A Small Family Business

1. Complete the following sentences with the words given in boxes.

retire	arthritis	silencer
car park	corrupt	4x4

1) Are you going to the … …? You’ve drunk too much; you’d better take a taxi.

2) Let me take your … . The road we’re taking is rocky and difficult, so a four-wheel drive will be the best.

3) The newspapers said the senator was … and took money from large multinational companies.

4) What is there? - A medicine for my grandma. She has painful knees and wrists - …, the doctors say.

5) John Smith was 65 years old, but he wasn’t going to … as he thought he could still do his job well.

6) The criminal used a … not to be heard by anybody in the neighborhood.

2. Listen to the story by Chris Rose. Find the English for:

- получать пенсию - удостовериться

- последние научно-технические - деловое соглашение

достижения - приблизительно

- забросить, позабыть о ком-л., - шлагбаум

чем-л. - время от времени

- далекий, отдаленный - оставалось еще

- винтовка примерно полчаса

- кобура - защищать

- зарядить пистолет - цель

- багажник автомобиля

3. Answer the following questions:

1) Why was Jack Robino going to retire?

2) How did he plan to spend his time when retired?

3) What did you learn about Jack Robino’s family?

4) How did Jack Robino feel about his job?

5) How did his last working day begin? Was it as usual as always?

6) What happened in the car park of the Seadale Building?

7) What do you think was Jack Robino Junior’s occupation?

4. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Make up three sentences using the patterns in bold type:

a) He was looking forward to spending his retirement there.

b) Now he earned nearly ten times what he earned when he started.

c) Nobody expected a respectable 65 year-old man to be a killer.

5. Put the 7 lines from the story into the correct category.

1. I’ll finally retire.

2. He’d been doing this job for a long time now.

3. He was getting too old.

4. It’ll be nice to have the grandchildren up at my big house.

5. I’ll be able to spend lots of time with them when I retire.

6. He’ll be driving a black Mercedes sports car.

7. What are you doing here?

1.	A prediction for the future.
2	An action happening now.
3.	An action taking place around the time of speaking.
4.	Looking forward to an action taking place in the future.
5.	Something which began in the past and continues up to the present.

6. Make up a dialogue between Jack Robino and Jack Robino Jr discussing the incident in the car park.

7. Reproduce the story in writing.