Стр.94-95 Unit 9 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

READING AND VOCABULARY

1. In pairs, read the list of situations and answer questions 1–3.

   • You strike up a conversation with someone and discover you have a friend in common.
   • You think about someone, and shortly afterwards they phone or email you.
   • You go shopping alone and buy the same clothes as a close friend.
   • Twin brothers have girlfriends with the same name.
   1. Have you experienced any of these coincidences or others like it? If so, how and when?
   2. Which was, or would be, the strangest or most unusual for you? Why?
   3. Do you think coincidences happen for a reason, or are purely chance events? Why?

2. Read the blurb on the back of the novel and look at the sketch. What’s the central plot of the book?

   Isabel Dalhousie, the charming, well-intentioned editor of a philosophy journal in The Sunday Philosophy Club, is back in Alexander McCall Smith’s new book, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. Isabel’s inability to ignore people in need inevitably involves her in unusual situations. By chance she meets Ian, a psychologist, who recently had a heart transplant. Ian tells her about a serious problem, which might prevent his recovery. He’s been having disturbing visions of an unfamiliar face – a face he thinks his new heart might remember … Isabel is intrigued and finds herself involved in a dangerous investigation. But she still has time to think about the things that possess her – like love and friendship and, of course, chocolate …

3. Listen and read Part 1 of the extract. Complete sentences 1–9 with Isabel, Jamie, Ian or the donor.

   1. … was willing to consider theories that have not been scientifically proved.
   2. … might’ve died in a car accident.
   3. … was troubled by strange visions.
   4. … was sceptical about the idea that heart cells can remember events and images.
   5. … had a heart transplant.
   6. … had been doing some research before this conversation took place.
   7. … might’ve seen the face of the driver before he died.
   8. … knew the heart donor was young.
   9. … believed the person who’d died in the accident was the heart donor.

4. Match 1–5 with a–e to make phrases from the extract.

   1	tried and
   2	entertain the
   3	keep
   4	a twinge
   5	put two
   a	a possibility
   b	and two together
   c	of fear
   d	trusted
   e	an open mind

5. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the phrases from Exercise 4.

   1. When she heard footsteps behind her, she couldn’t help feeling ______.
   2. I’m not sure whether I like him or not. I am ______ at the moment.
   3. Ann’s not a very adventurous cook. She always sticks to the same ______ recipes.
   4. He loved his home town and had never even ______ of living abroad.
   5. After she’d seen him with the same girl for the third time, she ______.

6. Before you look at Part 2, discuss these questions.

   • Are Isabel’s assumptions about the identity of the donor reasonable? Why?/Why not?
   • Will Jamie support Isabel in her investigations? Why?/Why not?
   • What will Isabel do next? Why?

7. Listen and read Part 2 of the extract on page 96. Are the statements true or false? Were your predictions correct?

   1. Jamie had become involved in Isabel’s investigations before.
   2. Isabel had already assumed that Jamie would want to help her.
   3. Neither of them knew if the police had identified the driver.
   4. Ian had described the face of the man he kept imagining to Isabel.
   5. Isabel believed that the police would act on the information she had.
   6. She felt obliged to take responsibility for problems of people she met.
   7. Isabel believed that justice must be done.