Основы теории английского языка. Шевченко В.Д. - 19 стр.

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2. Выпишите из приведенных ниже рассказов разговорные и
сленговые слова и выражения.
А) Slave Driver
Four school kids from Oklahoma are dragging the entire state’s education
system through the courts after they were forced to take part in what their
school called a “creative history lesson”. It seems that their teacher wanted
them to get a taste of life on a slave ship and to this end had the children tied up
with masking tape and beaten by their fellow pupils. Most teachers would have
drawn the line at the beating, but this particular teacher was clearly a bit of an
adventurous soul because he then ordered that they be “imprisoned” together in
a shower stall and smeared with the contents of dirty nappies in order that they
get a flavour of what life was really like on the journey from Africa to the New
World.
Б) Smart but Smelly
A student of astrophysics at the University of Oslo has had his appeal
against expulsion from the university rejected. For the 22-year-old astronomer
this was just one of many defeats he has faced in his battle to be readmitted to
the university on his own terms. While the university authorities would be more
than happy to have him back if their decision could be based purely on his
academic record (astrophysics tend to be very clever) the authorities will not
allow him into the building until he agrees to wash on a regular basis. The
student claims that a lack of soap and water enables him to get a better grip on
cosmology and is to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in a further
attempt to gain readmission.
В) A Wonderful Son
This should serve as a warning to all those parents who insist on teaching
their children “the value of money”. A woman in York has begun legal
proceedings against her son after he refused to share the proceeds from a
winning lottery ticket with her. For the last two years, mother and son have each
been putting in £20 per month to buy lottery tickets, which the son would pay for
and pick up every Saturday before going to work. One particular Saturday
evening he rang his mother to say that they had won two million pounds on one
of their tickets. The mother was thrilled to hear this and spent the evening
deciding on what she was going to do with her share. Imagine her
disappointment when, the following morning, her son called to say that he had
made a mistake and that the winning ticket had in fact not been one of theirs,
but one that he had bought on his own.

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