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DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES_S1/Ep9_Suspicious Minds

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PRE-WATCHING TASKS
18
18
45
WHILE WATCHING TASKS
18
29
13
32
POST-WATCHING TASKS
20

1. Here is the link to the Quizlet module with words and phrases you will need for doing this part of the tasks.

QUIZLET_SHORT

Pitanje 1
1.

2. Choose the correct option

1. I’ve never played tennis before, but I’m willing to give it a shortage / shot.

2. After finishing her exams, she was as happy for good / as a clam.

3. He was moved by her compassion / temptation when she helped a stranger in need.

4. He promised to help with the project, but then he pushed / backed out at the last minute.

5. Putting inexperienced drivers on icy roads sounds like a recipe / receipt for disaster.

6. He tried to seduce / rummage her with compliments and gifts, but she wasn’t interested.

7. It’s illegal to sell alcohol to upscale / underage customers.

8. The neighbors pushed him around / turned him in when they saw suspicious activity.

9. Upscale / Underage hotels often provide spa services and luxurious rooms.

10. Knock it off! / Give it a shot! I can’t concentrate with all this noise.

11. He quit smoking for good / God last year, and now he feels much healthier.

12. She spent hours pushing around / rummaging through old photos in the attic.

13. He resisted the temptation / compassion to skip studying and play video games instead.

14. She’s still hung up at / on her ex-boyfriend, even though they broke up a year ago.

15. She hesitated too long and lost the shot / gave it a shot to buy the house. Another couple bought it.

16. Stop letting him push you around / back out - you have the right to speak up.

17. I wouldn’t be hung up on / caught dead wearing that old-fashioned dress!

18. The factory closed down due to a rummage / shortage of raw materials.

Pitanje 2
2.

3. Complete each gap with 1-3 words

1. He said he wouldn’t listening to that kind of music.

2. She wasn’t sure about the recipe but decided to give anyway.

3. The teacher told the students to when they started arguing.

4. They went to an restaurant to celebrate their anniversary.

5. I hate when people my personal things without asking.

6. She doesn’t like her boss because he always people around.

7. Don’t be on your mistakes; everyone makes them.

8. After years of traveling, they decided to settle in Italy .

9. The perfume ad was designed to buyers with its luxurious imagery.

10. He was happy playing video games all weekend.

11. He trained hard because he didn’t want to at the championship.

12. Starting a business without a solid plan is often a .

13. She decided not to and went through with the difficult presentation.

14. After finding the stolen wallet, he decided to the thief in to the police.

15. The nurse showed great while caring for her patients.

16. The smell of fresh cookies was a strong to break her diet.

17. The club doesn’t allow people inside after 9 PM.

18. There is a of affordable housing in many big cities.

Pitanje 3
3.

4. Make up ONE sentence with EACH SET of phrases

1. give it a shot + happy as a clam

2. lose the shot + knock it off

3. upscale + underage

4. push someone around + rummage through

5. temptation + back out

6. recipe for disaster + be hung up on

7. wouldn't be caught dead + for good

8. seduce + shortage

9. turn someone it + compassion

1. Here are the links to the FULL Quizlet module and the Wordlist in case you struggle with any vocabulary. You may use either of them, depending on which is more convenient for you.

QUIZLET_FULL

Wordlist (Google Document)

2. Here is the link to the movie. You may download it to your computer.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, SEASON 1, EPISODE 9

Or you may watch the video below.

Pitanje 4
4.

3. Choose the correct option

[00:00:40 - 00:10:34]

1. Her first great idea came when she was 15, after her stepfather model, which soon led to her next great idea, her decision to marry Carlos Solis.

3. Her most short by a tragic accident.

4. My life. It hasn't turned here and they keep cutting our budget and...

6. Listen, Betty! OK? You're not it's gonna be black and slimming and you're gonna look great.

7. No one knew this better than Edie Britt. She understood that .

9. - I hear he's dating Danielle Van De Kamp.

- Oh, for now. It's just a matter of time before they break up dead in black.

11. While you're gone, I'll be here paying bills and sorting pills. Normal is a bad bad plan.

- Ok, so, we'll .

14. - Well, maybe if we take it away from him, then he'll start to understand what he did. He has not shown an ounce of remorse since the accident.

- Of course he feels bad. He's just, you know, keeping his shot at an athletic scholarship and then he's never gonna forgive us.

Pitanje 5
5.

4. Complete the gaps with 1-3 words

[00:10:35 - 00:20:23]

1. - My mom said you needed volunteers, so I volunteered.

- Finally got the ?

2. Would you ? My mom's right over there.

3. - Sure, do you wanna tell me why you had your foot in John Rowland's yesterday?

- Oh, that. He was helping me in my stocking, and from your it must have looked a little weird.

4. - This isn't about you.

- Yes, it is. It's about me and about every other person who was by somebody they loved. When Karl ran off with Brandi you saw what a I was. I was crying, I was his clothes. I couldn't get out of bed all day.

5. - Good nannies are so hard to find.

- Yeah, that's why I was hoping to your expertise.

6. - All your rich friends have nannies, A-list nannies. I need to catch one without their bosses.

- Why?

- So I can me one.

- Lynette!

- Look, at my old job we didn't wait for good people to come to us. We went out and other companies. I don't see why it should be different when you're hiring a nanny.

- I understand that good help is hard to find, but stealing a family's nanny is so .

- I'm not anyone's arm. If I make a better offer, why shouldn't a qualified person ?

7. Since the accident, Bree had started to worry her son's sense of morality was going . She was right to be concerned.

8. - Charming. What I was wondering is if you've to spend any time reflecting on the reasons that you've been and all the pain that you've caused the Solis family.

- Yeah. I totally get how my actions have affected, like, everything else.

- Really?

- Aha. I mean, you know, like, when I do something like I did, then, you know, you gotta do something like you did, which is, you know, it's cool, because then everything just kind of and goes again. You know?

- No, I don't. What's that smell? Have you been smoking marijuana?

- No, of course not.

- You !

9. Zach is missing from Silvercrest. It happened yesterday evening, we think it happened during the .

10. - I still don't get why you're not with Danielle any more. She looked so at Ray's party.

- She's not my type, I guess.

- What, oh, you're still your mysterious married lady? What is it with her, , of course?

11. Please, explain to me how he could just walk out. With the money that I pay you, people, I think you could afford a .

12. You've insisted we medicate him without psychotherapy, that is a .

13. Bree had given Lynette the on Valley View Park. It was a gathering place for and their .

Pitanje 6
6.

5. Correct the mistakes in phrases in bold

[00:20:24 - 00:30:22]

1. Because I want you to put him from the swim team. And I don't think you'll allow it without proof.

2. We're not gonna screw up Andrew's future just because he parked a doobie.

3. Rex, I thought you moved back home to try and strengthen Andrew out, to teach him the consequences of his actions.

4. Because we're still getting divorced and I don't have to let you bush me around any more.

5. - So your boss made you return her underwear?

- Yep. After she had already won them once.

6. Look, I'm not gonna be moving lawns forever. I have big plans for my life.

7. - Thank God Tom could fit in in the last minute.

- Why did Carlos have to back up?

8. - There's a special place in hell for people like you.

- I'm sorry. It wasn't my decision.

- You're an adult. Make some responsibility!

9. OK, you want me to talk? You're gonna find Helen Rowland and you're gonna tell her the truth before everyone in this neighborhood thinks that I'm the one sleeping with an average boy.

10. Alexis is still here. She was opposed to go to Pilates but she got her period. You gotta go.

11. She can be tough, but it comes in the territory, right?

12. I will give you a 20% dump on what she's paying you, plus overtime.

Pitanje 7
7.
Drugi mogući odgovor:
boneheaded
complicated creatures
must have sold
compassion
resorted
yelling
whispering
occurred
betrayal
was set up
humiliating
I bet
buried
ward off
turned me in
innocent
scholarship
underhanded
locker
intend
decent
rummaged through
chopped up
pot
temptation
awkward
picking
been a while
possessions
fit
come up with
set me up

6. Complete the gaps with the given words and phrases. You'll find them below the exercise

[00:30:23 - 00:41:13]

1. Bree had to extreme measures to save her son's soul. As she Andrew's private , it to her that sometimes a little is good for the soul.

2. I was really young, like four. I heard my mom and my dad .

3. I don't even see Dana. I just... I see the blood and my mom me up and putting me on my bed and that it's not my fault.

4. - I killed my baby sister.

- Zach, oh, my God.

- And they her to protect me.

5. - Oh, Gabrielle. I didn't get a chance to tell you how sorry I was about what happened at the fundraiser. I didn't to cause a scene.

- No, it's OK. People didn't even notice.

- Well, this is a little . I know you're friends with Susan Mayer. But let's just say I had my reasons.

6. - Dude, coach wants to see you.

- Really? Hey, it's about my .

7. - I several hundred of these just like it, about ten years back.

- Do you keep any kind of documentation?

- Yeah, I have a list of customers' names on file. Somewhere. You know, it's .

8. - Yeah, but how do you a body into a chest that size?

- It was .

9. - Of all the stupid, decisions. What were you thinking?

- I , alright? The coach got an anonymous phone call.

- Andrew, what does it matter? The was there.

- I was holding it for a friend.

- You know... I can't decide which is more , the fact that my son got caught with pot in his or that he can't even a enough lie to explain it.

10. She ! Carlos. Carlos, I'm so sorry.

11. Gabrielle, this will all be taken care of, I promise. I'm , I swear to God. It was Tanaka. He .

12. People are , on the one hand able to perform great acts of charity, on the other capable of the most forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the of our inner demons. And sometimes the only way to the darkness... is to shine the light of .