vocabulary p.65/ 66

Vocabulary – Do you believe in yourself ? (Book p. 65f)

to be worried about
to be accepted
self-conscious
self-confidence
advantage – disadvantage
to have an impact on sth/ sb
to realize
self-esteem
to believe in
to be supposed to
failure
to deserve
root
to point out
to take a risk
unprotected
to protect
to abuse
to value oneself
peer pressure
desperately
to treat someone badly
to deserve

Vocabulary "The Pressure Cooker"

Make sure you know the vocabulary.
Learn the unknown words and phrases from the given blue boxes as well.
Chin up and keep smiling...

scene 1

to sentence - verurteilen
achievement - Leistung
to bother with
modesty
to be in a good mood
to fail
to go on the dole
to revise
to afford
to decide

scene 2

never mind
to be in a rush
to get on
revision
obviously
cheeky (brit. Engl)- frech
decent
I didn't mean to do sth
instead of
honestly
to bring up
both of you
to change your mind
in the long run

scene 3

to pretend
exaggerated
to exaggerate
patience
relationship
to overpower
to guess
on my own
to blame someone
to care
Whose fault is it?
sb else's fault

scene 4

to make up (a story)
to show off
advice
furious
row
to tease
How was I suppossed to know?
to feel guilty

scene 5

to be upset
to mention

Quotations

Quotations

(l.10) in line 10

(ll. 10/11) in lines 10 and 11

(ll.10-15) from line 10 to 15

Examples of quotations within a sentence:

In line 8 the author refers to the upper classes as “ the idle rich” and in line 17 as “selfish dinosaurs”.

In lines 18 and 19, she points out that they live a life of “privilege by an accident of birth”.

Between lines 23 and 34, she goes on to explain how ideas of class damage society as a whole.

The Pigman - vocabulary

Make sure you are familiar with the following vocabulary
of the extract in your book on page 41 ff

text 1

to decide
to be one’s turn
to cover
to pretend
to belong to
to clear one’s throat
to assure someone
cause
to be interested in
to receive
donation
to donate
to depend on
charity
suddenly
to burst into laughter
to repeat
to contribute to
marvelous
to feel sorry for
to be bothered
he is dying to do sth
ridiculous
to demand
sth is going to happen
to end up

text 2

anyway
apparently
to make an appearance
to reach
expression
to imitate
performance
to imagine
to be obvious
to intrude
to announce

Third-person narrator

Third-person narrator (absent or impersonal)

- a narrator who stands outside the story and uses the third person voice (“he”, “she” or “they”) to refer to the characters
- the perspective may be that of an omniscient narrator with an unlimited point of view
or
that of a selective omniscient with a limited point of view (view of one of the characters)
- the reader must do most of the understanding, assessing, evaluating as the narrator usually doesn’t identify himself with the character
- the narrator describes, reports and “shows”, but usually limits himself to giving facts and information only as to what the character does, what happens to him, what thoughts are being obvious

Phrases to speak about short stories

Useful phrases to speak about a short story

- The short story is about a decisive event in the life of ….
- The story deals with the theme of….
- It illustrates a typical example of human….
- It is a psychological study of…
- It narrates the conflict between two characters…
- The story concentrates on…
- It presents aspects of characters at a crucial moment of conflict in their
lives.
- It is set in…
- It covers only a short period of time.
- There is a build-up of suspense towards the end of the story.
- It may have an abrupt opening; an open ending; a surprise ending
- The atmosphere in the story is shown in…; is revealed by…

Vocabulary Landscape

Vocabulary: Land/scape

to dread sth (l.8)
to spend time together (l.9)
to have an opinion of sth (l.13)
to have different opinions (l.17)
to expect more of sb (ll. 39-30)
to keep on doing sth (l.34)
actually (l.42)
right on cue (l.126)
defiant (l.167)
possession (l.168)
to be damned (l.172)
to avoid sth (l.185)
to remember sth (l.205)
to lose courage (l.224)
to live up to sth (l.243)
to be fit in sth (l.248)
to guess (l.264)
to tease (l.278)