Vocabulary: idioms (taking risks)

Ex.25 Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Continuous.

А few years ago а friend of mine, Тоm, 1) was travelling (travel) in Java. Оnе day he 2)………(decide) to visit аn ancient temple. The walls were covered in beautiful old paintings of mysterious-looking faces. While he 3)………(walk) around the temple, he 4)………(feel) аn inexplicable desire to remove оnе particular face which seemed to bе staring at him. Nervously, checking to see that nо оnе 5)………(look), he 6)………(peel) the face from the wall and 7)………(put) it carefully in his bag. Тоm 8)………(think) nо mоrе about the incident until two years later. At that time he 9)………(live) in London and 10)………(work) in а shop selling old books and manuscripts. Оnе day аn extremely old mаn 11)………(walk) slowly through the door. Тоm could hardly see him but he 12)………(notice) the man's piercing black eyes. Не 13)……….(stare) at Тоm, fixing him with his gaze, saying nothing. As the mаn 14)……….(stare) at him, Tom 15)………(have) an awful, terrifying feeling of shame and fear. Suddenly, the mаn was gone. When Тоm got home that evening he 16)………(search) frantically through all his things until he 17)………(find) the face from the temple. It was the face of the old mаn from the shop! Не 18)………(know) then that he had to return the picture to the temple, оr something terrible would happen.

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EX.26 In the extracts below a famous British writer, John Mortimer, and his daughter, Emily, talk about each other. Read the extracts and answer the questions.

a) Who is talking in each extract, the father or the daughter?

b) Who do you like more, the father or the daughter?
1. I used to love gardening, and, much to her embarrassment, I would go to collect her from some club at 2 a.m. wearing my gardening cap.
2. When I was little he used to get up every morning, dress me, cook my breakfast, and drive me school. And I treated him very badly in return. At the age of four I used to send my eggs back unless they were perfectly cooked.
3. I was embarrassed by the fact that Dad was older and used to wish that I had a father who played cricket and built tree houses. In fact I used to make him park around the corner from school because he was so old.
4. Emily used to do very well in public-speaking competitions. I used to write her speeches with her.
5. I used to be very embarrassed when, as a teenager, I went out to clubs and Dad would come and collect me wearing his gardening cap.