Advanced English Conversations - Robert Allans, Ahmet Mustafaoglu, Metin Emir 2019
Set (9) - Determination pays off
Dialogue
Bill: Sally is dropping out of school. She’s getting married in two weeks.
Mike: She’s a nitwit if she thinks that marriage is a picnic. That’s no joke.
Bill: But, her husband is a business tycoon. He’s going to back her up for good.
Mike: Well, I have to change my mind. It makes sense to take shortcuts to success in this tough and rough world.
Bill: I remember when she said that she would make her dreams come true one way or another.
Mike: I must admit that determination pays off!
Vocabulary
Drop out of: to abandon a course of study.
Nitwit: (adj) idiot.
A picnic: a pleasant and easy activity.
No joke: a difficult or serious matter:
Tycoon: a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry.
Back someone up: to support
For good: permanently; forever.
Change one’s mind: to adopt a different opinion or plan.
Make sense: be intelligible, justifiable, or practicable.
Take shortcuts: a method or means of doing something more directly and quickly than and often not so thoroughly as by ordinary procedure.
One way or another: in any way that is possible
Pay off: to yield good results; succeed.
Exercise;
Fill in the gaps with the appropriate expressions;
drop out of
nitwit
picnic
no joke
tycoon
back someone up
for good
change one’s mind
make sense
take shortcuts
one way or another
pay off
a. I never liked mushrooms before, but you really .......... with.................. this dish.
b. It's .......... when your brakes fail on the motorway.
c. I have hopes that my perseverance will .......... one day.
d. After she found out about his latest relapse with drugs, she decided it was best to leave him ..........
e. Early pacemakers often .......... a race before the finish.
f. After all, he became a .......... as well as a doctor; he must be rolling in money.
g. I've tried asking him but his explanations aren't ..........
h. That job was no .......... . They gave us a hard time indeed.
i. Don't be a .......... —wear a seat belt!
j. We'll get out of this mess ..........
k. Mistakes were made because too many .......... were ..........
l. My family .......... in my fight for compensation.