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Dictionary of Slang
Part I
Each of the following sentences contains a slang expression, which appears in bold type (bold). Read over the sen-
tences and try to guess the meaning of each expression. Then, match the bold expression (1-6) with the definition
(A-F).

1. When I was a teenager my Dad was always really stingy so I only got 50p/week pocket money – I don’t know
whyhe bothered giving me any to be honest.
2. My mate’s absolutely loaded – He’s always going off on holiday. He’s going to the Caribbean next week.
3. My cousin won a grand on ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ last week. She wasn’t very happy though – she had
her heart set on winning at least £16,000.
4. I went shopping last week to get some new jeans and the only one’s they had were 100 quid – what a rip-off!
5. I hate being a student – no matter what I do I’m always broke!
6. Her Great Uncle kicked the bucket last week and now she’s quids in.

A. a thousand pounds
B. short of money
C. someone has died and a relative has inherited lots of money
D. rich
E. reluctant to give others money
F. expensive

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____

Part II
Now try to write your own sentences using the slang expressions above.
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The painted body of Johnny Depp

Part I
Read the article and say whether the following statements are True or False. If it is
false correct it.

1. Johnny Depp got his first tattoo when he was sixteen.

2. Depp has a swallow tattoo on his left arm.
3. Johnny Depp’s body is worth $12 million.
4. Johnny Depp has taken drugs
5. Depp doesn’t think that three is a special number.
6. Depp has been in trouble with the police.
7. Depp has a tattoo dedicated to his mother on his left arm.
8. Depp has an exclamation mark on his ankle.
9. Depp has a son and a daughter.
10. Depp has a tattoo of an Indian chef on his right arm..

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____ 7_____ 8 ____

Part II: Find someone who.

Form questions from the following
statements. Go around the classroom
and ask everyone the questions.
If someone answers ‘yes’ then write
their name next to the question.

Find someone who:

• Has a tattoo or wants to get a tattoo.

• Can tell you three facts about Johnny Depp.
• Would get the name of a girlfriend/boyfriend as a tattoo.
• Can name three films that Johnny Depp has been in (not the 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films).
• Is scared of getting a tattoo.
• Has ever had a temporary tattoo.
• Can tell you what a phone doodle is.
• Can tell you about five of Johnny Depp’s tattoos without looking at the text.

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New English Words

Part I
Match the words with the explanations:
1. pay-as-you-throw
2. cot potato
3. ecosexual
4. ringxiety
5. wilfing

A. a young child or baby who watches too much TV

B. The feeling that your phone is ringing when it isn’t
C. Wasting time on the internet
D. someone who is concerned about the
environment and that affects their whole life including
choice of partner.
E. a system for disposing of rubbish

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____

Part II
See if you can find the new English words in this word search:

P C A G O T I N Q
A O L N A O S P U
Y T E I X G N I R
A P O F E S P W O
S O J L D C O O L
Y T E I U A T R A
O A F W R M T L U
U T D P D M I D X
T O S Q E I U T E
H E S U R N Q O S
R L R I E G P R O
O K Q L R T I I C
W I L L T I N G E
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Collocations
Part I
Match the collocation (1-9) with the meaning (A-I).
1. Roll up your sleeves
2. Get the sack
3. Not be worth the paper it’s written on (a contract)
4. Moonlight
5. Sleeping partner
6. Jump ship
7. Talk shop
8. To work on the side
9. Donkey work

A. to not be legally valid

B. to prepare for hard work
C. a partner in a company who does not take an active part in its management
D. To be fired; to lose your job
E. To leave one job to work for the competition
F. to work an additional job without telling your main employer
G. the hard boring part of a job
H. to work a second job
I. To talk about work (outside of the workplace)

Part II:
Fill in the gaps with the collocations.

1. The boss told him that if he didn’t____________and get on with some work then he would be_______________.
2. I hate going for drinks with my colleagues. They don’t seem to have a social life – they only ever______________.
3. When I got the job I thought it would be a challenge but it turned out that I just ended up doing all the__________.
4. I was headhunted and told that if I______________they’d pay me double what I get now.
5. He was done for tax evasion when the tax man found out that he’d been______________.
6. Before Christmas I had to do some______________to be able to pay for all the presents.

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Weird art
Part I: Are the following statements true or false?
Correct the ones which are false.
1. To ‘make a pig’s ear of something’ means to eat ham.
2. The piglets live in a farm in Cornwall.
3. Wallinger’s idea came from a German fairy tale.
4. Wallinger won £2,500 for his ‘art’.
5. Gignac puts wet and mouldy things into his boxes of rubbish.

A. with a lot of complicated decoration

B. leading
C. causing arguments or discussion
D. hurried and busy
E. to be proud of something and talk about it a lot
F. to do nothing

Answers

1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____

Part II: Discussion.

Discuss these questions in groups.

1. What’s the weirdest art you’ve ever seen?

2. Would you buy art made by pigs?

3. Would you buy one of Justin Gignac’s boxes of rubbish? Why/why not?

4. Would you dress up in a bear suit and walk around? If so, how much would you want to be paid for it?

5. Do you think that the art talked about in the article is really art? Why/why not?

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Uncovering the treasures of Europe

Part I
Match the words and phrases (1-6) with the definitions (A-F)
1. bustling
2. to laze around
3. ornate
4. foremost
5. controversial
6. to boast

A. with a lot of complicated decoration

B. leading
C. causing arguments or discussion
D. hurried and busy
E. to be proud of something and talk about it a lot
F. to do nothing

Answers

1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____

Part II Role play
In pairs do this role play. Student 1 should use the article to advice student 2. After
two exercises switch roles.
Student 1 is a travel agent
Student 2 is an art-lover wanting advice on where to go on holiday

Exercise 1:
Student 2: You are really interested in Picasso and want to see works of art by him and are also interested in seeing
less well-known art, preferably painted by local artists. Ask the travel agent for advice.

Exercise 2:
Student 2: You are interested in Renaissance art but are not sure where to go to see some. Ask the travel agent for
advice on where to go and ask for more information on the city.

Exercise 3:
Student 2: You want to see some art nouveau but are also interested in works of a gothic nature. Ask the travel
agent for advice on where to go and ask for more information on the city.

Exercise 4:
Student 2: You have seen some copies of Klimt but want to see the real thing. Ask the travel agent for advice on
where to go and ask for more information on the city.

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Getting the tattoo bug

Part I
Match the word or phrase (1-9) with its meaning (A-I).

1.bug A. someone who doesn’t eat meat, fish or dairy products

2.timeless B. skin

3.out-of-date C. addiction

4.to get inked D. part at the back of the leg between the knee and the foot

5.indelibly E. permanently marked

6.vegan F. something that will never go out of fashion

7.calf G. no longer in fashion

8.endorphin H. a chemical that makes you feel good

9.flesh I. to get a tattoo

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____ 7_____ 8_____ 9_____

Part II
In groups discuss the following questions.

1.Would you ever get a tattoo?

2.If you got a tattoo where would it be on your body and what would it be of?
3.Has reading this article changed your view about tattoos?
4.What would put you off getting a tattoo?
5.If you were an employer would you employ someone who had tattoos?

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Wearing your art on your sleeve

Part I
Answer the following questions relating to the article.

1.Which album covers have been imitated by the Simpsons?

2.Which album spent 741 weeks in the charts?

3.What happened to the car in the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover?

4.How many people are on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

5.What is the Beatles’ nickname?

6.Which planet does the planet on the Pixies’ Bossanova album cover look like?

7.What is the cover of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ based on?

8.Why might CD artwork soon be a thing of the past?

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____ 7_____ 8_____ 9_____

Part II
Imagine that you are in a band. In small groups think about what makes you buy a
CD and decide what you would want on your CD artwork.

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Painting the urban landscape

Part I Spot the mistakes
There is one spelling mistake in each of the following sentences. See if you can
spot all the mistakes and correct them.
1. A graffiti artist who uses the psevdonym ‘Moose’ has recently come to fame by being one of the few, if not the
only, British graffiti artist to create what is called ‘Reverse graffiti’.

2.Grafitti has existed since ancient times and will probably still be around for years to come.

3. Banksy enjoys practical jokes. He sometimes inofficially hangs his work in major art galleries just to see how long
it takes for people to notice.

4. At London Zoo he climbed into the penguin inclosure and painted “We’re bored of fish” in seven foot high letters.

5. Most graffiti artists are just seen as a newsance to society, but two controversial British graffiti artists have be-
come unfamous and are making a small fortune.

6. The police have no idea whether to arrest him or to applaud him for cleening up the streets!

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____

Part II Discussion
Discuss these questions in small groups.

1.Do you think graffiti should be considered art? Why/why not?

2.Have you ever seen any graffiti you really liked?
3.What do you think the government should do about the problem of graffiti?
4.Do you think Moose’s work is graffiti or not?
5.If you owned an art gallery and Banksy put his work in it without your permission what would you do?
6.Which of the artworks mentioned would you like to see?

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British Art
Spot the missing word: in each sentence below (1-10) there is one word missing
(A-J). See if you can find which word is missing and where it should be. Write your
answers below.
A: way
B: album
C: time
D: shortlisted
E: account
F: painter
G: after
H: away
I: designing
J: friends

1. Although he passed fifteen years ago, Francis Bacon is still classed as a modern British artist.

2. Although his paintings sold for millions of dollars, Bacon kept no bank.

3. The eye can travel over the surface in a parallel to the way it moves over nature.

4. In 1988 Richard Hamilton was for the Turner Prize.

5. In the 1960s he became with Paul McCartney.

6. He produced the cover for the Beatles album ‘The white’.

7. Cruikshank was an early caricaturist and took his father in this.

8. Then he hit the big and started working as an illustrator for Charles Dickens.

9. Mackintosh is probably Glasgow’s most famous artist and was responsible for the Glasgow School of Art.

10. He was everything in one — an architect, a designer and a watercolour.

Answers
1_____ 2_____ 3_____ 4_____ 5_____ 6_____ 7_____ 8_____ 9_____ 10_____

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Answers Cool English 37

Exercise Pack
Dictionary of Slang: 5. E
Part I: 6. A
7. D
1. E 2. D 3. A 4. F 5. B 6. C Collocations: 8. H
Part I: 9. B
The painted body of Johnny 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. F
Depp 5. C 6. E 7. I 8. H Wearing your art on your
Part I: 9. G sleeves:
1.F – age 17 Part II: Part I:
2.F – his right arm 1.roll up his sleeves sacked 1.Nirvana — Nevermind & The
3.F - $10 million 2.talk shop Beatles — Sgt. Pepper
2.Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the
4.T 3.donkey work Moon
5.F – he does 4.jumped ship 3.It was stolen many times & is now
6.T 5.moonlighting in a Volkswagen museum.
7.T 6.work on the side 4.Almost 60
8.F – question mark 5.The Fab Four
6.Saturn
9.T 7.The spectrum from a prism
10.F – an Indian chief Weird art: 8.Because more and more people
Part I: download mp3s
New English Words: 1.F — it means to do some
Part I: thing very badly Painting the urban land-
1.E 2.F – They live in Devon scape:
2.A 3.T Part I:
3.D 4.F – 25,000 1.pseudonym
2.Graffiti
4.B 5.F – he doesn’t put wet or 3.unofficially
5.C mouldy things in there. 4.enclosure
Part II: 5.nuisance
P C G Uncovering the treasures of 6.cleaning
A O N Europe:
Y T E I X G N I R Part I:
A P F British Art
1.D
1. H
S O L L 2.F
2. E
Y T I A 3.A
3. A
O A W U 4.B
4. D
U T X 5.C
5. J
T O E 6.E
6. B
H S 7. G
R O
Getting the tattoo bug 8. C
O C Part I: 9. I
1. C 10. F
W E
2. F
3. G
4. I

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