Part 5. A Dead Man

Ex.1.  Listen to part 5 and mark the sentences as True (T) or False (F).

1.  Looking at the dead Jake Rosso’s picture Carol remembered all the photographs on the walls of her room in Hong Kong.

2.  Carol understood that Mr. Ross was Jake Rosso.

3.  Jake Rosso was pleased that Carol recognised him.

4.  Jake Rosso shared his secret with Carol.

5.  Nobody on the island, expect Gretta Ross, knew Jake’s secret.

6.  Jake Rosso faked a car crash to make everybody believe he was dead.

7.  Jake changed into a different person with the help of plastic surgery.

8.  Jake needed the room with posters and photographs to remember his old life.

9.  Carol told the news she had learned from Mr. Ross to her mother.

Ex.2.  Match the questions in A with the answers in B.

A	B
1. What was there in the locked room? 2. Did Jake Rosso look different? 3. Who were the people on the island? 4. What terrible things did Jake do when he was a pop singer? 5. How did Jake fake a car crash?	a) Yes, he got short hair, moustache and he wore glasses. b) They were all Jake’s family. c) He put some of his things in the car and pushed it over a cliff and burnt it. d) It was full of strange things: coloured shirts and suits, three guitars, photographs and posters on the walls. e) He took drugs, drank alcohol and crushed cars.

APPENDIX

Part 1. Phrasal verbs: Studying

Catch up - to do something that should have been done before.

Copy (smth) down - to write exactly what someone has written or said.

Drop out - to leave something such as an activity, school, or competition before you have finished what you intended to do.

Find out - to discover a fact or piece of information.

Hand in - to give something to a person in authority.

Hand out - to give things to different people in a group.

Keep up - to continue to understand what someone is saying.

Look (smth) up - to try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer.

Put up - to raise something, especially so that it is ready to use.

Read (smth) out - to say the words that you are reading so that people can hear them.

Sign up - to put someone’s name on an official list for something.

Swot up – to study something very hard, especially for an examination.

Work out - to understand someone or something.

Write (smth) down - to write something on a piece of paper.

Ex.1.  Complete the phrasal verbs with up or out:

1.  My sister decided to drop _______ of university because she wanted to travel.

2.  He missed some lessons last week, so he need to catch ______ at the weekend.

3.  We’ve got a test on Wednesday, so I must swot ______ for it.

4.  The teacher asked one of the students to hand ______ a sheet of paper to each person.

5.  The level is too high – I can’t keep ______.

6.  That course looks interesting – I think I’ll sign ______ for it.

7.  Could you find ______ how many people speak English as a second language?

8.  The students studied several examples and tried to work ______ the difference between “say” and “tell”.

Ex.2.  Complete the phrasal verbs with in, down, up or out. Use two words twice:

If you copy a list of words from the board, you copy it … .

If you check the meaning of a word in a dictionary, you look it… .

If you read your essay to the class, you read it … .

If you raise your hand when you know the answer, you put it… .

If you write a new word in your vocabulary notebook, you write it… .

If you give your notebook to the teacher for marking, you hand it … .

Ex.3.  Complete the sentences with phrasal verbs from Ex.1 and Ex.2.

1.  You can _______ the answers in the key.

2.  Please don’t _______ your homework a day late.

3.  Look at these sentences with the superlatives. Can anyone _______ when we use “most”?

4.  Emily, could you _______ these grammar books for me? One between two should be OK.

5.  I’ll _______ the phone number if you can read it out to me.

6.  Can you _______ for the trip to the British Museum if you want to go?

7.  Listen, everyone! Margaret will _______ the first part of the story.

8.  If you use your dictionary, you’ll _______ what “generosity” means.