Goodbye kiss forbidden in railway
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1. KEY WORDS – PART 1
Find two words in the text meaning banish or forbid
and two words meaning remake, renovate or reconstruct.
2. KEY WORDS – PART 2
Match the words and the synonyms.
pecking, overthrow, claim, emerge, commuter, immortalize
1. demand, insist, maintain
2. abolish, do away with, destroy
3. a person living in the suburbs and travelling daily to the city
4. appear, arise, come forth
5. kissing
6. celebrate, commemorate
3. KEY WORDS – PART 3
Find two expressions in the text and fill in the gaps.
Keele University researchers said it showed petty crime was rife among the middle classes and exposed the "_____________ majority" to be a myth. BBC
Seeing that water skiing squirrel has left me ____________! URBAN DICTIONARY
4. LISTENING
Watch the trailer below and answer the questions.
1. What does he do?
2. What is the wife like?
3. What is the husband like?
4. Why can he go to the pictures?
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ANSWERS
1. KEY WORDS – PART 1
ban, prohibit
revamp, refurbish
2. KEY WORDS – PART 2
1. claim
2. overthrow
3. commuter
4. emerge
5. pecking
6. immortalize
3. KEY WORDS – PART 3
a) law abiding
b) gob smacked
4. LISTENING
1. He's a doctor.
2. Small, dark, rather delicate.
3. Medium height, brown hair, kindly, unemotional, but not delicate at all.
4. He says: "I killed two patients this morning... and I simply daren't go back."
and "I got through most of my work this morning."
