Match the words up with their meaning and give the Russian translation

affiliation	to have a feeling that smth is true or will happen
sartorial	to want to achieve something, to be successful
woeful	to be accepted by a group of people being similar to them
to cope without	being made less strong or effective
be at someone’s best	to react to something that you have noticed
deadness to	silly and not sensible or reasonable
quirky	not to pay any attention to smth
cockatoo	to receive or obtain something from something else
pick up on smth	used for emphasizing how bad something is
diluted [dai'lu:t]	to succeed in living or working without something
daft	used for saying that someone shows their best qualities in a particular event or situation
derive from	inertness, insensitivity, nonsensivity to smth
don’t care a hoot about	relating to clothes or to how they are made
to aspire	parrot
have a hunch	slightly strange
fit in	connection with a group or an organization

 

jump at the chance to	not willing to do something
stand out	long pieces of artificial hair that can be fastened to someone's hair to make it look longer
show off	the most important one of the ten rules of behaviour, that God gave people to obey
tarty	artificial hair that you wear on your head
bewilderingly	It’s not surprising
verbatim	a secret system of writing, a code
piecemeal	cited above
unlike	filled with
No wonder	to behave in a way that is intended to attract people's attention
cipher	to be easy to see or notice because of being different
quoted above	confusing and difficult to understand
a wig	made or done in separate stages rather than being planned and done as a whole
extensions	repeating the exact words that were used
infused with	different from someone or something else
First Commandment	to take an opportunity that is offered to you in a very enthusiastic way
reluctant	vulgar, indecent

 

cherished	a person's skin
macabre [mə'ka:m(brə)]	too carefully arranged in a special style
regalia [ri'geiliə]	by only a very small amount
miss the point	a UK school for students of different levels of ability between the ages of 11 and 18
poke fun at	someone, especially a young person, who is rude, noisy, and sometimes violent
sombre	keeping something pleasant in your mind for a long time
morbid	frightening or unpleasant
yobbo	to fail to understand smth
comprehensive	special clothes that you wear for a ceremony or official occasion
audacious	to make unkind jokes about someone or something
daring	too sunburned or suntanned
marginally	showing a strong interest in subjects such as death
over-coiffed [kwa:ft]	dark in colour, especially grey or black
over-baked	brave enough to do dangerous things
flesh	extremely confident, despite difficulties, risks, or the negative attitudes of other people

 

cleavage	full of possibilities and features
inversely	a piece of clothing
correlated	accidental
garment	to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by smth
deliberate	extent, space
inadvertent	believed
ostentatious	intended
wannabe ['wonəbi]	give permission to deal with a particular situation in the way you think is best
gadgetty	unfastened
withstand	the space between a woman's breasts
cufflinks	invertedly, changing in the opposite way to smth else
allow free rein to	connected in a way that is not caused by chance
suspected (adj) to	keen to be famous or successful, or to be like someone famous
expanse	showy, intended to impress people or attract their admiration
undone	studs

 

 

Exercises

A. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words and expressions:

Quirky, woeful, to cope without, be at someone’s best, sartorial, jump at the chance to, don’t care a hoot about, have a hunch, pick up on smth

 

1. His ________________ choices are strange, to say the least. He wears tracksuit with wingtips.
2. She dies. – O God, this is _______________ news.
3. They should not have fired her. We can’t ______________________ , she was an indispensable employee.
4. I ______________________ when I do routine tasks. When faced with something unexpected, I founder.
5. His ______________ personality led to a career choice: he is a circus clown.
6. His tone was just a little bit out of the ordinary but she ____________________ it at once.
7. He’s not coming. – I _______________ , I never liked him.
8. Do you think the test’ll be easy? - I __________________ it’ll be pretty hard.
9. I offered my son the driver’s seat and he _______________________ drive.

 

B. Answer the questions using the following words and expressions:

A wig, show off, tarty, verbatim, cipher, reluctant, First Commandment, stand out, cherished

 

1. Do you like it when people dress provocatively?
2. Do you sometimes overtly show your intelligence or knowledge?
3. What does a pretty woman look like?
4. Do you know Chinese?
5. Do you know what judges used to wear on their heads?
6. What must a person never do when driving?
7. What activities you don’t want to do yet have to nevertheless?
8. What is your warmest childhood memory?

 

C.  Translate using the following words and expressions:

M iss the point, poke fun at, comprehensive, cleavage, macabre, regalia, audacious, over-coiffed

 

1. Какая леденящая сердце история!
2. Он пришел при полном параде.
3. Ты не понял главного. Мы их союзники, а не враги.
4. Хватит насмехаться над тем, как он плавает.
5. Это полный курс по предмету. Другие тебе не понадобятся.
6. Этот смелый поступок очень поднял его в ее глазах.
7. У нее какая-то слишком ухоженная прическа.
8. Я запрещаю тебе покупать платья, которые показывают так много груди.

 

D. Answer the questions using suitable words and expressions:

 

1. What object’s usability is inversely proportional to its price?
2. What garment do you always wear when going to the country?
3. Have you ever done a deliberately bad deed?
4. Why do some people dress as rock star wannabes?
5. What helps you withstand boredom?
6. Do you think children should be allowed free rein to do anything they want?

 GRAMMAR

 

1. Выражение LEFT TO ONE ’ S OWN DEVICES значит ОСТАВЛЕННЫЙ БЕЗ ПРИСМОТРА, ЕСЛИ НА (КОГО-ТО) НЕ ВЛИЯТЬ:

 

He needs to have a strict teacher. Left to his own devices, he’ll skip all tests. – Ему нужен строгий учитель. Если на него не влиять, он прогуляет все тесты.

 

TRANSLATE

 

Left to our own devices, we fail, having little or no natural sense of style or elegance – suffering from, as George Orwell put it, an ‘almost general deadness to aesthetic issues.’

 

2. Оборот TO GET TO + INF значит ПОЛУЧИТЬ (ПРИЯТНУЮ, ЖЕЛАЕМУЮ) ВОЗМОЖНОСТЬ:

 

If we go there, we’ll get to see that actor. – Если мы пойдем туда, то нам удастся увидеть этого актера.

 

He got to act in a play. – Ему удалось сыграть в пьесе.

 

TRANSLATE

 

So you get to rebel against the mainstream culture, but with the comforting security of belonging to a structured group.

 

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