Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD

These verbs can be used in less literal contexts to make common phrases. Complete the sentences • with the verbs (in the correct form). The same word completes both sentences in each pair. 1 a I always take a quick through a magazine first to see if I want to buy it. b She expects everything to work at the of a switch. Well, life isn’t always so easy. 2 a We’ve been talking about it for years, but I think we’re finally going to take the and move to France. b Anyway, half way through the film the lights went out and we were into darkness. 3 a There’s too much pressure at work. I don’t know if I can it any more. b Did you hear about the 10-year-old girl who into the FBI computers? 4 a I don’t want to your hopes but there are a lot of candidates for the job. b 0–5; another defeat for the Wanderers. 5 a Let’s something to eat. I’m starving. b the chance while you can. It may never happen again. 6 a I love the way she herself into everything she does. She’s so enthusiastic. b My dad’s so embarrassing at football matches. He spends the whole game abuse at the referee. Unusual endings. Choose one of the two and do the writing task following it. 14 Last words. Here are some famous last words. Read through them and say which ones you like best. Then think of three famous personalities (e.g. Batman, Winston Churchill, Mickey Mouse, etc.) and write down what their last words could have been. 15 A The Chinese poet Li Po (ca. 700–762), a “lighthearted winebibber”, fell out of a boat and drowned when he tried to kiss and embrace the moon’s reflection in the water. Imagine that he wrote a poem or a vignette expressing his feelings towards the moon shortly before he died. What would this text be like? B British poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) was killed in a tavern during an argument over a bill with the man with whom he had just dined. Write down their dialogue. “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies ... I think that’s the record.” (Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet) “I am dying as I have lived, beyond my means.” (Oscar Wilde, calling for champagne) beyond my means: über meinen Verhältnissen straight: hintereinander, am Stück 99 5 Extensive unit 5: Life and death Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv