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Listening

1. What do you think has happened in this photograph?

2. Watch the first 50 seconds and check if you were correct.

3. Try to put these sentences into the correct order.

Right, that is it Why has he done that? It’s my stapler Slow down, you’re moving too fast. Soloman’s here. All part of the job,

what’s going on? Yeah, you showed him a weakness, he pounced. You should know about

that. _____ _____ _____ _____ (predict which question is missing) Well don’t do that, well, eat it out. Told him once that I didn’t like jelly, I don’t trust the way it moves. He put my stapler inside a jelly again. This is the third time he’s done it and it

wasn’t even funny the first time.

4. Watch and check

5.

a) Who put the stapler there, how do we know?b) What does Gareth want to happen?c) How does the boss respond?

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How would you describe these three people?

Gareth

Tim

David

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Discussion

1. What do you think it would be like working in the office?

2. What makes a good colleague or classmate?

3. Have you ever played a practical joke?

4. Now watch the clip from 1.20-1.39, and what does Gareth think about working in the office? What would he like to change and what past experience does he mention?

Function linkers

“Yeah it is alright here ______ people do sometimes take advantage ______ it’s so relaxed.”

1. Which words are missing here?

2. Listen to check, and are there any other words which could work?

3. If the word although had been used, how would you need to change the sentence to make it grammatically correct?

4. What would the effect on the register be?

Conditionals

Watch the final section and see if you hear two conditionals and write them down.

1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Which modal could you use to make this conditional more formal?

2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Which word is used instead of if in the 2nd of the two conditionals? How could you rewrite it using if but keeping the same meaning? Which words are used instead of ‘will’?

3. “what if that kills someone?”

How could you write this with the same meaning?

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Pronunciation

1. Try to predict which words will be stressed and where there should be pauses in the speech. (use a little dot above the stressed word and a slash for the pauses)

2. Practise and then record yourself and a partner saying the dialogue, remembering to focus on the stress and spaces.

3. Listen to check if you were correct, alter the stress so that it is correct and record again.

4. Listen to the first and the second recordings to compare them. How are they different?

5. Why do you think more words are stressed at the end of the conversation?

Discussion

What did you think of the show? Were there any parts in particular that you found amusing?Are there any similar types of comedies in your country?

T. Hey dude

G. Give it back

T. I’m just using it for a second

G. It’s got my name on it, Gareth

T. No, it says Garet, actually, but

G. Ask if you want to borrow it.

T. Yeah, you always say no mate, so what’s the point

G. Perhaps that’s why you should ask

T. Gareth it was just there ok

G. Yeah, that’s its home, leave it there.

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