhere at the factory?
a) a microphone
b) a notebook
c) a sandwich
d) a key from the laboratory.
4. Why did the managers watch Karen and her notebook?
a) She was beautiful.
b) She had an interesting notebook.
c) She collected facts of uranium danger.
d) She worked worse than usually.
5. How was Pete going to use Karen’s information?
a) to write a book
b) to publish her story in the newspaper
c) to make Karen’s photo
d) to keep it in a safety place.
After listening
Ex. V. Imagine that you are Karen’s friend Drew and you want to support her in this situation. Make up the dialogue of their meeting at the airport. You can use the words and expressions from the box.
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Take it easy. You can rely on me. Did you have a good time? Believe me. Hello! You look very tired Trust me. Poor Karen. Everything will be o.k. I’ll do my best to help you. Let’s have beer and listen to some music |
D.: …
K.: Hello Drew!
D.: …
K.: Not really. Everything is much worse at the factory than we thought.
D.:
K.: O.K. What about pizza at our favourite restaurant?
D.: …
K.: …
Ex. VI. Imagine that you are Karen. You want to help people to safe their health. You gather the information from the factory. You steal negatives and you are afraid all the time of being discovered. Describe your feelings using the words and expressions given below.
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to be slowly and carefully difficult to sleep dangerous not to forget to hide the envelope necessary proof more and more difficult to feel lonely to tell anybody tired and unhappy to watchto hurt |
1. I’m very…
2. I can not even…
3. I try to…
4. Everything is…
5. It is so…
6. It’s getting…
7. But…
8. I’ve decided to…
9. It’s impossible to…
10. I feel like (that)…
11. Day by day…
12. It seems to me…