"Бриджит выигрывает в лотерею" – "Экстра-английский" (6 серия)

Темы серии

Horoscopes / Гороскопы
Lottery Grammar / Азы лотереи

Задачи

Speaking

Talking about important events / Разговор о важных событиях
Listing events / Список событий

Writing

Describing your superstitions / Описание собственных суеверий

Грамматика

The present perfect / Настоящее совершенное время


Wordwatch / Слово урока

The theme of this episode is the lottery, so students should be aware of the workings of a lottery, with winning numbers and large cash prizes.

The words in this episode are all very clearly activated and contextualised, and reasonably aware intermediate students will have no problem understanding everything that happens. The expression crazy about (we can also say mad about) indicates that you like something very much (I'm crazy about her / spaghetti / skiing). The words crazy and mad without about suggest mental problems, but of course, like most words, YNS use them to simply mean unconventional. Saying that someone is mad or crazy is not necessarily a criticism.


VOCABULARY

adjectives

calm
excited
exotic
irresistible
unlucky
wrong

nouns

board (on the wall)
cushions
dustman
lottery
position
security
sports car
tape (on a telephone answering machine)
traffic lights
waitress
yoga
career
dry cleaner's
horoscope
multimillionaire
rubbish bins
showroom
surprise
trouble
windscreens

verbs

claim (a prize)
disappear
look for
quit / resign
search
stick (something) together
throw something out
collect
hide
prepare
return
shout
take off (clothes)
trick

expressions

a life of luxury
crazy about someone
designer clothes
give money to charity
mixing with the stars
it's my lucky day
it's your fault
upside down
any luck?
on the back
stick (something) back together
designer clothes


Cultural reference / Информация о культуре

cleaning windscreens at traffic lights / чистка стекол на светофоре – this is something that is done by people trying to earn money; it is illegal, and most car drivers find the cleaners – known as squeegee merchants – a nuisance

national lottery (lotto) / Национальная лотерея – the game of chance where people select numbers; the main national lottery in the UK takes place twice a week