Choosing your English (Lesson Two: Express your anger)

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 2:48 am

[english]Hello everybody!
In fact I found an old book in the library, its name is "Choosing your English", the last reprinted was in March 1978. The book learns us how we can express our feelings and moods in English? It includes 40 lessons, in every lesson we'll learn how we can express ourselves in a situation. You and me will study this book together. God willing I'll post a lesson every Friday and Tuesday.
I wish I can do a good thing in this amazing forum (Say it in English). And today, I will start by the name of Allah.[/english]

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 2:51 am

[align=center]Lesson 1[/align]
[english]Barbra and Harry Sallis are trying to buy a house.
Here they are looking at the house for which they have
Paid a deposit. The mood here is SURPISE.

Conversation:

BARBRA: This can't be the home!
HAARY: Good heavens! It's a most peculiar place!
BARBRA: Look at that carving over the fireplace.
HAARY: Looks Chinese.
BARBRA: Weird! There's a mixture of everything.
HAARY: And how could anyone live in a house like this.
BARBRA: I've never seen anything like it.
MAN: Good afternoon.
BARBRA: Oh…Hello!
MAN: Who are you? I'm the caretaker.
HAARY: I think we've come to wrong house.

MAN: Te wrong house?
BARBRA: Yes.. By mistake.
MAN: Well! I'd have thought it was difficult to mistake this house.
HARRY: Yes… It is an extraordinary place. Who built it?
MAN: A pirate
HARRY: A pirate?
BARBRA: Really? How astonishing!
MAN: He was most artistic.
BARBRA: What! Who'd have thought of a pirate being artistic?
MAN: He stole only works of art.
HARRY: Did they catch him?
MAN: Yes. In the end he was hanged.
BARBRA: Oh, no!
MAN: For murder.
BARBRA: Murder!
MAN: The house has been empty all these years and now it's being sold.
HARRY: Who on earth would want to buy an extraordinary place like this?
MAN: To a couple called – let me think – Sallis, I believe.
HARRY and BARBRA: Sallis?
HARRY: But… But that's us!
MAN: You?
HARRY: You must've got the wrong name.
BARBRA: This isn't the house we're buying. Harry, we've come to the wrong place.
HARRY: We're buying a Georgian house, in Butterfield Lane, near Mamesby.
MAN: This is Butterfield Lane, near Mamesby.
HARRY: The house agent must've made a mistake dear.
BARBRA: Surely not!
HARRY: I wouldn't have thought so, but they must have
MAN: Well, I never.

Vocabulary:
Georgian: from the time of the first four Grorges, Kings of England (18th century)
Weird: strange.
Pirate: sea-robber.
House agent: person who buys and sells houses for others
Caretaker: person in charge of a building.
Couple: two, husband and wife.

Expressions of surprise:
How astonishing (amazing, surprising, etc)! What a weird house! Who (what, why, how, etc) on earth is that? Well, I never! You don't say! Good heavens! Good gracious! Good Lord!

Pronunciation:
Exclamations, including expressions of surprise, are spoken often with a falling tone on the main stress:
Good 'Havens! Good ' Gracious! Good ' Lord
Syllables preceding this stress are spoken at a high pitch:
'Well I never! 'How astonishing!
Statements are often spoken with a falling tone, too. When they are questions, however, a rising tone is used like this:
A: He was hanged for murder (Falling tone)
B: Murder? (rising tone)

Exercise (Homework):
An important work of art has been stolen from a famous old house. You are the police inspector and are trying to find out what might have taken place.
The owner, however, thinks he knows exactly how work has been stolen
Write out the conversation between the owner and yourself.

The end of lesson one.[/english]

كاردينيا · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 2:54 am

thank you Basil 4 this interesting subject
I am happy because i am the first one to reply
Go ahead.............

Raghad · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 2:58 am

Basil,
It seems that it is very important

I'll save it for reading .. Thank you

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 3:05 am

Don't forget the homework

Mohammed jaz · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 3:50 am

thanks for you friend
it seems very good
I'll save it in my mind

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** السبت ديسمبر 13, 2008 7:06 pm

Hello Mohammed:

اقتباس:

thanks for you

It must be: either "Thanks" or "Thank you"

اقتباس:

it seems very good

Yes, it's

اقتباس:

I'll save it in my mind

Save it in your PC, and after that, understand it, then do the homework

. And finally save it in your mind

Welcome my friend

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** الأربعاء ديسمبر 17, 2008 12:36 am

[align=center]Lesson 2[/align]
[english]Harry and Barbra have the impression that they have
been sold the wrong house. Here they are trying to
straighten out the situation with estate agent. The mood
here is ANGER.

Conversation:

HARRY: I've got a bone to pick with you!
CLERK: Me, Sir?
HARRY: Yes, you!
CLERK: I beg your pardon!
HARRY: Well, if it isn't you, it's someone in this firm.
BARBRA: It was a man with a red hair!
CLERK: Ah! You must be talking about Mr. Maddox! If you'll be kind enough to wait a moment, I'll fetch him.
BARBRA: Well, really? Who does he think he is?
HARRY: I'll get my deposit back if it's the last thinking I do.
Mr. Maddox: Oh, good evening Mr. and Mrs. Sallis. I gather there's been some little difficulty.
BARBRA: Little difficulty! I like that!
HARRY: We've been defrauded!
Mr. Maddox: Defrauded. Are you accusing me?
HARRY: Yes, Mr. Maddox, I am!
Mr. Maddox: Well, of all the nerve!
BARBRA: Look! Don't try an nonsense with us!
HARRY: We've just about had enough!
Mr. Maddox: Enough of what? You haven't even told me what's happened?! You just come here and start shouting your heads off!
HARRY: Shouting our heads off! How dare you!
Mr. Maddox: Look here! You've got nothing to complain about. We're offering you a lovely house at a very good price.
BARBRA: Lovely? Are you being funny?
HARRY: Murderers. Pirates.
Mr. Maddox: Murderers! Pirates! This is really going too far! Have you gone off your head? I'll have you know that that is defamation.
HARRY: I don't care what it is…

Mr. Maddox: Ah, Mr. Roper. (to the Sallises) This is our general manager…
Mr. Roper: What on earth's going on, Maddox? I've never heard such a noise..
BARBRA: This gentleman has cheated us!
Mr. Roper: Cheated you?
HARRY: It's true. We've been tricked.
Mr. Maddox: Now, please… (Door opens) Oh, good evening Mr. and Mrs. Middleton.
Mrs. Middleton: We've come here to make a serious complaint.
Mr. Roper: No. Not another one.
Mr. Middleton: An example of the most extraordinary inefficiency.
Mrs. Middleton: Believe it or not, gentleman, the house you sent us to see has disappeared!
Mr. Middleton: And been replaced by a large but very commonplace building
Mrs. Middleton: We gave you a deposit for this beautiful house, full of wonderful carvings..
HARRY: Oh no!
BARBRA: Oh, you idiot, MR. Maddox! You've mixed up the addresses!
HARRY: Really? What incompetence!

Vocabulary:

Estate agent: a person who buys and sells houses and lands for others.
Fetch: to go and get.
Deposit: make first payment of money owed.
Gather: to understand, conclude.
Defraud: to swindle.
Complain: to say that one is not satisfied.
To defame: say bad thing about.
Cheat: to win something dishonestly.
Trick: to deceive, swindle.
Ineffective: not fully capable.
Replace: take the place of.
To crave: to form by cutting.
Mix up: to confuse.
Incompetent: unable.
To have a bone to pick with someone: to have something to disagree or complain about.
If you'll be kind enough: if you will.
To shout one's head off: to shout very loudly.
To go off one's head: to go mad.
Believe it or not..: it may sound unusual but…
Look here!: I'm going to be frank with you.

Expressions of ANGER:
Well, of all the nerve!
What on earth are you talking about?
Are you being funny?
Who do you think you are?
I've just about had enough.
That's going a bit too far!
How dare you!
I beg your pardon!
What impertinence!
I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.
Are you trying to make a fool of me?
What gives you the right to behave like that?
I've come to the end of my patience.
That's really too much!
You have absolutely no right to behave like that!
Please remember your manners.

Structure:
Notice what appears to be a double future in the clerk's words:
If you'll be kind enough to wait a moment I'll fetch him.
Where 'you'll' expresses willingness but ' I'll ' expresses intention.

Pronunciation:
Barbra, Harry, Mr. Roper – all give an extra loudness to say the key words in the sentences which express their anger:
How "dare you! I don't care "what it is! I like "that!
Notice that the double marks above point in a downward direction to show the direction of the voice is downwards or falling.
The end of lesson two.[/english]

Raghad · **مرسل:** الأربعاء ديسمبر 17, 2008 1:20 am

Basil,
What a homework I'll try but don't laugh at me
My name is The Detective Conan

Detective Conan Hello Mr.
Owner : Welcome sir
I : Would you answer my questions frankly?
Owner: OK sir
I : Do you know the person that stole this piece of art
Owner : Frankly I didn't see him well because it was dark
I : mmmmm Try to remember .... What was he wearing:
Owner : A black jacket and a grey scarf putting it on his head
I : But we know that you know him well
Owner: What ! Good Heavens ! I don't know him
I : Yea admit now
Owner : Sir I wanna say that I suspect of someone
I: Who is he?
Owner : I think he is our neighbour Mr. Tony
I: Mr. Tony! Are you sure ?
Owner : I think so.
I : How did you know though you told me that he was putting a scarf on his head ?
Owner : I observed that he hobbled on his left leg as Mr. Tony
Conan : OK thank you man … I'll know the truth myself

باسل العمروش · **مرسل:** الخميس ديسمبر 25, 2008 9:32 pm

Hello again!
Raghad

God bless you my good student, very cool!
I'll be back after the exam
see you.. and may Allah help you

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