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Очередной диалог с живой разговорной речью для вашей практики. Диалог взят из сериала Открыто круглосуточно / Open All Hours. 1: Hey, G-G-Granville, have you been courting again? 2: Fat chance. We don’t close till ! 1: Mrs Scully said it could‘ve been you coming out of their Margaret... 2: You what? 1: ...’s place on Frith St! Go and get them papers in. I told-told you not to see that Ken Russell film! You’ve hardly got your spots cleared up from the last one! 2: I’m all right. 1: I hope you’re not abusing your health, are you? You look like you could use a good night’s sleep. 2: Aye, but we always have to get up the middle of it! 1: Listen, you ca-can’t be lying in bed with customers passing the door! Have you no sense of avarice, lad? 2: I’m not a lad any more! 1: Oh, been through some sort of ceremony, have you? Painfully initiated while me back was turned? 24 hours of agony to prove yourself to the G-G-Grocers Federation elders? Do they still practise the terrifying trick with the glacé cherry? 2: I’m 25, you know! 1: Oh, that bang we heard was you going through puberty, was it? I thought we had a slate off! 2: I could be out in the world developing me full personality! 1: You’ve got a slate off! Look, the world’s gone mad out there! You don’t want to go out there. Sanity begins at home! Eh-eh-eh q-quiet-quiet! It’s almost time for the news. That’s better. You’ve no idea what benefit I derive from that not listening to the news. It’s a p-public duty to keep yourself ill-informed, I say. Restore some English sanity to English streets. Key Vocabulary me me is sometimes used in place of my in a particularly informal dialectical use in the U.K. and other places court (dated) be involved with (someone) romantically, with the intention of marrying. (ухаживание) fat chance (idiom, informal) there is no chance of that happening you what people say ‘you what?’ to indicate that they do not believe or accept the remark that someone has just made, or that they have not heard or understood it properly them instead of those it is very common in British English! It’s nonstandard and dialectical, but can be found all over the country Ken Russell known for his explorations of sexuality, religion, music and history via a prism of stylized excess, filmmaker Ken Russell was often hailed as a visionary and the successor to Fellini lad a boy or young man avarice an extremely strong wish to get or keep money or possessions slate to cover a roof with slates (шифер) a piece of construction material (such as laminated rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding aye another word for “yes” prove oneself (idiom) to show that one is able to do something or to succeed grocer a person who sells food and small household goods almost time for the time when something will happen is near, something is going to happen very soon derive something from something to get something from something else sanity the state of having a healthy mind and not being mentally ill